Shenandoah Telecommunications Company (SHEN) Presents at Morgan Stanley Technology, Media & Telecom Conference 2026 Transcript

SA Transcripts158.79K FollowersFollow5ShareSaveCommentsQ4: 2026-02-26 Earnings SummaryInsightsTranscript InsightsPlay CallPlay CallTranscriptEPS of -$0.13 beats by $0.02 | Revenue of $91.59M (7.24% Y/Y) beats by $1.57M Shenandoah Telecommunications Company (SHEN) Morgan Stanley Technology, Media & Telecom Conference 2026 March 3, 2026 7:05 PM EST Company Participants James Volk - Senior VP of Finance & CFO Presentation Unknown Analyst Great. Let me just start with this quick disclaimer. For important disclosures, please see the Morgan Stanley Research Disclosure website at morganstanley.com/researchdisclosures. If you have any questions, please reach out to your Morgan Stanley sales representative. Jim, thanks for coming back. James VolkSenior VP of Finance & CFO Yes. Thanks for having me. Great to be in San Francisco again. Question-and-Answer Session Unknown Analyst Excellent. We like having you at this conference. Let's start with Glo Fiber. Why don't you give us an update on the build-out. I think you ended 2025 with 427,000 homes passed. Are you still on track to substantially completing the build in calendar 2026? And what does the final build look like for you? James VolkSenior VP of Finance & CFO Yes, Jon, we're well on track to substantially completing the build. We expect to end '26 with about 510,000 fiber-to-the-home passings and we exited -- the fourth quarter was our best quarter last year. We have good momentum going into this year. So we're in a good place on that side.

Unknown Analyst And you've talked about terminal penetration rates in the high 30s. What's the time line to reach that target terminal penetration rate? James VolkSenior VP of Finance & CFO Yes. In most markets, we get there in 5 to 7 years after we launch a market. Now there's been a couple of markets, very isolated situations where the telco built fiber after we launched service. There, we're likely to probably be getting more like low 30% penetration. The telco is taking some share there. But we have a portfolio of about 30 different