Lawrence Wilt
Analyst · Citigroup
Thank you, Bill, and good afternoon, everyone. Moving to Slide 8. Let me share an overview of our third quarter 2025 financial highlights. We delivered strong financial results in the third quarter with revenue of $437 million, up 6% compared to $411 million in the third quarter of 2024. This revenue growth was driven primarily by higher volumes across our aggregates, cement and ready-mix businesses, supported by favorable weather conditions compared to the prior year quarter. Adjusted EBITDA of $117 million, increased 18% compared to $99 million in the third quarter of 2024. Importantly, our adjusted EBITDA margin expanded to 26.7%, up 250 basis points from the prior year quarter. This margin expansion reflects the positive operating leverage in our business model, combined with cost management, operational efficiencies, and price gains in selected products and geographies. Overall, our third quarter performance was driven by strong execution across our business and the benefits of our strategic capacity investments. We delivered robust volume growth in aggregates, cement, fly ash, and ready-mix concrete with our aggregates performance driven by the continued ramp-up of our expanded Pennsuco capacity. While residential end markets remain soft, robust demand from infrastructure and private nonresidential construction supported our revenue and margin growth. Turning to Slide 9. Let me walk you through our third quarter 2025 volume performance by product line. Overall, our results reflect the strong year-over-year performance in the quarter across our integrated platform. Total cement volume increased 2.6%, ready-mix concrete volumes grew 4.1%, and total fly ash volumes increased 23.7% year-over-year. Our total aggregates volumes increased 11.9% year-over-year, benefiting from our strategic investments in Florida production capacity. Concrete block volumes declined by 0.7%, reflecting the ongoing softness in the residential market, though we continue to see better demand from the repair and remodel sector through the retail channels. On Slide 10, our pricing trends reflect the competitive nature of our markets while demonstrating our ability to maintain value in a dynamic environment. For the third quarter, cement pricing remained resilient on a like-for-like basis, impacted primarily by unfavorable product and geography mix. Aggregates pricing increased 3.3% per ton, while ready-mix pricing improved 1.1% per cubic yard. Fly ash pricing decreased 2.6% per ton on geographic mix, and concrete block pricing declined 1.7% per unit, impacted by the softness in the single-family residential market. Our pricing performance demonstrates our disciplined approach in a challenging environment and the value we believe we provide as a long-term supplier of choice in our markets. Turning to our segment performance on Slides 11 and 12. In our Florida segment, we delivered strong performance with revenue growth of 4.3% to $263 million in the third quarter compared to $252 million in the prior year quarter. Segment adjusted EBITDA increased 16.2% to $81 million compared to $70 million in the third quarter of 2024. For the 9 months ended September 30, 2025, Florida segment revenue was $777 million, up 2% from the prior year period with segment adjusted EBITDA of $214 million, up 8.7% compared to $197 million in the prior year period, with segment adjusted EBITDA margin improving to 27.5% from 25.8% in the prior year period. Our Florida segment performance was driven by the benefits of our strategic capacity investments, particularly the expanded aggregate production at Pennsuco, which generated significant volume growth and strong operating leverage. The margin expansion we achieved reflects improved cost management at our cement operations and the benefits of our vertically integrated business model. The Florida market continues to benefit from strong underlying fundamentals with population growth and business migration driving long-term construction demand. While single-family residential construction remains challenged by affordability concerns, we continue to see solid demand from commercial development, industrial projects and infrastructure modernization across the state. On Slide 12, let me discuss our Mid-Atlantic segment performance. For the third quarter, revenue grew 9.4% to $174 million compared to $159 million in the prior year quarter, while segment adjusted EBITDA was $37 million, up 10.6% from $33 million in Q3 2024. Year-to-date, the Mid-Atlantic segment revenue was $481 million, flat compared to the prior year period, while segment adjusted EBITDA was $88 million compared to $101 million in the 9 months ended September 30, 2024, with segment adjusted EBITDA margin of 18.3% compared to 20.9% in the year ago period. The improved Mid-Atlantic performance during the third quarter reflects higher volumes across cement, fly ash, and ready-mix concrete, given solid underlying demand from infrastructure and private nonresidential construction projects and improved weather conditions compared to the hurricane disrupted prior year quarter. Despite the year-to-date headwinds, the Mid-Atlantic market fundamentals remain positive. The region continues to benefit from above-average population growth, particularly in the Carolinas and Greater Washington, D.C. metro area. Data center construction in Virginia remains robust with the state representing the largest hyperscale data center market in the world. Infrastructure investment across the region, including highway modernization, bridge replacements and airport expansions continues to drive steady demand for our products. Now turning to our balance sheet and cash flows on Slides 13 through 15. As of September 30, 2025, we had $196 million of cash and cash equivalents and total debt of $464 million. Our net debt position was $269 million, representing a ratio of 0.71x trailing 12-month adjusted EBITDA, an improvement from 0.89x at the end of the second quarter and 1.21x at the end of 2024. This strong leverage profile provides us with significant capacity to pursue strategic growth opportunities while maintaining our disciplined approach to capital allocation. Our next meaningful debt maturity is in July 2027, providing us with excellent financial stability. For the 9 months ended September 30, 2025, cash flows provided by operating activities was $214.8 million, net capital expenditures were $120.4 million, resulting in free cash flow of $94.4 million for the first 9 months of the year. Our capital spending year-to-date is focused on strategic capacity expansions, investments to ensure reliability and efficiency, and digital transformation initiatives that enhance customer experience. Through Q3 2025, our CapEx investments have focused on several key areas: investments to expand capacity at our domestic cement plants in line with our previously communicated strategic plan; investments in vertical integration through ready-mix concrete and concrete block facilities that meet customer needs and represent a channel to market for our upstream construction materials, including cement and aggregates; expanded access to limestone reserves at our Roanoke cement plant and additional dragline investments in Florida, driving reliability and operational excellence. Looking ahead, we expect full year 2025 capital expenditures to be generally consistent with our year-to-date investment pace. This level of investment supports our growth initiatives and commitment to returning capital to shareholders through our regular share premium distribution program while maintaining our strong cash generation profile. On Slide 16, I'll remind you of our capital allocation approach. We remain focused on 3 key priorities. First, continuing to invest in organic growth opportunities, including capacity expansions and greenfield projects that enhance our market-leading positions. Our investments are focused on enhancing aggregate production capacity to accelerate sales growth, vertically integrated investments in ready-mix concrete and concrete block facilities that support upstream volumes and returns and investments in high-performance, low-carbon product capabilities that we believe position us well for the future. Second, pursuing strategic M&A opportunities that either build upon or expand our existing positions or provide access to adjacent value chain opportunities, all while maintaining a healthy net leverage profile. And third, providing returns to shareholders through our regular quarterly share premium distributions. To that point, our Board of Directors on October 29 approved a distribution of $0.04 per share payable on December 29 to shareholders of record as of December 17. With that, I'll turn it back to Bill for his closing comments.