Aveanna Healthcare Holdings Inc "AVAH Q&A Our Way: Provides Color on..."

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Aveanna Healthcare Holdings Inc "AVAH Q&A Our Way: Provides Color on..."

Highlights from Management Q&A

We had a post quarterly conference call with AVAH management to review 1Q26 results

and outlook for 2026. In the text below, we list questions and the company’s responses.

The answers are not verbatim, but we put the company’s answers in their proper context

in a give-and-take format.

Question: You raised your guidance by $10 mln, although the raise is below the

~$12 mln beat – any color on the conservatism around the remainder of the

year, and in terms of adj. EBITDA from here, should we assume a quarterly

cadence in the low $80 mln range to get to the full-year guide of $328-332 mln

or is there any seasonality we should consider?

Answer: This represents only a $2 mln difference across 12 months. The company felt

that a strong $10 mln raise was appropriate. AVAH saw strong organic growth in all 3

operating divisions. The company views the guidance raise as down-the-middle rather

than conservative. In terms of quarterly cadence, the company views 1Q as $84 mln

minus $6 mln given some timing related factors.

Private Duty Services

Question: You emphasized on the call that labor is the key constraint rather

than demand on growth in the PDS segment. Is the labor constraint evenly

spread across all geographies or concentrated in a few regions or markets?

When you look at key metrics such as open positions, time to fill a position,

turnover/retention, are these basically stable with the prior year trends?

Answer: The company views nurse labor pressure as a global issue across all 30 PDS

states that the company operates in. AVAH noted that the areas where the company is

having the most success are directly tied to preferred payers. The company signed 4