Earnings Preview: Dauch (DCH) Q2 Earnings Expected to Decline
Dauch (DCH) doesn't possess the right combination of the two key ingredients for a likely earnings beat in its upcoming report. Get prepared with the key expectations.
Dauch Corporation, together with its subsidiaries, designs, engineers, and manufactures driveline and metal forming technologies that supports electric, hybrid, and internal combustion ...
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Est. EPS $0.20 · Revenue $2.80B · 7 analysts
Est. EPS $0.13 · Revenue $2.59B · 7 analysts
Est. EPS $0.91 · Revenue $10.71B · 6 analysts
Est. EPS $0.08 · Revenue $2.62B · 2 analysts
EPS $0.06 · Revenue $1.41B
| Metric | Latest | YoYYoY means Year-over-Year. It compares the latest annual value with the previous annual value to show long-term trend strength. | QoQQoQ means Quarter-over-Quarter. It compares the latest quarter with the immediately previous quarter to show short-term momentum changes. |
|---|---|---|---|
| RevenueThe total money that came through the front door from selling things, before paying a single bill. Think of it as the grand total of every credit card swipe from customers. (YoY compares this year to last year's performance, while QoQ compares the current three months to the previous three). | $5.8B | -4.7% | +24.2% |
| Net IncomeThe absolute bottom line. If the company paid every single supplier, employee, banker, and tax collector, this is the actual money left in their pocket at the end of the day. | $-19.7M | -156.3% | +101.0% |
| Gross MarginThe basic markup. If they sell a $100 pair of sneakers, this percentage tells you how much of that price tag is profit right after paying for the rubber and shoelaces, but before paying for things like store rent or TV commercials. | +10.7% | -11.5% | +36.1% |
| Operating MarginThe 'day job' efficiency score. Out of every dollar a customer spends, this shows how many cents the company keeps after making the product AND paying for all the everyday corporate overhead (like salaries, marketing, and keeping the lights on). | +4.0% | +2.6% | +28.0% |
| Net MarginThe final take-home percentage. When you strip away every conceivable cost, tax, and interest payment, this is the exact number of cents the company truly gets to keep from every dollar in sales. | -0.3% | -159.1% | +100.8% |
| Free Cash FlowThe holy grail of corporate cash. It's the spendable, physical money left over after the business pays for its daily operations AND buys the big, expensive upgrades (like new factories or servers) it needs to survive. This is the 'free' money they can use to pay dividends or buy back stock. | $149.3M | -26.9% | +105.5% |
| FCF MarginThe ultimate cash conversion rate. It shows how good the company is at turning regular sales directly into cold, hard, spendable cash. A high percentage means the business is an absolute cash-printing machine. | +2.6% | -23.3% | +104.4% |
| Debt / EquityThe financial risk gauge. It compares how much of the company's empire was built using borrowed money (loans) versus the owners' own money (shareholders). A high number means they are heavily leveraged and playing a riskier game; a low number means they are playing it safe. | 652.2% | +34.1% | -1.7% |
| Current RatioThe 12-month survival check. It simply compares the cash they have right now (plus things they can quickly turn into cash) against the immediate bills they absolutely must pay this year. A score above 1 means they have enough in the wallet to cover the upcoming bills without panicking. | 2.95x | +80.8% | +0.5% |
| Total AssetsThe absolute size of the company's empire. It bundles together absolutely everything of value they own—from the cash in the register and the inventory in the warehouse, to the software patents in the vault and the factories on the ground. | $6.7B | +31.8% | -2.0% |
| Metric | Annual (A vs E) | Annual Surprise | Quarter (A vs E) | Quarter Surprise |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| EPS Surprise | -0.17 vs 0.45 | -138.0% | 0.00 vs 0.20 | -97.9% |
| Revenue Surprise | $5.8B vs $5.9B | -0.4% | $3.0B vs $2.8B | +5.7% |
| Date | Executive | Title | Security | Side | Shares | Price |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 4, 2026 | Kemp Terri M. | officer: SVP - Chief of Staff | Common Stock | A | 186,568 | — |
| May 4, 2026 | Sherbin Joshua A | officer: General Counsel & Secretary | Common Stock | A | 100,747 | — |
| May 4, 2026 | Sherbin Joshua A | officer: General Counsel & Secretary | Common Stock | A | 45,455 | — |
| May 4, 2026 | Sherbin Joshua A | officer | — | — | 0 | — |
| Apr 30, 2026 | MacAulay Fiona M | director | Common Stock | A | 29,773 | — |
Operator: Good morning. My name is Rocco, and I will be your conference facilitator today. At this time, I would like to welcome everyone to the Dauch Corporation Second Quarter 2026 Earnings Conference Call. [Operator Instructions] As a reminder, today's call is being recorded. I would now like to turn the call over to Mr. David Lim, Head of Investor Relations. Please go ahead, Mr. Lim. David Lim: Thank you, Rocco, and good morning, everyone. I'd like to welcome everyone who is joining us on Dauch Corporation's Second Quarter Earnings Call. Now earlier this morning, we released our second quarter of 2026 earnings announcement. You can access this announcement on the Investor Relations page of our website, www.dauch.com, and to the PR Newswire Services. You can also find supplemental slides for this conference call on the Investor page of our website. A replay of this call will be available through August 14. Replay details are in today's press release. Now before we begin, I'd like to remind everyone that the matters discussed in this call may contain comments and forward-looking statements that are subject to risks and uncertainties, which cannot be predicted or quantified and which may cause future activities and results of operations to differ materially from those discussed. For additional information, please reference Slide 2 of our investor presentation or the press release that was issued today. Also, during this call, you may refer to certain non-GAAP financial measures. Information regarding these non-GAAP measures as well as a reconciliation of the non-GAAP measures to GAAP financial information is available in the presentation. With that, let me turn things over to our Chairman and CEO, David Dauch. David Dauch: Thank you, David, and good morning, everyone. Thank you for joining us today to discuss Dow's financial results for the second quarter of 2026. Joining me on the call today is Chris May, our Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer. The company's strong second quarter results highlight the continued positive acceleration for the new Dauch Corporation. We are focused on unlocking the full strategic potential of the transformational acquisition as we continue to successfully implement our integration plan to drive value creation and leverage our enhanced size and scale. So far, I'm very pleased with the robust start. As for today's agenda, I'll review the highlights of our second quarter financial performance. Next, I'll touch on our synergy progress, some business updates, commentary about the industry and our guidance. I'll then turn the call over to Chris to cover the details of our financial results, after which we will field any questions that you may have. So let's begin with some of the details. The company's second quarter of 2026 sales were approximately $3 billion, adjusted earnings per share was $0.32 and adjusted free cash flow was approximately $148 million. In the second quarter, North American …
| Name | Title | Compensation | Gender | Year Born | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
David Charles Dauch | Chairman & Chief Executive Officer | USD 6,354,113 | Male | 1965 | Active |
Michael Joseph Lynch | President of Driveline | USD 2,346,264 | Male | 1964 | Active |
Christopher John May | Executive Vice President & Chief Financial Officer | USD 2,270,150 | Male | 1970 | Active |
Terri Kemp | Senior VP and Chief of Staff, Human Resources & Sustainability | USD 1,656,013 | Female | 1966 | Active |
David H. Lim | Head of Investor Relations | — | Male | — | Active |
David Eugene Barnes | Chief Compliance Officer & Corporate Secretary | — | Male | 1960 | Active |
Donald E. Wright | Chief Information Officer & Vice President | — | Male | — | Active |
Joshua Alan Sherbin | General Counsel & Secretary | — | Male | 1963 | Active |
Christopher Son | Vice President of Marketing & Communications | — | Male | — | Active |
James G. Zaliwski | Chief Accounting Officer | — | Male | 1972 | Active |
Dauch (DCH) doesn't possess the right combination of the two key ingredients for a likely earnings beat in its upcoming report. Get prepared with the key expectations.
DETROIT, July 28, 2026 /PRNewswire/ -- Dauch Corporation, (NYSE: DCH, LSE: DCH) will hold a conference call to discuss second quarter financial results and other related matters at 10:00 a.m. ET (15:00 BST) on Friday, August 7, 2026.
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