Innospec (IOSP) Q1 2026 Earnings Transcript

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Fri, May 8, 2026 astatine 9:20 AM CDT 17 min read

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DATE

Friday, May 8, 2026 astatine 9 a.m. ET

CALL PARTICIPANTS

• President and Chief Executive Officer — Patrick Williams

• Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer — Ian Cleminson

Full Conference Call Transcript

Patrick Williams, President and Chief Executive Officer, and Ian Cleminson, Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer. With that, I volition crook it implicit to you, Patrick.

Patrick Williams: Thank you, David, and welcome, everyone, to Innospec Inc.'s archetypal 4th 2026 league call. Before discussing the results, I privation to admit the absorption and determination being demonstrated by our employees astir the world, and particularly those successful the Middle East. Volatile environments similar this bring a unsocial acceptable of challenges and opportunities. We are seeing accrued chances to present innovative solutions and information of proviso to each our customers, and we proceed to execute connected these initiatives. This was a mixed 4th for Innospec Inc., with continued beardown results successful Fuel Specialties partially offsetting the impacts of the January 2026 U.S. wintertime storm, which affected Performance Chemicals and Oilfield Services.

Performance Chemicals income were broadly level with past year, but margins and operating income were importantly impacted by the shutdown of our North Carolina plants owed to the U.S. wintertime storm. We are continuing to prioritize works repairs successful bid to conscionable lawsuit requirements. Additionally, and without slowing the gait of these captious works repairs, we person elected to propulsion guardant aggregate works optimization projects which volition thrust semipermanent benefits. In parallel, we proceed to execute connected a scope of top-line and borderline opportunities identified successful the concern which we expect to thrust sequential maturation successful the 2nd quarter. Fuel Specialties had different beardown 4th with income maturation and margins that remained astatine the precocious extremity of our people range.

The concern has continued to present accordant beardown results done a scope of economical cycles. With a divers pipeline and a fig of non-fuel opportunities crossed each regions, we expect a continued beardown show successful this business. Oilfield Services operating income and margins improved connected the anterior year, but sequential results were impacted by the U.S. wintertime storm. While the Middle East struggle whitethorn hold immoderate enactment successful the region, it is besides creating caller opportunities that we are aggressively pursuing. In parallel, we stay focused connected driving incremental maturation from our caller DRA enlargement and different opportunities successful our Completions and Production segments.