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4/29/2026
Good day, and welcome to the Orion Group Holdings First Quarter 2026 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. After today's presentation, there will be an opportunity to ask questions. To ask a question, you may press star, then one on a touch-tone phone. 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, ma'am.
Thank you, Operator, and thank you all for joining us today to discuss Orion Group Holdings' first quarter 2026 financial results. We issued our earnings release after market last night. It's available in the Investor Relations section of our website at oriangrupholdingsinc.com. I'm here today with Travis Boone, Chief Executive Officer of Orion, and Allison 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 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.
Thank you, Margaret, and good morning, everyone. Thank you for joining us today to discuss our first quarter 2026 results. We delivered a solid start to the year, supported by disciplined operational performance and a healthy $24 billion pipeline of opportunities. This translated into top and bottom line growth and good cash flow generation. Our teams continue to execute at high level, positioning us well for the remainder of 2026. In our marine segment, demand for mission-critical maritime infrastructure continues to build, particularly across defense and port modernization projects. With the Iran conflict and disruption of traffic through the Strait of Hormuz, American naval superiority and domestic energy and petrochem security are front and center. These are meaningful drivers of public and private maritime buildouts that Orion is well positioned for. On another note related to the conflict in the Middle East, You may have heard that the administration paused the Jones Act related to the disruption in the Strait of Hormuz. This is a temporary pause specifically related to the transportation of bulk petroleum and fertilizer products. Previous administrations have made similar actions related to emergencies or disasters. While this limited pause of the Jones Act does not impact our business, we are strongly opposed to any and all Jones Act modifications. It does not align with the America First approach the administration has so publicly promoted, and this action has had little to no impact on reducing fuel prices in the United States. The President's 2027 budget proposal released earlier this month includes a $1.5 trillion defense budget, a historic increase to fund the expansion and modernization of U.S. shipyards, dry docks, and waterfront infrastructure, alongside expanding investment in maritime security and uninterrupted global transportation lanes. This budget prioritizes investment in hard assets tied to US national security, a central theme to Orion's long range growth outlook. Our commercial clients are signaling a growing need for investments that increase energy security and supply diversification, particularly in North America. Buoyed by elevated product prices that support investment economics, we're seeing an acceleration of early work to support energy, chemical and petrochemical projects that include meaningful marine infrastructure to increase export capacity. With the addition of J.E. McCamus in February and continued investment in our people and fleet, our team is well positioned to deliver the maritime infrastructure projects critical to our national defense strategy and commercial resilience. Turning to concrete, this team delivered a fantastic quarter across all key metrics with strong revenue and impressive adjusted EBITDA expansion. Registering a 1.1 times book to bill in the quarter and executing with excellence, concrete is firing on all cylinders. Data center development continues to be a primary pillar for this business. Investment by hyperscalers and greenlining of projects continues to advance at a very brisk pace. In the quarter, data centers accounted for around 40% of concrete revenues. And with the current composition of backlog and pipeline, we believe data centers will continue to be a central driver of profitable growth for our concrete segment going forward. We also continue to see growing opportunities across our other sectors, including advanced manufacturing, transportation, and cold storage. Investments in these areas are driven by reshoring of manufacturing around long-term domestic production strategies, increasing demand for expanded distribution and fulfillment networks, and a favorable regulatory environment. With our recent expansion into site civil, earthwork, and underground utilities, we are seeing the size and scale of concrete pursuits and awards increase while also enhancing execution certainty and control for our clients and our own delivery teams. All in all, an outstanding quarter of bookings, execution, and teamwork for our concrete team. Our backlog is growing and our pursuit pipeline remains healthy with broad-based opportunities across both segments, as we move through the year. Our $24 billion pursuit pipeline is currently evenly distributed over time with roughly $8 billion in opportunities for 2026, $8 billion in 2027, and $8 billion in 2028 and beyond. At the end of the quarter, backlog stood at $668 million and included almost $220 million in new awards and change orders booked in the quarter. Representative awards included a couple of mid-sized port modernization and dredging projects, a bridge project for an Army base, a couple of good winds for the McCamas team, and a nice mix of concrete projects. We've continued the bookings momentum into April and have been awarded well over $200 million in new work that is not yet under contract, so it is not in our backlog, including a $100 million port renovation project, a $40 million dredging project, and a $24 million data center project. These new awards set us up nicely for a strong second quarter. With growing backlog and a robust pipeline, we are pleased to reaffirm our four-year 2026 guidance. I'll now turn it over to Allison to discuss our financials. Allison?
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