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OneSpaWorld Holdings Limited (OSW)

Q4 2025 Earnings Call· Wed, Feb 18, 2026

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Operator

Operator

Good morning, and welcome to the OneSpaWorld Fourth Quarter and Fiscal Year 2025 Earnings Conference Call. All participants will be in listen-only mode. [Operator Instructions] Please note, this event is being recorded. I would now like to turn the conference over to Allison Malkin, Investor Relations. Please go ahead.

Allison Malkin

Analyst

Thank you. Good morning, and welcome to OneSpaWorld's Fourth Quarter and Fiscal Year 2025 Earnings Call and Webcast. Before we begin, I'd like to remind you that certain statements and information made available on today's call and webcast may be deemed to constitute forward-looking statements. These forward-looking statements reflect our judgment and analysis only as of today, and actual results may differ materially from current expectations based on a number of factors affecting our business. Accordingly, you should not place undue reliance on these forward-looking statements. For a more thorough discussion of the risks and uncertainties associated with the forward-looking statements to be made in this conference call and webcast, we refer you to the disclaimer regarding forward-looking statements that is included in our fourth quarter and fiscal year 2025 earnings release, which was furnished to the SEC today on Form 8-K. We do not undertake any obligation to update or alter any forward-looking statements, whether as a result of new information, future events or otherwise. In addition, the company may refer to certain adjusted non-GAAP metrics on this call. An explanation of these metrics can be found in our earnings release issued earlier this morning. Joining me today are Leonard Fluxman, Executive Chairman and Chief Executive Officer; and Stephen Lazarus, President, Chief Operating Officer and Chief Financial Officer. Leonard will begin with a review of our fourth quarter 2025 performance and provide an update on our key priorities for 2026. Then Stephen will provide more details on the financials and guidance. Following our prepared remarks, we will turn the call over to the operator to begin the question-and-answer portion of the call. I would now like to turn the call over to Leonard.

Leonard Fluxman

Analyst

Thank you, Allison. Good morning, and welcome to OneSpaWorld's Fourth Quarter and Fiscal Year 2025 Earnings Call. It's a pleasure to speak with you all today about our record fourth quarter. The period capped a year of exceptional performance underpinned by innovation across our global operating platform and the delivery of extraordinary guest experiences and excellent results for our cruise line and destination resort partners. During the quarter, we advanced our strategic priorities, driving growth in key operating metrics and introducing 2 new ship builds. This served to further cement our market leadership and resulted in double-digit growth in total revenues and adjusted EBITDA. Our unique capabilities and the successful execution of our strategy have produced 19 consecutive quarters of year-over-year growth or fourth consecutive year of record performance of both metrics. We continue to identify ways to elevate our positioning, increase efficiency and accelerate growth. Innovation, AI and the reorganization of certain operations that year held included the strategic decision to exit land-based health and wellness centers in Asia and reorganized operations in the United Kingdom and Italy have us poised to achieve this objective. We begin 2026 even more strongly positioned to maximize our powerful standing as the preeminent operator of health and wellness centers at sea. I'm extremely proud of the team that assisted in delivering the year-end equally confident that the year ahead will represent another year of outstanding performance. At year-end, we operated health and wellness centers on 206 ships with an average ship count of 199 for the quarter. This compares with a total of 199 ships at year-end and an average ship count of 188 ships in fiscal 2024. Also at year-end, we had 4,582 cruise ship personnel on vessels compared with 4,352 cruise ship personnel on vessels at year-end in fiscal 2024.…

Stephen Lazarus

Analyst

Thank you, Leonard. Good morning, everyone. We ended the year on a high note, delivering record performance in total revenues and adjusted EBITDA in the fourth quarter and continued strong and predictable cash flow generation. This record performance reflects our investment in breakthrough technology applications across our business, reinforcing our market-leading strengths and deepening our cruise line and resort partnerships. At year-end, we implemented strategic actions to focus operational and capital investment on our highest growth and most profitable operations, exiting land-based health and wellness centers in Asia and reorganizing operations in the United Kingdom and Italy. In addition, our initiatives in AI will serve to accelerate our strategic growth initiatives and increase efficiency, further building our revenue and profitability growth potential. Let me provide some highlights prior to reviewing our financials and guidance. First, as it relates to revenue enhancements. As I mentioned with our Q3 results, we have implemented a machine-learning algorithmic engine to improve revenue and utilization, which is progressing well. In addition, we recently began work and allows us to implement a true dynamic price optimization model that we will start to introduce with prebooking. Today, we have over 11,500 itineraries that are open for prebooking, which makes it virtually impossible to have true dynamic pricing with only humans involved. And we're confident that adding these genetic AI tools will improve utilization and yields. By leveraging advanced recommendations and algorithmic optimization, this initiative aims to unlock additional revenue and improve utilization. Second, on the operational efficiency and scalability side, we are seeing early success with our rollout of our onboard virtual assistant. This AI assistant, helps our managers receive and respond to questions immediately and meaningfully reduce help desk hours. For example, this tool enables our managers to close voyages and start booking the next cruise…

Operator

Operator

[Operator Instructions] Our first question today is from Steve Wieczynski from Stifel.

Jackson Gibb

Analyst

This is Jackson Gibb on for Steve Wieczynski. I wanted to dig in a little further on the AI integration. And with another quarter under your belt, is there any more color you can give on the potential benefits you guys could realize from this investment, whether that's on the cost side or the revenue side? And any updated thoughts on how that might impact margins? Up to this point, you guys have kind of talked about these initiatives starting to show up meaningfully in the second half of 2026. Is that cadence still accurate? And would we be correct to assume you have not factored in any of this potential impact to current full year guidance?

Stephen Lazarus

Analyst

Yes, Jackson. As previously mentioned and you reiterated, we did say that we will begin to talk about that after our second quarter results with more specificity. So -- we remain on track to do that. We are encouraged, obviously, by the initial results, and that is reflected in the incremental rollout of these initiatives, 2 vessels and starting of additional initiatives as well. So we remain pleased with where we're at. And to your last point, yes, our current guidance does not include potential impact from these initiatives.

Jackson Gibb

Analyst

Okay. Got it. And then switching gears for my follow-up. I was hoping to get a little bit more detail around how consumer trends are shaping up, specifically attachment rates and how you're going about discounting. Are you seeing any differences worth calling out in these metrics or anything that stands out as far as changes in spend patterns across different brands, geographies, ship sizes, et cetera. And then how are you thinking about your ability to take price throughout 2026 relative to price action taken in 2025?

Stephen Lazarus

Analyst

So I'll address the last part first. As you know, in 2025, we effectively did not take service price increases. We do always continue to evaluate that. And if there's opportunity to do so. In 2026, we will certainly address an action our comments. Again, from a guidance perspective, we are not assuming any service price increases embedded at this point in time. We'll see how things play out. With regards to the consumer, we had previously mentioned in the fourth quarter of last year, a little bit of softness in November, and we did not see that reoccur in December, which was great. So far year-to-date, we are definitely seeing overall higher prices being accepted by the consumer. So on a net basis, we are selling at a higher price. There may be slightly additional discounting. But at the end of the day, the net that's going to the customer in our facility, which remains high. And it's also therefore a reflection of, as you will have noted, our first quarter guidance, which we feel good about and is about consensus, and we think is a reflection of what we anticipate going forward with the consumer.

Operator

Operator

The next question is from Gregory Miller with Truist.

Gregory Miller

Analyst

I'd like to ask first about the dynamic price optimization model that you spoke about in your prepared remarks. Melissa, missed it on the -- in your remarks this morning, have you discussed in terms of detail in terms of the rollout? Are there certain banners or itineraries or vessels that you're going to start this implementation first? Or is this going to be a broader rollout across the fleet.

Stephen Lazarus

Analyst

Specifically as it relates to that initiative, Greg, the first place we will begin with is actually on prebooking -- so effectively, it will cover 94% of the vessels that today are on that prebooking platform. I would like to say it's still relatively early stages. Obviously, we're excited about it because, as mentioned, the share volume of itineraries available on the prebooking platform, make it effectively impossible for humans to have a true dynamic pricing impact that can literally look at day-to-day even ultimately, hour to hour where we might want to adjust things. So we are excited about it when we roll it out, the phases will be #1, pre-booking once we get that working and finalized, there will be a relatively quick rollout to the remaining vessels. But realistically, we're talking here into the back half of the year.

Gregory Miller

Analyst

Okay. Shifting gears, I was on 1 of your ships recently. And I noticed that the spa menu appeared reformatted. It looked like the offerings were perhaps more condensed and just different stylistically than what I've seen in the past. And I'm curious if you have any intentions of a broader rollout of reformatting your spa menus in terms of the offerings that you're presenting to passengers on board.

Leonard Fluxman

Analyst

No. Actually, we took a very proactive approach in doing that. So I'm glad you noticed. We decided to condense and rather focus guest choice on sort of the more popular items versus a full Chinese menu of everything and anything as opposed to the top choices that everybody takes. But also a focus to moving people into specific price points and time slots. So it's a much more manageable and conversion into the higher treatment rates, particularly around face and body -- so I just think narrowing the aperture to the more popular treatments that we want to sell with a higher retail attachments is sort of the strategy and science behind a narrower menu. We have no intention of broadening it because at the -- from what we did and looked at it statistically, there was just no purpose in having an extensive menu that we did would have like 3 years ago.

Operator

Operator

[Operator Instructions] Showing no further questions. This concludes our question-and-answer session. I would like to turn the conference back over to Leonard Fluxman for any closing remarks.

Leonard Fluxman

Analyst

All right. Thank you, everybody, for joining us today. As Stephen mentioned, we've got off to a great start here in the first quarter and look forward to speaking with you all on our next investor call as well as conferences that we may attend through the first quarter entering the second quarter. So thank you, and look forward to speaking to you next time. Thank you.

Operator

Operator

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