BlueLinx (BXC) Q1 2026 Earnings Transcript

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Wed, May 6, 2026 astatine 10:41 AM CDT 25 min read

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DATE

Wednesday, May 6, 2026 astatine 10 a.m. ET

CALL PARTICIPANTS

• Chief Executive Officer — Shyam K. Reddy

• Chief Financial Officer — Christopher Kelly Wall

• Chairman of the Board — Thomas C. Morabito

Full Conference Call Transcript

Shyam K. Reddy: Thanks, Tom. Good morning, everyone. We are disconnected to a bully commencement successful 2026, arsenic our archetypal 4th results bespeak our quality to vie efficaciously and present affirmative show contempt marketplace headwinds, unforeseen outgo inflation, and competitory pricing pressure. Our disciplined attack to executing our transmission and merchandise strategies enabled america to negociate margins and to proceed increasing volumes crossed aggregate merchandise categories and cardinal lawsuit channels. During the archetypal quarter, revenues accrued 3% year-over-year, driven chiefly by Distero specialty income and higher volumes successful our cardinal specialty merchandise categories, which helped offset ongoing pricing unit successful specialty and structural products and borderline unit successful specialty products.

Specialty and structural gross margins were 18.1% and 10.9%, respectively, reflecting the spot of our lawsuit worth proposition and effectual inventory management. Our specialty merchandise strategy continues to present results, with engineered wood, siding, millwork, industrial, outdoor surviving products, and different specialty products representing 70% of nett income and astir 80% of gross nett successful the quarter. While wide marketplace conditions stay soft, our deliberate alignment of cardinal supplier branded merchandise enlargement with strategical transmission maturation initiatives is enabling america to thrust amended commercialized outcomes and allocate moving superior much effectively.

Last week’s announcement of Westlake Royal’s TrueExterior siding and trim products successful 12 BlueLinx Holdings Inc. markets, including six of the country’s apical 50 MSAs, reinforces our committedness to this alignment. As you tin see, our commercialized strategical absorption and our lawsuit worth proposition are accelerating our merchandise and geographic enlargement efforts with cardinal vendors. We proceed to spot affirmative momentum crossed our commercialized maturation vectors: the multifamily channel, builder pull-through initiatives, and nationalist accounts business, each of which are cardinal elements of our transmission strategy. These efforts are helping america thrust incremental volumes, person projects and customers to cardinal brands we carry, and fortify our presumption arsenic a preferred maturation spouse for suppliers.

While multifamily income typically impact longer inventory cycles and little gross margins owed to nonstop income and competitory pricing, this transmission remains an important root of request and a captious constituent of our semipermanent maturation strategy to enactment full lodging starts astatine scale. Operationally, our results besides bespeak disciplined inventory management. Our quality to rapidly set inventory levels to marketplace conditions demonstrates the spot of our commercialized execution and operating discipline. As marketplace conditions improve, we expect these organization capabilities to enactment stronger currency travel generation. From a strategical accelerant perspective, we proceed to marque meaningful advancement successful our AI and integer translation initiatives, with peculiar absorption connected enhancing our maestro information level and optimizing our Oracle Transportation Management system.