Centuri Holdings, Inc. (CTRI)

Item 2. Management's Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations

The following discussion and analysis of our financial condition and results of operations should be read in conjunction with our condensed consolidated financial statements and corresponding notes in Item 1 — Financial Statements within Part I of this Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q, and our Annual Report on Form 10-K for the fiscal year ended December 28, 2025 filed with the SEC on February 26, 2026 (our “2025 Annual Report”).

Unless the context otherwise requires, references to “we,” “us,” “our,” “the Company,” and “our Company” refer to Centuri Holdings, Inc. and its consolidated subsidiaries. This discussion contains forward-looking statements that are based upon current expectations and are subject to uncertainty and changes in circumstances. Our actual results could differ materially from the results contemplated by these forward-looking statements due to a number of factors, including those discussed within Item 1A. Risk Factors in our 2025 Annual Report. See “Cautionary Note Regarding Forward-Looking Statements.”

We use a 52/53-week fiscal year that ends on the Sunday closest to the end of the calendar year. Unless otherwise stated, references to months and quarters throughout relate to fiscal months and quarters rather than calendar months and quarters. The first fiscal six months of 2026 and 2025 ended on June 28, 2026 and June 29, 2025, respectively, and each period had 26 weeks. The second fiscal quarters of 2026 and 2025 each had 13 weeks.

Overview

Company Overview

We are a leading North American utility and energy infrastructure services company, and we partner with regulated utilities to maintain, upgrade and expand the energy network that powers millions of homes and businesses. We serve as a long-term strategic partner to, and an extension of, North America’s electric, gas and combination utility providers, delivering a wide range of infrastructure solutions to ensure safe, reliable and environmentally sustainable energy operations. Our service offerings primarily consist of the modernization of utility infrastructure through the replacement, maintenance, retrofitting and installation of electric and natural gas distribution and utility-scale transmission networks and building capacity to meet current and future demands. We also serve complementary, attractive and growing end markets such as distributed power projects and data centers. Our essential services enable our customers to enhance the safety, reliability and environmental sustainability of the electric and natural gas networks that consumers rely upon to meet their essential and evolving energy needs. Our strategy is focused primarily on maintaining and growing services to our existing customers through master service agreements (“MSAs”) and bid work, securing new customer relationships, providing services to select adjacent end-markets, expanding our geographic footprint further into the Southeastern and Midwestern United States and Canada, and diversifying our portfolio of work. Guided by our values and our unwavering commitment to serve as a long-term partner to customers and communities, our employees enable our customers to safely and reliably deliver electricity and natural gas and achieve their goals for environmental sustainability.

Separation from Southwest Gas Holdings

We completed an initial public offering (“IPO”) in April 2024. Following the IPO, our former parent, Southwest Gas Holdings, Inc. (“Southwest Gas Holdings”), reduced its ownership interest through a series of secondary offerings and private placements which culminated in Southwest Gas Holdings no longer owning any equity interest in our Company effective September 5, 2025. Accordingly, we no longer qualify as a “controlled company” under the New York Stock Exchange rules.

Segment Information

We report under the following four reportable segments: (i) U.S. Gas Utility Services (“U.S. Gas”); (ii) Canadian Utility Services (“Canadian Operations”); (iii) Union Electric Utility Services (“Union Electric”); and (iv) Non-Union Electric Utility Services (“Non-Union Electric”). Canadian Operations includes the results of Connect Utility Services Corporation (“Connect”), which was acquired in November 2025.

Factors Affecting Our Results of Operations

Our financial results may be impacted by economic conditions that impact businesses generally, such as inflationary impacts on goods and services consumed in the business, regulatory or environmental influences, seasonality and severe weather events, rising interest rates, labor markets and costs (including in regard to contracted or professional services),

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and the availability of those resources. Accordingly, our operating results in any particular period may not be indicative of the results that can be expected for any other period.

During the second fiscal quarter of 2026, we reversed $9.0 million in revenue related to a legacy contract with the City of Chicago (the “City of Chicago reversal”) within our U.S. Gas segment upon completing our initial analysis of a court order entered on April 20, 2026, which required us to reassess our estimates of variable consideration under the legacy contract in accordance with ASC 606. This reversal decreased gross profit by the same amount, resulted in a $2.3 million tax benefit and reduced net income by $6.7 million. Refer to “Note 14 — Commitments and Contingencies — Legal Proceedings” to the financial statements for further details.

Market Developments

North America relies on electric and natural gas delivery infrastructure to maintain its dynamic economy, but existing infrastructure is subject to degradation and is often decades old. Governments have increased regulatory stringency and enacted legislation to support the necessary infrastructure investments in the sector, aimed at preventing disruption, enhancing safety and readying to meet current and future demands. Additionally, labor market constraints and a changing utility workforce have led utilities to become increasingly reliant on external outsourced utility infrastructure service providers, creating an overall growing market well-positioned for consolidation. We believe these trends represent a significant challenge for utilities, but also an opportunity for outsourced utility infrastructure services companies to build and maintain more efficient, sustainable infrastructure that can meet the energy needs of future generations.

Rising fuel, labor and material costs have in the past had, and could in the future have, a negative effect on our results of operations, to the extent we cannot pass these costs through to our customers. While we actively monitor economic, industry and market factors that could adversely impact our business, we cannot predict the effect that changes in such factors could have on our future results of operations, financial position and cash flows. Our results of operations in the second fiscal quarter of 2026 were impacted by increased fuel costs, particularly in our U.S. Gas and Non-Union Electric segments. We continue to monitor the impacts of elevated fuel costs and will assess their effect on future periods as market conditions evolve.

During the first fiscal six months of 2026, we incurred increased costs to scale up our workforce in response to increased demand.

Generally, our contracts provide that the customer is responsible for supplying the materials for their projects. Fluctuations in the price or availability of materials and equipment that we or our customers utilize could impact (positively or negatively, as applicable) costs to complete projects or result in the postponement of projects. Although certain of our customers have experienced previous disruptions in their supply chain for certain project materials, most of our customers have generally been able to procure the necessary materials in a timely manner.

Our operations also depend on the availability of certain equipment to perform services. We believe we have taken steps to secure delivery of a sufficient amount of equipment and do not anticipate any significant disruptions with respect to our fleet in the near-term.

Demand for Services

The seasonal nature of the industry we serve affects demand for our services. In addition to weather conditions, capital expenditure and maintenance budgets of our customers, as well as the related timing of approvals and seasonal spending patterns, influence our contract revenue and results of operations. Factors affecting our customers and their capital expenditure budgets include, but are not limited to, overall economic conditions, the introduction of new technologies, and our customers’ capital resources, financial performance, and strategic plans. Other factors that may impact our customers and their capital expenditure budgets include new regulations or regulatory actions, merger or acquisition activity involving our customers and the physical maintenance needs of our customers’ infrastructure.

Fluctuations in market prices for oil, gas and other energy sources can impact demand for our services. Such fluctuations can affect the level of activity in energy generation projects as well as pipeline construction projects. The availability of transportation and transmission capacity can also impact demand for our services, including energy generation, electric grid and pipeline construction projects. These fluctuations, as well as the highly competitive nature of our industry, can result in changes in the levels of activity, project mix and moreover the profitability of the services we provide.

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Utilities continue to implement or modify system integrity management programs to enhance safety pursuant to federal and state mandates. These programs have resulted in multi-year utility system replacement programs throughout the U.S., and we believe that we are well-positioned to serve the increased demand resulting from these programs.

Our services support customers’ environmental goals, such as reducing methane emissions from pipeline leaks through pipe repair and replacement, hardening electric infrastructure to prevent damage from storms or otherwise, and assisting gas and electric customers with their renewable and sustainable energy infrastructure initiatives. We believe that we are well-positioned to support growing customer attention in achieving environmental objectives through infrastructure construction and maintenance.

Project Variability

Margins for our projects may vary from period to period due to changes in the volume or type of work performed and the pricing structure of our projects. Additionally, factors such as site conditions, project location, labor shortages, weather events, environmental restrictions, regulatory delays, protests, political activity, legal challenges, or the performance of third parties may adversely impact our project performance.

In certain circumstances, such as with large bid contracts (especially those of a longer duration), or unit-price contracts with revenue caps, results may be impacted by differences between costs incurred and those anticipated when the work was originally bid. Work awarded, or failing to be awarded, by individual large customers can impact our results of operations.

Seasonality and Severe Weather Events

Generally, our revenue is lowest during the first fiscal quarter of the year due to less favorable winter weather and related working conditions in many of the areas where we perform work. Revenue typically improves as more favorable weather conditions occur during the summer and fall months. In cases of severe weather, such as following a regional storm, we may be engaged to perform restoration activities related to above-ground utility infrastructure, which typically results in higher margins due to higher equipment utilizati

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Item 7. Management's Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations

The following discussion and analysis of our financial condition and results of operations should be read in conjunction with our consolidated financial statements and corresponding notes in Item 8 — Financial Statements and Supplementary Data within Part II of this Annual Report on Form 10-K.

Unless the context otherwise requires, references to “we,” “is,” “our,” “the Company,” and “our company” refer to Centuri Holdings, Inc. and its consolidated subsidiaries. This discussion contains forward-looking statements that are based upon current expectations and are subject to uncertainty and changes in circumstances. Our actual results could differ materially from the results contemplated by these forward-looking statements due to a number of factors, including those discussed within Item 1A. Risk Factors within part I of this Annual Report on Form 10-K. See “Cautionary Note Regarding Forward-Looking Statements.”

We use a 52/53-week fiscal year that ends on the Sunday closest to the end of the calendar year. Unless otherwise stated, references to months, quarters and years throughout relate to fiscal months, quarters and years rather than calendar months, quarters and years. Fiscal years 2025, 2024, and 2023 ended on December 28, 2025, December 29, 2024, and December 31, 2023, respectively, and each year had 52 weeks.

Overview

Company Overview

We are a leading North American utility and energy infrastructure services company, and we partner with regulated utilities to maintain, upgrade and expand the energy network that powers millions of homes and businesses. We serve as a long-term strategic partner to, and an extension of, North America’s electric, gas and combination utility providers, delivering a wide range of infrastructure solutions to ensure safe, reliable and environmentally sustainable energy operations. Our service offerings primarily consist of the modernization of utility infrastructure through the replacement, maintenance, retrofitting and installation of electric and natural gas distribution and utility-scale transmission networks and building capacity to meet current and future demands. We also serve complementary, attractive and growing end markets such as distributed power projects and data centers. Our essential services enable our customers to enhance the safety, reliability and environmental sustainability of the electric and natural gas networks that consumers rely upon to meet their essential and evolving energy needs. Guided by our values and our unwavering commitment to serve as long-term partners to customers and communities, our employees enable our customers to safely and reliably deliver electricity and natural gas and achieve their goals for environmental sustainability.

Separation from Southwest Gas Holdings

We were incorporated in Delaware in June 2023 as a wholly owned subsidiary of Southwest Gas Holdings, Inc. (“Southwest Gas Holdings”). We were formed for the purpose of completing an initial public offering, facilitating the separation of Centuri Group, Inc. (the “Operating Company”) from Southwest Gas Holdings and other related transactions in order to carry on the business of the Operating Company, our predecessor for financial reporting purposes. Prior to April 13, 2024, Southwest Gas Holdings owned 1,000 shares of our common stock, representing 100% of the issued and outstanding shares of our common stock. On April 13, 2024, we issued 71,664,592 shares of common stock to Southwest Gas Holdings as consideration for the transfer of assets and assumption of liabilities of the Operating Company (the “Separation”). Following the completion of the Separation, the Operating Company became our wholly owned subsidiary, and all of our operations are conducted through the Operating Company.

On April 17, 2024, the registration statement related to the initial public offering of our common stock was declared effective, and our common stock began trading on the New York Stock Exchange (the “NYSE”) under the ticker “CTRI” (the “Centuri IPO”) on April 18, 2024. On April 22, 2024, the Centuri IPO and a concurrent private placement were completed with total net proceeds of $327.7 million. As of the closing of the Centuri IPO, Southwest Gas Holdings owned 71,665,592 shares of our common stock (“CTRI shares”), or approximately 81% of the total outstanding CTRI shares.

Subsequent to the Centuri IPO, Southwest Gas Holdings divested all of its remaining ownership interest in our Company through the course of several transactions described in more detail below. We did not receive any proceeds from any of these transactions.

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•On May 22, 2025 and June 18, 2025, Southwest Gas Holdings completed secondary public offerings, selling a total of 21,562,500 CTRI shares, with additional private placements closing on May 22, 2025 and July 8, 2025, in which Southwest Gas Holdings sold a total of 3,917,382 CTRI shares to Icahn Partners LP and Icahn Partners Master Fund LP, investment entities associated with Carl C. Icahn and members of the Icahn Group (“Icahn Partners”). After these transactions, Southwest Gas Holdings owned 46,185,710 CTRI shares, or approximately 52% of total outstanding CTRI shares.

•On August 11, 2025, Southwest Gas Holdings completed another secondary public offering of 17,250,000 CTRI shares and concurrent private placement to Icahn Partners of 1,573,500 CTRI shares (together, the “August sell-down”). After completion of the August sell-down, Southwest Gas Holdings owned 27,362,210 CTRI shares, or approximately 31% of total outstanding CTRI shares, resulting in (i) the loss of its controlling interest in our company and (ii) the Company ceasing to be a “controlled company” under the NYSE rules.

•On September 5, 2025, Southwest Gas Holdings completed a final secondary public offering (the “Final Disposition”) of its remaining 27,362,210 CTRI shares. As a result, Southwest Gas Holdings no longer holds any ownership interest in our company and relinquished governance rights originally afforded to it under the Separation Agreement, including the right to nominate any members of our Board of Directors and to approve certain of our corporate actions. For additional information about the Separation Agreement and other agreements signed as part of the Separation and Centuri IPO, refer to “Note 17 — Related Parties” to the consolidated financial statements.

Previously, Southwest Gas Holdings’ chief executive officer and director, Karen Haller, served as Chair of our Board. As a result of Southwest Gas Holdings’ ownership exit, our Board appointed Christopher Krummel as the independent Chair of our Board, effective September 15, 2025, replacing Ms. Haller, who remains a member of our Board. Ms. Haller also resigned from our Board’s compensation committee.

As Southwest Gas Holdings has now divested all of its ownership of CTRI shares, we are no longer eligible for inclusion in Southwest Gas Holdings’ U.S. federal and state income tax returns. As a result, and in accordance with the Company’s Tax Assets Agreement (as defined and discussed in “Note 17 — Related Parties” to the consolidated financial statements), in the second and third fiscal quarters of 2025, certain deferred tax assets previously recorded under the separate return method were removed from our consolidated balance sheet and we were allocated incremental deferred tax assets (primarily net operating losses), both through an adjustment to additional paid-in capital. Subsequent to income tax deconsolidation and Centuri ceasing to be a subsidiary of Southwest Gas Holdings, the estimate of deferred tax assets allocable to Centuri increased which was recognized as an income tax benefit increase in the consolidated statement of operations. For further details, see “Critical Accounting Policies and Estimates—Income Taxes”.

Sales of our Common Stock

On November 14, 2025, we completed an underwritten public offering of 7,441,860 CTRI shares and concurrent private placement to Icahn Partners of 3,488,372 CTRI shares. The underwriters in the public offering subsequently exercised their option to purchase an additional 1,116,279 CTRI shares in December 2025 (the public offering, including the exercise of the underwriters’ option to purchase additional shares, and private placement are hereafter referred to together as the “November Offering”). We received total net proceeds of $250.9 million from the November Offering. As a result of the November Offering, Icahn Partners’ ownership increased to approximately 14.2% of total outstanding CTRI shares.

We primarily used the net proceeds from the November Offering to repay borrowings outstanding under our credit agreement and to fund the acquisition of Connect, which closed on November 18, 2025. Refer to “Note 8 — Acquisitions” for additional details about the Connect acquisition, and “Note 12 — Long-Term Debt” for additional details about the our remaining debt obligations under our credit agreement.

Segment Information

We report under the following four reportable segments: (i) U.S. Gas Utility Services (“U.S. Gas”); (ii) Canadian Utility Services (“Canadian Operations”); (iii) Union Electric Utility Services (“Union Electric”); and (iv) Non-Union Electric Utility Services (“Non-Union Electric”). Canadian Operations was previously known as Canadian Gas Utility Services or “Canadian Gas”. Refer to “Business—Our Business Lines” for further discussion of our segments.

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Acquisitions

On November 18, 2025, we completed the acquisition of the equity interests in Connect, an Atlantic Canada electric utility services provider, for an estimated $58.0 million in total cash consideration, subject to post-closing conditions and net working capital adjustments. Total cash consideration included payment for cash held by Connect as of the closing date. We also assumed certain long-term debt and finance lease obligations as part of the acquisition. The acquisition of Connect expanded our electric service offerings into Canada. The results of Connect are included in our Canadian Operations segment.

Factors Affecting Our Results of Operations

Our financial results may be impacted by economic conditions that impact businesses generally, such as inflationary impacts on goods and services consumed in the business, regulatory or environmental influences, seasonality and severe weather events, rising interest rates, labor markets and costs (including in regard to contracted or professional services), and the availability of those resources. Accordingly, our operating results in any particular period may not be indicative of the results that can be expected for any other period.

Market Developments

North America relies on electric and natural gas delivery infrastructure to maintain its dynamic economy, but existing infrastructure is subject to degradation and is often decades old. Governments have increased regulatory stringency and enacted legislation to support the necessary infrastructure investments in the sector, aimed at preventing disruption, enhancing safety and readying to meet current and future demands. Additionally, labor market constraints and a changing utility workforce have led utilities to become increasingly reliant on external outsourced utility infrastructure service providers, creating an overall growing market well-positioned for consolidation. We believe these trends represent a significant challenge for utilities, but also an opportunity for outsourced utility infrastructure services companies to build and maintain more efficient, sustainable infrastructure that can meet the energy needs of future generations.

Rising fuel, labor and material costs have in the past had, and could in the future have, a negative effect on our results of operations, to the extent we cannot pass these costs through to o

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