Park-Ohio (PKOH) Q4 2025 Earnings Call Transcript

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Thu, March 5, 2026 astatine 9:32 AM CST 34 min read

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Thursday, March 5, 2026, astatine 9 a.m. ET

• Chairman, Chief Executive Officer & President — Matthew V. Crawford

• Executive Vice President & Chief Financial Officer — Patrick W. Fogarty

• Operator

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Matthew V. Crawford: Great. Thank you, Daryl, and welcome, everyone, to our extremity of 2025 4th fourth league call. I americium precise arrogant of our Park-Ohio Holdings Corp. squad passim 2025 and particularly during the 4th quarter. Strong outgo absorption combined with the payment of improved productivity successful cardinal locations offset request volatility successful galore concern extremity markets, caused by tariffs and wide economical uncertainty. This uncertainty besides delayed caller concern launches passim the twelvemonth and immoderate caller concern awards successful a fewer cases. Also during the 4th quarter, we made currency absorption a precedence and met our indebtedness simplification extremity of $40,000,000. Most importantly, though, we focused connected our semipermanent goals regarding plus allocation, durable growth, and deleveraging.

Regarding plus allocation, we proceed to put supra our attraction superior levels arsenic we amended productivity and little our outgo to service done automation, accusation technology, and vertical integration. While we proceed this travel done 2026 and beyond, we are opening to spot the affirmative impacts connected caller concern and improved nett flow-through. Our maturation superior investment, which represented much than a 3rd of our full superior expense, volition not lone underpin our important maturation successful 2026, but is besides targeted successful products and services wherever we person above-average margins and a sustainable competitory advantage. Lastly, portion we are inactive supra our target—

Patrick W. Fogarty: We person immoderate music—

Matthew V. Crawford: —there, Daryl. Are we okay, oregon did everyone perceive that past sentence?

Operator: You are okay. I apologize for the method difficulties.

Matthew V. Crawford: Okay. I americium going to reread the past mates sentences conscionable successful case. I volition work the past paragraph. I apologize if anyone heard euphony determination for a fewer seconds. Most importantly, we focused connected our semipermanent goals regarding plus allocation, durable growth, and deleveraging. Regarding plus allocation, we proceed to put supra our attraction superior levels arsenic we amended productivity and little our outgo to serve, done automation, accusation technology, and vertical integration. While we proceed this travel done 2026 and beyond, we are opening to spot the affirmative impacts connected caller concern and improved nett flow-through.