Earnings call transcript: Jeld-Wen’s Q3 2025 results disappoint investors

Jeld-Wen Holding Inc. reported a disappointing third quarter for 2025, with earnings per share (EPS) falling significantly below expectations. The company’s EPS was reported at -$0.20, missing the forecasted $0.14 by a substantial margin. Revenue also fell short, coming in at $809.5 million against a forecast of $823.64 million. Following the earnings release, Jeld-Wen’s stock price dropped by 33.41% in premarket trading, reflecting investor concerns over the company’s performance and future outlook.

Key Takeaways

• Jeld-Wen reported a negative EPS of -$0.20, missing estimates by 242.86%.
• Revenue for Q3 2025 was $809 million, down 10% year-over-year.
• The stock price fell 33.41% in premarket trading following the earnings announcement.
• The company revised its full-year sales and EBITDA guidance downward.
• Strategic initiatives include a 30% reduction in product SKUs and a headcount reduction of 11%.

Company Performance

Jeld-Wen’s performance in Q3 2025 was marked by significant challenges, including a 10% year-over-year decline in revenue. The company is facing headwinds in both its North American and European markets, with demand for windows and doors expected to decline. Additionally, Jeld-Wen is experiencing market share losses, particularly in its door segment, amid aggressive pricing from competitors.

Financial Highlights

• Revenue: $809 million, down 10% year-over-year.
• Adjusted EBITDA: $44 million, representing 5.5% of sales.
• Net Debt Leverage: 7.4x.

Earnings vs. Forecast

Jeld-Wen’s actual EPS of -$0.20 was a significant miss compared to the forecasted $0.14, resulting in a negative surprise of 242.86%. The revenue also fell short of expectations, with a surprise of -1.72%. This marks a notable deviation from the company’s historical performance, raising concerns among investors.

Market Reaction

The market reacted negatively to Jeld-Wen’s earnings report, with the stock price dropping 33.41% in premarket trading. The stock’s last close was at $4.20, and it has now fallen to $2.80, nearing its 52-week low of $3.27. This decline reflects broader investor concerns about the company’s ability to navigate current market challenges.

Outlook & Guidance

Jeld-Wen has revised its full-year 2025 sales guidance to $3.1-$3.2 billion, down from the previous $3.2-$3.4 billion. The adjusted EBITDA guidance has also been reduced to $105-$120 million from the earlier range of $170-$200 million. The company is focusing on simplifying its product portfolio and reducing costs to improve its financial position.

Executive Commentary

CEO Bill Christensen acknowledged the disappointing results, stating, "The current results do not reflect the potential of JELD-WEN and are disappointing." He emphasized the company’s efforts to right-size its cost base, including an 11% headcount reduction in North America.

Risks and Challenges

• Declining demand in North America and Europe for windows and doors.
• Aggressive pricing from competitors impacting market share.
• Ongoing operational challenges limiting growth.
• Softening housing market with reduced consumer confidence.
• High net debt leverage of 7.4x.

Q&A

During the earnings call, analysts questioned the reasons behind the company’s market share losses and sought clarity on its cost mitigation strategies. The management addressed concerns about liquidity and potential asset sales, as well as expectations for market demand in the coming quarters.

Full transcript - Jeld-Wen Holding Inc (JELD) Q3 2025:

Conference Call Operator, JELD-WEN: Hello, and welcome to JELD-WEN Third Quarter 2025 conference call. Please note that this call is being recorded. After the speakers’ prepared remarks, there will be a question-and-answer session. If you’d like to ask a question during that time, please press star followed by one on your telephone keypad. Thank you. I’d now like to turn the call over to James Armstrong, Vice President of Investor Relations. You may now go ahead, please.

James Armstrong, Vice President of Investor Relations, JELD-WEN: Thank you, and good morning. We issued our Third Quarter 2025 earnings release last night and posted a slide presentation to the Investor Relations portion of our website, which can be found at investors.jeldwen.com. We will be referencing this presentation during our call. Today, I am joined by Bill Christensen, Chief Executive Officer, and Samantha Stoddard, Chief Financial Officer. Before I turn it over to Bill, I would like to remind everyone that during this call, we will make certain statements that constitute forward-looking statements within the meaning of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. These statements are subject to a variety of risks and uncertainties, including those set forth in our earnings release and provided in our Forms 10-K and 10-Q filed with the SEC.

JELD-WEN does not undertake any duty to update forward-looking statements, including the guidance we are providing with respect to certain expectations for future results. Additionally, during today’s call, we will discuss non-GAAP measures, which we believe can be useful in evaluating our performance. The presentation of this additional information should not be considered in isolation or as a substitute for the results prepared in accordance with GAAP. A reconciliation of these non-GAAP measures to their most directly comparable financial measures calculated under GAAP can be found in our earnings release and in the appendix of our earnings presentation. With that, I would like to now turn the call over to Bill.

Bill Christensen, Chief Executive Officer, JELD-WEN: Thank you, James, and good morning, everyone. Before we begin, I want to once again recognize our entire team for their ongoing commitment and continued hard work in what has remained a challenging environment. The past quarter has tested our organization in many ways. I’m grateful for the dedication, resilience, and collaboration shown across every part of JELD-WEN. It is because of their continued efforts that we remain able to navigate this environment and position the company for long-term success. The third quarter, both in Europe and North America, was marked by further softening in market conditions and an overall degradation in demand trends. While we had anticipated stability at low levels, both new construction and repair and remodel activity weakened further. We also faced operational challenges that limited our ability to capture additional market share with customer orders coming in below expectations.

As a result, our performance fell short of our plans, and we are taking clear actions to address the areas that need improvement, strengthen execution, and ensure that we are better aligned with the current market conditions. We continue to experience price-cost headwinds across several areas of the business. Inflation in both labor and materials has persisted. Given current market dynamics, we have seen some pushback on both tariff-related pricing actions and pricing increases to offset market inflation. These factors have created additional short-term margin pressure, which we are actively working to offset through cost reductions, operational efficiencies, and focused performance improvement initiatives. Importantly, we remain confident that the steps we are taking will help us better balance our cost structure with current demand while protecting our long-term strategic priorities. Turning now to slide four and our third quarter highlights.

The quarter reflected a more difficult backdrop than anticipated, driven by softening demand and continued inflationary pressure. In response, we are taking meaningful actions to address our cost base, including an approximately 11% reduction of North America and corporate headcount. Additionally, we are preserving liquidity while continuing to advance our transformation efforts. As part of that work, we are announcing a strategic review of our European business, evaluating all potential alternatives to strengthen our balance sheet and sharpen our strategic focus. While the process is in its early stages and there is nothing further to announce at this time, we believe this review will allow us to effectively address our upcoming maturities and enhance our long-term balance sheet flexibility. We are also evaluating additional options around smaller non-core assets, such as our distribution business and select sale leaseback transactions, but have nothing specific to announce at this point in time.

Our liquidity position remains strong, with approximately $100 million in cash and approximately $400 million of revolver availability. As a reminder, we have no debt maturities until December 2027. Importantly, our only relevant covenant requires an approximate minimum of $40 million in total liquidity compared to our current position of approximately $500 million. We also continue to strengthen the North American team with the addition of Rachel Elliott as EVP of North America. Rachel brings broad experience from her time with other notable building products companies, and we are excited to have her join the organization. While the near-term environment remains uncertain, we continue to focus on what we can control: improving execution, strengthening operations, and ensuring a strong financial foundation. These actions are designed to ensure that we remain well-positioned to capture growth as market conditions improve.

With that, I’ll hand it over to Samantha to review our financial results in greater detail.

Conference Call Operator, JELD-WEN: Thank you, Bill. Turning to slide six, as Bill mentioned, market conditions remained challenging throughout the quarter, and our results came in below our internal expectations. The shortfall primarily reflects softer market demand, operational challenges that limited our ability to capture incremental share as expected, and ongoing price and cost headwinds across several categories. Revenue for the quarter was $809 million, with core revenue down 10% year-over-year. This decline was driven mainly by lower volumes in both North America and Europe, as market softness more than offset the benefits from our cost reduction initiatives and productivity efforts. Adjusted EBITDA came in at $44 million, or 5.5% of sales, and was up sequentially from the prior quarter, although below prior year and below our expectations. The lower margin primarily reflected continued price-cost pressure, unfavorable volume, and staffing levels that were set in anticipation of market share gains that did not materialize.

Turning to cash flow, earnings pressure and continued investment in transformation initiatives led to negative free cash flow in the quarter. That said, working capital performance remained disciplined, contributing modestly to liquidity despite the softer sales environment. Our net debt leverage increased to 7.4 times, driven by lower year-over-year EBITDA rather than new borrowing. Reducing leverage remains a top priority for us. As part of that effort, we have initiated a strategic review of our European segment, aimed in part at addressing this elevated leverage and further strengthening our balance sheet. As shown on slide seven, the revenue decline this quarter was driven primarily by lower volumes, with core revenue down 10% year-over-year. The softness reflects continued market weakness and share loss, along with carryover from the loss of business with a Midwest retailer that occurred in the third quarter of last year.

We also had a negative impact from the court-ordered divestiture of our Tawanda operations, which weighed on the year-over-year comparison. Product mix was slightly positive versus the prior year, but the benefit was not enough to offset the volume pressure. In a few moments, I will provide additional context on the market factors influencing our performance and how we are positioning the business for the remainder of the year. As shown on slide eight, adjusted EBITDA for the quarter was $44 million, a decline of about $38 million from the prior year. This reflects the continued softness in demand and the unfavorable price and cost environment that persisted throughout the quarter. Lower volumes were the main driver of the decline, as reduced production levels weighed on earnings and more than offset the benefits from our ongoing cost actions.

Product mix was slightly positive, but the benefit was not enough to offset the volume deleverage from lower demand. At the same time, price and cost pressures remained significant, particularly as labor and material inflation continued to outpace our ability to recover pricing in the market. These factors led to a sequential decline in margins and further compressed profitability year-over-year. Even with these challenges, we continued to make steady progress on our transformation and cost reduction programs, which provided a partial offset to these headwinds. We also delivered additional savings within SG&A, reflecting disciplined expense control and execution of the cost actions we’ve put in place. Turning to our segment results on slide nine, in North America, revenue declined 19% year-over-year, with volume and mix down 13%. The decline was driven primarily by weaker market demand, while mix was slightly positive for the quarter.

The remainder of the year-over-year decline reflects the court-ordered divestiture of our Tawanda operations. Adjusted EBITDA for North America was $38 million, compared with $75 million in the same quarter last year. The decrease was largely the result of lower volumes and operational inefficiencies associated with reduced manufacturing throughput, in addition to the price-cost challenges mentioned previously. These headwinds were partially offset by the benefits from our ongoing cost reduction and transformation initiatives. In Europe, revenue increased 2% year-over-year, with volume and mix down 6%. As in North America, mix was slightly positive, but overall demand remained soft across several key markets. Adjusted EBITDA for Europe was $16 million, which was roughly flat compared to last year, as the benefits of productivity improvements and cost actions largely offset the impact of lower volumes.

Before turning it back to Bill, I want to take a moment to address tariffs, which continue to be an area of focus. If you turn to slide 10, you’ll see an overview of our current exposure under the most recent tariff framework. At current rates, we estimate the annualized impact of tariffs on our business to be around $45 million, with roughly $17 million expected to materialize in our 2025 results. While the situation remains fluid, we’ve been largely successful in passing through tariff surcharges to most of our customers. However, in recent months, we’ve begun to experience greater resistance from some of our larger accounts, which has slightly tempered our overall recovery rate. From a sourcing perspective, our exposure remains relatively modest. Approximately 13% of our combined tier one and tier two supplier spend is subject to potential tariff impact.

As we have previously stated, direct sourcing from China represents less than 1% of our total material spend. Even when including tier two exposure, China accounts for about 5% overall. This limited exposure positions us well relative to others in the industry. Overall, while the tariff environment remains uncertain, we’re staying nimble in our approach, actively managing near-term impacts, and maintaining a disciplined focus on pricing and sourcing strategies that help mitigate cost pressures. With that, I’ll turn it back over to Bill to discuss our updated market outlook and how we’re positioning JELD-WEN for the path ahead.

Bill Christensen, Chief Executive Officer, JELD-WEN: Thanks, Samantha. Turning to slide 12, I want to provide some perspective on how the market environment has evolved since our last update. Earlier this year, we expected conditions to stabilize at relatively low levels during the back half of 2025. However, over the past three months, we’ve seen a notable deterioration across our core markets. Both new construction and repair and remodel activity have weakened further as both consumer confidence and housing affordability remain under pressure. In Canada, the slowdown has been especially sharp, with housing starts down more than 40% year-over-year, reflecting the broader slowdown in the economy. Given these developments, we’ve updated our market outlook expectations. In North America, we now anticipate full-year demand for windows and doors to be down in the high single digits compared to our prior view of a low to mid-single digit decline.

In Europe, we expect demand for doors to be down mid-single digits versus the low single digit decline we previously forecasted. Across both regions, demand continues to be concentrated at the lower end of the market, with affordability driving purchasing decisions and limiting overall mix-up improvement. Turning to slide 13, I’ll walk through our updated full-year guidance. Following the significant market deterioration we saw during the third quarter, we are lowering our 2025 outlook to reflect current demand levels and operational performance. We now expect sales of $3.1-$3.2 billion compared to our previous range of $3.2-$3.4 billion. Adjusted EBITDA is now expected to be between $105-$120 million, down from our prior range of $170-$200 million. Core revenue is expected to decline 10%-13% compared with our previous expectation of a 4%-9% decline. This change is primarily due to three factors.

First, we had limited success on converting the market share gains we had planned for and staffed against earlier this year. Second, this revision reflects the further weakening in market demand that emerged late in the quarter and some of our own operational challenges. On sales, we face continued pressure in a weak market and experienced a modest share loss tied to ongoing operational performance issues. Third, while operations are improving, the pace of that improvement is not yet where it needs to be, and we continue to be focused on execution and consistency across the network. Because of these three challenges, we now expect a more typical seasonal pattern in the fourth quarter rather than the relative strength we had previously forecasted. We also anticipate continued negative price costs as pricing pressure has intensified, particularly around the edges of the market.

At the same time, some of our larger customers are pushing back more forcefully on tariff surcharges, while cost inflation has accelerated across materials, freight, and labor. On operating cash flow, we now expect the use of approximately $45 million compared to our prior forecast for a use of $10 million. This includes approximately $15 million of restructuring that will occur in the fourth quarter as part of our workforce reduction. Although EBITDA expectations have come down, we’ve taken a disciplined approach to working capital, and our focus on cash management remains unchanged. We also expect capital expenditures of approximately $125 million, down from our prior forecast of $150 million, reflecting a tighter focus on critical investments. Looking ahead to 2026.

While we’re not providing formal guidance, we would expect CapEx to be lower than this year’s level, given the current demand outlook and our intent to align spending with market conditions. On leverage, we are actively addressing the issue. As part of this, we have announced a strategic review of our European operations. While we cannot predict the outcome of that process, it represents one potential avenue to help reduce leverage and strengthen the balance sheet. We continue to evaluate other strategic options, such as selective, smaller asset reviews, and targeted sale leasebacks. Beyond the European review, however, we have no further updates at this time. Finally, I want to reiterate that we continue to maintain sufficient liquidity for the midterm.

As of the end of the third quarter, we have not drawn on a revolver, and we are taking proactive steps to ensure our liquidity position remains strong as we navigate through this challenging environment. Turning to slide 14, this chart bridges our 2024 adjusted EBITDA of $275 million to our 2025 guidance midpoint of $113 million. As shown on the left, the first step reflects the court-ordered Tawanda divestiture, which is expected to reduce EBITDA by about $50 million this year. The most significant change comes from market volume and mix, which we now expect to reduce earnings by roughly $100 million, reflecting the broad-based deterioration we have seen in both new construction and repair and remodel activity. We’re also seeing a modest impact from share loss as operational challenges have limited our ability to recapture volume in several key product lines.

Moving left to right across the chart, price and cost headwinds have intensified when compared to our earlier expectations. Competitive pricing pressure has increased, especially at the lower end of the market, while cost inflation in materials, freight, and labor has accelerated. These dynamics, combined with lower-based productivity driven by volume loss, represent another significant drag on earnings. On the positive side, we continue to benefit from headwind mitigation actions and transformation initiatives, which together are expected to contribute about $150 million in savings this year. These benefits include both carryover savings from 2024 and the in-year actions already implemented. The remaining items include variable compensation and one-time reversals, which represent a modest headwind, and foreign exchange and other, which provide a small tailwind.

Altogether, these factors bring us to our 2025 adjusted EBITDA guidance midpoint of $113 million, reflecting the additional price, cost, volume, and productivity headwinds that have emerged since our last update. Moving to slide 15. The current results do not reflect the potential of JELD-WEN and are disappointing. We have begun and will continue to take broader actions required to change the trajectory of JELD-WEN, including addressing our cost base. First, we have initiated a strategic review of our European business. While the outcome of this review is not predetermined, we know that significant and difficult decisions must be made. Our European operations include well-known brands and highly skilled teams that have built leading positions in their respective markets. The strategic review will determine how we can unlock the value of our European assets to strengthen our long-term financial foundation.

Second, we are right-sizing our North America cost base, which includes a headcount reduction of approximately 11% by the end of this year. The market for windows and doors has contracted sharply over the past three years, and we do not expect a rapid recovery. We can no longer maintain a structure designed for a level of demand not expected in the near term. Third, we continue to simplify our product portfolio and are removing unnecessary complexity. Our portfolio breadth has added complexity that must be balanced with our customers’ expectations on service and product cost. We will center our efforts on a defined set of core product families, and when customers need bespoke solutions, we must deliver them with precision and price them for their value. This will lead to improved service levels and better operating efficiency. These actions are not adjustments.

They will redefine how this company operates and competes. The current environment requires the painful but necessary decisions to ensure performance, accountability, and free cash flow growth. As we execute on these significant changes, I want to take a moment to thank our teams across JELD-WEN for their dedication and hard work. Their focus and commitment are driving real progress in our operations every day. I also want to thank our customers for their continued partnership as we further strengthen our service and reliability. We remain confident that the actions we are taking today, both operational and strategic, are setting up a stronger JELD-WEN in the years ahead. Thank you once again for your continued support and interest. With that, I will now turn the call back over to James for the Q&A. Thanks, Bill. Operator, we’re now ready to begin Q&A.

Conference Call Moderator: If you’d like to ask a question, please press one. Please press star followed by one on your telephone keypad. Again, that’s star and then one on your telephone keypad. Your first question comes from the line of Susan McLarry of Goldman Sachs. Your line is now open.

Conference Call Operator, JELD-WEN: Thank you. Good morning, everyone.

Bill Christensen, Chief Executive Officer, JELD-WEN: Morning, Susan.

Conference Call Operator, JELD-WEN: Morning, Susan.

Bill Christensen, Chief Executive Officer, JELD-WEN: Good morning.

Conference Call Operator, JELD-WEN: Good morning. My first question is going back to the share losses that you talked about in your prepared remarks. Can you give us a bit more color on where those are coming from, how they came through over the last quarter, and then understanding that you’ve had a more challenging time regaining some of that share? Just how do you think about the path from here?

Bill Christensen, Chief Executive Officer, JELD-WEN: Thanks for the question, Susan. A couple of comments. As you remember, there was a significant share loss last year with a Midwest retailer on the window side of the business. That lapsed in September. We were still tackling that base effect in Q3. Second point, as we did note in our prepared remarks, pricing remains challenging across the market in North America particularly, and there have been some aggressive pricing actions around the edges from some competitors, mainly on the door side of the business. We have seen specific regional share loss, but on balance, not material. I think the third point is, as we continue our simplification of our portfolio, our target is to reduce approximately 30% of our SKUs. We are in the process of reducing 30% of our SKUs. We are about 50% of the way there.

We have been trimming complexity, which allows us then to optimize our service levels into our customers. I think the last point is just a weak overall market, and we have said we are really focused on rebalancing our shares with customers where we have strong door volume. We want to try and increase our window business and the other way around. We have actually made some progress on the window side, but in general, the soft market has created, I think, opportunities from aggressive pricing, as we have talked about, and our portfolio reduction, which is simplification-driven, has also led to a little bit of that. As we look forward, we see that continuing into the fourth quarter from a market standpoint. Volumes remain soft. Nothing that we have seen in the month of October would suggest a different run rate.

We are expecting that through the end of the year, and you can see that on the bridge.

Conference Call Operator, JELD-WEN: Just to follow up on that, Susan, when you compare kind of our previous guidance to the bridge that we’re sharing in this earnings release, the share loss hasn’t changed. That is as Bill described. Most of this has already occurred. It’s more about the volume mix that we expected to gain that did not materialize. That’s the big change on that.

Conference Call Moderator: Okay. That’s very helpful. Thank you. Turning to the productivity and the cost-saving efforts that you have been working on, can you give us an update on where those projects are and how you’re thinking about the carryover benefit into 2026? Appreciating you’re not giving guidance for next year yet, but just any thoughts on those projects specifically, where they’re falling in the outlook there?

Bill Christensen, Chief Executive Officer, JELD-WEN: Sure, Susan. As you’ve seen on our guidance bridge, page 14, we expect about $150 million to offset the various headwinds that we’ve laid out. As in prior years, we would expect from our transformation savings of about $100 million, roughly half of that to roll forward. In addition, as we’ve announced and talked about today in prepared remarks, there are going to be some pretty significant headcount reductions taking place in the fourth quarter of this year, and we would expect benefits of roughly $50 million as we’re thinking about a full-year impact 2026. That’s roughly $100 million currently, and I think we wouldn’t want to give any more specific guidance than that.

Conference Call Operator, JELD-WEN: Susan, on that, the headwind mitigation of $50 million, that was already done and executed in the beginning part of this year, taking effect in Q2. The transformation initiatives that we have, the $100 million, those are already underway delivering results, things like plant closures, automation equipment that is now up and running in production. Back to Bill’s point, these are already done in our P&L. Unfortunately, the other items, like the more significantly negative price-cost, volume, essentially not the incremental share that we expected, is offsetting those.

Conference Call Moderator: Okay. That’s very helpful, Colin. Thank you both, and good luck with the quarter.

Bill Christensen, Chief Executive Officer, JELD-WEN: Thanks, Susan.

Conference Call Operator, JELD-WEN: Thanks, Susan.

Conference Call Moderator: Question comes from the line of John Lavallio. UBS, your line is now open.

Bill Christensen, Chief Executive Officer, JELD-WEN: Hey, guys. Thank you for taking my questions as well. Maybe just to follow up on Susan’s question and just to put a finer point on it. The outlook implies $55 million of productivity, SG&A, and other in the fourth quarter. I think there’s only been about $37 million year-to-date. What is driving that ramp? It sounds like, if I understood the answer to Susan’s question, that a lot of this is already baked and is waiting to come through. Is that the right way to think about it?

Conference Call Operator, JELD-WEN: Yeah. Thanks for the question, John. A lot of the savings are fully baked. The headwind mitigation, the transformation is fully baked. The actions that Bill described in the recorded remarks are not expected to have a material impact in Q4. We would expect that full run rate going into 2026. Where you see, and just kind of isolating maybe Q4 and looking at that year-on-year, the biggest drivers, I would say, on the negative side are the volume mix, which is, let’s call it in line with what we expected in Q3 and in previous quarters. Price cost, unfortunately, being more negative. Part of that is some of the resistance on tariff surcharge pass-throughs. That is more negative in Q4. Then the continued, let’s call it court-ordered divestiture of Tawanda’s impact into our P&L.

The mitigation efforts, those are, as I said, they’re already done and dusted, and they’re in the P&L. That’s going to be helping to offset some of those.

Bill Christensen, Chief Executive Officer, JELD-WEN: Okay. Maybe I’m missing it, though. So I’m still curious where that $55 million is coming from when there’s been only $37 million year-to-date. What’s driving that $55 million?

Conference Call Operator, JELD-WEN: You’re talking about the $55 million of negative base productivity?

Bill Christensen, Chief Executive Officer, JELD-WEN: No, of productivity savings.

Conference Call Operator, JELD-WEN: On the bridge?

Bill Christensen, Chief Executive Officer, JELD-WEN: Yeah.

Conference Call Operator, JELD-WEN: Okay. When you think about on the bridge, the base productivity, and I think this is what you’re referring to, the negativity on that is coming from the fact that we staffed up our network in order to support incremental share gains that did not materialize. In addition to essentially not having the volume flow-through, we then had costs we had to come out. When you think about, I think your question, John, is looking at there’s transformation of around $100, and then there’s going to be base productivity offsetting that. I think that’s where you get to essentially the combination of what you’re driving at. $150, right, of let’s call it good guys from actions we’ve already taken, less that negative base productivity gets you to a net of, let’s call it, $100.

Bill Christensen, Chief Executive Officer, JELD-WEN: Okay. All right. We’ll follow up on that. Just, I guess, the 39% reduction in EBITDA expectations since August, I’m curious. I mean, has the market gotten that much worse, or were there things that just were not foreseen by you guys that maybe should have been? I mean, what drove that 39% reduction?

Let me start with sales, John, at the top. In the second quarter, we had growth plans that we had staffed up for in our network, as Samantha mentioned, and they did not materialize. There are a couple of reasons for that. Number one, the market was softer in Q3 than we had anticipated. That is point number one. The initiatives also that we were running, there was a basket of different initiatives to start trying to offset some of the headwinds in the market. We were really focused on product line initiatives, and the market was pivoting and wanting more portfolio baskets in the different projects that they were running across the network. We were product line focused and not portfolio focused, which created challenges for us to be able to drive that penetration, and there was a lower take rate.

Third, we have had some selective service issues across our network. We have made a ton of progress. I would say we are very close to where we need to be, but we were still struggling in the third quarter, and our ability to react on some specific areas was below our own expectations. What are we doing? We are right-sizing our cost structure to market reality. We are further simplifying our portfolios. As I have noted, we are taking about 30% of the SKUs out. We are about midway through that. We have been really driving the operating model rollout across our network of distribution windows and doors manufacturing sites in North America. We missed the market downturn, John. We thought we were going to be able to compensate some of it with our own initiatives.

We did not materialize based on limited take rates, and we staffed up for that, and that hit us hard in the third quarter. We are correcting that as we go into the fourth quarter.

Okay. Thanks, Bill.

You’re welcome, John.

Conference Call Moderator: Your next question comes from the line of Philip Ng of Jefferies. Your line is now open.

Hi. You have Fiona on for Bill today. Thanks for taking my question. Just wondering on your full-year EBITDA guide, can you help us understand how much of that is coming from Europe? We’re assuming about roughly half of the consolidated total. Is that directionally correct?

Conference Call Operator, JELD-WEN: Yeah. That’s directionally correct. When you think about Europe and North America, how much is coming from each? It’s about in line. We’ve seen, let’s call it, an improvement of Europe. Unfortunately, because of some of the challenges in the North American market, a bit of a decline in North America year-on-year from an EBITDA standpoint. That’s the right way to look at it, Fiona. Thank you for the question.

Conference Call Moderator: Thank you. And then one more. If you were to sell your business and say you got probably a 7.5 multiple, like you did for the Australia business, our math shows that it would not really move the net leverage that much. Just wondering, can you provide more color on debt, maybe both on the leveraging and the liquidity? Thank you.

Bill Christensen, Chief Executive Officer, JELD-WEN: Yeah. Thanks for the question, Fiona. Clearly, we’re not going to share any details of expectations. What I want to say is that if a decision made on the strategic review would be one that generates capital, we would use that to deleverage and strengthen our balance sheet. Clearly, that is a focus that we’ve been talking about for a number of quarters to make sure that we are managing our balance sheet effectively. I think the second comment in that area is there’s no liquidity issues. We have a revolver. We’re expecting that we have ample liquidity. We are managing the process and evaluating all options as you would in a strategic review. Once we have more clarity on that, we’ll be back to the capital market to share details.

Conference Call Moderator: Got it. Thank you so much.

Bill Christensen, Chief Executive Officer, JELD-WEN: You’re welcome.

Conference Call Moderator: Your next question comes from the line of Trevor Allison of Wolf Research. Your line is now open.

Hi. Good morning. Thank you for taking my questions. The first one just on 4Q EBITDA guidance, the implied 4Q EBITDA guidance. The bottom end of that is roughly break-even from an EBITDA perspective. That would be a pretty severe decline sequentially compared to what you guys are expecting from a revenue standpoint from 3Q to 4Q. Can you just talk about what’s driving that big drop-off in EBITDA expectations sequentially? Anything more one-time in nature occurring in 4Q than that wouldn’t repeat going forward?

Conference Call Operator, JELD-WEN: Yeah. I can go through that. So a few things. When we initially guided out, we expected a non-seasonal Q4, so a much stronger Q4 in terms of both the volume as well as the productivity. Unfortunately, we are seeing, I would say, more of the seasonality that we’ve seen in previous years. When you think about the range that we’ve guided to, you’re correct on the low end of that range. That’s tied to some of the uncertainty that we are seeing going into Q4. The last month of the year is generally, for us, a very soft year with different holiday period, customer buying patterns. It’s hard to predict on that.

I would say when you look at kind of the midpoint of our range and how we’re guiding to, the two biggest drivers, as I talked about earlier, are the volume mix being, I would say, as down year-on-year as Q3 with maybe a little bit more of softness. The price cost negativity is almost double what we experienced in Q3. We are seeing cost inflation, of course, more in line with our expectations, maybe slightly higher, but more in line with what we expected. Unfortunately, the pricing realization is lower than expected, as we talked about earlier. Those two are, I would say, the biggest needle movers in driving. Some of the base productivity is we need to right-size our North America structure for the lower demand that did not materialize from the incremental gains we initially expected.

Okay. Thank you for that. That’s very helpful. Circling back to liquidity here, more near-term liquidity, assuming Europe takes some time to play out here. Any actions potentially on your distribution business take some time to play out. Is your expectation to lean into your revolver near-term, just given we’re going into a slower part of the year? You also talked about the potential for sale and leaseback actions. Any color on how much liquidity those actions could generate? Thank you.

Sure. In terms of liquidity, as we’ve talked about, we have not drawn the revolver to date. Our plans are to not draw on the revolver in Q4. We have not guided anything on 2026, nor are we providing guidance at this time. From a liquidity standpoint, we are already working through some select sale leasebacks to provide additional liquidity as a buffer. When you look at Q4 just in isolation, outside of some of the cost measures or the cost actions that we are taking, which will have restructuring costs tied to it, we are driving to a free cash flow neutrality in Q4. We are pulling back our CapEx. We are managing working capital in a much more, I would say, rigorous and disciplined fashion. That would continue.

From a liquidity standpoint, we are taking actions on, let’s call it, more select, smaller pieces of our real estate portfolio. I would say nothing to guide into 2026 at this time.

Okay. Thank you for all that color. It’s very helpful. Good luck moving forward.

Thank you.

Bill Christensen, Chief Executive Officer, JELD-WEN: Thanks, Trevor.

Conference Call Moderator: I’d like to ask a question. Please press star followed by one on your telephone keypad. That’s star followed by one on your telephone keypad. Your next question comes from the line of Steven Ramsey of Thomson Research Group. Your line is now open.

Steven Ramsey, Analyst, Thomson Research Group: Hi. Good morning. On the share gain that you expected to capture, would you say that opportunity is gone, or is that something that you hope to get in 2026 to greater fruition? If you could share any detail on the opportunity itself, if it was windows or doors or channel, any color there.

Bill Christensen, Chief Executive Officer, JELD-WEN: Yep. Steven, good morning. Definitely something that we expect that we’re going to be able to target in 2026. A number of these things that we were targeting would be in the bucket of share we never should have lost. I’m linking that to some challenging performance across our network service levels specifically. We felt we were ready to go and get it, but the market obviously took a step down in the third quarter, and that was unexpected by our organization, and we were challenged by that headwind. Clearly, we’re making great progress across our network, getting our service levels where they need to be, and we’re going to be tackling this in 2026 on a different cost base. We do expect, as we’ve said, that there’s not going to be dramatic changes in volume.

We’re going to have to control what we can control, and that’s what we’re planning on doing in 2026.

Steven Ramsey, Analyst, Thomson Research Group: Okay. That’s helpful color. On the pricing pushback, I think you attribute it to large customers. Can you share any more detail on that pushback? Is this something that continues to impact in 2026, or does this impact the usual annual pricing actions that you would be taking as you would every year for 2026?

Bill Christensen, Chief Executive Officer, JELD-WEN: Yeah. There are a number of different questions in that question, Steven. Let me just start with 2025 because that’s what we’re talking through and what we have visibility to. As you’ve seen from our bridge, we’re expecting roughly a $50 million price-cost headwind for full year in 2025. Clearly, we can’t continue at that rate. We’re taking a lot of actions addressing cost structure, driving efficiency, and simplification to more effectively manage the headwinds going forward. It still remains a dynamic market with tariffs. Still, I would put it in the dynamic bucket with potential changes ahead. We know what we need to do in order to drive mitigation, and that’s going to be our focus and already is our focus this year.

I don’t want to guide or commit to anything that we’d be thinking through next year, but clearly, we know that we have a lot of homework to be done. It is a challenged environment. We can see consumers are still being very discretionary on larger ticket items, especially what we see through our retail partners. There’s hesitation based on affordability and uncertainty, and that’s continuing, putting additional pressure, obviously, on the price side of the equation.

Steven Ramsey, Analyst, Thomson Research Group: All right. I appreciate the color. Thanks.

Bill Christensen, Chief Executive Officer, JELD-WEN: All right. Thank you.

Conference Call Operator, JELD-WEN: Thanks, Steven.

Conference Call Moderator: Question comes from the line of Yovonika Delacquia of Barclays. Your line is now open.

Good morning. Yovonika Delacquia on for Matt today. Thank you for taking my questions. I wanted to start off, I’m wondering how sales trended through the quarter and into October as we saw some interest rate relief. Similarly, how has mix trended as you see relief on the rate side? I’m wondering if people are willing to mix up and more broadly what you think is necessary to improve the mix dynamics. I know mix is positive this quarter, but maybe it was more so a function of lapping easier year-over-year comps. Thanks.

Bill Christensen, Chief Executive Officer, JELD-WEN: Let me take the first part. When we’re thinking about kind of the Fed funds rate decline and that trickling then down through, there’s a couple of different dynamics. I mean, there’s huge pent-up demand. Obviously, there’s a lot of home equity that’s there but not being acted on because there is uncertainty. If we think about mortgage rates and where mortgage rates currently are, and where they need to be to create some additional significant traction, I don’t think we’re yet at a point where we’re going to see dramatic improvements. You need to remember, after the Fed funds rates decline, if it does flow through to the long end of the curve and mortgages are repriced, there is an expectation that doors and windows, especially if it’s new construction, are probably six to nine months behind the start.

There clearly is a lag from rate reduction to products being purchased and built into new homes. Do not expect a very close connect between rate reductions and volume increases on the new construction side of the business. I think, in general, consumers still remain very cautious. I said before to Steven’s question, big ticket items are still very slow on the retail side of the business, and the expectations are that this continues. We haven’t seen a significantly different trend in October than we did through the third quarter. I think to answer your question specifically, the Fed funds reductions did not move the needle for us in the month of October.

Understood. Thank you. That is helpful. Then second, I am just wondering, you lowered the revenue guide for the quarter. It is now down 10%-13% from prior 4%-9%. Seems to be largely driven by volume and mix as we look at the 2025 guidance bridge. Just going back to that mix point, if you can separate how much is volume given you lowered the end market assumptions for both new construction and retail, and then how much is mix?

Conference Call Operator, JELD-WEN: Yeah. I can take that question. A very small portion of that is mix. I would say. There’s maybe small mix changes on the edges of some of the product groups. We are expecting in the near term, as Bill talked about, to be at a very low mix level. We do not expect mix further down from where we are. I mean, just in ballpark, I mean, it’s more than 90% volume. It’s a much bigger volume story than it is mix.

Got it. Thank you. Good luck.

Bill Christensen, Chief Executive Officer, JELD-WEN: Thanks.

Conference Call Operator, JELD-WEN: Thank you.

Conference Call Moderator: Thank you. I’d now like to hand the call back to James Armstrong for final remarks.

Bill Christensen, Chief Executive Officer, JELD-WEN: Thank you for joining our call today. If you have any questions, please reach out to me, and I’m happy to answer anything I can. This ends our call, and have a great day.

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