7/30/2025

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Operator
Conference Operator

Good morning and welcome to the Orion Group Holdings Second Quarter 2025 Financial Results Conference Call. All participants will be in listen-only mode. Should you need assistance, please signal a conference specialist by pressing the star key followed by zero. After today's presentation, there will be an opportunity to ask questions. To ask a question, you may press star, then one on your telephone keypad. To withdraw your question, please press star, then two. Please note that this event is being recorded. I would like now to turn the conference over to Margaret Boyce, Investor Relations for Orion. Please go ahead.

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Margaret Boyce
Investor Relations

Thank you, operator, and thank you all for joining us today to discuss Orion Group Holdings Second Quarter 2025 Financial Results. We issued our earnings release after market last night. It's available in the Investor Relations section of our website at oriongroupholdingsinc.com. I'm here today with Travis Boone, Chief Executive Officer, and Alison Vasquez, Chief Financial Officer. On today's call, management will provide prepared remarks, and then we'll open up the call for your questions. Before we begin, I'd like to remind you that today's comments will include forward-looking statements under the Federal Securities Law. Forward-looking statements are identified by words such as will, be, intend, believe, expect, anticipate, or other comparable words and phrases. Statements that are not historical facts are forward-looking statements. Our actual financial conditions and results of operations may vary materially from those contemplated by such forward-looking statements. Discussion of the factors that could cause our results to differ materially from these statements are contained in our SEC filings, including our reports on Foreign 10Q and 10K. I'd also like to let you know that a reconciliation of unburdened EBITDA for our segments is available on the Investor section of our website at oriongroupholdings.com. With that, I'll now turn the call over to Travis. Travis, please go ahead.

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Travis Boone
Chief Executive Officer

Thank you, Margaret, and good morning, everyone, and thank you for joining our second quarter 2025 conference call. Before we cover the financial results, I'd like to introduce our new CFO, Allison Vasquez, who joined us last month. Allison has deep leadership experience across finance, M&A, and the construction industry with several Fortune 500 public companies. With the first phase of our transformation largely complete, Allison brings the right to the attention of our clients, and she's the one who's going to be leading the financial discipline and strategic insight to help guide us through the next phase of our growth strategy. After my market overview, I'll turn it over to Allison to discuss our financial results. On to the quarter. We've delivered another strong performance in the second quarter, with revenue increasing 7% to $205 million and adjusted EBITDA doubling to $11 million from the second quarter last year. On a sequential basis, revenue grew 9% and adjusted EBITDA increased 34%. Our results were primarily driven by new contract awards in both segments and reflect our commitment to disciplined, profitable growth. We continue to see strong demand across the markets we serve as evidenced by our backlog for both operating segments growing over the first six months of the year. Our opportunity pipeline also grew from $16 billion last quarter to $18 billion today, fueled by diverse growth drivers with multiple sources of public and private funding, which gives us continued confidence in our plans for growth. We remain focused on our business development strategy that prioritizes mission-critical projects with good margins for high-quality clients. In our marine segment, we see robust opportunities resulting from the U.S. Navy's strategy in the Pacific, port expansions and maintenance, and coastal rehabilitation and energy infrastructure. Our pipeline remains robust with several large-scale opportunities under active pursuit that represent potential work over the next couple of years and align well with our strategic growth objectives. Overall, we are encouraged by the breadth and quality of the prospects ahead and will continue to see momentum remain strong. In the quarter, our marine business was awarded a contract for an export dock replacement project in the Pacific Northwest to remove and replace an existing timber berth structure and replace it with a new concrete structure supported by large-diameter steel pipe piles. This project is expected to be completed in the third quarter of next year. We also won two projects with the Port of Tampa Bay. The first is a three-year maintenance dredging contract for the port, which is estimated to begin later this quarter and continues our long history of providing maintenance dredging for the Port of Tampa Bay. The second award is for a critical port infrastructure improvement project to support the rapid population growth in the Tampa region and increasing demand for construction and bulk materials. In our concrete business, we have strong opportunities with an expanding base of clients. Data center investment from hyperscalers and the AI race remains exceptionally strong. While we are experiencing increased competition on data centers from new market entrants in the concrete business, we continue to win a healthy share of opportunities coming to market by consistently exceeding client expectations, particularly in schedule, quality, and safety performance. Our pipeline is diverse and in the quarter we were awarded contracts for new projects spanning energy, consumer goods, and transportation. These projects are expected to commence in the third quarter of 2025 with an estimated duration of about a year. Last year we expanded into Florida with minimal upfront investment and the results have been very encouraging. Both of our operating segments are now actively executing projects across the state of Florida. Building on that momentum, we recently opened an office in Phoenix to capitalize on continued data center investments and other commercial growth in Arizona. As we look ahead, we are enthusiastic about our long-term growth opportunities which are driven by multiple concurrent sources of public and private funding. The recent move to our new headquarters in central Houston has brought our teams across Houston together under one roof, fostering stronger collaboration and a unified culture. With the best operations teams in the industry, an outstanding safety record, and high barriers to entry that limit competition, we are well positioned to capitalize on the significant demand for marine infrastructure and concrete construction projects. The political winds are blowing in our favor with President Trump and the federal government focused domestically on reshoring manufacturing and shipbuilding in the U.S. and internationally on investing in military infrastructure in the Pacific over other geopolitical regions. In addition, we believe that the recently passed One Big Beautiful Bill Act will have several notable positive impacts for our marine and concrete businesses. Specifically, the bill appropriates $4.4 billion for shoreside infrastructure including ports, maintenance facilities, and training centers. It also includes wide-ranging benefits for our energy and industrial clients to make their projects more financially compelling. For example, the bill includes provisions to lower operating costs, expedite permitting, and minimize taxes. Also, last week's executive orders were intended to further American AI dominance by incentivizing fresh investments in new data centers and related infrastructure. Combined, these tailwinds are expected to benefit the Bookings environment over the next several years and will serve as a significant catalyst for our long-term growth. I'll now turn it over to Allison to discuss the second quarter financials. Allison?

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