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New CEO First 100 Days Takeaways

• After 100 days in the role, the new CEO confirmed TransCat has strong, sustainable organic and inorganic growth opportunities across its North American, Central American, and Irish operations.
• The company identified a key opportunity to build a reputation for operational excellence to match its historic track record of growth, which will drive margin expansion over time.

Core Strategic Pillars

• Drive strong service organic revenue growth through high customer retention, new business wins, and ongoing market share gains in the highly fragmented calibration services market.
• Expand service gross margins through targeted operational excellence initiatives that leverage the inherent operating leverage of the company's recurring revenue service model.
• Continue pursuing accretive, strategic M&A as a core component of long-term growth strategy; the recent acquisition of SEM in Central America is progressing well, and the company maintains a robust pipeline of potential targets.
• Grow the higher-margin rental business within the distribution segment.

Operational Initiatives

• Operational excellence efforts focus on improving customer-facing business processes, applying lean operating principles, optimizing business mix and pricing, and integrating AI and technology to boost productivity.
• Capital expenditures of $4 million in the quarter were focused on expanding service segment capabilities, growing the rental asset pool, and investing in technology and future growth projects.
• The company continues to invest in its leadership team to support scaling from its current size to $500-$600 million in total revenue, including the recent addition of a new M&A and strategy lead.

• Management maintains its full-year guidance of high single-digit service organic revenue growth and continued service gross margin expansion, and expressed increased confidence in achieving this target following the strong Q1 performance.
• The expected full-year effective tax rate remains in the 31% to 32% range; the Q1 elevated tax rate was driven by one-time stock-based compensation impacts and is expected to normalize over the rest of the year.
• Management expects the rental business within distribution to continue delivering organic growth in the high single-digit to low double-digit range, consistent with prior guidance.

Consolidated revenue for Q1 FY2027 was $92.9 million, representing a 22% year-over-year increase.

1. Service Segment: Service revenue grew 27% year-over-year, with 13% organic revenue growth (the remaining 14% growth came from acquisitions). This marked the 69th consecutive quarter of year-over-year service revenue growth. Service gross profit increased 31% year-over-year, and service gross margin expanded 90 basis points compared to the prior year. Service adjusted operating income was $9.6 million, up 35% year-over-year, with an adjusted operating margin of 15.4% (an 80 basis point increase year-over-year. The service segment contributed approximately 67% of consolidated total revenue.

2. Distribution Segment: Distribution revenue grew 11% year-over-year, driven by strong demand for both rentals and product sales. Distribution gross margin came in at 31.4%, a 380 basis point decrease from the prior year, as the prior year Q1 margin was unusually high due to elevated vendor rebates. Distribution adjusted operating income was $4.3 million, a 12% year-over-year decline. The distribution segment contributed approximately 33% of consolidated total revenue.

Per management's standard forward-looking statement disclaimer, future results are subject to risks and uncertainties that could cause actual outcomes to differ materially from projected performance. These risks are outlined in the company's SEC filings and earnings release, and no new material risks were called out specifically during the call.

Q: Which end markets outperformed expectations to drive Q1's stronger-than-expected 13% service organic growth, and should we expect this strength to continue for the full year?

A: Management reported broad-based strength across all end markets, with no single segment driving the outperformance. Both overall end market growth and ongoing market share gains are supporting the stronger performance, and management expects this balanced strength to continue through the rest of the year, keeping full-year guidance on track.

Q: What contribution did operational leverage and other initiatives make to Q1's stronger-than-expected service margins, and how sustainable is this performance?

A: The primary driver of margin expansion was the inherent operating leverage from higher low double-digit service growth. Early gains from new operational excellence initiatives (including mix optimization, improved pricing analytics, and maturing of newly onboarded large customer contracts) also contributed. Management noted it is early in the operational excellence journey, but expects ongoing relentless focus to continue delivering incremental margin improvements over time.

Q: Where is TransCat gaining market share in the calibration services market, and how large is its current footprint relative to the total addressable market?

A: Market share gains are broad-based across customer types and competitors, with accelerated gains from competitors that have dialed back service and capital investment. The total North American outsourced calibration market is ~$1 billion out of a $3-$3.5 billion total market, and TransCat still holds a small single-digit percentage share of the total addressable market, leaving substantial room for future growth. Life sciences makes up 60% of the company's service revenue, a stable share as the company grows across all end markets.

Q: What areas is management currently investing in, and is the company still in an active investment phase to support future growth?

A: Yes, the company remains in a strategic investment phase to scale for long-term growth. Key investments include expanding the leadership team (most recently adding a dedicated M&A and strategy lead) across multiple levels of the organization to support scaling from $300 million to $500-$600 million in revenue, and investing in capacity to capture ongoing market share gains from competitors that have pulled back on investment.