Earnings call transcript: MYR Group beats Q3 2025 forecasts, stock dips

MYR Group Inc. (MYRG) reported its third-quarter 2025 earnings on October 30, exceeding analyst expectations with an earnings per share (EPS) of $2.05 versus the forecasted $1.92. The company also reported revenues of $950.4 million, surpassing the projected $925.3 million. Despite these positive financial results, MYR Group’s stock experienced a 1.33% decline, closing at $225.48, reflecting a complex market reaction.

Key Takeaways

• MYR Group’s Q3 2025 EPS of $2.05 exceeded expectations by 6.77%.
• Revenue reached $950.4 million, marking a 7% year-over-year increase.
• Despite strong earnings, the stock fell 1.33% in post-earnings trading.
• Record net income of $32 million, up 215% from the previous year.
• Total backlog increased to $2.66 billion, a 2.5% rise from last year.

Company Performance

MYR Group demonstrated robust performance in Q3 2025, with significant growth in both its Transmission and Distribution (T&D) and Commercial and Industrial (C&I) segments. The company’s strategic focus on core markets such as data centers and clean energy has contributed to its strong financial outcomes. The increase in gross margin to 11.8% from 8.7% last year highlights improved operational efficiency.

Financial Highlights

• Revenue: $950.4 million, a 7% increase year-over-year.
• Earnings per share: $2.05, up from the forecasted $1.92.
• Gross margin: 11.8%, compared to 8.7% in the previous year.
• Net income: $32 million, a 215% increase year-over-year.
• EBITDA: Record $63 million.
• Operating cash flow: Record $96 million.

Earnings vs. Forecast

MYR Group’s actual EPS of $2.05 exceeded the forecast by 6.77%, while revenue surpassed expectations by 2.71%. This marks a continuation of the company’s trend of outperforming earnings projections, highlighting its strong market position and effective cost management strategies.

Market Reaction

Despite the earnings beat, MYR Group’s stock price fell by 1.33%, closing at $225.48. This decline suggests that investors might have had higher expectations or are cautious about future growth prospects. The stock’s price movement is noteworthy, considering its 52-week high of $235.93 and low of $97.72, indicating potential volatility.

Outlook & Guidance

Looking forward, MYR Group projects a 10% revenue growth in 2026. The company maintains a positive outlook for its C&I and T&D margins, expecting them to remain within the 5-7.5% and 7-10.5% ranges, respectively. Strategic acquisitions are also on the horizon, with a target revenue range of $50-600 million.

Executive Commentary

CEO Rick Swartz emphasized the company’s strategic market activities, stating, "We’re not looking for something transformational, but again, we continue to see good activity in that market." COO Brian Stern highlighted growth opportunities, noting, "These encouraging forecasts could generate growth opportunities for our business."

Risks and Challenges

• Labor and material availability: The company acknowledged challenges in these areas, which could impact project timelines and costs.
• Market volatility: The stock’s recent decline post-earnings indicates potential investor uncertainty.
• Macroeconomic pressures: Broader economic conditions could affect capital spending in key markets.
• Competitive pressures: Maintaining a strong market position requires ongoing innovation and strategic investments.
• Regulatory changes: Potential shifts in industry regulations could impact operational strategies.

Q&A

During the earnings call, analysts focused on data center market opportunities, the company’s strong transmission project pipeline, and capital allocation strategies. Concerns about labor and material availability were also addressed, with executives highlighting ongoing efforts to mitigate these challenges.

Full transcript - MYR Group Inc (MYRG) Q3 2025:

Conference Call Operator: Good morning everyone and welcome to the MYR Group Third Quarter 2025 Earnings Results Conference Call. At this time, all participants are in a listen-only mode. After the speaker’s presentation, there will be a question and answer session. To ask a question during the session, you will need to press star 11 on your telephone. You will then hear an automated message advising your hand is raised. To withdraw your question, please press star 11 again. Today’s conference is being recorded. At this time, for opening remarks and introductions, I would like to turn the call over to Jennifer Harper, MYR Group’s Vice President of Investor Relations and Treasurer. Please go ahead, Jennifer.

Jennifer Harper, Vice President of Investor Relations and Treasurer, MYR Group: Thank you and good morning everyone. I would like to welcome you to the MYR Group conference call to discuss the company’s third quarter results for 2025 which were reported yesterday. Joining us on today’s call are Rick Swartz, President and Chief Executive Officer, Kelly Huntington, Senior Vice President and Chief Financial Officer, Brian Stern, Senior Vice President and Chief Operating Officer of MYR Group’s Transmission and Distribution segment, and Don Egan, Senior Vice President and Chief Operating Officer of MYR Group’s Commercial and Industrial segment. A copy of yesterday’s press release is available on the MYR Group website under the Investors tab. A webcast replay of today’s call will be available on the website for seven days following the call. Please note, today’s discussion may contain forward-looking statements.

Any such statements are based upon information available to MYR Group’s management as of this date and MYR Group assumes no obligation to update any such forward-looking statements. These forward-looking statements involve risks and uncertainties that could cause actual results to differ materially from the forward-looking statements. Accordingly, these statements are no guarantee of future performance. For more information, please refer to the risk factors discussed in the company’s most recently filed annual report on Form 10-K and quarterly report on Form 10-Q. In yesterday’s press release, certain non-GAAP financial measures will also be presented. A reconciliation of these non-GAAP measures to the most comparable GAAP measures is set forth in yesterday’s press release. With that, let me turn the call over to Rick Swartz.

Don Egan, Senior Vice President and Chief Operating Officer of Commercial and Industrial Segment, MYR Group: Thanks Jennifer.

Rick Swartz, President and Chief Executive Officer, MYR Group: Good morning everyone. Welcome to our third quarter 2025 conference call to discuss financial and operational results. I will begin by providing a summary of the third quarter results, and then we’ll turn the call over to Kelly Huntington, our Chief Financial Officer, for a more detailed financial review. Following Kelly’s overview, Brian Stern and Don Egan, Chief Operating Officers for our T&D and C&I segments, will provide a summary of our segments’ performance and discuss some of MYR Group’s opportunities going forward. I will then conclude today’s call with some closing remarks and open the call up for your questions. The strength of our long-term customer relationships and a strong market position resulted in a solid third quarter performance. Our teams continue to execute projects with operational excellence and expand existing client relationships through Master Service Agreements and Alliance Agreements across our districts.

Bidding activity remains healthy as we strategically pursue and capture new opportunities that position us for potential future growth. The Edison Electric Institute’s 2024 Financial Review, released earlier this month, projects that U.S. investor-owned utilities will exceed $1.1 trillion in combined capital investments for 2025 through 2029. More than $123 billion of this is forecasted to be spent on transmission in the first three years from 2025 to 2027. The report also found that electric utilities are on pace to spend nearly $208 billion on grid upgrades and expansions in 2025, the highest amount ever. Growing demand for electrification, a focus on grid modernization and hardening, and technology advancements continue to be strong market drivers and could present opportunities for consistent success across our business.

According to FMI’s 2025 North American Engineering and Construction Outlook released in July, chosen key markets for our C&I segments are forecasted for healthy growth through 2025 and into 2026, including data centers, transportation, healthcare, education, and wastewater construction. By expanding existing relationships with our preferred customers and strategically bidding and expanding work in our chosen markets, we continue to experience a steady backlog of work and could see potential growth moving forward. As always, our greatest strength lies within our talented and dedicated employees. We continue to develop and empower our teams to reach their highest potential. As we grow our company, our team members strive to provide excellence in safety and project delivery, helping our customers achieve their business goals. Now Kelly will provide details on our third quarter 2025 financial results.

Kelly Huntington, Senior Vice President and Chief Financial Officer, MYR Group: Thank you Rick and good morning everyone. Our third quarter 2025 revenues were $950 million, which represents an increase of $62 million or 7% compared to the same period last year. Our third quarter T&D revenues were $503 million, an increase of 4% compared to the same period last year. The breakdown of T&D revenues was $293 million for transmission and $210 million for distribution, with increases in revenues from both transmission and distribution projects from the prior year. Work performed under Master Service Agreements continued to represent approximately 60% of our T&D revenues. C&I revenues were $447 million, an increase of 10% compared to the same period last year. The C&I segment revenues increased primarily due to an increase in revenue on Fixed Price Contracts. Our gross margin was 11.8% for the third quarter of 2025 compared to 8.7% for the same period last year.

The increase in gross margin was primarily due to the third quarter of 2024 being negatively impacted by certain T&D clean energy projects and a C&I project in the third quarter of 2025. Gross margin was also positively impacted by better than anticipated productivity, favorable change orders, and favorable job closeouts. These margin increases were partially offset by an increase in costs associated with project inefficiencies, unfavorable change orders, and inclement weather. T&D operating income margin was 8.2% for the third quarter of 2025 compared to 3.6% for the same period last year. The increase was primarily due to the third quarter of 2024 being negatively impacted by certain clean energy projects as well as favorable change orders and better than anticipated productivity on certain projects targeted during the third quarter of 2025.

These increases were partially offset by higher costs related to project inefficiencies, unfavorable change orders, and inclement weather. C&I operating income margin was 6.4% for the third quarter of 2025 compared to 5.0% for the same period last year. The increase was primarily due to the third quarter of 2024 being negatively impacted by a single project as well as contingent compensation expense related to a prior acquisition that did not recur in the third quarter of 2025. Operating income margin for the third quarter of 2025 was also positively impacted by better than anticipated productivity and favorable job closeout. These positive drivers were partially offset by unfavorable change orders and higher costs related to project inefficiencies. Third quarter 2025 SG&A expenses were $66 million, an increase of approximately $8 million compared to the same period last year.

The increase was primarily due to an increase in employee incentive compensation costs and an increase in employee related expenses to support future growth. These increases were partially offset by contingent compensation expense related to a prior acquisition recognized during the third quarter of 2024 that did not recur. Our third quarter effective tax rate was 28.3% compared to 42.5% for the same period last year. The decrease was primarily due to lower permanent difference items mostly associated with deductibility limits of contingent compensation experienced in the prior year as well as lower U.S. taxes on Canadian income. Third quarter 2025 net income was a record $32 million compared to net income of $11 million for the same period last year. Net income per diluted share of $2.05 increased 215% compared to $0.65 for the same period last year.

Third quarter 2025 EBITDA was a record $63 million compared to $37 million for the same period last year. Total backlog as of September 30, 2025 was $2.66 billion, 2.5% higher than a year ago. Total backlog as of September 30, 2025 consisted of $929 million for our T&D segment and $1.73 billion for our C&I segment. Third quarter 2025 operating cash flow was a record $96 million compared to operating cash flow of $36 million for the same period last year. The increase in cash provided by operating activities was primarily due to the timing of billings and payments associated with project starts and completions and higher net income. Third quarter 2025 free cash flow was $65 million compared to free cash flow of $18 million for the same period last year, reflecting the increase in operating cash flow partially offset by higher capital expenditures to support future growth.

Moving to liquidity in our balance sheet, we had approximately $267 million of working capital, $72 million of funded debt and $400 million in borrowing availability under our credit facility as of September 30, 2025. Funded debt to EBITDA leverage remains strong at 0.34 times as of September 30, 2025. We believe that our credit facility, strong balance sheet, and future cash flow from operations will enable us to meet our working capital needs, support the organic growth of our business, pursue acquisitions, and opportunistically repurchase shares. I’ll now turn the call over to Brian Stern, who will provide an overview of our Transmission and Distribution segments.

Brian Stern, Senior Vice President and Chief Operating Officer of Transmission and Distribution Segment, MYR Group: Thanks Kelly and good morning everyone. A continued focus on strengthening and expanding existing relationships with key customers, along with executing our work to their expectations, led to solid third quarter results in our T&D segment. We continue to see steady bidding activity and are pleased with our strong backlog consisting of Master Service Agreements and a healthy mix of various size projects.

Rick Swartz, President and Chief Executive Officer, MYR Group: This quarter.

Brian Stern, Senior Vice President and Chief Operating Officer of Transmission and Distribution Segment, MYR Group: Ellie Myers was awarded a mid-sized transmission line rebuild project in North Carolina as well as substation and transmission work in Iowa. In addition, High Country Line Construction won multiple transmission line projects in the Midwest, while E.S. Boulos and Harlan Electric were awarded substation and transmission work, respectively, throughout the Northeast. Great Southwestern Construction received transmission line and substation project awards in Texas, with Sturgeon Electric winning work in Arizona, Oregon, and Alaska. As Rick mentioned, we are seeing significant investments in electrical infrastructure throughout North America. Utilities continue to invest in upgrading and expanding their electric infrastructure, driven by several factors including aging infrastructure, concern over resiliency and reliability, and the need to accommodate larger load growth.

After roughly two decades of flat electricity demand, it is now growing rapidly and driving the need for electric infrastructure investments, according to Power Insights 2025 North American Transmission Market Forecast released in September. The report forecasts 9.1% compound annual growth rate in transmission spending from 2024 to 2029. In summary, we believe these encouraging forecasts could generate growth opportunities for our business as we continue a firm dedication to our customers and a strict adherence to our operating principles. I would like to thank all of our talented employees for their commitment and effort in making our success possible. I will now turn the call over to Don Egan who will provide an overview of our Commercial and Industrial segment.

Don Egan, Senior Vice President and Chief Operating Officer of Commercial and Industrial Segment, MYR Group: Thanks Brian and good morning everyone. Our C&I segment achieved solid results in the third quarter thanks to the strength of our chosen core markets. We continue to strategically monitor and pursue new opportunities in a healthy bidding environment while executing projects of various sizes in close collaboration with our valued customers. Recent market outlooks suggest positive indicators for the segment. The Dodge Momentum Index increased 3.4% in September and commercial planning expanded 4.7% in the same period. Year to date, the DMI is up 33% from the average reading over the same period in 2024. The unprecedented growth in spending on data centers is expected to continue at an elevated pace, according to the American Institute of Architects. The AIA July 2025 Consensus Construction Forecast reported that after increasing more than 50% in 2024, data center spending is expected to grow by an additional 20% in 2026.

These encouraging forecasts could generate growth for our business and we continue to leverage our expertise to place us in a leading position to win opportunities in these markets while bolstering our strategy to remain diversified across our chosen core markets. In the third quarter, our teams across all subsidiaries earned multiple awards and secured new work in each of our core markets. This includes wins in data centers, healthcare, clean energy, warehousing, higher education, and transportation. These achievements reflect our continued momentum and strong market presence across the U.S. and Canada. To conclude, our chosen core markets are healthy and the strength of our customer relationships continue to generate additional opportunities. This is thanks to our committed employees and their daily dedication to executing projects with a safety-first mindset. Thanks everyone for your time today.

I will now turn the call back to Rick who will provide us with some closing comments.

Rick Swartz, President and Chief Executive Officer, MYR Group: Thank you for those updates, Kelly, Brian, and Don. Due to the strength of our core markets and our ability to bolster and broaden our customer relationships to create growth opportunities, we are proud of our third quarter performance. Our focus remains on safely executing projects, strategically bidding opportunities, and meeting the needs of our customers as they adapt to dynamic market conditions and a shifting energy landscape. This is supported by our continued investment and development of our teams across the company, as our people enable us to maintain our status as an industry leader by the work they perform every day. A commitment to our employees and customers is the foundation we build from to remain a strong and agile partner for customers.

I would like to extend a thank you to our employees for their invaluable contributions and to our shareholders for your continued support of MYR Group. I look forward to connecting with you in the future quarters. Operator, we are now ready to open the call up for your comments and questions.

Conference Call Operator: Thank you. As a reminder, for those of you on the phone to ask a question, please press star 11 on your telephone, then wait until you hear your name announced. To withdraw your question, please press star 11 again. Please stand by while we compile the Q and A roster. Our first question comes from Jane of KeyBanc. Your line is open. Great, thank you.

Good morning and thanks for taking my questions. First, if I can ask on C&I margins, they were considerably stronger than they have been in the recent quarters even though you had a negative change order. Can you talk a little bit about that and how we should think about those C&I margins going forward?

Rick Swartz, President and Chief Executive Officer, MYR Group: Yeah, I would say we did have a slight negative there, but overall we had some positive adjustments too. Our margins were a little higher than what we projected coming into this year. I think as we look to next year, I would say our margin profile is probably, you know, we’ve always said it’s going to be in that 4% to 6% in the past. I think as we look into next year it’ll kind of go to the mid range of kind of that 5% to 7.5%. We’re upping that a little bit as we forecast out next year with probably, you know, 10% growth both in our C&I and T&D areas.

10% core growth. Sorry, go ahead Kelly.

Kelly Huntington, Senior Vice President and Chief Financial Officer, MYR Group: I was just going to say to elaborate, just looking at full year for C&I, given that we have been trending a little higher, we are expecting that we’ll be in the upper half of the target range for this year of the 4% to 6% for full year 2025. As Rick mentioned, looking to raise that expectation for next year to that 5% to 7.5% range.

Okay, did I just hear Rick say 10% for next year?

Conference Call Operator: No.

Did I get that wrong?

Rick Swartz, President and Chief Executive Officer, MYR Group: I would look for 10% revenue growth.

10% revenue growth company-wide.

Yes, okay, great.

Five to seven and a half. C&I.

Yeah. With our margin profile remaining the same on T&D, that 7% to 10.5% and probably operating in the middish range of those numbers just because we’re not seeing the large projects really roll in until 2027.

Okay, that’s helpful. I appreciate the breakdown of the new awards in the quarter on the T&D side. How sizable are they in the sense that does that change your breakdown between Master Service Agreements and non-Master Service Agreement work in that segment?

No, we really didn’t speak anything about large projects coming into our backlog. It’s small and mid-sized, so somewhere in that same range where we’ve been. I would say is kind of how we’re forecasting it for this next quarter.

Okay, got it. Thank you. Appreciate you letting me ask questions.

Thank you.

Conference Call Operator: Thank you. Our next question comes from Andrew Whitman of Baird. Your line is open.

Hi. Great. Good morning and thanks for taking our questions here. Everybody wants to talk about data centers, so let’s talk about data centers. I mean, obviously this is a growth end market for electricians, broadly speaking. Rick, in the past when we’ve talked to you about this, you’re like totally see the opportunity there. You’re open to it. You’ve always said we don’t want to abandon our legacy customers everywhere else as well. Just kind of wanted to get an update on your view here. Is this market evolving faster and bigger than you maybe thought six months ago? How is your company approaching the data center opportunity? Are you going to go for it directly or wait for overall demand to lift demand for the types of services you offer and still compete in the traditional end markets as well? I’m just wondering, talk about that maybe.

The simple way of asking that question, of course, is do you expect the data center as a percentage of your C&I mix to materially increase or not?

Rick Swartz, President and Chief Executive Officer, MYR Group: I think as we go forward, data centers could increase, but our other core markets are very strong too within C&I. When we talked about the overall markets we’re in, whether it’s wastewater or hospitals or, you know, solar, even on that side, we see good growth opportunities there. We’re really not focused on just data centers, but again, a lot of good opportunities going forward. I don’t see that outpacing the other segments at this point.

Got it.

Okay.

I wanted to follow up on your balance sheet and your ability and desire to deploy capital. Obviously, balance sheet, like normal, is in a very good spot here. Historically, you’ve done some M&A pretty consistently over the years, but the dynamics and the growth rates behind your business have changed. I’ve got to think the multiples, like your own stock’s multiple, are up. I was just wondering, Rick, what you’re seeing out there in your desire as well as your ability to deploy M&A capital in an environment like this where prices are up. What do you think?

The multiples are definitely up. I mean, as you said, our multiples are up. When we look at it for us, it’s really just focused on that right strategic fit. There are opportunities out there, but again, it’s got to fit us from a cultural fit and then from a structural fit. We continue to look at them and evaluate them, and there’s quite a bit of activity out there. That’s positive. Hopefully we can capitalize on the right opportunity. Our balance sheet enables us to really go after any acquisition. We’ve always said that our kind of goal is anything within that annual revenue of $50 million to $600 million is kind of our target. We’re not looking for something transformational, but again, we continue to see good activity in that market and just trying to find the right fit.

Thanks a lot.

Conference Call Operator: Thank you. Our next question comes from Jonathan Braatz of KeyBanc. Your line is open.

Rick Swartz, President and Chief Executive Officer, MYR Group: Morning, everyone. Rick, on the margin profile for.

Don Egan, Senior Vice President and Chief Operating Officer of Commercial and Industrial Segment, MYR Group: The C&I segment increased the range a little bit.

Rick Swartz, President and Chief Executive Officer, MYR Group: Does that reflect market conditions or execution? I would say both. I think we’re always focused on execution, how we better improve our performance out there, but also seeing some market, I guess, expansion in our market, margins within the market. We push margins every chance we get, but we’re also focused on our own performance. I would say it’s a mixture of the two.

Okay.

Industry wide in the utility.

Don Egan, Senior Vice President and Chief Operating Officer of Commercial and Industrial Segment, MYR Group: The T&D segment, you know, every time you read a report.

Rick Swartz, President and Chief Executive Officer, MYR Group: From utility companies, they talk about accelerating spending plans.

Don Egan, Senior Vice President and Chief Operating Officer of Commercial and Industrial Segment, MYR Group: From an overall perspective, Rick, does is there enough labor out there to meet this demand that seems to be forthcoming?

Rick Swartz, President and Chief Executive Officer, MYR Group: If not, is there going to.

Brian Stern, Senior Vice President and Chief Operating Officer of Transmission and Distribution Segment, MYR Group: Be.

Don Egan, Senior Vice President and Chief Operating Officer of Commercial and Industrial Segment, MYR Group: Some opportunity to take some additional margin?

Rick Swartz, President and Chief Executive Officer, MYR Group: We definitely hope so. That’s the way we’ve always said it. I mean, as we look at it into this market, it’s an elongated market and it’s going to go out for years. Not all these projects are going to be built overnight. You know, it’s just not the labor side. It’s also the material shortages or those time delays on that material coming in. I would say those cycles on material aren’t getting any shorter. I think it’s a balancing act between kind of, you know, the labor availability in the market, but also the material availability. I would say lots of early conversations with our clients. Very positive on the conversations. Really none of our customers are concerned about what they’re going to build more or less in 2026. They’re more concerned about what they’re going to build in 2027, 2028, 2029 and beyond.

Very good conversations going on. Okay. All right.

Thank you, Rick.

Thank you.

Conference Call Operator: Thank you. Our next question comes from Brian Brophy of Stifel. Your line is open.

Brian Stern, Senior Vice President and Chief Operating Officer of Transmission and Distribution Segment, MYR Group: Thanks.

Don Egan, Senior Vice President and Chief Operating Officer of Commercial and Industrial Segment, MYR Group: Good morning. Appreciate you taking the question. Appreciate the thoughts on 2026. I’m curious if you’re expecting any change to some of the high single digit growth, excluding solar and T&D and C&I that you’ve communicated for this year.

Rick Swartz, President and Chief Executive Officer, MYR Group: As Kelly said, we’re running a little ahead of that on the T&D side. C&I is right in that range for kind of that overall revenue growth. We see that coming in maybe a little stronger on the C&I or on the T&D side and kind of maintaining where we’re at on the C&I side this year. Okay.

Kelly Huntington, Senior Vice President and Chief Financial Officer, MYR Group: We’re at up 10% so far year to date on C&I.

Don Egan, Senior Vice President and Chief Operating Officer of Commercial and Industrial Segment, MYR Group: Got it.

Rick Swartz, President and Chief Executive Officer, MYR Group: That’s helpful.

Don Egan, Senior Vice President and Chief Operating Officer of Commercial and Industrial Segment, MYR Group: I am just curious, the latest you’re hearing from your customers on large transmission project opportunities and what that outlook could be.

Rick Swartz, President and Chief Executive Officer, MYR Group: As we look out a couple years.

Thanks.

It’s strong on that side, I would say. Lots of good conversations going on, lots of good activity. We’re doing a lot of budgeting with our clients, a lot of working with our clients on longer term projects. It remains a very active market. Those projects, as I said before, their large projects that we’re discussing aren’t going to start in 2026, but they’ll start in 2027, 2028, 2029, and we’re even having conversations with clients on projects that go out past then.

Don Egan, Senior Vice President and Chief Operating Officer of Commercial and Industrial Segment, MYR Group: Appreciate it.

Rick Swartz, President and Chief Executive Officer, MYR Group: I’ll pass it on.

Conference Call Operator: Thank you. Our next question comes from Atidrip Modak of Goldman Sachs. Your line is open.

Hey, good morning guys. Rick, can I ask you for directional comments relative to that 10% overall revenue growth you talked about for 2026? Is that a decent bogey for a run rate expectation based on everything that you’re seeing in the market, or what factors would you ask us to consider as we think about that?

Rick Swartz, President and Chief Executive Officer, MYR Group: I would say it doesn’t have, you know, we don’t forecast a dip in the economy or a dip in anything going forward with our clients as far as pulling back work. When we look at the project availability and the current market, I would say that’s how we’re forecasting it right now with that kind of 10% overall growth and pretty equally spread between C&I and T&D as we see it today. Got it.

That’s super helpful. Maybe Kelly, one for you. No buybacks this quarter. Just curious if there’s anything to point out there or point out in terms of related to near term capital allocation program.

Kelly Huntington, Senior Vice President and Chief Financial Officer, MYR Group: Sure. You’re right, we did announce that program at the last earnings call for another $75 million and we continue to look at that opportunistically. It remains part of our capital allocation strategy. I would say as usual, we are prioritizing directing capital towards growth. On the organic side that comes in the form of both our capital expenditures, which you could see this quarter did trend a little higher. Part of that was timing from earlier in the year, and part of that is to support that longer term growth that we see particularly on the T&D side, which is of course the more capital intensive side of the business. We could see that running closer to 3% of revenue given the growth opportunity that’s out there.

I would say, back to Rick’s answer to the earlier question, we’re also in a really good position to pursue acquisitions that are the right fit. We continue to be active in evaluating opportunities there. I think, just to summarize, as I say, we’re in a great position to do all three.

Yeah, that’s very helpful.

Don Egan, Senior Vice President and Chief Operating Officer of Commercial and Industrial Segment, MYR Group: Thank you.

Appreciate it.

Conference Call Operator: Thank you. Our next question comes from Julian Demolan Smith of Jefferies. Your line is open.

Yeah, good morning, it’s Brian Brophy on for Julian.

Rick Swartz, President and Chief Executive Officer, MYR Group: Morning.

Hey, just to follow up on the T&D segment, how should we think about, you know, your current Master Service Agreements or new or potentially enhanced Master Service Agreements with the upward CapEx revisions that we’re seeing with many of your large utility customers already this quarter? Is that part of what might be driving the 10%, 10% growth in that segment in 2026 over high single digits in 2025?

Yeah, that’s definitely a component of it as we look at that.

Brian Stern, Senior Vice President and Chief Operating Officer of Transmission and Distribution Segment, MYR Group: Most of.

Rick Swartz, President and Chief Executive Officer, MYR Group: Our customers are forecasting some increased spend next year, and as we said, then in future years beyond that, we’ll see some large projects hopefully come into the mix. I would say it’s increased spend on Master Service Agreements is a good component of.

With the whole lighter labor shortage backdrop in the latter years, say 2027, 2028, when you re-sign your Master Service Agreements, do you have more leverage in terms of the premium for skilled labor, or should we just kind of assume similar margins as they are today?

I think we’re always, you know, pushing on our performance to outperform where we’ve been. With that being said, you know, over 90% of our clients are return clientele. We’re always going to treat those clients fair. We’re going to look at our productivity side and we’re going to try to enhance our margins where we can, again, always treating our customers fairly.

Don Egan, Senior Vice President and Chief Operating Officer of Commercial and Industrial Segment, MYR Group: Okay.

I appreciate, you know, the project discussions at T&D earlier. Could you kind of triangulate any of those projects that might be more significant than others or what was added to the September backlog or that is still to be added?

Rick Swartz, President and Chief Executive Officer, MYR Group: I would say our backlog, we always capture it at a month end. Again, it’s always going to be lumpy at any given time. I think when you’re looking at, as we said, no large project came into it. Brian talked about some of the projects, smaller and mid sized projects that were captured, and we see that continuing. I would say we don’t get down to it customer by customer, but good activity in all the markets we’re in, and we pretty much have coast to coast coverage, a little bit into Canada. Pretty excited about the opportunities that lie in front of us.

Okay, great.

Thank you very much.

Jennifer Harper, Vice President of Investor Relations and Treasurer, MYR Group: Thank you.

Conference Call Operator: I’m showing no further questions in the queue. I would now like to turn the call back over to Rick Swartz for any additional or closing remarks.

Rick Swartz, President and Chief Executive Officer, MYR Group: Conclude. On behalf of Kelly, Brian, Don and myself, I sincerely thank you for joining us on the call today. I don’t have anything further, and we look forward to working with you in the future and speaking with you again on our next conference call. Until then, stay safe.

Conference Call Operator: Thank you. This concludes today’s conference call. We thank you for your participation, and you may now disconnect.

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