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Investor releaseQuarter not tagged2026-08-13ADI Global Distribution Inc. Common Stock Q2 Earnings Call Highlights
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ADI Global Distribution Inc. Common Stock Q2 Earnings Call Highlights
Interested in ADI Global Distribution Inc. Common Stock? Here are five stocks we like better. Record Q2 revenue: ADI reported revenue of $1.29 billion, up 1% year over year, as resilient commercial demand in datacom, commercial security and Pro AV offset continued weakness in residential audiovisual markets. Profitability and savings: Adjusted EBITDA fell to $86 million from $95 million, despite a 50-basis-point gross-margin increase to 22.7% that benefited from roughly $20 million in tariff refunds. ADI expects about $30 million in gross savings during 2026 and is targeting at least $80 million in annualized savings by the end of 2027. 2026 outlook and leverage: ADI initiated full-year guidance for $4.95 billion-$5.0 billion in revenue and $275 million-$295 million in standalone adjusted EBITDA. With roughly $850 million in net debt and 3.0 times leverage after its spin-off, the company plans to prioritize debt reduction toward approximately 2.0 times leverage. ADI Global Distribution Inc. Common Stock (NYSE:ADIG) reported record second-quarter revenue as commercial demand remained resilient, helping offset continued weakness in residential audiovisual markets. The company also initiated its full-year 2026 outlook following its August spin-off from Resideo. Chief Executive Officer Rob Aarnes said the quarter marked ADI's first earnings call as a standalone public company. The distributor, which serves professional installers and integrators across security, fire and life safety, residential AV, Pro AV and Datacom, began trading on the New York Stock Exchange on Aug. 4. → AST SpaceMobile Earnings Just Reminded Investors How Risky Space Can Be ADI generated second-quarter revenue of $1.29 billion, up 1% year over year, while average daily sales rose 2% despite one fewer selling day. Results were presented on a carve-out basis because ADI operated within Resideo during the quarter before the Aug. 3 spin-off. Aarnes said approximately 70% of ADI's 2025 revenue came from commercial end markets, where demand is supported by retrofit, replacement and technology upgrade activity in addition to new construction. He said commercial demand remained resilient during the quarter. Datacom revenue rose in the low teens. Commercial security increased in the mid-single digits. Pro AV grew in the low single digits. Residential audiovisual remained weak amid a soft U.S. housi…Read full documentShow less
Interested in ADI Global Distribution Inc. Common Stock? Here are five stocks we like better. Record Q2 revenue: ADI reported revenue of $1.29 billion, up 1% year over year, as resilient commercial demand in datacom, commercial security and Pro AV offset continued weakness in residential audiovisual markets. Profitability and savings: Adjusted EBITDA fell to $86 million from $95 million, despite a 50-basis-point gross-margin increase to 22.7% that benefited from roughly $20 million in tariff refunds. ADI expects about $30 million in gross savings during 2026 and is targeting at least $80 million in annualized savings by the end of 2027. 2026 outlook and leverage: ADI initiated full-year guidance for $4.95 billion-$5.0 billion in revenue and $275 million-$295 million in standalone adjusted EBITDA. With roughly $850 million in net debt and 3.0 times leverage after its spin-off, the company plans to prioritize debt reduction toward approximately 2.0 times leverage. ADI Global Distribution Inc. Common Stock (NYSE:ADIG) reported record second-quarter revenue as commercial demand remained resilient, helping offset continued weakness in residential audiovisual markets. The company also initiated its full-year 2026 outlook following its August spin-off from Resideo. Chief Executive Officer Rob Aarnes said the quarter marked ADI's first earnings call as a standalone public company. The distributor, which serves professional installers and integrators across security, fire and life safety, residential AV, Pro AV and Datacom, began trading on the New York Stock Exchange on Aug. 4. → AST SpaceMobile Earnings Just Reminded Investors How Risky Space Can Be ADI generated second-quarter revenue of $1.29 billion, up 1% year over year, while average daily sales rose 2% despite one fewer selling day. Results were presented on a carve-out basis because ADI operated within Resideo during the quarter before the Aug. 3 spin-off. Aarnes said approximately 70% of ADI's 2025 revenue came from commercial end markets, where demand is supported by retrofit, replacement and technology upgrade activity in addition to new construction. He said commercial demand remained resilient during the quarter. Datacom revenue rose in the low teens. Commercial security increased in the mid-single digits. Pro AV grew in the low single digits. Residential audiovisual remained weak amid a soft U.S. housing environment. → Nebius’ Q2 Beat Shows the AI Bottleneck Is Capacity, Not Demand “We have yet to see signs of meaningful recovery” in residential AV, Aarnes said. However, he said ADI is continuing to invest in its portfolio and new products to position the business for an eventual housing-market recovery. During the question-and-answer session, Aarnes said commercial security had returned to mid-single-digit growth and that the company had recovered most of the share it believes it lost during last year's enterprise resource planning, or ERP, system disruption. He cited demand trends in video surveillance, access control, fire and life safety, as well as the company's backlog and daily sales trends, as supporting confidence in the second half. → On Holding's Price Stumble May Be an Opening for a Company Built to Run Gross profit increased $9 million from the prior-year period to $292 million, while gross margin expanded 50 basis points to 22.7%. Chief Financial Officer Mike Carlet said the quarter included about $20 million in tariff-related refunds from the U.S. government recorded in cost of goods, benefiting gross margin by approximately 160 basis points. Excluding the refund effect, Carlet said gross margin faced pressure from a difficult comparison with prior-year tariff-related pricing actions, higher freight, fuel and tariff-related product costs, and business mix. Exclusive brands revenue, which is concentrated in the challenged residential market, declined nearly 3% year over year. Adjusted EBITDA was $86 million, or 6.7% of revenue, compared with $95 million, or 7.4% of revenue, a year earlier. Selling, general and administrative expense rose $16 million to $206 million, largely reflecting merit and inflation-related employee costs, temporary rent costs from overlapping facilities, and higher allocated Resideo corporate expenses. ADI reported net income of $6 million, compared with a net loss of $283 million in the second quarter of 2025. The prior-year period included $331 million of expense associated with the Honeywell indemnification agreement that was allocated to ADI. Management said its One ADI initiative is intended to simplify operations and improve the customer experience through the company's fully implemented ERP platform and enterprise data capabilities. The initiative includes consolidating systems and websites, standardizing processes, optimizing pricing, and modernizing distribution and store operations. ADI expects approximately $30 million of gross savings in 2026 from organizational alignment, Snap One integration synergies, and optimization of its store, distribution and technology footprint. Most of the benefit is expected in the second half, according to Carlet. Actions taken to date are expected to generate about $60 million of annualized gross savings, and the company continues to target at least $80 million in annualized gross savings by the end of 2027. Aarnes said exclusive brands represented roughly 18% of 2025 revenue and carry a meaningfully higher margin profile. While a majority of the approximately $800 million exclusive-brands business is tied to residential AV, ADI plans to increase attachment of those products across its legacy customer base and expand selected offerings into commercial applications. Management also discussed a transition away from a significant supplier that it said no longer meets market needs. Carlet said the change is expected to create about $6 million of second-half gross-margin headwinds, split roughly evenly between one-time inventory-transition costs and lower margins on alternative products. He said ADI has already completed most of the transition and does not expect a material revenue impact. ADI expects second-half revenue growth in the mid-single digits, with average daily sales growth about two percentage points higher because of four fewer selling days. The outlook assumes continued commercial-category strength and does not assume a recovery in residential AV. The company said it expects second-half gross-margin rates to be consistent with first-half levels excluding the second-quarter tariff rebates. At the midpoint of guidance, standalone adjusted EBITDA is expected to rise modestly year over year in the second half, supported by stronger revenue growth and slightly lower operating expenses, partially offset by gross-margin pressure. For full-year 2026, ADI projected: Revenue of $4.95 billion to $5.0 billion. Pro forma standalone adjusted EBITDA of $275 million to $295 million. Net cash used in operating activities was $76 million during the first half, compared with $32 million of cash provided a year earlier. Carlet attributed the change primarily to working-capital use, including supplier-payment timing and higher inventory levels, along with annual cash payments concentrated in the first half. He said operating cash flow is expected to improve in the second half. Following the spin-off, ADI had approximately $1 billion of long-term debt and about $150 million of cash, resulting in net debt of roughly $850 million and net leverage of approximately 3.0 times adjusted EBITDA. Including its undrawn $500 million revolving credit facility, the company said it began as an independent company with $650 million of liquidity. ADI's near-term capital allocation priority is reducing leverage toward its long-term target of about 2.0 times total net leverage, while retaining flexibility for organic investments and potential tuck-in acquisitions. ADI Global Distribution, Inc is a wholesale distributor serving the security, low-voltage, and smart-building technology markets. The company supplies products from multiple manufacturers to professional installers, systems integrators, contractors, and other channel partners rather than selling primarily to consumers. Its product categories include video surveillance equipment, access-control systems, intrusion and fire-alarm products, networking and data-communications equipment, audio-visual solutions, smart-home technologies, and related wire, cable, and installation accessories. This instant news alert was generated by narrative science technology and financial data from MarketBeat in order to provide readers with the fastest reporting and unbiased coverage. Please send any questions or comments about this story to [email protected]. The article "ADI Global Distribution Inc. Common Stock Q2 Earnings Call Highlights" was originally published by MarketBeat. View MarketBeat's top stocks for August 2026.
Investor releaseQuarter not tagged2026-08-13ADI Announces Second Quarter 2026 Financial Results
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ADI Announces Second Quarter 2026 Financial Results
Completed spin-off from Resideo; commenced trading on the NYSE on August 4, 2026. Record net revenue of $1,286 million; Commercial security growth returns to mid-single digits Average daily sales growth of 2% year-over-year Gross margin of 22.7%; up 50 basis points year-over-year Net income of $6 million, compared to net loss of $283 million in the second quarter of 2025; Adjusted EBITDA of $86 million, or 6.7% of net revenue, compared to $95 million or 7.4% of net revenue in the second quarter of 2025 Initiates ADI's standalone 2026 outlook MELVILLE, N.Y., August 13, 2026--(BUSINESS WIRE)--ADI Global Distribution Inc. ("ADI") (NYSE: ADIG), a leading global specialty distributor of low-voltage products, today announced financial results for its second quarter 2026 ended July 4, 2026. ADI operated as part of Resideo Technologies, Inc. ("Resideo") for the entire second quarter of 2026 and prior to the spin-off on August 3, 2026, and the historical financial information presented in this release was derived from Resideo’s accounting records and is presented on a carve-out accounting basis. ADI second quarter 2026 net revenue was a record $1,286 million, up 1% year-over-year, and reflects average daily sales growth of 2% year-over-year and one fewer sales day in the current quarter. Net revenue growth was driven by the security, professional audio-visual, and data communications categories, partially offset by the residential audio-visual category due primarily to a continued soft U.S. residential housing market. Gross margin was 22.7% in second quarter 2026, compared to 22.2% in second quarter 2025 and was favorably impacted by the receipt of tariff refunds of approximately $20 million, partially offset by unfavorable price and mix shift and higher fuel costs for freight. Research and development expenses increased $2 million due primarily to investments supporting new product launches that are intended to drive future growth. Selling, general and administrative expenses were up $16 million to $206 million driven primarily by higher employee and facility costs. Income from operations of $25 million in second quarter 2026 decreased 56% from $57 million in second quarter 2025. Adjusted EBITDA decreased 9% to $86 million in second quarter 2026 compared to $95 million in second quarter 2025. Management Remarks "Our second quarter results, which included record quar…Read full documentShow less
Completed spin-off from Resideo; commenced trading on the NYSE on August 4, 2026. Record net revenue of $1,286 million; Commercial security growth returns to mid-single digits Average daily sales growth of 2% year-over-year Gross margin of 22.7%; up 50 basis points year-over-year Net income of $6 million, compared to net loss of $283 million in the second quarter of 2025; Adjusted EBITDA of $86 million, or 6.7% of net revenue, compared to $95 million or 7.4% of net revenue in the second quarter of 2025 Initiates ADI's standalone 2026 outlook MELVILLE, N.Y., August 13, 2026--(BUSINESS WIRE)--ADI Global Distribution Inc. ("ADI") (NYSE: ADIG), a leading global specialty distributor of low-voltage products, today announced financial results for its second quarter 2026 ended July 4, 2026. ADI operated as part of Resideo Technologies, Inc. ("Resideo") for the entire second quarter of 2026 and prior to the spin-off on August 3, 2026, and the historical financial information presented in this release was derived from Resideo’s accounting records and is presented on a carve-out accounting basis. ADI second quarter 2026 net revenue was a record $1,286 million, up 1% year-over-year, and reflects average daily sales growth of 2% year-over-year and one fewer sales day in the current quarter. Net revenue growth was driven by the security, professional audio-visual, and data communications categories, partially offset by the residential audio-visual category due primarily to a continued soft U.S. residential housing market. Gross margin was 22.7% in second quarter 2026, compared to 22.2% in second quarter 2025 and was favorably impacted by the receipt of tariff refunds of approximately $20 million, partially offset by unfavorable price and mix shift and higher fuel costs for freight. Research and development expenses increased $2 million due primarily to investments supporting new product launches that are intended to drive future growth. Selling, general and administrative expenses were up $16 million to $206 million driven primarily by higher employee and facility costs. Income from operations of $25 million in second quarter 2026 decreased 56% from $57 million in second quarter 2025. Adjusted EBITDA decreased 9% to $86 million in second quarter 2026 compared to $95 million in second quarter 2025. Management Remarks "Our second quarter results, which included record quarterly revenue, reflect the strength of our business and our team's continued execution in a dynamic operating environment," said Rob Aarnes, ADI's President and CEO. "As we begin our next chapter as an independent public company, we are operating from a position of strength and focused on converting our recent investments into greater operating efficiency, expanding profitability and increased cash generation. With leading market positions, a differentiated omnichannel model and multiple avenues for above-market growth, we believe ADI is well positioned for the opportunities ahead." Balance Sheet and Capital Allocation Upon completion of the Spin-Off, ADI's liquidity consists of approximately $150 million of cash and a $500 million undrawn revolving credit facility. ADI expects to generate consistent cash flow, benefiting from its capital-efficient business model. The company intends to use its cash flow to reduce leverage over time while maintaining the financial flexibility to invest in organic growth and pursue value-accretive tuck-in acquisitions. Outlook The Company is initiating its 2026 standalone outlook for the second half and full year, as follows. Conference Call and Webcast Details ADI will hold a conference call with investors on August 13, 2026, at 8:30 a.m. ET. The webcast can be accessed at https://investor.adiglobal.com, where the webcast link and related materials will be posted before the call. A replay of the webcast will be available following the presentation. About ADI ADI is a global specialty distributor of professionally installed low-voltage products serving commercial and residential markets through an omnichannel go-to-market platform. Within North America, ADI is a market-leading distributor in the professionally installed security, fire/life safety and residential audio-visual product categories. We offer over 500,000 products from more than 1,000 suppliers across key specialty low-voltage categories with strong proximity to our customers with a large network of store locations. Forward-Looking Statements This press release and the related conference call contain "forward-looking statements." All statements, other than statements of fact, that address activities, events or developments that we or our management intend, expect, project, believe or anticipate will or may occur in the future are forward-looking statements. Although we believe forward-looking statements are based upon reasonable assumptions, such statements involve known and unknown risks and uncertainties, which may cause the actual results or performance of ADI to differ materially from such forward-looking statements. Such risks and uncertainties include, but are not limited to, (1) our ability to achieve our outlook regarding the second half of 2026 and full year 2026, cash flow expectations and proposed use of cash, and goal to reduce leverage (2) our ability to recognize the expected savings from, and the timing and impact of, our existing and anticipated cost reduction actions, and our ability to optimize our portfolio and operational footprint, (3) the amount of our obligations and nature of our contractual restrictions pursuant to, and disputes that have or may hereafter arise under the agreements we entered into with Resideo in connection with the spin-off of ADI from Resideo, (4) the ability of ADI to drive increased customer value, profitability, cash generation, and financial returns and enhance strategic and operational capabilities, (5) risks and uncertainties relating to tariffs that have been or may be imposed by the United States and other governments, (6) risks related to our completed separation from Resideo and that we may experience operational or other disruptions as a result of the separation, and (7) the other risks described under the headings "Risk Factors" and "Cautionary Statement Concerning Forward-Looking Statements" in our Registration Statement on Form 10, as amended, and other periodic filings we make from time to time with the Securities and Exchange Commission. Forward-looking statements are not guarantees of future performance, and actual results, developments, and business decisions may differ from those envisaged by our forward-looking statements. Except as required by law, we undertake no obligation to update such statements to reflect events or circumstances arising after the date of this press release and we caution investors not to place undue reliance on any such forward-looking statements. Non-GAAP Financial Measures This press release includes certain "non-GAAP financial measures" as defined under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934. Management believes the use of such non-GAAP financial measures assists investors in understanding the ongoing operating performance of ADI by presenting financial results between periods on a more comparable basis. Such non-GAAP financial measures should not be construed as an alternative to reported results determined in accordance with U.S. GAAP. Readers should also consider the limitations associated with these non-GAAP financial measures, including the potential lack of comparability of these measures from one company to another. The Company uses non-GAAP financial measures to supplement the financial measures prepared in accordance with U.S. GAAP. These include Adjusted EBITDA, Adjusted EBITDA Margin, Adjusted Standalone EBITDA (estimate) and Adjusted Standalone EBITDA margin (estimate). Below are definitions and reconciliations of certain non-GAAP financial measures to the most directly comparable financial measures calculated and presented in accordance with U.S. GAAP. Management believes that, when considered together with reported amounts, these measures are useful to investors and management in understanding our ongoing operations and in the analysis of ongoing operating trends. Management believes these non-GAAP financial measures provide investors with a meaningful measure of its performance period to period, align the measures to how management evaluates performance internally, and make it easier for investors to compare our performance to peers. These measures should be considered in addition to, and not as replacements for, the most directly comparable U.S. GAAP measure. The Company defines Adjusted EBITDA as net income excluding income taxes, depreciation and amortization, interest income and expense, stock-based compensation expense, Indemnification Agreement expense, restructuring expense, transaction related expenses, and other expense and certain other items that are otherwise of an unusual or non-recurring nature (including but not limited to impairment charges, litigation and insurance settlements, and gains and losses on disposal of assets). The Company defines Adjusted EBITDA Margin as Adjusted EBITDA divided by Net revenue. The Company defines Adjusted Standalone EBITDA (estimate) as Adjusted EBITDA less estimated recurring and ongoing costs required to operate as a new independent public company. The Company defines Adjusted Standalone EBITDA Margin (estimate) as Adjusted Standalone EBITDA (estimate) divided by Net revenue. We believe these measures are useful to investors as they provide greater transparency with respect to supplemental information used by management in its financial and operational decision making, as well as understanding ongoing operating trends. A reconciliation of the forecasted range for Adjusted EBITDA and Adjusted Standalone EBITDA (estimate) for the second half of 2026 and for the full year 2026 are not included in this release due to the number of variables in the projected range and because we are currently unable to quantify accurately without unreasonable efforts certain amounts that would be required to be included in the U.S. GAAP measure or the individual adjustments for such reconciliation. In addition, we believe such reconciliation would imply a degree of precision that would be confusing or misleading to investors. View source version on businesswire.com: https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20260813590322/en/ Contacts Investors: Hunter BlankenbakerSenior Director of Investor [email protected] Media: Adrienne ZimoulisSenior Director of [email protected]
TranscriptFY2026 Q22026-08-13FY2026 Q2 earnings call transcript
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FY2026 Q2 earnings call transcript
Hello, everyone. Thank you for joining us, and welcome to the ADI Second Quarter 2026 Earnings Call. After today's prepared remarks, we will host a question and answer session. If you would like to ask a question, please press star one to raise your hand. To withdraw your question, please press star one again. I will now hand the conference over to Hunter Blankenbaker, Senior Director of Investor Relations. Hunter, please go ahead.
Okay, thank you, Hillary, and good morning, everyone. Thank you for joining us for ADI's Second Quarter 2026 Earnings Call. On the call today is Rob Aarnes, President and Chief Executive Officer, Mike Carlet, Chief Financial Officer, Allie Copeland, Chief Operating Officer, and Marco Cardazzi, Chief Merchandising Officer. Before reviewing the quarter, I'd like to draw your attention to the forward-looking statements we'll be making in today's presentation. Statements other than historical facts made during this presentation may constitute forward-looking statements and are not guarantees of future performance or results and involve a number of risks and uncertainties. Actual results may differ materially from those in the forward-looking statements as a result of a number of factors, including those described from time to time in ADI's filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission. Company assumes no obligation to update any such forward-looking statements.
We identify the principal risks and uncertainties that affect our performance in our registration statement on Form 10 as amended and other SEC filings. In addition, we will discuss non-GAAP financial measures in today's presentation. These non-GAAP financial measures, which can sometimes be identified by the use of "adjusted" in the description of the measure, should be considered in addition to, not as a substitute for or an isolation from, our GAAP results. The reconciliation of GAAP to non-GAAP financial measures is included as an appendix to this presentation, which is accessible on the investor relation page of our website at investor.adiglobal.com. Unless stated otherwise, all numbers and results discussed in today's presentation, other than revenue and gross profit, are on a non-GAAP basis. With that, I'll now turn the call over to Rob.
Thank you, Hunter, and good morning, everyone. Welcome to ADI's first earnings call as a standalone public company. Today marks the beginning of an important new chapter for ADI. At Investor Day in July, we shared our strategy, market opportunity, and long-term financial framework. On August 4th, we celebrated our first day of trading by ringing the opening bell at the New York Stock Exchange. We enter this next phase as an established, scaled business with category-leading positions, a differentiated omnichannel platform, and multiple avenues for above-market growth. As an independent company, we can move with greater speed and focus and allocate capital towards ADI's highest return opportunities. We believe this enables us to strengthen our leadership and create long-term value for shareholders. I want to thank our 4,100 team members around the world.
Their dedication to our customers and suppliers has built ADI into the company we are today and made this milestone possible. For more than 40 years, ADI has served professional installers and integrators who build the systems that make homes and businesses safer, smarter, and more connected. Our goal has always been simple, make ADI the easiest company to do business with and become our customers' indispensable partner of choice. We do that by listening to our customers, investing in the capabilities they tell us they need, and making the right products available where and when they need them. Before moving on to the results, I want to take a moment to thank Jay Geldmacher for his exceptional leadership and wish him well in retirement. I also want to thank Tom Surran and our colleagues from P&S for their partnership over the years.
We are grateful for everything we accomplished together and wish them continued success. Now on to our second quarter results and operating priorities. Mike will follow with a more detailed review of our financial performance and ADI's full year 2026 outlook. As a reminder, ADI operated under Resideo in the second quarter of 2026. So the results we will review today are presented on a carve-out basis. As you likely saw yesterday, Resideo reported ADI segment results. On that basis, ADI generated record quarterly revenue of $1.29 billion and segment adjusted EBITDA of $103 million, both exceeding the high end of the segment guidance ranges provided by Resideo on June 4th. Average daily sales increased 2%, while reported revenue increased 1% year-over-year, reflecting one fewer selling day and a difficult comparison against 10% organic growth in the prior year quarter. Overall, demand across our commercial markets remained resilient.
While residential audiovisual continued to reflect the soft U.S. housing environment. Approximately 70% of our 2025 revenue came from commercial end markets, where demand is driven largely by retrofit, replacement, and technology upgrades in addition to new construction. Growth was led by Datacom up in the low teens. Commercial security up in the mid-single digits and Pro AV up in the low single digits. Those gains were primarily offset by continued weakness in the residential audiovisual, where we have yet to see signs of meaningful recovery. That said, we are not standing still. We are strengthening the portfolio, investing in new products, and positioning ADI to capitalize when housing activity improves. Adjusted EBITDA on a carve-out basis was $86 million, up $30 million sequentially and down $9 million year-over-year. Adjusted EBITDA margin was 6.7%.
The year-over-year decline primarily reflected higher operating expenses, pressure from freight and tariff-related product costs, and business mix, partially offset by tariff refunds. I want to reinforce a few key points from Investor Day about the market opportunity and the capabilities that make ADI unique. Our core categories across security, fire and life safety, residential AV, Pro AV, and Datacom represent an addressable industry of approximately $65 billion in North America as of 2025. Our leadership in several of these key categories provides a strong foundation, and the market size and fragmentation create substantial room to expand. Our ability to capture that opportunity starts with the breadth of capabilities we bring to our customers. We help them design systems and select products, stage and kit orders, and coordinate inventory and logistics so the right products are where they need them, when they need them.
That end-to-end support helps customers keep projects moving, operate more efficiently, and has become an important driver of our share gains. That model begins with a deep understanding of how professional installers and integrators operate. We combine that specialized knowledge with local inventory, technical expertise, value-added services, and a scaled omnichannel platform. What sets ADI apart is how we bring these capabilities together at scale, tailor our model to how customers operate, and leverage an enterprise-scale supply chain. Our sales team is also a big part of what makes that model work. I am proud to say that Selling Power named ADI one of its 60 best companies to sell for in 2025 for the fifth consecutive year, reflecting the investments we continue to make in the people, tools, and training that help our team serve customers and drive growth.
Finally, another important growth pathway is exclusive brands, which represented approximately 18% of revenue in 2025 and carries a meaningfully higher margin profile. We have an opportunity to improve the trajectory by increasing exclusive brands attachment across our customer base. We are also expanding selected solutions into light commercial applications using better data and pricing capabilities to identify additional penetration opportunities. Combined with our product development capabilities, we believe these actions can drive a higher and more resilient exclusive brands mix over time. Together, these growth vectors support our long-term target framework of 4%-6% organic revenue growth. We believe we have a compelling strategy designed to translate that revenue growth into higher margins, stronger cash flow, and improve returns over the long term.
We have also been intensely focused on lowering our cost structure, capturing additional synergies from the Snap One integration, simplifying our footprint, and better aligning our operations. Three years ago, we kicked off a broad modernization of our technology stack to create a more efficient and scalable operating foundation. With the heavy lifting now largely behind us, we are bringing the next phase of that work together through One ADI, our company-wide roadmap to further enhance the customer experience and simplify how we operate. At the foundation of One ADI is the modern ERP platform we have now fully implemented, along with the enterprise data capabilities it enables. Together, they give us the visibility and operating backbone to consolidate systems and websites, standardize processes, optimize pricing, and modernize our distribution and store footprint while building the trusted data foundation to use AI more effectively across the business.
These initiatives support our expectation of delivering at least $80 million of annualized gross savings by the end of 2027. You will hear us talk about One ADI regularly, and we intend to keep you updated on our progress. At the same time, we will continue investing in the capabilities that drive long-term growth, including digital, our sales and technical teams, Pro AV, Datacom, and exclusive brands. As we execute against these priorities, we are equally focused on disciplined capital allocation. Our near-term focus is to reduce leverage and invest in organic opportunities. Over time, we will pursue disciplined tuck-in acquisitions where the strategic rationale, integration compatibility, synergies, and returns are clear.
Today, we are also initiating our full-year outlook for 2026, which reflects the current demand environment, cost actions underway, and investments supporting our long-term growth. We expect revenue growth to accelerate in the second half, with stronger average daily sales growth and improved standalone adjusted EBITDA margins compared with the first half, despite difficult gross margin rate comparisons to prior year. Mike will walk through the guidance ranges and the key assumptions in greater detail. In closing, we believe ADI is well-positioned for the opportunity ahead. Over the past two years, we completed the largest acquisition in ADI's history, modernized our technology platform, and prepared ADI to operate as an independent public company. Our focus now is converting those investments into a more efficient operating model, a lower cost structure, and stronger financial returns.
We've built a differentiated business that can continue to gain share in a significant market, and as an independent company, we can pursue that growth with even greater focus. With that, I'll turn the call over to Mike.
Thank you, Rob. Good morning, everyone. I'm excited to have joined ADI as CFO at this important point in the company's evolution, and I look forward to working with the team to continue its disciplined execution, capitalize on the opportunities ahead, and engage regularly with our investors and analysts. As we begin operating independently, our financial priorities are clear. Deliver above-market organic growth, expand adjusted EBITDA margins, increase cash generation, and reduce leverage while continuing to invest in ADI's highest return opportunities. Before reviewing the quarter and first-half results, I want to provide some context on the basis of presentation. ADI operated as part of Resideo throughout the second quarter before the spin-off was completed on August 3rd. Accordingly, the historical results I will discuss are presented on a carve-out basis, as described in our 10-Q, and include allocations of certain Resideo corporate expenses.
Those allocations may not reflect the expenses ADI would have occurred as a standalone public company. Beginning August 3rd, our results will reflect ADI as a standalone company, so the third quarter will include both carve-out and standalone results. Turning to our second quarter results, we continue to see resilient commercial demand while residential AV has remained softer than we anticipated. Underlying profitability continued to be affected by freight, tariff-related benefits and costs, and business mix. Net revenue was $1.29 billion, an increase of 1% from the prior year quarter. Average daily sales increased 2% year-over-year, reflecting one fewer selling day in the current quarter. Compared to the prior year, gross profit increased by $9 million to $292 million, and gross margin expanded 50 basis points to 22.7%.
The quarter included approximately $20 million of tariff-related refunds received from the U.S. government within cost of goods, which benefited gross margin by approximately 160 basis points. Excluding the impact of these refunds, the year-over-year decline in gross margin primarily reflected two factors. First, a more difficult comparison against the second quarter of 2025, when tariff-related pricing actions generated a temporary margin benefit. Second, higher freight, fuel, and tariff-related product costs in the current quarter. exclusive brands revenue, which today is currently focused in the challenged residential market, was down nearly 3% compared to the prior year, which limited the mix benefit from this higher margin part of the business.
As Rob discussed, we have several initiatives underway to work to improve that trajectory, including increasing attachment across our customer base, expanding selected solutions into commercial applications, and using better data and pricing capabilities to identify additional penetration opportunities. Now moving on to operating expenses. Selling, general, and administrative expenses were $206 million, up $16 million from the prior year. The increase primarily reflected merit and inflation-related employee costs, with headcount relatively flat, as well as temporary rent expense from overlapping facilities as we continue to consolidate and modernize our distribution footprint. Additionally, allocated Resideo corporate costs increased $5 million-$18 million from $13 million in the prior year period. As discussed at Investor Day, we expect approximately $30 million of gross savings in 2026 from organizational alignment, continued Snap One integration synergies, and optimization of our store, distribution, and technology footprint.
We expect most of the benefit to occur in the second half of 2026. The actions taken to date are expected to generate approximately $60 million of annualized gross savings, and we continue to expect at least $80 million of annualized gross savings by the end of 2027. These are gross savings, and the net benefit will be partially offset by continued investments in our digital and sales capabilities, including Pro AV and Datacom, as well as normal inflation and annual compensation increases. Adjusted EBITDA was $86 million, or 6.7% of net revenue, compared with $95 million, or 7.4% of net revenue in the prior year quarter. The year-over-year decline primarily reflected higher SG&A and R&D expense, which more than offset the increase in gross profit. Interest expense was $16 million, compared with $4 million in the prior year period.
The increase primarily reflected a higher allocation of Resideo interest expense following additional borrowings related to the termination of the Honeywell indemnification agreement. Please keep in mind that these are carve-out results, so this interest expense reflects Resideo's historical capital structure and does not reflect ADI's standalone capital structure following the spin-off. We reported income before taxes of $8 million and net income of $6 million. This compares with a pre-tax loss of $274 million and a net loss of $283 million in the second quarter of 2025. The prior year period included $331 million of expense associated with the Honeywell indemnification agreement that was allocated to ADI. Turning to cash flow, net cash used in operating activities was $76 million in the first half, compared with $32 million of cash provided in the prior year period.
The year-over-year change primarily reflected working capital use, including approximately $54 million from the timing of supplier payments and $30 million from higher inventory levels to support the business, as well as the timing of several annual cash payments concentrated in the first half. We expect operating cash flow to improve during the second half, supported by higher EBITDA and improved working capital performance. While cash flow can vary from quarter to quarter, we believe ADI has a consistent and sustainable cash generation model over the medium and long term. Capital expenditures were $26 million, compared with $21 million in the prior year period, consistent with the relatively capital-light nature of our business. Upon completion of the spin-off, ADI had approximately $1 billion of long-term debt and approximately $150 million of cash, resulting in net debt of approximately $850 million and net leverage of approximately 3.0x adjusted EBITDA.
Together with our undrawn $500 million revolving credit facility, we begin operating as an independent company with $650 million of liquidity. Our near-term capital allocation priority is to use our cash flow to reduce leverage toward our long-term target of approximately 2.0x total net leverage. At the same time, we intend to preserve the flexibility to invest in organic growth and pursue disciplined, value-accretive tuck-in acquisitions if and when attractive opportunities arise. Turning to our outlook, we are initiating full year 2026 guidance on a pro forma standalone basis. The third quarter will include one month of carve-out results and two months of standalone results, while the fourth quarter will be our first full quarter operating as an independent company. On revenue, we expect second half revenue growth in the mid-single digits, with average daily sales growth approximately two points higher than that, reflecting four fewer selling days.
The acceleration is supported by continued strength in our commercial categories, as well as more normalized comparisons following the ERP-related disruption in the prior year period. On gross margin, we expect year-over-year pressure to continue through the second half, driven primarily by three factors. First, a difficult comparison to the tariff-related pricing and inventory benefits realized in the prior year period. This benefit was more pronounced in the second and third quarters of 2025 and tapered off in the fourth quarter. Second, our outlook does not assume a residential AV recovery in the second half. With a greater portion of our revenue growth coming from commercial categories, business mix will also continue to impact margins. Third, we are transitioning away from a significant supplier that no longer meets the needs of the market.
We expect the transition to result in approximately $6 million of second half gross margin headwind compared to the prior year, including inventory-related costs and slightly lower margin from alternative products as we shift that business to different providers. Overall, we expect our margin rates in each quarter in the second half of 2026 to be consistent with our first half margin rates, excluding the impact of the tariff rebates received in Q2. On operating and costs, we expect the benefit of our cost actions to contribute more meaningfully in the second half. Despite normal merit and inflation, certain duplicate distribution center costs as previously mentioned, and moderate investments in our growth priorities, we expect the operating expense portion of adjusted EBITDA to decline slightly year over year during the second half.
Taken together, at the midpoint of our guidance, we expect second half standalone adjusted EBITDA to increase modestly year-over-year, supported by stronger revenue growth, slightly lower operating expenses, and partially offset by the year-over-year gross margin pressures I just discussed. Based on these assumptions, we expect full year 2026 revenue of $4.95 billion-$5.0 billion and pro forma standalone adjusted EBITDA of $275 million-$295 million. In summary, our second quarter results reflect record revenue, positive average daily sales growth, and continued resilience across our commercial categories. We remain focused on disciplined pricing, executing our cost reduction actions, and improving operational performance through our One ADI initiative. We begin this next phase with substantial liquidity, a clear path to reduced leverage, and the financial flexibility to invest in the business.
We remain focused on delivering against the commitments we outlined in Investor Day and creating long-term value for our shareholders. With that, I will turn the call back over to the operator to initiate the Q&A session. Operator?
We will now begin the question and answer session. Please limit yourself to one question and one follow-up. If you would like to ask a question, please press star one to raise your hand. To withdraw your question, please press star one again. We ask that you pick up your handset when asking a question to allow for optimum sound quality. If you are muted locally, please remember to unmute your device. Please stand by while we compile the Q&A roster. Your first question comes from the line of Ian Zaffino from Oppenheimer. Your line is now open. Please go ahead.
Hi, great. Thank you very much. Just wanted to go over the revenue guide and maybe to give us a sense of confidence in the guide and the excel in the back half of the year. Maybe you could help us understand some of the puts and takes there. Is high-end residential AV just now facing easier comps and that's helping? How much of it is the ERP system? Any other color you could give us there would be helpful as it relates to your confidence. Thanks.
Yeah, Ian. Hey, this is Rob. Great question. First thing I would tell you is that, if you go back to my remarks, I talked about the fact that commercial security, which is the lion's share of the business, top line anyway, has returned to mid-single digit growth. We've seen continued momentum since Q4 of last year into Q1, into Q2. We expect that momentum to carry forward. We look at things like our backlog. We look at things like our daily sales across video surveillance, access control, fire and life safety. I feel really good, and I know Allie does too, that the majority of the share we might have lost last year is actually now back with us, and we can continue to capitalize on that. You mentioned the ERP system. We just continue to mature in that.
It's given our sales teams a more efficient operating model. Those things give me a lot of confidence. There's the easier comparable also from last year, which I think we said $60 million was what we figured was the ERP impact last year, which was equated to maybe 2 or 3 points. You take into consideration the growth we're seeing in our commercial security categories, the continued strength we see in Datacom and Pro AV, combined with a bit of a softer comparable in the back half. That's what gives us confidence to be able to deliver that 6%-8% growth in the back half.
Okay. Thank you. Then maybe as a follow-up, I just wanted to ask about the exclusive brands and some of the supplier changes. Maybe help us understand, is this supplier change, what drove that? Are we going to see more of that? Is this a strategy to also grow exclusive brands? When you think about growth in exclusive brands, is that going to come from Snap One, or do you think we're going to see it elsewhere in the portfolio? Thanks.
Yeah. Great question. The two things are actually independent of each other. This was just a supplier we've had for a while that, again, just is not meeting the demands of the market. We made that decision in July to separate. Mike already talked about the margin dollar headwinds that we're going to get from that in the back half. It had nothing to do with exiting that supplier to replace that supplier's business with exclusive brands. Those two things were completely independent of each other. Look, on the exclusive brand side, we've hit this a few times, and I'll make a couple of points here. One, of the approximately $800 million of exclusive brands. The majority of that, roughly 6 and change, is on the residential AV side. That is a depressed market right now. We've talked about that.
We remain committed to it. We've got a great market share position there. But I think we all would have expected the residential space to have come back a bit, certainly by now. Those are certainly the projections when we bought Snap One in 2024. That hasn't happened, but we're not standing still. We're going to continue to strengthen our go-to market, continue to produce meaningful NPI, and continue to incent our dealers to actually buy those products. Marco's doing a great job continuing to launch new products this year and into next year. But we've also got a grand opportunity from a total exclusive brands perspective to drive a higher penetration into the legacy ADI customer base, where there's 100,000 customers there. And that's certainly a focus of Allie's going forward. What's that going to do?
It's going to just make the entire exclusive brands portfolio, which is meaningfully higher margin, a bit more resilient against what's happening in the residential space.
Okay. Thank you very much.
Thank you for your question. Your next question comes from the line of Tomo Sano from JPMorgan. Your line is open. Please go ahead.
Hello, good morning, everyone, and congrats on the spin.
Thanks, Tomo.
Thank you. I would like to ask you about regarding the assumed average daily sales growth range in the back half. Could you share your underlying assumptions on demand conditions and pipeline, especially for four categories performance as you had in Q2 performance on slide 12. I want to know about specifically in commercial, how you look at the demand and initiatives in the back half. Thank you.
Yeah. Thanks, Tomo. I think we touched on some of this. Let me just reiterate a couple things and maybe highlight a little bit more detail on a couple of them. Listen, I think at the end of the day, our commercial momentum remains strong, as Rob has said. We feel really good about what is happening in the commercial markets. We see strength there. We are recovering against last year, the ERP disruption. So strong commercial underlying demand against easier comps in the commercial market given the ERP disruption last year is a very significant driver. The residential market, we are still not expecting to recover. We expect that to continue to be down slightly in the second half of this year. We are looking forward to the times when that market begins to recover.
Specifically, as Rob just mentioned, the ERP disruption last year was about 2-3 points of headwinds on the top line, and that makes for an easier comp. On top of that, we talked last year about the fact that when tariffs were being implemented, we saw a big pull ahead into Q2 from Q3. Rob mentioned in his prepared remarks that last year we had a 10% organic growth increase in Q2. That was driven somewhat by that pull ahead, which then also created an easier comp in Q3. As we talk about a DSA growth of 6%-8% in the back half of this year, we think that is underneath it in line with our long-term growth algorithm, about 4%-6%, but then with the easier comps because of last year provides another couple points of growth on top of it.
We feel really good about it. We feel we're well-positioned. We don't think that's a change from the current momentum we're on. We're seeing that performance in the business today, even in Q2 when we think about the 2% DSA growth underneath it. Partly that was because of the more difficult comp against last year, and so we're not expecting a significant change in how we're performing right now. We think it's a continuation of the things we're doing with incremental growth and incremental improvement based upon all the activities that we have going on in the business.
Thank you, Mike. On follow-up, on the supplier transition, EBITDA, $6 million impact in back a half. Could you break down the components such as gross margin headwinds versus transition cost, potential lost sales? If you could explain how you plan to minimize any customer service impact. Thank you.
Yeah, absolutely. It's about 50/50. Half of it is really one-time cost related to the transition, transitioning inventory. The other half is really just as we think about transitioning that product to alternative suppliers, those suppliers and products don't have the exact same margin. Our margin is slightly not as good on those. So that's the other half of it. So it's those two things. The first one being sort of one time in nature, the second one being more of a permanent change. Listen, we feel really good about replacement products. This was a supplier. While they were significant, there's lots of alternatives in the market. It's not a supplier we would say that we think has a lot of brand loyalty. We think that the ability to move this product to other suppliers is very high. In fact, we've already seen that.
We've already made most of this transition. It's not really a revenue issue, it's more just a margin rate issue on products that have a slightly different margin rate to us, which has some negative headwinds. Then the inventory transition. It's a very amicable split. We're working well with the supplier. There's not a lot of noise around it. It's just a sort of course of action, but it does have some of those headwinds that we discussed.
Thank you.
Thank you for your question. Your next question comes on the line of Dan Stratemeier from Jefferies. Your line is open. Please go ahead.
Thank you. Hey, gentlemen, I appreciate you taking my question, and congrats on your first call as a public standalone company. It seems like there's just a lot going on this year, obviously, with the separation. It seems like it's more headwinds, especially on the cost side, while revenue is probably better going forward here than what people were thinking. Can you just help us sort of understand as we head into 2027 and we think about modeling, could some of these headwinds this year turn into tailwinds? Specifically on the gross margin side, you talk about freight, you talk about fuel. Are you taking price mitigation actions that take a little bit longer to take effect, and will that flow through to next year? I guess is the second quarter the bottom for gross margins as we think going forward here?
Yeah. All fair and good questions, Dan. I think if you look at the numbers, as you said, revenue growth, we feel really good about with 6%-8% DSA growth in the back half. Even the second quarter, I think we felt really good about our 2% growth given the difficult comp. I think revenue's there, and we think next year. Look, we're not going to guide next year, but we've talked about our long-term growth algorithm, and no reason to think that's not the right way to think about the business as we go forward. On gross margin, if you exclude the impact of tariffs, that tariff refund, that big $20 million we got in Q2, you can see that our gross margin rates in Q1 and Q2 were very consistent, around 21.3%, 21.4% in both quarters.
We think that really is the run rate of the business. There's a little bit of headwinds from the supplier change. There's always a little bit of timing issues that go on with, excuse me, how we receive some rebates from suppliers. We think right now, as you've seen over the last few quarters, that the gross margin rates are pretty much sustainable in run rate. We do think there's a little bit of upside opportunity, again, as we think about some of that one-time supplier transition, but we think we're in good shape. Obviously, the mix will continue to be a topic there. We have chosen, if you look into our Q, we are disclosing in our Q revenue disaggregation between our third party and our exclusive brands products, so that we can give you clarity about what's exactly happening with those both.
You can see those relative movements and we've talked about the difference in margin rate that sits there. So we feel good about the run rate of margin. We understand last year there was a lot of noise making the comps very difficult, which has made it difficult. But we think we're on the right trajectory, and as we talked about, we think OpEx in the second half of the year is going to be down a couple points based upon all the actions we're taking. As we look to next year, we're continuing to drive cost actions. While we talk about it on a gross basis, we will have inflation, we will have merit increases.
We'll make decisions as we go into next year as to what level of investments we want to make or not make, but I would not be expecting our OpEx to grow significantly, if at all, going into next year as we think about our long-term model.
Thanks.
Your next question comes from the line of Jay Goldberg from Seaport. Your line is open. Please go ahead.
Good morning. Thank you for taking my question. I just wanted to look at the balance sheet a little bit, both in terms of how should we be thinking about your working capital needs over the next few quarters, and then longer term, how should we think about debt?
Yeah. Thanks, Jay. We think our working capital, there's always a little bit of inventory variability and timing, but we think overall right now we probably have a little bit too much inventory, just given some timing. Our AR, our AP, very much normalized. Inventory may be slightly inflated as we think about supporting some of the business through the separation. Excuse me. I would say that working capital is in decent shape. We expect to get inventory at a little bit of reduction, and we think we're in a good run rate. On a go-forward basis, as we said, we think our cash flow models, our free cash flow is very predictable, very sustained over the long term. There's always a little bit of choppiness and noise in any given month or quarter. But the long-term model is very predictable.
Just from a modeling standpoint, again, first quarter is always going to be a pretty significant use of cash. We'll walk through this more in some of our modeling. There's a lot of one-time annual costs, if you think about whether it's your insurance bill, whether it's we make our annual 401(k) payment in the first quarter. There's a bunch of things that are just cash-fresh in the first quarter. So generally, we look at Q1 as a use of cash, and then generation cash throughout the rest of the year. But it's pretty predictable and sustainable, and we don't think there should be significant fluctuations in working capital going forward.
On the debt side?
On the debt side, our new capital structure, if you look, we have a deck that we posted for our earnings. It has the new capital structure there. The new capital structure is $400 million of unsecured bonds that do not have any amortization on them, and then $600 million of Term Loan B that has a very small amount of amortization. You could look at that schedule, and it has the interest rates and everything on there. I think, again, it is nothing unusual. We feel really good about the cash flow generation and our ability to use that cash to pay down debt. CapEx, as we have talked about, is pretty moderate, as we have mentioned many times, over the next 12-18 months as we continue our consolidation of our distribution centers and our stores.
We will continue to see a little bit of slightly elevated CapEx as we get through that. But underneath it all, we still expect CapEx to be running at or below 1% of our revenue.
Great. Thank you.
Thanks, Jay.
There are no further questions at this time. I will now turn the call back to Rob Aarnes, President and Chief Executive Officer, for closing remarks.
Let me first just start off by saying thank you for joining our first earnings call as a publicly traded company. We are very excited about the long-term financial opportunity with ADI and look forward to engaging with you, all of you, in the months and years to come. Thanks again for joining.
This concludes today's call. Thank you for attending. You may now disconnect.

