Park-Ohio Holdings Corp. (PKOH) Q3 2025 Earnings Call

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Welcome to the Park Ohio Holdings Group Third Quarter 2025 Results Conference Call and Webcast. At this time, all participants are in listen-only mode. A question and answer session will follow the formal presentation. You may be placed into question queue at any time by pressing star 1 on your telephone keypad. If anyone should require operator assistance, please press star 0. As a reminder, this conference is being recorded. It's now my pleasure to turn the floor over to Chairman and CEO, Matt Crawford. Please go ahead, sir. Thank you, Kevin, and welcome to our third quarter call. Our third quarter was highlighted by our continued transformation into a leaner, more predictable business through the business cycle. While many end markets, particularly here in the U.S., where we derive a majority of our sales, showed mixed demand, we were able to demonstrate consistent operating profit and margin performance. While we do not anticipate a meaningful rebound in demand during the fourth quarter, we do expect to build on these initiatives as we move into 2026 and will also benefit from new business and strong backlogs. We use the word transformation here quite a bit, and I want to be more precise regarding what that means as we move towards 2026. Our transformation began several years ago as we challenged our capital allocation model and shed assets that were either underperforming, or we felt were ill-suited for a higher growth, higher margin, and less capital intense business. We then began to invest more urgently in those businesses which we have great opportunities for significant operating leverage and include clear competitive moats. While this model continued to support some level of acquisition, we were and are more focused on long-term competitive advantage, the ...