Jonathan P. Banas: Thanks, Jeff, and good morning, everybody. Within the subsequent few slides, I am going to present some particulars on our monetary outcomes for the quarter and focus on our money flows, liquidity, and elements of our stability sheet and capital construction. On slide seven, we present a abstract of our outcomes for the third quarter of 2025, with comparisons to the identical durations final yr. Third quarter 2025 gross sales had been $695.5 million, a rise of 1.5% in comparison with 2024. The slight improve was pushed primarily by constructive overseas trade and favorable quantity and blend, partially offset by sure buyer worth changes. As Jeff talked about, our third quarter 2025 gross margin improved 140 foundation factors in comparison with the prior yr, to 12.5% of gross sales.
Adjusted EBITDA within the quarter was $53.3 million, a rise of greater than 15.6% when in comparison with the $46 million we reported within the third quarter of final yr. Importantly, we had been capable of drive additional margin growth of 100 foundation factors versus the identical interval a yr in the past, regardless of the modest income progress and market headwinds. On a U.S. GAAP foundation, we reported a web lack of $7.6 million within the third quarter, in comparison with a web lack of $11.1 million in 2024.
Adjusting for restructuring and different gadgets from each durations, in addition to the associated tax impacts, adjusted web loss for 2025 was $4.4 million or $0.24 per share in comparison with an adjusted web lack of $12 million or $0.68 per share in 2024. Our capital expenditures in 2025 totaled $11.2 million or 1.6% of gross sales, just like the prior yr interval. We proceed to train self-discipline round capital investments, that are primarily targeted on program launch readiness, to be able to maximize our returns on invested capital. Shifting on to the 9 months. For the primary 9 months of 2025, our gross sales had been basically flat in comparison with the primary 9 months of 2024.
However considerably, and regardless of flat income over the primary three quarters, our gross revenue margin elevated by 170 foundation factors and our adjusted EBITDA margin improved by 230 foundation factors in comparison with the primary 9 months of final yr. Shifting to slip eight. The charts on slide eight present further insights and quantification of the important thing elements impacting our outcomes for the third quarter. For gross sales, favorable quantity and blend web of buyer worth changes elevated gross sales by roughly $2 million in comparison with 2024. The affect of favorable overseas trade was roughly $8 million. For adjusted EBITDA, lean initiatives in buying and manufacturing positively contributed $18 million yr over yr.
As well as, we proceed to understand advantages from our initiatives applied in prior durations, amounting to $5 million in incremental financial savings within the third quarter in comparison with final yr. Favorable overseas trade was a tailwind of roughly $4 million within the quarter. Partially offsetting these enhancements had been $5 million of unfavorable quantity and blend, together with buyer worth changes, and the affect of sure short-term manufacturing disruptions, $6 million in elevated prices in wages and common inflation, and $6 million in increased SG&A expense. The rise in SG&A expense was primarily associated to inventory worth appreciation changes for sure equity-based incentive awards, as our share worth elevated by roughly 72% through the third quarter.
With many of the worth achieve occurring later within the quarter, this improve and the associated incremental expense weren’t contemplated in early August after we final reported earnings and up to date our steering. Shifting to Slide 9. On slide 9, we current the identical kind of year-over-year bridge evaluation for the primary 9 months of the yr. As talked about, gross sales had been basically flat for the primary 9 months, with slight constructive quantity and blend being offset by unfavorable overseas trade. Adjusted EBITDA within the first 9 months elevated by greater than $48 million or greater than 38% in comparison with the primary 9 months of 2024.
The advance was pushed primarily by $63 million of producing and buying efficiencies, $17 million of restructuring financial savings, and $9 million of favorable overseas trade. These constructive drivers had been partially offset by $21 million of unfavorable quantity combine and worth changes, roughly $19 million of excessive wages and common inflation, and $5 million in increased SG&A expense. Once more, primarily because of the inventory worth appreciation mentioned earlier. Total, our SG&A continues to learn from earlier restructuring and price discount initiatives and a disciplined administration give attention to controlling prices. We’re happy with our bettering leads to 2025.
As our give attention to controlling prices, delivering distinctive operational efficiency, and the launch of latest, extra worthwhile packages are having the constructive impacts we had deliberate regardless of among the market headwinds we started to see late within the third quarter. Shifting to Slide 10. Taking a look at money move and liquidity, web money offered by working actions was roughly $39 million in 2025, in comparison with $28 million in 2024. Capital spending, as talked about earlier, was roughly $11 million in 2025, leading to web free money move of roughly $27 million for the quarter. Greater than $11 million increased than the identical interval final yr. We ended the third quarter with a money stability of roughly $148 million.
Coupled with $166 million of availability on our ABL facility, which remained undrawn, we had stable whole liquidity of roughly $314 million as of September 30. We consider that’s greater than ample to assist the persevering with execution of our enterprise plans and worthwhile progress targets in right now’s setting. Following the stable outcomes of the primary three quarters, and even contemplating our revised outlook for manufacturing quantity headwinds within the fourth quarter, we consider we stay on observe to attain constructive free money move for the complete yr this yr. With respect to our capital construction, we’re persevering with to judge varied choices to strengthen our stability sheet and additional enhance our money move.
And are rigorously monitoring market circumstances and developments within the credit score markets. We’re optimistic that as we proceed to ship bettering outcomes, we can favorably refinance our first and third lien notes within the subsequent a number of months.
With that, let me flip it again over to Jeff.
Jeffrey S. Edwards: Okay. Thanks, John. And on this final portion of our name, I might prefer to once more touch upon our high-level strategic imperatives and the way these are positioning us for persevering with worthwhile progress over the subsequent a number of years. Then I am going to wrap up with just a few feedback on our near-term outlook and our revised steering for 2025. So please flip to Slide 12. Our methods and working plans are constructed across the 4 key strategic imperatives that you just see outlined on slide 12. By aligning the corporate round these frequent targets, we have been capable of drive vital enhancements in nearly each facet of our enterprise.
And by the persevering with execution of our plans and techniques, we’re positioning the corporate to ship continued worthwhile progress, additional enhancements in margins, and considerably improved returns on invested capital as we mentioned in final quarter’s name. Shifting to Slide 13 or as I identify it, my favourite slide in right now’s presentation. One of many key enhancements in our enterprise has been the rise in our revenue margins and total monetary energy of the enterprise. By means of our profitable strategic execution, we have been capable of improve our gross revenue margins by greater than 100 foundation factors annually over the previous three years. And that is regardless of diminished or flat manufacturing volumes in our two largest working areas.
Due to our give attention to sustainable effectivity and glued value reductions, we’ll proceed this development of increasing margins into the long run even when manufacturing volumes stay flat. And we might clearly count on to leverage any improve in manufacturing quantity to drive additional profitability and returns. Along with our value optimizations, we’re benefiting from persevering with launches of latest packages and merchandise with enhanced variable contribution margins. As the brand new packages ramp up, they’re going to be changing the older packages which have decrease margins on common. Our e book enterprise launch cadence, and the timing of run-out enterprise give us a excessive diploma of confidence in our increasing margin outlook. Turning to slip 14.
Our strategic execution can also be enabling enterprise wins that we consider drive additional worthwhile progress in coming years. I discussed at first of the decision that within the first 9 months of the yr, we have acquired almost $229 million in web new enterprise awards. Of the full awards, 87% had been associated to the value-add improvements in product and expertise that we have launched into the market. We proceed to consider that our technique and capabilities round expertise and innovation are a transparent supply of aggressive benefit for us.
Equally, 83% of the brand new awards had been associated to battery electrical or hybrid automobile platforms, which is a sign of how intently our product choices and improvements are strategically aligned with the fastest-growing segments of the market. Lastly, as we shared final quarter, our progress technique consists of increasing {our relationships} with the fast-growing Chinese language OEMs which might be starting to increase their enterprise globally. This opens up vital alternative for us to increase each by way of our buyer base in addition to geographically the place we consider the best progress will likely be occurring over the subsequent a number of years.
We’re proud to be the provider that our prospects flip to for high quality elements, consistency of supply, and collaboration on vital design and improvement of latest applied sciences. And now we’re additionally the provider they’re returning to assist their world growth wants. With these awards in hand, and a shiny outlook for brand spanking new enterprise wins forward, we’re more and more assured that we can execute our plans and obtain our longer-term strategic monetary targets for progress, margins, and return on capital. Turning to Slide 15. To conclude our ready remarks this morning, let me give attention to the nearer time period and our outlook for the remainder of 2025.
Following a considerably uneven third quarter wherein sure of our prospects world wide skilled short-term manufacturing disruptions from issues like cyber assaults, lightning strikes, labor disruptions, simply to call just a few, we’re now anticipating a way more vital affect sadly, within the fourth quarter, because of the aluminum provide chain disruption that is hit our largest buyer. Whereas we’re inspired by public commentary about plans to make up the misplaced manufacturing in future durations, there isn’t a means we are able to mitigate the affect this may have on our fourth quarter. From a extra constructive perspective, the statements about making up misplaced manufacturing early subsequent yr assist our view that the underlying demand for brand spanking new gentle automobiles stays sturdy.
It is per our plans for sturdy worthwhile progress over time as markets normalize. We count on any discount in manufacturing volumes associated to this newest provide disruption to be momentary and won’t have any lasting affect on our alternatives to attain our longer-term strategic targets. As an organization, we’re sustaining our relentless give attention to the elements of our enterprise that we are able to management. Operational excellence, delivering world-class high quality, service, and innovation to our prospects, and continued near-flawless launches of latest packages with enhanced contribution margins. As we do that, we’re assured that we’ll place the corporate to attain our strategic monetary targets going ahead as manufacturing volumes normalize.
Turning to slip 16, within the first March of the yr, which exceeded our unique plans, we’re decreasing our full-year steering ranges for gross sales and adjusted EBITDA to mirror the anticipated affect of varied momentary reductions in buyer manufacturing quantity, together with on a few of our most essential platforms. The waterfall chart on the best breaks out the varied drivers of our revised outlook for 2025 full-year adjusted EBITDA, versus 2024 actuals. Our success in delivering manufacturing efficiencies and different value financial savings are nonetheless the largest drivers to the constructive. However unfavorable quantity and blend is now a considerably better issue to the draw back.
Importantly, even with a difficult total outlook within the fourth quarter, we nonetheless count on to ship considerably increased adjusted EBITDA and constructive free money move for the complete yr on gross sales which might be flat to barely decrease than they had been in 2024. We need to thank our prospects, our suppliers, and all of our stakeholders in your continued confidence and assist. We stay dedicated to working collectively and ending the yr as strongly as attainable. This concludes our ready remarks. So let’s transfer into Q and A.
Operator: Thanks. In case you are utilizing a speakerphone, please choose up the handset earlier than coming into your request. To withdraw from the queue, press two. One second please as we assemble the queue for questions. Your first query comes from Michael Patrick Ward of Citigroup. Please go forward.
Michael Patrick Ward: Good morning. Jeff, if we glance out in 4Q, you recognize, it is unlucky the Ford factor occurred, nevertheless it feels like they’re making an attempt to get it accelerated as quick as they’ll. After which it feels like they’re gonna attempt to make it up fairly early within the first half. And it additionally feels like they’re gonna add a 3rd shift to Dearborn in line velocity. So if you type of stability it out, it is actually simply suspending it into first half 26. Is that the way you’re taking a look at it? And so can we have a look at first half of 26 the place among the issues really begin to speed up for you?
Is that the way in which you are enthusiastic about it?
Jeffrey S. Edwards: That is precisely how I am enthusiastic about it. I believe whereas the tip of ’25 is not fairly what we had forecasted due to the occasion, we’re making ready our enterprise plans for ’26, ’27, and ’28, and definitely, there’s an affect positively to what is going on on in ’26. So yeah, it is a short-term subject, as I stated in my ready remarks. I’ve little question that the ’26 will mirror improved outcomes past what we initially had deliberate.
Michael Patrick Ward: Once we look throughout the totally different automobiles you provide elements to, when you needed to choose another, they’re growing the road charge. Would the F-150 be the one? Is it your highest content material automobile?
Jeffrey S. Edwards: Yeah. My brief reply can be sure.
Michael Patrick Ward: John, I ponder when you can stroll by means of the offers and takes on the money move as a result of that is a reasonably sturdy money move assertion you made for 4Q. It’s a must to pay the curiosity. Proper? That was accrued in March. So you have got the six-month curiosity cost. Is that appropriate?
Jonathan P. Banas: That is appropriate. Mid-December is the subsequent coupon due on the primary internally notes.
Michael Patrick Ward: And that is about $30 million. And
Jonathan P. Banas: Really, nearer to $55 million. $55 million mixed.
Michael Patrick Ward: Okay. Okay. After which you have got working cap so it feels like working capital must be a powerful constructive.
Jonathan P. Banas: If you happen to Yeah. It must be Mike,
Michael Patrick Ward: Yeah.
Jonathan P. Banas: Proper. Yeah. The to get the constructive, we have to generate about $30 million plus of free money move in This autumn. So that you’re proper, the massive profit that we see as we do each This autumn is enhancements in working capital, unwinding that from accounts receivable perspective. And decreasing stock ranges as manufacturing winds down in direction of the tip of the yr. Each of these clearly have a constructive money profit. And we’re spending much less, clearly, within the months of November and into December as properly. In order that preserves some money within the stability sheet as properly. All that mixed will profit and greater than outweigh the $55 million in coupon cost that is due mid-December. Tremendous. And the F-150 delays disrupt the working capital that a lot? I suppose, as a result of you must be at 4. , the timing will matter in regards to the when the manufacturing comes out. As a result of if you consider the timing of common days receivable, issues that do not get produced in October would affect the full quarterly money flows. But when it is later in November, December that it that is not being produced, then that impacts the following quarters money move timing.
Michael Patrick Ward: Okay. Properly, that is nice information. Thanks, John.
Jonathan P. Banas: You are welcome.
Operator: Your subsequent query comes from Nathan Jones of Stifel. Please go forward.
Nathan Jones: Good morning, everybody.
Jeffrey S. Edwards: Morning, Nathan.
Nathan Jones: I suppose I am going to begin with among the web new enterprise wins and doubtless because it I suppose, the year-to-date ones extra than simply specializing in the 3Q ones, and the way that impacts, the trail to the 2030 targets that you just laid out final quarter. What I am searching for is a few extra commentary on the linearity of the trail from 2025 to 2030. Ought to we count on the expansion and margin growth to be pretty linear between 2025 and 2030? Is it extra back-loaded? I imply, I believe a few of these Chinese language OEM Simply any commentary you can provide us on the linearity you are taking a look at for that, please.
Jeffrey S. Edwards: Yeah, Nathan. That is Jeff. I’ll let you know that we have been at this reserving new enterprise at these increased margins now for a pair years plus in all probability. So, yeah, when you’re gonna take the road from right now to 2030, I believe it is fairly linear. Definitely, you are additionally appropriate that the Chinese language launches are coming to market sooner than most. However even with that, considered, I might let you know we’re we’re very pleased with, what we’re seeing in margin progress. We confirmed you a bit of little bit of that right now, the historic development line there, and even a glimpse into to what we already know with 2026.
So when you drew the road from ’26 to ’30, you’d hold occurring an identical trajectory.
Nathan Jones: I suppose to follow-up to that, clearly, they platforms do not ramp up begin ramping up out in 2030. So there are web new enterprise wins that it’s essential to recover from the subsequent couple years. No less than to get to these 2030 targets. What sort of web new enterprise wins ought to we be searching for, say, in 2627 and ’28? To test that the corporate continues to be on the right track to get to these 2030 objectives.
Jeffrey S. Edwards: I believe just like what we observe this yr. It is kinda how now we have to do it. Proper? You gotta change what, what’s constructing out, and also you gotta win the brand new stuff that is coming. After which if there’s new packages or conquest alternatives on prime of that. So traditionally, it has been in that very same vary that you just see taking place this yr. We have had some years that had been a bit of higher, some years possibly a bit of bit below it, however I believe that is a reasonably good quantity. Going ahead as properly.
Nathan Jones: After which possibly a follow-up on the stability sheet. We nonetheless had about 4.2, a bit of over 4 phrases of leverage. As we speak. I believe you guys have focused getting that down nearer to 2 instances in by the 2027. Assume you are still on the right track to get to there? Does, you recognize, any of this disruption change that in any respect, or I nonetheless assume that you just’re on the right track to get to that type of leverage by then? Thanks.
Jeffrey S. Edwards: Yeah. That is Jeff. We’re nonetheless on the right track to get there. As we simply talked, I believe ’26 is definitely gonna be higher than we initially had deliberate, not solely due to what we what we mentioned a couple of minutes in the past with the volumes being made up from among the fourth quarter disruption. However I additionally are inclined to consider that we’re gonna see will increase in total volumes in a few of our key areas.
So we do not have that but in our forecast, however primarily based on the main indicators and definitely primarily based on the quantity of latest fashions which might be being invested in and coming by means of the system, associated to hybrid electrical automobiles had been fairly excited in regards to the companies that we have been profitable and the general affect we predict that’ll have on the subsequent a number of years. Associated to quantity.
Nathan Jones: Nice. Thanks very a lot for taking my questions.
Jeffrey S. Edwards: You are welcome. Thanks, Nathan.
Operator: Your subsequent query comes from Kirk Ludtke of Imperial Capital. Please go forward.
Kirk Ludtke: Hi there, Jeff. John, Roger. Admire the decision.
Jeffrey S. Edwards: Good morning. Hey, Chris.
Kirk Ludtke: On slide 15, did any of these things affect the third quarter?
Jonathan P. Banas: Hey, Kirk, it is John. When take into consideration among the non-aluminum points, the reply can be sure. Clearly, you are enthusiastic about the cybersecurity incident at one among our prospects, in addition to among the pure catastrophe weather-induced issues. They did affect, you recognize, September and did put a bit of little bit of a drain in any other case on Q3.
Kirk Ludtke: Okay. Is there was it significant? Are you able to quantify it? Or kinda good?
Jonathan P. Banas: You see it impacted within the decrease quantity and blend that we might have had in any other case. Definitely not wherever close to as vital because the This autumn affect of the $25 million that you just see on the bridge slide. So we had been capable of basically handle by means of that. However if you consider the misplaced income, you recognize, it is a large portion of the decrease contribution at $53 million of EBITDA. In any other case, we might have been a few million increased than that. Obtained it.
Kirk Ludtke: Is the are the I do know we have talked about primary, however are quantity two and three, do you count on the manufacturing misplaced from quantity two and quantity three to be recovered within the ’26?
Jonathan P. Banas: Have not heard straight on that from these primary and quantity sorry, quantity two and quantity three prospects. But when it is any indication, I believe that they’re going to be competing for share and will do properly so far as their manufacturing ramps.
Kirk Ludtke: Okay. Thanks. After which on slide 14, the brand new enterprise web new enterprise slide, that is you recognize, very useful to interrupt that out. And may you apportion that 83% between simply battery and hybrid?
Jonathan P. Banas: We do have that breakdown, Kirk. I am gonna must get again to you on what that present enterprise wins are damaged out by hybrid and the true battery electrical. However as we have as we indicated, the vast majority of the full is actually electrical electrified, of these platforms or one other in comparison with the ice. Platforms. However we’ll get you that briefly order.
Kirk Ludtke: Obtained it. I recognize it. Thanks very a lot.
Operator: As a reminder, when you want to ask a query, please press one. It seems there are not any extra questions. I might now like to show the decision again over to Roger S. Hendriksen.
Roger S. Hendriksen: Okay, everyone. Thanks in your engagement this morning. We have appreciated your questions. If you happen to do have further questions that weren’t addressed on the decision this morning, please be happy to succeed in out to me and if crucial, we are able to prepare for future discussions with the administration workforce. Thanks once more for becoming a member of the decision. This may conclude right now’s session. Thanks.
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