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Thanks and good afternoon. Here with me today are CEO, Mark Eubanks and CFO, Curt McMacken. Afternoon, Brink's reported first quarter twenty twenty five results on a GAAP, non GAAP and constant currency basis. Most of our comments today will be focused on our non GAAP results. These non GAAP financial measures are intended to provide investors with a supplemental comparison of our operating results and trends for the periods presented. Our management believes these metrics are useful to investors as they allow investors to evaluate performance using the same metrics as management. Reconciliation of non GAAP results to their most comparable GAAP results are provided in the press release appendix of the presentation in this afternoon's eight ks filing, all of which can be found on our website. I will now turn the call over to Brink's CEO, Mark Eubanks. Thanks, Jesse, and good afternoon. Thank you all for joining us.
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Starting with slide three, Brink delivered total organic growth of 6% in the first quarter at the top end of our previous guidance. ATM managed services and digital retail solutions or AMS DRS, grew over 20% for the fourth consecutive quarter as we continue to build upon solid momentum in these higher margin recurring revenue businesses. We delivered solid year over year growth in our Global Services business which particularly benefited our Rest of World segment. Record Q1 operating profits were up 40 basis points in the quarter, with good productivity and favorable revenue mix from AMS DRS and Global Services. Adjusted EBITDA was $215,000,000 with a margin of 17.2%. Earnings per share of $1.62 reflects the benefits of share repurchases as well as the planned increase a year over year tax rate as we lap one time benefits from our prior year. Adjusted EBITDA and EPS exceeded the high end of our Q1 guidance due to strong execution and the timing impact of some expenses that we shifted into Q2. On a trailing twelve month basis, free cash flow and conversion of 40% came in as expected [indiscernible] by continued progress on AR collections and customer payment terms. Strategically, we continue to focus on maximizing growth potential in AMS DRS expanding our margins and executing our focused capital allocation framework.
13m 38s
AMS and DRS continue to gain momentum throughout the organization with solid growth across all segments. Now representing a quarter of our business these recurring revenue offerings support performance consistency margin expansion, [indiscernible] improved free cash flow which is derived from improved working capital dynamics and lower CapEx intensity. I'll have much more on AMS DRS in a few slides. In our CVM business, growth was highlighted by strong performance in our Global Services business. As I'm sure you've seen in the news, precious metal movement was elevated during the quarter which led to improved year over year growth. Our long term customer relationships our global network and our industry leading capabilities position us well to continue to capture elevated demand that may arise going forward. Also continue to diligently execute against our capital allocation framework. Year to date, we repurchased 1,300,000.0 shares at an average price of $87.62 per share, representing about 3% of the outstanding shares at year end 2024. Additionally, just last week, we announced the third consecutive annual increase to our quarterly dividend we continue to focus our capital allocation on shareholder returns. With remaining repurchase capacity of over $180,000,000 under our existing authorization, we are on track to meet or exceed our prior year share repurchase levels.
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Overall, it was a solid first quarter. We delivered solid organic growth in our key business lines expanded operating profit margins, and we opportunistically increased the return of capital to shareholders. Supported by our strong Q1, we are affirming our full year framework of mid single digit organic growth 30 to 50 basis points of EBITDA margin expansion and free cash flow conversion between 4045%. As we look to the second quarter, we see similar mid single digit organic growth rates. EBITDA is expected to be between $2.00 5,000,000 and $225,000,000 with earnings per share between 1.25 and $1.65 per share. Q2 top line guidance reflects our expectations for continued momentum in AMS DRS current FX rates and stable economic conditions. The second quarter guidance aligns to our first half expectations [indiscernible] the timing impact of some restructured expenses shifting out of Q1 into the second quarter. Turning to slide four. Can see the performance against prior years. Constant currency, and organic revenue growth were 6% with total revenue growth of 1%. Adjusted EBITDA was down $3,000,000 with a $6,000,000 increase in operating profit in spite of higher restructuring costs versus the prior year and less interest income from Argentina as inflation continues to moderate in the country.
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Earnings per share was up 13% on a constant currency basis and down $03 per share year over year. Our outstanding average share count was down 4% with an expected increase in tax rate which reduced EPS by point $11 Free cash flow performance was as expected in the quarter. In total, free cash flow was down $14,000,000 on a trailing twelve month basis and reflects the payment of a previously disclosed Department of Justice and FinCEN resolution. Excluding this item, free cash flow would have been up $4,000,000 year over year with conversion from EBITDA of 42%. On slide five, you can see the performance by segment. Starting with North America, on the left, constant currency growth of 4% and organic growth of 2% was consistent with the prior year. With several new customer onboarding this quarter, DRS growth continues to be a highlight in North America. CVM revenue was up organically year on year primarily due to a slightly elevated global services volume. Record EBITDA margins included revenue mix benefits, good pricing discipline, continued productivity as we streamline routing, labor management and SG and A. With stable staffing and service levels, and second half revenue improvements that remain on track, we are well positioned to continue to deliver growth and margin improvement over the balance of the year.
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In Latin America, 7% organic growth was more than offset by year over year currency devaluation. Primarily in Mexico and Argentina. Normalizing for the impact of Argentina inflation moderation, Latin America organic growth rates were stable sequentially. AMS and DRS mix increased to 18% of total revenue behind another strong quarter of growth in all countries. On the margin side, as you remember from last quarter, expected to take some restructuring actions in the segment to streamline operations behind a growing AMS DRS mix. While we executed a portion of that restructuring in Q1, we had some actions that will push into the second quarter. Our restructuring actions position us well to protect margins and realize the benefits of AMS DRS revenue model as we move forward in any economic scenario. Europe grew revenue by 5% organically in the first quarter while AMS DRS mix increased by 2% sequentially to 42% of total revenue. We are making good progress converting and adding customers to DRS in Europe including the rollout of cash accepting self checkout devices in grocery and convenience stores. Europe remains a strong AMS market due to the consolidated nature of the banking footprint. We continue to add new partners to our managed services network.
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We're making strong progress integrating the previously announced Sainsbury's ATM estate into our UK business and we remain on track for full deployment by the middle of the EBITDA was flat on a year over year basis as we continue to take restructuring actions to optimize our operations and realize the benefits of accelerating AMS and DRS growth. Normalized for these actions, margins would have been up 40 basis points year over year. The Rest of World segment, organic growth accelerated to 9% this quarter, primarily driven by the increased movement of precious metals that I mentioned earlier. Record first quarter EBITDA margins were up 130 basis points due to growth and mix benefits of the higher global services revenue. Turning to slide six, We have more detail by customer offering. Cash and Valuables Management grew 1% organically and accelerated sequentially when netting the impact of Argentina currency. As I mentioned earlier, Global Services was up sequentially and year over year with additional volume from gold and silver shipments seen primarily in the Rest of World segment. Shipments continued to grow throughout the quarter before peaking in mid March. Early in the second quarter movement moderated remains ahead of prior year.
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As we mentioned last quarter, dynamics in our Global Services business shift quickly our ability to leverage existing infrastructure and customer relationships remain the keys to our success in this line of business. Given the slowing growth in early Q2, we remain cautious in our outlook on this business line for both the second quarter and the rest of the year. But remain as always well positioned to capitalize on any opportunities as they occur. In our more traditional cash in transit and money processing business, are pleased to announce a new partnership with a leading financial institution in North America. After a competitive process, we were awarded full cash in transit money processing and cash vaulting services across both The U. S. And Canada. We plan to onboard this new business over the coming months while ensuring a smooth transition and maintaining our high customer service levels. Importantly, as with any new CVM business, we will look to expand relationships with new retail customers and additional ATM estates as we use these as entry points into AMS and DRS moving forward. In DRS, we delivered another strong quarter of growth in all markets. Momentum continues as we win new accounts and convert existing customers.
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In North America, we delivered our best quarter of DRS growth since 2022 with new installations in the quarter from a leading auto parts store and additional momentum in the restaurant and QSR space. In Latin America, Mexico had a good month of installations as well with ads in the wholesale and C store markets. Conversions from traditional CIT to DRS accelerated in both North America and especially Europe driving improved revenue mix and record first quarter EBITDA margins in North America. Looking ahead, we expect to see an impact on growth rates in the second quarter as we lap the previously mentioned equipment sales from last year. We feel good about the rest of the year in DRS as we work from an increased base of business install a larger backlog and work to close a strong pipeline of opportunities. On the AMS side, we continue our efforts on onboarding large customers we discussed in previous quarters in both Europe and North America. As I mentioned earlier, Sainsbury's onboarding remains well on track. In The U. S, we're making good progress deploying services into gas stations and convenience store customers that we won in previous quarters. As discussed previously, due to the size of AMS deals, growth in this line of business not expected to be as linear as DRS has been.
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With deployments on track, we expect AMS growth to begin to accelerate into the second half of twenty twenty five. We continue to make progress building both the quality and size of our pipeline leading to improving win rates in this offering. Now let's turn to slide seven. Before I hand it off to Kurt, to talk to the specifics of the quarter and our guidance, I thought it'd be helpful to frame how the current market dynamics may impact us at Brink's. While we've yet to experience any significant disruption in our business, uncertainty has increased in many of the economies where we serve.
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Including The U. S. On the left side of the slide, you can see our organic growth rates over the last eighteen years. As you can see, we have a history of performing well across many market conditions and business cycles. Our growth rates have been consistently in the mid single digit range outside of the pandemic when retail establishments were completely shut down the great financial crisis in 02/2009. A much larger base of business now in AMS DRS, and a more diversified global footprint, we expect to be even more resilient going forward. Our customer diversity in retail and financial institutions help mitigate challenges in any one sector. And we're closely monitoring any potential increase in bankruptcies, or store closures in the markets we serve. With the geographic footprint that serves customers in over 100 countries, and a global services business that has historically performed well in downturns we are well positioned and adequately diversified if economic conditions deteriorate. As a service based business, we expect to be mostly insulated from direct tariff exposure. More than half of our costs are labor including fleet and shipping expenses most of our cost is variable allowing us to protect our margins if volumes slow in the future.
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With a base of locally managed operations in 51 countries, materials and labor are primarily sourced by our local teams in local currency and we have a long history of managing inflationary pressures pressures with price discipline and productivity. Have a pipeline of productivity initiatives working through the Brink's business system that will continue to support margins. And as we continue to shift our business to AMS and DRS, we are increasing network density and improving routing flexibility providing more certainty on our profit margin expansion plans over the balance of the year and for years to come. Overall, I'm pleased with the first quarter and the outlook for the rest of the year. Our business remains stable and well positioned to execute our strategy. A growing base of AMS and DRS line of sight to productivity initiatives in the second half and a first quarter above expectations provide a strong foundation to continue our organic growth and margin expansion journey the rest of the year. And now, I'd like to turn it over to Kurt to discuss the details of the quarter and more specifics on our outlook. Kurt?
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Thanks Mark and good afternoon everyone.
26m 8s
Starting on slide eight, organic revenue grew $69,000,000 with 80% of that growth coming from higher margin AMS and DRS services. Dollars 13,000,000 of CVM growth included the impact of AMS and DRS customer conversions.
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Currency headwinds amounted to $66,000,000 or 5%.
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In the period primarily from the Mexican peso Argentine peso and the Brazilian real. The organic revenue mix benefits flow through generating 30% incremental operating profit.
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While organic adjusted EBITDA grew $14,000,000 or 6%. Total adjusted EBITDA margins were down 50 basis points from the prior year negatively impacted by the regional revenue mix of FX as well as less Argentina interest income. On slide nine, starting on the left, operating profit was up 4% to 151,000,000 with a margin of 12.1% on strong productivity and line of business revenue mix. Interest expense was up $2,000,000 year over year to 58,000,000 are still expecting interest expense to be roughly flat to the prior year. Tax expenses were $28,000,000 in the quarter representing an effective tax rate of 27.8% an increase from the 23.2% we saw in the prior year. As a reminder, this tax rate increase is primarily related to the lapping impact of inflation adjustments in Argentina on the prior year that is not expected to repeat in 2025. Interest income was $11,000,000 in the quarter down $5,000,000 year over year. With inflation rates moderating in Argentina, we expect 2025 interest income to continue to decelerate as we move through the rest of the year. Income from continuing operations was $70,000,000 Walking back up to adjusted EBITDA, depreciation and amortization was 54,000,000 We still expect total D and A to rise modestly in 2025 primarily reflecting increased depreciation from AMS and DRS equipment.
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In the stock comp and other category, stock based compensation was down $4,000,000 year over year in Q1 and for the full year we expect stock comp to decrease slightly to be between 30,000,000 and $35,000,000 Moving to slide 10. We continue to diligently execute our unchanged capital allocation framework. As always, we strive to allocate capital prioritizing long term shareholder value. Our framework is designed to compound free cash flow in future years by investing first in organic growth and margin enhancing opportunities in the business. We are targeting CapEx as a percentage of revenue around 3.5% and plan to continue to drive capital efficiency as we shift our mix to AMS and DRS. In the first quarter, our leverage increased to 3.06 times just over our target range as we accelerated share repurchase repurchases into the early part of the year to opportunistically take advantage of attractive pricing. We remain on target to be within our leverage range by year end. Our primary use of capital over the last few years has been share repurchases. And we continue the trend in the first quarter. Through May 9, we have repurchased over 1,300,000.0 shares a full 3% of the outstanding share count at year end.
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In total, we have spent over $110,000,000 year to date and have approximately 180,000,000 in available capacity remaining in our current authorization. With respect to dividends, just last week our Board authorized the third consecutive annual increase to our quarterly dividend. We plan to follow a similar consistent dividend policy going forward. And finally, on M and A, posture on deals is consistent. We have a full pipeline and continue to explore accretive opportunities that have strong strategic fit attractive returns and align with our current leverage targets and broader capital allocation framework. Moving to the guidance on slide 11. With a strong first quarter behind us, our full year framework for 2025 remained unchanged. We expect mid single digit organic growth to include mid to high teens organic growth in AMS BRS. Over the last quarter, FX rates have moved in our favor. Using today's rates, we would expect about a 2.5% or $125,000,000 FX improvement to our initial full year estimate. This $125,000,000 FX improvement was primarily due to the euro and pound. Shifting our geographic mix of revenue more towards our Europe segment. So despite the good EBITDA performance we saw in the first quarter, we are maintaining our margin expansion targets of 30 to 50 basis points for the full year.
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There has been no change to our expectations for free cash flow conversion And as I mentioned on the last slide, we opportunistically pulled forward share repurchases into the early part of the year. And for the full year, remain on track with shareholder returns that meet or exceed twenty twenty four levels. In the second quarter, we expect revenue between 1,250,000,000.00 and $1,300,000,000 reflecting organic growth in the mid single digits. Using today's rates FX is expected to be a headwind of around 3% to 3.5% as we lap last year's Q2 steep devaluation of the Mexican peso before moderating in Q3. The organic revenue guidance assumes strong continued growth in AMS DRS and current trends in the global services business. Adjusted EBITDA is expected to be between $2.00 5,000,000 and $225,000,000 This adjusted EBITDA guidance reflects the flow through of revenue growth the timing impact of restructuring actions that shifted from Q1 to Q2 the impact of currency mix on margins, and lower interest income. EPS is expected to be between $1.25 and $1.65 And now, I'll hand it back to Mark for closing comments before we start Q and A. Thanks Kurt. 2025 is off to a solid start In Q1, we delivered the fourth consecutive quarter of over 20% organic growth in our key verticals of AMS and DRS.
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Supported by strong pipeline and the onboarding of several new customer accounts in the second half, I'm encouraged by our momentum. In CVM, we remain well positioned to generate growth with a major new North America banking partnership coming in the second half and our Global Services business remains poised to capture the available growth opportunities. EBITDA margins are expected to expand in the back half of the year behind the strong growth and our ongoing productivity efforts. Supported by our historical performance, our differentiated business model is built for success in the uncertain macroeconomic environment ahead of us.
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I am confident we are sustainably improving the business building a business that will deliver a more consistent growth margin improvement and free cash flow generation profile for years to come. And with that, we're happy to take your questions.
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Operator?
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Please open the line.
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Certainly. We will now begin the question and answer session. Please press star, then 2. The first question comes from George Tong with Goldman Sachs. Please go ahead.
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Hi, thanks. Good afternoon. Can you talk a little bit more about your tariff exposures? Specifically how much of your hardware is imported measured as either percentage of revenue or percentage of cost? What your country exposures are and what average effective tariff rate across your country exposures is assumed in your guidance?
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Sure. Thanks George for the question. First and foremost, we talked a little bit about it in the prepared remarks. But we don't really expect frankly any direct exposure from tariffs. As you know most of our costs and our revenues are all in the same currency. And we don't import export much of our services. Obviously, our Global Services business a little bit different and I think that's why you saw some of the activities in Q1. There were some concerns about precious metals, which caused a lot of shipments from around the world frankly that showed up in our Rest of World segment as really a step up in revenue. Bringing precious metals particularly to The U. S. That eventually was sorted out as you're probably aware and those commodities were exempted. From any tariffs. So today we really don't see any of that. Even as we think about like [indiscernible] parts and so forth, Most of those are locally sourced in region or in least inside of trade unions. And so we don't really have any impact. I think that the issue where we where would see impact to our business like any business would be any sort of moderation to growth global growth that occurred or any local let's say cost of living increases or inflation.
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And of course in those cases, we do all we can to manage those costs with productivity. But also we'll remain disciplined obviously in our pricing posture as we go to market.
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Got it. That's helpful context. And then switching gears, looking at your Latin America business, organic growth was 7% in the quarter, but the FX drag was negative 16%.
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In past quarters, your organic growth was able to match your FX trends. So can you talk about pricing trends you're seeing in the region and if you're able to use pricing to fully offset currency devaluations or FX headwinds going forward?
36m 20s
Yes. Yes. Yes. Good question, George. So two things two types of parts of that question let's say. The first is pricing for the highly inflationary market like Argentina where the where the currency was devaluing rapidly And yes, we continue to maintain that same posture [indiscernible] as inflation the hyperinflation comes through we're pricing for that in the local market. In the Latin America basket in total the largest part of the FX impact is the Mexican peso. Which is really just a year on year impact of the devaluation that occurred last year in the June. And so we'll see we'll continue to see FX headwinds from Mexico and Brazil frankly for the really for the first half when the big devaluation happened late June We'll see that moderate in the back half of the year Q2 should be similar in total growth as Q1. So we feel good where we are and in fact the quarter came in about as we expected.
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Got it. Very helpful. Thank you. Sure.
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Our next question comes from Tim Mulrooney with William Blair. Please go ahead.
37m 51s
Mark, Kurt, good afternoon.
37m 53s
Hey, Tim. How are you?
37m 54s
Hey, Tim.
37m 55s
Doing well. Thank you. So I have a few here. First on your second quarter margin guide, you're looking at about 16.9%, I think, which is down on a year over year basis for the second quarter of last year, down a little more than 100 basis basis points, I think. Can you just walk me through the puts and takes here? And also with margins being down year over year in the first half, but full year guidance anticipating 30 to 50 basis points of margin expansion. Can you help us bridge that gap between first half margins and second half margins? Yes. Hey, Tim, it's Kurt. Let me kind of walk you through. First on first half, I think some of the biggest drivers are really going to be around two main things. One is FX and the mix of the FX, particularly from the Mexican peso and how that impacts our margins. And the second is around Argentina interest income. Because that rolls off has rolled off year over year and has a significant impact. So those two are big drivers of ultimately the margins. There's also a bit of restructuring in there. We have more restructuring this year than last year.
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In first half.
39m 20s
So those are your three big items. When you think about the first half and even the second quarter. If you look at the second half and how things are ramping, again, have some FX impacts on that. Number one, you don't that the Mexican peso starts to roll off. So FX impact in the second half is quite a bit more muted. And then you have normal seasonality for us. So we ramp in the second half our organic Actually if you look at the organic growth in the second half, it's pretty consistent. With the first half. But because the FX is moderating, you're growth, your total growth is actually quite a bit higher. And then if you look at the flow through on that it's pretty much as we would expect.
40m 11s
In fact, Tim, FX if you just run the math out, [indiscernible] almost a tailwind in Q4. Just given the year on year of where the Mexican peso is today and where it was in Q4.
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The only other reminder too in the third quarter, we had a significant security loss event last year and so we're lapping that in the third quarter. So there's a pretty big expansion in the quarter in terms of margins because of that. Okay. That was very comprehensive. Thanks. Thank you. So [indiscernible] the restructuring, the interest income, and the lapping of that security loss? Thank you. On the interest income, I know that less interest income from Argentina negatively impacted margins in the first quarter. How much of a headwind do you expect this to be to EBITDA for the full year? So we, it [indiscernible] meaningful. I mean, mean, runs maybe a way to think about it is yes, I'm trying to bucketize it in a way that's I think you can think about it as $4,000,000 to $5,000,000 a quarter. The way to think about it.
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Okay. That's That's helpful. Thanks.
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Yes. The reason I'm saying a little bit is Tim, I was just going say is, because it does obviously depend a lot on what happens in country, but that's kind of our current thinking on it.
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Got it. Yes, I know this is a very dynamic situation [indiscernible] that's what's in our outlook and our guide for the quarter Tim. [indiscernible] Got it. Okay. Maybe we can shift to growth here really quick. I know you're expecting 3% to 6% organic growth in the second quarter. What would that be excluding the equipment sales from last year?
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For DRS AMS, is that what you're asking? Excluding equipment sales? Yes.
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Yes. So we are are expecting so last year, just as a reminder, we had $8,000,000 worth of DRS sales that were equipment sales one time that we talked about. [indiscernible] We left the quarter a little over 20% in Q1 Q2 will have a little bit maybe a couple of points of headwind on an organic growth basis. But on a dollar basis we expect to continue the same kind of trajectory Tim and don't expect it to be outside of our guide or even kind of the recent continued efforts.
43m 15s
Okay, got it. That's good news. Yes. And one more Just one, sorry just one clarification on that. I mentioned in the prepared comments about AMS and DRS a little bit of the differences in maybe their growth characteristics where DRS is usually lots of maybe smaller more gradual growth is more maybe more consistent. Where AMS can be lumpy contracts might be bigger and in fact in the quarter [indiscernible] we had a pretty good quarter not just on revenue, but on awards. We actually get two new awards down in Southeast Asia, from banks, ATM outsourcing agreements. Pretty significant one in The Philippines, one in Indonesia, Those will come on likely in the second half into early Q1 next year. We're still onboarding Sainsbury's right now as we as I mentioned, is a significant undertaking that will provide a lot of support for the back half organic growth. As well as several other large convenience store chains here in North America that we're also onboarding. So really good progress there. The pipeline continues to grow. And not only is the pipeline growing, but the quality of the pipeline is growing. And what I mean by that, is more higher close rate more fidelity, less let's say time dragging out in some of these deals.
44m 49s
And then on the DRS side, very similar. As I look at the end of the first quarter, our DRS worldwide device count was up 5% over the December 31 kind of year end rate. So making meaningful deployment improvements back to North America we installed a record number of devices. In our history in March and had really good momentum in April as well with installs of our backlog.
45m 22s
So really good good momentum. And then just say the rest of the DRS portfolio you can see our numbers. [indiscernible] high penetration in Europe accelerating penetration in North America, But if you look at Latin America and rest of the world, we're also now starting to see pickup in growth there. [indiscernible] Mexico, Brazil, Chile these are the big markets for us. Do continue to see that. And then also, as I mentioned, on the AMS side, [indiscernible] doing well on the DRS side. We've even signed a nice agreement with a smaller business of ours in The UAE. So we're really starting to see some some good trends for not just the conversions, but really more of unvended customers when you get into these emerging economies.
46m 19s
That's really good color, Mark. I mean, last question was going to be if you could remind us why you'd expect your AMS DRS business to be more resilient to macro softness maybe relative to the traditional CIT business but I think maybe you just answered it. Is the answer just that the penetration opportunity is so significant? Is it that the growth opportunity in the white space is so significant that you see growth there regardless? Or is there something inherent about the DRS AMS business model that lends itself to less cyclicality?
46m 50s
Yes, I'd say there's two things there, Tim. The first is absolutely the white space is much larger which means if the white space is 5x the existing addressable market, could be down 50%. We still have a huge market to go go catch. So that is certainly part of it and okay it's not it's not all easy business or known customers. So we've got to develop new channels to which we're doing. So that is occurring and it's providing obviously tailwinds to growth even in the headwind of an economy. The other side of that though is, also in our traditional CIT business, the revenues were more activity based more volume based and in fact ended up being much less or are much less predictable in a from a month to month quarter to quarter.
47m 47s
Where the DRS AMS agreements are largely subscription based service and agreements that have longer term more more consistent revenues don't have much variability baked into transactions, volumes or values.
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Got it.
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Thanks for all the color.
48m 9s
Yes, great. Thanks, Tim.
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Our next question comes from Tobey Sommer with Truist. Please go ahead.
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Good afternoon. This is Tyler Barish on for Tobey.
48m 21s
Markets were quite volatile post Q1. Can just maybe describe some of the trends in the BGS segment quarter to date? [indiscernible] what we saw in Q1 was was very unusual. The tariff scare or tariff concerns around being able to get precious metals into North America certainly drove a lot of shipment volatility in the markets. A lot of shipment volumes for us. And you saw that in our Rest of World segment as they really had a great quarter fulfilling customer needs to keep what we thought might be to keep functions markets functioning around precious metals, particularly in North America. We don't see that that same level of activity in April. And in fact, we would say it's really been slowing throughout April into into the rest of the quarter and probably would look more like what we would have seen in the other regions around mid single digit organic growth. I think our guide right now reflects that current trend baked into that and we think we feel pretty good about where that is.
49m 47s
Makes sense.
49m 50s
AMS DRS mix is quite wide across segments. Can you just talk about some of the initiatives you can take to maybe raise that mix in America and the rest of the world?
49m 59s
Yes, sure. In fact, we are we're working through that now. Think part of what's happening in Latin America and rest of world is they already we have pretty significant businesses there already. That have been in rich cash or cash heavy economies, let's say, And in many cases, some of our early DRS solutions may not have been able to accommodate that. Expanded our product portfolio made some investments with our product management organization, working with suppliers to develop solutions that are capable of dealing with much higher cash volumes. And we see those those solutions resonating with of our existing customers. On the new customers, it's actually been the other way. It's required us to really become maybe more nimble and lower our cost to serve with maybe smaller solutions, smaller devices that are able to really attack that segment of the market that is much smaller retailers, not large store footprints that you might see in our traditional business. So as we do that, obviously we've had to develop not only our own sales teams capabilities, but also developing other channel partners. Whether that's partnering with banks, other financial services companies, or even other let's say, retail POS payments types of companies to help us get access to those markets.
51m 41s
You can see in the growth rates too Tyler. Mean both rest of world and LatAm grew above 25% AMS DRS in the quarter. [indiscernible] Thank you. This concludes our question and answer session. [indiscernible] would like to turn the conference back over to Mark Eubanks for any closing remarks.
52m 13s
Yes. Thank you all for joining us this afternoon. Appreciate your continued interest in Brink's. And look forward to speaking to you soon maybe seeing you in person when we're here on the road. Have a great night.
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The conference has now concluded. Thank you for attending today's presentation. May now disconnect.
Key Insights
Brink's delivered 6% total organic growth in Q1 2025, with AMS (ATM Managed Services) and DRS (Digital Retail Solutions) growing over 20% for the fourth consecutive quarter; these higher-margin, recurring revenue businesses now represent a quarter of total revenue.
Adjusted EBITDA for Q1 was $215 million (17.2% margin), and EPS was $1.62, both exceeding the high end of guidance due to strong execution and expense timing; free cash flow conversion was 40% as expected.
The company affirmed its full-year 2025 outlook: mid-single-digit organic growth, 30–50 basis points of EBITDA margin expansion, and free cash flow conversion between 40–45%; Q2 guidance is for revenue of $1.25–$1.3 billion, adjusted EBITDA of $205–$225 million, and EPS of $1.25–$1.65.
Shareholder returns remain a priority: Brink’s repurchased 1.3 million shares YTD (~3% of shares outstanding) at an average price of $87.62, with $180 million remaining in repurchase authorization, and announced a third consecutive annual dividend increase.
Segment highlights: North America saw record EBITDA margins and new customer wins; Latin America’s 7% organic growth was offset by FX headwinds; Europe grew 5% organically with strong AMS/DRS adoption; Rest of World segment saw 9% organic growth driven by precious metals shipments, though this is expected to moderate in Q2.
