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Hello, and welcome to Ranpak Holdings first quarter 2026 earnings call. Please note that this call is being recorded. After the speakers' prepared remarks there will be a question and answer session. If you'd like to ask a question during that time, please press star and then one on your telephone keypad. Thank you. I would now like to turn the call over to Sara Horvath, General Counsel. Please go ahead.

Thank you, and good morning, everyone. Before we begin, I'd like to remind you that we will discuss forward-looking statements as defined under the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. Actual results may differ materially from those forward-looking statements as a result of various factors, including those discussed in our press release and the risk factors identified in our Form 10-K and our other filings filed with the SEC. Some of the statements in responses to your questions in this conference call may include forward-looking statements that are subject to future events and uncertainties that could cause our actual results to differ materially from these statements. Ranpak assumes no obligation and does not intend to update any such forward-looking statements. You should not place undue reliance on these forward-looking statements, all of which speak to the company only as of today.

The earnings release we issued this morning and the presentation for today's call are posted on the investor relations section of our website. A copy of the release has been included in a Form 8-K that we submitted to the SEC before this call. We will also make a replay of this conference call available via webcast on the company website. For financial information that is presented on a non-GAAP basis, we have included reconciliations to the comparable GAAP information. Please refer to the table and slide presentation accompanying today's earnings release. Lastly, we'll be filing our 10-Q with the SEC for the period ending March 31st, 2026. The 10-Q will be available through the SEC or on the investor relations section of our website. With me today, I have Omar Asali, our Chairman and CEO, and Bill Drew, our CFO.

Omar will summarize our first quarter results and market conditions. Bill will provide additional detail on the financial results before we open up the call for questions. With that, I'll turn the call over to Omar.

Thank you, Sara. Good morning everyone, and thank you for joining us today. We are pleased with how we started the year and how effectively we are navigating a dynamic environment. I believe the work we have done over the past several years and strategic focus we have taken towards developing paper-based, value-added, and differentiated solutions positions us well to advance our position in this environment. Our strategy is working, and the business is demonstrating strong momentum across critical areas such as automation and large enterprise accounts that we have been investing in for years. Automation delivered an exceptionally strong quarter, increasing 111% year-over-year on a constant currency basis and excluding the impact of foreign exchange.

The momentum is evident and anchored by our European business, where we continue to build strong reputation across a wide range of accounts, as well as our larger customers such as Walmart in North America. Automation is a major growth engine and clear differentiator for us in the market. The cost savings our solutions deliver through lower freight, labor and higher throughput are significant and mission-critical for large organizations. PPS volumes increased 0.8% year-over-year, marking growth in 10 out of the last 11 quarters. Europe was the outperformer and exceeded expectations that we shared on our fourth quartero call. The trends we shared regarding North America in our fourth quarter call came to fruition as we saw strength with our large enterprise e-commerce customers.

The distribution channel faced a challenging comparison with the first quarter last year, as many customers were reinvesting in inventory due to paper market disruptions. Overall, we expect this trend to normalize throughout the year and get back to growth in this very important channel. We have invested a great deal in new product introduction related to our PPS business and believe many of our new products in cushioning, wrapping, and void fill are reinvigorating the channel. Cushioning in particular is gaining tremendous momentum through our Guardian 24 launch in North America, and the launch is timely given the current disruption in pricing in the resin markets. Now more on to our results.

Consolidated net revenue increased 4.5% on a constant currency basis for the quarter or 5.4%, excluding the impact of foreign exchange, driven by an excellent almost 100% growth in automation on a constant currency basis. We also benefited from strong currency tailwinds in the quarter, which added 6.5 percentage points to top-line growth on a reported basis in the quarter. Adjusted EBITDA increased $1.6 million to $18.9 million on a reported basis and was flat in constant currency terms. Excluding the impact of foreign exchange, Adjusted EBITDA increased 5% on a constant currency basis and roughly in line with growth in gross profit on a constant currency basis. Moving to the market environment and with how we are positioned.

Prior to the start of the war, we had been seeing positive movement in economic activity in Europe following several years of challenging conditions driven by energy price shocks, tariffs, and elevated inflation. The global conflicts that have unfolded since the end of February are creating a new flavor of energy price shocks and uncertainty across the globe that we are navigating. So far, we are not seeing a meaningful impact on demand side of the business, but customers are understandably nervous about the impact higher gas prices may have on the consumer and the resulting demand for goods. At the same time, the goods economy has been soft for the past number of years as consumers have shifted dollars to travel and experiences. With travel now becoming significantly more expensive due to fuel price increases, we could see some rebalancing if folks decide to stay home and order more goods.

It's too early to say how this will play out, but we are positioning ourselves conservatively when it comes to managing the business and being extremely mindful of our margin profile by taking cost reduction measures and continuing our focus on operational efficiency. In North America, the input cost environment for paper has been stable, which positions us well against resin, where we have already seen meaningful price increases begin in the marketplace. We're pushing the sales team to be aggressive in accelerating the plastic to paper transition, as this is a dynamic we have not seen in North America in years. In Europe, Dutch TTF gas pricing has been volatile since the start of the conflict, moving from the low to mid-30s to more than EUR 60 per megawatt hour, quickly following the start of the conflict, before retreating to the current levels in the low to mid-40s.

Paper producers in Europe are passing on price increases beginning in the second quarter, and we will in turn protect our margins through a temporary surcharge. We are being transparent with our customers, and when conditions normalize, we will remove the surcharge. From a commercial perspective in Europe, we see additional opportunities for paper to gain share versus plastic, as resin costs and availability in the region are experiencing greater pressure than what we are seeing flow through the paper markets. Conditions seem to be changing daily but overall, we believe they are manageable and are far better than what we experienced in Europe in 2022 following the start of the Russia-Ukraine war, where the continent lost nearly half of its gas supply overnight. For everybody's sake, we're hopeful for a speedy end to the conflict, but are positioning ourselves for this prolonged uncertainty.

Fortunately, we have some very powerful structural tailwinds at our back and strong momentum in automation, as well as with our largest customers, Amazon and Walmart, where our relationships continue to deepen. Our sequencing and priorities are consistent with what I shared in our last call: drive top line growth to achieve scale, leverage that scale to unlock operational efficiencies and enhance purchasing power, which will flow through to Adjusted EBITDA as revenue continues to grow. This in turn will support deleveraging and ultimately enable us to generate meaningful cash. The strategy remains the same in this environment. With that, here's Bill with more information on the quarter.

Thank you, Omar. In the deck, you'll see a summary of some of our key performance indicators. We'll also be filing our 10-Q, which provides further information on Ranpak's operating results. Overall net revenue for the company in the first quarter increased 4.5% year-over-year on a constant currency basis, or an increase of 5.4% excluding the impact of warrants, driven by accelerating growth in automation volume strength in EMEA and APAC, and solid e-commerce volume growth in North America. Our North America business was roughly flat in the quarter or up 1.6% excluding the impact of warrants, as more than 130% growth in automation, excluding warrants, was offset by the lower contribution from the PPS distribution channel versus the prior year.

Growth with Walmart really helped propel the North American automation business in the first quarter, but we expect more broad-based growth throughout the year. We lapped prior year PPS volume growth of 45% in an unusual environment where distributors were restocking, so we were pleased with the team's ability to keep the gap as narrow as it was. In Europe and APAC, net revenue increased 8.6% on a constant currency basis, driven by 95.2% growth in automation and 3.4% volume growth in PPS. We saw volume growth in both EMEA and APAC in the quarter and are looking to build on that throughout the year through our key initiatives with sales, product management, and procurement.

Gross profit increased 5.2% on a constant currency basis in the quarter and would have increased 7.9% excluding the $1.7 million non-cash provision for warrants. Excluding depreciation within COGS and warrants, gross profit would have increased 9.8% on a constant currency basis. Our cost out and margin efficiencies are taking hold, driving 210 basis points of gross margin improvement to 43.1%, excluding warrants and depreciation, even in a quarter where automation and large enterprise accounts in NOAM had an outsized impact. We continue to believe gross margins are a real opportunity for us in 2026 and are pleased that our actions are having an impact. The footprint activities in NOAM have settled and resulted in reduced temporary charges that we saw last year and cost out initiatives are taking hold.

Our greater scale and growth prospects in PPS and automation are also enabling us to be better buyers of key inputs. SG&A, excluding RSU expense, was down 1.5% on a constant currency basis versus prior year. As we have shared previously, we are extremely focused on controlling our costs and improving our margin profile. Tight spend and leveraging our G&A investments to better absorb our overhead remains a top priority. This is particularly true for automation, where a substantial amount of our G&A investments over the past few years has been focused. The greater scale we are building is getting us much closer to break even on an Adjusted EBITDA basis. As Omar mentioned, Adjusted EBITDA was flat year-over-year on a constant currency basis, or up 5% excluding the impact of warrants.

The constant currency calculation is based on a rate of 1.052, which was last year's average rate for the quarter. There's been considerable movement in the euro since then. As an example, on a reported basis, Adjusted EBITDA increased 9.2%, and had the rate used for constant currency been 1.15, Adjusted EBITDA would have been up 1.6%. Given the movement in the currency, we wanted to provide a few different data points to help triangulate the moving pieces. Moving to the balance sheet and liquidity. We completed Q1 2026 with a strong liquidity position with a cash balance of $48.5 million and no drawings on our revolving credit facility, bringing our reported net leverage to 4.7 times on an LTM basis.

Our goal remains to achieve between 2.5 To 3 turns at net leverage, which we believe we can do over the next 24 months. Our CapEx for the quarter was $8.3 million, which is up $800K from prior year, but still meaningfully below the level seen in 2023 and 2024. We continue to be disciplined in our CapEx spend in order to maximize cash. With that, I'll turn it to Omar.

Thank you, Bill. Before I close, I want to touch on a few strategic updates on the broader environment we're operating in. During the quarter, we funded an additional investment in Pickle Robot through a SAFE note transaction. This allows us to maintain our roughly 9% ownership stake in the company, which we continue to view as highly strategic and valuable. The momentum in automation is real and strong. Given how we started the year in terms of bookings, we're expecting to be closer to $60 million in revenue in automation this year, and I am confident in our path to surpassing $100 million in revenue in the near future. As Bill mentioned, our margin enhancement initiatives are taking hold. The team is getting a lot more efficient and improving execution across both PPS and automation.

These efforts are starting to show up in the numbers and will continue to build throughout the year, including key projects like sourcing paper locally in Asia, which we believe is a major opportunity to reduce costs and drive top line growth in the region. Our relationships with large enterprise accounts remain strong and are deepening as expected. We are pursuing initiatives with both Amazon and Walmart that we believe can meaningfully move the needle over the next 24 months. We continue to expect more than $1 billion in cumulative revenue from these two relationships over the next 8-10 years. Within the current environment, we're focused on what we can control, driving our key initiatives, strengthening our top line, and improving margins.

We feel very good about the direction of the business and the opportunities ahead, particularly as we advance our industrial technology platform and expand the cross-selling opportunities it creates for PPS. Thank you again for your time and continued support. With that, we'd like to open the line for questions. Operator?

Thank you. We are now opening the floor for question and answer session. If you'd like to ask a question, please press star followed by one on your telephone keypad. That's star followed by one on your telephone keypad. Your first question comes from the line of Greg Palm of Craig-Hallum. Your line is now open.

Thanks. Good morning and congrats on the results. I think what stood out most to me was, you know, your results in Europe, just given everything going on there. Maybe you can spend a little bit more time on giving us a little bit of a flavor on sort of what's going on in the region, you know, since the start of the war. I'm also interested in the comments about resin, not just cost, but availability. Did you actually see any shift in the quarter, you know, to paper, or is that something, you know, a potential that we could see play throughout the year?

Yeah. Morning, Greg. I think I'll start with that last point. On the resin, I think this is something that we didn't see in the first quarter. Frankly, we're seeing more of it now, we're seeing more concern around, you know, customers shifting. I think it's largely driven by price, availability could be a factor. What we saw in Q1 was a couple of things. One from our team. Late last year, we had changed part of the organization and the sales organization in Europe. We have more focused leadership, frankly, stronger, more analytical leadership, we saw better execution throughout the quarter. That execution was both covering existing accounts better, as well as increasing the level of trials and closes, which are metrics that we're following very closely. Fundamentally, I think there was better execution in Q1.

Second, just from a demand standpoint, we got very concerned like everybody else with the war. As March progressed, we continue to see decent demand and if I'm being frank, we continue to see that in this quarter as well. The European team and our European business continue to do better than what we had expected. And I think it's honestly execution, and I think right now there is a benefit from the resin to paper switch. The concern is always with the war ongoing and with energy prices is will this impact demand and when, and could that play a role in the upcoming weeks? We, we really don't know. What we're seeing day by day, Greg, we continue to see a business trends that we like.

Okay, great. I recall last quarter, you know, you talked about automation, and I think you had a pretty good backlog going into the quarter, it also sounds like you had pretty good bookings activity in Q1 as well, which, you know, it sounds like has given you a little bit more confidence in that growth outlook. What exactly are you seeing? Just curious what kinda conversations or order activity or pipeline came out of MODEX, you know, it sounds like the path to surpassing 100 million, I think you used the term, you know, kinda near term obviously not this year, but sounds like you're more confident in your ability to get there.

I think our confidence is increasing, Greg. I think that's correct. Just to give you a sense where we are, including this past quarter in the last few years, cumulatively, we have sold more than $120 million in equipment. We have a lot of equipment out there working 24/7. We have customer feedback. We've built customer confidence. We're building our reputation. You mentioned MODEX, which is the show here in the U.S. There's an equivalent show in Germany called LogiMAT that happened a few weeks before that. We had record attendance, record leads in both shows. We feel like we're building a very, very strong reputation as a real player in packaging automation. Obviously, as you and I know, it takes some time to do that's the first step that I would highlight, that I like where we are and the inflection point that I see.

In terms of booking and in terms of activity, honestly, we are super busy. The appetite is there. We continue to build our funnel. Our funnel in Europe is exceptionally strong. Our funnel in the U.S. is developing, and obviously, it's driven by a number of very large enterprises that we're close to, but we're expanding that enterprise coverage in the U.S. around automation. You know, our confidence in hitting our numbers this year and getting to $100 million in the near term honestly Greg, is very high.

The other thing that we're seeing is that automation business is increasingly driving some volume for PPS with customers that historically have not used us in protective packaging, getting to know us through automation, and then asking for some of our packaging solutions and vice versa. The new businesses we continue to see, they go well. I, I would say our operating and commercial muscle in automation has really developed a place where our confidence is quite high with what we're seeing near term. If you talk just about the market, remember, our solutions come with ROI. ROI around labor, ROI around freight, around materials, around energy. We live in a world where everybody is under so much inflationary pressure, frankly, in a world where there are labor issues as well.

Coming up with these solutions that are reliable is resonating in the marketplace.

Yeah. Okay, makes sense. Last one from me. I didn't see or hear you address the guide for the full year. Based on the outperformance in Q1, I mean, knowing we still have a lot of time left in the year, qualitatively, how are you thinking about the guide you put back out in March?

Qualitatively, feeling great. We feel that the business is in really good shape. You know, we don't wanna be in the business of frankly, like, just tinkering with the guide all the time, and in particular, if I'm being blunt not understanding what's happening geopolitically and what the impact of that could be, which is something that we just cannot analyze. You know, we've decided we're gonna keep executing our confidence is very high. We think this first quarter positions us very well for the rest of the year. When we look at the building blocks, Greg, for the rest of the year, we feel we have a lot in our arsenal, you know, to deliver and surpass.

Okay. I will leave it there. Thanks.

Thank you.

Your next question comes from the line of Ghansham Panjabi of Baird. Your line is now open.

Hey, guys. Good morning. This is actually Justin Prichard for Ghansham. Thanks for taking my questions. Maybe just to start off on the demand component, Omar, you're talking about, you know, March and April continuing to stay strong. Is there a chance that that could just be, you know, a potential pre-buy from your customers just, you know, ahead of any potential price increases? Maybe related to that and just, you know, maybe on the margin cadence for the year. Just given those, you know, input cost headwinds that you guys are gonna face and just, you know, the price increases are eventually gonna come via surcharge. Is there any Is there gonna be any, you know, potential lag where maybe you might see, you know, some margin impact in 2Q before you start to realize that, you know, in the back half of the year?

Let me start, and then I'll have Bill chime in. On the buy-in, it's very tough to say if some of it is buy-in or not in light of people anticipating. I will tell you, we're watching carefully what's happening now. We're watching very closely what our book looks like in May. We're also watching very closely the bottom up, sort of our trials, our closes, our funnel. There is no question that the building blocks are better in our company and that we are winning at existing accounts, we're winning new facilities, we're also winning new accounts, and that is part of the growth that we're talking about. Could there be some folks in general doing some buy-in here and there? Yes.

I will tell you, we try to stay very, very close to our end users and very close to our distribution channel, Justin. The level of inventories out there is not high. It's not concerning. When we look at the period of inventory that they're having, we're not seeing any abnormality there. I think that's the one point around what we're seeing in the marketplace. On cost, let me start, then I'll have Bill chime in. We actually feel pretty good. In the U.S., we have a number of agreements in place that are giving us quite a bit of protection, and the paper market is stable, and we are getting our hands on good supply, high quality product, and the prices are locked in. It's actually enabling us to go and compete against some of the plastic plays.

When I mentioned the Guardian24, that's a cushioning application where we're competing against foam and other resin-based cushioning applications. A huge issue in pricing with some of them up 30%, 40%, 50%, while our price is stable. Our price to the customer is stable, our productivity is high, and then our input cost is stable. Actually we like what we're seeing in the U.S. In Europe, it's slightly different because some of the product is dependent on nat gas, and that obviously has been volatile. This is why we are adding the surcharge just to protect our margin, and that has been communicated to the market. The market understands it. We're giving visibility. If there is no need to have the surcharge in the future, we will deal with it.

We're calling it a temporary surcharge, and the market has embraced it there. We have not seen any sort of change in patterns in terms of buying patterns with us asking for the surcharge. Bill, I don't know if you wanna add stuff on the cost side.

I think overall for the margin, gross margin for the year, we are expecting to see improvement versus last year by a good 200 basis points. I do think, you know, in Europe, you'll see a slight lag in Q2, so you might see a little bit of pressure in the beginning of it, but that will level out as the surcharge goes into effect. And as Omar mentioned, we're just very focused on maintaining our margin profile, and we think we've covered that well with the surcharge. Where you could see some impact is if customers trade down to lower paper grades. Overall, I think, you know, we feel good about our margin outlook for Europe and APAC.

Okay, great. Maybe just one last one for me. You know, Bill, I think, you know, the free cash flow bogey that you guys gave was kind of in the, you know, $15 million range, you know, during your call in March. You know, can you just help us, you know, think about that, you know, again, and if there's any puts and takes just given everything that's going on, whether it be, you know, higher working capital just, you know, given higher inventory holding costs or whatever that might be just to kind of bridge that gap for us. That'd be much appreciated.

Yeah. I think, I think it still holds, right? If you look at the midpoint of the guide, you know, we're still around that about $90 million area, right? You add back the $60 million of warrants. I think on the, you know, that piece we're still holding. On CapEx, I do think that we can probably do a little bit better. We're looking at $35 million. I think we might be able to be better than that. We're very focused on managing that tightly. Cash interest still remains about $34 million or so. Cash taxes, that $3 million-$4 million. Working cap, we are still expecting about a slight use of $4 million-$5 million.

still kinda gets you to that $15 million area prior to any debt pay down.

Okay, great. Thank you. Sorry.

You know. Sorry, just outside of that, right? In addition to kind of the margins that you were asking about, we do have a lot of projects and cost out initiatives in play. You know, our new COO has implemented a really strong Lean Six Sigma program that's underway in both Europe and North America, and identifying a lot of opportunities for us to get more efficient take costs out of the business and help improve our margins.

Great. Thank you, guys.

Your next question comes from the line of Ghansham Panjabi of Baird. Your line is now open.

Ellie, I think that was just Baird that just asked.

Apologies about that. If you'd like to ask a question, please press star and then one on your telephone keypad. We will pause for a moment to wait for the questions to come in. Your next question comes from the line of Troy Jensen of Cantor Fitzgerald. Your line is now open.

Hey, gentlemen. Thanks for taking my question, and congrats on the upside here this quarter. Maybe a couple of questions just for you, Bill. To start off, 10% customers, can you quantify how many you had in the quarter?

We did. We had one 10% customer. It was about 10.5%.

Would you expect to have multiple 10% customers sometime this year?

This year, I wouldn't say so, but certainly over the next few years.

Okay. All right, perfect. To follow up on Greg's question on the guidance, ETV revenue seems safe, but I guess I just wanna focus on the EBITDA. I think the midpoint of your EBITDA guidance was about $90 million. You did $12 million here in Q1, you gotta do about $25 million per quarter. Just thoughts on kinda hitting the midpoint of that EBITDA guidance.

The guidance based on the Adjusted EBITDA, Troy, so first quarter was $18.9.

Yeah. That, that's an offset right there. All right, my last question. Just on the Pickle Robot Company, have they reported a valuation pre or post capital raise?

They have not. Pickle, just to give you a quick update, they have gotten the largest, you know, industrial PO for robots in the warehouse. They're working on that. Pickle, as we speak, will be doing a round and the fundraise that will determine sort of, you know, the new valuation. They're in the marketplace for that as we speak.

Gotcha. Have they talked about liquidation plans? Is it an IPO target or just grow the business or I'm assuming they get some liquidation, but any thoughts?

Sorry. On Pickle, I think the expectation is they'll be doing a round. My expectation is this will probably be probably the last round that they do before contemplating, you know, something like potentially, you know, the public markets or an IPO. We'll see. The most important thing honestly is the customer traction and where the technology is. From all the work that we've done, we continue to believe they are the leader in trailer unload, frankly the POs are giving us that validation.

Yeah, they clearly are. All right, guys. Thanks for the time and keep up the good work.

Thanks.

Thanks, Troy.

Thank you. I'd now like to hand the call back to Bill Drew for closing remarks.

Thank you, Ellie. Thank you all for joining us today. Look forward to catching up on our update for Q2.

Thank you for attending today's call. You may now disconnect. Goodbye.

Good morning, and welcome to the Ranpak Holdings Corp. fourth quarter 2025 earnings call. All participants are in a listen-only mode. After the speakers’ remarks, we will conduct a question-and-answer session. To ask a question, you will need to press star followed by 1 on your telephone keypad. As a reminder, this conference call is being recorded. I would now like to turn the call over to Sara Horvath, General Counsel. Please go ahead.

Thank you, and good morning, everyone. Before we begin, I would like to remind you that we will discuss forward-looking statements as defined under the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. Actual results may differ materially from those forward-looking statements as a result of various factors, including those discussed in our press release and the risk factors identified in our Form 10-K and our other filings with the SEC. Some of the statements and responses to your questions in this conference call may include forward-looking statements that are subject to future events and uncertainties that could cause our actual results to differ materially from these statements. Ranpak Holdings Corp. assumes no obligation and does not intend to update any such forward-looking statements. You should not place undue reliance on these forward-looking statements, all of which speak to the company only as of today. The earnings release we issued this morning and the presentation for today’s call are posted on the investor relations section of our website. A copy of the release has been included in a Form 8-K that we submitted to the SEC before this call. We will also make a replay of this conference call available via webcast on the company website. For financial information that is presented on a non-GAAP basis, we have included reconciliations to the comparable GAAP information. Please refer to the table and slide presentation accompanying today’s earnings release. Lastly, we will be filing our 10-K with the SEC for the period ending December 31, 2025. The 10-K will be available through the SEC or on the investor relations section of our website. With me today, I have Omar Asali, our Chairman and CEO, and Bill Drew, our CFO. Omar will summarize our fourth quarter results and issue our outlook for 2026. Bill will provide additional detail on the financial results before we open up the call for questions. With that, I will turn the call over to Omar.

Thank you, Sara, and good morning, everyone. Thank you for joining us today. We finished 2025 on a positive note as all geographies experienced volume growth and automation finished the year with a lot of momentum, positioning us well for 2026. Large enterprise accounts in North America continue to be a key driver of performance, both from a top-line and margin perspective. We experienced a very robust e-commerce-led holiday season in North America, particularly in December, following a brief lull during the government shutdown. The e-commerce strength drove volume growth of 5.5% in the quarter and 14.3% for the year in North America. Excluding the impact from warrants, automation was the other bright spot in the quarter as we achieved nearly 40% growth on a constant currency basis and enter 2026 with a strong order book, giving us visibility to what we believe will be our largest growth year yet in that area. With our fourth quarter performance, we hit the lower end of our Adjusted EBITDA guide but did miss the top line slightly due to a continued challenging environment in Europe and a few automation project milestones getting pushed into Q1. Excluding the impact of warrants, automation achieved the goal of being north of $40 million in revenue for the year, resulting in almost 35% growth. 2025 was an important year for Ranpak Holdings Corp. We strengthened our economic relationships with two of the world’s largest e-commerce and retail leaders. These are partnerships that we believe will fuel substantial growth across both our protective and automation business for years to come. We also elevated our position as a leader in automated box customization through a major collaboration with Medline Industries, the largest provider of medical surgical products and supply chain solutions in the U.S. Together, we are providing automation solutions across some of the highest volume operations in the healthcare sector. These achievements validate the years of work and strategy we have been executing toward and set the stage for Ranpak Holdings Corp.’s next era. The world is evolving at an unprecedented pace. With rapid advances in AI and robotics, capabilities that once felt like science fiction are now becoming operational reality. Ranpak Holdings Corp. is well-positioned to lead in this new landscape, one defined by larger, more sophisticated warehouses and logistics networks that must also meet rising expectations for environmental responsibility. Our internal innovations and customer relationships, combined with strategic relationships with cutting-edge leaders like Pickle Robot, give us a unique advantage. We are not just providing packaging; we are delivering end-to-end solutions for goods movement and AI-driven insights that help our customers operate smarter, faster, and more sustainably. More on our results. We experienced another quarter of volume growth, making it 9 out of the past 10 quarters, growing volumes at 3% over a really strong Q4 in 2024, which experienced 12 points of volume growth. It was encouraging to see sequential volume growth in each region and for Europe to experience volume growth for the first time this year. Consolidated net revenue increased 2.2% on a constant currency basis for the quarter, or 4.4% excluding warrants, driven by e-commerce activity in North America and automation achieving its largest revenue quarter ever. 4.8% volume growth for the year and 34.4% growth in automation drove 2025 full year net revenue to increase 5% on a constant currency basis. Our North America business again was the engine that drove top-line performance with sales up 5.8% for the quarter and 14% for the year, driven by more than 20% growth in void fill and 91.7% growth in automation excluding warrants. In the quarter, the distribution channel was less robust, but we did grow mid-single digit for the year and I believe have some momentum in the channel given our new product releases and focused growth and expansion initiatives. Invigorating this channel is key to helping improve our margin profile in the region, and we believe the setup going into 2026 has us positioned to continue to grow here while enhancing margins. In Europe and Asia Pacific, less favorable mix as well as increased rebate activity offset slightly higher PPS volumes and 30% automation growth in the quarter, resulting in a revenue decrease of 1.5% year-over-year on a constant currency basis. Similar to last year, Europe did not experience the same holiday season strength that we saw in the U.S. The environment in Europe seems to be improving from the negative impacts of tariffs we saw earlier in the year. After several years of recession-like conditions across the region, driven by energy price shocks, elevated inflation, and tariff uncertainty, economic fundamentals are stabilizing and the outlook is improving. We will need to see how the recent events in the Middle East unfold as that could have an impact on sentiment in the region. The input cost environment has remained relatively stable and consistent with the trends we saw in the second half of last year. Europe has been somewhat more favorable, driven largely by softer demand while the U.S. experienced tighter pricing through mid-year. Those pressures eased and ultimately leveled off once the paper market disruptions from early in the year were resolved. In Europe, energy market volatility is the unknown at the moment. There was some volatility to start the year as colder than normal winter weather drove a heavier draw in reserves. Even so, Dutch TTF gas was around €30 per megawatt hour prior to the events of the last few days, resulting in pricing in Q1 in line with what we experienced in the second half of the year. On a constant currency basis, Adjusted EBITDA declined 10.3% for the quarter, or just 1.2% when excluding the impact of warrants. For the full year, Adjusted EBITDA was down 8.5% or 2.4% excluding warrants. Our second half performance allowed us to achieve the low end of the revised guidance we communicated in our Q2 results despite the top-line challenges we faced in EMEA. Overall, 2025 proved to be a more difficult year than we anticipated. Many companies shifted priorities, curtailed activity, and took a more cautious stance in response to a rapidly evolving tariff environment. Europe, in particular, appeared to take a meaningful step back as customers there lacked confidence in their forward outlook. Our sequencing and priorities remain clear. First, drive top-line growth to achieve scale. Leverage that scale to unlock operational efficiencies and enhance purchasing power, which will flow through to Adjusted EBITDA as revenue continues to grow. This, in turn, will support deleveraging and ultimately enable us to generate meaningful cash. With that, here is Bill with more info on the quarter.

Thank you, Omar. In the deck, you will see a summary of some of our key performance indicators. We will also be filing our Form 10-K, which provides further information on Ranpak Holdings Corp.’s operating results. Overall, net revenue for the company in the fourth quarter increased 2.2% year-over-year on a constant currency basis, or an increase of 4.4% excluding the impact of warrants, driven by solid e-commerce volume growth in North America and increased automation sales, bringing full year net revenue up 4.7% on a constant currency basis or 6.1% excluding the $5 million headwind associated with warrants. For the quarter in the Europe and APAC reporting division, combined revenue decreased 1.4% on a constant currency basis as higher PPS volumes and automation sales were offset by higher rebate activity due to the competitive environment in Europe and investment in pricing ahead of local paper source in Asia. On a full year basis, net revenue in the region declined 2.7% on a constant currency basis, primarily due to lower volumes reflecting the choppier operating environment post Liberation Day and higher impact of rebates. Automation grew 14% in the region on an annual basis, exiting the year with good momentum after only being up slightly through the first half of the year. North America lapped 39% volume growth in the prior year and grew volumes 5.5% as relationships with large e-commerce players continued to drive growth. Net revenue for the quarter was up 5.8%, which brought the full year net revenue in the region to growth of 14%. It was another strong year for top-line growth in North America as automation ramps and we continue to grow with e-commerce accounts. Gross profit declined 16% on a constant currency basis in the quarter and would have declined 10.6% excluding the $2.3 million non-cash impact of warrants. Excluding depreciation within COGS and warrants, gross profit would have declined 5% on a constant currency basis due to the mix impact of increased contribution from North America large e-commerce customers and lower industrial activity. For the year, gross profit declined 9% on a constant currency basis and would have declined 5.3% excluding the $5 million non-cash impact of warrants. Excluding depreciation within COGS and the non-cash impact of warrants, gross profit would have declined 4.5% on a constant currency basis due to the mix impact of increased contribution from North America large e-commerce customers and lower industrial activity. We believe gross margins are a real opportunity for us in 2026. With greater scale, we are becoming better buyers of key input costs and have identified a number of key cost-out actions to optimize operations in order to enhance our margin profile. SG&A, excluding RSU expense, was down 2% on a constant currency basis versus prior year. As I shared previously, controlling our spend and leveraging our G&A investments to better absorb our fixed overhead remains a top priority. We have invested more than $20 million in our technology infrastructure since 2022, building a modern cloud-native stack that is AI-ready. We are fast but selective adopters of AI solutions to help us drive productivity and get more efficient in our operations and service. We initially are focused on specific use cases where we can measure the impact and returns, but overall, believe these tools will enable us to extract savings from the business as we grow, helping to improve the overall margin profile of the business in addition to driving more commercial opportunities. At roughly $40 million in sales, automation remained a meaningful drag on our profitability for the year, being a negative $6 million contribution to Adjusted EBITDA. Although we did get to break even on an Adjusted EBITDA basis for the fourth quarter, we are expecting substantial growth in 2026 in automation, which we expect would put us in positive territory for the year on an Adjusted EBITDA basis, which is a critical milestone for us to hit. Although we had PPS volume and automation growth across the organization for the quarter, the gross profit headwinds resulted in an Adjusted EBITDA decline of 10.3% in the quarter on a constant currency basis or down 1.2% excluding the impact of warrants. This brings the full year’s results to down 8.5% on a constant currency basis or down 2.4% excluding the non-cash impact of warrants. Moving to the balance sheet and liquidity. We completed 2025 with a strong liquidity position with a cash balance of $63 million and no drawings in our revolving credit facility, bringing our reported net leverage to 4.4 times on an LTM basis. Our goal remains to achieve between 2.5 times and 3 times leverage, which we believe we can do over the next 18–24 months. Our CapEx for the year was $30.3 million, a reduction of $2.8 million from 2024 and a 45% reduction from the $55 million spent in 2023. We continue to be disciplined in our CapEx spend in order to maximize cash. With that, I will turn it to Omar.

Thank you, Bill. In closing, we believe the structural forces shaping the packaging and fulfillment landscape continue to strengthen, and we believe Ranpak Holdings Corp. is well positioned to benefit from them. First, the largest e-commerce players are growing faster and consolidating share. We are both economically and strategically aligned with the two most important companies in the space, and we are working closely with them on opportunities that have the potential to reshape Ranpak Holdings Corp.’s scale over the next number of years. We continue to expect more than $1 billion in cumulative revenue from these two relationships over the next 8–10 years, and we are pushing to accelerate that timeline. Second, labor shortages in warehouse environments remain persistent and costly. Wage inflation and high turnover are structural realities. In the U.S., immigration and border policies are also amplifying the labor issue. Our automation portfolio is a direct hedge against these pressures, providing customers with greater stability, less cost, and less variability in their operating model. Third, warehouses and factories are becoming smarter. At Ranpak Holdings Corp., we are assembling an unmatched technology stack combining robotics partnerships, internal hardware innovation, advanced vision systems, AI, and data. The bottlenecks in fulfillment are physical, not digital. Our flywheel of technology and data access allows us to solve these physical world constraints in ways that simply were not possible even a few years ago. The technology is finally ready, and we believe our ecosystem gives us a unique advantage in addressing goods movement and labor challenges at scale. Fourth, while AI and LLMs have advanced rapidly, the physical world still needs to create and move goods. Companies that manufacture differentiated products and eliminate physical bottlenecks will be winners in the years ahead. We believe we have spent the past several years positioning Ranpak Holdings Corp. to be one of those winners. The One Big Beautiful Bill Act in the U.S. is presenting a significant opportunity for businesses to automate and modernize their operations, and the tax incentives are providing further savings and improving ROIs for customers deploying our automation equipment. As we look toward 2026, we enter the year with a more stable operating environment in North America than we saw in 2025 and improving economic outlook. We face difficult comparisons in Q1 due to last year’s paper market disruptions where distributors were restocking. Adverse weather in January and February contributed to a choppy start in North America. Feedback from both distributors and end users point to continued strength as the year progresses and an encouraging outlook. We expect North America performance versus prior year to even out in the second quarter, where we saw less distributor demand last year as a result of restocking in Q1. Europe remains more muted relative to the U.S., but the direction is constructive. Inflation has been moderating. Real wage growth has turned positive as wage increases are outpacing inflation. Unemployment remains at historically low levels. Industrial production and manufacturing sentiment remain below long-term averages, but we are seeing early signs of stabilization. Germany’s renewed commitment to defense investment and broader fiscal support are beginning to show up in the data, creating a foundation for gradual improvement. For the first time in a long time, the outlook there for businesses and consumers seems to be improving. That being said, the war in the Middle East makes the outlook for the world economy and Europe more uncertain. The duration of the conflict, impact on trade routes, and impact on energy pricing, particularly in Europe, could play a role in the way this year unfolds. This week, due to the conflict, Dutch TTF gas has been volatile and remains elevated near the €50 area. Within this environment, we are focusing on things that are in our control and building on our momentum through our differentiated solutions. Enhancements to our commercial organization and stronger cross-selling of automation into larger accounts are enabling us to outperform our peers from a growth perspective. We have tailwinds in automation such as Packaging and Packaging Waste Regulation, or PPWR, in Europe, as companies are preparing to adhere to the regulation requiring them to drastically reduce packaging waste and promote a circular economy, namely minimizing unnecessary packaging and reducing packaging weight and volume. We expect automation to deliver another year of meaningful growth in 2026 as we advance toward our goal of surpassing $100 million in automation revenue. Related to our near-term priorities and guidance, our focus is on driving top-line growth to build scale, improving margins through cost-out initiatives and better buying, accelerating automation and advancing our industrial technology platform, and strengthening cash generation and deleveraging towards a net leverage ratio below three-thirds. For 2026, on a constant currency basis at the current spot rate, we expect net revenue growth of 5%–12.7% and Adjusted EBITDA growth of 5.4%–19.9%. Assuming a spot rate of 1.16 EUR to the U.S. dollar, this implies a net revenue range of $415 million–$445 million and Adjusted EBITDA range of $83.5 million–$95 million. We are anticipating automation revenue growth of 30%–50%, potentially reaching more than $60 million and turning positive from an Adjusted EBITDA perspective. This guidance also reflects a non-cash revenue and Adjusted EBITDA reduction of $5 million–$7 million related to warrant expense recognition. Over the past few days, we adjusted our guidance range to reflect what we are currently seeing out of the Middle East. We previously were expecting double-digit growth in Adjusted EBITDA, but believe it is appropriate to be conservative on the margin and top line in this environment. We believe the lower end of the range reflects our optimism of growth in North America and automation and a potentially less robust and more expensive environment in Europe if the war persists. In terms of PPS, we expect low- to high-single-digit volume growth in PPS, building on the momentum of 2025 while recognizing a tough comparison in Q1 of 2025, which we expect to improve throughout the year. Thank you again for your time and continued support. With that, we would like to open the line for questions. Operator?

As a reminder, to ask a question, please press star followed by the number 1 on your telephone keypad. To withdraw any questions, press star 1 again. We will pause for just a moment to compile the Q&A roster. Our first question comes from Ghansham Panjabi from Baird. Please go ahead. Your line is open.

Hey, guys. Good morning.

Good morning, Ghansham.

Morning, Omar. First off, can you give us a sense as to the PPS volume outlook that is embedded in your guidance for 2026? If you could also do that by region, Omar. I know there is a lot going on with some of the things you mentioned in Europe and also the political situation, et cetera. Just what do you have embedded at this point?

Sure. Maybe I will just give some high-level color and then have Bill give you a bit more detail. We continue to do really well with enterprise accounts for PPS in North America. We are working hard with our distribution channel as well to really ramp up volume. My expectation is that you will see meaningful growth in the U.S., maybe high single-digit to double-digit, and continue to drive volume around that in North America. Europe, Ghansham, honestly, is a bit harder. If you asked me five, six days ago before the events in the Middle East, we felt we were turning the corner in Q4. We were showing some good signs, we felt we were entering the year with potentially some, let us call it, modest momentum to show volume growth. Right now, that is a bit more unknown, and I think it may depend a little bit on the duration of the conflict. In APAC, we are investing heavily in localization and local sourcing of paper, and we think that is going to drive quite a bit of volume. That is the high level in terms of how we are thinking about PPS volume growth. I will have Bill chime in maybe with more specifics.

Ghansham, I think Omar covered it right. In North America, we think that there is good potential to grow mid-to-high single-digit, maybe a little bit more than that, depending on some of our initiatives with some of our large customers here. In EMEA, we ran a number of different scenarios, and I think with the low end of the guide, we are assuming that will be down slightly, and then on the higher end, up mid-single digits if we get a resolution quicker than we are expecting. I think overall, we are looking at a range of low- to high-single-digit on the PPS business for 2026. Automation, we are expecting some pretty meaningful growth there, call it 3–5 points worth of growth just based on what we are seeing there and also just the order book that we came into the year with.

Perfect. Then on PPS, as it relates to your assumption, what percent of that is specific to the customer initiatives that you have with Walmart and Amazon?

Both of these accounts, Ghansham, we think are going to drive meaningful growth. Remember, part of the transactions we have include automation equipment, and in 2026 with some of the accounts you mentioned, equipment may drive more of the PPS piece because of just the installment and deployment schedule, if you will. As we put this equipment throughout the year, then that equipment will be consuming the consumables as the year progresses. In terms of just the consumable piece, we think both of these accounts will be double-digit growers for us. We think it is going to be a pretty important driver for us. Frankly, that is part of our excitement, not just for 2026, but as we look for outer years as well. We believe there is tremendous volume activity that we think we can drive with these two relationships.

Got it. Maybe I will ask my last two questions together. The 30%–50% growth that you are targeting for automation in 2026, just curious as to your backlog specific to that. Just trying to get a sense as to the visibility specific to those numbers. Second, Bill, in terms of free cash flow, how are you thinking about drop-down free cash flow relative to the midpoint of your EBITDA guidance, net of CapEx and interest and so on?

I will take the first one. As Bill said, we enter 2026 with our best backlog ever. We continue to see tremendous activity, frankly, in the U.S. and in Europe around our automation business. Our strategic relationships, again, that you touched on, Ghansham, are driving also a big part of that. Our confidence in surpassing the lower end of that number, the 30%, is pretty high. We believe that we are on our way to hit potentially $60 million or more in revenue in 2026, again, assuming no surprises from a macro environment. Frankly, our pipeline as we speak this year, our backlog is increasing as well, and part of the help we are getting is from some of the tax changes in the U.S., part of it is around labor. Honestly, I feel great about our automation story. I feel great about how it is progressing. I think the $100 million goal is becoming closer and closer in our mind as reality, and I think the team is executing and our products, by the way, are getting great feedback from some of the most demanding customers that we have mentioned, whether it is people like Medline in healthcare or others. We feel really good about that as a growth driver, Ghansham.

Bill?

Yep. As far as the free cash flow question goes, if you take the midpoint of the guide, Ghansham, at $83.5 million–$95 million, call it $89 million at the midpoint, that is being burdened by a good $6 million–$7 million of warrant expense, which are non-cash; you add that on top. We are expecting to spend roughly, call it, $37.5 million or so in CapEx, could be less. We have been pretty disciplined over the past few years in that. We will continue to be disciplined. Cash interest we expect to be about $34 million. Cash taxes about $3 million–$4 million this year. We are expecting a use of working cap this year, just based on some of the initiatives that we have with larger customers where we carry a little bit more inventory, so call that about $5 million, which, if you take all those together, gets you to about $15 million in free cash for the year.

Okay. Very helpful. Thanks so much.

Thank you.

Our next question comes from Greg Palm from Craig-Hallum. Please go ahead, your line is open.

Yeah, thanks. Just going back to the Q4 results specifically on revenue. I mean, it seems like the operating environment was fairly stable, and I know you talked about or mentioned better e-com facility around the holiday season. Was the revenue miss mostly due to some automation stuff shifting to the right? I know you mentioned there was, I think, a couple of projects, but maybe just give us a little bit more color.

Yeah. Sure, Greg. I think a couple of things. One, yes, in automation it is very tough to be very precise in terms of which quarter things would happen. Sometimes there is slippage. It has got nothing to do with us; sometimes it has to do with us and our schedule of building and deploying, as you know, just given the nature of the business. Part of it is a few things that slipped from Q4. The other part of it, honestly, Greg, is industrial activity was not at the level that we liked. E-commerce was certainly strong, but e-commerce came in very, very heavy in December, I think in the U.S. in particular. There were some periods in November where we saw a little bit of softness, around government shutdown, et cetera, and then the recovery was very strong. Some of that impacted us, but overall we were very happy with e-commerce activity. I think industrial activity, we would like to see a pickup in that, and I think that could help us both from a volume standpoint as well as frankly a margin standpoint.

Yep. Okay. Your comments on Q1 specifically, I was not sure how to interpret those. Should we assume revenue is more flattish on a year-over-year basis? Versus, call it, the high single-digit growth for the year at the midpoint. I think that would imply double-digit growth for the remainder of the year. It would be great just to get a little bit more color on how you are thinking about the cadence this year.

I think the cadence that you are highlighting is correct. Normally at Ranpak Holdings Corp., as you know, Greg, the second half of the year is stronger than the first half. That is just the nature of our business. As we are building backlog, pipeline, et cetera, and as we are building files in PPS. The second piece, honestly, is typically, again, in normal environment, Q2 is stronger than Q1, Q4 is stronger than Q3. We are expecting the year to play out that way. We have a bit of a tough comp given paper disruptions and some dislocations from 2024. That is the piece that I was just trying to highlight. I think what you highlighted as a cadence is correct. From where we sit, again, honestly, we were going to give a very different guide five, six days ago, but the recent events caused us to just lower some numbers a little bit to be cautious. Not that we have a crystal ball around the war. We do not know where the war is headed. We do not know how long it will last. We do not know when and if the escalation happens. All these things are unknown to us, just like they are unknown to the world. We felt the prudent thing is to be a little bit more conservative in our guidance. What you highlight and the strength that we see and the double-digit growth as the year progresses, that is our base case expectation. The numbers that we highlighted, Greg, reflect some conservatism around the war to the best of our ability, if you will.

Okay. Yep, that makes sense. Specific on what is going on in the Middle East, in terms of the guide, how would you take into account, for instance, natural gas prices and the potential headwind from input costs over there?

Sure. Obviously, as you have seen, Dutch TTF gas has gone up quite a bit in the last few days and continues to be at elevated levels. We have a number of partners and mills that we work with that are not dependent on that. That is the good news, whether it is renewable or other sources. We also have a number of folks that have hedged some of the exposure, but not all of it. I think the exposure that we have is on the recycled piece, the recycled paper that we buy. That is the piece that has the exposure and is less than 50% of our total buy. That is where we have some exposure from a cost standpoint that we are monitoring closely. I do not think the numbers at the end of the day—and Bill and I have looked at them and ran some sensitivities—I do not think they are going to be huge at these levels. They clearly are not going to be positive. They will have a negative impact, but they are not going to be huge. To be honest, Greg, what is on our mind a bit more is what does that do from a demand standpoint in Europe when energy is elevated and when you start seeing CEOs of industrial companies and e-commerce consumers and so on just get a little bit more cautious. That is the piece that we are monitoring. We do not have a great answer on it right now because it just happened in the last few days. I think the demand piece is the piece that could have a bigger impact. I feel from a cost standpoint on the Dutch TTF gas, yes, we have some exposure, but I think it is under control.

Yep. Okay. I guess last one for me, how do you think about unlocking shareholder value? I mean, you think about what happened in 2025. You made a lot of important steps. You won some meaningful business that is just getting started. Given where the stock is, the value of the PPS business, automation, your Pickle ownership, maybe you could just give us some thoughts on how you expect to unlock some of that value over time.

Yeah, sure. Look, I will be the first to say 2025 did not play out the way we expected. We entered 2025 thinking we are going to structure two important transactions for us with two large customers, and that will be the beginning of starting to unlock shareholder value. Obviously, through a whole host of things, including, frankly, tariffs, the year did not play out as expected. I would say the best way I think about unlocking shareholder value from here, Greg, is to the comment I said a few months ago that we believe we can double the top line of this business and really drive significant growth in EBITDA. I think the best way to describe that is what is the bridge to doing that? I think our largest two customers—we have said that they could deliver more than $1 billion in revenue in the next 8–10 years. We think in the next few years, we are working with them on a number of projects to accelerate some of their spend and some of their buying from us. We think these two large relationships are going to drive a very big chunk of the growth toward that bridge to $800 million in total in the next number of years. We think the switch from plastic to paper, in particular in the U.S. with large enterprise accounts, with other accounts that we are working with our distribution channel and some of the efforts there, is going to drive some real volume growth. We think localizing in Asia-Pacific and becoming more competitive from a pricing standpoint is going to drive significant growth there and rerate our business at that level. We have a number of new initiatives that we have been working on the last couple of years that we think will materialize from a revenue standpoint, things like cold chain and things like new product developments that we are working on. Frankly, last but not least, the most important piece. We think automation is a grower of 30%–50% in the next number of years per year. You run basic math, my confidence in now surpassing the $100 million is quite high, and that is going to be a pretty big bridge towards also helping us grow into that $800 million. You put these building blocks together, we think that is what is going to rerate the company. As we execute on these endeavors, Greg, we think that will be driving shareholder value.

By the way, just given Amazon’s—you talked about the plastic to paper switch. Given what Amazon has done, what Walmart is doing, have you noticed any other major behavioral changes in the market in the U.S. specifically?

We are, and this is a big part of our wins in enterprise accounts, and this is a big part of our discussions with accounts in 2026 that we think can drive growth. It is very hard to give you an exact timeline of when that switch is going to happen with some of these accounts. We absolutely feel it like a tailwind that there are more and more large enterprise accounts that want to switch to that substrate. I think the consumer has spoken, and the consumer wants less single-use plastic. I think that is going to play a factor in terms of our growth. Yes, we are seeing that. Obviously, we are not going to talk account by account on those names. Walmart and Amazon are unique. They are unique in their size, they are unique now in their relationship with us. I think that trend is a bit broader. The timing is the piece that is a bit harder. Frankly, Greg, not only is that trend happening and helping us, but the protective packaging space is consolidating. There are different transactions that, some were announced and others that people are working on. The table is changing, and we believe both from a substrate standpoint and a strategic standpoint, we are well-positioned to drive growth and drive shareholder value as you discussed.

Okay. Best of luck. Thanks.

Thank you.

We have no further questions. I would like to turn the call back to Bill Drew for closing remarks.

Thank you, Julianne, and thank you all for joining us today. We look forward to speaking again following Q1.

This concludes today’s conference call. Thank you for your participation. You may now disconnect.