Q3 2026 ScanSource Inc Earnings Call

Speaker #1: If anyone has any objections, you may disconnect at this time. I would now like to turn the call over to Mary Gentry, Senior Vice President of Finance and Treasurer.

Speaker #1: Please go ahead. Good morning, and thank you for joining us. Our call will include prepared remarks from Mike Baur, our Chair and CEO, and Steve Jones, our Chief Financial Officer.

Mary Gentry: Good morning, and thank you for joining us. Our call will include prepared remarks from Mike Baur, our Chair and CEO, and Steve Jones, our Chief Financial Officer. We'll review our operating results for the quarter and then open the line for your questions. We posted an earnings infographic that accompanies our comments and webcast in the investor relations section of our website. As you know, certain statements in our press release infographic and on this call are forward-looking and subject to risks and uncertainties that could cause actual results to differ materially from expectations. These risks and uncertainties include the factors identified in our earnings release in our Form 10-K for the year ended 30 June 2025, and in our subsequent reports on Form 10-Q.

Mary Gentry: Good morning, and thank you for joining us. Our call will include prepared remarks from Mike Baur, our Chair and CEO, and Steve Jones, our Chief Financial Officer. We'll review our operating results for the quarter and then open the line for your questions. We posted an earnings infographic that accompanies our comments and webcast in the Investor Relations section of our website. As you know, certain statements in our press release infographic and on this call are forward-looking and subject to risks and uncertainties that could cause actual results to differ materially from expectations. These risks and uncertainties include the factors identified in our earnings release in our Form 10-K for the year ended 30 June 2025, and in our subsequent reports on Form 10-Q.

Speaker #1: We'll review our operating results for the quarter and then open the line for your questions. We posted an earnings infographic that accompanies our comments and webcasts in the investor relations section of our website.

Speaker #1: As you know, certain statements in our press release infographic and on this call are forward-looking and subject to risks and uncertainties that could cause actual results to differ materially from expectations.

Speaker #1: These risks and uncertainties include the factors identified in our earnings release, in our Form 10-K for the year ended June 30th, 2025, and in our subsequent reports on Form 10-Q.

Speaker #1: Forward-looking statements represent our views only as of today and SCANSOURCE disclaims any duty to update these statements except as required by law. During our call, we'll discuss both gap and non-gap results.

Mary Gentry: Forward-looking statements represent our views only as of today, and ScanSource disclaims any duty to update these statements except as required by law. During our call, we'll discuss both GAAP and non-GAAP results. We've provided reconciliations on our webcast, website and in the press release included in our Form 8-K filed earlier today. I'll now turn the call over to Mike.

Mary Gentry: Forward-looking statements represent our views only as of today, and ScanSource disclaims any duty to update these statements except as required by law. During our call, we'll discuss both GAAP and non-GAAP results. We've provided reconciliations on our webcast, website and in the press release included in our Form 8-K filed earlier today. I'll now turn the call over to Mike.

Speaker #1: We provided reconciliations on our webcasts, website, and in the press release indicated included in our Form 8-K filed earlier today. I'll now turn the call over to Mike.

Speaker #1: Thanks, Mary, and thanks to everyone for joining us today. Our team delivered strong third-quarter results with adjusted EBITDA, A, EPS, free cash flow, and ROIC, all increasing versus the prior year.

Mike Baur: Thanks, Mary, and thanks to everyone for joining us today. Our team delivered strong Q3 results with adjusted EBITDA, EPS, free cash flow, and ROIC, all increasing versus the prior year. I'm pleased to see improved hardware demand drove 9% growth in net sales with growth across most technologies, but especially networking and security. We believe end users have more choices than ever, and solutions are getting more complex. What they're really looking for are business outcomes, complete solutions, not point products. Research shows us that end users prefer to buy from trusted partners who can deliver across the full technology stack. That's why we're taking the next step to help our partners grow their business by launching a new converged communications business unit to deliver a unified one ScanSource partner experience.

Mike Baur: Thanks, Mary, and thanks to everyone for joining us today. Our team delivered strong Q3 results with adjusted EBITDA, EPS, free cash flow, and ROIC, all increasing versus the prior year. I'm pleased to see improved hardware demand drove 9% growth in net sales with growth across most technologies, but especially networking and security. We believe end users have more choices than ever, and solutions are getting more complex. What they're really looking for are business outcomes, complete solutions, not point products. Research shows us that end users prefer to buy from trusted partners who can deliver across the full technology stack. That's why we're taking the next step to help our partners grow their business by launching a new converged communications business unit to deliver a unified one ScanSource partner experience.

Speaker #1: I'm pleased to see improved hardware demand drove 9% growth in net sales with growth across most technologies, but especially networking and security. We believe end users have more choices than ever, and solutions are getting more complex.

Speaker #1: But what they're really looking for are business outcomes. Complete solutions, not point products. Research shows us that end users prefer to buy from trusted partners who can deliver across the full technology stack.

Speaker #1: That's why we're taking the next step to help our partners grow their business by launching a new converged communications business unit to deliver a unified one SCANSOURCE partner experience.

Speaker #1: This new business unit will include the business development and sales resources pre-sales engineering, marketing, and supplier management functions bringing together the SCANSOURCE specialty communications team and the IntelliSys CX cloud-based solutions team into one combined business unit.

Mike Baur: This new business unit will include the business development and sales resources, pre-sales engineering, marketing, and supplier management functions, bringing together the ScanSource specialty communications team and the Intelisys CX cloud-based solutions team into one combined business unit.

Mike Baur: This new business unit will include the business development and sales resources, pre-sales engineering, marketing, and supplier management functions, bringing together the ScanSource specialty communications team and the Intelisys CX cloud-based solutions team into one combined business unit.

Speaker #1: This team will support specialty communication bars and IntelliSys CX partners. Helping bars sell more cloud recurring revenue products and solutions and helping IntelliSys partners attach more hardware.

Mike Baur: This team will support specialty communication VARs and Intelisys CX partners, helping VARs sell more cloud recurring revenue products and solutions and helping Intelisys partners attach more hardware. Importantly, each partner will have dedicated sales resources to sell across our one ScanSource portfolio. The converged communications business unit will be led by Katherine White, who brings 5 years of ScanSource experience across both our specialty business and Intelisys. Looking ahead, we're focused on helping our channel partners grow by delivering innovative converged solutions, including, of course, new opportunities in AI. Our partners are finding excellent opportunities for AI adoption in the CX solutions area. Let me share two examples of recent AI channel wins. First, with AI as automation, a financial institution adopted an AI-powered platform with AI agents to handle routine inquiries.

Mike Baur: This team will support specialty communication VARs and Intelisys CX partners, helping VARs sell more cloud recurring revenue products and solutions and helping Intelisys partners attach more hardware. Importantly, each partner will have dedicated sales resources to sell across our one ScanSource portfolio. The converged communications business unit will be led by Katherine White, who brings 5 years of ScanSource experience across both our specialty business and Intelisys. Looking ahead, we're focused on helping our channel partners grow by delivering innovative converged solutions, including, of course, new opportunities in AI. Our partners are finding excellent opportunities for AI adoption in the CX solutions area. Let me share two examples of recent AI channel wins. First, with AI as automation, a financial institution adopted an AI-powered platform with AI agents to handle routine inquiries.

Speaker #1: Importantly, each partner will have dedicated sales resources to sell across our one SCANSOURCE portfolio. The converged communications business unit will be led by Katherine White, who brings five years of SCANSOURCE experience across both our specialty business and IntelliSys.

Speaker #1: Looking ahead, we're focused on helping our channel partners grow by delivering innovative, converged solutions. Including, of course, new opportunities in AI. Our partners are finding excellent opportunities for AI adoption in the CX solutions area.

Speaker #1: And let me share two examples of recent AI channel wins. First, with AI as automation: a financial institution adopted an AI-powered platform with AI agents to handle routine inquiries.

Speaker #1: That freed up approximately 4 to 5 hours per live agent each week, so they could focus on more complex customer needs. Second, with AI as augmentation: AI helps drive revenue expansion, including cross-selling.

Mike Baur: That freed up approximately four to five hours per live agent each week, so they could focus on more complex customer needs. Second, with AI as augmentation, AI helps drive revenue expansion, including cross-selling. In this deployment, AI supports inside sales agents doing during live interactions by providing real-time recommendations. We believe both examples highlight how ScanSource helps our partners bring converged AI-enabled CX solutions to market. Overall, our strong results this quarter reinforce our confidence in our business model as we look to the future. I'll now turn the call over to Steve to take you through our financial results and our outlook for fiscal year 2026. Thanks, Mike. We're pleased with our Q3 results, with consolidated net sales and non-GAAP EPS growing 9% year over year.

Mike Baur: That freed up approximately four to five hours per live agent each week, so they could focus on more complex customer needs. Second, with AI as augmentation, AI helps drive revenue expansion, including cross-selling. In this deployment, AI supports inside sales agents doing during live interactions by providing real-time recommendations. We believe both examples highlight how ScanSource helps our partners bring converged AI-enabled CX solutions to market. Overall, our strong results this quarter reinforce our confidence in our business model as we look to the future. I'll now turn the call over to Steve to take you through our financial results and our outlook for fiscal year 2026.

Speaker #1: In this deployment, AI supports inside sales agents doing during live interactions by providing real-time recommendations. We believe both examples highlight how SCANSOURCE helps our partners bring converged AI-enabled CX solutions to market.

Speaker #1: Overall, our strong results this quarter reinforce our confidence in our business model as we look to the future. I'll now turn the call over to Steve to take you through our financial results, and our outlook for fiscal year 2026.

Speaker #1: Thanks, Mike. We're pleased with our Q3 results, with consolidated net sales and non-gap EPS growing 9% year over year. We also delivered strong free cash flow in the quarter and feel very well positioned to deliver our fiscal year 2026 outlook.

Steve Jones: Thanks, Mike. We're pleased with our Q3 results, with consolidated net sales and non-GAAP EPS growing 9% year over year.

Steve Jones: We also delivered strong free cash flow in the quarter and feel very well positioned to deliver our fiscal year 2026 outlook. Turning to our segments, I'll start with Specialty Technology Solutions. Net sales increased 9% year over year, led by North America hardware sales growth across most of our technologies. Gross profit increased 10% year over year to $81 million. Approximately 15% of segment gross profit is coming from recurring revenue, led by managed connectivity growth from our Advantix and DataXoom acquisitions. Segment adjusted EBITDA grew 6% year over year to $24.7 million, with an adjusted EBITDA margin of 3.3%. In our Intelisys and Advisory segment, net sales declined 1% year over year. Intelisys annualized net billings increased to approximately $2.88 billion.

Steve Jones: We also delivered strong free cash flow in the quarter and feel very well positioned to deliver our fiscal year 2026 outlook. Turning to our segments, I'll start with Specialty Technology Solutions. Net sales increased 9% year over year, led by North America hardware sales growth across most of our technologies. Gross profit increased 10% year over year to $81 million. Approximately 15% of segment gross profit is coming from recurring revenue, led by managed connectivity growth from our Advantix and DataXoom acquisitions. Segment adjusted EBITDA grew 6% year over year to $24.7 million, with an adjusted EBITDA margin of 3.3%. In our Intelisys and Advisory segment, net sales declined 1% year over year. Intelisys annualized net billings increased to approximately $2.88 billion.

Speaker #1: Turning to our segments, I'll start with Specialty Technology Solutions. Net sales increased 9% year over year, led by North America Hardware sales growth across most of our technologies.

Speaker #1: Gross profit increased 10% year over year, to 81 million dollars. Approximately 15% of segment gross profit is coming from recurring revenue, led by managed connectivity growth from our Advantix and Datazoom acquisitions.

Speaker #1: Segment adjusted EBITDA grew 6% year over year to 24.7 million dollars, with an adjusted EBITDA margin of 3.3%. In our IntelliSys and advisory segment, net sales declined 1% year over year.

Speaker #1: IntelliSys annualized net billings increased to approximately 2.88 billion dollars. Quarter over quarter, both segment net sales and gross profits increased 4%. Adjusted EBITDA for the segment was 11 million dollars, a sequential quarter growth of 6%, with segment adjusted EBITDA margin of 42%.

Steve Jones: Quarter over quarter, both segment net sales and gross profits increased 4%. Adjusted EBITDA for the segment was $11 million, a sequential quarter growth of 6%, with segment adjusted EBITDA margin of 42%. Going a bit deeper on balance sheet and cash flow, we ended Q3 with $120 million in cash and a net debt leverage ratio of approximately 0 on a trailing twelve-month adjusted EBITDA basis. For the quarter, we generated $69 million in free cash flow, bringing our year-to-date free cash flow to $119 million. Share repurchases totaled $33 million in the quarter, and we had $146 million remaining as of 31 March 2026 under our share repurchase authorization. Adjusted ROIC was 14.3% for the quarter and 13.6% year to date.

Steve Jones: Quarter over quarter, both segment net sales and gross profits increased 4%. Adjusted EBITDA for the segment was $11 million, a sequential quarter growth of 6%, with segment adjusted EBITDA margin of 42%. Going a bit deeper on balance sheet and cash flow, we ended Q3 with $120 million in cash and a net debt leverage ratio of approximately 0 on a trailing twelve-month adjusted EBITDA basis. For the quarter, we generated $69 million in free cash flow, bringing our year-to-date free cash flow to $119 million. Share repurchases totaled $33 million in the quarter, and we had $146 million remaining as of 31 March 2026 under our share repurchase authorization. Adjusted ROIC was 14.3% for the quarter and 13.6% year to date.

Speaker #1: Going a bit deeper on balance sheet and cash flow, we ended Q3 with 120 million dollars in cash, and a net debt leverage ratio of approximately 0 on a trailing 12-month adjusted EBITDA basis.

Speaker #1: For the quarter, we generated 69 million dollars in free cash flow, bringing our year-to-date free cash flow to 119 million dollars. Share repurchases totaled 33 million dollars in the quarter, and we had 146 million dollars remaining as of March 31, 2026, under our share repurchase authorization.

Speaker #1: Adjusted ROIC was 14.3% for the quarter and 13.6% year to date. We continue to have a strong balance sheet, and we're well positioned to execute our strategic priorities and achieve our three-year goals.

Steve Jones: We continue to have a strong balance sheet, and we're well-positioned to execute our strategic priorities and achieve our 3-year goals. Our 3-year goals focus on growing the company's gross profit contributions from recurring revenue, expanding our profitability, delivering strong free cash flow, and maintaining disciplined capital deployment. You can find our goals in the infographic and our investor presentation in the investor relations section of our website. We continue to explore acquisition opportunities that could expand our technology stack, our capabilities, and accelerate our recurring revenue growth. Our capital allocation priorities also include continued share repurchases. We are confident in our business model, and our Q3 results support our expectations for our annual outlook. We are maintaining our full year projections for both revenue and adjusted EBITDA, and for FY 2026 free cash flow, we are raising our expectations to at least $90 million.

Steve Jones: We continue to have a strong balance sheet, and we're well-positioned to execute our strategic priorities and achieve our 3-year goals. Our 3-year goals focus on growing the company's gross profit contributions from recurring revenue, expanding our profitability, delivering strong free cash flow, and maintaining disciplined capital deployment. You can find our goals in the infographic and our investor presentation in the investor relations section of our website. We continue to explore acquisition opportunities that could expand our technology stack, our capabilities, and accelerate our recurring revenue growth. Our capital allocation priorities also include continued share repurchases. We are confident in our business model, and our Q3 results support our expectations for our annual outlook. We are maintaining our full year projections for both revenue and adjusted EBITDA, and for FY 2026 free cash flow, we are raising our expectations to at least $90 million.

Speaker #1: Our three-year goals focus on growing the company's gross profit contributions from recurring revenue, expanding our profitability, delivering strong free cash flow, and maintaining disciplined capital deployment.

Speaker #1: You can find our goals in the infographic and our investor presentation in the investor relations section of our website. We continue to explore acquisition opportunities that could expand our technology stack, our capabilities, and accelerate our recurring revenue growth.

Speaker #1: Our capital allocation priorities also include continued share repurchases. We are confident in our business model, and our Q3 results support our expectations for our annual outlook.

Speaker #1: We are maintaining our full-year projections for both revenue and adjusted EBITDA, and for FY26 free cash flow, we are raising our expectations to at least 90 million dollars.

Speaker #1: We'll now open it up for questions.

Steve Jones: We'll now open it up for questions.

Steve Jones: We'll now open it up for questions.

Speaker #2: Thank you. As a reminder to ask a question, you will need to press star 11 on your telephone. To remove yourself from the queue, you may press star 11 again.

Operator: Thank you. As a reminder, to ask a question, you will need to press star one one on your telephone. To remove yourself from the queue, you may press star one one again. Please stand by while we compile the Q&A roster. Our first question comes from the line of Keith Housum of Northcoast Research. Your line is open, Keith.

Operator: Thank you. As a reminder, to ask a question, you will need to press star one one on your telephone. To remove yourself from the queue, you may press star one one again. Please stand by while we compile the Q&A roster. Our first question comes from the line of Keith Housum of Northcoast Research. Your line is open, Keith.

Speaker #2: Please stand by while we compile the Q&A roster. Our first question: comes from a line of Keith Alsom, of North Coast Research. Your line is open, Keith.

Speaker #3: Great. Thanks, guys. Appreciate the opportunity. Hey, Steve, in terms of the revenue guide for the full year, based on the strong core you have, my math is right, that would suggest at a topside revenue growth of only 2% in the quarter, and on the downside would be a decline of 10%.

Keith Housum: Great. Thanks, guys. Appreciate the opportunity. Hey, Steve, in terms of the revenue guide for the full year, based on the strong quarter you have, if my math is right, that would suggest at a top side revenue growth of only 2% in the quarter and on the downside would be a decline of 10%. Was that intentional in terms of what you're thinking about for the Q2 or the next quarter?

Keith Housum: Great. Thanks, guys. Appreciate the opportunity. Hey, Steve, in terms of the revenue guide for the full year, based on the strong quarter you have, if my math is right, that would suggest at a top side revenue growth of only 2% in the quarter and on the downside would be a decline of 10%. Was that intentional in terms of what you're thinking about for the Q2 or the next quarter?

Speaker #3: Was that intentional in terms of what you're thinking about for the second quarter or the next quarter?

Speaker #2: Well, Keith, I'll tell you what—thanks for the question, by the way. When we look at our full-year outlook that we gave last quarter, we said that we would need some large deals coming in, and we had growth projected for the second half.

Steve Jones: Well, Keith, I'll tell you what, thanks for the question, by the way. When we look at our full year outlook that we gave last quarter, we said that we would need some large deals coming in, and we had growth projected for H2. Q3 delivered on that, we're confident that we can deliver our full year guidance. We don't wanna get over our skis as we look at Q4.

Steve Jones: Well, Keith, I'll tell you what, thanks for the question, by the way. When we look at our full year outlook that we gave last quarter, we said that we would need some large deals coming in, and we had growth projected for H2. Q3 delivered on that, we're confident that we can deliver our full year guidance. We don't wanna get over our skis as we look at Q4.

Speaker #2: Q3 delivered on that, and we're confident that we can deliver our full-year guidance. But we don't want to get over our skis as we look at Q4.

Speaker #3: Okay. Is there a sense that business was pulled forward from fourth quarter into third quarter based on the world that's in chaos when it comes to memory pricing right now?

Keith Housum: Okay. Is there a sense that business was pulled forward from Q4 into Q3 based on, you know, the world's utter chaos when it comes to memory pricing right now?

Keith Housum: Okay. Is there a sense that business was pulled forward from Q4 into Q3 based on, you know, the world's utter chaos when it comes to memory pricing right now?

Steve Jones: What I would say on that, Keith, is the visibility is always hard on pull forwards and that kind of detail. We don't believe that we saw material pull forwards in our Q3 results.

Speaker #2: What I would say on that, Keith, is it's always the visibility is always hard on pull-forwards and that kind of detail. But we didn't 't we don't believe that we saw material pull-forwards in our Q3 results.

Steve Jones: What I would say on that, Keith, is the visibility is always hard on pull forwards and that kind of detail. We don't believe that we saw material pull forwards in our Q3 results.

Speaker #3: Okay. Appreciate it. You guys called out resources sales being down in the quarter. I would have assumed those were sequentially grow every quarter. Was there anything unique that happened in the quarter that would cause that to be down?

Keith Housum: Okay. Appreciate it. You guys called out, Resourcive sales being down, in the quarter. I would assume those would sequentially grow every quarter. Was there anything unique that happened in the quarter that would cause that to be down?

Keith Housum: Okay. Appreciate it. You guys called out, Resourcive sales being down, in the quarter. I would assume those would sequentially grow every quarter. Was there anything unique that happened in the quarter that would cause that to be down?

Speaker #2: Well, on resources, remember, that's our end customer-facing business. And what you'll see in that is there's recurring revenue and there's services revenue in that business.

Steve Jones: Well, on Resourcive, remember, that's our end customer-facing business. What you'll see in that is there's recurring revenue and there's services revenue in that business. Some of those services revenues can be up and down quarter-over-quarter.

Steve Jones: Well, on Resourcive, remember, that's our end customer-facing business. What you'll see in that is there's recurring revenue and there's services revenue in that business. Some of those services revenues can be up and down quarter-over-quarter.

Speaker #2: And so some of those services revenues can be up and down quarter over quarter.

Speaker #3: Okay. Gotcha. How are IntelliSys orders for the quarter? I know you guys mentioned billings were 2.88. How were the orders due?

Keith Housum: Okay. Gotcha. How were Intelisys orders for the quarter? I know you guys mentioned billings were $2.88. Well, how did the orders do?

Keith Housum: Okay. Gotcha. How were Intelisys orders for the quarter? I know you guys mentioned billings were $2.88. Well, how did the orders do?

Speaker #2: Hey, Keith. It's Mike. Good morning. One of the things that we're focused on is how do we accelerate new order growth? And that's one reason we really are focusing on establishing this new group, this new team.

Mike Baur: Hey, Keith, it's Mike. Good morning. One of the things that we're focused on is how do we accelerate new order growth, and that's one reason we really are focusing on establishing this new group, this new team. We believe that we need to put additional focus on new orders, especially through the VAR community. This converged communications team is gonna have as a primary goal to how do we get more partners selling Intelisys and getting the new order growth to accelerate. We would like to see that grow faster.

Mike Baur: Hey, Keith, it's Mike. Good morning. One of the things that we're focused on is how do we accelerate new order growth, and that's one reason we really are focusing on establishing this new group, this new team. We believe that we need to put additional focus on new orders, especially through the VAR community. This converged communications team is gonna have as a primary goal to how do we get more partners selling Intelisys and getting the new order growth to accelerate. We would like to see that grow faster.

Speaker #2: We believe that we need to put additional focus on new orders especially through the VAR community. So this converged communications team is going to have as a primary goal to how do we get more partners selling IntelliSys and getting the new order growth to accelerate.

Speaker #2: We would like to see that grow faster.

Keith Housum: Do I assume that order growth didn't grow for the quarter year over year?

Speaker #3: So do I assume that order growth then grow for the quarter? Year over year?

Keith Housum: Do I assume that order growth didn't grow for the quarter year over year?

Mike Baur: No, we didn't say that. Our belief is that we are doing everything we've said we're gonna do, but we wanna go faster.

Speaker #2: No, we didn't say that. Our belief is our belief is that we are doing everything we've said we're going to do, but we want to go faster.

Mike Baur: No, we didn't say that. Our belief is that we are doing everything we've said we're gonna do, but we wanna go faster.

Speaker #2: And we don't believe it's growing at the rate we would like to see.

Mike Baur: We don't believe it's growing at the rate we would like to see.

Keith Housum: Okay.

Keith Housum: Okay.

Mike Baur: We don't believe it's growing at the rate we would like to see.

Speaker #3: Gotcha. I guess the last question for me, and I'll turn it back over. But in terms of the STS segment, revenue is almost identical to the third quarter.

Keith Housum: Gotcha. If the last question is from me, I'll turn it back over. In terms of the STS segment, revenue was almost identical to Q3, yet gross margins were 50 basis points higher. I know last quarter you guys called out freight costs due to more small and medium-sized businesses. Anything else that, you know, drove the improved gross profits for the quarter?

Keith Housum: Gotcha. If the last question is from me, I'll turn it back over. In terms of the STS segment, revenue was almost identical to Q3, yet gross margins were 50 basis points higher. I know last quarter you guys called out freight costs due to more small and medium-sized businesses. Anything else that, you know, drove the improved gross profits for the quarter?

Speaker #3: But yet gross profits were about gross margins were 50 basis points higher. I know last quarter you guys called out freight costs due to more small and medium-sized businesses.

Speaker #3: Anything else that drove the improved gross profits for the quarter?

Speaker #2: Keith, this is Steve. I would say it's more mix in that benefit. We've seen the freight costs normalize for us. We thought that that was going to be more of a one-time impact in the quarter.

Steve Jones: Keith, this is Steve. I would say it's more mix in that that benefit. We've seen the freight cost normalize for us. We thought that that was gonna be more of a one-time impact in the quarter. I would say it's more of a mixed story in terms of the improved margins.

Steve Jones: Keith, this is Steve. I would say it's more mix in that that benefit. We've seen the freight cost normalize for us. We thought that that was gonna be more of a one-time impact in the quarter. I would say it's more of a mixed story in terms of the improved margins.

Speaker #2: So I would say it's more of a mixed story in terms of the improved margins.

Speaker #3: Gotcha. Okay. I'll turn it back over. Thank you.

Keith Housum: Gotcha. Okay, I'll turn it back over. Thank you.

Keith Housum: Gotcha. Okay, I'll turn it back over. Thank you.

Speaker #2: Thanks, Keith.

Steve Jones: Thanks, Keith.

Steve Jones: Thanks, Keith.

Operator: Thank you. Our next question comes from the line of Gregory Burns of Sidoti. Please go ahead, Gregory.

Operator: Thank you. Our next question comes from the line of Gregory Burns of Sidoti. Please go ahead, Gregory.

Speaker #1: Thank you. Our next question: comes from the line of Gregory Burns of Sidoty. Please go ahead, Gregory.

Speaker #4: Morning. Just to follow up on the investments you're making and the IntelliSys side of the business to drive faster growth. I know you announced this new converged business unit, but you've done a number of things over the last 12 to 18 months to kind of stimulate that growth.

Gregory Burns: Morning. Just to follow up on, you know, the investments you're making in the Intelisys side of the business to drive faster growth. I know, you announced this new converged business unit, but you've done a number of things over the last 12 to 18 months to kinda stimulate that growth. Are you finding, like, the impact of those, the impact of those investments and changes that you previously made are not what you expected them to be? Or has there been, like, increased competitive response? Like, why haven't you been able to get the growth out of Intelisys where you think it should be?

Gregory Burns: Morning. Just to follow up on, you know, the investments you're making in the Intelisys side of the business to drive faster growth. I know, you announced this new converged business unit, but you've done a number of things over the last 12 to 18 months to kinda stimulate that growth. Are you finding, like, the impact of those, the impact of those investments and changes that you previously made are not what you expected them to be? Or has there been, like, increased competitive response? Like, why haven't you been able to get the growth out of Intelisys where you think it should be?

Speaker #4: Are you finding the impact of those investments and changes that you previously made are not what you expected them to be, or has there been increased competitive response?

Speaker #4: Why haven't you been able to get the growth on IntelliSys where you think it should be?

Mike Baur: Hey, Greg, it's Mike. Good morning. I think from my perspective, we've been very clear that we need to see acceleration of our new orders growth. We've been able to talk consistently over time about end user billings being also the indicator of how's our revenue going to come in. New order growth, if you remember, has a lag between a new order and revenue for us. We clearly have to not only continue doing what we were doing for new orders, but everything that I'm talking about today that's new, we won't see the results of that for anywhere from six to 18 months. Really what I'm saying today is we're going to do more so that we can, a year from now, see even more of those results.

Speaker #3: Hey, Greg. It's Mike. Good morning. I think from my perspective, we've been very clear that we need to see acceleration of our new orders growth.

Mike Baur: Hey, Greg, it's Mike. Good morning. I think from my perspective, we've been very clear that we need to see acceleration of our new orders growth. We've been able to talk consistently over time about end user billings being also the indicator of how's our revenue going to come in. New order growth, if you remember, has a lag between a new order and revenue for us. We clearly have to not only continue doing what we were doing for new orders, but everything that I'm talking about today that's new, we won't see the results of that for anywhere from six to 18 months. Really what I'm saying today is we're going to do more so that we can, a year from now, see even more of those results.

Speaker #3: We've been able to talk consistently over time about end-user billings being also the indicator of how our revenue is going to come in. New order growth, if you remember, has a lag between a new order and revenue for us.

Speaker #3: So we clearly have to not only continue doing what we were doing for new orders, but everything that I'm talking about today that's new, we won't see the results of that for anywhere from 6 to 18 months.

Speaker #3: And so really what I'm saying today is we're going to do more so that we can a year from now see even more of those results.

Speaker #3: This is the I would say the challenge with our IntelliSys business is what we're seeing in new order growth now, where actions we took a year ago and we're saying we'd like to see better results and we want to accelerate that.

Mike Baur: This is the I would say the challenge with our Intelisys business is what we're seeing in new order growth now were actions we took a year ago, and we're saying we'd like to see better results, and we wanna accelerate that, and we believe now is the time. One more point, Greg, is we felt like we needed to get to this point in the year, the fiscal year, to make some of those decisions. When we said back in August that, you know, our strategy and our outlook for the year was X, we said we gotta have a strong H2, and some of our decisions would not be made for no more investments until we got through the H1. Well, we're there, and we saw what happened in Q3, and so we have the confidence that we should do that now.

Mike Baur: This is the I would say the challenge with our Intelisys business is what we're seeing in new order growth now were actions we took a year ago, and we're saying we'd like to see better results, and we wanna accelerate that, and we believe now is the time. One more point, Greg, is we felt like we needed to get to this point in the year, the fiscal year, to make some of those decisions. When we said back in August that, you know, our strategy and our outlook for the year was X, we said we gotta have a strong H2, and some of our decisions would not be made for no more investments until we got through the H1. Well, we're there, and we saw what happened in Q3, and so we have the confidence that we should do that now.

Speaker #3: And we believe now's the time. And one more point, Greg, is we felt like we needed to get to this point in the year the fiscal year to make some of those decisions.

Speaker #3: When we said back in August that our strategy and our outlook for the year was X, we said we got to have a strong second half.

Speaker #3: And some of our decisions would not be made for more investments until we got through the first half. Well, we're there. And we saw what happened in Q3.

Speaker #3: And so we have the confidence that we should do that now. So that's why now it's a timing question for us.

Mike Baur: That's why now it's a timing question for us.

Mike Baur: That's why now it's a timing question for us.

Speaker #1: Okay. Great. Thank you.

Gregory Burns: Okay, great. Thank you.

Gregory Burns: Okay, great. Thank you.

Speaker #3: Yep.

Mike Baur: Yep.

Mike Baur: Yep.

Speaker #1: Thank you once again to ask a question. Please press star 11 on your telephone. Our next question: comes from the line of Logan Katzman.

Operator: Thank you. Once again, to ask a question, please press star one one on your telephone. Our next question comes from the line of Logan Katzman of Raymond James. Please go ahead, Logan.

Operator: Thank you. Once again, to ask a question, please press star one one on your telephone. Our next question comes from the line of Logan Katzman of Raymond James. Please go ahead, Logan.

Speaker #1: Of Raymond James. Please go ahead, Logan.

Speaker #5: Yeah. Hi. Thanks for taking my question. This is Logan on for Adam. Maybe back to the to one of earlier. When we're looking at end of 2027, since we have to start to model that, I guess first, any guidelines or parameters you guys want to maybe give us as we look into modeling that?

Logan Katzman: Yeah. Hi, thanks for taking my question. This is Logan Katzman on for Adam Tindle. Maybe back to one of the first questions that was asked earlier. When we're looking into 2027, since we have to start to model that, I guess first any guidelines or parameters you guys want to, you know, maybe give us as we look into modeling that? Secondly, you know, maybe what do customer conversations look like in that, you know, around the H1 of, you know, 2027? I know it's a little early, but, you know, kind of back to the polling question. Just curious if, you know, you're seeing a big, you know, drop-off here potentially in demand as we move into that H1 2027, H2 calendar 2026.

Logan Katzman: Yeah. Hi, thanks for taking my question. This is Logan Katzman on for Adam Tindle. Maybe back to one of the first questions that was asked earlier. When we're looking into 2027, since we have to start to model that, I guess first any guidelines or parameters you guys want to, you know, maybe give us as we look into modeling that? Secondly, you know, maybe what do customer conversations look like in that, you know, around the H1 of, you know, 2027? I know it's a little early, but, you know, kind of back to the polling question. Just curious if, you know, you're seeing a big, you know, drop-off here potentially in demand as we move into that H1 2027, H2 calendar 2026.

Speaker #5: And then secondly, maybe what do customer conversations look like in that around the first half of 2027? I know it's a little early, but kind of back to the polling question.

Speaker #5: Just curious if you're seeing a big drop-off here potentially in demand as we move into that first half 2027 to H calendar 26. So just wanted to see what you guys were hearing on that front.

Logan Katzman: Just wanted to see what you guys were hearing on that front. Thank you.

Logan Katzman: Just wanted to see what you guys were hearing on that front. Thank you.

Speaker #5: Thank you.

Speaker #2: Yeah, Logan. Thanks for the question. I would just first start out by saying we haven't given 27 guidance yet. We typically would do that when we deliver our fourth quarter results.

Steve Jones: Yeah, Logan, thanks for the question. I would just first start out by saying we haven't given 2027 guidance yet. We typically would do that when we deliver our Q4 results. We're a little bit early in talking about FY 2027 for us. We're happy with where Q3 came in. We're confident in our Q4 forecast that builds to our full year guidance that we've given the guidance range. There's some things in our business right now that have a lot of momentum. Mike talked about security and networking having a lot of momentum from a sales perspective.

Steve Jones: Yeah, Logan, thanks for the question. I would just first start out by saying we haven't given 2027 guidance yet. We typically would do that when we deliver our Q4 results. We're a little bit early in talking about FY 2027 for us. We're happy with where Q3 came in. We're confident in our Q4 forecast that builds to our full year guidance that we've given the guidance range. There's some things in our business right now that have a lot of momentum. Mike talked about security and networking having a lot of momentum from a sales perspective.

Speaker #2: So we're a little bit early in talking about FY27 for us. But we're happy with where Q3 came in. We're confident in our Q4 forecast that builds to our full-year guidance that we've given.

Speaker #2: The guidance range. There are some things in our business right now that have a lot of momentum. Mike talked about security and networking having a lot of momentum from a sales perspective.

Speaker #2: And what we saw this quarter that we haven't seen in previous quarters is most of our technologies showed growth, which that's a great sign for us as we think about going into 2027 is to have that momentum.

Steve Jones: What we saw this quarter that we haven't seen in previous quarters is most of our technologies showed growth, which that's a great sign for us, as we think about going into 2027, is to have that momentum.

Steve Jones: What we saw this quarter that we haven't seen in previous quarters is most of our technologies showed growth, which that's a great sign for us, as we think about going into 2027, is to have that momentum.

Logan Katzman: Awesome. I appreciate the color. Thank you.

Logan Katzman: Awesome. I appreciate the color. Thank you.

Speaker #5: Awesome. I appreciate the comment. Thank you.

Operator: Thank you. I would now like to turn the conference back to Steve Jones for closing remarks, sir.

Operator: Thank you. I would now like to turn the conference back to Steve Jones for closing remarks, sir.

Speaker #1: Thank you. I would now like to turn the conference back to Steve Jones for closing remarks. Sir?

Speaker #2: Yeah. Thank you for joining us today. We expect a whole our next conference call to discuss our June 30th quarterly and full fiscal year results on Thursday.

Steve Jones: Yeah, thank you for joining us today. We expect to hold our next conference call to discuss our 30 June quarterly and full fiscal year results on Thursday, 20 August at approximately 10:30 AM.

Steve Jones: Yeah, thank you for joining us today. We expect to hold our next conference call to discuss our 30 June quarterly and full fiscal year results on Thursday, 20 August at approximately 10:30 AM.

Speaker #2: August 20th at approximately 10:30 AM.

Operator: This concludes today's conference call. Thank you for participating. You may now disconnect.

Operator: This concludes today's conference call. Thank you for participating. You may now disconnect.

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