Tennant Company reported second-quarter results on August 5 that showed orders climbing 6.6% year over year to $339.5 million while net income fell 62.4% to $7.6 million. Robotics sales jumped 37% to roughly $31 million, part of the company's push toward a target of $250 million in autonomous mobile robot revenue by 2028, and backlog reached $127 million. Gross margin fell to 39.5%, a 260 basis point decline, and Adjusted EBITDA dropped 30.8% to $35.3 million as ERP rollout costs, supply constraints, and higher freight and tariff-driven material costs weighed on North America, while EMEA absorbed competitive price concessions. Management raised full-year net sales guidance to a range of $1.270 billion to $1.310 billion but lowered full-year Adjusted EBITDA guidance to a range of $155 million to $170 million. The Americas posted organic sales growth of 1.4%, while EMEA organic sales declined 2.8% and APAC organic sales fell 10.6%.
Q2 orders rose 6.6% and robotics sales jumped 37%, but net income fell 62.4% and Adjusted EBITDA dropped 30.8% on ERP, supply, freight and tariff costs, with lowered EBITDA guidance.
YardFlow Expands Yard Automation to 200+ Beverage Giant Sites
YardFlow is expanding its yard automation software to all 200-plus facilities of a beverage giant after an initial 26-site deployment. According to a YardFlow analysis, the shipper moved nearly 5% more freight with the same headcount, which founder Jake Koppinger told FreightWaves represents tens of millions of dollars of incremental profit. The customer is rolling the system out from its largest facilities down to its smallest to achieve standardization, Koppinger said. YardFlow has processed close to 2 million shipments across the 26 sites, and the system runs at 99.9% uptime. The company's core product digitizes the driver journey from gate check-in through dock assignment to check-out and signed documentation, and the customer has also asked for a yard management system that YardFlow built and is now deploying, using machine vision cameras at the gate and on spotters to create a digital twin of the yard.
Ocado Fair Value Estimate Rises to About £2.45 as Analyst Targets Stay Split
Ocado Group's fair value estimate has been lifted to about £2.45 from about £2.35, with published analyst price targets now ranging between 245 GBp and 330 GBp. Berenberg recently initiated coverage of Ocado Group with a Buy rating and a 330 GBp price target, citing the company's software and robotics offering for online grocery fulfilment and two customer wins in 2026 as key drivers. JPMorgan kept its Overweight stance on Ocado Group but cut its price target to 245 GBp from 290 GBp, a move that points to lingering questions over execution, contract timing and capital needs. The gap between the two targets underlines how sensitive Ocado Group's valuation is to differing views on contract flow and the pace at which its technology converts into cash flows. Behind the revised fair value, revenue growth assumptions still point to a decline, easing from about 1.82% to about 1.31%, while profit margin expectations edged down from about 1.99% to about 1.96%, the future P/E shifted from about 77.0x to about 79.9x, and the discount rate moved from about 8.95% to about 8.80%.
ALP opens OMEGA 1 Bangna smart warehouse spanning 260,000 sq m with Zero CAPEX model
Ally Logistic Property (Thailand), or ALP, has launched OMEGA 1 Bangna, a new smart warehouse project on a total area of more than 260,000 square metres in the Bangna-EEC economic corridor, accommodating more than 160,000 pallet positions. Chali Chang, Co-Founder and CEO of ALP, said the project develops the We Invest, You Operate concept through an Infrastructure-as-a-Service business model, under which ALP invests in and manages the building, automation hardware, software and maintenance, while tenants pay for services based on actual usage. This allows operators to access automation without bearing upfront investment, or Zero CAPEX, for racking systems, robotic cranes and automation infrastructure. The project installs a 40-metre-high automated storage and retrieval system, or AS/RS, along with high-speed cranes, which the company says work three times faster than forklifts and manual labour and raise operational efficiency by up to 35% compared with conventional warehouses. It also uses the ALPOS operating system to connect warehouse management, robots and automation on a single data platform, and is designed to LEED Gold standards. ALP is backed by partners and financial institutions in Thailand and abroad, including CapitaLand Investment Limited, Pruksa Holding, Cathay Life Insurance and Malaysia's Employees Provident Fund. In 2022, ALP co-invested in the CapitaLand SEA Logistics Fund, which has total equity of 400 million Singapore dollars. Over the past 10 years, ALP and its partners have invested a cumulative total of more than 2 billion US dollars. In the first half of 2026, the company managed more than 20 warehouses across Asia, with a combined area of more than 1.3 million square metres. It aims over the long term to develop 48 smart warehouses in eight countries, lifting managed area to 8 million square metres with total investment of more than 8 billion US dollars. OMEGA 1 Bangna is now open for operators to inquire and apply to lease space, and ALP plans to expand the model to other strategic locations in Thailand and Southeast Asia.