Q1 2025 FTAI Aviation Ltd Earnings Call

In This Article:

Participants

Alan Andreini; Investor Relations; FTAI Aviation Investors LLC

Joseph Adams; Chairman of the Board, Chief Executive Officer; FTAI Aviation Ltd

Eun Nam; Chief Financial Officer, Chief Accounting Officer; FTAI Aviation Ltd

David Moreno; Chief Operating Officer; FTAI Aviation Ltd

Giuliano Bologna; Analyst; Compass Point Research & Trading LLC

Sheila Kahyaoglu; Analyst; Jefferies

Kristine Liwag; Analyst; Morgan Stanley

Josh Sullivan; Analyst; The Benchmark Company LLC

Andre Madrid; Analyst; BTIG

Brandon Oglenski; Analyst; Barclays Estimate

Hillary Cacanando; Analyst; Deutsche Bank

Brian McKenna; Analyst; Citizen

Ken Herbert; Analyst; RBC Capital Markets

Myles Walton; Analyst; Wolfe Research

Stephen Trent; Analyst; Citi

Presentation

Operator

Thank you for standing by and welcome to FTAI Aviation's first quarter, 2025 earnings conference call. At this time, all participants are in a listen-only mode. (Operator Instructions)
I would now like to hand the call over to Alan Andreini, Investor Relations. Please go ahead.

Alan Andreini

Thank you, Latif. I would like to welcome you all to the FTI Aviation first quarter 2025 earnings call. Joining me here today are Joe Adams, our Chief Executive Officer; Angela Nam, our Chief Financial Officer; and David Moreno, our Chief Operating Officer.
We have posted an investor presentation in our press release on our website, which we encourage you to download if you have not already done so. Also, please note that this call is open to the public in listen-only mode and is being webcast.
In addition, we will be discussing some non-gap financial measures during the call today, including EBITDA . The reconciliation of those measures to the most directly comparable GAAP measures can be found in the earnings supplement. Before I turn the call over to Joe, I would like to point out that certain statements made today will be forward-looking statements, including regarding future earnings.
These statements by their nature are uncertain and may differ materially from actual results. We encourage you to review of the disclaimers in our press release and investor presentation regarding non-GAAP financial measures and forward-looking statements and to review the risk factors contained in our quarterly report filed with the FCC. Now I would like to turn the call over to Joe.

Joseph Adams

Thank you, Alan. I'm pleased to announce our 40 dividend as a public company and our 55 consecutive dividend since inception. The dividend of $0.30 per share will be paid on May 23, based on a shareholder record date of May 16.
Angela's going to take you through the numbers in more detail, but before that, I wanted to highlight a few things. We started the year with momentum recording another strong quarter in aerospace products with $131 million in adjusted EBITDA at a margin of 36%.
With a consistently growing backlog of purchase orders for 2025 and beyond, demand for our aerospace products and services continues to accelerate, strengthening our position as a leader in the engine maintenance aftermarket.
Turning to production, we refurbished 138 CFM56 modules this quarter between our two facilities in Montreal and Miami. We anticipate a significant ramp to occur in Q2, particularly in Montreal, as we execute on our growth initiatives and operational throughput to enhance efficiency.
As we expand production of refurbished modules and engines, our core focus is to increase our market share of restorations beyond the current 5% to 25%.
Now let's talk about adjusted free cash flow. In the first quarter we closed on approximately 234 million of aviation equipment at attractive prices as replacement CapEx for the seed portfolio of aircraft which are being sold to Strategic Capital Initiative or SCI.
The transition of these aircraft started in Q1, where we sold four aircraft for $59 million and we are proceeding on plan to have completed the sale of the remaining assets by the end of Q2, generating a significant inflow of approximately $440 million.
We expect adjusted free cash flow to be in the range of $300 million to $350 million for the first half of the year, which is in line with our target to achieve $650 million in adjusted free cash flow for all of 2025. For the Strategic Capital Initiative, or SCI, it was great to announce one investment management as an equity investor to the partnership.
Since then we have secured an additional equity partner and expect further closing in Q3 of this year. We remain on track to deploy $4 billion plus in capital by the end of the year through a combination of these commitments and our $2.5 billion secured asset level financing facility with Atlas, a wholly owned affiliate of Apollo and Deutsche Bank.
Finally, we've been working extensively on operational plans with our partner IAG Engine Center Europe and Rome, and are confident we can ramp up production immediately following the acquisition to support our regional customer base in Europe and the Middle East. We already have five engines in the facility and expect to close the new joint venture very soon.
Therefore, overall, we feel increasingly confident in our business segment EBITDA 2025 goal of between $1.1 billion to 1.15 billion, excluding corporate and other, rising to approximately $1.4 billion in 2026.
While tariffs create some challenges and opportunities, we do not currently see tariffs having any material negative effect on our business, and we are reiterating our guidance for both 2025 and 2026 as we continue to see growing and accelerating demand for a proprietary set of aerospace products. With that, I'll hand it over to Angela to talk through the numbers.