Earnings Labs

OPENLANE, Inc. (OPLN)

Q4 2025 Earnings Call· Wed, Feb 18, 2026

$31.68

+0.05%

Key Takeaways · AI generated
AI summary not yet generated for this transcript. Generation in progress for older transcripts; check back soon, or browse the full transcript below.

Same-Day

+0.55%

1 Week

-7.56%

1 Month

-8.11%

vs S&P

-2.61%

Transcript

Operator

Operator

Good morning, and welcome to OPENLANE's Fourth Quarter 2025 and Full Year Earnings Call. [Operator Instructions] Please note this event is being recorded. I would now like to turn the conference over to Bill Wright, Vice President, Investor Relations. Please go ahead.

William Wright

Analyst

Thank you, operator. Good morning, everyone. Welcome to OPENLANE's Fourth Quarter 2025 and Full Year Earnings Call. With me today are Peter Kelly, CEO of OPENLANE; and Brad Herring, EVP and CFO of OPENLANE. Our remarks today include forward-looking statements within the meaning of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. Such forward-looking statements involve risks and uncertainties that may cause our actual results or performance to differ materially from such statements. Factors that could cause such differences include those discussed in our press release issued today and in our SEC filings. Certain non-GAAP financial measures as defined under the SEC rules will be discussed on this call. Reconciliations of GAAP to non-GAAP measures are provided in our earnings materials and available in the Investor Relations section of our website. Please note that all financial and operational metrics presented during this call are on a year-over-year basis, otherwise specifically noted. With that, I'll turn the call over to Peter.

Peter Kelly

Analyst

Thank you, Bill, and good morning, everyone. I'm pleased to be here today to share OPENLANE's strong fourth quarter and 2025 full year results. I'll start with a few highlights and my outlook for the year ahead. Then Brad will walk through our detailed financials and the specifics around our 2026 guidance. At the start of 2025, I challenged the OPENLANE team to achieve 4 key goals: grow our customer base, grow vehicle transaction volumes, improve our financial performance and position OPENLANE for long-term success. I'm very pleased that we exceeded our expectations on each of these goals. Our fourth quarter and full year results are proof points to the strength of OPENLANE's strategy, and we continue to execute that strategy with focus and conviction. By doing so, we are making wholesale easy for our customers and further differentiating OPENLANE in terms of dealer preference, market share and our pace of growth. During the fourth quarter, we grew consolidated revenue by 9% and delivered adjusted EBITDA of $76 million, which was a 5% increase over the prior year. This was driven by strong performance in the marketplace business with both Commercial and Dealer customers as well as a strong Q4 performance by AFC. As a reminder, these results were achieved against the prior year that included contributions from the Automotive Keys business that we divested during the fourth quarter of 2024. In our Dealer-to-Dealer business, we delivered 9% year-on-year unit growth in the fourth quarter, but very different dynamics and performance between the U.S. and Canadian markets. In Canada, we saw a weaker macroeconomic and automotive retail environment in Q4, and this resulted in fewer Dealer-to-Dealer vehicles sold in Canada compared to 1 year ago. In the United States, however, OPENLANE's positive momentum in Dealer-to-Dealer continued to accelerate. In Q4,…

Bradley Herring

Analyst

Thanks, Peter, and good morning to everyone joining us today. Before I get into results, I want to mention some changes to our financial statements that you will see reflected in our earnings release material and 10-K. Specifically, we have consolidated all of our revenue streams that are associated with volumes transacted on our digital platform into a single line called Auction and Related fees. Nonvolume-driven revenue streams in our Marketplace segment have been renamed SaaS and other revenues. This change is part of an overall effort to improve transparency into the drivers of our Marketplace business that we're going to be discussing in more detail at our Investor Day on March 3 in Fort Lauderdale. There were no changes to Purchased Vehicle sales, finance revenue or total revenues. For comparative purposes, our earnings slides include quarterly revenue streams in this revised view going back to Q1 of 2023. Moving on to our results for the quarter. We reported total revenues of $494 million, which represents growth of 9% over the same quarter last year. Revenue growth in the quarter was heavily concentrated in the Marketplace segment, which I'll discuss more in a minute. Consolidated adjusted EBITDA for the quarter was $76 million, which represents an increase of 5% over the same quarter last year. I'll break down the EBITDA results with the discussions of each particular business segment. As I mentioned on previous calls, we'll be discussing adjusted free cash flow conversion on a rolling 12-month basis due to the inherent volatility in our quarterly cash flow numbers. As a reminder, this volatility is driven by calendaring impacts within the settlement processes of our Marketplace segment as well as the seasonal expansion and contraction of our receivables portfolio within our Finance segment. With that context, our reported conversion rate…

Operator

Operator

[Operator Instructions] The first question comes from Jeff Lick with Stephens.

Jeffrey Lick

Analyst

Congrats on a great quarter and a great year. Peter, if you break your Marketplace business down into Dealer and Commercial, it appears that as we exit 2025, both of those line items are probably going better than you expected at the beginning of the quarter and certainly at the beginning of the year. I was wondering if maybe you could just take both of them and just -- why do you think they're going so well and things that you guys have done internally and then maybe market tailwinds as well?

Peter Kelly

Analyst

Yes. Thank you, Jeff. I appreciate the question. Thanks for the good wishes there. Listen, I feel really good about the quarter and the year. And I think you're right. I feel really good about how we're positioned in the Marketplace with both Dealer and Commercial. I think we're at a great point in both. I'll start with Commercial. As we've spoken about for a number of years now, we're expecting off-lease maturities to increase in 2026 and again, in '27, but '28 is another strong year, so a good outlook for off-lease maturities. But compounding that, we see average lease equity at the end of those leases has declined. So payoffs from consumers and dealers are declining, which means a higher percentage of those vehicles are meeting our -- entering our platform. And also because of that equity situation that I just described, lower lease and equity, those vehicles tend to flow deeper in our funnel where we monetize them at higher rates, so we get a better mix of transactions there as well. And as I mentioned, we've onboarded a new customer. So the outlook for volumes is strong. The decline in Q4 was less than I had expected. And I'm confident at this point that we'll see commercial volume growth starting in Q1. I knew there was some ambiguity on that on the last call, whether it would be Q1 or Q2 or when, but I'm confident it will be in Q1. So I think Commercial looks really strong. Customer relationships are strong. Conversion rates are strong. I feel really good about that. And then over on the Dealer side, listen, the 9% growth in Q4, on face of it was a deceleration versus Q3. However, an actual fact in the United States, which is the biggest…

Jeffrey Lick

Analyst

And just a quick follow-up on Commercial. On the last call, you had talked about units in the open auction lane, the final phase of the waterfall, Commercial units were already up year-over-year. I'm assuming that, that's the case now. And then any -- you talked about in your prepared remarks about certain OEMs being more open to using kind of a digital disposition method as opposed to taking it to the physical? Any details there would be helpful because that really is where the sizzle is in the Commercial business?

Peter Kelly

Analyst

Yes. Thanks, Jeff. Yes. Commercial volumes have been flowing deeper in the funnel, as I mentioned. The growth in Commercial in our open sale has been strong. It was again close to a double year-on-year in Q4. Obviously, top of the funnel didn't double. Top of the funnel was actually down a little bit in Q4. Total Commercial volumes were down a little bit in Q4, 2%, but Commercial volumes sold in the open channel were up almost double or maybe even a little bit more than double, but approximately double, let's say, in the fourth quarter. So again, that a very positive sign. I think it speaks to some of the trends we've talked about in terms of consumer equity, but it also speaks to the strength of the marketplace and that we've got a marketplace that can convert these vehicles into cash, into transactions, we can do that quickly at low cost for the seller. We can do it for ICE vehicles. We can do it for EV vehicles. We can do it for hybrids. So I feel really positive about that. I think that's going to be a long-term positive for this company.

Operator

Operator

The next question comes from John Babcock with Barclays.

John Babcock

Analyst · Barclays.

Just quickly, you mentioned that your growth is accelerating in -- or accelerated during the fourth quarter. I'm just kind of curious, how did the U.S. perform through the earlier part of '25? I mean were you up in that 20% growth range? Or I don't know if there's a way you might be able to benchmark how you performed earlier?

Peter Kelly

Analyst · Barclays.

Yes. Thanks, John. We don't disclose the exact number, but I think through my prepared remarks, what I -- and I'm going a little bit from memory here. In the early part of the year, I think the U.S. growth rate in Dealer-to-Dealer was approximately the same as our publicly reported growth rate in Dealer-to-Dealer. In Q3, I recall saying that while our -- I think our total growth rate in Dealer was like 15%. Our U.S. growth rate was high teens. And then as I just said in Q4, our U.S. growth rate in Dealer-to-Dealer Q4 was above 20%. So we've seen an acceleration in our year-over-year U.S. Dealer-to-Dealer growth rate throughout 2025. And obviously, that's very positive and I think it reflects some of the actions we've taken, but we'll have to see how it trends in 2026. But I feel really good about the strength of the offering and the feedback getting from customers as well as the volume trends.

John Babcock

Analyst · Barclays.

Okay. That's very helpful. And then next, weather was pretty bad in the back half of January here. I'm just kind of curious, does that impact your volumes meaningfully? Or how should we think about that for 1Q?

Peter Kelly

Analyst · Barclays.

Yes. Weather can impact volumes for sure, and there were weather impacts from that -- that was a pretty aggressive and widely distributed storm, let's just say. So that impacted retail sales and it impacted volumes. But on the other hand, John, I think in any Q1, there's going to be one bad weather week somewhere, right, in some part of the country at least. So there's always some weather impacts in Q1. It's just a question of when they hit. So I definitely think that's behind us now. But if I were to look at our sales by week, clearly, our weakest sale year-to-date would have been that weak -- our weakest week year-to-date would have been that weak. But I think it's recovered and we move on. So I'm not concerned about it.

John Babcock

Analyst · Barclays.

Okay. That's very helpful. And then last question before I turn it over. There's been a lot of discussion about AI and its potential to disrupt industries over the last week, 2 weeks or so. I was wondering if you might be able to talk about how you're thinking or planning ahead for that and also what you're doing ultimately to position the business such that, that disruption hopefully won't have a meaningful long-term impact for you?

Peter Kelly

Analyst · Barclays.

Yes. Thanks, John. Listen, fundamentally, I think AI will be more of an enabler for our business model than a disruptor. I think the core aspects of our digital marketplace, we're a network effect business with buyers and sellers. We're dealing with significant assets to take up real physical space and have to be moved and inspected. I think those are fundamental facts on the ground about our Marketplace, but I think AI can help us deliver improved technology solutions that benefit our customers. And that's why I see it as an enhancer and enabler and an accelerator in some respects. We're leaning into AI across our organization. I'd say we're leaning into it in 3 principal areas. The first one would be in our engineering and software development operations. We're certainly leaning in more aggressively there. Our team is actively using it to help them design products, write code, test code, and accelerate our time to market for new software products as well as accelerate the time for technology consolidation, which is another thing we've been looking at here. We're also using it in certain customer-facing areas. We have AI deeply integrated into the inspection reports, both on the visual identification of damage through the photographs. We've got AI looking at that. We've got AI on the audio recording of engine noise. We've got AI involved into the coding of the onboard diagnostic codes that we take through the readouts, and we're also starting to leverage AI in terms of pricing advisory for sellers and buyers as well as vehicle recommendations for buyers when they log on to the Marketplace. And then the third area we're looking at AI is, I'd say, in operations. Obviously, with 1.5 million vehicles sold last year, it's 1.5 million titles processed. There's a lot of customer calls that go with that. There's funds flow between sellers and buyers and all that sort of stuff. So there's a significant operation capability here and opportunities for further efficiencies in those processes as we leverage AI tools within those areas. So listen, I feel fundamentally optimistic as to the benefits. Obviously, it's a landscape is changing weekly. So we have to stay close to it, which is what we're doing and we'll continue to do that.

Operator

Operator

The next question comes from Rajat Gupta with JPMorgan.

Rajat Gupta

Analyst · JPMorgan.

Great. I have a question on the guide, if you could unpack that a little bit. I know you gave us some color on Canada and Europe. I'm curious what's embedded -- I'm sorry if I missed this, like what's embedded for volume growth in U.S. in the guide and split between Dealer and Commercial for the full year? Any more details you could give us there? And also within that, what's your market share growth expectation in Dealer for 2026?

Bradley Herring

Analyst · JPMorgan.

Rajat, this is Brad. I'll take the first part of that on guidance, and then I'll let Peter talk about some market share dynamics. With the guide, we're not disclosing anything specifically around volume related to Dealer or Commercial, but we were pretty prescriptive around what the guide represents, which is really a continuation of what we're seeing in the U.S. Dealer business. Obviously, the recovery in the Commercial business, mainly coming from U.S. We do expect Canada to be relatively flat year-over-year, just given some of the macro conditions there and same with AFC, and I mentioned some of the key reasons there. What's important to understand is when you think about our guide for next year is how that growth profile is changing a little bit over 2025. In some respects, especially when you look at the Marketplace business, we're expecting similar growth in terms of EBITDA performance in '26 over '25 with respect to percentage gains. We grew the mid-teens for '25 in the marketplace. We're expecting to either stabilize at that number or even increase that number into 2026 off of a bigger base. So we're really proud of the fact of how that Marketplace business is going to grow. But a fair amount of the growth in '25 came from AFC, which we don't expect to repeat in '26. If you remember, a lot of that EBITDA performance in '25 was related to improvement in the credit situation and loss provisions, which we don't expect to recur for next year. So we feel good about the guide. It's really driven by, like Peter mentioned, the U.S. Dealer business, U.S. Commercial business. But at the end of the day, we feel the marketplace is still going to have another stellar year just like it did in '25.

Rajat Gupta

Analyst · JPMorgan.

Yes. Understood.

Peter Kelly

Analyst · JPMorgan.

Rajat, I'll comment just a little on volume. It's not easy to get a firm number on all the different wholesale channels across this industry to get a sort of a precise market share number. We track our volumes vis-a-vis competitors. We track our volumes vis-a-vis AuctionNet. So I think for the year overall last year, our U.S. Dealer volumes grew north of 15%. I think our total dealer volume was 15% growth, but our U.S. volume was higher than that. I believe AuctionNet dealer-to-dealer volumes, which is really physical auction dealer-to-dealer volumes in the U.S. grew around 4%. So within that, you can see that there's a share gain, if you like, for OPENLANE. We grew north of 15%. The physical auction D2D industry grew 4%. We saw a widening gap in Q4. Our growth accelerated into north of 20%, and I believe physical auction dealer volumes declined 4%, I think, in Q4. On prior calls, I've talked that on a long-term basis, we'd like to be outgrowing the industry by the mid- to high single digits on a consistent basis. I still think that's a reasonable kind of number to use. Clearly, we've done better than that in recent quarters. And obviously, we're going to continue to do the very best we can. But I haven't sort of moved off that sort of expectation as a long-term kind of what investors should expect over, say, a 1-, 2-, 3-year period.

Rajat Gupta

Analyst · JPMorgan.

Understood. Fair enough. Just to follow up on the SG&A side. I think you mentioned earlier that you're expecting to start to lever a lot of those investments that you made last year as they mature. I'm curious, like is this like -- is this 2026 more of just leveraging a lot of the prior year's investments? Is this another like big investment here or this embedded in the guide? I'm curious if you could dive into that a little bit.

Peter Kelly

Analyst · JPMorgan.

Yes. Well, I'll start and then Brad can get into the numbers, but I'll just start at sort of a maybe a strategic level. Our SG&A investments have been principally focused in the U.S. market and have had a particular focus, I'll say, on the D2D marketplace and share growth there. And obviously, we can see positive results from that. We've also done a number of waves of those investments starting in the middle of 2024 and the most recent one, really at the end of last year into the current quarter. And it does take time for those to ramp up and really get productive. So we've got a -- we can certainly see some early indications of impact in the sort of a 60- to 90-day framework. But I think you really have to be a year in before you sort of really start to see it mature and really start to get to it's -- a fuller level of performance. So there is that going on. I'll also say we've tried to fund those investments by reducing SG&A in other parts of the business. I guess what I'd say is we're -- we're not looking to have to continue to do incremental waves. At some point, we think the SG&A growth should plateau out and the volume growth should hopefully continue. So we expect to see some continued separation there. We're going to be watching carefully for that. I do not have at this moment another wave sort of planned in our 2026 plan. So I think we're going to run with what we've got for the most part. But obviously, we'll monitor and see. To the extent we're continuing to see very strong benefits, we'll keep that under consideration. But that's my thinking on it. Brad, do you want to speak to it?

Bradley Herring

Analyst · JPMorgan.

Rajat, I'd add a little bit of color to that. So when you look at SG&A, '26 versus '25, there's a couple of moving parts. One, we've talked before about the incremental variable comp that will actually kind of peel off when we get into 2026. It will not recur in 2025. So that's going to be a good guide, favorability for SG&A. You are going to see, to Peter's point, more of the annualization of our '25 go-to-market investments. There's some slight increments that are being added, but it's mostly going to be -- the impact of 26 is mostly going to be the annualization of investments that were made mostly in the back half of '25. So you will see some incremental adds there. But then to Peter's point, also, there are some ongoing efficiency exercises around consolidations of some tech stacks and some functionality that's going to be funding some of that as well. So those are kind of the big 3 moving parts in that SG&A pool.

Operator

Operator

The next question comes from Bob Labick with CJS Securities.

Bob Labick

Analyst · CJS Securities.

Congratulations on the quarter and outlook. Peter, in your prepared remarks, you talked about off-lease vehicles ending with negative equity. I think it's like close to negative $1,000 for the first time in a very long time and thus flowing deeper through the funnel. You also talked about some pilot programs you did in 2025 to increase online conversion. I was hoping maybe you could expand a little bit about the pilot programs and what you can do to increase online conversion and how you see that playing out this year and beyond?

Peter Kelly

Analyst · CJS Securities.

Yes. Thank you, Bob. Appreciate the good wishes there. Let me start with the negative equity. We look -- I'm sure we're looking at similar data to what you're referencing there. We've seen negative equity decline. One public source shows it actually first time in the negative territory at the end of last year, first time in a long time. I think that's actually a mix. I think the equity situation within our customers' portfolios remains, I'll say, widely distributed. So let's say, EVs heavily negative equity, okay? A lot of vehicles, increasing numbers of vehicles sort of in the zone of close to 0 or low levels of equity. And then some vehicles remaining still significantly a lot of positive equity, some brands, some vehicle types. So it's maybe a more widely distributed variation bell curve than would be typical given the different types of vehicles in those portfolios. But nevertheless, in aggregate, it has trended down, and I think it's going to continue to do so for all types of vehicles in my view. So I think the outlook there looks positive. We're going to into that in more detail, by the way, in our Investor Day here in a few weeks as well. We'll talk more about the impacts here. Some of the pilots, I guess, what I'd say, Bob, at the highest level, what we're trying to do is get our Commercial sellers to engage in a more digital auction price -- use our Marketplace to really discover what the true market demand is for that vehicle and drive higher conversions, which is kind of what dealers do. When a dealer has a wholesale unit, they're putting it -- they've got a view that I think this car should be worth the X. I paid the…

Bob Labick

Analyst · CJS Securities.

Yes. That's really exciting. I think that's a huge opportunity as you can continue to grow that. And then just as my follow-up, and you mentioned this. And I think actually, looking at off-lease volumes in a little more detail for next year, the growth is in EVs and plug-ins and a little hybrids and ICE might even be down a little bit. How have your experience been so far with off-lease EVs, given the, as you said, the very high negative equity because of the rapid depreciation in the incentives given before. So how has the experience been so far with EVs? And what do you expect that to kind of look like through '26 and beyond?

Peter Kelly

Analyst · CJS Securities.

Yes. Thanks, Bob. Our experience to this point has been very good with EVs, and we're still early days. So I don't know that I've got enough data to say this is clearly locked in, and this is all done and dusted, but it gives me a lot of confidence for what we're seeing. So what are we seeing with EVs right now? First of all, we're seeing our overall conversion rate on EVs from commercial sellers is to all intents and purposes, the same as our overall conversion rate for ICE. It's actually a couple of percentage points lower, but immaterial. The conversion rate on both types of vehicles today in our portfolio is in the upper 60s or 70%, okay? But we're seeing EVs because of the lower equity, and this is something we've talked about generally for vehicles, but because they have lower equity, they're flowing deeper in the funnel. So we're actually converting the EVs more, not at the grounding dealer level, more at the nongrounding and open sale level, which obviously has a nice revenue mix impact for us. So again, I'm not saying I would lock in on either of those things as the way it's going to be forever, but it's the way it is today, and I feel really good about that as we're going into sort of a higher volume season here over the next 3, 4, 5, 6 quarters with these types of vehicles. I'll also say that having talked to our commercial sellers, they recognize that they are going to be underwater vis-a-vis the residual value. In most cases, I think they've accounted for that ahead of time because this was something that was foreseen. They also recognize these vehicles probably aren't appreciating in value. So they really need to liquidate them as quickly as they can. And ultimately, they and their dealer base have to find a price point at which these cars are going to move back into the retail channel as used EVs. And I think that -- so they're very, I think, practical about it, like I don't want these cars accumulating in some parking lots somewhere thinking they're going to go up in value. That's not going to happen. I better sell them today and OPENLANE is a great partner to help me do that. So we're sort of working very collaborative with our sellers to achieve those outcomes, and I feel really good about where we're at so far.

Operator

Operator

The next question comes from Gary Prestopino with Barrington Research.

Gary Prestopino

Analyst · Barrington Research.

Peter, a couple of questions here. First of all, great growth on the Dealer side for the year, I believe it was 15% in units, right? So maybe could you possibly parse that out on both the same-store basis and new dealer additions, what's driving that growth. Can you give us some idea of how that's shaped out in 2025?

Peter Kelly

Analyst · Barrington Research.

Yes. Thanks, Gary. I appreciate that. I guess, first of all, we don't disclose same-store as part of our quarterly cycle. But here's what I will say. We're very pleased with the dealer growth. The dealer growth has also been driven by a equivalent growth in the number of sellers participating in our Marketplace in any given quarter. So again, we saw a north of 20% growth in active sellers in our U.S. Marketplace in Q4. Also the number of buyers active in our Marketplace. That growth was also north of 20% in Q4, the number of active buyers in our U.S. Marketplace. And those additional -- the increase in customers helps drive the increase in growth. But we also find that when we onboard a new customer, particularly on the sell side, they don't come in as a mature customer on day 1. It takes some time to ramp up to a level where they're sort of generating a comparable volume to the rest of our customer base. So listen, I feel really good about the stickiness of our platform. I feel really good about the NPS scores we're getting. I certainly feel great about the customer enrollment. And again, we've talked about levers, leveraging the private labels, leveraging AFC, leveraging the go-to-market resources that are driving those customer adoption rates. And all those things together are contributing to the volume growth that we're delivering.

Gary Prestopino

Analyst · Barrington Research.

Okay. And you also said you onboarded a new client in Commercial this quarter or last quarter. Is that correct?

Peter Kelly

Analyst · Barrington Research.

Current quarter, Gary. I think in the last call, I said it would be in Q1. So I can confirm it did happen in January, a very successful launch and excited to see that live.

Gary Prestopino

Analyst · Barrington Research.

Was that an OEM or was that a financial institution?

Peter Kelly

Analyst · Barrington Research.

Yes. It was an OEM with a number of -- a multibrand OEM.

Gary Prestopino

Analyst · Barrington Research.

Oh, that's great. That's great to hear. And then just lastly, I don't know if you have any data on this, but are you starting to see more new dealers come into the fold, particularly on the buy side that just really exclusively sell EVs and hybrids. And I mean there's a couple of dealers out here in the western suburbs like Chicago that are strictly selling EV cars. Are you seeing more and more of that nationwide?

Peter Kelly

Analyst · Barrington Research.

We're seeing a little bit of that. That's true, Gary. I just, on the last question, talked about EVs. So when I drill in and look who is buying these EVs, I'll say it's a mix of -- some of them being bought by regular franchise dealers who just think this is a high quality EV, like a retailer, 2 years old, 3 years old. Some of them are bought by independents, but some of those independents, you can just tell by their name that they are exclusively EV focused. And obviously, they look at a profit opportunity here that these are high-quality vehicles, one owner, low mileage, and they can buy them in our wholesale market and sell them retail in their market, just like you described. So yes, we're certainly seeing some of that, Gary.

Operator

Operator

The next question comes from Craig Kennison with Baird.

Craig Kennison

Analyst · Baird.

You've really addressed most of them already, but I thought I'd ask for an update on Europe.

Peter Kelly

Analyst · Baird.

Yes. Thanks, Craig. Good to hear from you. Europe -- listen, Europe had a strong year last year. It was its best ever year in our business. So it was a contributor to the good results that we delivered. It's a relatively smaller part of our business. It's less than 10% of our total transactions. However, it does show up a lot in the Purchased Vehicle number because a lot of those European transactions move across border. And because of the cross-border implications of that, we have to sort of take ownership of the vehicle for a week or 2 while it's going through that process. So it shows up there. But listen, it had a very strong year. And I believe in 2026, we can continue to grow those volumes. I'd say our growth expectations are modest, but those modest growth expectations hopefully, will drive another record year for our European business in 2026.

Craig Kennison

Analyst · Baird.

And then there's a line item in your adjustments to EPS for ERP. If you could just give us an update on what you're doing to implement ERP and what you hope to accomplish there?

Bradley Herring

Analyst · Baird.

Yes. Sure, Craig. I'll take that. This is Brad. We are moving down the path of doing some ERP consolidations. It's a byproduct of some acquisitions that were made over the last number of years. We are still running a handful of ERPs attached to those acquisitions. So we're going to consolidate those with a central provider. That's going to go on this year and next year. There's a couple [Technical Difficulty].

Operator

Operator

Excuse me, there is an interruption apparently, just a moment, please. We reconnect to speaker location? Are you still there, Brad?

Bradley Herring

Analyst

Yes, we're still here. Yes. Sorry about that, Craig. Yes, so consolidation creates some more efficient back-office capabilities and also it solidifies a lot of our data collection. We do some data translation [Technical Difficulty]. We kicked that off at the end of '25. I'm not sure if that went on mute and you got some of that, Craig?

Craig Kennison

Analyst

I caught some of it. Some of it was on mute, but I'm getting the drift.

Bradley Herring

Analyst

Yes. Just think of ERP for consolidation, data consistency, 2-year program kicked off into '25. By the time we get done with mid to late '27, we should be pretty wrapped up.

Peter Kelly

Analyst

Okay. I think that's all the time we have for questions today. I apologize for the technical issues in the last minute or 2 here. But listen, I appreciate you being on the call. I appreciate your continued interest in our company. I know we've mentioned it a few times on the call, but I want to give one more plug for our upcoming Investor Day event: March 3, 2026, Fort Lauderdale, Florida, runs from 8:30 to noon. You can find out more details on our Investor page or by contacting Bill Wright, our VP of Investor Relations. We hope to see you there, so you can learn more about our business, our leadership and our strategy. We're going to go into more depth on all of those things. Listen, I'm excited about 2026. There are many opportunities for OPENLANE this year and beyond as Commercial volumes inflect and as our Dealer business continues to gain momentum. And because of that, I remain confident in our positioning for growth and our ability to deliver long-term shareholder value. Thank you again. Have a great day.

Operator

Operator

The conference has now concluded. Thank you for attending today's presentation. You may now disconnect.