RB Global Q2 2026 Earnings Call Transcript

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Key Takeaways

  • Positive Sentiment: Second-quarter performance was solid: GTV increased 11% to $4.7 billion and adjusted EBITDA rose 6%, with EBITDA growth outpacing service revenue growth and indicating operating leverage.
  • Positive Sentiment: RB Global raised its 2026 outlook, now expecting 9%–11% GTV growth and approximately 8.6% adjusted EBITDA growth at the midpoint, including about CAD 500 million of GTV from BigIron.
  • Positive Sentiment: Automotive unit volumes grew 11% for the sixth consecutive quarter of outperformance, supported by market-share gains and an expanded relationship with the company’s largest insurance partner across all 50 states.
  • Neutral Sentiment: The BigIron integration is progressing well and expands RB Global’s U.S. agriculture platform, but management said its earnings and margin profile will not be fully representative until after the farming season and later in 2026.
  • Negative Sentiment: The service revenue take rate declined 110 basis points year over year to 20%, reflecting acquisitions, portfolio mix, and automotive pricing incentives; management cautioned that further mix changes, including BigIron’s lower-rate real estate business, could pressure the rate.
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Operator

Hello, everyone. Thank you for joining us, and welcome to RB Global second quarter 2026 earnings call. After today's prepared remarks, we will host a question-and-answer session. If you would like to ask a question at that time, please press star one on your telephone keypad to raise your hand. I would now like to hand the call over to Sameer Rathod, Vice President, Investor Relations and Market Intelligence. Sameer, please go ahead.

Sameer Rathod
Sameer Rathod
VP of Investor Relations and Market Intelligence at RB Global

Hello, and good afternoon. Thank you for joining us today to discuss our second quarter 2026 result. On the call with me are Jim Kessler, our Chief Executive Officer, and Eric Guerin, our Chief Financial Officer. The following discussion will include forward-looking statements, including projections of future earnings, business, and market trends. These statements are subject to risks and uncertainties that could cause actual results to differ materially and should be considered in conjunction with the cautionary statements contained in our earnings release in periodic SEC reports. We will also discuss certain non-GAAP financial measures. For the identification of these measures, the most directly comparable GAAP financial measures, and the applicable reconciliation, please see our earnings release and SEC filings. At this time, I would like to turn the call over to our CEO, Jim Kessler. Jim?

Jim Kessler
Jim Kessler
CEO at RB Global

Thanks, Sameer, and good afternoon to everyone joining us today. Last quarter, we said our priorities were straightforward, continue to gain share, execute with discipline, and position the business for durable long-term growth. Our second quarter results reinforce our confidence that our strategy is working. Our teams across the organization delivered another strong quarter, remaining focused on serving our partners, advancing our strategic priorities, and operating with discipline. Those efforts drove 11% GTV growth and 6% adjusted EBITDA growth, underscoring the resilience of our marketplace platform and the durability of our long-term growth strategy. Turning to BigIron, we are pleased to complete our acquisition in May. BigIron establishes RB Global as a scaled, trusted global partner in the U.S. agriculture sector, creating new growth platform.

Jim Kessler
Jim Kessler
CEO at RB Global

While agriculture has long been an important end market for us, particularly in Canada, BigIron significantly expands our presence in the United States with a leading marketplace that services buyers and sellers of farm equipment and agriculture real estate. BigIron brings a highly respected brand with an experienced team that has built trusted local customer relationships over decades in the U.S. agricultural heartland. Their footprint is highly complementary to ours, with limited overlap with our existing business. By combining BigIron's deep industry expertise and strong customer relationships with RB Global's scale, technology capabilities, and global buyer network, we believe we are well-positioned to create greater value for customers while further strengthening our long-term growth profile.

Jim Kessler
Jim Kessler
CEO at RB Global

Just as important, this acquisition reinforces a strategy that has consistently created value at RB Global, applying our marketplace capabilities to adjacent sectors where we can drive greater liquidity, stronger customer outcomes, and attractive long-term returns. Integration is off to a strong start, and our teams remain focused on executing thoughtfully while preserving the trusted local relationships and sector expertise that had made BigIron successful. BigIron significantly expands our participation in a highly attractive U.S. agriculture market, which accounts for the majority of their approximately $60 billion of annual transactional volume in North America. Roughly half of that opportunity consists of equipment, with the remainder comprised of land and agricultural real estate. Note that consistent with market norms, real estate transactions carry take rates in the low single-digit range. We see three durable drivers that we believe can support our growth in this market.

Jim Kessler
Jim Kessler
CEO at RB Global

First, reoccurring equipment replacement and ongoing investment in farm productivity support sustained transaction activity. Second, generational farm transitions, retirement, and industry consolidation consistently bring quality equipment and agriculture real estate to market. Third, the market remains significantly underpenetrated by online auctions, which we believe creates meaningful opportunities to increase adoption of digital and online marketplaces over time. Together, these characteristics, combined with BigIron's strong brand awareness, create an attractive opportunity for RB Global as a scaled marketplace operator. While our presence in U.S. agriculture has historically been limited, it is a market where we have strong track record of success in Canada. Over the past 25 years, we have built a leading agriculture marketplace in Canada through a combination of disciplined acquisition and sustained organic growth.

Jim Kessler
Jim Kessler
CEO at RB Global

We are a trusted partner and leading marketplace for agriculture assets there. That experience provides what we believe is a proven playbook for expanding into a significantly larger U.S. market. BigIron immediately adds scale and strengthens our ability to apply RB Global's marketplace capabilities to another large, attractive end market, reinforcing our confidence in the potential long-term growth and shareholder value creation opportunities ahead. Turning to our financial results. Our heavy equipment and transportation sector continued to demonstrate the strength and resiliency of our strategy, with GTV increasing 8% year-over-year. In the first quarter, we noted early signs of pent-up supply returning to the market. While that trend persisted in selected end markets, customer decision-making became more deliberate during the second quarter, dependent on the end markets they serve.

Jim Kessler
Jim Kessler
CEO at RB Global

Despite this backdrop, we continued to strengthen customer engagement and advance key commercial initiatives in the competitive market. We remain focused on sales execution and positioning the business to capture incremental market share and volume if market activity and supply conditions improve. Turning to the automotive segment, the business continues to perform well and remains one of the strongest examples of our ability to gain market share through differentiated performance. Our over-delivery against all our SLAs continued to resonate in the market. Unit volumes increased 11% year-over-year, marking our 6th consecutive quarter of outperformance relative to the broader market and reinforcing our conviction that we are well-positioned to achieve net market share gains in 2026.

Jim Kessler
Jim Kessler
CEO at RB Global

One of the clearest proof points of our momentum is the expansion of our relationship with our largest automotive insurance partner, who we now support across all 50 states in both personal auto and commercial lines. This expansion reflects the trust we have earned, the strength of our longstanding partnership, and the measurable P&L value we believe we consistently deliver. Successfully executing this expansion demonstrates both the strength and scalability of our operating platform. Within 90 days, the team successfully integrated substantial additional volume across 30 states while continuing to execute at a high level across the broader business. Service level performance remained strong and improved in certain areas, underscoring our ability to support growth through operational excellence. As we discussed, we remain disciplined in how we pursue growth. The expansion with our largest partner is a good example.

Jim Kessler
Jim Kessler
CEO at RB Global

It shows we can drive market share gains without compromising the discipline that defined our strategy. That's not the only place we see room to grow. We have a proven ability to execute a meaningful additional capacity within our network, and we're energized by the opportunity to put our model to work for new partners. We continue to believe our culture of drive and value to our partners' P&L is what will win new relationships. The market is competitive, and there will be pluses and minuses as we move forward, but the directory is what matters, and we remain confident that we are well-positioned to achieve the net market share gains in 2026. I will now turn the call over to Eric to review the financials and provide an update to the outlook.

Eric Guerin
Eric Guerin
CFO at RB Global

Thanks, Jim. Before we begin, I wanted to highlight that we have realigned our GTV reporting sectors to better reflect how we manage and evaluate the business internally. Each sector continues to represent the assets we transact across all of our marketplace brands. Our Heavy Equipment and Transportation Sector now includes our former Commercial Construction and Transportation Sector, expanded to incorporate agriculture, as well as machinery assets that we previously classified under Other. These include industrial support equipment, equipment attachments, assets used to support aggregate, forestry, mining, and oil and gas industries. Our Automotive Sector remains unchanged and continues to include passenger vehicles, both salvage and remarketed. Our Other sector now primarily consists of real estate, consumer, marine, rail, and aircraft assets. As a reminder, real estate transaction volume are inherently lumpy from quarter to quarter. Now moving to the financial results.

Eric Guerin
Eric Guerin
CFO at RB Global

Total GTV increased by 11% to $4.7 billion in the second quarter. Automotive GTV grew 13% in the quarter, driven primarily by an 11% increase in unit volumes and higher average selling prices. Average price per vehicle sold was approximately 2% higher, reflecting improvement in both salvage and remarketed vehicles. Within U.S. insurance, ASP increased 4% compared to the prior year. Unit volume growth was supported by continued net market share gains, while broader industry volumes remain under pressure. Leading indicators of the total loss frequency have improved modestly in recent months. The inflation differential between automotive repair costs and used vehicle prices continues to be supportive of higher total loss frequency. Reflecting these dynamics, CCC Intelligent Solutions estimates that the total loss frequency increased 90 basis points year-over-year to 23.3%.

Eric Guerin
Eric Guerin
CFO at RB Global

GTV in the heavy equipment and transportation sector increased by 8% in the quarter, reflecting contributions from recent acquisitions. Excluding the impact of our recent acquisitions, total GTV increased by 7%. Moving to service revenue, it increased 5% in the quarter, driven by higher GTV, partially offset by a lower service revenue take rate. The service revenue take rate declined 110 basis points year-over-year to 20%. The decline primarily reflects changes in business and portfolio mix from acquisitions and growth in certain businesses, such as GSA, which has strong revenue per unit economics but carry lower service revenue take rates. Volume-related price incentives in automotive also contributed to the year-over-year decline in the service revenue take rate. As we have discussed, we prioritize service revenue dollars and adjusted EBITDA dollars over percentage take rates.

Eric Guerin
Eric Guerin
CFO at RB Global

As our business mix evolves, we believe these measures provide a better indication of underlying economics and value creation of the business. Adjusted EBITDA increased 6% in the quarter, driven by higher GTV volumes and increased contribution from inventory returns, partially offset by business mix and take rate impacts. We continue to focus on profit flow-through and adjusted EBITDA growth of 6%, outpaced service revenue growth of 5%, consistent with our continued focus on operating leverage. Adjusted earnings per share increased by 6%, primarily driven by higher operating income, and lower net interest expense, partially offset by a higher adjusted tax rate. Before moving to our outlook, I wanted to note that as part of our disciplined capital allocation strategy, the board has approved a $0.02 increase to our quarterly common stock dividend, raising it to $0.33 per share.

Eric Guerin
Eric Guerin
CFO at RB Global

This represents an approximately 6.5% increase and reflects the strength of our cash generation and our confidence in the business. In addition, as of today, we have repurchased and retired approximately 1.4 million shares for $150 million. Together, these actions reflect our balanced and disciplined approach to capital allocation, which supports shareholder return while preserving the flexibility to invest in the long-term growth and value creation. Moving to the outlook. We are raising our 2026 outlook and now expect gross transaction value to grow in the range of 9%-11%, with adjusted EBITDA growth of approximately 8.6% at the midpoint. This updated outlook reflects our revised assumptions for the core business, as well as expected contribution of approximately $500 million in GTV from the BigIron acquisition.

Eric Guerin
Eric Guerin
CFO at RB Global

Consistent with our strategy, we remain focused on generating adjusted EBITDA growth ahead of service revenue growth and continue to see 2026 as a year of volume-led growth. We remain focused on execution, productivity, and delivering operating leverage. With that, let's open the call for questions.

Operator

We will now begin the question and answer session. Please limit yourself to one question and one follow-up. If you would like to ask a question, please press star one to raise your hand. To withdraw your question, press star one again. We ask that you pick up your handset when asking a question to allow for optimum sound quality. If you are muted locally, please remember to unmute your device. Your first question comes from the line of Sabahat Khan with RBC Capital Markets. Your line is open.

Sabahat Khan
Sabahat Khan
Analyst at RBC Capital Markets

Great. Thanks. Good afternoon. Maybe just on the discussion around sort of take rate and the focus on dollars, I guess maybe just for our modeling purposes, should we assume that, whether we look at H2, H1, or Q2, do we have a good mix of overall business reflected here that we can maybe use the current EBITDA margin as sort of the ballpark range to build from? Do you think maybe waiting till year-end 2026 when BigIron's fully baked in might be a better reflection? Just trying to figure out how to sort of think about margins or what base rate to use as we build out margins. Thanks.

Jim Kessler
Jim Kessler
CEO at RB Global

Yeah, no, great question. I'll start and then I'll pass it over to Eric if he wants to provide more detail. We're right at the earliest of stages with BigIron. As the farming season is ongoing, I don't think you're really going to see BigIron, especially with the real estate side of the equation, until a lot later as we go through this year. Still some of the smaller acquisitions we did as we work our way through those integrations. I don't think there's a point yet where we're there, where you can look at what our resting spot is. With that, I'll pass it over to Eric.

Eric Guerin
Eric Guerin
CFO at RB Global

No, Jim, I agree. I would wait, to your original question, probably wait through the end of this year so we can get through the farming season, get BigIron stabilized a bit. That should get closer to a run rate. As I noted in the prepared remarks, we're really focused on the service revenue and our revenue per unit. There's going to be movement, so I wouldn't say that even that take rate, it could fluctuate up or down from where we exit. As a starting point for modeling, I would wait until the end of the year.

Sabahat Khan
Sabahat Khan
Analyst at RBC Capital Markets

Great. Then maybe just for my follow-up, I think you guys have sort of evolved with capital allocation a little bit. We have more buyback activity now. Do you feel from an acquisition front, at least the bigger pieces are in place? Maybe if you can just detail out as we move past BigIron, what is the runway for M&A and maybe just, should we expect if bigger pieces are in place, is return of capital maybe a bigger part of the story going forward? I'll pass the line. Thanks so much.

Jim Kessler
Jim Kessler
CEO at RB Global

Yeah. Look, it's a difficult question to answer because there are so many different avenues and opportunities. I would probably say our main focus is always on organic growth of what we can drive through the business. As opportunities come up, we're always going to look at other verticals and assets that are complementary, where we can add the expertise that we do. Some of that is companies raising their hand and say it's time for them to figure out how they want to monetize. With that, I will pass it over to Eric for any other comments.

Eric Guerin
Eric Guerin
CFO at RB Global

Yeah, I think as Jim indicated, you can see from what we've done over the last year, is we are really focused on investing in the core business, returning where we can to shareholders where it makes sense, M&A. We'll continue to flex as opportunities come up and maximize the value creation for our shareholders.

Sabahat Khan
Sabahat Khan
Analyst at RBC Capital Markets

Thank you.

Operator

Our next question comes from the line of Steven Hansen with Raymond James. Your line is open. Apologies, Steven. There was a technical delay. If you wouldn't mind starting your question again, that would be great. Thank you.

Steven Hansen
Steven Hansen
Analyst at Raymond James

Yeah, sure. Thanks. I'm just curious if there's any specific differences you'd highlight between BigIron and your Canadian ag franchise. Just as relation to that, what do you think really the key milestones are in terms of integrating the business outside of the traditional back office stuff? Thanks.

Jim Kessler
Jim Kessler
CEO at RB Global

Yeah. I'll start, and Eric, feel free to jump in with anything. I think the business itself from a partner and a customer standpoint are very similar to what they need from liquidity and the timing of the farming cycle. I think that's very common across all of our platforms. The thing that's always unique is when you buy two founder businesses, or two founders that run it, and they all run them slightly differently. As you get into the back office and the community and how they do business, that's really where the difference comes. It's something that we've done multiple times with different founders, so something we're used to. Eric, if you have any other additional comments, feel free.

Eric Guerin
Eric Guerin
CFO at RB Global

Yeah. I think the only thing I would add is we're really happy with how the integration is going. Our integration office is really moving the back office of the business forward to integrate it where we can into RB Global and making sure that we continue to focus on the customer experience on the front end. To Jim's point, making sure what makes BigIron great, we keep focused on that, and that's the customer experience.

Steven Hansen
Steven Hansen
Analyst at Raymond James

That's helpful. Thanks. Just as a follow-up, Jim, I just wanted to go back to your comments in your prepared remarks about, I think, customer decision-making becoming more deliberate in the quarter. Is that something you're seeing carrying through into the third quarter? Where are you seeing that specifically? Is it in some of the larger equipment, smaller equipment, across the board, regionally? Just trying to get a sense for where that decision-making confidence is coming through. Thanks.

Jim Kessler
Jim Kessler
CEO at RB Global

Yeah. Look, for us, it's a very hard question to answer because we deal with so many different verticals and sectors of this industry. We typically don't go down to that level in terms of guidance, how we think about it. In our industry, there are so many different decision points of why someone comes to us for their liquidation needs. It's always hard, right, to pinpoint when that is going to happen. Look, I think we're in a great spot when that decision is made to be able to capture to that market share like we have done in our history and like we're going to do going forward.

Steven Hansen
Steven Hansen
Analyst at Raymond James

Appreciate the time.

Operator

Our next question comes from the line of Gary Prestopino with Barrington. Your line is open.

Gary Prestopino
Gary Prestopino
Analyst at Barrington

Jim, Eric, Sameer. Couple of questions here. You cited in the narrative that you were seeing a change in customer preference for contracts from consignment sales to inventory purchases. Is there anything going on in the market that's driving that, or is that just kind of an anomaly, Jim?

Jim Kessler
Jim Kessler
CEO at RB Global

Look, I think we go through periods where that is more important in certain periods, and this just happens to be one. Like I mentioned, we deal in so many different sectors. It's hard to narrow it down to one specific thing. It's really a customer need more than it is anything else.

Gary Prestopino
Gary Prestopino
Analyst at Barrington

Okay. Nothing to do with the industry. Just getting back to the prior question. When you say customer decision-making is becoming more, what is it? Deliberate was the word you used. Do you take that as being.

Jim Kessler
Jim Kessler
CEO at RB Global

Correct.

Gary Prestopino
Gary Prestopino
Analyst at Barrington

That they're pulling back, just taking longer to make a decision? What exactly does that mean?

Jim Kessler
Jim Kessler
CEO at RB Global

No. Look, how I would describe it is, ever since we got into COVID, and as you think about new equipment pricing and what happens with that, and equipment they have to dispose of. We kind of been through this big cycle of new equipment came in. We had a lot of disposals. Now as you're thinking about interest rates and everything going on, and what's going on in Iran doesn't help people getting comfortable. What's going on at the Fed at this point. People are just really very conscious of what did I buy equipment for? What kind of liquidation value do I need? We kind of talk about it as a blended recovery to fit their P&Ls, and I think they're just being very conscious and very good stewards of their money.

Gary Prestopino
Gary Prestopino
Analyst at Barrington

Okay. Thank you.

Operator

Our next question comes from Craig Kennison with Robert W. Baird. Your line is open.

Craig Kennison
Craig Kennison
Analyst at Robert W. Baird

Hey, good afternoon. Thanks for taking my question. I wanted to go to slide three. It mentions an expanded relationship with your largest automotive insurance partner, and you got to all 50 states. How many states did you have before, and when did that incremental volume begin to flow through your platform?

Jim Kessler
Jim Kessler
CEO at RB Global

Yeah, I don't think we're going to get into how many states we had before, but you can tell when we say 50 what that means going forward. Probably over the last 90 days, we've been transitioning in that volume.

Craig Kennison
Craig Kennison
Analyst at Robert W. Baird

Okay. The other question I had in the same bullet, you mentioned commercial lines. Can you add more color as to what you mean by commercial lines? I assume it's not automotive, but what are some examples?

Jim Kessler
Jim Kessler
CEO at RB Global

Yeah. Just think about trucks, is probably the best example. Heavier type of transportation. Anything else, this is kind of what our insurance partners call everything but automotive, is they call commercial, which is different than what Ritchie would call commercial in the past.

Craig Kennison
Craig Kennison
Analyst at Robert W. Baird

These are assets owned by commercial operators, but they're still more automotive in general?

Jim Kessler
Jim Kessler
CEO at RB Global

You got it. They're more rolling than heavy equipment.

Craig Kennison
Craig Kennison
Analyst at Robert W. Baird

Okay. Thank you.

Operator

Our next question comes from the line of Jeff Lick with Stephens. Jeff, your line is open.

Jeff Lick
Jeff Lick
Analyst at Stephens

Great. Thanks for taking the question. Congrats on the great quarter. I was just wondering at the 11% auto lot growth, if maybe you could expand a little bit more. It seems like you're getting share and volume from other sources than just that one insurance customer. I wonder if you could elaborate on that, whether it's GSA and Direct Line kicking in more. Any details there would be great.

Jim Kessler
Jim Kessler
CEO at RB Global

Hey, I'll pass that question over to Eric.

Eric Guerin
Eric Guerin
CFO at RB Global

Yeah. Look, I think we won't go into specifics, but what I would say is we are really happy with the performance, and thanks for pointing out the other opportunities that we've already announced. When you look at DLG, how that's performing, when you look at what's going on in Australia with Suncorp. We're really comfortable with the unit growth across the board outside of just the one large partner that we discussed on the call.

Jeff Lick
Jeff Lick
Analyst at Stephens

Just maybe a little help or clarification. I think you referenced service revenue and tied it to the economics of some of the incremental business you picked up. Could you explain maybe how that manifests itself in terms of the differing economics or how the promotions or whatever flow through there, what that is?

Eric Guerin
Eric Guerin
CFO at RB Global

When you think about the GSA, my comments were specifically talking about some of the acquisitions have different take rates, but we're really happy with the revenue per unit. We've talked about GSA in the past where those units sell for significantly higher. Therefore, just by math, our take rate is lower, but the revenue per unit is in line with what we would expect for the services we're providing.

Jeff Lick
Jeff Lick
Analyst at Stephens

Great. Thanks for the clarity there. Look forward to catching up in a little bit.

Eric Guerin
Eric Guerin
CFO at RB Global

Yeah, no problem.

Operator

Our next question comes from the line of John Babcock with Barclays. John, your line is open.

John Babcock
John Babcock
Analyst at Barclays

All right. Good evening, and thanks for taking my question. I guess, I did want to just go into the take rate a little bit here. I was wondering, is this fully run rating for a quarter? I assume that you probably only have a partial quarter of that big contract win. I wanted to get a sense for how much of the quarter reflected that contract to the extent you can comment, and also whether or not there were any upfront items that may have impacted the take rate more in this quarter, perhaps, than we might see down the line.

Eric Guerin
Eric Guerin
CFO at RB Global

Yeah, I think this was a bit of the earlier question as well. What I would say is this isn't the full run rate yet. We have BigIron that's coming in, that we talked about real estate having low single-digit take rates. I would say you'd get closer to a normal run rate later in the year. Now, there's opportunities for us to improve take rate, and there's opportunities like BigIron where it will impact the take rate in a negative way, right? To answer your question, it is not at run rate yet. You have to wait for BigIron to be fully incorporated into it.

John Babcock
John Babcock
Analyst at Barclays

Okay. That's fair. Just a quick follow-on here. You've obviously done well winning share with your largest insurer. Just curious as you look at this from a go-forward basis, what can you do in addition to volume incentives, providing ROI to the insurers to maintain that market share? As you get a couple of years down the line, the contract comes up for renegotiation. What do you do between here and there, also when you get there that helps you to maintain that volume?

Jim Kessler
Jim Kessler
CEO at RB Global

Yeah. John, look, I think what we stay focused on is operational excellence of how we operate at our yards every day, providing the highest level of service, which at the end of the day, an insurance carrier isn't going to make a decision just based on rebate because you don't want someone that's operating at a lower level and you give that up in gross returns, net returns, and everything else. We stay very focused on value that we drive to our partners' P&L and how we're doing that in innovation, how we're doing that in SLAs, how we do that consistently every car that we get and every day.

Jim Kessler
Jim Kessler
CEO at RB Global

For us, we stayed laser focused on performing the best, we fully realize for us to be successful, I have to drive value to each and every one of our partners, and that's an automotive comment, that is an industrial construction, heavy equipment, and transportation comment. We are laser focused, making sure we are adding value to our partners, I think that is what makes us different than any competitor that we have on any side of the sectors we serve.

John Babcock
John Babcock
Analyst at Barclays

Sounds good. Thank you.

Operator

Our next question comes from the line of John Healy with Northcoast Research. John, your line is open.

John Healy
John Healy
Analyst at Northcoast Research

Thanks. Thanks for the question. I guess I'll be kind of direct with this one. The biggest question we're getting from investors right now is what sort of changes might be afoot in the salvage business with one of the founders of the company coming back to run the business, what do you think that does to the industry? Obviously, who knows? I'd love to get your thoughts on this, Jim. Can you kind of help us think about what percentage of your salvage business is contractual firm visibility into it for the next couple of years? Any thoughts you could give us on what I would say renewals that are coming up, what sort of pipeline could be competed against?

John Healy
John Healy
Analyst at Northcoast Research

I'd love for you to help us understand the visibility you have into retaining business. I feel like it's a silly question given the wins that you've gotten recently. Would just love to get how you guys are thinking and help investors think about that. Thanks.

Jim Kessler
Jim Kessler
CEO at RB Global

John, look, I don't think it's a silly question, besides the fact I can't answer a lot of it. Look, the good thing is I think we tried to give the group insight in our last earnings call. We talked about our big contracts being renewed. If you go back and read the script from before, we talk about our top two being signed, which gives you an idea of stability for the company. We also talked about. Look, when I look at the majority of what comes up over the next three years, yes, of course, we have some coming up. There is a lot more that comes up where we have the chance to gain share. Not that we're going to gain everything that comes up. There's going to be pluses and minuses.

Jim Kessler
Jim Kessler
CEO at RB Global

When we talked about for 2026, we see that we're going to be a net market share positive as we think about it. If you go back and look at the last transcript, I think it lays out some of the stability questions that you answered and what we see over the next two to three years of what comes up, why we feel really good about our continuing gain and share over that period of time.

John Healy
John Healy
Analyst at Northcoast Research

Great. Just on the BigIron acquisition. Obviously, ag's a huge market, and would love to just get your thoughts on, and maybe I missed it earlier, but just maybe the incremental TAM that you guys are opening up there. Is this an asset where you may need to stand up more capacity or sales force for the next year or two? Obviously, it's a good-sized operator, but just kind of curious if there might be an investment phase that gets tacked onto this end market. Thanks.

Jim Kessler
Jim Kessler
CEO at RB Global

You know, John, great question. One thing that gets us really excited about ag, we just don't think even though BigIron is a U.S., we already do this in Canada, we have a lot of expertise in it. We actually think of agriculture as global, right? We have a European business that we think this fits really well. We really think about ag as a global vertical for the company. Look, the great thing is I think you can look at construction, industrial, transportation of us growing from. Look, I have team members that were with Ritchie Bros. when they were $1 billion, and now we're a lot higher than that in GTV, which came with everything you mentioned, right? How do you grow the business? How do you do it effectively and efficiently?

Jim Kessler
Jim Kessler
CEO at RB Global

How do you train sales members as we go through this? We definitely bought BigIron for the U.S. to get started, to really grow that business, and to get the type of share that we get in the other verticals that we're in, and we think we have that. I think we laid out, look, we think there's $30 billion of equipment in North America. We think there's $30 billion of real estate. If you look at the kind of share that we have, traditionally in all the markets we serve, we don't see any reason why we can't replicate that into the future.

John Healy
John Healy
Analyst at Northcoast Research

Thank you.

Operator

Our next question comes from the line of Michael Feniger with Bank of America. Michael, your line is open.

Michael Feniger
Michael Feniger
Analyst at Bank of America

Yeah. Thanks. Thanks, guys, for squeezing me in. I realize 2026 is a year of volume-led growth. Do you see in 2027 we get more of that? Just generally, we get more of that flow-through from GTV growth into EBITDA and free cash flow? Is there anything you would point out to in 2026, either a higher fuel or operating expenses or ramping some of these contracts that are in 2026 that would lower or kind of fall out in 2027?

Michael Feniger
Michael Feniger
Analyst at Bank of America

If I could squeeze one more in, somewhat on this topic. I think in 2026 There was not a big shift higher in fees and rates. This was a year it seemed RB wanted to compete on the service offerings and win share, get after units, and grow. I'm just kind of curious if you think any cost inflation this year, could we see the industry in 2027 take up certain fees and rates, or what we need to see for that to happen? Thank you, gentlemen.

Jim Kessler
Jim Kessler
CEO at RB Global

You got it, Mike. I'll start and I'll pass it to Eric. I'll just be a lot more high level than what you asked in that. Look, I think the tough thing for us is as we think about 2026, the one thing I can tell you we weren't expecting is diesel to go up like it did because of the Iran war, and pretty much in the second quarter, we absorbed most of that. We've made some decision as we go forward, but it's hard for me to tell you what's going to happen. As we think about getting out of 2026 and heading into 2027, but the one thing we're committed to as a management team is we are going to run this business very efficiently and optimized.

Jim Kessler
Jim Kessler
CEO at RB Global

We are always going to look at what's the ability when we add technology, when we make the experience better. We're going to say, okay, do we deserve to increase our take rate to be able to do that. It's going to come with, we're providing something to our partners, and we have a reason of why we're doing it. I think we have opportunity to do that as I think about the future. The other thing we're also going to do is as I think about AI and enablement in our cost structure, I think we have a lot of opportunities to manage the business effectively and efficiently that we're never going to stop from how do we get the best flow-through to EBITDA and generate as much cash.

Jim Kessler
Jim Kessler
CEO at RB Global

That is something that the whole executive team believes in and something that we're going to drive. I know it wasn't probably the detail question that you asked, but I'll pass it for Eric if he wants to add any more color.

Eric Guerin
Eric Guerin
CFO at RB Global

Yeah, I think here's the detail I would provide and our commitment as a management team. Jim and I have been very clear about this. It was in my prepared remarks. We are going to continue to focus on creating operating leverage in the business. In that scenario, by definition, we need to grow EBITDA faster than service revenue. While I'm not providing guidance for 2027, that's going to be our commitment to the business and what we'll continue to do. Some of the tools we'll use, as Jim described, it could be AI, it could be as we bring on more volume, we can leverage the yards. There's a lot of levers that we'll continue to focus on, but that is our commitment to your question is we're going to create operating leverage within the P&L for the business.

Operator

Our next question comes from the line of Krista Friesen with CIBC. Krista, your line is open.

Krista Friesen
Krista Friesen
Analyst at CIBC

Hi, thanks for taking my question. I was just wondering if you can give us a little bit more color on the kind of the operating environment and performance for BigIron, just given where we're at in the ag equipment cycle and how you're thinking about that over the next couple quarters here, what you're expecting.

Jim Kessler
Jim Kessler
CEO at RB Global

I'll start and I'll pass it to Eric or Sameer, to talk about the macro environment for the ag sector. Right now we're head down focused on the integration of the two companies together. How do we add a lot of the things that Ritchie does that a founder-led company can't do when you think about transportation, financing, and a bunch of other attachments, which helps with take rate as we go forward. Right now we're really head down focused on it, especially as the farming season is underway. We're really integration and how do we make sure we get the foundation built as we head into 2027. With that, I'll pass it over to Eric if he has any other macro comments.

Eric Guerin
Eric Guerin
CFO at RB Global

Jim, I think you summed it up. I don't have any additional comments. Thank you.

Krista Friesen
Krista Friesen
Analyst at CIBC

Okay, thanks. Perfect. Maybe just a follow-up from me on capital allocation. This quarter pretty active on the buyback, dividend increase, and an acquisition as well. Should we be expecting that kind of going forward, assuming your leverage kind of stays within your target range that we could see you kind of doing acquisitions and buying back shares at the same time?

Eric Guerin
Eric Guerin
CFO at RB Global

I think we'll continue to evaluate it. As you know, we have a $500 million authorization in place. We used $150 million of it in the second quarter. We do have that opportunity as we go through the remainder of the year. We'll also look at M&A opportunities as well. I think what you've seen is probably what you'll see on a go-forward basis.

Krista Friesen
Krista Friesen
Analyst at CIBC

Great. Thank you. I'll jump back in the queue.

Operator

Our next question comes from the line of Steven Hansen with Raymond James. Steven, your line is open.

Steven Hansen
Steven Hansen
Analyst at Raymond James

Yeah, thanks. This is just a general broad question on the Australian market. I'm just curious how pleased you've been with your investments there over the past 18 months or so. You've obviously bought Smith Broughton. You've been ramping the Suncorp contract. Is that a market that you'd sort of anticipate on scaling up further if the right opportunity came along? I'm just trying to get a sense for your thought on returns in that market and the broader opportunity that exists from a GTV standpoint. Thanks.

Jim Kessler
Jim Kessler
CEO at RB Global

Yeah, no. Great question. Look, we love the Australian market for what we're doing. We think we have a lot of room for organic growth. As we think about the future, I keep pushing the team, I'm ready for carrier number two to get the win. We're really focused. We feel really good. All the sectors that we deal with in Australia.

Steven Hansen
Steven Hansen
Analyst at Raymond James

Okay. Very good. Appreciate it.

Operator

We have reached the end of our Q&A session. I will now turn the call back to RB Global CEO, Jim Kessler, for closing remarks.

Jim Kessler
Jim Kessler
CEO at RB Global

To close, I want to thank our teams across RB Global for delivering another quarter of solid execution and strong financial performance. The consistency of our results reflects the strength of our platform, the commitment of our people, and the value we continue to create for customers and partners around the world. As we move through the second half of the year, we are focused on executing against a clear set of priorities, creating more value for our partners, improving operating leverage, and investing in the products, technology, and capabilities that we believe will drive durable share gains and long-term profitable growth. We appreciate your interest in RB Global and look forward to updating you on our progress next quarter. Thank you so much.

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      CEO
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