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Enviri Corporation (NVRI)

Q3 2025 Earnings Call· Mon, Nov 10, 2025

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Jamie

Management

Good morning, everyone. My name is Jamie, and I will be your conference facilitator. At this time, I would like to welcome everyone to the Enviri Corporation Third Quarter Release Conference Call. All lines have been placed on mute to avoid any background noise. After the speakers' remarks, there will be a question and answer session. If you would like to ask a question during this time, simply press star and the number one on your telephone keypad. If you would like to withdraw your questions, you may press star and two. This telephone conference presentation and accompanying webcast made on behalf of Enviri Corporation are subject to copyright by Enviri Corporation, and all rights are reserved. No recordings or redistributions of this telephone conference by any other party are permitted without the express written consent of Enviri Corporation. Your participation indicates your agreement. I would now like to turn the conference call over to David Scott Martin of Enviri Corporation. Mr. Martin, you may begin your call.

David Scott Martin

Management

Thank you, Jamie, and welcome to everyone joining us today. With me is F. Nicholas Grasberger, our Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, and Thomas G. Vadaketh, our Senior Vice President and Chief Financial Officer. On the call, we will discuss our results for the third quarter and our outlook for the remainder of the year. We will then take your questions. Our quarterly earnings release and slide presentation for this call are available on our website. During today's call, we will make statements that are considered forward-looking, within the meaning of the federal securities laws. These statements are based on our current knowledge and expectations and are subject to certain risks and uncertainties that may cause actual results to differ materially from those forward-looking statements. For a discussion of such risks and uncertainties, see the risk factors section in our most recent 10-K and as updated in subsequent 10-Q. The company undertakes no obligation to revise or update any forward-looking statements. Lastly, on this call, we will refer to adjusted financial results that are considered non-GAAP for SEC reporting purposes. A reconciliation to GAAP results is included in our earnings release as well as a slide presentation. With that being said, I will turn the call to Nick.

F. Nicholas Grasberger

Chairman

Thank you, David, good morning, everyone. Before we dive into our Q3 results, I will take a moment to provide a brief update on our strategic review process that we announced a few months ago. Recall that this process is aimed at identifying and executing alternatives to unlock the inherent value of our business portfolio. In our view, this value was not yet reflected in our market value. Throughout our process, and as expected, we have seen strong and definitive interest in our Clean Earth business from both strategic parties as well as others. While nothing can be certain, we believe that there is a path to crystallizing its value in a tax-efficient manner for our shareholders. We have spent considerable time with our advisers thinking through structures that work. One of which involves a simultaneous sale of Clean Earth together with the taxable spin to our shareholders of our Harsco Environmental and Rail businesses. We believe this structure would result in minimal tax leakage for our investors and would allow for a sizable cash payment to shareholders upon the sale of Clean Earth. In fact, we have recently amended our credit agreement to allow for this transaction. Tom will comment further on this amendment. We will update you further when appropriate, but we believe we should be in a position to conclude our process review prior to the end of this year. Now let me turn to our third quarter earnings starting with Clean Earth. And Tom will cover our financial results in detail shortly. Clean Earth's revenue and earnings grew single digits and its margins exceeded 17%, translating to a record quarterly performance for the business. The degree of execution delivered by the Clean Earth team remains very high despite various distractions as it focuses on its key…

Thomas G. Vadaketh

Management

Thank you, Nick, and good morning, everyone. In the third quarter, total revenue was $575 million and adjusted EBITDA was $74 million. Both figures are highs for the year, but lower than our expectations at the beginning of the quarter. Rail accounted for much of the shortfall, whereas we discussed last quarter and as Nick just mentioned, demand for standard products and aftermarket parts remain very sluggish. Also, some contract services work for certain US customers was deferred into future quarters. Our product orders did improve somewhat from the prior quarter, but the increase was from a low base, and this activity will not benefit Rail in 2025. Performance at Harsco Environmental was also slightly lower than expectations due to higher operating costs and lower contributions from new sites. Actions are underway that are expected to help offset the challenges in both segments, as Nick mentioned. Still, we have lowered our outlook for the fourth quarter, which I will provide details on shortly. Now let me turn to our third quarter performance details on slide four. In the third quarter, our revenues were unchanged as reported and 1% higher on an organic basis. Adjusted EBITDA was lower year on year as anticipated with record earnings at Clean Earth offset by our other segment. The impact of divestitures on EBITDA within HE was $3 million compared with the prior year. Our adjusted diluted loss per share was $0.08 for the quarter, excluding the impact of unusual items. These unusual items totaled $12 million pretax, with most of this related to strategic project costs and various restructuring actions across the company. Excuse me. Adjustments on our large ETO contract in Rail were less than $2 million and much lower than in recent quarters. We believe this illustrates our progress in derisking these…

Jamie

Operator

Ladies and gentlemen, we will now begin the question and answer session. To ask a question, you may press star and then one on your telephone keypad. If you are using a speakerphone, we do ask that you please pick up your handset before pressing the key. To withdraw your question, you may press star and two. At this time, we will pause momentarily to assemble the roster. Our first question today comes from Lawrence Scott Solow from CJS Securities. Please go ahead with your question.

Lawrence Scott Solow

Analyst · CJS Securities. Please go ahead with your question

Great. Thanks. Good morning. Nick, wondering if you can I know you cannot give us too much detail, but just any more color on the on just you sound pretty confident at least on the on the process that the process is nearing an end or you will have some kind of something in the next few weeks? It sounds like it is by year-end. So just give us any more is it your confidence that while we keep will we actually, you know, hear something before year-end? Or you know, just anything will be great on that front. Thanks.

F. Nicholas Grasberger

Chairman

Yeah. Yeah. Hi, Larry. You know, honestly, there is not much more we can say at this point. As I indicated, we have had, as we expected, very strong interest in the business. We have created a tremendous amount of value in Clean Earth over the past couple of years. Not in our share price. We need to find a way to unlock that. That is what we have been doing. The specialty waste industry is consolidating, and you have likely seen some of the values that have been paid for, like businesses that have transacted over the past couple of years. So we are happy with where we are. It has been a strong process, and we are well supported by, you know, our advisers and of course, and most importantly, the Clean Earth leadership team has just been doing a tremendous job.

Lawrence Scott Solow

Analyst · CJS Securities. Please go ahead with your question

Okay. Great. I appreciate that. Just on the on the on the guidance and the outlook, a pretty significant drop. It looks like a lot more actually. Q3 was a bit of a miss, but the outlook Q4 is even like it is somewhat even worse. And you mentioned it is predominantly rail, but just trying to I mean, maybe you could help us a little bit with that you know, that $27 million delta is it more like, mostly rail there? I am just trying to get a little more you know, granularity.

Thomas G. Vadaketh

Management

Yeah. Versus our last guidance Larry, and good morning. The bulk the highest variation is on rail. And as I said in my remarks, what that consists of is, you know, we are trying to kind of derisk our outlook for the remainder of the year. So we took out from that any any volume that is currently by either firm orders or you know, good visibility in our pipeline. And so that is that is that is what that is mainly. And then on HE, we have also taken it down somewhat, you know, partially, you know, most of it is basically the miss in Q3, but just reflecting the pace that we are on in Q3 expected to largely continue into Q4.

Lawrence Scott Solow

Analyst · CJS Securities. Please go ahead with your question

Okay. If I can just squeeze one more in just on the on Clean Earth. Another good quarter, especially on the on the hazardous side. Was the was the soils did they have an exceptionally good year last year? It looks like a pretty good year-over-year drop in EBITDA contribution in the quarter for kind of a minority part of the business. And then you mentioned various distractions. Any any more color on that on Clean Earth? Thanks again.

F. Nicholas Grasberger

Chairman

Yeah. Just maybe for context for the full year, you know, we are expecting EBITDA in hazardous waste to be up about 15%. And down 15% in SDM. And okay. Likely know hazardous waste is five to six times the size of SDM. But SDM, as we have indicated before, can be a very lumpy business. We have a very attractive backlog of projects, and we try to anticipate when they are going to begin. And oftentimes, they are delayed. And that is what we are facing now. There is also a mixed component within us. There are some projects that have margins that are 15 to 20 points higher than others. And so what we have seen in the second half of this year is both a mix challenge as well as just the starts of the projects being pushed out. But, again, the backlog is very good. The mix is good in the backlog. It is not an overall demand issue. It is not a market share issue. It is just a timing issue. In SDM.

Lawrence Scott Solow

Analyst · CJS Securities. Please go ahead with your question

Okay. Great. I appreciate all that color. Thank you.

Jamie

Operator

Once again, if you would like to ask a question, please press star and then 1. To withdraw your questions, you may press star and 2. Our next question comes from Robert Duncan Brown from Lake Street Capital Markets. Please go ahead with your question.

Robert Duncan Brown

Analyst · Lake Street Capital Markets. Please go ahead with your question

Good morning. Morning. Congrats on the on the sale process. I think you talked about sort of a peer group that is you know, with consolidation, the multiples that are in the peer group, I guess, are you are you sort of comfortable that those multiples are staining out there in the industry and just a sense on your view on multiple.

F. Nicholas Grasberger

Chairman

Yeah. Yeah. I would say if you look at precedent transactions, the multiple that we would expect would certainly be consistent with those.

Robert Duncan Brown

Analyst · Lake Street Capital Markets. Please go ahead with your question

Okay. Great. And then in terms of the I think at one point, you talked about rail. Kind of the baseline business excluding ETO contracts of sort of $35 million or so of EBITDA. Maybe things are a little weaker now, but what is sort of the baseline, rail business, kind of run rate in the current environment in terms of EBITDA?

Thomas G. Vadaketh

Management

Yeah. So it is, Larry, as it is a little lower, you know, reflecting the current drop in demand. We do not expect that to be long-standing, and it should be short-lived because we think the demand will come back at some point during 2026. So on a longer-term basis and a sustainable basis, if you are trying to model this, it would be in that $35 to $40 million range. On a standalone base business today, you are probably looking at a range of in the thirties.

F. Nicholas Grasberger

Chairman

And again, the visibility to that is fairly good because we have a good sense of when these ETO contracts are going to be completed. And when we will get paid for them, yes, that can slip by a quarter or two as we have seen recently on some of the smaller contracts. And there is a good bit of overhead cost in our business that supports those contracts that will be removed. So it is not difficult to adjust the current performance of the business for what will happen at the end of those ETO contracts. And it is there is just a lot of costs embedded in the business that will be removed.

Robert Duncan Brown

Analyst · Lake Street Capital Markets. Please go ahead with your question

Okay. Great. Thank you. I will turn it over.

Jamie

Operator

And ladies and gentlemen, with that, we will be ending today's question and answer session. I would like to turn the floor back over to David Scott Martin for any closing remarks.

David Scott Martin

Management

Thank you all that joined us today, and thanks, Jamie, for hosting our call. Feel free to reach out to me with any follow-up questions. And as always, appreciate your interest in Enviri. And look forward to speaking with many of you shortly. Take care.

Jamie

Operator

And with that, we will conclude today's conference call. We do thank you for attending today's presentation. You may now disconnect your line.