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Radiant Logistics Inc Q4 F2026 Earnings Call Transcript
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Bohn Crain, Radiant Logistics founder and CEO, and Radiant's Chief Financial Officer, Todd Macomber, will provide a general business update and discuss financial results for the company's fourth fiscal quarter and fiscal year ended June 30, 2026. Following their comments, we will open the call to questions. This conference is scheduled for 30 minutes. This conference call may include forward-looking statements within the meaning of the Securities Act of 1933 and the Securities Exchange Act of 1934. The company has based these forward-looking statements on its current expectations and projections about future events. These forward-looking statements are subject to known and unknown risks, uncertainties, and assumptions about the company that may cause the company's actual results or achievements to be materially different from the results or achievements expressed or implied by such forward-looking statements. While it is impossible to identify all the factors that may cause the company's actual results or achievements to differ materially from those set forth in our forward-looking statements, such factors include those that have in the past and may in the future be identified in the company's SEC filings and other public announcements which are available on the Radiant website at www.radiantdelivers.com. In addition, past results are not necessarily an indication of future performance. Now, I'd like to pass the call over to Radiance founder and CEO, Bohn Crain.
Bohn Crain
Founder and CEO, Radiant Logistics
Thank you. Good afternoon, everyone, and thank you for joining in on today's call. We are pleased to report another quarter of solid financial results, delivering $10.4 million in adjusted EBITDA for our fourth fiscal quarter into June 30, 2026. Our fourth fiscal quarter results were strong across the board, with revenues up 18.5%, adjusted gross profit up 10.6%, adjusted net income up 34.5%, adjusted EBITDA up 31.6%, and adjusted EBITDA margin expanding 240 basis points, all measured against the comparable prior year period. Our quarter-over-quarter improvement was driven principally by our US forwarding operations and contribution across the board from both our domestic and international service offerings, including notable strength in our international air freight operations. On the domestic side, Navigate is beginning to prove itself out as a catalyst for growth, providing customers with better visibility and tools to manage complex supply chains, with one of our enterprise customers now actively managing over 1,400 vendors using the platform. More broadly, capacity has continued to exit the North America truckload and intermodal markets through a combination of carrier attrition, tighter driver availability, and the normalization of a fleet that had expanded aggressively in prior years. Spot rates, tender rejections, and other cyclical indicators moved higher through the spring and carried into our fourth quarter. While these market trends are not fully reflected in our results for the June quarter, we view these developments as constructive for our domestic operations in general and our U.S. brokerage operations in particular. If these trends continue, we believe they support a broad-based and durable recovery for the domestic trade market. Also during the quarter, we extended our two-decade track record as one of the industry's premier freight forwarding agent networks into the truck brokerage and intermodal space with the launch of a new independent agent program at Radian Road and Rail. The program brings the same value proposition that has long distinguished our freight forwarding business, access to our carrier network, technology platform, back office infrastructure, and a clear structured path to build long-term equity value with a built-in action strategy to a new population of logistics entrepreneurs. We're pleased with the early response to the program and see this as a meaningful new avenue for organic growth as we bring the radiant model to an entirely new market. The international picture, while still shaped by a complex and evolving trade environment, showed encouraging signs of improvement during the fourth fiscal quarter. Global trade flows continue to be influenced by two significant forces. The first is the ongoing disruption to traditional ocean shipping routes stemming from the closure of the Strait of Hormuz and continued Houthi activity affecting Suez Canal transits, which have kept capacity tight across key international trade lanes. Despite all of the complications impacting the ocean markets, we saw an encouraging uptick in ocean freight rates late in the quarter as carriers exercise continued capacity discipline, an early signal that the prolonged downturn in ocean pricing may be starting to stabilize. The second is the ongoing transformation of the global tariff landscape, with U.S. trade policy sustaining a high degree of compliance complexity for shippers. This complexity, together with a period of elevated IEPA-related filing activity across the industry, has continued to drive demand for our customs brokerage expertise as customers rely on experienced partners to navigate the evolving tariff structure. More recently, escalating tariff action between the U.S. and Canada including new retaliatory measures Canada put into effect in early September had a further layer of complexity for shippers moving goods across our border. While it's early to gauge the full impact, we expect this cross-border dynamic to remain a source of demand for our customs, brokerage, and compliance capabilities and it may also create additional international air and ocean freight forwarding opportunities for our Canadian operations as shippers look to diversify away from cross-border trucking and rail. Notably, our air freight performance was up meaningfully during the quarter, driven in large part by our work in support of disaster relief following typhoon activity in the western Pacific earlier this year. We are entering this next phase of the cycle from a position of real financial strength. In August of 2026, we completed an amended and restated $200 million senior credit facility, extending its maturity to 2031, expanding our acquisition focus according to $100 million, and improving our pricing terms in the inter-fiscal 2027 with no net debt. That capacity, together with our long-term strategy for growing organically where our network gives us an advantage, and supplementing that growth through disciplined acquisitions positions us well to build on the encouraging, though still early, signs of a domestic freight recovery. With that, I'll turn it over to Todd Macomber, our CFO, to walk us through our detailed financial results, and then we'll open it up for Q&A.
Todd Macomber
Chief Financial Officer, Radiant Logistics
Thanks, Paul, and good afternoon, everyone. Today, we will be discussing the financial results, including adjusted net income and adjusted EBITDA. for the three and 12 months into June 30th, 2026. For the three months into June 30th, 2026, we reported net income attributable to Radiant Logistics of $7,517,000 on 261.4 million of revenues for 16 cents per basic and 15 cents per fully valued share. For the three months into June 30th, 2025, we reported net income attributable to Radiant Logistics of $4,907,000 on $220.6 million of revenue, or 10 cents per basic and fully-valued share. This represents an increase of approximately $2,610,000 of net income over the comparable prior year period, or 53.1%. For adjusted net income, we reported $7,373,000 for the three months ended June 30th, 2026 compared to adjusted net income of $5,487,000 for the three months ended June 30th, 2025. This represents an increase of approximately $1,886,000 or approximately 34.5%. For adjusted EBITDA, we reported $10,362,000 for the three months ended June 30th, 2026 compared to a just EBITDA of $7,886,000 for the three months ended June 30th, 2025. This represents an increase of approximately $2,472,000 or approximately 31.6. Moving along to the full year numbers, for the 12 months ended June 30th, 2026, we reported net income attributable to Radiant Logistics of $18,700,000. $186,000 on $934.4 million of revenues, or $0.40 per basic and $0.39 per fully diluted share. The 12-month end of June 30, 2025, we reported net income attributable to Radian Logistics at $17,291,000 on $902.7 million of revenues, or $0.37 per basic and $0.35 per fully diluted share. This represents an increase of approximately $1,495,000 over the comparable prior year period, or 8.7%. For adjusted net income, we reported $25,253,000 for the 12 months ended June 30th, 2026, compared to adjusted net income of $30,944,000 for the 12 months ended June 30th, 2025. for approximately $691,000 or approximately 18.4%. For adjusted EBITDA, we reported $36,684,000 for the 12 months ended June 30th, 2026, compared to adjusted EBITDA of $38,756,000 for the 12 months ended June 30th, 2025. This represents a decrease of approximately $2,072,000 are approximately 5.4%. With that, I will turn the call over to our moderator to facilitate any Q&A from our callers.
Operator
Conference Call Operator
Thank you. Ladies and gentlemen, the floor is now open for questions. If you wish to join the queue to ask a question at this time, please press star 1 on your telephone keypad. We do ask if listening on speakerphone today you pick up your handset while asking your question to provide optimal sound quality. Once again, please press star 1 on your telephone keypad at this time if you wish to join Q to ask a question. Please hold a moment while we poll for questions. And your first question today is coming from Ryan Myers from Lake Street Capital. Ryan, your line is live. Please go ahead.
Ryan Myers
Analyst, Lake Street Capital
Hey, guys. Thanks for taking my questions. You guys noted in the prepared remarks that you've seen some improving metrics that were not fully reflected in the June quarter results. Maybe can you talk about what you've seen since quarter end and when you would think some trends will begin to show up more meaningfully in the financials?
Bohn Crain
Founder and CEO, Radiant Logistics
Sure. Those comments were pointed directly at what we're seeing in the over-the-road truck brokerage and kind of related intermodal moves. So as capacities continue to come out of the market and field prices have gone higher, it's created, you know, incremental opportunities for a brokerage opportunity and it's also created an environment where more and more shippers are looking to mode shift back to intermodal. And so both of those segments of the business in particular are kind of enjoying this current market environment. And, you know, I think it's going to continue for some time based upon everything that we see. So this kind of market pivot or evolution, you know, really didn't start happening until, you know, late May, early June. So we really in my mind kind of only have one month of the good news of What's Happening at Road and Rail in our fiscal year-end results, but we expect, you know, that to kind of continue to manifest here into our, I guess, what will be our quarter into September and then on into subsequent quarters, you know, depending how the market continues to evolve.
Ryan Myers
Analyst, Lake Street Capital
Okay, got it. No, that's helpful. And then just thinking with fuel and energy prices are obviously kind of top of mind here you know is there there's just sort of a minus the risk between you know higher transportation costs and your guys's ability to be able to kind of pass those through to customers and just kind of what what you're seeing there and how we should think about the potential impact there you know generally speaking fuel is a as a pass-through there may be mana you know modest lags between you know
Bohn Crain
Founder and CEO, Radiant Logistics
Thank you for taking my questions. You bet. Thank you.
Operator
Conference Call Operator
Your next question is coming from Jason Seidel from TD Cowen. Jason, your line is live. Please go ahead.
Elliot Alper
Analyst, TD Cowen
Yeah, thank you. This is Elliot Alper. I'm for Jason. Nice results in the quarter. Yeah, you discussed some of these major shifts playing out in the market right now. Curious if we could get a bit more perspective on like how structural some of these shifts are or maybe how we should think about forwarding in the back half of the year. You've historically had some helpful commentary on China bookings and outlook there. And then maybe along those same lines, interesting comment on the cross-border opportunities with Canada. I appreciate any more context around kind of what you're seeing and how that could play out.
Bohn Crain
Founder and CEO, Radiant Logistics
No. So, thanks for your question. So, you know, we have a very broad, diversified platform between our domestic and international forwarding and our over-the-road brokerage and contract logistics capabilities and customs brokerage and the new technology. I'm not sure if normal is the right word, but thinking of the portfolio effect, I would say we're operating in an environment right now where Most all of our businesses are actually kind of heading up and to the right, which is encouraging. Now, who knows based upon trade policy and this evening's tweets and what's going to happen in the Middle East, you know, how some of these things change over time. But I think the general market sentiment at least with respect to the domestic freight market. It's seeming like it's setting up to be a fairly durable, longer run, if you will. And I guess, anecdotally, I would say, or do, because we've been in an extended software market for a number of years, and so it would be kind of It's nice to see things getting back to something that feels more normal. International is just much harder to conclude on other than to say the steamship lines are doing a better and better job of managing capacity and doing blank sailings to try to constrain the market and support price on ocean freight which ultimately is is helpful from a freight standpoint. And then I think there's also an adjacent catalyst with that there's so much business going on in and around the data centers and the capital moving towards data centers that that's drawing on capacity and and kind of tightening capacity broadly, including international air freight. So I think there's a lot of kind of underlying trends that kind of set up for a longer, more durable, positive freight environment. You know, certainly on the domestic side, but you don't have to, leading too far to see it also setting up positively on the international side of things as well.
Elliot Alper
Analyst, TD Cowen
Very helpful. And maybe just staying on that air freight side of the business, I mean, we've heard some commentary about full forward. I'm curious if you have any comments on that. And then you guys called out some of the disaster relief business that fell in the quarter. Any way to size that up just to think about maybe the back half of the calendar year?
Bohn Crain
Founder and CEO, Radiant Logistics
I guess I'll we don't want to get into too much detail on it candidly for competitive reasons but it was it certainly was meaningful on the air freight side but even without it we still would have been up year over year so it wasn't the It didn't tip the results, but it certainly kind of contributed to the improvement on the disaster relief as it relates to the broader international air freight and what's going on. You know, ocean has been the more challenging mode, you know, up until recently, and the more, you know, traditionally, kind of West Coast imports drive the market in terms of demand and pricing. And that kind of demand or call on capacity has softened more recently because of trades and tariffs and some of those things. But that seems to be beginning to behave a little more like we would expect. And so time will tell, but Again, I think we seem to be finding our way back to more normal footing in terms of the broader marketplace.
Elliot Alper
Analyst, TD Cowen
Right. Okay. And then maybe just on the Navigate side, nice to see some of that adoption you called out with customers on your platform, I guess. Is this something that's being priced into customer agreements now, or can you speak to maybe how in the future? You know, you guys think about pricing this offering at a high level or any way to frame up maybe the margin opportunity. I'm maybe looking out here too.
Bohn Crain
Founder and CEO, Radiant Logistics
Yeah, I'm not sure I'll do it quite that way, but let me try to be as responsive to your question as I can. And that is, we want to meet our customers where they want to be met. And what I mean by that is some customers might say, you know, We love the solution. We want you to effectively embed that cost in our cost of transportation. We might have other customers that say we want to be effectively billed for the technology separately. So, in some cases, the tech might effectively map into our value-added services. In other cases, and more often the case, it's embedded as part of our transportation margin. more broadly. So, I think of it as making, you know, of us basically providing a higher value solution to our customers making our customers. I don't necessarily think of it as more margin. I think of it as winning more customers, making our customers stickier and, you know, hopefully really Navigate really representing a catalyst for growth that hasn't been a part of Radiant's historical narrative. I think we have a value proposition that's relatively unique to the marketplace and certainly new to Radiant and our ability to support larger customers with more complex supply chain, helping them manage their vendors, and then those vendors representing warm leads to turn those vendors into incremental customers themselves is a really interesting intersection that we find ourselves at. Very helpful.
Elliot Alper
Analyst, TD Cowen
Thank you, Bob.
Operator
Conference Call Operator
Thank you. And as a reminder, if you wish to join the queue to ask a question, you may press star 1 on your telephone keypad at this time. And our next question is coming from Jeff Kaufman from Citizens Bank. Jeff, your line is live. Please go ahead. Thank you very much.
Jeff Kaufman
Analyst, Citizens Bank
Well, first of all, congratulations on a real solid quarter. It was terrific to see. Just a couple questions. So, How should we be thinking about revenue growth rate as we head into 2027? And the reason I ask is, you know, with tariffs and seasonality, it's jumping all over the place, but we were kind of at a flat revenue growth rate on the year-to-date through the third quarter and then up almost 19% in the fourth quarter. You did call out a lot of typhoon-related activity, which has been a little more than normal this year, even though typhoons do occur every year. but just in terms of thinking about the right way to think about kind of where the business is growing as we head into 27 is we really shouldn't take that 19% growth rate and kind of straight line that out. How should we be thinking about that?
Bohn Crain
Founder and CEO, Radiant Logistics
Well, we like to under-promise and over-deliver, Jeff, so keep that modeling relatively modest and we'll continue to to outperform. It'll be interesting to tell. Well, I guess first, I would reframe it just a little bit because, as you know, we like to think about growth in our gross margin dollars rather than absolute growth in our top-line revenue. And that does a couple of things relative to the question you're asking, which it kind of neutralizes fuel and what's happening in fuel because As we talked about earlier with some of this Q&A, kind of what's happening in fuel can also drive those numbers with really not much of a net gross margin impact because fuel is a pass-through. So I'm still not going to give you a very crisp answer, but I would kind of move you down the income statement a little further to the gross margin line items and top line revenue to help field that question.
Jeff Kaufman
Analyst, Citizens Bank
Yeah, no, you called out the typhoons as a driver of revenue growth on the international side. So I was just trying to figure out kind of what's the right way to think about growth for your business right now.
Todd Macomber
Chief Financial Officer, Radiant Logistics
I can speak a little bit to that. I mean, if you look at Q4, our organic was up about 8%, and we are seeing things improve overall in the market. I think it's going to uptick from that. Bohn mentioned We were seeing things late, you know, the latter part of the quarter that trends into, you know, segues right into Q1. You know, so, you know, it's, you know, things are looking good. Let's put it that way. We can't give you an exact number or anything, but it's definitely a stronger trend than what we've been seeing in the past.
Jeff Kaufman
Analyst, Citizens Bank
Okay. And then, Todd, while I got you, you know, fourth quarter tax rate is always a little wonky. Right, because that's kind of the catch-up and neutralizer from here. But in your pro forma to get to the adjusted, you were using a 24.5% rate. The actual rate was a little closer to 4% this quarter. And I know four quarters are always a little bit wonky, but what was the primary driver of the difference?
Todd Macomber
Chief Financial Officer, Radiant Logistics
Yeah, that was the one big beautiful bell where it allowed us, beginning in January, and we really kind of captured that in the Q4, to take items that were previously capitalized as far as internal software. And so, basically, that was a true-up that occurred with the, you know, when we go through the provision of a quarterly thing, it's estimated, of course. You know, we're using the projections, then when we get to the year-end, we do the actual, you know, the entire thing. We go through a deeper dive. But that was the driver. It was basically taking previously capitalized expenses that we were allowed to include in the tax returns. So it was basically lower in the Q4 purely for that reason.
Jeff Kaufman
Analyst, Citizens Bank
Okay. And then a broader picture, you know, Bob, you talked a little bit about what's going on in U.S. domestic brokerage. You know, Montgomery's sending a lot of shockwaves through the brokerage industry in terms of responsible selection and everything. One of the traditional brokers is kind of rethinking their selection process. What does Montgomery mean for you guys? You know, are you potentially exposed for brokerage operations? Are you buying brokerage capacity from other people so it's not really such an issue to you? But, you know, kind of how is all the consternation in brokerage impacting what you do? And I understand you're a domestic forwarder, so it's not as relevant, but I was just wondering if you could touch on that.
Bohn Crain
Founder and CEO, Radiant Logistics
Yeah, sure. Well, so, you know, I think ultimately everybody's got to be mindful. For me, I think it's, you know, you need to have a well-documented, defined carrier vetting process in place, and you darn well need to be following your defined program or process. And we... We have that in place. We had that in place before the ruling came out, but it certainly has kind of heightened everyone's, you know, awareness, you know, and kind of lost that state. But, you know, we are in, in my mind, as good of shape as we can be around the process and some of the software that we have in place that, you know, makes sure that kind of the counterparties that are on the other side of the transaction are vetted and have the appropriate safety ratings and the appropriate insurances and so on. We're not immune, so we're taking it very seriously.
Jeff Kaufman
Analyst, Citizens Bank
All right, and then last question. Congratulations on the success with Navigate. As we think about modeling Navigate as its importance grows, How do we think about bringing that into the P&L? Are Navigate margins a little better than average margins? Are they a little less? Does it result in some margin dilution? Does it result in margin accretion? Clearly, it's going to help drive revenue. But as Navigate becomes a more successful business for you, how should we think about that affecting the models?
Bohn Crain
Founder and CEO, Radiant Logistics
I At least in my own mind, I don't think about it in extra basis points and margin. I think that about it as extra basis points and growth rate.
Jeff Kaufman
Analyst, Citizens Bank
All right. So we should think about that primarily as a revenue driver. Yeah. Okay. Very good. Well, again, congratulations and thank you.
Operator
Conference Call Operator
Thanks, Jeff. Thank you. Our final question is coming from Mike Vermoot from Newland Capital. Mike, your line is live. Please go ahead. Hey, guys.
Mike Vermoot
Analyst, Newland Capital
How are you doing? Great. Great quarter and great release there. So a couple of quick ones for you on Navigate. I know it's the first time you really kind of discussed it a little more in depth. When you're saying enterprise customers, I assume that's one of the large anchor kind of customers. What do you think or what's our pipeline like in landing more of those enterprise customers? Because it seems like that's what gets you into the multiple vendors and it brings those vendors in to kind of it's a multiplier effect. So how does that look, you know, the pipeline for the enterprise customers? And expanding on that, when we look out two, three years, how does this accelerate the growth?
Bohn Crain
Founder and CEO, Radiant Logistics
Good question. I don't have a crisp answer for you on that. Time will tell. But I think one of the most interesting aspects of this, at least where we are right now, is back to this one particular example account, each of those vendors represents an opportunity to kind of transform into, you know, an enterprise-type customer themselves. And they're already on the system. They've got familiarity with the system. And, you know, we've, you know, it's not unusual for us to receive reverse inquiries from some of these vendors themselves, you know, trying to learn more about how they would internalize the solution for themselves and their own business with their own sets of vendors. So I think there's a real amplification opportunity for us, particularly as we get, you know, we back up just quickly for a second. When Navigate was selling itself, originally they were trying to unbundle the freight forwarding from the tech, sell the freight forwarding, keep the tech, become a freight tech company and go and kind of take the proceeds from the sell and go instantiate a sales organization and go become a freight tech company. But as we looked at the acquisition, looked at the opportunity, we saw kind of the value proposition. We weren't prepared to buy one without the other and we believe We have through our 100 plus operating locations on the forwarding side a virtual sales organization where we hope to activate current and prospective customers onto the Navigate platform in a way that can really be a catalyst for incremental growth. So I'm sorry I can't better quantify it, but
Mike Vermoot
Analyst, Newland Capital
You get the thematic opportunity that we're pursuing. So it's an accelerant, really, over the next few years, and it could be significant, it seems. Yes. Okay. And markets. So how much are we doing data center related? I know there's so many markets, construction-wide, server-wide, all of that. Is that really driving a lot of business for us or not much?
Bohn Crain
Founder and CEO, Radiant Logistics
I wouldn't say it's a driver, but we certainly have exposure to it and we have a handful of long-term customers that are in the space that we're supporting and benefiting from and we have you know a handful of incremental new customers that have come to us that we're supporting in the data center space so I would say we have exposure but it's not you know a big enough piece of our pie chart today to be driving the financial performance of the business.
Mike Vermoot
Analyst, Newland Capital
Okay and then and surprisingly nobody touched on the acquisition market and you know it looks like our Organic growth over the next few years is looking great. I don't think we've ever been in a position like this.
Bohn Crain
Founder and CEO, Radiant Logistics
I'm glad you asked. I was trying to figure out how I was going to answer the question that wasn't asked because it's a very interesting market right now. I think it's a byproduct of the The pre-recession that we're coming out of, there are, you know, several years worth of potential sellers that are coming to the marketplace. So, you know, I can't remember a time where there were more sims flying around and, you know, people looking to transact. So, you know, we expect to remain very disciplined in our approach. But when I say that, We also hope and aspire to be acquisitive. We've always been good allocators of capital. We've got a lot of dry powder and an unlevered balance sheet. We're looking for opportunities and ways that make sense to put that capital to work. There's quite a bit of EBITDA growth that we can deliver against within our existing capital structure. I think it's one of the somewhat missed aspects of the radiant opportunity is our unlevered balance sheet. And if you overlay some basket of acquisitions and kind of model out the pro forma effect of that, you know, again, you don't have to get, you don't have to look at it too aggressively to see a path to, you know, practically double our EBITDA within our existing capital structure.
Mike Vermoot
Analyst, Newland Capital
Yeah, look, I also think it's probably difficult. You know, you've done an amazing job on the acquisitions, with the earnouts, to find much that's as cheap as we are, you know, with our quality. So... I assume that's part of the problem, right, is that we're still not being rewarded for what you've done over the past, you know, three, four, five years. Hopefully one day our multiple will get there and, you know, we can use multiple sources of capital.
Bohn Crain
Founder and CEO, Radiant Logistics
Great.
Mike Vermoot
Analyst, Newland Capital
But, yeah. Excellent job, guys.
Operator
Conference Call Operator
Thank you. Thank you. This does conclude today's question and answer session. I would now like to pass the floor back to management for closing remarks.
Bohn Crain
Founder and CEO, Radiant Logistics
Thank you. Let me close by saying that we remain optimistic about our prospects and opportunities to continue to leverage our best-in-class technology, robust North American footprint, and extensive global network of service partners to continue to build on the great platform we've created here at Radium. At the same time, we intend to thoughtfully relever our balance sheet through a combination of agent station conversions, synergistic tuck-in acquisitions, and, when appropriate, stock buybacks. Through our multi-pronged approach, we believe we will continue to create meaningful value for our shareholders, operating partners, and the end customers that we serve. Thanks for listening and your support of Radiant Logistics.
Operator
Conference Call Operator
Thank you. You may disconnect at this time and have a wonderful day.
Mike Vermoot
Analyst, Newland Capital
Thank you once again for your participation.