Good morning and welcome everyone to the Promoris Services Corporation third quarter 2025 earnings conference call and webcast. Today's conference is being recorded. 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, simply press the star key followed by the number one on your telephone keypad. If you would like to withdraw your question, press star one again. At this time, I would like to turn the conference over to Blake Holcomb, Vice President of Investor Relations. Please go ahead.

Good morning, and welcome to the Bemora's third quarter 2025 earnings conference call. Joining me today with prepared comments are David King, Chairman and Interim President and Chief Executive Officer, and Ken Dodgen, Chief Financial Officer. Before we begin, I would like to make everyone aware of certain language contained in our safe harbor statement. The company cautions that certain statements made during this call are forward-looking and are subject to various risks and uncertainties. Act results may differ materially from our projections and expectations. These risks and uncertainties are discussed in our reports filed with the SEC. Our forward-looking statements represent our outlook only as of today, November 4, 2025. We disclaim any obligation to update these statements, except as may be required by law. In addition, during this conference call, we will make reference to certain non-GAAP financial measures. A reconciliation of these non-GAAP financial measures are available on the Investors section of our website and in our third quarter 2025 earnings press release, which was issued yesterday. I would now like to turn the call over to David King.

Thank you, Blake. Good morning and thank you for joining us today to discuss our third quarter 2025 operational and financial results. Promoris had another great quarter, once again delivering record revenue, operating income, and earnings. I am proud of our employees and their ability to execute at a high level while providing our customers with safe, reliable service and driving profitable growth. Operating cash flow was also a highlight of the third quarter and further demonstrates the hard work we have put in to improve in this area. As a result of this emphasis, we have been able to make tremendous progress in delevering the balance sheet and allowing us to invest in the business to be well prepared for the surge in demand we are currently seeing across our end markets. I am particularly proud of how we have generated free cash flow and set new highs on our return on invested capital since making these metrics a priority. We are a company focused on the development of quality people and delivering quality projects for our clients. We continue to allocate our time and resources to capitalize on what we believe is a generational opportunity for our infrastructure solutions that will drive value for our shareholders. Last quarter, I discussed the significant demand on the horizon for power generation and the growing prospect of providing more services which support the development of data centers. I want to reiterate that these and other opportunities remain squarely in front of us. The ramp up in revenue combined with the delay of a couple of larger dollar value projects led to a higher than anticipated backlog burn rate in the energy segment. The timing when projects are signed and placed into backlog can hinge on a number of factors including changes in scope and design and the shifting of supply chain schedules. We continue to direct our attention toward the things we can control during the process and providing our customers with the resources they need from us to get the projects built timely. I want to emphasize that our lower-than-forecasted bookings in Q3 were not a result of projects being canceled or awarded to other service providers, but are instead being impacted by other circumstances that can affect the timing of executed contracts. Because of this, we remain highly confident that we will sign several high-value energy energy segment projects in the coming quarters that will set us up for another successful year in 2026. I will now turn to our performance for the quarter by segment. In the utilities segment, third quarter revenue was up double digits from the prior year. We also had double digit backlog growth in utilities as demand for power, gas, and communications services continues to surge. Leading the revenue growth was gas operations where activity and margins remain resilient. We are seeing increased customer spend on development programs in the Midwest, Southeast, and Texas that have enabled us to step up and capitalize on these trends. In regions with more variable activity, we have controlled costs to maintain solid margins. While the fourth quarter can bring unpredictable weather that can impact work schedules our gas utility business appears to be on track for a record year in 2025. Communications revenue and margins were also up from the prior year driven by broadband expansion and an increase in major project build outs. We believe the emergence of larger EPC network builds tied to data centers will continue to support growth in our communications business. We are targeting over 100 million dollars of these projects over the next few quarters which if successful, would complement our fiber to home new build and maintenance programs. We are also monitoring how states are managing the potential for federal funds to further build out networks in underserved areas which could be a catalyst in the communications business that we are not currently building into our plans. Power delivery had its best revenue quarter in recent years as demand is rapidly increasing in key geographies. More clients are releasing work quarters from engineering at a faster pace, which is leading to increased activity and more favorable mix of work. These trends and customer conversations on upcoming plans help to drive utility segment backlog up from the prior quarter to an all-time high of nearly $6.6 billion. Margins continue to trend in the right direction for power delivery, but were lower compared to the prior year as we did not have the benefit of storm work we had in 2024. We have more progress to make to achieve our longer-term power delivery goals, but I am pleased with the accomplishments of our teams and leaders over the past two years. We're in a great position to benefit from the expansion and hardening of the electric grid in many of the regions where it is most needed, and I believe our safety, culture, expertise, and ability to invest in the business will open the door for further growth across transmission, substation, and distribution. Turning to the energy segment, the renewables business had a record revenue quarter as utility scale EPC and battery storage continued to accelerate. The higher than expected revenue growth in renewables has been a main driver of the decrease in backlog at an area that has seen project signings push out a quarter or two. However, as mentioned earlier, we remain highly confident that we will sign several high-value projects in the coming quarters that will set us up for another successful year in 2026. The signing of the One Big Beautiful Bill and the subsequent Treasury Department guidance has allowed our customers to have a substantial volume of projects safe harbored for the next several years. This has provided increased stability and visibility to this market. However, customers are still navigating some uncertainty on tariffs that has slowed down the process of pricing and therefore the signing of certain projects the funnel of projects remains very healthy and is expanding with new tier one customers wanting to work with us on their high value projects based on our conversation with customers we view this as a near-term adjustment to the timing of bookings and believe we will see backlog begin to build over the next few quarters the battery storage market outlook is also beginning to improve after a couple of quarters of uncertainty. We're seeing the increased adoption of battery storage on upcoming projects, adding storage to previously constructed projects, and a growing number of standalone projects as well. This is giving us increased confidence that we can have continued success in an attractive market growth. Industrial services also saw impressive revenue growth from the prior year as natural gas generation activity has risen to a level not seen in over a decade. Morris' track record for successful execution on gas generation projects has helped us earn an excellent reputation in the market. This has put us in a position of being a leader in the construction of gas-fired power facilities where growth is driven by the further electrification of the industry and data centers. We continue to take a disciplined approach to growth in this market but expect to have some sizable awards in the fourth quarter and into 2026 that will set us up for meaningful growth and accretive margins with good execution the pipeline business has faced challenges this year as revenues and margins partially offset the strong results in the quarter despite the recent headwinds in the business our leadership has done well in managing cost and keeping crew members active as we anticipate what appears to be an emerging upcycle headwinds impacting pipeline services have quickly reversed and we're beginning to see tailwinds develop in this business line. We are seeing bids materialize for several large projects, and we anticipate the trend to shift toward the positive with awards as soon as this quarter. It would only take a few awards to see a revenue and margin benefit in the energy segment, and we are optimistic that 2026 will serve as the starting point. In summary, Permoris continues 2025 momentum with a record third quarter, and we are energized about the future opportunities we have to take advantage of the significant tailwinds across our end markets. I'll now turn it over to Ken for more on our financial results.

Thanks, David, and good morning, everyone. Our Q3 revenue was nearly $2.2 billion, an increase of $529 million, or 32% compared to the prior year, driven by double-digit growth in both the energy and utility segments. The energy segment was up $475 million, or 47% from the prior year, driven by increased renewables and industrial activity. In renewables, project progress continues to accelerate, resulting in revenue outpacing our expectations by over $400 million for the quarter and by over $900 million year-to-date. We have seen significant revenue pulled forward from Q4 and from 2026, driven by strong project execution and early delivery of major materials. We now expect renewables revenue to be closer to $3 billion for the full year 2025, up from our previous estimate of $2.6 billion. Additionally, our industrial business was up over $100 million compared to Q3 2024, driven by strong execution on gas-powered generation and other industrial work. The utility segment was up over $70 million, or 10.7 percent from the prior year, driven by higher activity across all service lines, led by gas operations and power delivery. Gross profit for the third quarter was $235.7 million, an increase of $37.2 million or 18.7% compared to the prior year. This was attributable to increased revenue, partially offset by lower margins in both segments. As a result, gross margins were 10.8% for the quarter compared to 12% in the prior year. Looking at our segment results, the utility segment gross profit was $86 million, essentially flat compared to the prior year, resulting in gross margins decreasing to 11.7% compared to 13.1% in the prior year. The lower gross margins were mainly due to a significant decrease in higher margin storm work in the current quarter compared to the prior year. in fact the benefit from storm work and power delivery is about a third of what we saw in q3 of the prior year excluding storm work utilities margins were comparable to the prior year despite not realizing this margin benefit we are seeing quality performance in power delivery and the rest of the utility segment including an increase in non-msa work compared to the prior year which is a strategic priority for us as we seek to improve margins in this segment In the energy segment, gross profit was $149.7 million for the quarter, an increase of $38.1 million or 34.2% from the prior year, primarily due to higher revenue. Gross margins in the segment were 10.1%, down from 11% in the prior year. The decrease in margin was driven by fuel project closeouts in 2025 compared to the prior year. Pipeline margins were also a drag on margins during the quarter due to lower revenue and gross profit compared to Q3 of 2024. However, we are expecting to see some margin improvement in the segment as we close out the year and move into 2026. Looking at SG&A, expenses in the third quarter were $97.7 million, which was in line with the prior year. As a percentage of revenue, SG&A declined 140 basis points from the prior year to 4.5%. This was driven by our record revenue and ongoing efforts to control administrative costs and improve our operating leverage. While SG&A could tick up slightly as we wrap up the year, we expect SG&A as a percent of revenue to be in the mid to high 5% range for the full year. Net interest expense in the quarter was $7 million, down $10.9 million from the prior year, priorly due to lower average debt balances and lower interest rates. Based on current trends and expectations, we are updating our guidance for interest expense to be between $30 million to $32 million for the full year, down from the $33 million to $37 million guidance we provided last quarter. This is due to our continued reduction in debt and lower interest rates. Our effective tax rate was down slightly because of some discrete tax impacts during the quarter. We now expect that our effective tax rate for the full year will be approximately 28.5%. debt income increased in $94.6 million or $1.73 per fully diluted share, both up around 61% from the prior year. Adjusted EPS increased by over 54% to $1.88 per fully diluted share, and adjusted EBITDA was $168.7 million, up 32% compared to the prior year, setting us on a course to achieve record earnings per share and adjusted EBITDA for the full year 2025. Transitioning to cash flow, Q3 cash from operations was a little over $180 million, bringing our year-to-date cash flow to more than $327 million. This represents a $117 million improvement in operating cash flow compared to the first nine months of the year. The increase was driven by higher net income, and a continued focus on working capital efficiency. Turning to the balance sheet, we closed Q3 with approximately $431 million of cash and total liquidity of $746 million. We also paid down $100 million on our term loan during the quarter, helping to lower our trailing 12-month net debt-to-EBITDA ratio to 0.1 times EBITDA. Our balance sheet strength allows us to invest in the resources required to meet our increasing organic opportunities while allowing flexibility to add scale or new services through M&A that meet our financial and strategic criteria. A disciplined approach to accretive M&A remains a focus for us, and we are encouraged by the quality of acquisition targets we are currently seeing in the market. Total backlog at the end of Q3 was around $11.1 billion, down around $430 million sequentially from Q2. Fixed backlog was lowered by about $921 million due to a combination of higher revenue burn and the timing of energy segment bookings. As David mentioned, we have seen the signing of some contracts pushed to the right about three to six months as our customers navigated through all of the volatility and change during the past three quarters. But our large funnel of high-quality opportunities is still very strong, and we view this backlog decline as temporary. Although bookings and our progress on work and backlog will vary quarter to quarter, we have a high degree of visibility to new awards in the coming quarters for the energy segment across solar, natural gas generation, and midstream pipeline. MSA backlog is up $492 million from Q2, driven by increased activity across our utilities businesses, and particularly power delivery as customer investment in the power grid ramps. Before turning it back over to David, I'll close with our updated guidance. We are increasing EPS guidance to $475 to $495 per fully diluted share, and adjusted EPS guidance to $535 to $555 per fully diluted share. And even though we had about $10 million of adjusted EBITDA pulled forward from Q4 into Q3, we are also raising our adjusted EBITDA guidance to $510 to $530 million for the full year 2025 with the opportunity to achieve the upper end of that range with good weather in Q4. Additionally, we are increasing the range of our gross capital expenditures by $10 million at the midpoint to $110 to $130 million to support this continued growth. We have had an excellent first three quarters of the year generating cash flow, paying down debt, and growing earnings. As we move to close out the year, we are confident that we will finish strong and carry positive momentum into 2026. I'll now turn it back over to David.

Thanks, Ken. Before we open the call for questions, I'd like to recap a couple of key points of the quarter. First, Promoris is operating at an extremely high level and we are seeing the results. We have tailored our strategy to emphasize improved margins, earning growth, cash flow generation, and the efficient allocation of capital, and we are experiencing success in each of these areas. This is a direct result of our company culture and the dedication of our people in the field and those who support them. Second, the outlook for Promoris remains as good as we have seen and we have the people in our customer relationships to take advantage of the opportunities ahead of us in all areas of our business we will continue to work with and on behalf of our customers to develop the solutions to meet the infrastructure needs of the communities we serve there's a lot of work to be done and we are in a prime position to be a major contributor to the growth and modernization of the utility and energy infrastructure in north america lastly i want to thank the people of promoris for their support and efforts during my time as interim CEO. It has been a privilege to work alongside them these past few quarters and I am grateful to have had the opportunity to play a role in transitioning Promoris into its next chapter led by Cody Badlubuti. Cody is a talented and tenured executive that meets all the criteria we are looking for in the next leader of Promoris. I and the rest of the board are pleased to have him join us and we look forward to supporting him. It is an exciting time to be in our industry and especially to be part of the Promoris team. I have a high degree of confidence that the best years of Promoris are in front of us. I want to encourage our teams to maintain the high standard of execution they have through the first nine months of the year and close out 2025 strong with a look to the future. We will now open up the call for your questions.

Thank you. We will now begin the question and answer session. If you have dialed in and would like to ask a question, please press star 1 on your telephone keypad to raise your hand and join the queue. If you would like to withdraw your question, simply press star 1 again. We'll take our first question from Philip Shen at Roth Capital Partners.

Hey, guys. Thanks for taking my questions. You guys had previously expected fiscal 25 order intake to be back half-weighted. Dave, you just shared in your prepared remarks that you expect energy bookings to improve in the coming quarters. Can you provide some additional color on how bookings might look so far in this quarter Q4 and then additional color on how they might trend? Thanks, guys.

Sure, Phillip. Thanks for the question. Yeah, we've indicated even in some of my opening remarks that, you know, some of the timing for some of the energy segment jobs were probably going to be pushed into this Q4 timeframe. frame. And indeed, we've seen that. I'll let Ken kind of give you some rough numbers in a moment, but I would tell you that we're looking to have a very good book to build in our energy segment and possibly in other areas also in this Q4. We've already booked some pretty nice awards and currently doing some paperwork to continue firming up some additional awards in Q4. So So just as Widge said, I'm pretty comfortable with where we're going to end up relative to Q4 bookings.

Yeah, and, Phillip, the other thing I would add is while we definitely entered the year thinking that it would be back half loaded, what we weren't anticipating is all the noise from tariffs and OB3 and everything else. So all that's done, as we mentioned in our opening comments, has kind of shipped everything out a quarter to as much as two quarters in a few cases. But looking at Q4 already, just for the energy segment alone, we've already booked over $600 million. We have another $600 million that should book within the next 30 days. And for the energy segment, we're expecting a book to build well north of one for Q4, maybe as high as one, two, or one, three, depending on how the rest of the quarter closes out.

Great. That color is very helpful. Thank you. And shifting over to or staying with the energy segment, Book to Bill was 0.3 times. You just talked about how that could be strong. How much of the $300 million Q3 revenue in the energy segment was attributable to pull forward of demand timing? And what do you think Q4 energy revenue looks like? You talked about bookings, but let's talk about the revenue now.

Yeah, the pull forward on revenue was at least $100 million, and I don't have the exact numbers in front of me right now, but I know there was comfortably $100-plus million of revenue that was pulled forward that led to the EBITDA pull forward as well. Revenue for Q4, I've got a ballpark number of about $1.2 billion for energy in Q4.

We'll take our next question from Sanjita Jane at KeyBank Capital Markets. Yes, hi.

Good morning. Thanks for taking my question. So I know we've discussed a lot about the renewables bookings being pushed out.

Can we talk about the gas generation bookings, maybe how the funnel of opportunities looked there, and if there were any delays in bookings in that subsegment? sure thanks for the question again yeah there was a little bit that kept being pushed out remember we're trying to work with our customers to get that that price that fixed price uh and some of the delays relative to some of the materials uh that needed in the project getting firm pricing and things like that kind of pushed them a little bit to the right on us but as ken mentioned you know, we're seeing those now become bookings. And so again, I'm seeing that delay in some of those bookings getting behind us, especially in the Q4. And then we're still looking at fairly strong bookings in Q1 and Q2 also.

Got it. And then on the comment in your press release about weather impacting some of your projects in 3Q, are those projects all done or should we expect more kind of like margin leakage from those into 4Q yeah I think the so the short answer is not all the projects are done it was pretty heavily focused on the pipeline part of our business and just a couple of projects there as those projects finish in Q4 and burn off we may have a little bit of margin drag in Q4 but that should be it all right great thanks I'll come back thanks Sanjita next

Excellent move to Lee Jogoda at CJS Securities.

Hey, good morning. I guess for starters, Dave, it was fun the second time around, and if Cody's listening, he's going to have to work on his southern accent a little bit.

I agree, Lee, I agree.

If we can start with the utility side of the business, you've had four straight quarters of double-digit top-line organic growth, and obviously the backlog both on a year-over-year basis and a sequential basis has improved somewhere between 10% and 20% depending on which metrics you're looking at. If you're sitting here today, how sustainable is that double-digit organic growth on the utility side as we move not just into Q4 but as we look out into 2026?

Well, let me start out and then I'll let Ken add some more color as he sees fit. But, you know, we did increase our range for those utilities between that 10% and 12% for the year, as you knew. I mean, we mentioned that last time. I do think those are sustainable going in. The demand, as you've seen, Lee, has been pretty strong in our utilities segment. You know, we're still seeing good buildouts on the communication side of the utilities, good buildouts on the gas utility side of it. So I would say that I'm still feeling pretty comfortable that we can maintain those.

Well, that's just on the margin side, that 10 to 12. I'm more talking on the revenue side. You've done 10% plus growth the last four quarters in a row. Okay, I thought you were talking about the margin side. No, no, no, top line growth.

Okay, on the top line, yeah, the revenue growth has been strongly aided by the gas and communication strength that we're seeing. And, again, we're still seeing just on the revenue side a tremendous demand out there for our services, continuing to build teams, continuing to train personnel. So I still see that as a pretty strong market for us to continue to grow in.

And then one more, and I'll hop back in the queue here. So, Ken, I think you mentioned $9 million of pull forward year-to-date in energy. And as we continue to pull forward, some of that's got to come from the future beyond 2025. So despite all these large bookings, you know, and I guess under the framework of we had been expecting, you know, three-ish hundred million dollars of revenue improvement from energy each of the next couple of years. How does that set up for revenue growth within the energy segment and renewables specifically in 2026?

Yeah, look, the vast majority of that is in the renewables business. So, you know, as we started talking about last quarter, I think our revenue growth is going to be much less for renewables going into 26. Probably, you know, a couple hundred million or something like that is my best guess right now. We're still firming up our 26 numbers. where we see the revenue growth opportunity still remaining strong though going into 26 is in our industrial part of our business predominantly the gas generation that we've been talking about and in pipeline despite some of the margin issues we experienced this quarter pipeline the pipeline opportunities for revenue growth are pretty significant right now so we could see 100 to 200 million dollars of revenue growth just in pipeline alone going into next year.

Yeah, and Lee, I would add one more thing on Ken's comments. You know, the kind of pipeline projects we're looking at now are really down the fairway for us through the larger diameter pipeline projects. So, I feel like we'll perform better on those in the future than what we've been struggling with on some of the work that we've seen over this last year or so.

Great. Thanks. We'll take our next question from Julian DeMullen-Smith at Jeffries.

Oh, hey, good morning, team. Thank you guys very much. Appreciate the opportunity to connect here. Cody, welcome to the crew.

And it's been a pleasure.

Look, let me if I can come back to what you were saying just there a second ago. I mean, what's the rate of growth there on the pipeline side of the business? I mean, it seems like what you just said a moment ago implies a pretty steep ramp versus where you're starting. And then also maybe to go back to another comment from earlier, given some of the delay and just booking some of these renewable projects, for instance, what does that say about the cadence of revenue growth here over the next few years on renewables? Is it more back-end weighted to 27, 28 versus 26? Or how would you set expectations? I know you guys used to have those long-term renewable revenue growth targets.

Yeah, so I'll go in reverse order. On the renewable side, look, I think the cadence is actually coming down for 26, as I mentioned, and then we're looking for kind of a return to normal going into 27 and 28. The softness in 26 is pretty heavily driven by the delay in bookings for renewals tied to all the noise that we've had this year. The good news is, as we've been talking about, is that funnel is as strong as ever, and our customer base has a lot of projects they want us to build. Just switching back to your first question on pipeline, you know, pipelines right now in 25, a $3 to $350 million revenue business for us. So, all it takes is one or two of those projects David was talking about for it to jump $100 million to $150 million going into 26.

And then just given the size of those businesses there, what does that do for operating, for margins here and operating margins in terms of risks as you think about scaling up on that front? Especially, well, I'll leave it there.

Yeah, I mean, nothing really on the renewable side since it's already a fairly scaled business. On the pipeline side, you know, that's where there's some margin accretion opportunity going into 26 as we get that business back up to scale.

And, Julian, my comment I also add, and I've added it each time, is, you know, on the pipeline side of the business, those book and burn very quickly. So, usually what you book in one quarter, you're going to burn over the next, you know, three to four quarters. So, it burns very quickly.

Yeah, absolutely. I hear you. Actually, just to clarify your earlier comment, do you think it's the top of the cycle of 28, or are you seeing incremental interest in 29 and 30, given the safe harbor comments you made there? Does it stay at that 28 level or even compound?

You know, I don't know if it compounds, but, yeah, we expect strong bookings and revenue kind of through the end of the safe harbor period.

Okay, excellent. Thank you for clarifying that. I appreciate the forward look of you.

The next one is Joseph Osha at Guggenheim Partners.

Hi, thank you. First, David, congratulations on your interim stewardship here.

It's been great working with you.

Two questions, just following up a bit on Julian's question. Are you guys seeing any, or do you think you're going to see any attempt to surge solar completions in 27 as people try and get in under this? uh place in service deadline or is there enough safe harbor that that just doesn't matter uh and then i have a follow-up thanks yeah joe on on the on the safe harbor side no we've got all all of our customers are telling us they've got enough safe harbor that they don't see any issues with that all right so no no kind of 27 surge that you see everybody's just plowing ahead because they've got enough safe harbor correct correct um and then you guys have talked um a little bit about some of the single cycle gas business you've got in particular uh behind the defense i think you said stargate i'm just wondering as you think about your single cycle gas business going forward how does that break down between kind of traditional front of the meter peaker and you know, some of these opportunities sitting next to the data centers inside the fence? And, you know, how big could that get?

Well, you know, we're currently working on about four projects, not all of them in data centers, but we all, we obviously are working on Stargate. We've been awarded, and it's been announced also, that we're starting to do the PowerGen side on the Fermi project, the one up there in the Amarillo, Texas area. And so, you know, that market for us on the simple cycle can continue to grow. In fact, you know, we built out several teams getting ready for that surge, and we see a tremendous funnel of opportunities in front of us. You know, I'll let Ken kind of mention a number in a moment because we've looked at potentially how big we think that revenue could get in that market for us next year.

Yeah, Joe, I think next year, you know, we grow top line 100 to 150 million easily, maybe with a little upside to that. And, you know, just to kind of firm up what David was saying, there's a lot of moving pieces right now. But going forward, I think it's probably going to be about a third behind the meter. That's a ballpark number. And two-thirds, you know, standalone, more brownfield sites that are just either merchant or contracted.

Okay. And, guys, can I ask one very quick follow-up? I'm really sorry. As you look at turbine supply, are you finding you have to kind of go to, you know, sort of CAD or Atlas Copco or something? or are you able to do – are your customers able to get turbines from the big three?

They're getting them from the big three and from CAT and others. So it depends on the type of turbines and size of turbines they're getting and where they are in the stack. Okay. Thanks, guys.

And next we'll go to Brent Thielman at DA Davidson.

Hey, thanks. Good morning, guys. I had a question on the utility backlog growth. It's been pretty notable. Looks like power delivery, a decent part of that this year. And I guess my question, Ken, is as we think about that becoming potentially a bigger piece of the segment as you convert that business, why wouldn't it be accretive to the margin profile as we look at 12, 24 plus months?

Yeah, it will be accretive to the margin profile, especially as we continue to build out our project capabilities that we've talked about um a big chunk of the backlog growth we've seen thus far has uh has been really on the distribution side which tends to be a little bit lower margin for us but but the the project work is coming and it is growing some of it's going to be done within the msa's and some of it's going to be done outside the msa's got it um and david since i think you commented on it, but the relationship with Fermi, is a portion of that already in the backlog?

Is there more to come? If you could just expand on that, that'd be great.

No, it wasn't in the backlog. We were awarded on a LNTP. It'll be in Q4 backlog. So, that was part of the projects I was mentioning that we've just got awarded in Q4.

Got it. Okay.

Thanks, guys. we'll go next to Sean Milligan at Needham hey thank you guys for taking the questions um two two questions the first one real quick on the gas power side and margin expectations there you know as you grow that business do we think about margins being accretive to energy margins on the gross side yeah they should yeah they will be accretive yeah they're they're running the upper end of that uh 10 to 12 range okay great and then on the data center piece i know last quarter you kind of outlined some of the pipeline there and the bid you had outstanding and you commented that i guess it's mostly outside the box work curious about you know as you transition 26 27 are you looking at getting inside the box can you do that organically by maybe repositioning teams, or do you need to do that inorganically?

To answer your question, yes, we are looking at getting inside the box. That was one of the strategic initiatives that we put underway that might be a nice type of an acquisition. But from an organic standpoint, we could limitedly get into that. But that's probably not the most optimum route for us to get inside that box. And so that's why we've got that as a strategic from an acquisition perspective.

Great. Thank you for the time. Thank you.

We'll move next to Adam Solheimer at Thompson Davis.

Hey, good morning, guys. Heck of a beat in Q3. Congrats. Thanks, Adam. I wanted to ask what you are seeing in the pipeline bidding market and what the potential for Primaris could be there in 2026. Wow.

Well, let me mention this way. You know, I was looking at sales information the other day, some marketing data, and where we might have been seeing, and I mentioned this on my call, you know, where we might have been seeing, you know, 200 million type of opportunities for us for several quarters. is that thing has now went to well over a billion to two billion plus of types of opportunities in our funnel for the pipeline side. We are optimistic that we might be able to close some pipeline projects as early as this Q4, and then also some additional ones coming in that Q1, Q2. So, you know, as I mentioned in the comments, what was a headwind has rapidly turned to a tailwind, and we're being selective on which ones we actually want to go after to obviously produce the best margin performance we can.

Sounds great. And then in the prepared comments, you also mentioned, I think it was a couple hundred million of projects for the next couple of quarters, broadband expansion, major network build-outs. I was hoping you could expand on that also.

Yeah, we are seeing more of that. In the data center side, there's a lot of fiber in the data center getting it to the fiber networks. The fiber to home is going to slow down a little bit, but we are seeing a tremendous ramp up in the other types of fiber network build-outs. So that's looking positive for us to grow that business again next year. Yeah, Adam, that's like a fiber loop we've been talking about, the data loops, and then also the middle mile stuff that we started doing. okay and the last one for me was just like your traditional civil business what what kind of trends you're seeing there demand trends you know the i love that question because you know our groups have done a tremendous job in uh and and making that unit a very profitable business unit for us uh we kept the the revenue top line in that uh ken you want to mention it but revenue yeah Yeah, Adam, the revenue's been just kind of gradually growing, like $30 million a year.

We'll do $550 to $575 this year. Next year, we'll probably do $625 to $625 or something like that, as we've talked about. It's just a good, solid cash cow for us. It's generating very good margins, and we just kind of let it run its thing.

The teams that we've got right now, Adam, are performing extremely well in the markets they're in. And like I say, we'll grow the top line a little bit each year and just making sure that teams can continue to handle and build out as necessary to keep those margins where we want them. So it's really controlling the margin level more than it is the top line.

Great color. Thanks, Gus.

And as a reminder, if you would like to ask a question, please press star 1. Next, we'll go to Avi Jarzolowicz at UBS.

Hey, good morning, guys. Just in terms of the timing delays with signing awards in energy, was that pretty even across the verticals, or was there noise that led to more delays for renewables or pipelines? Was it just around the tariff cost uncertainty, or were there other factors?

I'll start out, and Ken can add as he needs to, but I would tell you it's more on the renewable side. As we were looking, as you know, all that noise that we were getting out there on the one big, beautiful bill and the tariffs, it was causing some of our customers to look at a lot of different supply chains, which meant that we had to reduce some engineering and look at before we could really firm up our costs to them. And so it wasn't a matter, I think I said on my earnings call, that we lost any projects or any projects were delayed, or not delayed, but any projects were canceled. It was a matter of we needed that extra timing, and so did our customers, to get the right supply chain in so we could firm up the price and get ready to sign those projects. And then, indeed, that's what we're talking about happening in Q4 and then also in Q1.

Okay, got it. And then, Ken, I think you noted that good weather in Q4 could allow you to hit the upper end of guidance. Is there anything that could push you above the upper end? And how are you thinking about that? And also, do you have any storm restoration work in Q4 embedded in the guidance?

Yeah, we never put storm restoration in any of our forecasts. So there's none in there. And then, look, to the upside, it's going to be a weather issue. It's going to be project closeouts, other things like that that will, you know, drive us to the upper end.

Okay, great. Thank you, guys.

And that concludes our Q&A session. I will now turn the conference back over to David King for closing remarks.

Thank you for your questions and interest in Promores. We are pleased with our third quarter and year-to-date results and look forward to carrying this momentum the remainder of the year and into 2026. Thank you, and we look forward to updating you next quarter.

And this concludes today's conference call. Thank you for your participation. You may now disconnect.