TSS (TSSI) Q3 2026 Earnings Call Transcript

DATE

Thursday, Nov. 5, 2026

CALL PARTICIPANTS

• President and CEO - Darryll Dewan
• CFO - Danny Chism

TAKEAWAYS

• Revenue -- $50.1 million, representing 20% growth year over year driven primarily by record performance in the systems integration segment.
• Systems Integration Revenue -- $16.1 million, increasing 75% year over year due to accelerating demand for artificial intelligence (AI) and high-performance computing infrastructure.
• Procurement Services Revenue -- $32.4 million, up 4% year over year as customer order timing returned to a typical quarterly range of $20 million to $40 million.
• Facilities Management Revenue -- $1.1 million, a 30% decrease year over year following the decommissioning of several older modular data centers.
• Adjusted EBITDA -- $4.7 million, increasing 225% year over year as the company shifted toward its higher-margin systems integration business.
• Full-Year 2026 Adjusted EBITDA Guidance -- $21 million to $23 million, raised from previous outlooks due to visibility into a robust customer pipeline for the fourth quarter.
• Rack Integration Volume -- 248% increase year over year and 57% sequential growth, reflecting higher volumes of both direct liquid cooled AI racks and air cooled networking racks.
• Infrastructure Investment -- $14 million invested through the third quarter of an expected $17 million to $18 million total to prepare for next-generation platforms like NVIDIA's Vera Rubin architecture.
• Blended Gross Margin -- 17.2%, up from 11.1% in the prior year quarter as systems integration increased to 32% of total revenues.
• Systems Integration Gross Margin -- 35.4%, rising from 12.9% in the prior year period when the company incurred higher start-up costs before revenue contributions from new agreements.
• Warehousing Expansion -- 380,000 square feet of additional space leased for seven years in Georgetown, Texas, to support increased staging and storage requirements for a primary customer.
• GAAP Diluted EPS -- $0.04, an improvement from a loss of $0.06 per share in the third quarter of the previous year.
• Unrestricted Cash -- $54 million at quarter end, providing capital to support ongoing operational scaling and technical upgrades.
• SG&A Expenses -- $6.1 million, up from $5.2 million due to increased headcount-related costs and noncash equity-based compensation required for scaling operations.
• Operating Income -- $1.2 million, compared to an operating loss of $1.8 million in the prior year quarter, reflecting improved revenue mix and profitability.
• Effective Tax Rate -- 22.7%, with management projecting approximately 25.5% for the fourth quarter after the release of most valuation allowances in December 2025.
• Total Debt -- $15.1 million, with the company maintaining a leverage ratio below 1:1.
• Warehousing Service Revenue -- $800,000, representing revenue from warehousing activities excluding the lease component of the facilities.
• SG&A as Percentage of Gross Profit -- 71%, improving from 113% in the prior year quarter as gross profit growth outpaced the increase in operating expenses.
• Depreciation and Amortization -- $1.5 million, up from $1.4 million due to incremental depreciation recognized for power and cooling upgrades placed into service.

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RISKS

• Chism stated, "As we outsource the daily management of the warehouses to a 3PL provider specializing in such services, we expect the margins on the warehousing service to be a bit lower than the remainder of our Systems Integration business," which will likely decrease the overall reported margin for that segment.
• Dewan noted that "customer spending and project timing can vary and individual deployments may shift based on equipment availability and customer priorities," introducing potential quarterly fluctuations in procurement and integration timelines.

SUMMARY

TSS, Inc. (NASDAQ:TSSI) reported record systems integration revenue as the company focused on demand for artificial intelligence and high-performance computing infrastructure. Management indicated that the expansion of warehouse capacity in Georgetown, Texas, supports more complex supply chain requirements and reduces the impact of potential supply chain shortages. The company raised its full-year profitability outlook based on expected volume growth in both AI and mainstream racks. Dewan noted that modular data center designs are evolving to incorporate factory-integrated solutions to accelerate market entry.

• Management expects to begin realizing returns from its $17 million to $18 million infrastructure investment in the fourth quarter.
• The company is preparing for next-generation platforms, including the NVIDIA Vera Rubin architecture, with power and cooling upgrades expected to be completed shortly after the third quarter.
• Dewan stated, "Our goal is to deliver quality solutions in record time so that end-user customers can rapidly gain value."
• The company plans to deploy a new modular data center in the fourth quarter, which management expects will increase discrete project revenue.
• Chism indicated that the company still has substantial net operating loss carryforwards available to offset future income tax provisions.
• Dewan noted that the company has the capacity to double or triple its integration revenue within its current facility through operational improvements and increased throughput.
• Management stated that the additional warehouse space proximity to the integration facility provides an operational advantage for managing material flows.

INDUSTRY GLOSSARY

• 3PL (Third-Party Logistics): An external provider that manages a company's warehousing, distribution, and fulfillment services.
• Adjusted EBITDA: A non-GAAP financial measure used to evaluate operating performance by excluding interest, taxes, depreciation, amortization, and other specific adjustments.
• Hyperscalers: Large-scale cloud service providers that operate massive data centers and infrastructure.
• L11/L12: Industry designations for specific stages of server and rack integration; L11 refers to rack-level integration, while L12 includes full networking and testing.
• Modular Data Center (MDC): A portable, prefabricated system designed to provide data center capacity at the network edge or in remote locations.
• Net Operating Loss (NOL): A tax credit that occurs when tax-deductible expenses exceed taxable income, which can be used to offset future tax liabilities.
• Remaining Performance Obligations (RPO): The total value of contracted work that has not yet been completed or recognized as revenue.
• Vera Rubin: A next-generation computing architecture developed by NVIDIA for AI and high-performance workloads.

Full Conference Call Transcript

Operator: Good afternoon. At this time, I would like to welcome everyone to the TSS Third Quarter 2026 Earnings Call. Please note that today's call is being recorded. [Operator Instructions] I will now turn the call over to James Carbonara with Hayden IR. Please go ahead, sir.

James Carbonara: Thank you, operator, and good afternoon, everyone. Thank you for joining us for TSS' conference call to discuss the company's Third Quarter 2026 Financial Results. Joining me on the call today are the company's President and CEO, Darryll Dewan; and its CFO, Danny Chism. As we begin the call, I would like to remind everyone to take note of the cautionary language regarding forward-looking statements contained in the press release we issued today. That same language applies to comments and statements made on today's conference call. This call will contain time-sensitive information as well as forward-looking statements, which are accurate only as of today, November 5, 2026.

TSS expressly disclaims any obligation to update, amend, supplement or otherwise review any information or forward-looking statements made on this conference call or the replay to reflect events or circumstances that may change or arise after the date indicated, except as otherwise required by applicable law. For a list of the risks and uncertainties that may affect the company's future performance, please refer to the company's periodic filings with the SEC. In addition, we will be referring to non-GAAP financial measures. A reconciliation of the differences between these measures and the most directly comparable financial measures calculated in accordance with U.S. GAAP is included in today's press release. With that, Darryll, I will turn the call over to you.

Darryll Dewan: Thank you, James. I'm very excited to report that during the third quarter, we executed our core strategy to capitalize on accelerating demand for AI and high-performance computing infrastructure. We invested in our Systems Integration business while expanding our capabilities and positioning TSS for further growth. I'll touch on what we're seeing in terms of market development and our strategic positioning. We delivered a strong quarter with total revenue increasing 20% year-over-year to $50 million and record systems integration revenue growing 75% to $16.1 million. Importantly, growth in this higher-margin business contributed to a significant improvement in overall profitability with adjusted EBITDA increasing 225% to $4.7 million.

These results demonstrate the progress we are making in executing our strategy and expanding our role in increasingly complex AI infrastructure deployments. While procurement continues to experience variability in customer order timing, revenue rebounded as we guided in our previous earnings call to within our historical range during the quarter. We remain focused on building on the increasing momentum and systems integration, improving our procurement sales and operations and developing our facilities management growth and revenue streams. We are investing in our production capacity and technical readiness needed to serve customers' evolving requirements. Beyond expanding our production capacity in our existing AI integration site in preparation for next-generation AI platforms, we recently announced the Georgetown, Texas, inventory warehousing expansion.

We believe these investments, together with disciplined execution, position TSS to pursue additional revenue opportunities and support profitable growth in 2027 and beyond. An important development this quarter was our announcement of a 7-year lease for approximately 380,000 square feet of additional warehouse space at the Berry Creek Business Park in Georgetown, Texas, less than a mile from our existing integration facility. In parallel with this agreement, we signed a 7-year agreement with our largest customer to use this dedicated facility to provide warehousing services. This is a strategic investment in our ability to support growing customer volumes and increasingly complex supply chain requirements associated with AI and high-performance computing infrastructure.

As these systems become more powerful and sophisticated, customers need more than integration capacity. They also need the ability to receive, stage, store and manage significant volumes of high-value equipment and components efficiently to rapidly deploy to our production facility with an eye towards reducing the impact of periodic supply chain shortages by having more days inventory on hand. Our goal is to deliver quality solutions in record time so that end-user customers can rapidly gain value. The additional space dedicated to further supporting our primary customer will provide greater flexibility to manage inventory, coordinate material flows and support multiple customer programs simultaneously. Its proximity to our integration facility is a very important operational advantage.

The expansion will come online in phases. In October, we took possession of one building covering roughly 126,000 square feet and started using it to store customer material while the landlord completes the tenant improvements in the larger building. We expect to fully utilize both buildings once the tenant improvements are completed in 2027. The broader demand environment for AI and high-performance computing infrastructure continues to shape our opportunity set, and we are focused on positioning TSS to participate in this market. The landscape continues to evolve. Companies continue to seek to expand as rapidly as possible to meet the shortage of compute memory and data center capacity available.

Neo-cloud providers, hyperscalers and other technology companies continue to invest in computing capacity to support increasingly demanding AI workloads. For TSS, the opportunity extends beyond higher volumes of equipment. These deployments are becoming more complex with greater integration requirements and more demanding power, cooling and networking and logistics needs. I will touch on this more in a moment, but we also see the trend moving to prefabricated factory integration modular solutions to accelerate time to market and reduce deployment costs. We believe these trends reinforce the value of our integration, procurement and facilities management capabilities. Customer need partners that can coordinate equipment sourcing, prepare systems for deployment and provide ongoing support as their infrastructure expands.

We recognize that customer spending and project timing can vary and individual deployments may shift based on equipment availability and customer priorities. Nevertheless, we believe the long-term need for AI and high-performance computing infrastructure provides an attractive opportunity for TSS. Our priority is to convert that demand into profitable growth while ensuring our investments remain aligned with customer requirements. Systems integration continues to be a key driver of our growth as we focus on meeting increasing customer demand. During the third quarter, systems integration revenue reached a record $16.1 million, up 75% year-over-year and 16% sequentially. This performance reflects growing demand for our integration services in support of AI and high-performance computing infrastructure deployments.

Importantly, we are seeing continued higher volumes across both complex direct liquid cooled technology AI racks and mainstream air cooled and networking racks, reflecting demand across multiple areas of our Systems Integration business. Based on current activity and our visibility into customer programs, we expect these volume trends to continue to grow in Q4 and into 2027. During the third quarter, we processed 248% more racks compared to the prior year period and 57% more than we integrated just the last quarter. Based on what we have seen to date and what's in the pipeline, we currently expect further acceleration in our sequential quarterly growth in the fourth quarter and into 2027.

The incremental contribution from the new Berry Creek warehouse should supplement rack volume-led growth. We're also focused on increasing throughput, improving operational efficiency and maintaining quality as systems complexities grow. Our objective is to scale our integration capabilities while continuing to meet customer expectations for execution, reliability and delivery. An important part of this effort is preparing for the next-generation platforms, including NVIDIA's Vera Rubin architecture. Through the end of the third quarter, we invested just over $13 million of the expected $17 million in infrastructure readiness to address the additional power, cooling and other technical requirements associated with these systems with the remainder of that upgrade to be completed shortly after quarter end.

We anticipate amending our agreement with our customer to take this investment into consideration with returns from this investment beginning in the fourth quarter. This is an important step in aligning our [ infrastructure ] investments with the requirements of these increasingly complex systems and the business opportunities they support. Looking ahead, we believe systems integration is well positioned to remain an important growth driver for TSS. Our priorities are to convert customer demand into sustainable revenue growth, expand our technical and operating capabilities and maintain disciplined execution as we prepare for the next phase of AI infrastructure deployment.

Our Procurement business continues to play an important role in meeting customers' infrastructure requirements by sourcing the components and equipment needed for their deployments. At $32.4 million and representing a 4% growth year-over-year, our third quarter procurement revenue returned to its historic order range of $20 million to $40 million. As we have discussed in the past, procurement revenue can vary from quarter-to-quarter based on customer order timing, project schedules, component availability and inventory requirements. While this variability can result in meaningful quarterly fluctuations, we remain focused on improving execution and operational efficiency. We continue to work closely with customers and suppliers to coordinate equipment sourcing and deliveries.

Our focus remains on expanding opportunities, reliable execution, responsive customer service and disciplined inventory and working capital management. Looking ahead, procurement complements our integration capabilities and helps us support customers across more stages of the infrastructure deployment process. We recently enhanced the team that focuses on selling and expanded our reach to ensure this remains an important part of our business. Facilities management is our Modular Data Center business, where we integrate IT technologies along with power and cooling solutions into specialized containers and deploy to the edge environment and provide ongoing sustained services for the environment. During the third quarter, facilities management revenue was approximately $1.1 million, down 30% year-over-year.

While revenues, business can vary based on customer activity and service timing, we continue to see opportunities to support customers as their installed infrastructure expands and their ongoing maintenance and operational needs evolve. The current quarter represents primarily revenues from preventative maintenance agreements, whereas we periodically see spikes in revenue from discrete projects such as refurbishments, battery replacements or similar project work. We expect an increase in the fourth quarter's results as we deploy a new customer, MDC, and are scheduled to deliver other larger, more complex MDCs in 2027. Historically, the Modular business serves 2 distinct markets: hyperscalers, where containers were delivered to augment data center capacity and the enterprise where single stand-alone containers serve specific purposes.

In recent years, the modular market was quiet as the focus of capital spending had turned to massive AI sites. AI data center design has grown increasingly complex for several reasons. First, inter-rack cabling is far more complex in AI data centers as for training model purposes, each server must be able to retrieve data from any other server. Second, power distribution is at far larger capacities within the data center, not just to it. And third, cooling methodologies have been stressed due to both the heat generated by significantly more dense racks and due to the combination of air cooling and liquid cooling.

Data center design is progressing to considering modular solutions where racks can be "bundled" together along with network, power and cooling in a factory. Modules can potentially be deployed far more rapidly than individual racks. Finally, the turnover of IT equipment over time is likely to be more efficient in modular solutions where entire modules can be refreshed with new IT. Product announcements from large chip producers and hyperscalers indicate modular solutions are gaining traction. We're in these discussions, and we will report further as discussions progress. Further, the need to source power for AI data centers has been well documented.

Numerous strategies have emerged to place data center capacity near energy sources where energy can be made available at advantageous cost, but for other reasons, locations do not suit a hyperscaler site. Modular solutions are attractive. In recent months, we have seen an influx of concepts along these lines. Our FM business generates revenue from deployment and from ongoing maintenance. We will be seeking to extend our services in order to maximize opportunities. While modular is a relatively small part of our overall revenues today, it has the potential to grow to be a much larger contributor in coming quarters.

Across the business, we remain focused on converting customer demand into profitable growth through strong execution, continued development of our commercial capabilities and disciplined investment. Our Vera Rubin readiness initiatives and Georgetown warehouse expansion address complementary needs. The infrastructure investments prepare us to support more demanding next-generation computing systems, while the additional warehouse capacity improves our ability to manage equipment and materials that flow through the operations. Beyond facilities and equipment, successful execution requires appropriate staffing, technical training, testing capabilities and operating processes. We continue to hire the best talent. We have a dedicated team to help rapid sourcing of talent to meet our growth goals.

We are ensuring our teams are prepared to meet evolving customer requirements while maintaining the quality and the reliability our customers expect. At the same time, we are taking a measured approach to investment. We want to ensure that TSS has the capabilities and capacity needed to capture growth opportunities without getting too far ahead of customer demand. We will continue to evaluate the timing of expenditures and the pace at which new capacity becomes productive with a focus on financial discipline and returns over time. We believe these investments can strengthen our operating platform, support larger customer programs and create opportunities for incremental revenue and earnings in 2027 and beyond.

So looking ahead, we are encouraged by the momentum in our Systems Integration business and the visibility we have into our customers' robust pipeline. Based on these factors, we anticipate further growth in the fourth quarter. And as a result, we are raising our full year 2026 adjusted EBITDA outlook to a range of $21 million to $23 million. We expect systems integration revenue to increase beyond the level achieved in the third quarter, supported by continued higher volumes across both AI and mainstream racks as well as some incremental contribution from our warehousing services. Furthermore, we expect this growth to continue in 2027.

This updated outlook reflects our confidence in the progress we've made particularly in systems integration and our continued focus on improving our business mix and operating performance. Thank you to our employees for their continued efforts and to our customers and partners for their confidence in TSS. We look forward to updating you on our progress. So now let me turn the call over to Danny, who will discuss our financial results in more detail. Danny?

Daniel Chism: Thanks, Darryll. Good afternoon, everyone. Let's get into the results. Total revenue for the third quarter increased 20% to $50.1 million, an increase of $8.2 million from the prior year quarter. The year-over-year growth was primarily driven by strong performance in systems integration, which benefited from increased customer demand and higher activity levels as well as an additional contribution from our warehousing activities, which began in May. Procurement revenue also increased modestly year-over-year, while facilities management revenue declined. Overall, the results reflect continued momentum in our higher-margin Systems Integration business and the positive impact of our ongoing efforts to improve our revenue mix and profitability.

Taking a closer look at each segment, revenue from our Procurement Services segment was $32.4 million, an increase of 4% compared with the prior year quarter. This represents a return to our more typical $20 million to $40 million quarterly range as we indicated we expected in our last quarterly call. With little required infrastructure or headcount supporting this business, we enjoy the upside when higher volumes materialize, but lower volume quarters do not necessarily represent a large risk as the fixed cost structure is relatively small. Revenue from our Systems Integration segment was $16.1 million, up 75% from $9.2 million in the prior year quarter.

This also represents a breakout from the $14 million range we've seen in the last few quarters, up 16% from the second quarter of this year. Notably, the increase reflects strong growth in both our AI business and our mainstream Rack business. Systems integration continues to be a key driver of growth for TSS and represents a structurally higher-margin business compared with the procurement services. We expect further growth in this segment in the fourth quarter and into 2027. As Darryll discussed, we're expanding our warehouse capacity in Georgetown to support growing customer volumes and the continued growth of our integration and inventory management services.

On our income statement, you see operating lease income and cost of lease operations each of approximately $400,000, representing only the revenue and costs related to the facility itself. Also included in the systems integration revenues is approximately $800,000 related to the quarter's warehousing services other than the lease component. As we bring the additional space online, we believe it will not only provide incremental revenue and gross profit from the warehousing activities themselves, but also position us to support higher volumes and pursue incremental revenue opportunities in 2027 and beyond.

As we outsource the daily management of the warehouses to a 3PL provider specializing in such services, we expect the margins on the warehousing service to be a bit lower than the remainder of our Systems Integration business. Although additive to earnings, this will slightly decrease the overall systems integration margin we anticipate reporting in future periods. During the third quarter, systems integration represented 32% of total revenues compared with 22% in the prior year period. As this business scales and we leverage its relatively fixed cost base, we expect it to continue increasing its importance as a contributor to gross profit and to overall profitability.

Through the end of September, we've invested about $14 million of the $17 million to $18 million total that we previously indicated would be needed to prepare our infrastructure for the next-generation platforms, including Vera Rubin consisting primarily of power and cooling upgrades. We placed a large portion of those upgrades into service in the third quarter and as a result, recognized incremental depreciation of roughly $155,000 in the quarter related to these additions. We anticipate amending our multiyear rack integration agreement in the fourth quarter following completion of this investment, after which we expect our revenues to increase in relation to the use of those assets.

We expect to fully recover this incremental investment over the remainder of our multiyear AI rack integration agreement. We continue to see robust demand for both mainstream and AI rack integration and expect further expansion of that revenue stream in Q4. Revenue from our Facilities Management segment was $1.1 million, down a bit less than $0.5 million from this quarter last year. Maintenance revenues were $753,000 compared with $1 million in the prior year quarter, with several older modular data centers decommissioned over the past year. Discrete project revenues were $366,000 in the current quarter compared to $577,000 in Q3 of 2025.

In the fourth quarter of this year, we expect a lift in discrete project work as we deploy a new MDC. We're beginning to see greater interest in this business line as another larger MDC is expected to be deployed during 2027. Following deployment, new MDCs typically generate multiyear preventative maintenance agreements. Consolidated gross profit was $8.6 million for the third quarter of 2026, an increase of 86% year-over-year. Our blended gross margin was 17.2% compared with 11.1% in the prior year quarter. Even with the growth in our lower-margin Procurement business, the much greater growth in our higher-margin Systems Integration business more than outweighed its impact, pushing up the blended margin 610 basis points.

But more meaningful than the blended margin is the margin by business segment. Procurement services gross margin was 7% compared to 8.3% in the prior year quarter. When viewed using the non-GAAP gross value of all transactions, which we believe provides a more comparable view of procurement economics, gross margin was 5.0% compared with 5.3% in the prior year period. Facilities management gross margin was 47.4% compared with 55.4% this quarter last year. We previously noted that margins in this business are typically around 50%, although they can vary based on project mix and contract-specific costs. Facilities management gross profit was $530,000 compared with $881,000 in the prior year quarter.

Systems Integration gross margin was 35.4% compared with 12.9% in the prior year quarter. In the prior year period, we incurred additional power and depreciation costs related to investments in our systems integration infrastructure before those investments began contributing to incremental revenue under our amended AI rack integration agreement, which was signed in December of 2025. In the current quarter, we benefited from the revenue contribution of those investments, higher rack volumes and the addition of warehousing and logistics services that began in May 2026.

As mentioned a moment ago, we expect the expansion of our warehousing services in Q4 to provide incremental gross profit dollars but slightly decrease the overall margin in this business as the warehousing services bear a lower margin than our other systems integration work. Selling, general and administrative expenses were $6.1 million compared with $5.2 million in the prior year period. The change was primarily driven by higher noncash equity-based compensation, headcount-related compensation costs to support the growing scale of the organization. Included this quarter was a cumulative catch-up cost of about $150,000 for a performance stock grant made in January, but which we first deemed probable of vesting in the current quarter.

While the dollar amount of SG&A expenses grew with the scaling of the organization, these costs improved as a percentage of gross profit from 113% in the prior year quarter to 71% in the current quarter, reflecting the growth in gross profit far outpacing the ramping of SG&A spend. We continue to take a disciplined approach to managing our cost structure while investing in the resources necessary to support long-term growth. The $285,000 loss on sale or disposal of assets was more than offset by a slightly larger amount included in our systems integration revenues, representing a customer's reimbursement of these costs.

Operating income improved by $2.9 million year-over-year, swinging from $1.8 million loss in the prior year period to almost $1.2 million of operating income this quarter. This improvement reflects the improved revenue and gross profit stemming from both the December 2025 renegotiation of our AI rack integration agreement as well as recent increases in the business activity. Looking ahead, we expect revenue to continue growing faster than SG&A and operating costs, which we believe should further support improvement in operating income and margins throughout the remainder of the year. Interest expense was $310,000 compared with $121,000 in the prior year period and $322,000 last quarter.

Most of the interest incurred this quarter last year was capitalized as a portion of the build-out of our new facility that was completed mid-quarter with the recorded interest expense representing only the interest incurred after that point. Interest income was $633,000 compared to $434,000 in the prior year quarter, primarily reflecting a higher average cash balance following the addition of proceeds from the equity offering we completed in August of 2025. Income tax expense was $338,000 compared with $50,000 in the prior year quarter. Our effective tax rate for the quarter was 22.7% compared with 3.5% in the prior year period. Historically, we maintained a full valuation allowance against our deferred tax assets.

However, following our improved financial performance and our expectation of continued taxable income, we released most of the valuation allowance in December of 2025. As a result, we now generally recognize income tax expense at applicable federal and state rates, subject to adjustments for items such as tax benefits related to employee stock compensation. Looking ahead, we expect our effective tax rate in the fourth quarter of this year to be approximately 25.5%, resulting in an estimated full year effective tax rate of around 22%.

Of note, we still have substantial NOL carryforwards available to offset any income tax provisions, so taxes paid in cash are expected to be substantially less than the income tax expense recorded on our income statement. Net income for the quarter was $1.1 million or $0.04 per diluted share compared with a net loss of $1.5 million or $0.06 per share in the prior year quarter. Adjusted EBITDA was $4.7 million, up 225% year-over-year, reflecting the cumulative effect of all the contributing factors just discussed. Year-to-date adjusted EBITDA was $14.5 million compared to $10.7 million in the prior year period. Turning to the balance sheet.

We ended the quarter with $54 million in unrestricted cash and cash equivalents and $15.1 million in total debt. Our leverage ratio remained below 1:1 for the third quarter, reflecting the strength of both our growing EBITDA and our low debt load. In summary, we made continued progress in growing systems integration, improving our overall profitability and executing on our strategic priorities. With continued momentum in systems integration and visibility into our pipeline, we remain confident in our upwardly revised outlook for the remainder of the year and focused on positioning TSS for sustainable, profitable growth. With that, I'll turn the call back over to Darryll.

Darryll Dewan: Danny, thank you so much. I'm pleased to report that we are executing our plan and our growth outlook is very strong. We're in a very dynamic market environment, and we remain focused on profitable growth, strategic enhancements, rapidly delivering solutions to customers and being a great partner with our key customers. Our key hires leading our executive strategy and technology initiatives are making great progress, and we're actively engaging in strategic growth discussions. We hope to share news soon. Our team is stronger and focused on execution. Operator, we're ready now to take questions.

Operator: [Operator Instructions] And your first question today is coming from Matt Calitri from Needham.

Matthew Calitri: Matt Calitri from Needham here. And great to see the systems integration growth in the quarter. On that front, can you share any detail on like how consistently you delivered over the minimum capacity amount during this quarter? And are there any sort of guardrails you can give on how much higher systems integration revenue can go, particularly in the context of the 4Q adjusted EBITDA ramp that's now required to hit the increased guide?

Daniel Chism: Yes. Sure, Matt. Thanks for the question. Yes. So I would say we are more consistently exceeding the minimum quantities, but not every week. As you know, those are measured weekly. So still some pretty good opportunity, I think, to perform up from where we are currently, but that's certainly reflective of hitting that minimum or exceeding the minimum more often. The other one that was nice to see come back, if you recall last quarter, we had mentioned that we were seeing more AI volume, but we had seen a good bit less of the -- what we call mainstream, which was traditional CPU, network racks, storage racks.

We saw growth in both businesses this quarter, and that's part of what you see in those numbers. As far as guardrails for going forward, I think that's a little tougher to put guardrails on that. We continue to see robust demand. I know the general market is feeling a little bit more pressure right now. Frankly, the volumes we see continue to be huge. So we're excited about it, not just volumes today, but the pipeline. So that, I think, is all encouraging. And the other one that should start contributing a good bit in the fourth quarter is, if you recall, we were putting in about $17 million to $18 million of CapEx for Vera Rubin readiness.

I'm anticipating driving incremental revenue starting in Q4 directly from that investment as well.

Darryll Dewan: Yes, Matt, Darryll. Let me add to that. Danny, thank you. You asked a good question. What could we do, I think, in the facility where we're at, I think we've got the ability to double and triple the kind of revenue that we have on the integration business in our current facility. As you know, we just added a couple of new warehouse locations just down the street. And we're pretty actively involved looking at the local market to see what else we could expand to if we need to. We're blessed with a good amount of electrical power, we can get more, which is usually the long pole in the tent, getting more electricity to the facility.

And I think we're good for that for the time being in the foreseeable future. So I think we're good, and we've got upside where we're at.

Matthew Calitri: Awesome. And so on that adjusted EBITDA ramp, right? So looking at the $14.5 million you guys have delivered year-to-date versus the raised target here and that implied 4Q value is -- so obviously, you spoke about like increased revenue, understood on the dynamic with the warehousing where it will contribute dollars, but dilute margin to a certain degree. Is there anything else to consider there that's given you confidence in that raised target?

Daniel Chism: Yes. I think you hit on the big ones. The other one, if you recall in my comments that I shared, we will be deploying another MDC in the fourth quarter. So I expect the facilities management revenues to bump up a bit due to that. And that generally comes through at a pretty good margin. If you recall, that business carries roughly a 50% margin, plus or minus a few points. So that should add some. But really, the biggest driver really gets to the rack volume, the incremental contribution from the warehousing that we've expanded into this year, the incremental contribution from the CapEx recapture from the Vera Rubin.

And just the pipeline and volume that we see coming, right? We've actively been working that. I know we indicated that last quarter. We are, in fact, seeing the volume that we indicated that we expected to. So those are all, I think, going to be good contributing factors. I expect to continue to see particularly the systems integration revenues increase from here.

Matthew Calitri: That's great. And maybe just one more on -- so thinking about that pipeline and obviously, the you said you deployed some of that warehouse capacity with more coming on next year, and we've kind of talked in the past about just some steps that your strategic customers is taking with their own supply chain. What did you see this quarter in terms of like improvement there that allowed you guys to hit that minimum commitment more consistently? And how much more optimization can be done there?

Darryll Dewan: Yes, Matt, I think what we've actually focused on is operational excellence. And we continue to work on that on a day-by-day basis. And we have a very trusted collaborative relationship with our key customer. And we're very actively involved in conversations about how we can improve and how we can scale. And we made some adjustments, we've made some improvements. And frankly, that coincides with a demand signal that's larger than it's ever been. So it's up to us to continue to lean in, in that relationship and make sure we've got the capability to deliver. And we've added people. We've added improved process.

We have an initiative underway that is looking at how we can restructure some of the data that we have floating around inside the company that will help us operationally internally and leveraging some advanced technology to help us do that. We're looking at ways to automate and streamline some of the process. That all sounds good, but at the same time, we have to deliver. And we've been able to deliver, and we've got a ways to go to continue to do that. And I'm optimistic that the relationship that we have will allow us to make the right kind of moves that we need to make to do more business together.

Operator: Your next question is coming from Alex Fuhrman from Lucid Capital.

Alex Fuhrman: Congratulations on continued strong results this year. Darryll, what else can you tell us about this 380,000 square foot warehouse that you're leasing? Can you tell us a little bit more about how that's going to enable you to grow more? You mentioned some things you'll be able to do with it, like helping customers warehouse additional pieces of equipment. I imagine you're not getting into this new space just to be warehousing equipment. Can you help me understand a little bit more about how this is going to unlock more growth for you and what this is about?

Darryll Dewan: Alex, good to hear from you. But I can say I saw the biggest lizard I've ever seen in my life in that new facility and probably as many cockroaches as we've ever seen before, but I think we're good now. And -- so the 2 facilities are largely designed to be storage and staging of inventory for our key customer relationship. There is a great opportunity for us to leverage the proximity to do more and to deliver faster, and we have an advantage. Our advantage is it's right down the street. We have now heck of a lot more space to store inventory.

And like I mentioned earlier in the comments, the area that we're in, we're good with power for the foreseeable future. And there are other locations that will allow us to expand if we needed to, to do more integration work both with our existing customer and possibly to do some expansion with -- outside with new customers. And of course, we're very conscious of our relationship with our existing strategic customer to make sure we don't do anything that goes out of balance, so to speak, or competes. And that's just a good business proposition that we march to. It's our goal. So the space is important. It's a significant amount of space.

In addition, we've got the Round Rock facility being used for inventory as well. So let's not forget about that site. And that's a lot of space, and it's a lot of inventory, and we're thinking we're going to need more. So we're going to -- well, we're planning for more. If we need it, we'll be ready.

Alex Fuhrman: Okay. That's really helpful. And then, obviously, your stock has taken a big hit with everyone else over the past couple of days here. Can you give us just a little more understanding about where the server racks that you're putting together are being used? If there were to be a little bit of a slowdown in new data center construction in the U.S., I mean, what does that do to your business? What are the opportunities for you to keep growing through something like that?

Darryll Dewan: That's a good question, Alex. How much time you have. I can tell you that from a standpoint of what's happening politically, we're just focused on execution. We don't see anything yet that has any material impact whatsoever and we are prepared to adjust if we need to. But if you think about the data center market, I mean, we're talking about -- there are data centers in motion that are going to be -- they're under construction as we speak.

And the ones that we're largely concerned about, I think, are years down and the moratoriums you read about and hear about, that's all fine and dandy, but what we're focused on is making sure we deliver to the customer demand signal, and it remains very strong. So we haven't seen anything yet that is concerning. We keep our eye out, of course, to make sure we're ready in case of anything. But right now, the way we're expanding with our rack integration and our systems integration business is it's AI, it's high-performance computing, it's network-oriented. it's air, it's direct liquid. And we've got to span. It's not just one product line. It's a variety of technologies.

So I think that the -- going on, I think the data center topic concerns me from the standpoint that I think I worry about the tighter constraints and the impact it will have on the United States and its ability to be competitive. Technology is an advantage in the world. And I think we'll be okay. I think we're going to just work through all this. And for us, we're just going to stay focused.

Daniel Chism: [indiscernible]

Darryll Dewan: And by the way, yes, I'm sorry, Danny, one other thing Alex, I was going to add is we're seeing an increase in conversations and interest in prefab in the modular data center space, which is really a faster time to market than expanding in data center in spite of everything we just talked about. And it's very socially responsible. It's environmentally more friendly. You can move it closer to the edge and where the compute is needed. You can take advantage of power and cheaper land. It's an interesting conversation that we are having underway as we speak.

Operator: Your next question is coming from Mac Furst from Singular Research.

Mac Furst: This is Mac Furst for Singular Research. I have a quick question about the 7-year agreement with your primary customer that you spoke about. Can you associate a dollar amount to that 7-year agreement, please?

Daniel Chism: We didn't put a dollar amount on that, Mac. And it's probably not one that I would put a specific number on. You can probably look at prevailing kind of rates for the rent piece of it itself, but that would be the minority of the revenue and the cost. Really, that ties more into the warehousing activity and the people of running it and logistics of shipping material from there to our integration facility. So I'm not sure we'll spike that out separately. I do expect that to contribute to the fourth quarter. But that's -- as I said, it's going to be a little bit lower margin than our normal systems integration business.

But all by itself, it will still generate a positive margin. So anything additive there will be additive to the total.

Mac Furst: Understand. By the way, congrats on the quarter.

Daniel Chism: Thank you. Appreciate that Mac.

Operator: [Operator Instructions] Your next question is coming from Kris Tuttle from Blue Caterpillar.

Kris Tuttle: I'm going to limit it here. So great job on the systems integration revenue growth. It's the one we've all been focused on. And I'm curious, if we look at the investments you're making in inventory management, supply chain, let's call it, would -- do those investments help you with maintaining a consistent systems integration revenue line? For instance, you talked earlier in the call about meeting your minimums and we -- will those investments basically enable you to remove some of the governors on your ability to generate SI revenues in future quarters?

Darryll Dewan: Kris, good to hear from you. Absolutely, the answer is yes. So the investments we've made were designed and are in motion to help us get the additional volume. Simply put, that's why we made the investments, and it's important for us to continue to look at how can we make additional investments if needed to scale. So we made the investments in power. We made the investments in validation stations and the configuration of power. So we're Vera Rubin ready, and we anticipate demand from Vera Rubin in December, January. The increase in business that we've seen so far is around a number of different products. So we're excited about the bigger picture and where we're going.

But so far, the investments we've made are absolutely designed to help us get more business volume.

Kris Tuttle: Okay. A couple of technical questions. NVIDIA was at the Open Compute forum, and they were talking about how challenging they found 800 VDC versus maybe what they thought before they started. And it sounds like you all are prepared for that if you're going to be integrating VR systems in December, January. Could you maybe just add a little color from your experience there on that?

Darryll Dewan: Yes. Kris, would you -- you broke up just a little bit when you're referring to the NVIDIA, maybe it's on my end. Would you repeat that section, the question?

Kris Tuttle: Yes. It just -- really, I'm just asking about -- it sounds like you guys are comfortable and confident in your 800 VDC power solution to support Vera Rubin. And I just wanted a little bit more color from you on that because not everybody has had that kind of experience with moving to 800 VDC.

Darryll Dewan: Good question. We're ready is the way I would answer it. We're ready for that. I wouldn't say we're comfortable because you never can really get comfortable in the business we're in, but we're optimistic. And I think we'll see how this all plays out. It's really kind of early -- too early for me to comment more on that other than we're ready, and we'll adapt as we go.

Kris Tuttle: Okay. The last thing, and then I'll follow up with you later. But remind me what is in the RPO line, the big chunk of it, the -- I think the majority, $100 million plus. Remind me what's in the RPO line?

Darryll Dewan: The RPO line, what's that mean?

Kris Tuttle: Maybe that's Danny -- Remaining Performance Obligations, it's in the queue.

Darryll Dewan: Got it. I thought that was a new chip.

Kris Tuttle: Sorry. No. I mean, RPO is not a bad name, but Danny knows what I'm talking about.

Daniel Chism: Yes. The reference to RPO threw me, but yes, Remaining Performance Obligations. So there's some involved in that in our multiyear AI rack integration business where we are committed to perform that for a certain period of time. And then also what you're seeing in there now are some incremental services that are required around the warehousing services. So you're -- where that in the past may have been a little more useful in predicting kind of future systems integration revenues, it's really more of a mixed bag of a couple of different service lines there, but it's still tied primarily to systems integration.

Kris Tuttle: Okay. And then I want to circle -- just circle back on maybe a question I could have asked more precisely. It sounds like you're expecting Vera Rubin integration requirements and commercialization to be happening in Q1 of 2027 based on everything that you see.

Darryll Dewan: Yes, Kris, we're ready, and we expect some of that volume to come our way. And we anticipate it in December, January, and we're excited about it.

Daniel Chism: Okay. Kris, frankly, some of the hedge there is we're ready to do Vera Rubin integration right now. We're built out to be able to handle that. But frankly, some of the volume that our customer is seeing in other products is so huge that they've asked us to, at this point, concentrate on addressing some of that need. So while we're ready to do a lot of the Vera Rubin racks, we're not seeing a whole lot of that yet today just because of the huge volume in other stuff.

Kris Tuttle: Okay. All right. Well, listen, as Darryll said, how much time do you have? Well, I'll circle back with you guys later on. But congratulations, great momentum in SI revenues, which is the key and it sounds like you've got great visibility. So thanks for the time.

Operator: Your next question is coming from Maj Soueidan from Geoinvesting.

Maj Soueidan: A quick question on the modular side of the business potentially. I'm wondering if you could maybe a brief description of the scope of the modular kind of opportunity. When people think modular, including me sometimes like going to be like hyperscalers deploying these modular asset on site or are they more like edge modular type of applications? I'm wondering where you fit in and how the scope opportunities expand with regards to what you can or can't do there?

Darryll Dewan: Maj, good to hear from you. But -- so historically, we've deployed MDCs, modular data centers in very remote locations closer to the edge where the power is cheap, land is cheap, access to water for hydro. And it's worked out pretty well. And as the -- and it's been pretty flat for us, largely because of the way we've been going to market. Our focus has shifted to the integration business.

But lately, the conversation has moved to prefab solutions where you have a self-contained unit, which you know about like a container, where we now integrate the IT packs for cabling and we've got the power and everything all -- and a lot of it is now -- the conversation is all about direct liquid the advanced technology as well. And you integrate it so that you basically do what we call L12. We do L11, which is the integration in our factory, but L12 is you put it all together with a network, and it's all integrated, ready to go and you deliver it on either a skid or an ISO type of container.

And that conversation has increased quite a bit. And we're in some very interesting discussions about preliminary, but preliminary discussions about how to go do that and at scale. So it varies from a [ 1Z, 2Z ] for a large enterprise or medium-sized enterprise at the edge, put it near the -- where you need it, if you will, for network latency to manage the environment better, put it closer to the action as we refer to it or you're building it out as a faster time-to-market solution for a large enterprise. If that makes any sense. And if you know the -- and I know you know this, the hyperscaler world uses modular. And it's a viable alternative.

So we'd like to be in those conversations.

Maj Soueidan: Great. That helps a lot. And I guess I'm assuming that with this direction you might be going, there's different types of integration are needed, different cooling maybe needs, different equipment. I mean are you prepared to serve those procurement needs now? Or are there relationships or things you need to do to make sure you can kind of support maybe the different type of technical needs for these companies as you're looking at here, these prefab modules.

Darryll Dewan: Well, we're in conversations about all of that. And are we prepared to deliver today now? Is it an operative word? And the answer is no. But -- we are prepared to do the integration work. We are now working with an engineering organization to help us do the design of a container, everything with the exception of the compute capabilities. So an end user gets to decide what they want, who they want to buy from. And when you get into the hyperscaler world, as you know, much of that compute capability is being manufactured for them specifically by the ODM of choice. So we'd like to get in the middle of that where it makes sense.

And that is a unique situation that we're in right at the moment. We have the skill set to deploy and integrate and do the sustaining maintenance. We've done that. We continue to do that today. We're moving into the engineering area, and we're talking about how do we deploy the more advanced technologies in a unit that can be deployed closer to the action. So it could be interesting, Maj. I think we're -- it's an exciting result, I think, of what's happening with the whole data center discussion today. And people are pivoting to an alternative.

Maj Soueidan: And I have 2 more questions around that real quick. The first one would be like I know when you were talking about module data centers, over the last 2 years or so, part of the challenge was supply chain kind of issues and being able to -- that we need to commit to these things that have long lead times. So the prefab a quicker kind of deployment being a quicker supply chain type of trajectory there to be able to kind of serve some of these needs?

Darryll Dewan: Yes. And you're right. Thank you for reminding me of the days when you couldn't get a container. It took 12-plus months. That's over with. That's not the issue anymore.

Maj Soueidan: Excellent. And then finally, so when we're talking about the modular opportunity, this is I'm assuming going to have higher margins than the current -- I don't know that is the case. We talked about module in the past. We weren't talking about prefab. So I guess, could you talk about the margins maybe of the prefab opportunity? And does it open your kind of ability to now get revenue outside your biggest customer into other customers?

Darryll Dewan: The margin opportunity is strong. And you know the old expression, pigs get fed, hogs get slaughtered, right? So we're going to do what we can to do the right thing. And yes, what we're talking about would absolutely be not competitive with what we do with our existing customers.

Maj Soueidan: And there will be no restrictions to new manufacturing these things in the current facilities that are basically kind of been financed by your bigger customer?

Darryll Dewan: We would do it in a -- yes, we would not do it in any facility or use any of the people that we have in place for our existing relationship. It would be something completely different.

Maj Soueidan: So some of the expansions you're talking about are probably more in line maybe with the modular opportunity.

Darryll Dewan: That's what it is right at the moment, yes, very significantly that way, yes.

Operator: This does conclude today's question-and-answer session. I would now like to pass the floor back to Darryll Dewan for closing remarks.

Darryll Dewan: Great. Well, thanks, everyone, for joining us as we reported an exciting quarter. We look forward to accelerating our revenue and earnings growth in the fourth quarter, as we discussed and also beyond. All of this is bolstered by the significant growth in our higher-margin systems integration business, as we've been discussing and a trusted history of collaborative business relationship with our key customers. We will continue to pay close attention to market dynamics and the opportunities to advance our business and technical capabilities. We live in exciting times. We're very focused. And at the end, we appreciate your continued support, and we're very optimistic about our future. So thank you very much for joining us on this call.

Operator: Thank you. This does conclude today's conference call. You may disconnect at this time, and have a wonderful day. Thank you once again for your participation.

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