埃维鲁斯建筑集团 (ECG) 2026财年第三季度业绩电话会议:在手订单大增86%,上调业绩指引
Everus Construction Group公布2026财年第三季度营收13.8亿美元,同比增长40%,内生营收增长36%。EBITDA增长57.5%至1.402亿美元,利润率扩大110个基点至10.1%。未完工订单达54.8亿美元,同比大增86%,电气与机械(E&M)业务为主要增长引擎。基于强劲表现,管理层上调2026财年全年营收预期至50.0亿至51.0亿美元,EBITDA预期至4.85亿至4.95亿美元。净杠杆率为0.7倍,为未来投资保留空间。
核心要点
- Everus Construction Group公布2026财年第三季度营收为13.8亿美元,同比增长40%。扣除SE&M和Epsilon后,内生营收增长36%。
- EBITDA增长57.5%至1.402亿美元,EBITDA利润率扩大110个基点至10.1%。业绩包含结算以往项目未收账款所产生的760万美元一次性净收益。
- 未完工订单达54.8亿美元,同比增长86%。SE&M和Epsilon在季度末的未完工订单总额中贡献了约7.42亿美元。
- 电气与机械(E&M)业务仍是主要增长引擎,营收增长48%,部门EBITDA增长79%。数据中心在未完工订单中占比最大,同时工业、机构及其他终端市场也录得增长。
- 管理层上调了2026财年全年业绩指引,预计营收为50.0亿美元至51.0亿美元,EBITDA为4.85亿美元至4.95亿美元。
- 截至9月30日,净杠杆率为0.7倍,低于公司1.5倍至2.0倍的目标区间,为内生投资和收购保留了空间。
核心财务业绩
| 指标 | 2026财年第三季度 | 同比变化 | 说明 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 营收 | 13.8亿美元 | +40% | E&M与T&D业务实现增长,包括SE&M和Epsilon的贡献 |
| 内生营收 | — | +36% | 不含收购带来的贡献 |
| EBITDA | 1.402亿美元 | +57.5% | 包含760万美元的一次性净收益 |
| EBITDA利润率 | 10.1% | +110个基点 | 上年同期利润率为9.0% |
| 未完工订单 | 54.8亿美元 | +86% | 包含来自SE&M和Epsilon的约7.42亿美元 |
| E&M营收 | 11.4亿美元 | +48% | 内生增长率为42% |
| E&M EBITDA | 1.198亿美元 | +79% | 得益于营收增长及项目执行力 |
| E&M EBITDA利润率 | 10.5% | +180个基点 | 上年同期利润率为8.7% |
| T&D营收 | 2.556亿美元 | +14% | 受公用事业终端市场驱动 |
| T&D EBITDA | 3830万美元 | +13.3% | 随营收增长而增加 |
| T&D EBITDA利润率 | 15.0% | 持平 | 与上年同期持平 |
2026财年前九个月,经营活动现金流从上年同期的1.086亿美元增至2.673亿美元。自由现金流从7480万美元升至2.212亿美元,部分得益于营运资金的结算时点。资本支出为5340万美元,占营收的1.5%。
截至9月30日,Everus拥有2.45亿美元的无受限现金及现金等价物,总债务为5.72亿美元,其信用额度下有2.48亿美元可用额度。
业务与运营表现
E&M未完工订单同比增长约100%。管理层表示,数据中心仍是最大组成部分,这得益于与大型超大规模客户的合作,以及公司参与了超出当前未完工订单周期的项目规划。
增长同样具备广泛性。工业领域的未完工订单受益于半导体和制造业活动,包括在一个较新区域内工作的持续推进。机构领域的未完工订单在政府和医疗卫生部门均有所改善,同时酒店、仓储、可再生能源、特殊项目及服务业务也录得同比增长。
SE&M扩大了Everus在制药和医疗卫生项目中的参与度,增加了其机械工程业务,并巩固了其在大西洋中部的业务布局。管理层表示整合进展顺利。
9月1日收购的Epsilon带来了模块化和场外施工能力。公司看到了在数据中心、汽车和医疗卫生领域的交叉销售潜力,尽管Epsilon的项目节奏更为不均,且其未完工订单的转化速度普遍慢于Everus传统的现场施工业务。
输配电(T&D)业务受益于公用事业需求。管理层特别指出了变电站、输电及其他公用事业工程的增长,并强调客户关系和主服务协议(MSA)使Everus处于有利地位,能够把握与基础设施老化和预期负荷增长相关的未来支出机遇。
管理层业绩指引
基于今年以来的表现、Epsilon的并表以及持续的业务势头,Everus上调了2026财年全年展望:
| 指引指标 | 更新后的2026财年范围 |
|---|---|
| 营收 | 50.0亿美元-51.0亿美元 |
| EBITDA | 4.85亿美元-4.95亿美元 |
| 中点值隐含EBITDA利润率 | 约9.7% |
| 资本支出 | 9000万美元-1.00亿美元 |
管理层表示,隐含的全年利润率反映了执行效益以及SE&M和Epsilon带来的利润率贡献。公司维持其占营收2.0%至2.5%的长期资本支出目标。
风险与关注事项
- 第三季度EBITDA包含760万美元的一次性净收益,影响了与基础经营业绩的可比性。
- 管理层承认该行业面临长期劳动力挑战,不过Everus已扩大其员工队伍,并利用预制和模块化施工来提高生产力。
- Epsilon的模块化施工营收在各季度间可能不够稳定,且预计其未完工订单转化速度将慢于Everus的典型业务。
- 自由现金流部分受益于有利的营运资金结算时点,这一因素可能无法在同一水平上重现。
- 分析师对不利于数据中心发展的政治言论及可能的施工禁令表达了担忧。管理层回应称尚未观察到客户行为出现任何改变,并维持强劲的数据中心前景预期。
分析师问答环节亮点
未完工订单转化:管理层表示,历史数据表明Everus在12个月内可转化约80%的未完工订单。由于模块化施工的特性,Epsilon的未完工订单消化周期更长。
数据中心业务参与度:公司仍紧密参与超大规模客户的规划工作,并预期将持续获得机遇。管理层强调,未完工订单的增长也拓展到了工业、机构、公用事业及其他市场。
Epsilon交叉销售:Everus已开始协调运营领导者之间的讨论,并看到了将Epsilon的能力引入其现有客户、同时将Everus的服务带给Epsilon客户群的机遇。
资本需求:管理层预计预制和模块化施工的拓展不会改变其占营收2.0%至2.5%的长期资本支出框架。
劳动力可用性:Everus表示其在过去十年中大幅扩大了劳动力规模,并预计预制和模块化施工将推动营收增长超越单纯靠员工扩充带来的速度。
2027财年利润率:在计划于2月发布的更新之前,管理层拒绝提供2027财年的指引。管理层指出,得益于项目可见性和持续的执行效益,2026财年第四季度的指引假设利润率趋势与第三季度大致相似。
业绩电话会议完整文字记录
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管理层陈述
Operator
Hello, everyone. Thank you for joining us, and welcome to Everus Third Quarter 2026 Earnings Call. [Operator Instructions] I will now hand the conference over to Paul Bartolai. Please go ahead.
Paul Bartolai
Thank you. Good morning, everyone, and welcome to Everus Construction Group's Third Quarter 2026 Results Conference Call. Leading the call today are CEO, Jeff Thiede and CFO, Max Marcy. We issued a news release yesterday detailing our third quarter 2026 operational and financial results. This release and the accompanying presentation materials are available on our website at investors.everus.com.
I would like to remind you that management's commentary and responses to questions on today's conference call may include forward-looking statements, which, by their nature, are uncertain and outside of the company's control. Although these forward-looking statements are based on management's current expectations and beliefs, actual results could differ materially. For a discussion of some of the factors that could cause actual results to differ, please refer to the Risk Factors section of our latest filings with the SEC.
Additionally, please note that you can find reconciliations of historical non-GAAP financial measures in the news release issued yesterday and in the appendix of today's presentation.
Today's call will begin with prepared remarks from Jeff, who will provide a review of our recent business performance and an update on the progress against our strategic priorities followed by Max who will provide a more detailed financial update before wrapping up with our guidance. At the conclusion of these prepared remarks, we will open the line for your questions.
And with that, I'll turn the call over to Jeff.
Jeff Thiede
Thank you, Paul, and good morning to everyone joining us today. Everus delivered another quarter of strong financial results, achieving due quarterly revenue, earnings and backlog records. Our results reflect the robust demand we are seeing across our diverse end markets. as well as our team's disciplined execution and ongoing focus on our 4 ever strategic priorities.
We continue to see sustained demand across our business, as demonstrated by our strong backlog growth. The trends are broad-based with growth across each of our E&M markets. We are experiencing robust bidding activity, strong order patterns and continued positive tone from our customers. keeping us on pace for a strong finish to the year and continued momentum into 2027.
Turning to our quarterly highlights, beginning with Slide 4. We delivered record third quarter revenues of $1.4 billion, up 40% from the prior year, with growth across both our E&M and T&D segments. Our strong top line performance was complemented by another quarter of excellent execution, resulting in a 58% increase in third quarter EBITDA compared to last year, with EBITDA margin up 110 basis points. Our record results underscore the strength of our position in the industry, our disciplined focus on our operational playbook, and the deep long-standing relationships we have with our customers.
Our backlog at the end of the third quarter was $5.5 billion, up 86% from the same period last year driven by continued strength in E&M and including contributions from our recent acquisitions of SE&M and Epsilon. The outlook for our data center business remains robust and this was a key driver of our backlog growth in the quarter. Our data center and customers tend to be large hyperscalers, and we remain deeply involved in the project planning process for these customers. These plans can extend beyond our backlog burn, giving us good visibility into the continued momentum in the industry.
Our long track record of successful project execution our deeply talented and experienced workforce and our geographic footprint positions us very well for these attractive industry trends. That said, we also continue to see strong demand trends across other areas of our business, and we are strategically positioned to benefit from our diverse end markets. Within Industrial, we continue to see strong trends in the high-tech submarket, mainly semiconductor, including the ongoing ramp-up of work in the new geography we entered around this time last year.
The initial project for this new customer is progressing nicely, and we remain encouraged by the multiyear opportunity we see in this geographic region. The institutional market also generated solid backlog growth, building on momentum we saw during the second quarter. We've seen strong growth in our government and health care submarkets to industries where we have a long history of success. After having some large projects finished up in 2025, we are excited to see the renewed activity in these 2 key submarkets.
Our recent acquisitions of SE&M and Epsilon are also contributing to the diversity of our growth drivers. SE&M significantly expanded our presence in the pharma and health care submarkets and increased our volume and mechanical work. Momentum remains strong in SE&M's business, and the integration process is progressing extremely well. We remain excited by the opportunities in the attractive Mid-Atlantic market.
We are very pleased to welcome the Epsilon team to Everus with the acquisition closing on September 1, and off-site construction is clearly a critical driver of success in our business. So we are excited by the expanded modular construction capabilities that Epsilon brings to our company. It also enhances our business diversification by broadening our geographic footprint into several attractive regions. And we expect to have meaningful cross-selling opportunities with the customer relationships that Epsilon has.
We look forward to keeping you updated as we make progress on integrating Epsilon into our operations. Epsilon has strong business momentum, and we are excited about the contributions it will make to our growth strategy.
I'd like to wrap up my comments with an update on our key strategic initiatives. As a reminder, our value creation framework is based on targeted growth, operational excellence and disciplined capital allocation. In terms of growth, I already highlighted the sustained momentum we are experiencing across our E&M business. While E&M has been the primary growth driver recently, we remain encouraged by the favorable outlook in our T&D business.
We are experiencing solid backlog momentum across our utility submarkets and we are optimistic about the growth outlook for our T&D business in the coming years. Utility investment to address aging infrastructure and support projected load growth will provide opportunities in the coming years. We have long-term relationships with utility customers in our key geographies, and we are well positioned through our long-standing master service agreements to benefit from the expected ramp in transmission and distribution spending.
Now turning to operational excellence. Efficient project execution is contributing to our outstanding results, including EBITDA margin of 9.8% through the first 9 months of 2026, which is up 120 basis points compared to last year. Our strong performance is a direct result of our disciplined focus on the Everus operational platelet, the use of modular construction and prefabrication services and the hard work and dedication of our team members across the company.
Our commitment to our 4 ever strategic framework that focuses on employees, value, execution and relationships remains a driving force behind our continued success. And the last initiative I wanted to update you on is our disciplined capital allocation. As we have stated since our spin-off almost exactly 2 years ago, our capital allocation framework prioritizes investments that support our growth, both organic opportunities and through acquisitions. Our 2 acquisitions this year align with the acquisition strategy that we've described which is to expand our geographic footprint, diversify our business and deepen our market presence.
Our corporate development team remains busy, and we are excited about the opportunities we are evaluating in our acquisition pipeline. Even with the recent transactions, our net leverage is well below our 1.5 to 2x targeted range. So we have continued flexibility to execute on our growth strategy.
In summary, we remain committed to our strategic priorities and are encouraged by the continued momentum across our business. We expect a strong finish to the year and are pleased to once again be raising our full year outlook, which Max will discuss in more detail. I would like to thank our stockholders for their ongoing support our employees for their dedication to safely building America's future and our customers for their trust and ongoing partnership.
With that, I'll turn it over to Max.
Maximillian Marcy
Thank you, Jeff, and good morning, everyone. I will provide additional details on the quarter, give an update on our liquidity and balance sheet and wrap up with our updated guidance.
Beginning on Slide 10 of the presentation, revenues for the third quarter were $1.38 billion, an increase of 40% compared to the same period last year. The increase was driven by growth in both E&M and T&D segments including contributions from the acquisitions of SE&M and Epsilon. Excluding the acquisitions, third quarter revenues were up 36% on an organic basis. Total EBITDA was $140.2 million during the third quarter, an increase of 57.5% from the same period in 2025 driven by robust revenue growth and continued excellent project execution.
In addition, results included a onetime net gain of $7.6 million related to the settlement of outstanding billings on a past project. Our third quarter EBITDA margin was 10.1%, up 110 basis points from 9.0% in the prior year period. At September 30, total backlog was $5.48 billion, up 86% from September 30 of last year. The increase was driven by strong growth in our E&M backlog, which was up about 100% and as Jeff detailed, the robust backlog growth reflects increases across each of our E&M markets as well as roughly $742 million in contributions from SE&M and Epsilon at quarter end versus the prior year.
Now turning to our segment results. Let's first look at E&M, where our third quarter revenues increased 48% to $1.14 billion. The increase was driven primarily by growth in our commercial and industrial end markets as well as contributions from our recent acquisitions. Excluding acquisition revenue, our E&M revenue was up 42% organically. Our EBITDA was $119.8 million in the third quarter, an increase of 79% compared to the third quarter of 2025. The increase was driven by our strong revenue growth and higher gross margin due to strong project execution.
As a result, our E&M segment EBITDA margin was 10.5% and up 180 basis points compared to 8.7% in the third quarter of 2025. Our third quarter T&D revenues were $255.6 million up 14% from the third quarter of last year, driven by growth in our utility end market. T&D segment EBITDA was $38.3 million in the third quarter, up 13.3% from the prior year period due to higher revenues. T&D segment EBITDA margin was 15% during the third quarter, on par with the same period last year.
Turning now to our balance sheet and liquidity. As of September 30, we had $245 million of unrestricted cash and cash equivalents, $572 million of gross debt and $248 million available under the credit facility. Our net debt increased sequentially, reflecting the closing of the Epsilon acquisition, partially offset by our strong operating results. Net leverage, defined as net debt to trailing 12-month EBITDA was 0.7x as of September 30, well below our 1.5 to 2x targeted range.
Operating cash flows were $267.3 million for the first 9 months of 2026 compared to $108.6 million in the same period last year, due to our strong operating results and favorable working capital timing. Capital expenditures were $53.4 million for the first 9 months of 2026 and up modestly from $42.1 million in the prior year period. Our capital expenditures for the first 9 months represented 1.5% of revenues below our targeted 2% to 2.5% of revenues due in part to our strong revenue growth and timing of investments.
We continue to see significant opportunities to invest in our business to support our organic growth initiatives and we remain committed to our long-term capital spending targeted range. For the 2026 fiscal year, we continue to expect that we will invest $90 million to $100 million in capital expenditures. Combined with the acquisitions of Epsilon and SE&M, we have deployed over $500 million of capital in support of our growth initiatives thus far in 2026. Even with these investments, our net leverage remains modest giving us significant balance sheet capacity and ample flexibility to continue investing in our strategic growth initiatives.
We generated free cash flow of $221.2 million for the first 9 months of 2026 up from $74.8 million in the same period last year. While our 2026 free cash flow had some timing benefits, our teams are managing the working capital dynamics very effectively as we grow with customers.
Wrapping up with guidance. Based on our strong results and the inclusion of Epsilon, combined with the continued momentum we see across our business, we are raising our full year 2026 guidance. We are now forecasting revenues in the range of $5 billion to $5.1 billion and EBITDA in the range of $485 million to $495 million. At the midpoint of our range, our guidance implies EBITDA margins of around 9.7% for the year, essentially in line with our year-to-date performance which reflects the execution upside as well as the margin accretion from SE&M and Epsilon. That completes our prepared remarks.
Operator, we are now ready for the question-and-answer portion of our call.
Operator
[Operator Instructions] Your first question is from the line of Brent Thielman with Oppenheimer & Co. Please go ahead.
分析师问答
Brent Thielman
Great quarter. Jeff, I guess, just the first question, any anecdotes or visibility you can share in the potential new business and the overall pipeline that maybe goes beyond the robust backlog you reported this quarter? And I guess any risks that you see as a result of the outcome of the elections?
Jeff Thiede
Yes. If you think about the history of our company over 30 years, we've been able to navigate successfully through a strategy to take advantage of opportunities in the current market, but also looking ahead in the future. We're really proud of our team to be able to grow our record backlog and our backlog increases in many of our markets and submarkets is encouraging to us to be able to further diversify our business and capture the opportunities today.
But meanwhile, looking ahead, I think that's also demonstrated by our most recent acquisitions from SE&M closed in April and also Epsilon closed in September.
Brent Thielman
Okay. And then yes, it looks like Epsilon added a pretty significant backlog here in the quarter. I think you had some capacity plans underway for that business. Just your thoughts on ability to convert that in 2027, does some of that work extend beyond next year? Just how we should think about that?
Maximillian Marcy
Yes. Brent, it's Max. So the modular activity that Epsilon has typically has the longer backlog burn than we see in our business. So we feel very confident in our ability to continue to generate good opportunities and solid backlog, but it will convert at a slower pace, just given the nature of the business.
Jeff Thiede
And adding to that, Brent, we look at this every -- at least every quarter, every month, our backlog burn, as we've reported previously, is about 80% over a 12-month period.
Operator
Your next question is from the line of Brian Brophy with Stifel.
Your next question is from the line of Kurt Yinger with D.A. Davidson.
Kurt Yinger
Great. I just wanted to go, I guess, high level. I mean, obviously, refresh from an election perspective, but would just love to kind of hear high-level thoughts, just less data center-friendly rhetoric talking about potential moratoriums or new construction positives. I guess, how do you think big picture around that may be impacting your business? And maybe more specifically, whether that has any impact in terms of things you have in backlog? Just high-level thoughts would be much appreciated.
Jeff Thiede
Yes. Thanks for the question. We haven't seen any change in behavior from our customers. Our outlook for data centers is strong. It's as we've reported previously, and the same for this quarter. It's the largest part of our backlog. If you look at the increases in the other submarkets we have in our backlog, we have an increase in hospitality and warehouse, our industrial work, semiconductor work within industrial in addition to manufacturing is also up on a year-over-year basis for our backlog.
Our institutional government and health care, which include -- also includes pharmaceutical, is up year-over-year and even renewables and our special projects and service work is on a year-over-year backlog basis. Our utility work is up as well, most notably in the substation, transmission and utility work. So, the diversification strategy of our business is working. So today, we have a lot of data center work, and we're executing that work incredibly well, which is reflected in some of the margin uplift that we've had in this quarter and year-to-date.
Brian Brophy
Okay. Okay. That's helpful. And I guess, maybe sticking to that kind of diversification theme and looking ahead at future opportunities. I mean, if we were to kind of take today as a representation of maybe greater project risk or more uncertainty around how certain projects might progress I guess does that change your appetite to continue to pursue more opportunities in that data center area if that strength continues. I guess, I get it's a new jerk reaction, but would just love any thoughts there.
Jeff Thiede
We're very involved in the planning stages with the hyperscalers, which we're working mostly for, and we're confident that we're going to continue to see opportunities with data centers. And then throughout our organization to be able to exercise our diversification strategy. We're anticipatory on making sure that we are looking ahead to be able to optimize the opportunities that we see coming up like pharmaceuticals, like manufacturing, industrial and health care and some of our institutional workers.
Brian Brophy
Okay. Okay. I appreciate that. And maybe just lastly on Epsilon. You mentioned some opportunities for cross-sell. I was hoping we own that business for 2 months now, if there are maybe any specific examples or specific areas where you really see an opportunity to scale that business or areas where you've been able to kind of leverage it to a greater extent as part of the -- your larger platform?
Jeff Thiede
We see a lot of opportunity for cross-selling. Epsilon had its own customers before we acquired them. And for Everus, we had our own customers as well. We have visited their plant and got our presidents together, and we have got the discussions moving forward with being able to cross-sell. Epsilon is pretty well diversified too. They, of course, do some data center work, but they also have experience in automotive and in the health care industry.
So we think it's a great complement to our business. We think that the cross-selling opportunities are going to provide an expansion, and we're going to support that business through capital in our CapEx program.
Operator
Your next question is from the line of Michael [indiscernible] with Golden Securities.
Unknown Analyst
Sorry, my connection was cutting out a bit, so I hope this wasn't asked already. But looking past integration with Epsilon, how much of the E&M backlog do you think could realistically shift to offsite prefab preset work? And if that is the case, would that potentially increase the CapEx going forward in the out years?
Maximillian Marcy
Yes, we see continued growth in the opportunities to be able to do off-site construction we've had an initiative within our company for many years. And organically, we've been able to grow both on prefabrication and modular. If you take a look at what Epsilon brings to our company as well. They're 100% off-site construction and the lessons learned from what we've done in the past successfully, and you complement that with Epsilon, we are going to continue to expand that part of our business, and it's going to continue to grow.
Our customers also have a big part of this because they make those early commitments for us to be able to to secure the engineering and the equipment and the tools that are necessary in order for us to be able to build upon our success. We're really excited about Epsilon. It's a great part of our business today, and we see tremendous opportunity in the future.
Jeff Thiede
And I would just add to that, Michael. I mean, obviously, we had lots of capital plans ahead of buying up salon that focus both on equipment and trucks for our businesses, but also on prefab modular opportunities, right? So I think this just supplements that. I don't think it changes the long-term dynamic of our kind of 2% to 2.5% of revenue in CapEx, I think with what we want to do with Epsilon. And then, of course, internally, our prefab modular still fits into that rubric, and we still feel confident that we can deliver lots of opportunity continue to convert backlog to modular within that framework.
Operator
Our next question is from the line of Brian Brophy with Stifel.
Brian Brophy
Can you guys hear me?
Jeff Thiede
Yes, Brian.
Brian Brophy
Awesome. I guess just to kind of pile on to the Epsilon conversation here. Can you give us a sense for how fast Epsilon has grown in the past? And how we should think about the pace of growth there relative to your stick built business?
Jeff Thiede
Yes. I'll start. I'd like to have Max comment on that. But of course, we've built a model and dove into the details very thoroughly to be able to track against what we originally planned. And and Epsilon was closed on September 1, as you know, and we're tracking very well on a business that we see as a great complement to our company.
Maximillian Marcy
Yes. So Brian, I mean, obviously, modular construction has a little different cadence, right? It's not maybe as smooth as what you see in our typical E&C on site. They've had good growth, maybe it hasn't been quite as fast as is where we have grown, but it's held in there with kind of market growth rates over the last several years.
But it's just a little bit lumpier. We feel good about our ability to continue to convert what they're doing into good revenue in the future.
Brian Brophy
Okay. And yes, just a follow-up to that. You may just answer my next question, but the acquisition contribution for electromechanical, I think, was a little bit less than some of the annual run rates would imply for SE&M and Epsilon. Just curious what the driver is? Is some of that the lumpiness and timing of deliveries at Epsilon, as you were kind of alluding to and the business only being in the quarter for 1 month? Or is there something else driving it?
Maximillian Marcy
Yes. Yes, Brian. It's a little bit the former that you were talking about, right? So I mean this is maybe a little bit lumpy first month purchase accounting, all that, all that stuff and getting the business integrated into our financials. So we feel very, very confident in the long-term run rate of the business.
Operator
Your next call from the line of [indiscernible] with Cantor Fitzgerald.
Unknown Analyst
Jeff and Max, who had another solid quarter, having a few connectivity issues. So excuse me, this has been already answered. But Jeff, with E&M organic revenue up more than 40% and the acceleration that you mentioned in data center activity, which is still ongoing. How are you thinking about still availability heading into 2027?
Jeff Thiede
Yes. I think I got most of that. I apologize, probably on our end. But I think the growth of our business is going to be, of course, reflected in our backlog. And our record backlog comes across many of our end markets and submarkets as I previously stated.
Maximillian Marcy
Yes. And so sorry, in labor availability, I mean, I think, obviously, we've done a very, very good job of growing our labor force to support the long-term backlog conversion in our business. I think we've probably grown revenue faster. I think that's probably the continued goal is to we will continue to get access to labor as we need it to complete the projects that we're taking on our backlog.
We also are using prefabrication and modular to continue to do more with less. So Obviously, long term in this space, there is a labor challenge. But we've been successful in quadrupling our labor over the last 10 to 12 years. And of course, by using prefab in modular, we continue to support further growth even faster than we can grow our labor for us.
Jeff Thiede
Yes. We're at record employment and we've got a strong history of developing our people technically, but even soft skills to have good solid succession planning to be able to continue our growth and support our goals for the future.
Unknown Analyst
Right. Max, I had another question on margin normalization. Q3 EBITDA margin was 10.1%, but accounting for the benefit that you have from the dispute resolution of 55 basis points, it comes down to 9.6%. So should we single that as the new starting point for 2027?
Maximillian Marcy
Yes. Well, we're not quite ready to provide 2027 guidance yet. We'll do that in February. But I think if you think about the benefits that we've had, I think some of it is through execution, right? So there is still some execution benefits that we saw during the third quarter. So I wouldn't call execution benefits normalized margin. But then we also have seen some upticks, continued upticks in our cartons as well. So the guidance in Q4, you kind of did the math early in Q3. So our Q4 guidance kind of suggests that we continue upon that similar margin trend in the fourth quarter based on the visibility to the projects we have and some execution benefits in the fourth quarter.
Operator
There are no further questions at this time. I will now turn the call back to Jeff Seed for closing remarks.
Jeff Thiede
Thank you, operator. I want to thank you all again for joining us today. We will be attending several upcoming investor events, including the Baird Industrial Conference in Chicago, the Wolfe Virtual Small and Mid-Cap Conference the Oppenheimer Winter Industrial Summit and the Stifel Frontier Tech 2.0 Energy Summit in New York. If we are not able to connect during the next few months, we look forward to speaking with you on our next quarterly earnings call.
Thank you for your time and your interest in Everus. This concludes today's call.
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