Earnings call transcript: AAON Inc. Q2 2025 results miss expectations, stock tumbles

AAON Inc. reported its financial results for the second quarter of 2025, revealing a significant miss on earnings and revenue forecasts, which led to a sharp decline in its stock price. The company posted earnings per share (EPS) of $0.22, falling short of the expected $0.34, marking a surprise of -35.29%. Revenue came in at $311.6 million, below the forecasted $326.15 million, a shortfall of 4.47%. The disappointing results were attributed to challenges with the implementation of an ERP system at its Longview facility. In pre-market trading, AAON’s stock dropped 22.63%, trading at $62.30. According to InvestingPro data, two analysts have recently revised their earnings estimates downward for the upcoming period, with analyst price targets ranging from $90 to $125.

Key Takeaways

• AAON’s Q2 2025 EPS fell 35.29% below expectations.
• Revenue declined slightly year-over-year, missing forecasts by 4.47%.
• The stock plunged over 22% in pre-market trading following the earnings release.
• ERP implementation issues significantly impacted production and financial results.
• The company anticipates a recovery with new facility expansions and strategic partnerships.

Company Performance

AAON Inc. faced a challenging second quarter, with net sales slightly declining by 0.6% year-over-year. The company’s gross margin dropped significantly by 950 basis points, and non-GAAP adjusted EBITDA fell by 1,120 basis points. These declines were primarily due to production disruptions caused by the ERP system implementation at the Longview facility. Despite these setbacks, AAON reported robust growth in certain segments, such as a 127% increase in Basics brand data center sales. The company maintains strong fundamentals with a current ratio of 2.77 and has consistently paid dividends for 20 consecutive years, as revealed by InvestingPro analysis.

Financial Highlights

• Revenue: $311.6 million, down 0.6% year-over-year.
• Earnings per share: $0.22, down 64.5% year-over-year.
• Gross margin: 26.6%, down 950 basis points.
• Non-GAAP Adjusted EBITDA: 14.9%, down 1,120 basis points.

Earnings vs. Forecast

AAON’s Q2 2025 EPS of $0.22 was significantly below the forecast of $0.34, representing a negative surprise of 35.29%. Revenue also missed expectations, coming in at $311.6 million against a forecast of $326.15 million, a shortfall of 4.47%. This marks a notable deviation from previous quarters, where the company had consistently met or exceeded analyst expectations.

Market Reaction

Following the earnings announcement, AAON’s stock experienced a steep decline. In pre-market trading, the stock fell by 22.63%, reaching $62.30. This drop places the stock near its 52-week low of $62, significantly below its 52-week high of $144.07. The broader market sentiment was negatively impacted by the earnings miss and ongoing operational challenges. The stock currently trades at elevated multiples, with a P/E ratio of 34.7x and EV/EBITDA of 25.5x. Get comprehensive valuation analysis and 12+ additional ProTips with a InvestingPro subscription.

Outlook & Guidance

Looking ahead, AAON has adjusted its full-year sales growth expectations to the low teens and anticipates a gross margin of 28-29%. The company is optimistic about the second half of the year, with projected 40% year-over-year growth in Basics branded sales. Additionally, AAON targets a long-term margin of 32-35% by 2026, driven by increased production capacity and strategic partnerships. InvestingPro’s Financial Health Score indicates GOOD overall health, with particularly strong profitability metrics. The company has demonstrated impressive revenue growth with a 5-year CAGR of 21%.

Executive Commentary

CEO Matt Tabalski expressed confidence in AAON’s future, stating, "The future is bright and we are well positioned to emerge from this period even stronger." He acknowledged the challenges faced but emphasized the company’s strategic initiatives, saying, "We are addressing the challenges we face head on and are firmly on the path to recovery."

Risks and Challenges

• ERP system implementation issues continue to disrupt production.
• The non-residential construction market is down approximately 10%.
• Interest rate volatility may impact market sentiment and investment.
• Capacity limitations constrain potential growth in Basics branded production.
• Macroeconomic pressures could affect future demand and profitability.

Q&A

During the earnings call, analysts focused on the impact of the ERP implementation and the timeline for recovery. Questions also addressed the potential of the Memphis facility to become revenue-positive by 2026 and the expected easing of working capital investments in late Q3. CEO Matt Tabalski reiterated the company’s commitment to overcoming current challenges and leveraging strategic opportunities for growth.

Full transcript - AAON Inc (AAON) Q2 2025:

Conference Operator: Good morning, ladies and gentlemen, and welcome to the Aeon Inc. Second Quarter twenty twenty five Earnings Release Conference Call. At this time, note that all participant lines are in a listen only mode. Following the presentation, we will conduct a question and answer session. Also note that the call is being recorded on Monday, 08/11/2025.

And I would like to turn the conference over to Joseph Mondillo, Director of Investor Relations. Please go ahead, sir.

Joseph Mondillo, Director of Investor Relations, Aeon Inc.: Thank you, and good morning, everyone. The press release announcing our second quarter financial results was issued earlier this morning and can be found on our corporate website, aaon.com. The call today is accompanied by a presentation that you can also find on our website as well as on the listen only webcast. We begin with our customary forward looking statement policy. During the call, any statement presented dealing with information that is not historical is considered forward looking and made pursuant to the safe harbor provisions of the Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995, the Securities Act of 1933, and the Securities and Exchange Act of 1934, each as amended.

As such, it is subject to the occurrence of many events outside of Aon’s control that could cause Aon’s results to differ materially from those anticipated. You are all aware of the inherent difficulties, risks and uncertainties in making predictive statements. Our press release and Form 10 Q that we filed this morning detail some of the important risk factors that may cause our actual results to differ from those in our predictions. Please note that we do not have a duty to update our forward looking statements. Our press release and portions of today’s call use non GAAP financial measures as defined in Regulation G.

You can find the related reconciliations to GAAP measures in our press release and presentation. Joining me on today’s call is Matt Tabalski, CEO and President and Rebecca Thompson, CFO and Treasurer. Matt will start off with some opening remarks. Rebecca will follow-up with a walkthrough of the quarterly results, and Matt will then finish with our outlook for the rest of the year and some closing remarks. With that, I will turn the call over to Matt.

Matt Tabalski, CEO and President, Aeon Inc.: Thanks, Joe, and good morning. Starting on Slide three, our second quarter results that we reported this morning fall short of our expectations and do not reflect the high standard we set for ourselves as an organization. We remain committed to providing transparency to our investors as previously shared during our Investor Day in June, we’ve experienced challenges related to our ERP implementation. In this update, we want to provide a comprehensive view of where things stand today, the key factors that contributed to the recent underperformance, and most importantly, how we are moving forward. We are committed to addressing this directly and taking the necessary steps to restore your trust.

I want to assure you that our confidence in the strength of our strategy remains unwavering. While we’re navigating some near term challenges, we firmly believe that the actions we’re taking today will significantly strengthen the company for the long term. We don’t want that bigger picture to be lost. But given the challenges we faced, we will start with providing some incremental detail on what went wrong. Please turn to slide four.

I would like to start by giving some context to the recent events. Over the past few years, and especially following our acquisition of Basics at the 2021, it became increasingly clear that our existing business systems required a significant upgrade to support our growing scale and complexity. On April 1, we went live with our new ERP system at our first site in Longview. We always anticipated some slowdown in production, but we saw a more prolonged impact on Aon branded equipment in coils production. The slowdown ultimately impacted our broader operations as Tulsa procures the majority of its coils from Longview.

We had a contingency plan in place, but unfortunately, both of our primary external coil suppliers were simultaneously undergoing their own ERP upgrades. This unexpected overlap significantly constrained TULSA’s ability to source coils in a timely manner, compounding the challenges we faced. The end result was that at TULSA, while production improved month to month from April to July, the ramp was slower than expected. At Longview, production of Aon branded equipment was significantly impacted early in the quarter as teams adapted to the new system. However, as production and supporting functions gained experience and familiarity, we saw steady improvement throughout the remainder of the quarter.

Now turn to slide five. This slide illustrates how recent production rates of Aon branded equipment have trended compared to normalized levels, which we benchmarked against the first nine months of twenty twenty four. This KPI measures the consolidated production of Aon branded equipment across both the Aon Oklahoma and Aon Coil Products segments and measures levels of efficiency. We’ve overlaid the total company gross margin on the same timeline. And as you’ll see, there is a strong correlation between production efficiency metric and the gross margin performance.

The biggest takeaway here is that after bottoming out in April, the total production consistently improved month to month throughout the quarter. And while it’s not shown here, we continue to see improvement through July. Tulsa was 6% below that benchmark pace in July and while Longview still has some ground to make up, improvements began to accelerate starting in the June. Looking ahead, we expect production levels at both our Tulsa and Longview facilities to continue to improve from July levels. As production stabilizes and scales, we also anticipate a corresponding improvement in gross margins.

Said another way, when we hit our production metrics, we deliver our corresponding gross margin targets. Please turn to slide six. Here, you can see our total backlog of Aon branded equipment, which are manufactured across both our Tulsa and Longview facilities. Bookings in Q2 and year to date remain strong. This combined with the improving production trends supports my earlier point regarding our expectation of a strong recovery in the second half of the year.

While we entered the third quarter with production levels below our initial expectations, we remain confident in a solid upward trajectory anticipate strong growth in Aon branded production over the remainder of the year. I’d also like to point out that our backlog is favorably priced relative to input cost. Almost all of our production in Q2 was associated with orders received prior to our January 3% price increase and a 6% tariff surcharge that was put in place in March. Directionally, this will begin contributing positively to both sales and margin in the third quarter with a more meaningful impact anticipated in the fourth quarter. Please turn to slide seven.

I want to take a moment to give you some more color on our ERP upgrade, both in terms of what we are looking to achieve and how we see the rollout mapping from here. Given the size and the growing complexity of our organization, including expanded manufacturing operations, it has become evident that continuing to scale at the growth rates we target will require more sophisticated integrated systems. After years of planning, development and preparation, we went live with a new ERP system at our Longview facility on April 1. Our ERP rollout strategy was very intentional. To limit disruption and manage risk, we intentionally adopted a phased rollout approach, implementing the system one location at a time and not moving on to the next site until the prior location is operating smoothly and meeting our performance expectations.

We made the decision to begin the rollout in our Longview facility because it produces both Aon branded and Basics branded equipment, as well as manufacturers coil, a critical component not only used at Longview, but also other sites in the production of finished products. This approach allowed us to fully vet the ERP solution across our entire product portfolio, helping to reduce risk and minimize disruptions during future site implementations. Beyond product mix, when considering our organizational structure, where shared services support multiple functions across all sites, starting with Longview enables these teams to build proficiency with a new ERP solution before we proceed with additional site rollouts. This ensures that by the time we transition to Redmond, which produces only basics branded equipment, or to our largest site, Tulsa, which primarily manufactures Aon branded products, our shared services teams will be fully up to speed and well equipped to support a smoother and more efficient go live at these locations. We’ve also gained valuable insights from the Longview Go Live that will help us to ensure a smoother, more efficient transition for production teams and their other sites.

We brought team members from our other sites to Longview to observe best practices firsthand, and we’re conducting additional training at those locations to ensure they’re well prepared for their own transitions. I want to remind everyone that while this transition is creating some near term challenges, we remain confident that once fully implemented, the new system will deliver significant operational and economic benefits across the organization. We anticipate full implementation will be complete by year end 2026. And while it’s too early to discuss the outlook for 2026, factoring in subsequent ERP rollouts, particularly in the quarter when we go live in Tulsa, we expect to achieve double digit year over year growth in margin improvement for the year, trending towards our long term target of 32% to 35%. Now please turn to Slide eight.

While it’s important to clearly understand the challenges we faced this quarter, we must also keep sight of the strong underlying fundamentals that continue to drive our business forward. With that in mind, here are some of the positives that we’ve achieved in the second quarter. First, the Basics brand continued to demonstrate strength within the data center market in Q2. Basics branded data center sales were up 127 in Q2 and 269% year to date. Second, our liquid cooling solutions continue to gain traction in the rapidly evolving data center market, as evidenced by incremental orders we secured during the quarter.

Year to date, liquid cooling equipment accounted for approximately 40% of total Basics branded data center sales highlighting its increasing significance within our product portfolio. Third, during the quarter, Basic announced a strategic partnership with Applied Digital, under which it will supply thermal management solutions for their AI factory, including custom designed free cooling chillers for their data centers. This partnership resulted in a significant order further reinforcing Basic’s leadership in advanced cooling solutions. Fourth, our national account strategy within the Aon brand is gaining meaningful traction. National accounts orders grew year over year by 163% in Q2 and they’re up 90% year to date, reflecting the effectiveness of our targeted approach, deeper customer engagement and the strong value proposition of our equipment, which uniquely aligns with the needs of these customers.

In the first half of the year, national accounts made up approximately 35% of total Aon branded orders, up from approximately 20% a year ago. And finally, the Aon branded Alpha Class heat pump business continues to disrupt the market with its high performance offering. Alpha Class sales grew 8% in Q2, while bookings surged approximately 61% during the same period, highlighting strong momentum and growing market adoption. I will now turn it over to Rebecca, who will walk through the financials in more detail.

Rebecca Thompson, CFO and Treasurer, Aeon Inc.: Thank you, Matt. Please turn to slide nine. Net sales in the quarter declined year over year 2,000,000 or 0.6% to 311,600,000.0. The modest overall decline was driven by a 20.9% decline in Aon branded sales, which was nearly fully offset by a 90% increase in Basics branded sales. The decline in Aon branded sales was driven by the impact of lingering supply chain disruptions in early April and coil supply shortages at the end of the quarter due to our ERP implementation.

The gross margin was 26.6%, down nine fifty basis points. The contraction of margin was largely due to lower production volume of Aon branded equipment sales at the Aon Oklahoma and Aon Coil Products segments. Our new Memphis facility incurred $3,000,000 in costs during the quarter with minimal sales to offset this cost to the Aon Oklahoma segment. Non GAAP adjusted EBITDA was 14.9%, down eleven twenty basis points, and non GAAP adjusted EPS was $0.22 down 64.5% from the previous year. Also noteworthy, we hosted a national sales meeting in April that incurred costs of approximately $1,600,000 While we did not flag this as a one time event, the last national sales meeting we hosted was in 2021.

We also have elevated depreciation, amortization, as well as technology consulting fees, creating higher SG and A as a result of our ERP implementation. Please turn to slide 10. On this slide, we bridge the second quarter sales and gross margin performance to the same quarter last year, highlighting the primary drivers of the year over year change. We estimate the Longview ERP implementation and supply chain disruptions in early April impacted total sales by approximately 35,000,000 or 11.1%. Together, these two issues impacted gross profit by approximately 20,000,000.

Also worth noting, pricing had a minimal impact on overall sales and gross profit for the quarter. Through Q2, we have recognized only a small portion of the 3% price increase implemented on January 1, and almost none of the 6% tariff surcharge introduced in March. Please turn to slide 11. Looking at the segment financials and starting with Aon Oklahoma, net sales in the segment declined 18%. This decline was driven by lingering supply chain disruptions related to the refrigerant transition at the beginning of the quarter, as well as coil supply shortages towards the end of the quarter due to our ERP implementation at the Longview, Texas facility, which slowed production of coils for our Tulsa plant.

Despite the year over year decline, production improved consistently month to month throughout the quarter, a trend that continued through July. Production efficiency in July was 6% below pre Q4 twenty twenty four levels. Lower production volumes were the primary factor in the gross margin contracting nine seventy basis points. Also contributing to the segment’s contraction of gross margin, the Memphis plant incurred cost of $3,000,000 Along with improving production rates, Aon Oklahoma entered August with a strong backlog. Please turn to slide 12.

AEON coil product sales grew 27,100,000 or 86.4%, primarily driven by growth in basics brand products of 40,100,000.0 for a large liquid cooling project. Aeon branded products declined 13,000,000 due to disruptions caused by the change in ERP systems. The ERP implementation significantly impacted both production volumes and efficiencies of Aeon branded equipment, serving as the primary driver of the nineteen ninety basis point contraction in segment gross margin. Since April, production of Aon branded equipment at the Longview facility has improved significantly. Using the average production rate over the first nine months of 2024 as a benchmark, production of AON branded equipment in April was down approximately 50%.

At the July, we were down 37%. For basic sprinter production at this segment, the impact of the ERP implementation was considerably less, largely because of the uniformity of units within the orders. Thus, production performed relatively well, and the backlog remained strong. Please turn to slide 13. Sales at the basic segment grew 20.4% due to the continued demand for the data center solutions.

Gross margin contracted 60 basis points from a year ago, due primarily to higher indirect costs for warehouse personnel, partially offset by lower material costs. Gross margin increased sequentially for the second consecutive quarter, reflecting continued operational improvements since we initiated targeted efforts late last year. Please turn to slide 14. Cash, cash equivalents, and restricted cash balances totaled 1,300,000.0 on 06/30/2025. And debt at the end of the quarter was 317,300,000.0.

Our leverage ratio was 1.4. Year to date cash flow used in operations was 31,000,000 compared to cash flow provided by operations of $127,900,000 in the comparable period a year ago. Year to date, cash flow from operations largely reflects increased investments in working capital. Capital expenditures through the first half of the year, including expenditures related to software development, increased 18.7% to $89,600,000 We had net borrowings of debt of $162,100,000 over this period, largely to finance the investments in working capital, capital expenditures, and 30,000,000 in open market stock buybacks that we executed in the first quarter. Overall, our financial position remains strong.

This gives us the flexibility and allows us to continue to focus on investments that will drive growth and generate attractive returns. For 2025, we continue to anticipate capital expenditures will be $220,000,000. I will now turn the call over to Matt.

Matt Tabalski, CEO and President, Aeon Inc.: Thank you, Rebecca. Up until now, we’ve intentionally placed extra emphasis on the quarter and the challenges we faced, particularly around the ERP rollout, because it’s important that you fully understand what happened. That said, what matters most is where we go from here. Starting on slide 15, as shown here, our adjusted backlog remains strong, up 72% compared to a year ago. At this stage, the Basics brand is the primary growth engine of the company fueled by exceptionally strong demand from the data center market and the unique custom design solutions that we provide our customers.

We are now producing Basics branded products at all of our major facilities, including our newest site in Memphis, which we purchased just eight months ago. Aside from effectively managing the ERP rollout, bringing this facility fully online is our top operational priority. By year end, this facility will significantly expand the capacity of Basics branded manufacturing by nearly doubling its square footage. At that point, we’ll be well positioned operationally to fully capitalize on the robust demand for the data center market. While we’ve seen strong growth in Basics branded production thus far, our full potential remains constrained by current capacity limitations, a challenge we are actively working to overcome.

The Longview facility, which is represented by our Aon coil product segment, is equally as important to our growth strategy with the Basics brand. At Longview, we are currently manufacturing a uniquely designed liquid cooling product for a hyper sealer. We’ve been steadily ramping production of this product throughout the first half of the year, positioning our manufacturing operations for a multi year increase in volume. Since being awarded the initial order late last year, we received additional follow on orders and are actively collaborating with this customer to develop new designs for their next generation data centers. Overall, the outlook of our Basics brand remains very strong.

We produce the most sophisticated customized thermal management equipment in what is a rapidly evolving and technically demanding industry. Looking ahead to the second half of the year, we anticipate Basics branded sales will increase year over year approximately 40%. Our Aon brand is equally strong and critical to our long term success. Despite prolonged softness in non residential construction market, our bookings have remained strong, particularly in the second quarter when they grew by double digits year over year. The recent strength in bookings highlights the value of our products and signals an opportunity to further leverage our pricing power.

At the end of the second quarter, backlog of Aon branded equipment was up 93% from a year ago and up 22% from the March. Our top priority right now within the Aon brand is to put our customers first by continuing to ramp up production at both Tulsa and Longview facilities, ensuring that we deliver the highest quality products in a timely manner. The value we deliver our customers through our premium quality, high performance equipment has never been more compelling, and we’re seeing that reflected in strong demand even in a soft market environment. You can particularly see this with our national account strategy with year to date orders to these customers up significantly. Given the progress we’re making in production and the strength of our backlog, we expect Aon branded sales to increase significantly in the second half of the year with quarter over quarter growth anticipated in both Q3 and Q4.

Please turn to slide 16. Due to the greater than expected impact of the ERP implementation on our second quarter results and the resulting effect we now anticipate in the second half of the year, we are revising our full year 2025 outlook lower. We now anticipate full year sales growth in the low teens at a gross margin of 28% to 29%. Adjusted SG and A as a percentage of sales is now expected to be between 16.517%. And we continue to respect CapEx to be approximately $220,000,000 Please turn to slide 17.

On this slide, we highlight the key factors now incorporated into our full year outlook. When compared to the similar slide Rebecca walked through for the second quarter, you’ll notice it reflects an expectation of accelerated volume growth in the second half of the year. This is not as strong as we were previously expecting due to lower production rates entering the third quarter, but it’s still strong sequential growth. You’ll also notice favorable price cost dynamics are expected to accelerate meaningfully in the second half. At the same time, it also factors in additional ERP related headwinds that we previously were not anticipating.

Please turn to slide 18. Here, we illustrate and quantify what the full year outlook implies for the second half of the year. Despite the temporary challenges we are facing, we still expect a significant jump from the first half to the second half. Furthermore, if we take a step back, you can see the trajectory is positive looking back to the 2024. We are addressing the challenges we face head on and are firmly on the path to recovery.

Lastly, I want to direct your attention to the table in the bottom right corner. The year over year growth that we now anticipate in Q3 and Q4 implies sequential growth throughout the rest of the year. Through year end, we expect production rates to improve and the adverse impacts of the new ERP system implementation to lessen. Before I hand it off for Q and A, it’s important to note that the core fundamentals of this company have never been stronger. And once we move past these temporary obstacles, we’ll be in an even stronger position to deliver long term value for our customers and our shareholders.

I know these results are disappointing. And believe me, I share in that disappointment. From the broader context, this remains an incredibly exciting time for our company. The future is bright and we are well positioned to emerge from this period even stronger. With that, I will now open the call up for Q and A.

Conference Operator: Thank you, sir. Please go ahead, Timothy.

Timothy, Analyst: Hey, guys. Good morning. Thank you. Thanks for all the details. Maybe just to start, I guess on guidance and the second half kind of coming down more than you think.

Could you just, I guess, maybe bridge us a little bit versus the prior guidance that you have versus what you have now and how much of that is the ERP implementation and how much of that is just lower volumes and the under absorption associated with that?

Matt Tabalski, CEO and President, Aeon Inc.: Yeah, good morning, Tim. Thanks for the question. So as we look at the revision to the back half of the year in the guidance side, primarily the drivers there are going to be around the ACP performance and the sort of ERP impacts that come with that. And so with that, we ended July with a 37% performance against our efficiency metric, but just to quantify, that was at a production level, total production level that was down about 20%. So we finished off July being 20% of where we want to be from a top line revenue perspective on Aon branded product inside of the Longview segment.

And we’re seeing that accelerate, we’re seeing that improve, but just kind of meaningfully considering that impact on the back half of the year. And then when we kind of switch over to a lesser extent on the Tulsa side, while Tulsa is certainly performing substantially better than the ACP segment, we did start the quarter at a lower performance point just with that coil impact that we had. And so really, that’s reflecting to a lesser extent also the lower starting point that we’re ramping off of within the Tulsa segment.

Timothy, Analyst: Okay. Okay. And I guess when you look at kind of what’s implied, I think it’s probably something in the low 30s for gross margins in Oklahoma in the back half of the year yet. You’re probably going to get close the revenue numbers that you had in the ’24. So I guess what is the difference outside a few million dollars and things like Memphis kind of ramping between that kind of maybe low 30s number and something that was closer to 36 or 37?

Matt Tabalski, CEO and President, Aeon Inc.: Yes, a great question. And so we think about the Tulsa side of the business and just want to start off that nothing has drastically changed kind of on the overall performance of that segment. There are some incremental costs that we’ve invested within the organization with enhancements to our end of line test procedures, some investments in additional laboratory work and really driving some of our innovation. But when we look at that, we’re talking about tens of basis points, not hundreds of basis points. So when we really think about what are the primary drivers in the overall margin on the Tulsa segment, Memphis and the startup costs certainly is going to be one of those big cost drivers.

That’s going to kind of add on top of those incremental costs. And then on top of that, we have been producing basics products within the Tulsa segment. And so that production that we’re temporarily doing there just to basically provide more capacity for the basics brand, that capacity that manufacturing is temporarily putting some strains on the overall efficiency metrics within the segment. So that really is kind of what’s putting the pressure points on there. But when we look at it from an overall kind of a Tulsa perspective, we truly believe that gets back into that long term target and that 32% to 35% on an annualized basis within that margin profile.

Timothy, Analyst: Okay. And then I guess the last question I have, just data center backlog. I know it’s been pretty good the last couple of quarters, but it was flat sequentially. Anything you would kind of highlight or call out there? I know that that business can kind of be lumpy, but just if you could spend a minute just on the health of the data center business and how you’re positioned there, think that’d be helpful.

Thanks.

Matt Tabalski, CEO and President, Aeon Inc.: Yes. So from a data center perspective, I just want to start off by saying it remains incredibly strong. The activity, the engagement we have within the market remains incredibly strong. And so just to put it in perspective, the overall top line sales were up year over year, 127% in the quarter. So when we look at that flat backlog, obviously suggesting good strength in that quarter, which means good activity in the overall booking side.

And that activity and that engagement has been at least, if not stronger in both July and August. But when we step back and think about the data center market, a key aspect there is we’ve got to have capacity to sell. And so we have just begun selling into that Memphis investment that we had as kind of a production capacity perspective. And we’re gonna start seeing the ability to sell that capacity meaningfully impact the backlog going forward. But when we look at kind of where we stand right now, while we’re ramping up production in Memphis, we also have to be realistic when we book orders to make sure that we are providing delivery within customers’ expectations.

And so we’re gonna see that Memphis facility really provide a meaningful capacity increase at the later half or later portion of this year, and continuing to accelerate within 2026. And you’ll start seeing orders that are basically filling that facility start to come to fruition. And just to maybe also give you a little bit of context, we look at the ACP performance, we look at the segment sales and the way the bookings perspective on that liquid cooling order. I mentioned in the prepared commentary, but just want to reiterate here that we continue to have active engagement with that customer, not just in the current orders and follow on orders, but also working with them actively to develop the next generation liquid cooling solutions for their data centers. And so, we’ve kind of brought this up multiple times in the past, but it’s a dynamically evolving market with new technology.

And so the customization, the unique value proposition that the Basics brand provides to that data center market really resonates in that rapidly evolving and dynamically moving market. And so we’re gonna continue seeing good strength in bookings kind of coming off of all the engagement we’re having within that market today.

Timothy, Analyst: Okay. Sounds good. I appreciate the time. I’ll hop

Matt Tabalski, CEO and President, Aeon Inc.: back in queue. Thanks. Thanks.

Conference Operator: Next question will be from Aaron Hillman at D. A. Davidson. Please go ahead.

Aaron Hillman/John Ratz, Analyst, D.A. Davidson/Kansas Capital: Thanks. Good morning. Hey, Matt, maybe just picking up off that last question on just the basics brand visibility and data center. Mean, could you just talk about the significance of the applied digital partnership to for the future of basics and orders, how that fits in?

Matt Tabalski, CEO and President, Aeon Inc.: Yeah, good morning, Brent. Great question. So Applied Digital, it is pretty much a pure play AI data center developer. And so really as a data center developer, they’re actively engaged in developing sort of really high performance next generation AI infrastructure. And that really resonates with the Basics brand and be able to really create solutions that optimize performance within that segment.

And so when we look at that and we think about an AI data center as a whole, and you think about kind of where we play inside that data center, we’ve got the, let’s say the thermal management systems that are gonna be outside, which in this case are chillers. We’ve got the air side solutions that are gonna be inside, basically chilled water fan coil walls or crawl units, and then CDUs. And with that customer, we’re engaged in conversations at all three of those aspects. We already have orders for two of the three of those pieces, including high performance chillers that are really important as we think about how we’re gonna manage high efficiency heat rejection inside of these AI data centers. And so our team collaborated very actively with that customer to develop a solution that is optimum for AI workloads.

And really, when we look at their deployment plans, we’re obviously talking about their facility that they’re currently building in North Dakota, but they’re continuing to expand across the region. And really, from our perspective, we’re actively engaged in all of those pursuits and all those collaborations. So this really is, first, I’ll say first phase of our first step in a long relationship with that customer, managing their thermal loads as they deploy AI capacity across the country.

Aaron Hillman/John Ratz, Analyst, D.A. Davidson/Kansas Capital: Okay. All right. Appreciate that, Matt. Maybe just as a follow-up. Look, over the course of the rest of this year, you’ve certainly embedded some challenges here into the outlook.

Just trying to get a sense, especially as we look into the fourth quarter, Matt, I mean, implying reasonably strong growth here on the top line, high 20s. Maybe if you could just talk a little more about what you are you’ve raised this comment sort of cushion in terms of the outlook. What are you embedding as we get into the fourth quarter and we’re talking about fairly significant growth towards the end of the year here?

Matt Tabalski, CEO and President, Aeon Inc.: Yes, certainly as we look at the guidance that’s implied for Q4 and really as a whole, we’re showing acceleration quarter over quarter from Q3 to Q4. And so when you look at the implied growth that we kind of talked about in the prepared commentary, and we’re talking about year over year growth in the high 20s kind of implied and that’s the top line perspective in getting back into a margin profile in the 30s, the low 30s. And so, certainly building upon and kind of working your way out of the challenges that we’ve had operationally as we’ve gone live with this ERP. But when we think about kind of what’s built into that, I want to first start off with, we have a lot of visibility in the backlog. So the back half of this year, we have a lot of visibility, both the Aon brand and the Basics brand.

And so implied in there is certainly strong continued performance or I should say continued performance within the ACP segment on the Basics brand, recovery quarter over quarter in the Aon brand at the ACP segment. We’re building up within Tulsa and we’re gonna be ramping in Tulsa substantially quarter over quarter with that backlog. We’ve got a lot of visibility in the Aon segment, the Tulsa segment sorry, the Tulsa segment with the Aon branded products that we’re going to see accelerating throughout the year. And all of that is sitting there with positive price dynamic in it. And so, as we mentioned in the prepared commentary, Q2 barely touched on a 3% price increase and almost none of the 6% tariff surcharge.

And so all of that starts to come into play in Q3 and Q4, which is helping provide some strength obviously in top line as well as gross margin expansion. And then beyond that, the basic segment, we’re expecting to see kind of stability on sort of what it performed at in Q2, but increasing efficiency and so keep driving for margin improvement in the basic segment. And then through on top of that, we’re gonna start seeing Memphis come online. So that’s what’s baked into it. Obviously, from where the caution lies or what the, as you kind of call the cushion, I mean, we’re still factoring in the ERP impacts within the Longview segment as we’re recovering.

So we’re baking in obviously the recovery off of the impacts that we had. And really also baking in the fact that Q3 for the Tulsa segment, we started off at a lower point than we wanted to. But again, we’re going see that strong production ramp throughout the back half of the year helping to really top up that or the guidance that we provided for the back half of the year.

Aaron Hillman/John Ratz, Analyst, D.A. Davidson/Kansas Capital: Okay, appreciate that. Matt, maybe just one more. Mean, fairly strong bookings here on the Aon branded product. Maybe just your read on that is this a direct result of the share capture strategy you’ve obviously discussed for several quarters now. There are other elements to that that we ought to think about in terms of driving those bookings?

Just be curious to read on the booking strength in that product line.

Matt Tabalski, CEO and President, Aeon Inc.: Yes. So as we think about the Aon brand and especially within Tulsa, the rooftop segment, I I want to start off by saying, obviously, the market remains in challenged position. So the overall non risk market, probably sitting near the bottom of kind of the cycle, but certainly it’s been a tough market within that side. So when you look at our bookings relative to that market dynamic, it certainly is showcasing an outperform relative to the kind of macro environment there. And really, we talk about a lot of the things that we’re focusing on that are helping that from a share capture standpoint, but really the biggest driver that we’ve talked a lot about with the intentional investments we made comes down to our national account strategy.

And we’ve invested heavily within internal resources to support that strategic initiative and really help bolster that from a growth driver for the organization. And when you marry up that national account strategy with best in class heat pump technology in the Alpha class, we’re really seeing just unique opportunities for us to be able to capture opportunity and share within the marketplace. And so as we look at that and we think about the overall performance, when we see that kind of share dynamic, obviously, in the backlog growth, it also does have us review and really kind of look at the opportunity to leverage price within that environment as well. And so, as we think about the opportunity going forward, we’re showing that the value proposition, the pricing of our product and really the positioning of the marketplace is really resonating and providing opportunity to continue reviewing pricing strategy going forward.

Aaron Hillman/John Ratz, Analyst, D.A. Davidson/Kansas Capital: Okay, great. Thank you. I’ll pass it on.

Conference Operator: Next question will be from Ryan Merkel at William Blair. Please go ahead, Ryan.

Ryan Merkel, Analyst, William Blair: Hey, all. Thanks for the questions. I guess that first off, Matt, what’s your confidence level that the new guide captures the downside risk from the ERP? And in the press release, you mentioned taking immediate actions to shore things up. Talk about that a little bit.

Matt Tabalski, CEO and President, Aeon Inc.: Yes, so certainly from what’s provided in that back half guidance, we spend a lot of time ensuring that we adequately cover the risk factors that we see and make sure that we’re providing a target that is achievable and obviously has some upside potential to it. So, when we look at the effort we’ve put in kind of where we stand from a trajectory standpoint, a visibility standpoint, and kind of where we’re at from a performance and recovery standpoint, all of that’s baked in adequately inside that guide to be able to provide upside against it. We certainly see that impacts that we saw in terms of production rates within the ACP segment, and then also the impacts that kind of spilled over into Tulsa, certainly was not what we wanted to see, but from a recovery standpoint, both segments we look at from a metric standpoint are showing strong recovery that we talked about on the call with Tulsa being in July 6% below its target efficiency rate at the end of the month. We certainly are seeing all the signs and the recovery that we expected to see, albeit the impact not as the impact large than we wanted to see in the first place, but certainly the recovery and the path of recovery is very visible for us.

When we look at the immediate actions we took and really kind of relating to some of the supply chain spillover, it was certainly unfortunate state of events as the ERP began to impact our coil production within our long view segment, thus impacting Tulsa. As soon as the supply chain constraints were observed kind of from our third party vendors, our supply chain team was very proactive in getting boots on the ground, getting resources in place to tactically manage what was happening at those sites and really getting the visibility to respond and mitigate the impacts to the overall operation. And so, that activity is certainly part of the driver where we see the Tulsa segment sitting in a much stronger position kind of coming out of July. And the reaction, I’ll say the ability to react to challenges is certainly one of the strengths of Aon. And as these things have come up, our team has jumped at every single issue has come up, got the resources in place, states to understand what the drivers were and make sure that we create strategies to prevent them from happening again.

And so I just wanna kind of stress when we look at the ERP as a whole, certainly the impacts in Longview were larger than we wanted to see as an organization. But the decision to go live in Longview really was very intentional to stress test the ERP as a whole. It was done to look at a site that manufacturers both brands of products that manufacture coils, so that we can truly test the system in all of the ways that we operate this business to stress test to break as much as possible, any of the things that we could possibly break. So that when we go live in future locations, those same issues aren’t gonna come up because you’ve already been able to see them resolve them and build a system or adapt the system to make sure that the organization can perform as expected on the future go lives. And so just to stress, as much as the performance of the go live wasn’t what we wanted, the lessons learned and the operational strategy has provided us a lot of confidence and sort of the ability to perform going forward.

Ryan Merkel, Analyst, William Blair: Perfect. That’s helpful. And then I want to put the 4Q guide into a little context with revenue up high 20s. I don’t think ERP issues will be totally back to normal at that point. So just a little context on what’s assumed there.

And then what does it assume about growth for Oklahoma?

Matt Tabalski, CEO and President, Aeon Inc.: Yes, I mean, maybe just kind of looking at it from across the board. I mean, you’re going to see quarter over quarter strength on top line bookings as we kind of keep accelerating production capacity within that facility against that backlog. I always have to point out and stress that ramping up production, it certainly is a calculated approach and we can’t just go from zero to 60 from a production perspective in Tulsa. And so we’ll see quarter over quarter strengthening of the overall production rates in Tulsa. And that’s baked into the guidance from an overall recovery perspective.

In the coil product segment, certainly the ERP is the guide assumes there’s some lingering effect into Q4 within the ACP segment. And so while it’s improving, we certainly have some consideration in there just as continues to recover off of that performance. And so that is baked into the guide from a Q4 perspective. And then just from a basics perspective, mean, it’s operating kind of nearest capacity within the Redmond location. And so, basics as a whole, you’re not going to see a lot of acceleration and growth off of the basic segment as we report, but you will see acceleration of the basic brands as we begin bringing on capacity within Memphis.

And so Memphis is considered to start coming online in that Q4 guide as well in a more meaningful All

Ryan Merkel, Analyst, William Blair: right. Last one for me. So you’re going to exit 4Q with the gross margin 30%, 31%. You quantified the ERP impact this year, 55,000,000. We have to set a model for 26,000,000 and I know you don’t want to talk about that.

But in the script, you mentioned double digit top line and margin improvement. Can you give us some sort of sense of how much margin lift we could see in 2026? I know it’s a bit early, but it would be helpful. Any color?

Matt Tabalski, CEO and President, Aeon Inc.: Yes, so certainly, we’re not getting into too much detail on ’26 yet, but when we look at the overall performance from a ’25 to ’26 perspective, we do see the top line growth that we guided or we provided that insight to in the overall prepared commentary. Our Q4 implied margin sitting at the 30% to 31%, what we’re basically implying in 2026 is nearing that long term target of 32% to 35%. And that is factoring in, while we’ve gone through, I’ll say the hardest implementation in the Longview facility in terms of its first sight and really stress testing the system, ’26 obviously will still have the additional go lives within the basics in the Tulsa segment. So there is consideration kind of in that margin profile approaching 32% to 35% from a long term guide perspective, and some stress from the kind of future rollouts.

Aaron Hillman/John Ratz, Analyst, D.A. Davidson/Kansas Capital: All right. Thanks for the color. I’ll pass it on.

Conference Operator: Thank you. Next question will be from Chris Moore at CKS. Please go ahead,

Chris Moore, Analyst, CKS: Hey, good morning, guys. Yes, so it looks like booking is pretty good on Aon. Maybe you could just talk overall about the prolonged softness in Rooftop. I mean, what are you thinking about the market overall in the next sixteen six to eighteen months? Is it interest rates?

Is it just any thoughts you might have in the overall market?

Matt Tabalski, CEO and President, Aeon Inc.: Yes. So from a kind of overall macro perspective, if we look at everyone else that’s released for Q2 results, everyone is signaling obviously volumes are down kind of in the non res market, which we would agree with. If we look at this from an overall macro perspective, there is certainly softness probably in the 10% volumes, down 10% volume as an overall industry perspective in the non res market. And so to put that in context, so when we look at the bookings trend, we certainly look like we’re at the bottom of the trough. So we don’t see it as a continued kind of deceleration and decline.

We see ourselves certainly nearing the bottom, if not at the bottom as an industry within that segment. So that’s kind of what we’re seeing. We see certainly the interest rates obviously are a driver, but also, I mean, interest rates at the end of the day, if they’re stable, eventually we get used to how to operate inside those interest rate environments. And so it’s really the getting to a stable perspective that is, I’d say the big driver. And so getting past some of the volatility, whether it be tariffs, whether it be interest rates, once we get to a normal operating cadence as an industry, the industry fundamentally figures out how to operate inside that new cost structure.

And so a lot of the deceleration that we’ve seen, lot of the conversations that we’ve seen really have centered around just the uncertainty kind of in that near term perspective. And so as we look, well, sixteen, eighteen months getting to a more stable operating condition, we’re gonna we expect to see the market as a whole, be on the upswing coming out of that. So I would just point out though that as much as we talk about the softness in the macro market to your comment, I mean, the bookings you see within Aon certainly showcase a different performance level against that overall dynamic. And again, that is really a lot of the strategy that we’ve had, whether it be the AlphaPlas product with bookings up above 60% in the quarter or national accounts that are showing tremendous strength in bookings. Those really are the opportunities for Aon when we think about the non res market to continue outperforming that market and acquire market share.

Chris Moore, Analyst, CKS: Got it. Very helpful. So maybe just going back to Investor Day, you talked about in a more normalized situation, gross margins 29% to 32% for basics, a little bit below rooftop. Just trying to understand, is there something fundamentally different in the rooftop market that allows a higher margin? Or is it just it’s a function of the rapid growth in basics fully leveraging the facilities?

Is there a point where you ever see them at parity or basics will likely be lower kind of long term?

Matt Tabalski, CEO and President, Aeon Inc.: That’s a great question, Chris. And really, when we think about the margins, there’s nothing that says we can’t get to parity on the overall margin profile. The reason the commentary came and really we give that commentary regarding basics at Investor Day and kind of today as well is just, as we think about its growth rate, there’s inherent pressures that are created in investing ahead of that capacity. And so when we think about these strong year over year growth rates, we’re having to put the engineering resources, the overhead resources, a lot of the manufacturing staff ahead of the overall revenue to be able to support that revenue And so that creates some strains, growing 40% year over year, create some strains just in operational dynamics.

But certainly we look at as those growth rates, I don’t want to say temporary, but as we get this capacity online, we were able to start leveraging some of that. There’s nothing to say we can’t get our margins on parity with the overall rooftop segment. Just this hyper growth stage certainly has some pressures there.

Chris Moore, Analyst, CKS: Helpful. All right. We’ll leave it there. Thanks, guys.

Conference Operator: Thank you. Next question will be from Julio Romero at Sidoti and Company. Please go ahead.

Alex, Analyst, Sidoti and Company: Good morning. This is Alex on for Julio. Thanks for taking questions.

Matt Tabalski, CEO and President, Aeon Inc.: Good morning. First question

Alex, Analyst, Sidoti and Company: was just circling back to backlog. I know it’s up significantly year over year. Could you comment a little bit on margin profile and pricing embedded in the backlog? And really I’m asking if these orders are sort of protected with price increases and tariff surcharges or there’s still some risk of margin compression on fulfillment?

Matt Tabalski, CEO and President, Aeon Inc.: Yeah, and I’ll bifurcate that conversation between the two brands, because there’s definitely some different dynamics that exist between the two different brands. But as we look at the Aon segment or Aon brand as the first starting point, that backlog certainly is favorably priced relative to the Q2 results and really getting down to that comment was made in commentary that we really just started to see that 3% January 1 price increase start hitting the overall revenue profile in Q2. So when we look at that backlog from an Aon perspective, we’ve got 3% price plus a 6% tariff surcharge that we’re going to see meaningfully impact the overall results in the back half of the year. And we see that being accretive to margin. When we look at the overall price cost dynamic, that price, as we see it today with all the visibility we have on supply chain, there certainly is some additional kind of margin opportunity that exists inside that backlog.

So on the Aon brand, that’s kind of the visibility we have and we’re buying essentially our supply chain team is actively buying the overall input costs or input products to be able to manufacture that. So a lot of visibility into kind of what that dynamic looks like. On the basic side of the business, certainly from a margin profile, there is escalation clauses that exist in the vast majority of the backlog that is extended. And so there’s opportunity if dynamics were to change drastically to be able to address that with our customer base. But we also have a lot of visibility into what the input costs are and really are securing kind of longer term supply contracts to support that.

So, we see that basically being more margin neutral kind of on what is built into that overall pricing in the backlog for the basic side.

Alex, Analyst, Sidoti and Company: Great color. Thank you for the context. And then one more from us, just changing gears a little bit. Curious if you’re seeing any positive sentiment from customers as a result of the One Big Beautiful Bill Act? Maybe any implications for stronger demand as a result of bonus depreciation or other aspects of the bill?

Matt Tabalski, CEO and President, Aeon Inc.: Yeah, I would say, I mean, certainly from an investment perspective and especially investment in The US from a manufacturing, from a warehousing, from an overall capital investment standpoint, there is certainly some benefit that is improving sentiment. I wouldn’t say a light switch lift kind of when that’s going into place, but certainly provide us some positive trajectory, which really, as I mentioned before, when we’re sitting kind of on, I’ll say the bottom of what we see is, or we see is the bottom of the cycle, any positive move in sentiment, say overall positive going forward.

Alex, Analyst, Sidoti and Company: Thank you very much.

Conference Operator: Thank you. Next question will be from John Ratz at Kansas Capital. Please go ahead, John.

Aaron Hillman/John Ratz, Analyst, D.A. Davidson/Kansas Capital: Good morning, everyone. Good morning.

Joe, Analyst: Matt, I know you don’t want to talk too much about 2026, but can you give us a little sense on how the P and L for Memphis might look in 2026 versus 2025, sort of the delta between years?

Matt Tabalski, CEO and President, Aeon Inc.: Just to clarify, Joe, I mean specifically kind of the cost drag versus the positive kind of contribution?

Timothy, Analyst: Yes, yes.

Matt Tabalski, CEO and President, Aeon Inc.: Or more from, yeah. Yeah, so obviously when we acquired the Memphis facility in the way, since we started building out the overall facility, a lot of that investment, whether it be in people and staff or capital investments, they’re certainly all coming ahead of the overall revenue. And so while we are generating some revenue in Memphis in 2025, it’s not offsetting kind of the overall cost structure of basically standing up that facility. As we look into 2026, and as we think about orders like Applied Digital that we’re gonna be manufacturing primarily in the Memphis facility, we’re gonna start generating substantially more revenue to be able to offset those costs. And so that kind of way we look at Memphis in 2025 to 2026 is really going from a cost drag to an overall kind of drag on the overall financials to a positive contributor in the financials.

And really, when we think about what’s happening in ’26, I mean, the growth of the basics brand, that growth is going to come through Memphis in 2026. And so the demand we have for data centers, relationships as we continue to develop these in admitted solutions, all that’s maybe what’s driving the 2026 growth in Memphis and really allow it to become a positive contributor to the overall financial statement.

Joe, Analyst: Okay, all right, thank you. And maybe a question for Joe. In your presentation, you mentioned management will provide regular updates on implementation progress. What does that mean?

Joseph Mondillo, Director of Investor Relations, Aeon Inc.: I would just say that as we hit certain milestones that are significant to informing you all, we will take that approach. There’s nothing in the sand today as far as exactly what and when we will be providing that information, but as we hit certain milestones, we will provide those updates.

Joe, Analyst: So, Joe, if you reach those milestones, you might say something between conference calls? Is that how you should understand it?

Joseph Mondillo, Director of Investor Relations, Aeon Inc.: Potentially, or a conference. Like I said, there’s no set game plan to that, but we will provide regular updates when we hit certain milestones. We’re trying to be as transparent as possible in an environment that is certainly impacting the financials like you’ve seen.

Joe, Analyst: Okay. And one last question. Rebecca, there was a significant investment in working capital in the quarter, in the first half. How do you see that playing out in the second half as operations get a little bit stronger?

Rebecca Thompson, CFO and Treasurer, Aeon Inc.: Well, we’ll still have some working capital needs to support the basics brand. And like Matt talked about, this upcoming job with Applied Digital, to the extent we have to make those investments prior to all of the production coming along. Plus, you do have our Memphis facility, that we do need to stock up, make the investments to, supply with inventory at that location. So that’s primarily been what most of those investments have been. I anticipate maybe through, I don’t know, mid Q3, back half of the year, they should start to ease.

Aaron Hillman/John Ratz, Analyst, D.A. Davidson/Kansas Capital: Okay. All right. Thank you, Rebecca.

Conference Operator: Thank you. And at this time, Mr. Mandillo, we have no other questions registered. Please proceed.

Joseph Mondillo, Director of Investor Relations, Aeon Inc.: Okay. Thanks, everyone, for joining the call today. If anyone has any questions over the coming days and weeks, please feel free to reach out to us. Have a great rest of the day, and we look forward to speaking with you in the future. Thanks.

Conference Operator: Thank you, sir. Ladies and gentlemen, this does indeed conclude your conference call for today. Once again, thank you for attending. And at this time, we ask that you please disconnect your lines.

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