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CECO Environmental Corp.
4/28/2026
Good day and thank you for standing by. Welcome to the Seco Environmental first quarter 2026 earnings call. At this time, all participants are in a listen-only mode. Please be advised that today's conference is being recorded. After the speaker's presentation, there will be a question and answer session. To ask a question, please press star 1 1 on your telephone and wait for your name to be announced. To withdraw your question, please press star 1 1 again. I would now like to hand the conference over to your speaker today, Marcio Pinto, Vice President of Corporate Integration and Investor Relations.
Thank you, Joss, and thank you for joining us today on the SECO Environmental First Quarter 2026 Earnings Call. On the call with me today is Todd Gleason, Chief Executive Officer, and Peter Johansen, Chief Financial Officer. As a reminder, we're covering CEQA Environmental First Quarter 2026 earnings results on a standalone basis. This quarter's webcast, earnings release, and presentation, which include relevant disclosures and non-GAAP reconciliations, are available on our website. Today's discussion includes forward-looking statements that are subject to risks and uncertainties, including the ones described in our SEC filings, as we have noted in our presentation legal disclosures. As always, we will leave time at the end of the call for analyst questions. And with that, I'll turn the call over to Todd.
Thanks, Marcio, and good day, everyone. We are off to a strong start to 2026, and I look forward to sharing our progress. As always, I would like to thank Team Seco for your ongoing commitment to deliver for our customers and, of course, driving such strong results. Please turn to slide number four and let's discuss some of the key takeaways. Starting on the left side of the slide, we delivered another strong quarter with numerous financial records, headlined by tremendous orders, which increased our backlog to new levels. Revenue and EBITDA results were solidly in line with our expectations and positioned us nicely for the full year with strong continued momentum. Speaking of momentum, We don't just expect our second quarter to set new records for orders. We know it. The month of April alone is already higher than the record we just set in Q1. I will expand on this more in a few minutes. Even with the backdrop of uncertainty related to the Iran war and modestly higher inflation, we are raising our full year 2026 outlook, non-inclusive of Thurmond. Our growth trajectory remains robust, and we have nice visibility to our revenue and margin profile, in our record backlog, as well as larger-than-ever sales pipeline. This is our second guidance raise this year, and we are pleased to highlight our continued high performance. On the right side of the slide, we note the continued progress we are making with respect to the Thermon transaction. We remain on track for a Q2 close and our current expectation is sometime in early June. Representatives from each company are working together on integration items and preparing for post-closing activities. We remain highly confident in the $40 million cost synergies we previously outlined, and we are evaluating additional opportunities as well as attractive commercial synergies. The combination is bolstered by each company's strong momentum and continued growth outlook. The combination into Seco Environmental will create a leading diversified global industrial company, and we are very excited to demonstrate the power of this combination. Additionally, over the past number of weeks, I've had the chance to meet hundreds of Thermon employees. The Thermon operating culture is very similar to how our businesses and operational teams function. Similar to Seco, I am incredibly impressed by their energy, their passion, and market knowledge. Across the board, Thermon is a great company and will make for a very powerful combination. Now, please turn to slide number five, and let's review financials in a little bit more detail. This summary slide captures the main highlights for our first quarter. Record backlog, record order, strong revenue delivery, and accelerating earnings. Our backlog is at its highest level ever, now over $1 billion, up almost 72% year over year. Revenue growth of 17% and adjusted EBITDA growth of 46% speak to our high performance results. Our sales pipeline has grown to over $7 billion, which is the outcome of focused investments to best position our portfolio, the addition of diversified talent, the introduction of new commercial programs, our expanded global reach, and our passion to advance market-leading engineered solutions. Now, please turn to slide number six. In the quarter, we continued our bookings momentum with orders of $449 million, an increase of 97%. To put that in perspective, we booked 221 million more in orders this year than we did in Q1 last year. That $221 million would have been a record on its own about a year ago. And when I joined SECO in 2020, we were averaging about $90 million a quarter. We have come a long way since then, and I believe we're just getting started. Speaking of just getting started, while the power super cycle has been in the headlines for over a year, SECO's participation is starting to hit its stride and gain further momentum. In the first quarter, we had several very nice orders servicing this power generation market. We are also seeing strong activity in natural gas infrastructure, semiconductor sectors, electronics in general, industrial water, and U.S. industrial reshoring. We believe these markets remain attractive for the medium to longer term. And don't just take my word for it. As the right side of the slide highlights, and as I already mentioned, in April alone, we already booked over $400 million in new orders. That's almost $200 million more than we booked at all of Q2 2025, which at the time was a record. Yes, our April bookings alone is already larger than our just announced first quarter record of $449 million. Included in this April number is our largest ever order. This one in the range of $300 million, which also serves the natural gas power generation market as we provide advanced emissions and noise abatement solutions. These are exciting times at SECO, and with our growing pipeline, we are bullish for our four-year orders and backlog, which we believe will drive strong double-digit sales for a very sustainable period. And before I hand it over to Peter, let's move to slide number seven. To be brief, We are raising our full year 2026 guidance again. Our updated revenue outlook now expects sales to be between 940 million and $1 billion. It is exciting for us to highlight an outlook that includes sales of $1 billion for the first time ever. The midpoint of our revenue guidance now calls for organic sales to grow approximately 25% for the full year. We are also increasing our adjusted EBITDA outlook to $120 to $140 million. The midpoint of this outlook calls for an approximate 44% EBITDA growth and 170 basis points of margin expansion for the full year. We continue to grow, excuse me, we continue to invest in growth while delivering sustainable margin expansion and utilizing the results of nice volume leverage. And with the recent implementation of 80-20, coupled with our ongoing operating excellence programs, we are making meaningful progress and expect more margin expansion ahead. I will now hand it over to Peter, who will go into more detail on our financial results. Peter?
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