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Tax Receivable Agreement and Income Taxes | 9 Months Ended
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Sep. 30, 2025
Tax Receivable Agreement and Income Taxes [Abstract] |
Tax Receivable Agreement and Income Taxes | Note 5 — Tax Receivable Agreement and Income Taxes Tax Receivable Agreement The Company's TRA with DDH LLC and DDM (together, the “TRA Holders”) provides for payment by the Company to the TRA Holders of 85% of the net cash savings, if any, in U.S. federal, state and local income tax and franchise tax that the Company actually realizes or is deemed to realize in certain circumstances. The Company retains the benefit of the remaining 15% of these net cash savings. The TRA liability is calculated by determining the tax basis subject to the TRA (“tax basis”) and applying a blended tax rate to the basis differences and calculating the resulting impact. The blended tax rate consists of the U.S. federal income tax rate and assumed combined state and local income tax rate driven by the apportionment factors applicable to each state. Any taxable income or loss generated by the Company will be allocated to TRA Holders in accordance with the LLC Agreement and the TRA, and distributions to the owners of LLC Units in an amount sufficient to fund their tax obligations will be made. Pursuant to the Company’s election under Section 754 of the Code in 2022, the Company expects to obtain an increase in its share of the tax basis in the net assets of DDH, LLC when LLC interests are redeemed or exchanged by the members of DDH, LLC. During the nine months ended September 30, 2025, members of DDM exchanged 1,292,500 Class B shares into Class A shares. The Company has recorded a liability related to the tax receivable agreement of less than $0.1 million as of September 30, 2025 and December 31, 2024. The Company has recorded a deferred tax asset of $0 as of September 30, 2025 and December 31, 2024 which is net of a valuation allowance. Payments of $0 were made during the nine months ended September 30, 2025 and 2024. The payments under the TRA will not be conditional on holder of rights under the TRA having a continued ownership interest in either DDH LLC or the Company. The Company may elect to defer payments due under the TRA if the Company does not have available cash to satisfy its payment obligations under the TRA. Any such deferred payments under the TRA generally will accrue interest from the due date for such payment until the payment date. The Company accounts for any amounts payable under the TRA in accordance with ASC Topic 450, Contingencies, and recognizes subsequent period changes to the measurement of the liability from the TRA in the condensed consolidated statement of operations as a component of income before taxes. For the nine months ended September 30, 2025 and 2024, $0 and $5.2 million were recorded as income in other income (expense), net for such change. The term of the TRA commenced upon completion of the initial public offering and will continue until all tax benefits that are subject to the TRA have been utilized or expired, unless the Company exercises its right to terminate the TRA. If the Company elects to terminate the TRA early (or it is terminated early due to changes in control), the obligations under the TRA would accelerate and the Company would be required to make an immediate payment equal to the present value of the anticipated future payments to be made by the Company under the TRA. Income Taxes Through the Organizational Transactions completed in February 2022, the Company formed an Up-C structure which allows DDM to continue to realize tax benefits associated with owning interests in an entity that is treated as a partnership for U.S. federal income tax purposes. Under the Up-C structure, the Company is subject to corporation income tax based on the ownership. The components of income tax expense are as follows (in thousands):
| Three Months Ended September 30, |  | Nine Months Ended September 30,
| 2025 |  | 2024 |  | 2025 |  | 2024
Income tax expense | $ | — |  |  | $ | 6,606 |  |  | $ | — |  |  | $ | 6,132 |
Effective income tax rate | — | % |  | 2884.7 | % |  | — | % |  | (85.1 | %)
The effective tax rates were lower than the statutory tax rates for the three and nine months ended September 30, 2024 primarily due to recording a valuation allowance against deferred taxes. The effective tax rates were different from the statutory rates for the nine months ended September 30, 2025 primarily due to the Company’s partnership loss that is not subject to federal and state taxes and recording a valuation allowance against deferred taxes. The Company files income tax returns in the United States federal jurisdiction and various state jurisdictions. In the normal course of business, the Company can be examined by various tax authorities, including the Internal Revenue Service in the United States. There are currently no federal or state audits in process. The Company analyzes its tax filing positions in all of the U.S. federal, state and local tax jurisdictions where it is required to file income tax returns, as well as for all open tax years in these jurisdictions. Federal and various states returns for the years ended December 2023 and 2022 remain open as of September 30, 2025. The Company evaluates tax positions taken or expected to be taken in the course of preparing an entity’s tax returns to determine whether it is “more-likely-than-not” that each tax position will be sustained by the applicable tax authority. As of September 30, 2025 and December 31, 2024, the Company had no uncertain tax positions. Accordingly, the Company has not recognized any penalty, interest or tax impact related to uncertain tax positions. On July 4, 2025, new tax legislation commonly referred to as the One Big Beautiful Bill Act (“OBBBA”), was enacted effectively extending certain provisions of the 2017 Tax Cuts and Jobs Act, including adjusting a number of provisions that were subject to sunsets, phase-outs, or phase-ins. While most of the changes made by OBBBA are effective in future tax years, some of its provisions are effective in the current tax year. We are currently evaluating the impact of OBBBA on our consolidated financial statements, but do not expect them to materially affect the Company.

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