Michael D. Welch
Analyst · Bank of America
Thank you, Dan. To our investors, analysts, team members and other participants on the call, thank you for joining us this morning. And now on to our financial performance. For the second quarter, adjusted net income was $146 million and adjusted EPS was $7.43 for the quarter. In addition, the noncash deferral headwind due to TCA this quarter was $0.43 per share. Our adjusted EPS would have been $7.86 without the deferral impact. Adjusted net income for the second quarter of 2025 excludes net of tax, $4 million of cyber insurance recovery proceeds, $4 million related to the gain on divestitures and $2 million of professional fees related to the acquisition of Herb Chambers. Adjusted SG&A as a percentage of gross profit came in at 63.6%, noting that the Tekion implementation costs are beginning to impact our P&L. We still anticipate 2025 SG&A in the mid-60s, caveating that we are monitoring tariff and trade developments. While we see additional expenses for Tekion rollout and legal fees, we still are optimistic there are opportunities to lower SG&A in the future. The adjusted tax rate for the quarter was 25%. Following the Chambers acquisition, we estimate the third and fourth quarter effective tax rate to be 25.5%. TCA generated $7 million of pretax income in the second quarter. The negative noncash deferral impact for the quarter was $11 million or $0.43 on an EPS basis. As Dan mentioned, we now anticipate offering TCA in the Koons stores in early Q4. The updated schedule of the rollouts, along with the lower SAAR projections versus our original estimate will affect the timing of deferrals in future periods. We have outlined our timeline and estimated impact on 2025 EPS on Slide 19 of the presentation posted to our website this morning. The periods beyond 2025 have not been updated due to uncertainty around tariffs. Now moving back to our results. We generated $334 million of adjusted operating cash flow through the first half of 2025. Excluding real estate purchases, we spent $60 million on capital expenditures through the end of June. We anticipate approximately $250 million in CapEx spend for both 2025 and 2026. However, this is dependent on the impact and duration of tariff policies with adjustments to spending as appropriate. Free cash flow was $275 million through the first 2 quarters of 2025. We ended Q2 with $1.1 billion of liquidity comprised of floorplan offset accounts, availability on both our used line and revolving credit facility and cash, excluding cash at Total Care Auto. Our transaction adjusted net leverage ratio was 2.46x at the end of June. Following the Chambers acquisition, we anticipate that this ratio will be above our target range. We will work down our leverage over the next 12 to 18 months and expect to be below the higher end of our range in mid- to late 2026. On July 21, we closed on the acquisition of Herb Chambers Automotive Group. Full year 2024 adjusted EBITDA for Herb Chambers was $176.8 million, and the transaction was valued at about $1.45 billion. Of this amount, $750 million represented Blue Sky and $610 million was real estate and improvements. Please refer to Slide 32 in our investor deck and the Form 8-K/A filed this morning for more information on the pro forma financials. Upon completion of the deal with our amended credit agreement, our revolver capacity increased to $925 million and our new vehicle floorplan facility to $2.25 billion. This deal was financed through a combination of our credit facility funding, proceeds from a new mortgage facility and cash. As noted in our release this morning, we divested 9 stores with annualized revenue of $619 million since the start of the second quarter. This was done as part of our portfolio optimization strategy, and it allowed us to use the net proceeds of $250 million to $270 million towards reducing our leverage. Before we take questions, I want to thank our team members. We appreciate and recognize your efforts and performance. And with that, this concludes our prepared remarks. We will now turn the call over to the operator and take your questions. Operator?