Custom Truck One Source, Inc. Reports First Quarter 2024 and Updates Full-Year Guidance

Custom Truck One Source, Inc. (NYSE: CTOS), a leading provider of specialty equipment to the electric utility, telecom, rail, forestry, waste management and other infrastructure-related end markets, today reported financial results for its three months ended March 31, 2024.

CTOS First-Quarter Highlights

• Total revenue of $411.3 million, a decrease of $40.9 million, or 9.0%, compared to $452.2 million for the first quarter of 2023 primarily due to fewer rental asset sales and lower rental demand from the utility end market
• Gross profit of $90.7 million, a decline of $19.0 million, or 17.3%, compared to $109.7 million for the first quarter of 2023
• Adjusted Gross Profit of $134.5 million, a decrease of $15.5 million, or 10.4%, compared to $150.0 million for the first quarter of 2023
• Net loss of $14.3 million, compared to net income of $13.8 million in the first quarter of 2023
• Adjusted EBITDA of $77.4 million, a decrease of $27.8 million, or 26.4% compared to the record $105.2 million posted in the first quarter of 2023

“We continue to see strong demand in our TES segment, posting double-digit growth for the sixth consecutive quarter. CTOS is well positioned to capitalize on the secular tailwinds we see around AI and data center investment, electrification, and utility grid upgrades. We continue to be impacted by end-market supply chain, regulatory and customer financing factors affecting the timing of job starts of several large projects in our core T&D markets. These delays impacted our first quarter results specifically in the ERS segment, contributing to both lower rental revenue and rental asset sales this quarter. We believe that this decline will be temporary and anticipate a return to growth heading into 2025,” said Ryan McMonagle, Chief Executive Officer of CTOS. “We continue to see good demand in our infrastructure, rail and telecom end markets which all contributed to our TES segment performance. Our sales backlog remains at an elevated level, but we anticipate it returning to a more normalized level as OEM production and overall supply chain continue to improve. Recently, we announced the acquisition of A&D Maintenance and Repair on Long Island, New York and SOS Fleet Services in Alexandria, Louisiana, further demonstrating our commitment to expanding our footprint to better service our rental fleet and our customers,” McMonagle added.

Summary Actual Financial Results

Summary Actual Financial Results by Segment
Our results are reported for our three segments: Equipment Rental Solutions (“ERS”), Truck and Equipment Sales (“TES”) and Aftermarket Parts and Services (“APS”). ERS encompasses our core rental business, inclusive of sales of used rental equipment to our customers. TES encompasses our specialized truck and equipment production and new equipment sales activities. APS encompasses sales and rentals of parts, tools, and other supplies to our customers, as well as our aftermarket repair service operations.

Equipment Rental Solutions

Truck and Equipment Sales

Aftermarket Parts and Services

Summary Combined Operating Metrics

Management Commentary
In the first quarter of 2024, total revenue was $411.3 million, a decrease of 9.0% from the first quarter of 2023. First quarter 2024 rental revenue decreased 10.2% to $106.2 million, compared to $118.3 million in the first quarter of 2023, due to lower utilization and a decline in average OEC on rent. Equipment sales decreased 9.5% in the first quarter of 2024 to $272.6 million, compared to $301.3 million in the first quarter of 2023, primarily driven by lower sales of used equipment due to excess supply of equipment available in the market. Parts sales and service revenue remained flat year-over-year.

In our ERS segment, rental revenue in the first quarter of 2024 was $103.3 million compared to $113.8 million in the first quarter of 2023, a 9.2% decrease. Fleet utilization declined to 73.3% compared to 83.6% in the first quarter of 2023, due to a decline in demand in the utility market as a result of supply chain constraints, environmental, regulatory, and customer financing factors affecting the timing of transmission job starts. Average OEC on rent decreased 12.2% year-over-year, primarily as a result of the lower utilization in the quarter. Equipment sales decreased $59.4 million in the first quarter of 2024 to $32.7 million compared to $92.1 million in the first quarter of 2023, due to excess supply of used equipment available in the market. ERS gross profit in the first quarter of 2024 and 2023 was $39.4 million and $66.3 million, respectively. Adjusted Gross Profit in the segment was $82.1 million in the first quarter of 2024, compared to $105.8 million in the first quarter of 2023. Adjusted gross profit from rentals, which excludes depreciation of rental equipment, decreased to $73.5 million in the first quarter of 2024 compared to $84.7 million in the first quarter of 2023.

Revenue in our TES segment increased 14.7% to $239.9 million in the first quarter of 2024, from $209.2 million in the first quarter of 2023, primarily as a result of exiting 2023 with healthy inventory levels due to the supply chain improvements experienced in 2023 and historically high backlog levels that improved our ability to produce and deliver more units during the first quarter of 2024. Gross profit improved by 26.5% to $43.2 million in the first quarter of 2024 compared to $34.1 million in the first quarter of 2023. TES saw a reduction in backlog of 37.2% to $537.3 million compared to the first quarter of 2023, primarily for the reasons detailed above.

APS segment revenue decreased $1.7 million in the first quarter of 2024 to $35.4 million, compared to $37.1 million in the first quarter of 2023 due to the decrease in rentals of tools and accessories affected by the utility end-market softness. Gross profit margin decreased to 22.9% in the first quarter of 2024 from 25.0% in the first quarter of 2023.

Net loss was $14.3 million in the first quarter of 2024, compared to net income of $13.8 million for the first quarter of 2023. The $28.1 million decrease is primarily due to lower revenue leading to decreased gross profit and higher interest expense on variable-rate debt and variable-rate floor plan liabilities.

Adjusted EBITDA for the first quarter of 2024 was $77.4 million, a decrease of 26.4%, compared to $105.2 million for the first quarter of 2023. The decrease in Adjusted EBITDA was largely driven by a decline in used equipment sales in our ERS segment as well as higher costs associated with variable-rate floorplan liabilities as a result of higher rates and inventory levels.

As of March 31, 2024, cash and cash equivalents was $8.0 million, Total Debt outstanding was $1,519.4 million, Net Debt was $1,511.4 million and Net Leverage Ratio was 3.79x. Availability under the senior secured credit facility was $194.5 million as of March 31, 2024, and based on our borrowing base, we have an additional $331.9 million of availability that we can potentially utilize by upsizing our existing facility. For the three months ended March 31, 2024 compared to December 31, 2023, Ending OEC decreased by $5.0 million as we shifted allocation of new equipment builds in favor of our TES segment in order to capitalize on a continuing solid demand environment for vocational trucks. During the three months ended March 31, 2024, CTOS purchased $6.4 million of its common stock.

OUTLOOK
We are updating our full-year revenue and Adjusted EBITDA1, 4 guidance for 2024. We believe our ERS segment will continue to experience near-term pressure in demand in the utility market as a result of financing, supply chain, and regulatory factors affecting the timing of job starts. These headwinds in our utility end markets are driving lower OEC on rent in our core ERS segment. We expect to grow our rental fleet (based on net OEC) by low-single digits. Regarding TES, supply chain improvements, healthy inventory levels, and historically high backlog levels continue to improve our ability to produce and deliver more units in 2024. While we are lowering our consolidated revenue and Adjusted EBITDA1, 4 guidance for the year, we continue to focus on generating meaningful free cash flow in 2024, and reaffirm our target to generate more than $100 million of levered free cash flow2, 4. However, we now expect to deliver a net leverage3, 4 that decreases from current levels to less than 3.5 times by the end of the fiscal year. “We continue to have confidence in the long-term strength of our end markets and the continued execution by our teams to profitably grow our business, better serve our customers and position CTOS for future growth. Our updated outlook reflects the risks associated with some near-term challenges for our rental customers in the T&D sector, which we now expect could persist through the balance of the fiscal year.” said Ryan McMonagle, Chief Executive Officer of CTOS.

CONFERENCE CALL INFORMATION
The Company has scheduled a conference call at 5:00 P.M. Eastern Time on May 2, 2024, to discuss its first quarter 2024 financial results. A webcast will be publicly available at: investors.customtruck.com. To listen by phone, please dial 1-800-715-9871 or 1-646-307-1963 and provide the operator with conference ID 2976854. A replay of the call will be available until 11:59 p.m. ET, Thursday, May 9, 2024, by dialing 1-800-770-2030 or 1-609-800-9909 and entering passcode 2976854.

ABOUT CTOS
CTOS is one of the largest providers of specialty equipment, parts, tools, accessories and services to the electric utility transmission and distribution, telecommunications, and rail markets in North America, with a differentiated “one-stop-shop” business model. CTOS offers its specialized equipment to a diverse customer base for the maintenance, repair, upgrade, and installation of critical infrastructure assets, including electric lines, telecommunications networks, and rail systems. The Company's coast-to-coast rental fleet of approximately 10,300 units includes aerial devices, boom trucks, cranes, digger derricks, pressure drills, stringing gear, Hi-rail equipment, repair parts, tools, and accessories. For more information, please visit customtruck.com.

FORWARD-LOOKING STATEMENTS
This press release includes “forward-looking statements” within the meaning of the “safe harbor” provisions of the United States Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995, as amended, and within the meaning of Section 21E of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended, and Section 27A of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended. When used in this press release, the words “estimates,” “projected,” “expects,” “anticipates,” “forecasts,” “suggests,” “plans,” “targets,” “intends,” “believes,” “seeks,” “may,” “will,” “should,” “future,” “propose” and variations of these words or similar expressions (or the negative versions of such words or expressions) are intended to identify forward-looking statements. These forward-looking statements are not guarantees of future performance, conditions or results, and involve a number of known and unknown risks, uncertainties, assumptions and other important factors, many of which are outside the Company's management’s control, that could cause actual results or outcomes to differ materially from those discussed in this press release. This press release is based on certain assumptions that the Company's management has made in light of its experience in the industry, as well as the Company’s perceptions of historical trends, current conditions, expected future developments and other factors the Company believes are appropriate in these circumstances. As you read and consider this press release, you should understand that these statements are not guarantees of performance or results. Many factors could affect the Company’s actual performance and results and could cause actual results to differ materially from those expressed in this press release. Important factors, among others, that may affect actual results or outcomes include: increases in labor costs, our inability to obtain raw materials, component parts and/or finished goods in a timely and cost-effective manner, and our inability to manage our rental equipment in an effective manner; competition in the equipment dealership and rental industries; our sales order backlog may not be indicative of the level of our future revenues; increases in unionization rate in our workforce; our inability to recruit and retain the experienced personnel, including skilled technicians, we need to compete in our industries; our inability to attract and retain highly skilled personnel and our inability to retain or plan for succession of our senior management; material disruptions to our operation and manufacturing locations as a result of public health concerns, equipment failures, natural disasters, work stoppages, power outages or other reasons; potential impairment charges; any further increase in the cost of new equipment that we purchase for use in our rental fleet or for sale as inventory; aging or obsolescence of our existing equipment, and the fluctuations of market value thereof; disruptions in our supply chain; our business may be impacted by government spending; we may experience losses in excess of our recorded reserves for receivables; uncertainty relating to macroeconomic conditions, unfavorable conditions in the capital and credit markets and our inability to obtain additional capital as required; increases in price of fuel or freight; regulatory technological advancement, or other changes in our core end-markets may affect our customers’ spending; difficulty in integrating acquired businesses and fully realizing the anticipated benefits and cost savings of the acquired businesses, as well as additional transaction and transition costs that we will continue to incur following acquisitions; the interest of our majority stockholder, which may not be consistent with the other stockholders; our significant indebtedness, which may adversely affect our financial position, limit our available cash and our access to additional capital, prevent us from growing our business and increase our risk of default; our inability to generate cash, which could lead to a default; significant operating and financial restrictions imposed by our debt agreements; changes in interest rates, which could increase our debt service obligations on the variable rate indebtedness and decrease our net income and cash flows; disruptions or security compromises affecting our information technology systems or those of our critical services providers could adversely affect our operating results by subjecting us to liability, and limiting our ability to effectively monitor and control our operations, adjust to changing market conditions or implement strategic initiatives; we are subject to complex laws and regulations, including environmental and safety regulations that can adversely affect cost, manner or feasibility of doing business; material weakness in our internal control over financial reporting which, if not remediated, could result in material misstatements in our financial statements, we are subject to a series of risks related to climate change; and increased attention to, and evolving expectations for, sustainability and environmental, social and governance initiatives. For a more complete description of these and other possible risks and uncertainties, please refer to the Company's Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2023, and its subsequent reports filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission. All forward-looking statements attributable to the Company or persons acting on its behalf are expressly qualified in their entirety by the foregoing cautionary statements.

CUSTOM TRUCK ONE SOURCE, INC.
NON-GAAP FINANCIAL AND PERFORMANCE MEASURES

In our press release and schedules, and on the related conference call, we report certain financial measures that are not required by, or presented in accordance with, United States generally accepted accounting principles (“GAAP”). We utilize these financial measures to manage our business on a day-to-day basis and some of these measures are commonly used in our industry to evaluate performance by excluding items considered to be non-recurring. We believe these non-GAAP measures provide investors expanded insight to assess performance, in addition to the standard GAAP-based financial measures. The press release schedules reconcile the most directly comparable GAAP measure to each non-GAAP measure that we refer to. Although management evaluates and presents these non-GAAP measures for the reasons described herein, please be aware that these non-GAAP measures have limitations and should not be considered in isolation or as a substitute for revenue, operating income/loss, net income/loss, earnings/loss per share or any other comparable measure prescribed by GAAP. In addition, we may calculate and/or present these non-GAAP financial measures differently than measures with the same or similar names that other companies report, and as a result, the non-GAAP measures we report may not be comparable to those reported by others.

Adjusted EBITDA. Adjusted EBITDA is a non-GAAP performance measure that we use to monitor our results of operations, to measure performance against debt covenants and performance relative to competitors. We believe Adjusted EBITDA is a useful performance measure because it allows for an effective evaluation of operating performance, without regard to financing methods or capital structures. We exclude the items identified in the reconciliations of net income (loss) to Adjusted EBITDA because these amounts are either non-recurring or can vary substantially within the industry depending upon accounting methods and book values of assets, including the method by which the assets were acquired, and capital structures. Adjusted EBITDA should not be considered as an alternative to, or more meaningful than, net income (loss) determined in accordance with GAAP. Certain items excluded from Adjusted EBITDA are significant components in understanding and assessing a company’s financial performance, such as a company’s cost of capital and tax structure, as well as the historical costs of depreciable assets, none of which are reflected in Adjusted EBITDA. Our presentation of Adjusted EBITDA should not be construed as an indication that results will be unaffected by the items excluded from Adjusted EBITDA. Our computation of Adjusted EBITDA may not be identical to other similarly titled measures of other companies.

We define Adjusted EBITDA as net income or loss before interest expense, income taxes, depreciation and amortization, share-based compensation, and other items that we do not view as indicative of ongoing performance. Our Adjusted EBITDA includes an adjustment to exclude the effects of purchase accounting adjustments when calculating the cost of inventory and used equipment sold. When inventory or equipment is purchased in connection with a business combination, the assets are revalued to their current fair values for accounting purposes. The consideration transferred (i.e., the purchase price) in a business combination is allocated to the fair values of the assets as of the acquisition date, with amortization or depreciation recorded thereafter following applicable accounting policies; however, this may not be indicative of the actual cost to acquire inventory or new equipment that is added to product inventory or the rental fleets apart from a business acquisition. Additionally, the pricing of rental contracts and equipment sales prices for equipment is based on OEC, and we measure a rate of return from rentals and sales using OEC. We also include an adjustment to remove the impact of accounting for certain of our rental contracts with customers containing a rental purchase option that are accounted for under GAAP as a sales-type lease. We include this adjustment because we believe continuing to reflect the transactions as an operating lease better reflects the economics of the transactions given our large portfolio of rental contracts. These, and other, adjustments to GAAP net income or loss that are applied to derive Adjusted EBITDA are specified by our senior secured credit agreements.

Adjusted Gross Profit. We present total gross profit excluding rental equipment depreciation (“Adjusted Gross Profit”) as a non-GAAP financial performance measure. This measure differs from the GAAP definition of gross profit, as we do not include the impact of depreciation expense, which represents non-cash expense. We use this measure to evaluate operating margins and the effectiveness of the cost of our rental fleet.

Net Debt. We present the non-GAAP financial measure “Net Debt,” which is total debt (the most comparable GAAP measure, calculated as current and long-term debt, excluding deferred financing fees, plus current and long-term finance lease obligations) minus cash and cash equivalents. We believe this non-GAAP measure is useful to investors to evaluate our financial position.

Net Leverage Ratio. Net leverage ratio is a non-GAAP performance measure used by management, and we believe it provides useful information to investors because it is an important measure to evaluate our debt levels and progress toward leverage targets, which is consistent with the manner our lenders and management use this measure. We define net leverage ratio as net debt divided by Adjusted EBITDA.

Adjusted EBITDA is defined as net income, as adjusted for provision for income taxes, interest expense, net, depreciation of rental equipment and non-rental depreciation and amortization, and further adjusted for the impact of the fair value mark-up of acquired rental fleet, business acquisition and merger-related costs, including integration, the impact of accounting for certain of our rental contracts with customers that are accounted for under GAAP as sales-type lease and stock compensation expense. This non-GAAP measure is subject to certain limitations.

Reconciliation of Adjusted Gross Profit
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The following table presents the reconciliation of Adjusted Gross Profit:

Reconciliation of ERS Segment Adjusted Gross Profit and Rental Gross Profit
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The following table presents the reconciliation of ERS segment Adjusted Gross Profit:

The following table presents the reconciliation of Adjusted ERS Rental Gross Profit:

Reconciliation of Net Debt
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The following table presents the reconciliation of Net Debt:

Reconciliation of Net Leverage Ratio
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The following table presents the reconciliation of the Net Leverage Ratio:

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