Welcome to Dana Incorporated's earnings call for the second quarter of 2025. I guess I'd sort of characterize the second quarter as another quarter of the Dana team delivering on our commitments with a solid Q2 beat, double-digit margins, and accelerating free cash flow. Right now, we have some headwind here in the second quarter, about 80 basis points. We need to make them go away so that we don't impact end vehicle demand.

In terms of our profit guide, and here I'm referring only to new Dana, we're upping our profits guidance for the year by $35 million. On a free cash flow basis, we're upping our target by $50 million to about $275 million at the midpoint of our guidance. Our guidance, and as we've talked at the end of the first quarter, we had indicated our sales were trending towards the higher end of our previous range. In terms of the guidance for the two parts of the business, if you think about the original guide at $975 million, you can kind of see the split.

Our revised guidance that I touched on in my previous slide, up $35 million for new Dana, down $20 million for off-highway for a net positive $15 million. The net effect of the higher sales and increased stranded costs is to temporarily lower the profit margin of continuing operations until the sale closes and transition service payments begin. Finally, cash flow is the one metric that will include off-highway as we had previously. Since the sale transaction excludes cash, all cash flow will remain with Dana until closing.

What went well
  • Solid Q2 beat with continuing-operations adjusted EBITDA of $145 million at a 7.5% margin, up 210 basis points year-over-year
  • Announced the sale of the Off-Highway business to Allison Transmission for just over $2.7 billion, with about $2.4 billion net cash proceeds
  • Raised capital return target to $600 million from $550 million, having bought back over 10% of shares in the quarter (returning $257 million), targeting a roughly 25% year-over-year share count reduction to around 110 million
  • Delivered nearly $60 million of cost reduction in the quarter and $110 million to date, and raised the cost reduction run-rate goal to $310 million
  • Raised new Dana profit guidance by $35 million and free cash flow guidance by $50 million to about $275 million at the midpoint
  • Strong tariff position with over 80% recovery expected for the year and active customer mitigation work
What went wrong
  • Continuing-operations sales of $1.94 billion were $112 million lower than last year, driven by lower end-market demand
  • Volume and mix lowered sales by $173 million with an unfavorable mix in the quarter, including high-margin CV and EV sales hit by China rare-earth/magnet export issues
  • Softening North America commercial vehicle market, with order book-to-build running about half of last year amid tariff and business-climate uncertainty
  • Adjusted free cash flow was a use of $5 million, $109 million lower than Q2 last year, on higher one-time costs and a $115 million working capital use
  • Off-Highway full-year guidance cut by $20 million on tariff-related volume softness, particularly European product imported into the U.S.

Guidance Changes

MetricPeriodCurrent guidance

Performance Breakdown

MetricYoYNote

Earnings Call Themes & Trends

TopicPrevious mentionCurrent periodTrend

Q&A Summary

More on DANA Inc

Reported 2025-08-05 · figures from the DANA Inc Q2 2025 earnings call.

See how VectorShift works for your firm

Request Demo