Mistras Group Inc. 2026 Q2 Earnings Call
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- Mistras Group reported Q2 2026 revenue of $193 million, a 4.2% increase year over year, marking the fourth consecutive quarter of growth.
- The company achieved record second quarter adjusted EBITDA of $25.8 million, up 7% from the prior year quarter, with a margin of 13.3%, a 30 basis point improvement.
- GAAP net income was $7.6 million, or $0.23 per diluted share, while non-GAAP net income was $9.1 million, or $0.28 per diluted share, more than doubling compared to the prior year.
- Oil and gas revenue declined by 8.2% year over year due to exited customer programs and deferred maintenance activity, but excluding these factors, oil and gas revenue grew 1% in Q2.
- Aerospace and defense revenue increased 13.2% year over year, driven by strong demand in in-lab testing operations and backlog.
- Infrastructure revenue rose 76.5% year over year, supported by investments in LNG infrastructure and data center construction.
- Power generation revenue grew 26.4% year over year, driven by wind energy maintenance and renewable infrastructure investments.
- Gross margin expanded by 10 basis points year over year, aided by improved sales mix and operational efficiencies.
- Free cash flow improved by $23.9 million quarter over quarter due to higher net income and better working capital management.
- The company’s bank defined leverage ratio decreased to approximately 2.2 times as of June 30, 2026, the lowest since 2018.
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Good day, everyone. My name is Linus, and I will be your conference operator today. At this time, I would like to welcome you to the Mistras Group, Inc. Q2 2026 earnings call. All lines have been placed on mute to prevent any background noise. After the speaker's remarks, there will be a question and answer session. If you would like to ask a question during this time, and if you've joined via the webinar, please use the raise hand icon, which can be found at the bottom of your webinar application. At this time, I would like to turn the call over to Thomas Tobolski, Senior Vice President of Finance and Treasurer.
Good morning, everyone, and welcome to Mistras Group's second quarter 2026 earnings conference call. I am joined today by Natalia Shuman, President and Chief Executive Officer, and Edward Prajzner, Senior Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer. Before we start, I want to remind everyone that remarks made during this conference call, as well as supplemental information provided on our website, contain certain forward-looking statements and involve risks and uncertainties as described in Mistras' SEC filings. The company's factors that can cause actual results to differ are discussed in the company's most recent annual report on Form 10-K and other reports filed with the SEC. The discussion in this conference call will also include certain non-GAAP financial measures that we believe are useful to investors evaluating the company's performance, but that were not prepared in accordance with US GAAP.
Reconciliation of these non-US GAAP financial measures to the most directly comparable US GAAP financial measures can be found in the tables contained in yesterday's press release and the company's related current report on Form 8-K. These reports are available at the company's website in the investors section and on the SEC's website. I will now turn the conference call over to Natalia Shuman.
Good morning, everyone, and thank you for joining us today. Our second quarter results demonstrate continued progress towards the transformation outlined on the Vision 2030 as Mistras becomes a more diversified, technology-enabled, and less cyclical company. This transformation is increasingly evident in our financial performance and business mix. Growth in aerospace and defense, infrastructure, and power more than offset headwinds in oil and gas as our mix continued to shift towards high margins end market with deeper customer relationships and greater long-term visibility. For the quarter, revenue increased 4.2% to $193 million, marking our fourth consecutive quarter of year-over-year growth. We also delivered record second quarter adjusted EBITDA of $25.8 million, demonstrating the operating leverage in our model while significantly improving free cash flow by $23.9 million quarter-over-quarter and continuing to position the business around higher growth, higher value end markets.
Let me start with our performance by end markets, which clearly demonstrates the benefits of a more diversified platform. Starting with oil and gas, which remains an important end market for Mistras, revenue declined by $8.5 million or 8.2% compared with the prior year period. This was primarily due to the impact of customer programs exited in 2025, of which the majority impact has already been realized. As we discussed last quarter, certain oil and gas customers have deferred some maintenance and project activity amid elevated commodity prices. This has affected inspection cadence, turnarounds, and other work. We anticipate that a majority of the deferrals from the first half of 2026 will continue to be pushed further out.
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