3/4/2026

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Operator
Conference Operator

Good morning and welcome to the Orion Group Holdings full year 2025 financial results conference call. All participants will be in a listen only mode. Should you need assistance, please signal a conference specialist by pressing the star key followed by zero on your telephone keypad. 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, and then two. Please note, this event is being recorded. I would now like to turn the conference over to Margaret Boyce, Investor Relations for Orion. Please go ahead.

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Margaret Boyce
Investor Relations, Orion Group Holdings

Thank you, Operator, and thank you all for joining us today to discuss Orion Group Holdings' full-year 2025 financial results. We issued our earnings release after the market last night. It is available in the investor relations section of our website at oriangroupholdingsinc.com. I'm here today with Travis Boone, Chief Executive Officer of Orion, and Allison Boskett, Chief Financial Officer. On today's call, management will provide prepared remarks, and then we will 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 laws. 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 condition 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 forward-looking statements are contained in our SEC filings, including our reports on Form 10Q and 10K. With that, I'll turn the call over to Travis. Travis, please go ahead.

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Travis Boone
Chief Executive Officer, Orion Group Holdings

Thank you, Margaret, and good morning, everyone. Thank you for joining us today to discuss our 2025 results and 2026 guidance. Before we begin, I want to acknowledge the ongoing conflict involving Iran and the Middle East. We extend our sincere appreciation to the men and women bravely serving our country. We recognize the situation remains very fluid and we are actively monitoring developments and evaluating any potential impacts on our business and markets. Now onto my prepared remarks. 2025 was a year of strong operational execution and meaningful advancement of Orion's long-term strategic priorities. We drove both top and bottom line growth and generated good free cash flow. Across the organization, our team delivered with predictable excellence, executing projects safely and profitably, strengthening our balance sheet, and taking important strategic steps that position our company for continued growth ahead. Over the past several years, we have been very clear about what we set out to do, improve execution, strengthen margins, professionalize the organization, and build a platform capable of capturing the significant opportunities across mission-critical marine infrastructure, defense, and concrete construction. In 2025, we translated that strategy into results. Importantly, we took decisive strategic actions that advanced our long-term growth plan. In December, we closed a new $120 million senior credit facility that improves our liquidity, lowers our cost of capital, and provides flexibility to support both organic growth and accretive acquisitions. We also purchased a derrick barge in December to further increase capacity and execution flexibility. As many of you are aware, we've been on the hunt for a large Jones Act derrick barge that will enable our team to pursue a broader range of marine and defense-related work. The barge is currently undergoing some refurbishments, and we expect to deploy it into our operations later this year. Last month, we completed the acquisition of JE McCamus. The transaction greatly enhances our marine platform, particularly in complex jetty and breakwater construction, where McCamus has deep proven expertise. Their strong Pacific footprint, experienced workforce, and high quality equipment fleet expand our ability to execute large, technically demanding projects. Integration is well underway, and we're very encouraged by the strong cultural alignment and the collaboration we're seeing across the combined organization and contracts awarded to McCamus over the last several weeks. In 2025, we consolidated our Houston footprint into our new headquarters office, implemented a modern project management platform, favorably settled multiple litigation matters, and monetized non-strategic real estate. Collectively, these deliberate actions improve our readiness for the next wave of large-scale, mission-critical marine and concrete infrastructure opportunities and reflect tangible progress for our strategic plan. While most aspects of our performance met or exceeded expectations in 2025, backlog was the one area where results were not as we anticipated. Even though our wind weight in 2025 improved over 2024, For the year, we booked just over $763 million in new contracts and change orders across the company, which represented a 0.9 times book to bill. Customer decisions moved to the right primarily due to tariff-related uncertainty in the private sector at the beginning of the year, followed by the prolonged U.S. government shutdown later in the year, which delayed public sector bidding and awards. Importantly, We believe this is only a timing issue with the work simply moving to the right as opposed to going away. We remain confident in our strong demand outlook, which is supported by the tailwinds we're experiencing across our markets. In addition, recent developments in the Middle East may accelerate government action to approve additional defense funding. We remain bullish on our backlog trajectory and long-term growth outlook with a vibrant growing pipeline that is currently at $23 billion, which includes the JE McCamus pipeline of $1.4 billion. Our marine opportunity pipeline increased $3 billion or 21% sequentially to over $19.4 billion as of December 31st. This does not include the McCamus acquisition, which we closed on in February. This growth reflects building demand and urgency across both public and private sector clients And we're pleased with the 2026 funding for the Department of War Pacific Operations. Across our operating regions, we have a healthy volume of opportunities expected to be awarded throughout the year for clients spanning the US Navy, the Coast Guard, regional port authorities, state departments of transportation, and private energy and chemical clients. Moving on to concrete, where our opportunity pipeline grew to over $2.4 billion at the end of 2025. Over the last several years, our team has built a strong and expanding position in data centers and the mission-critical construction market. The team produced good bookings throughout 2025, increasing year-over-year backlog by 10%, with recent awards spanning data centers and other commercial structures. Our expansion into Florida and Arizona is paying dividends, fueled by a growing project pipeline and solid execution. I'd like to drill down into our data center work, a real highlight in our concrete business that is improving literally by the day. I spent a good amount of time with the team last week, and let me tell you, they are killing it. Today, our data center count stands at 46 projects, either completed or in progress, across Texas, Iowa, and Arizona. We're seeing a shift toward larger campus-style developments for which execution and schedule certainty reign supreme. and our team has earned an outstanding reputation as a reliable delivery partner on mission critical programs. In addition to construction of the buildings and foundations, we are increasingly engaging with key clients earlier to address constructability concerns and to implement targeted design improvements. To support these strategies, we've recently expanded into site civil and earthwork to strengthen execution certainty for our clients and also to broaden Orion's scope of services. We expect to see data centers contribute even more significantly to our concrete business this year with some large opportunities developing in our markets. In closing, as I reflect on the year, I'm excited about the deliberate execution of our strategic priorities buoyed by building momentum in our key end markets. With a $23 billion pipeline inclusive of McCamus, a healthy balance sheet, and the best client-centered execution team in the business. We have an excellent runway for 2026 and beyond. With that, I'll turn the call over to Allison to talk through our financial results and our 2026 guidance. Allison?

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