Thanks, Dan. Good morning, everyone. Thank you for joining us for MasTec's second quarter earnings conference call. Joining me today are José Mas, Chief Executive Officer, and Paul DiMarco, Chief Financial Officer. We prepared slides to supplement our remarks, which are posted on the MasTec's website, on the Investors tab and through the webcast link. There's also a companion document with information and analytics on the quarter and a guidance summary to assist in future financial modeling.
Please read the forward-looking statement disclaimer contained in the slides accompanying this call. During this call, we'll make forward-looking statements regarding our plans and expectations about the future as of the date of this call. These statements are based on current assumptions and factors that involve risks and uncertainties, our actual performance and results may differ materially from our forward-looking statements.
Our Form 10-K, as updated by our current and periodic reports and filings with the SEC, include detailed discussion of risks and uncertainties that may cause such differences. In today's remarks, we will also be discussing adjusted financial metrics, reconciling yesterday's press release and supporting schedules. We may also use certain non-GAAP financial measures on this call. A reconciliation of any non-GAAP financial measures not reconciled in these comments to the most comparable GAAP financial measures can be found in our earnings release, our slides, and companion documents. We had a nice in-line quarter. I'd like now to turn the call over to José for his commentary. José?
Thanks, Marc. Good morning. Welcome to MasTec's 2026 second quarter call. Today, I'll be reviewing our second quarter results as well as providing my outlook for the markets we serve. First, some second quarter highlights. Revenue for the quarter was $4.374 billion, up 23% year-over-year. Adjusted EBITDA was $384 million, a 40% year-over-year increase. Adjusted earnings per share was $2.22, a 49% year-over-year increase. Backlog at quarter end was $21.4 billion, a nearly $5 billion year-over-year increase and $1 billion sequential organic increase, a new record level. In summary, we delivered another excellent quarter. In fact, we set new highs across virtually every key financial metric. More importantly, the underlying demand driving these results continues to strengthen. Revenue, EBITDA, and EPS were all above guidance with strong year-over-year double-digit growth.
EBITDA margins improved 100 basis points versus last year's second quarter, and total company book-to-bill was over 1.2x, setting yet another backlog record. 2026 is on track to be a record year, and the recent acquisition of The Superior Group only adds to the momentum we are building as we look ahead to 2027 and beyond. Maybe more importantly, beyond the second quarter performance, what we're seeing across our end markets continues to reinforce our confidence in the longer-term opportunity in front of us. Just a few months ago in May, we held an Investor Day in New York. We had the chance to provide more detail around the opportunities for each of our business segments and set longer-term financial targets, including specific 2028 organic targets. We believe we've made a lot of progress in the two months since Investor Day.
While we recognize there has been increased noise in recent weeks related to market dynamics, the pace of project bids, negotiations, and longer-term development is as strong as we've ever seen. In fact, during the second quarter, we have seen a meaningful increase in large project pursuits. To reiterate, we are seeing unprecedented demand across our business, and we expect that to translate into further continued strong backlog growth. Also since Investor Day, we've now closed on the largest acquisition in our history. I'd again like to welcome the Superior family to MasTec. While Superior is a great company with incredible growth opportunities ahead, we're very bullish on our ability to further the impact of Superior by coupling other MasTec services to enhance our growth across the mission-critical space. We believe this acquisition enhances our capabilities, deepens our customer relationships, expands our highly skilled workforce, and broadens our addressable market.
More importantly, it positions MasTec to lead what we believe will be a generational infrastructure investment cycle driven by AI, electrification, and the continued growth of digital infrastructure. For the balance of 2026, while we expect continued strength across pipeline, power delivery, and our clean energy and infrastructure segment, we are experiencing some pressure in our communication segment. While our longer-term outlook in communications is unchanged, we are experiencing some short-term pressure. The two primary drivers are lower wireless revenues in the second half of 2026 relative to the first half, as well as certain wireline project deferrals. Wireless revenues exceeded our plans for the first half, and the next wave of growth will be driven by the rollout of new spectrum where the related equipment won't be available until next year.
On the wireline side, we're being impacted by RDOF projects rolling off, and the replacement projects we've won are having delayed starts. We see fiber expansion as the greatest opportunity within that segment and are seeing significant capital investments from our customers there. While wireless has historically represented a larger portion of our communications business, the investments we have made in wireline over the last several years are an important part of our growth story. Our communications business grew organically by more than 30% last year, and as we continue to shift more towards wireline, we've seen some variability in project cadence and quarter revenue timing. We've continued to win work associated with hyperscaler connectivity and are currently pursuing billions of dollars of opportunities related to that end market within our communication segment.
Moving on to power delivery, revenue was up nearly 20% year-over-year, and EBITDA grew by 24%. Margins were up sequentially by 220 basis points, and we expect continued strong performance for the balance of 2026. Backlog for the segment was up nearly $1.3 billion over last year, and we've had an excellent start to the third quarter in new bookings. Utilities are spending heavily on transmission, system hardening, and reliability, and that's being driven by both aging infrastructure and increasing demand. A big part of that demand is coming from mission-critical, where we see really strong long-term demand and significant expansion of the grid, new transmission lines, substations, and upgrades across the system. When you combine load growth, resilience, and energy transition, it creates a long duration and a highly visible opportunity set.
The combination of MasTec and Superior enhances our ability to meet those demands while also providing Superior and its customers with the benefits of MasTec's financial strength, broader geographic reach, and diversified infrastructure platform. We see meaningful opportunities to expand relationships with existing customers by offering a broader range of services across both organizations. In clean energy and infrastructure, segment revenues increased 43% year-over-year, EBITDA was up 54%, and segment backlog increased sequentially by $500 million, representing a book-to-bill of 1.3x. Backlog growth was driven primarily by renewables, where we continue to see really strong demand for both near and long-term. We're also very excited about the demand around power generation. As we covered in our investor day, we are focused on simple-cycle and RICE engines. The number of pursuits has increased materially, and our bullishness has only increased since Investor Day.
We're also seeing strong demand for our water infrastructure business, and that integration has gone very well. Our recent turnkey data center project is also progressing well and is a strong example of the demand for the breadth of MasTec's platform, with multiple sister companies working together on the same project. Demand for the skill set that MasTec has developed in construction management, coupled with the capabilities we have in civil, power, telecom, and maintenance, creates a significant opportunity to substantially expand this part of our business. We are currently in the midst of several large pursuits and fully expect additional awards in 2026. Our focus remains on partnering with customers early in the development process, helping them solve complex infrastructure challenges, and positioning MasTec to capture opportunities across the full life cycle of mission-critical projects.
Coupled with our ability to self-perform a significant portion of the work, we expect this part of our business to be a meaningful driver of solid long-term growth. On the pipeline side, the fundamentals are also very solid. For the quarter, pipeline segment revenue was up 19% year-over-year, and EBITDA nearly doubled. Backlog increased just over $450 million sequentially, and backlog hit its highest level since the second quarter of 2023. With that said, our long-term visibility is far better than our reported backlog number represents. The mission-critical power generation opportunity is also creating significant demand for pipeline infrastructure. Our customers are committing to future gas deliveries that will drive significant pipeline investment. This, coupled with current pipeline bottlenecks and constraints, has significantly enhanced our longer-term prospects in this segment. In closing, we expect 2026 to be a great year.
With record performance across revenue, profitability, and backlog, these results reflect strong execution across the business and the strength of our diversified platform. More importantly, the amount of investment going into critical infrastructure right now is significant and is being driven by some very durable trends, whether that's AI in data centers, grid reliability, energy demand, critical infrastructure, or connectivity. We believe MasTec is uniquely positioned at the center of these critical infrastructure trends with the capabilities, customer relationships, and backlog to drive sustained growth. Given our performance momentum, and the addition of Superior, we are increasing our full-year guidance. We now expect revenues of $18.2 billion, adjusted EBITDA of $1.6 billion, and earnings per share of $9.30, representing year-over-year growth of 27%, 39% and 42%, respectively.
Reflecting on our updated guidance, it's important to recognize that our exposure to the mission-critical market at scale is still in its early stages. The acquisition of Superior, together with the turnkey data center award we received in the fourth quarter of last year, has fundamentally expanded MasTec's position in this market. Despite nearly $2.5 billion of backlog growth over the past two quarters, only a modest portion contributes to 2026 revenue, with the majority expected to benefit 2027. We believe that timing reinforces the long-term earnings power of the business. We believe we're in the early stages of one of the largest infrastructure investment cycles we've ever seen, and MasTec is better positioned today than at any point in our history to capitalize on that opportunity. I'd like to take a moment to thank the men and women of MasTec.
It is both an honor and a privilege to lead such an outstanding team. Our people are deeply committed to the values that define us: safety, environmental stewardship, integrity, and honesty, while consistently delivering high-quality projects at the best possible value for our customers. These principles have not gone unnoticed. Our customers recognize and appreciate the dedication and excellence our team brings to every project. It is through the hard work and commitment of our people that we have positioned ourselves for continued growth and long-term success. I will now turn the call over to Paul for our financial review. Paul?
Thank you, José, and good morning, everyone. We are pleased with our second quarter performance and the continued execution across our business. For the quarter, revenue was approximately $4.375 billion, adjusted EBITDA was approximately $384 million and adjusted EPS was approximately $2.22. With each metric exceeding guidance and representing another quarter of strong year-over-year growth across all major financial metrics. Adjusted EBITDA margins expanded approximately 100 basis points year-over-year, reflected solid operating performance for the consolidated business.
Our second quarter results were driven by broad-based strength across most of the portfolio. Power delivery generated approximately $1.25 billion of revenue, with EBITDA margins exceeding 9%, benefiting from strong execution and continued utility infrastructure investment. Pipeline infrastructure delivered another excellent quarter, generating approximately $643 million of revenue, with EBITDA margins approaching 20%, reflecting both strong project execution and favorable project mix.
Clean energy and infrastructure generated approximately $1.6 billion of revenue and $120 million of EBITDA, supported by continued growth across renewables, infrastructure, and mission-critical construction activity. Together, these businesses continue to benefit from substantial demand for infrastructure construction across power generation and delivery, natural gas, heavy civil, and data centers. Backlog increased to another record level of approximately $21.4 billion at quarter end, growing roughly 5% sequentially and 30% year-over-year. Total company book-to-bill was approximately 1.2x, led by strong performance in pipeline infrastructure and clean energy infrastructure. Power delivery backlog also increased to a new record level. The continued growth in backlog provides us with excellent visibility entering the second half of 2026 and reinforces our confidence in the medium-term outlook for the business. One of the most important takeaways from the quarter is the strength and resiliency of our business model.
We are reducing communications outlook for the remainder of 2026, the strength of our other businesses is expected to offset the communications impact and support our full-year outlook. Power delivery, pipeline, and clean energy infrastructure are all performing at or above our expectations, supported by strong execution and attractive backlog development. This highlights the significant benefits of the diversification strategy we have built over many years and demonstrates our ability to deliver growth even when conditions vary across individual end markets. In particular, we continue to see substantial investment activity tied to electrical grid modernization, power generation, data center development, industrial infrastructure, and natural gas infrastructure. These markets benefit from durable, long-term demand drivers and collectively represent a much larger portion of our business today than they did just a few years ago.
We believe MasTec is increasingly positioned to deliver more consistent growth and less dependent on any single infrastructure cycle. In July, we closed the acquisition of The Superior Group, which further strengthens our position in several of the fastest-growing infrastructure markets we serve. Superior expands our electrical infrastructure capabilities within mission-critical facilities and data centers, has a highly skilled workforce of approximately 3,000 team members, and broadens our ability to provide integrated solutions to many of our largest customers. We continue to be excited about the long-term strategic and financial benefits this transaction creates. I'll share some additional details on our second quarter segment performance and outlook. Our communication segment generated approximately $890 million of revenue and $73 million of EBITDA for the second quarter, resulting in EBITDA margins of approximately 8.2%. Revenue was generally consistent with our expectations for the quarter.
Execution challenges on certain projects, coupled with higher indirect fuel and equipment expenses, led to lower profit flow through than anticipated. We remain very constructive on the long-term outlook for broadband infrastructure, fiber deployment, and data center interconnect opportunities. We are seeing near-term project deferrals that are expected to moderate the pace of upcoming customer spending. We are reducing our communications revenue and earnings expectations for the balance of 2026. We now expect full-year communications revenue of approximately $3.25 billion and EBITDA margins in the high single digits, approximately 100 basis points lower year-over-year. Disappointing in the near term, we're using this period as an opportunity to right size our operational support model and rationalize select markets that do not align with our longer-term growth and margin objectives.
For the third quarter, revenue is expected to be approximately $800 million, with high single-digit adjusted EBITDA margins. Our Power Delivery segment delivered another solid quarter. Revenue was approximately $1.25 billion, with EBITDA of $113 million, both exceeding our expectations and representing margins of just over 9%, expanding over 30 basis points year-over-year. Demand across our utility and transmission business remains very strong, driven by grid modernization, electrification, system reliability investments, and the growing power requirements associated with data center development. Power Delivery backlog increased to another record level of approximately $6.3 billion, with book-to-bill of 1.1x, despite record quarterly revenue. We continue to see strong award activity, expanding scope on existing projects, and increasing interest from customers in larger, more integrated product delivery models.
For the third quarter, we now expect Power Delivery inclusive of Superior's results to generate approximately $1.6 billion in revenue, with EBITDA margins in the low double digits and full-year revenue of approximately $5.725 billion, with EBITDA margins also in the low double digits. Our Pipeline Infrastructure segment continued to perform very strong. Revenue for the quarter was approximately $643 million, with EBITDA of approximately $119 million or 18.4% EBITDA margin. Strong project execution continues to drive EBITDA results, while broader market demand continues to build. Backlog increased to approximately $1.8 billion, up 35% sequentially, a book-to-bill of 1.7x, representing the strongest growth rate of any of our segments this quarter. In addition, as we've discussed previously, our reported backlog does not fully capture the level of customer engagement and product development activity we continue to see.
For the third quarter, we expect revenue of approximately $645 million and EBITDA margins in the mid-teens, consistent with our prior outlook, reflecting product timing and mix moderating somewhat from strong first half levels. Our full-year outlook remains largely unchanged as we position the business for the expected ramp into 2027. Our Clean Energy and Infrastructure segment generated over $1.6 billion of revenue and $128 million of EBITDA during the quarter. Demand remained strong across renewables, civil infrastructure, industrial construction, and general building, with the modest revenue mix driven by timing. Backlog increased to approximately $7.8 billion, growing roughly $500 million sequentially, with a book-to-bill of 1.3x, despite another record quarterly revenue. Renewables also continued their streak of sequential backlog growth.
Looking to the third quarter, we expect revenue to increase to approximately $1.9 billion, 40% growth year-over-year, with EBITDA margins in the high single digits, in line with 2025's third quarter, despite a higher revenue contribution from general buildings at mid-single digit margins. For the full-year, we now expect revenue of approximately $6.8 billion and EBITDA margin in the high single digits, both ahead of our prior expectations. From a consolidated perspective, we now expect full-year revenue of $18.2 billion, adjusted EBITDA of $1.6 billion, and adjusted EPS of $9.30. For the third quarter, we expect revenue of $4.9 billion, adjusted EBITDA of $482 million, and adjusted EPS of $2.98. Cash flow from operations was essentially flat for Q2, with working capital investment offsetting the strong sequential and year-over-year earnings growth.
Overall, we expect over $1 billion of cash flow from operations for 2026, with the majority anticipated to come in Q4. Net leverage at Q2 was 1.8x and would have been 2.2x pro forma for the Superior acquisition. We expect net leverage to be below 2x by year end, consistent with our financial policy. Overall, we are pleased with our Q2 results and outlook for 2026. Our broadly diversified service offerings continue to provide resiliency to MasTec's consolidated earnings profile. We entered the second half of the year with record backlog, strong visibility, and increasing momentum. When we combine the strength with the expected contribution from Superior, we believe the company is well positioned to continue delivering profitable growth while benefiting from some of the most attractive infrastructure investment trends in North America. This concludes our prepared remarks. I'll now turn the call over to the operator for Q&A.