mg-20260505
UNITED STATES
SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION
WASHINGTON, D.C. 20549
FORM 8-K
CURRENT REPORT
Pursuant to Section 13 or 15(d) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934
Date of Report (Date of earliest event reported): May 5, 2026
Mistras Group, Inc.
(Exact name of registrant as specified in its charter)
| Delaware | 001-34481 | 22-3341267 | ||||||||||||
| (State or other jurisdiction | (Commission | (IRS Employer | ||||||||||||
| of incorporation) | File Number) | Identification No.) | ||||||||||||
| 195 Clarksville Road | |||||||||||
| Princeton Junction, | New Jersey | 08550 | |||||||||
| (Address of principal executive offices) | (Zip Code) | ||||||||||
Registrant’s telephone number, including area code: (609) 716-4000
Not Applicable
(Former name or former address, if changed since last report)
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Securities registered pursuant to Section 12(b) of the Act:
| Title of each class | Trading Symbol(s) | Name of each exchange on which registered | ||||||
| Common Stock, $0.01 par value | MG | New York Stock Exchange | ||||||
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Item 2.02. Results of Operations and Financial Condition
On May 5, 2026, Mistras Group, Inc. (the "Company," "we," "us" and "our") issued a press release announcing the financial results for our first quarter, which ended on March 31, 2026. A copy of the press release is attached as Exhibit 99.1 to this report.
Disclosure of Non-GAAP Financial Measures
In the press release attached, the Company uses the terms “Adjusted EBITDA,” “free cash flow,” "net debt" and "income from operations before special items," which are not measures of financial performance under U.S. generally accepted accounting principles (“GAAP”). The tables to the press release include reconciliations of these non-GAAP financial measures to the most comparable financial measure under GAAP. Also, in the tables to the press release, the non-GAAP financial measures "Segment and Total Company Income (Loss) from Operations before Special Items” (which includes income (loss) from operations before special items) are presented and reconciled to financial measures under GAAP within the table "Segment and Total Company Income (Loss) from Operations (GAAP) to Income from Operations before Special Items (Non-GAAP)." The non-GAAP financial measure "Diluted EPS Excluding Special Items (non-GAAP)," is presented and reconciled to the financial measure under GAAP within the table "Net Income (Loss) (GAAP) and Diluted EPS (GAAP) to Net Income (Loss) Excluding Special Items (non-GAAP) and Diluted EPS Excluding Special Items (Non-GAAP)." Information about these non-GAAP financial measures is included in the press release.
Our management uses and provides these non-GAAP financial measures as a measure of the Company's operating performance and liquidity to assist in comparing performance from period to period on a consistent basis, as a measure for planning and forecasting overall expectations for the Company and for evaluating actual results against such expectations. Adjusted EBITDA and free cash flow are also performance evaluation metrics used to determine incentive compensation for the Company's executive officers.
We believe that investors and other users of the financial statements benefit from the presentation of these non-GAAP financial measures because they provide additional metrics to compare the Company's operating performance and liquidity on a consistent basis and measure underlying trends and results of the Company's business. Adjusted EBITDA and income from operations before special items assist in evaluating our operating performance because they remove the impact of certain items that management believes do not directly reflect our core operations. For instance, Adjusted EBITDA generally excludes interest expense, provision for income taxes, depreciation and amortization, certain acquisition related costs, foreign exchange gain or loss, non-cash impairment charges and reorganization and other costs, each of which can vary substantially from company to company depending upon accounting methods and the book value and age of assets, capital structure, capital investment cycles and the method by which assets were acquired. It also eliminates stock-based compensation, which is a non-cash expense and is excluded by management when evaluating the underlying performance of our business operations.
Our management uses free cash flow when evaluating the performance of our business operations. This financial measure also takes into account cash used to purchase fixed assets needed for business operations which are not expensed. We believe this financial measure provides an additional tool to compare cash generated by our operations on a consistent basis and measure underlying trends and results in our business.
While Adjusted EBITDA and free cash flow are terms and financial measures commonly used by investors and securities analysts, they have limitations. As non-GAAP financial measures, Adjusted EBITDA and free cash flows have no standard meaning and, therefore, may not be comparable with similar financial measures for other companies. Similarly, segment and total company income from operations before special items and diluted EPS excluding special items has no standard meaning and may not be comparable to financial measures for other companies. Adjusted EBITDA and free cash flow are generally limited as analytical tools because they exclude charges and expenses we do incur as part of our operations as well as cash uses which are included in a GAAP cash flow statement. In addition, free cash flow does not represent residual cash flow available for discretionary expenditures since items such as debt repayments are not deducted in determining such measure.
None of these non-GAAP financial measures should be considered in isolation or as a substitute for analyzing our results as reported under U.S. GAAP.
Item 9.01. Financial Statement and Exhibits
Exhibit No. Description
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SIGNATURE
Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, the registrant has duly caused this report to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned hereunto duly authorized.
| MISTRAS GROUP, INC. | |||||||||||
Date: May 5, 2026 | By: | /s/ Edward J. Prajzner | |||||||||
| Name: | Edward J. Prajzner | ||||||||||
| Title: | Senior Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer | ||||||||||
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