Aptiv PLC (APTV) Earnings Call Transcript & Summary

Welcome Vice President, Investor Relations, Betsy Miller Frank.

Good morning, everyone. On behalf of the entire team at Aptiv, welcome to our 2025 Investor Day. Thank you all for being part of today's event. Those of you who are here with us live in New York City as well as those of you who are joining us via webcast. We have a great event for you today. In terms of the agenda, we've designed it to give you more insight into where the company is today, what new Aptiv will look like post the spin of our EDS segment and what EDS will look like as a stand-alone company. We'll begin the day with a strategic overview from our Chair and CEO, Kevin Clark; then move on to each of the new active segment leaders, starting with Javed Khan, who leads our intelligent systems. This is a segment formerly known as advanced safety and user experience. He'll then pass it on to Joe Massaro, who leads the Engineered Components and our CFO, Varun Laroyia, will then tie those presentations into our financial profile. Kevin will close out some new active portion of the presentation before we take a short 15-minute break. After that, we'll move on to electrical distribution systems, where you will first hear from Joe Liotine, President of that business, and then Varun will present the EDS financials. We'll then have all speakers join on stage for about 30 minutes of Q&A, and then we will serve lunch. But before we begin, it is my duty to direct your attention to the forward-looking statements here on the screen because during today's presentation, we will be providing certain forward-looking information that represents Aptiv's current view of future financial performance and may differ materially for reasons that we cite in our Form 10-K and other SEC filings. Today's review of our financials exclude amortization, restructuring and other special items and will address the continuing operations of Aptiv. The reconciliations between GAAP and non-GAAP measures are included at the back of the slide presentation, which can be found on our Investor Relations website. And with that, let's begin. [Presentation]

Please welcome Chair and Chief Executive Officer, Kevin Clark.

Thanks, and good morning, everyone, and welcome to Aptiv's 2025 Investor Day. It's a pleasure to have all of you with us here today. We have a lot to share, and we have a large swath of the management team that you're going to hear from the business leaders who are really driving Aptiv forward. So I'm going to start by talking about how we position the business, how the environment that we're operating in has evolved and how we've aligned our product portfolio as well as our operating model accordingly. I'm then going to talk about our plan to separate into 2 independent public companies and how that positions each business to increase shareholder value. Starting with a brief overview of our Electrical Distribution Systems business or EDS. Before Joe Liotine, President of EDS, will provide a detailed review later in the day. So I'm going to spend most of my time on new Aptiv, covering the growth drivers and how our unique product portfolio and our operating model are positioned to deliver value for our customers as well as for our shareholders. So over the past decade, we've transformed Aptiv from an automotive supply company into a diversified industrial technology company, providing advanced software as well as optimized hardware solutions that meet the evolving needs of our customers and it's increasingly across multiple end markets. At the same time, we've built the business with a very, very robust operating model that leverages our global engineering capabilities, our supply chain capabilities, manufacturing as well as our commercial capabilities, maximizing our operating efficiencies and ensuring flawless execution for our customers each and every day. And all of that resulted in revenue and earnings growth as well as cash flow generations that's translated into shareholder value creation. So I'll move to provide a little bit of context on the automotive industry, how it's evolved over the past few years and where we believe it's headed from now until the end of the decade. So since 2022, our total addressable market for automotive has grown at a compound annual rate of 7%, including low single-digit growth in vehicle production. And when you dissect that, virtually all of that has occurred in -- with strong growth in the China market. Content growth added another 4 points, driven by increasing levels of electrification, active safety as well as software-defined features in the vehicle. Now over the next 5 years, we expect our total addressable market auto to continue to grow, but it is going to grow at a moderated growth rate of 4%, reflecting 1% growth in vehicle production, which is pretty balanced across all geographic regions and another 3 points of growth from vehicle content. Now the secular tailwinds in and of themselves have not changed relative to a few years ago, the drivers of growth are really the same, but the shape of the adoption curve has changed, with some technologies taking longer than originally expected to materialize. So a few examples. The pace of EV adoption has slowed, especially in North America and to some extent, in Europe, due to changing regulatory policies, lack of infrastructure as well as some changes in consumer preferences, causing OEMs to scale back on their investments in EV platforms. which has resulted in a slowdown in the development of new optimized vehicle architectures and has impacted the pace of the transition to the software-defined vehicle. Now although the adoption curve for these technologies has been slower than originally forecasted, we can assure you the underlying secular trends do continue. And if you look out beyond the next 5 years, it's our view that the pace of adoption will actually accelerate. Now for Aptiv, these dynamics are leading to growth opportunities that vary between our business segments. And we're focused on positioning each one of them accordingly. In terms of the value delivered to our customers, Intelligent Systems, with Betsy just mentioned, was formerly known as Advanced Safety and User Experience, as well as our engineered components business, provide productized solutions and our value proposition comes from delivering technology innovation at very high quality and at optimized costs. In contrast, our EDS segment provides unique program-oriented vehicle architecture solutions and our value proposition is really anchored on process innovation and systems design expertise, executed flawlessly and enabled by our proprietary tools, which Joe will talk about later. The product orientation of Intelligence Systems and engineered components are more easily leveraged into other end markets, where we've already established a meaningful presence through a series of acquisitions. On the other hand, EDS is in the early stages of end market expansion, which to date has principally been in the commercial vehicle market. Fully leveraging each segment's unique capabilities to capitalize on the different opportunities requires different strategies and capital allocation priorities. For Intelligence Systems, this includes enhancing our sensor to cloud technology stack in both software and hardware, leveraging Wind River's leadership position in aerospace and defense, Telecom and Datacom and DIversified Industrial markets and expanding the breadth of our ecosystem partnerships. Now for Engineered Components, this includes leveraging our traditional interconnect portfolio across current Winchester in HellermannTyton positions in other industrial markets, where we're seeing customers increasingly looking for bundled system solutions and enhancing our competitive position across markets through bolt-on acquisitions. Lastly, the Electrical Distribution Systems business. This principally means further strengthening our leadership position in the automotive market through organic investment in our portfolio of products and capabilities and leveraging our leadership position to drive synergistic consolidation in the automotive market. Now our assessment of the opportunities and the differing strategies needed to ensure commercial success and shareholder value creation led to our decision to separate EDS through a tax-free spin-off into a new public company, creating 2 optimally positioned independent public companies with increased flexibility to pursue their own unique market opportunities and capital allocation strategies. New Aptiv is a higher growth, higher-margin company with strong cash flow generation and meaningful exposure to multiple end markets. Our EDS business is the market leader in electrical architecture, with solid revenue growth and a best-in-class margin profile. Now let's look a bit more closely at each of these businesses, and I'm going to start with EDS. As I said, our EDS business is the industry leader for low-voltage and high-voltage signal power and data distribution solutions for the automotive industry with $8.6 billion of revenues, driven by its exposure to the right customers reflected in its commercial relationships with each of the top 10 global OEMs and revenue from content on 21 of the top 25 vehicle platforms globally. Roughly 75% of EDS revenues are from programs where it has significant responsibility for vehicle architecture design, translating into more optimized solutions that result in lower cost for our OEM customers and higher margins for EDS. EDS value proposition is compelling. First, its unique ability to design, optimized electrical architectures, enabled by deep technical expertise and proprietary tools, supporting strategic engagement with OEM customers. And second, the robust and global scale of its operating model enables the company to execute flawlessly and rapidly adapt to change. This translates into the development and delivery of industry-leading solutions at an optimized cost with consistently higher service levels than our competitors, resulting in an industry-leading financial profile. Now let's touch on the priorities for EDS as it becomes an independent public company. As Joe Liotine will review in greater detail later, we're confident that the spin-off will result in increased shareholder value as EDS further enhances its competitive position and ability to provide differentiated value to OEM customers to gain market share, continues to optimize its cost structure through footprint consolidation and rotation as well as manufacturing process automation, and execute it's disciplined capital allocation strategy that enables both organic and inorganic investments as well as competitive capital returns to shareholders. So let's now turn to New Aptiv, which represents more than $12 billion in diversified revenues across 2 segments: Intelligent Systems and Engineered Components. New Aptiv has a strong underlying customer base, which utilizes a broad portion of our product portfolio across both business segments. It has content on the leading platforms across automotive, commercial aerospace and telco networks. Roughly 24% of New Aptiv's revenues come from markets outside of automotive, approximately $600 million of our revenue is generated from accretive software solutions that are growing mid-teens. Our strategy to create shareholder value is underpinned by the alignment of our product portfolio to the secular trends that are impacting multiple industries. The trends have been transforming automotive market and are transforming multiple other industries and the product portfolio we've built is increasingly relevant across multiple markets, presenting an opportunity, which is very large and growing. And we deliver our products through a resilient operating model, including our unique systems level engineering, global manufacturing and supply chain capabilities that deliver unmatched performance at optimized cost, setting us apart from our competitors, which is reflected in our attractive financial profile that includes strong revenue growth and margin expansion and cash flow generation and provides opportunities to further unlock shareholder value through disciplined capital allocation, which Varun Laroyia will expand on later. Now let's look more closely at the secular drivers impacting the end markets we serve. Now for over a decade, we've been positioning our product portfolio to benefit from the SAFE, green and connected secular trends transforming the automotive market. And over that time, they've evolved. For example, SAFE originally defined the automation behind functionality such as automatic emergency braking. Today, that same automation has expanded to include features such as hands-free driving. GREEN [indiscernible], the adoption of battery electric vehicles. Today, GREEN has expanded to include the transition to hybrids, plug-in hybrids as well as traditional hybrids. And lastly, CONNECTED originally reflected consumer demand for 5G and WiFi connected vehicles. Today, CONNECTED has evolved to represent consumer expectations for an in-vehicle experience that is akin to what they have with their mobile phones. So today, we believe a more accurate description of the secular trends providing a tailwind for growth our automation, electrification and digitalization, which extend into a broader range of end markets. Automation extends into applications such as robots and manufacturing facilities drones for commercial and defense applications and other increasingly autonomous systems across diversified industrial applications. Similarly, electrification extends beyond hybrids and electric vehicles, to other increasingly electrified devices as well as the infrastructure that supports them, such as data centers and energy storage systems. And lastly, digitalization extends beyond seamless connectivity to devices and systems becoming increasingly software-defined, continuously updatable and able to leverage AI to deliver insight, transform operations and unlock value. These broader secular trends create similar product requirements for mission-critical applications across multiple industries, whether it's a vehicle, a plane, a robot, a drone data center or manufacturing plant, the trends are driving the need for more intelligence at the edge which requires both advanced software as well as optimized hardware. Advanced software must deliver adaptable intelligence into physical systems and be built on a modular open architecture while ensuring rigorous safety and security standards. The optimized hardware must include scalable computing power to handle increased data and performance demands. As well as components that balance size, weight and power without compromising reliability for mission-critical applications where failure is not an option, devices need this integrated software and hardware to interpret data, make decisions, take action and improve over time. And that's what our portfolio does. As the secular trends of automation, electrification and digitalization transform markets, the capabilities we enable actually become broader. Our portfolio of Engineered Components, sensors and compute and software and services brings intelligence to the edge and enables a wide range of devices to send, think, act and optimize. By sense, we mean enabling devices to accurately perceive and monitor their surrounding environment. I think we mean representing the -- using that perception to make intelligent real-time decisions increasingly leveraging AI, app is where the intelligence becomes action, the result of safe and reliable operation of increasingly software-defined systems; and lastly, optimize reflects how this performance and the cost to enable it are continuously enhanced over the life cycle of these devices. This framework of sense, think asks and optimize captures how our portfolio of products and our capabilities actually come together today to deliver value. As you can see on this next slide, we already have an established presence across multiple end markets. And we're making investments to further penetrate and unlock new growth opportunities. With our roots in automotive, Aptiv first expanded into the commercial vehicle market, and together, they comprise Core Mobility, where we have a comprehensive product offering across both of these markets. Outside of Core Mobility, we serve 3 other end markets, which we collectively refer to as other industrials, where revenue growth faster and margin profiles are higher and where we see significant opportunity to drive profitable growth. To pursue this opportunity, we're enhancing our product portfolio, we're expanding our go-to-market capabilities, and we're leveraging our ecosystem partners. So now let's turn to some specific examples by industry. As Javed Khan, President of the Intelligent Systems business will discuss shortly, our ADAS full system solution is a great example for how we're developing optimized solutions for both performance and cost that serve as a foundation for many of the capabilities we can apply to applications in these other markets. Aptiv's industry-leading radar and vision centers deliver robust perception across dynamic environments. And as Joe Massaro, President of our Engineered Components business will explain our portfolio of engineered components enables the data from these sensors to be transmitted at high speed and fidelity to our scalable advanced compute platforms, which host our AI/ML powered software stack, which interprets the data and makes intelligent decisions to safely navigate complex driving scenarios. And we continuously optimize the performance of our ADAS full system solution with our industry first end-to-end DevOps platform, Wind River Studio and the high performance of the system is enabled with a scalable, open architecture that gives our OEM customers flexibility while also providing them with significant cost savings, enabling Aptiv to build an industry-leading portfolio of ADAS products that are deployed on more than 70 million vehicles that are actually out and on the roads today. Aptiv enables the same capabilities for customers in the commercial aerospace market that we deliver in the automotive market. Take, for example, avionics. Our interconnects and assemblies ensure that the critical signals such as air speed, position and nearby traffic are reliably transmitted from sensors around the aircraft to the avionics system, which is powered by our virtualization software and real-time operating system, enabling safe, intelligent and real-time flight control and navigation decisions based on those sensor inputs. In addition to providing software that's certified to the absolute highest safety standards, we also provide customers with modeling and simulation tools that increase our engineering productivity, accelerate development timelines and reduce their costs. Now Aptiv is enabling these capabilities for all of the leading global aerospace manufacturers and our solutions are deployed across the 10 commercial aircraft models that are in service today. Turning to the telecommunications industry, and more specifically, 5G, the backbone of next-generation connectivity virtualizing 5G networks is an area of investment for the telco industry today. As operators seek to create more flexible, scalable and cost-effective infrastructure that can support new services, applications and revenue streams. And the leading 5G virtual RAN and Open RAN deployments in the world today are powered by Wind River software which enables intelligence, real-time orchestration and life cycle management of thousands of virtualized distributed network nodes. In addition to delivering six-nines reliability, we provide advanced analytics and automation tools that help operators predict issues, improve network performance and reduce network operating costs. Aptiv's highly engineered fiber and cable protection systems ensure that critical data is reliably transmitted across the physical layer of these 5G networks with a unique portfolio enabling both the physical as well as the digital foundation of 5G. Aptiv technology is deployed in the infrastructure of each of the 5 telecom operators in the U.S. and Europe today. As you can see on this slide, Aptiv is already enabling devices to sense, think, act and optimize at scale across multiple end markets. But as the automation, electrification and digitalization trends accelerate, the growing demand for intelligence on the device or at the edge is presenting new opportunities. As a result, we're enhancing our sensor to cloud portfolio to deliver advanced capabilities for next-generation highly automated and electrified edge devices such as robots and drones, while also supporting the cost-effective production at scale. And together with our ecosystem partners, we're strengthening our edge software platform to enable the deployment of advanced AI models in embedded systems, while also providing the edge to cloud connectivity required to enable rapid data telemetry, model training and life cycle management. Lastly, as data center infrastructure scales to train and run these kit complex AI models, demand is rising for software platforms and interconnects to deliver the power, speed and reliability these workloads require. And Aptiv is very well positioned to meet all of these needs. In summary, we're investing in our portfolio of products and solutions to capitalize on opportunities from the emerging intelligent edge while also continuing to leverage our ecosystem partners to help accelerate our efforts. Enabling devices across multiple end markets adds more than $100 billion to our addressable market, almost doubling the size to $240 billion as reflected on the slide. Importantly, these markets are growing faster and have higher margins complementing our presence in the automotive market. Now we leverage our operating model to fully maximize the benefits of our product portfolio enabling us to deliver solutions effectively and at scale. Our operating model comprise of 4 key pillars that are fully aligned and integrated to drive increased value, including our industry-leading engineering and systems-level capabilities, our globally integrated in-region, for region supply chain, the global scale of our manufacturing footprint and lastly, our strong commercial capabilities that enable us to execute our full value proposition, each of which are critical to delivering high-performance, cost-effective solutions that scale for our customers, and provide a meaningful competitive advantage for Aptiv. Javed Khan can and Joe Massaro will expand on how we leverage our operating model and their respective businesses a little bit later but allow me to provide an initial high-level overview. Starting with our engineering and systems capabilities, we're focused on developing productized, open architected solutions, which can be easily customized to meet the unique needs of our customers. These modular solutions enable higher reuse and when combined with our well-defined product road maps, helped deliver advanced functionality at a lower cost. Now we must not only develop these advanced solutions, but also we have to commercialize them. And to do this, we leverage decades of our experience in complex and highly regulated end markets. World-class technical resources that we have on a global scale and our engineering factory that's driven by our proven digital tool chains, which we have further enhanced to adopt the adoption of artificial intelligence. As a result, we developed and commercialized the software-defined solutions our customers require at the quality and cost our customers expect. Our product design and development activities are closely aligned with our in-region, for-region supply chain strategy. Today's rapidly changing geopolitical and trade landscape makes the value of our resilient supply chain more important than ever. Our teams have the tools and capabilities to ensure we can anticipate supply issue -- issues and have plans to mitigate them before they cause disruption. We've built a digital twin, a live digital map of our global supply chain down to the sub-tier supplier levels, and we use local intelligence to identify where there's potential risk. Our supply chain capabilities are a significant differentiator across all the markets we serve, and it's an important part of the value proposition to our customers. Now our supply chain is also very deeply integrated into and leverages our global manufacturing scale and our in-region, for-region manufacturing model. Nearly a decade ago, we began to rotate our global best cost manufacturing model towards a more regionalized model, given the evolving geopolitical and trade landscape at the time, which has paid huge dividends in this current environment. We have 76 manufacturing sites globally, principally located in best-cost countries, which in addition to our automation and digitalization capabilities enable us to produce advanced technologies at low cost, making our manufacturing scale an important part of our commercial value proposition, which is where we'll turn next. Sustainable commercial success requires a very deep understanding of evolving customer needs and the right relationships to support a more strategic collaboration. Our commercial capabilities are underpinned by a robust account-based approach, which empowers our regional organization to serve as a front line of our customer engagements, ensuring customer centricity accelerates decision-making and enhances operating execution. We continue to position ourselves with the right product for the right customers on the right programs and in the right markets. The alignment of our product portfolio to the broader secular trends that are providing a tailwind for growth across the markets we serve and our ability to leverage our operating model to develop and deliver our products and solutions efficiently and at scale has enabled us to build a strong financial foundation for the New Aptiv, reflected in our 2025 outlook of over $12 billion in revenues, roughly 24%, of which are from outside of automotive, growing high single digits and $600 million of which are software revenues growing mid-teens. EBITDA totaling $2.3 billion, representing a 19% EBITDA margin, pro forma earnings per share of $5.50 and free cash flow of approximately $1 billion, providing a great starting point for the New Aptiv and a solid financial foundation from which we can further enhance our already attractive financial profile. Varun will talk more about our financial outlook in greater detail later, but we're relentlessly focused on enhancing our financial framework, which encompasses delivering strong revenue growth and margin expansion which translates into mid-teens earnings per share growth and significant free cash flow generation reflected in our 100% plus cash flow conversion, positioning us to create incremental shareholder value through disciplined capital allocation, including organic and inorganic investments as well as returning excess cash flow to shareholders. Now I'm going to hand it off to Javed and then to Joe before Varun walks you through the financials. I'll then come back up on stage and wrap up the New Aptiv portion of the day before we begin, Joe Liotine's more detailed review of EDS. So with that, I'd like to welcome Javed to the stage to talk about our Intelligent Systems business. Javed.

Thank you, Kevin. Good morning, everyone. I'm Javed Khan, President of Intelligent Systems, previously known as Advanced Safety and User Experience. We play a central role in enabling the next-generation systems in autos and increasingly a broader set of end markets with very similar needs. As we grow beyond auto, we realized that the segment naming needed to evolve. So this change is a metaphor for how our business has transformed, and better reflects how we are enabling transformation for our customers. Let me start by setting the stage for what I will cover today. We'll explain how the secular trends are resulting in a demand for increasingly capable software and hardware solutions. And this is best represented by the transition to software-defined vehicles, but it's increasingly prevalent in a range of other applications where software and hardware must come together to deliver a new intelligent edge tech stack. Now our experience commercializing safety critical applications, such as autonomy, which require advanced perception, compute and software have given us insights making us a partner of choice for a wide range of end markets. Our product portfolio is highly relevant and our operational expertise across software development, supply chain and manufacturing give us additional competitive advantages. Let me start the brief overview of the segment. We are a leading provider of technology solutions with content on many of the top vehicle platforms, but also in aircraft and telco networks. While our historical presence has been in automotive, we have a growing portion of our revenues from a broader set of strategic end markets. And the acquisition of Wind River, along with the push of the auto tech stack, has resulted in a $600 million software business today. Now picking up on the secular trends that Kevin talked about earlier, automation, electrification and digitalization are converging across multiple end markets, resulting in demand for increasingly capable solutions at the edge, such as self-driving cars, autonomous delivery drones and industrial robots. Each of these requires a tech stack consisting of advanced software and hardware to enable them. Our intelligent edge devices need to be able to sense think and act without human intervention, and they need to be continuously optimized over their full life cycle. Now let me explain an example that we are all familiar with the modern car. Vehicles need to be able to observe their surroundings, process what they're seeing, make intelligent decisions and then carry out those decisions in real time and consumers expect that vehicles will evolve and improve just like other electronic devices. In fact, all intelligent edge devices must do this, and it requires this new integrated tech stack. It means advanced sensors so that the device can perceive its surroundings, high-performance compute to operate powerful software and AI a robust Operating System and Middleware for abstracting software and hardware and intelligent software applications that use AI/ ML to deliver advanced functionality. And finally, you also need cloud tooling to deliver connectivity, generate insights and then support the development of AI models. We have already built this tech stack in automotive. And in many cases, we are in our second or third generation of applying it, now allowing us to focus on ongoing feature updates and enhancements. Now let me explain how we are applying layers of our tech stack to other end markets, we've held a leading position with automotive sensors and compute for over 2 decades. And our software applications layer across both active safety and digital cockpit is capable and proven and more recently, with the acquisition of Wind River, we filled out the tech stack with a robust operating system and a cloud platform. Our prior product line structure reflected this fully integrated vertical tech stack within automotive. And we have product lines for active safety, user experience and smart vehicle compute and software. However, with the emergence of the intelligent edge beyond automotive and the access to broader markets provided by our Wind River customer base, we are well positioned to expand into new industries like drones in aerospace and defense, software infrastructure in Telecom and Datacom and warehouse robotics and industrials, all of which I'll cover in the next few slides. But as we transition to pursue these opportunities in these diversified end markets, we will be shifting our focus from an automotive-centric product line to 2 new product lines, sensors and compute and software and services. Now before I get into these expanded end markets, let's first talk about our core solutions within mobility. Our Gen 6 ADAS platform was designed to be modular and scalable, giving our customers the flexibility to optimize both functionality and cost. We were the first technology provider to deliver a turnkey, hands-free ADAS solution. And today, we have more than 4 million L2+ systems shipped worldwide. Let's break down how we create value for our customers. Our world-class sensors offer 360-degree perception in all weather and lighting conditions and we leverage both Radar and vision. We recently launched our 8 Generation of radars, delivering market-leading performance, thanks to a proprietary antenna and silicon IP. Our modular compute offerings provide semiconductor flexibility for our customers is with over 7 different vendors supported for our ADAS controllers. An example of why this is important is we are now able to deliver a fully localized China for China solution. And our software stack delivers ML-based perception, multi-sensor fusion and human-like driving experiences. In fact, given enhancements in compute, generative AI and efficient data collection future deployments of our ADAS system will utilize a full end-to-end AI approach. And that has delivered dramatic improvements in performance, but also a better experience. And finally, the Wind River operating system and cloud-based tooling completes the ADAS stack. With over $3 billion in active safety revenues of 20-plus OEM customers using our ADAS products today, we've built a strong foundation. And looking ahead, we expect continued strong growth in this business primarily driven by program extensions and new product launches. So let's switch gears and take a look inside the cockpit. In-cabin user experiences is actually a collection of a few different domains, each with slightly different requirements. The driver information domain delivers mission-critical warnings, vehicle information and dashboard [indiscernible]. In-vehicle infotainment enables noncritical comfort and convenience features. And interior sensing monitors driver and the cabin environment. These related, but separate domains provide a significant opportunity to apply modern software development methodologies to create value. For example, as driver monitoring is increasingly required, we can now use the same camera to offer incremental functionality such as vision-based occupant detection which will then eliminate the cost of traditional in-seat hardware solutions and replace it with software. The delivery of over 16 million driver and cabin monitoring systems to date, and further enhancements planned in our product road map, this is a significant opportunity. At the same time, our infotainment offerings enable deep personalization and better integration into consumer ecosystems. We've got a strong pipeline of over $20 billion of new business opportunities across in-cabin user experience. And while the last few years have been challenging for user experience as a result of some program roll-offs, we anticipate the business to return to growth next year, driven by increased software-defined functionality and interior sensing content. So transitioning to smart vehicle compute and software. We were the first to introduce a clean sheet vehicle architecture to support the transition to software-defined vehicles. This was smart vehicle architecture or SVA. SVA hardware portfolio includes zone controllers and high-performance compute, which simplify hardware complexity, but SVA is also about software where we recognize the need to abstract and serverize hardware from the applications that support it. And this was ultimately realized with the addition of [indiscernible]. This is important to enable faster and continuously updated life cycles for software as well as to have flexibility with hardware, particularly for things like SoCs and sensors. SVA is also critical as traditional domains start to merge or fuse to enable new functionality. For example, the increasing prevalence of hands-free driving means that the driver and the vehicle must work collaboratively, managing hands-off while delivering clear information to the driver. This is an area that Aptiv is uniquely positioned as a leading provider of ADAS, user experience and the middleware. Now our solutions make this easy with modular software, standardized APIs and compute platforms capable of running these diverse workloads. Now while we've seen the industry take a little longer to migrate to these optimized vehicle architectures as a result of the slowdown in electrification. We remain highly confident that the longer-term trend is still intact as evidenced by the faster adoption in China with OEMs such as Geely and Chery, where we are winning. And our opportunity pipeline, which is roughly about $15 billion across approximately 40 different programs representing multiple customers and regions. And the fact is we are accustomed to challenges of leading innovation. And over the long term, it has generated an unmatched track record as you'll see on the next slide. We've consistently brought technologies to market that enable intelligence at the edge in autos. Now importantly, these innovations didn't just add functionality and improved performance, but they also delivered significant cost savings, allowing OEMs to then commercialize advanced features to a broader set of vehicles. As a result, the auto industry has effectively led the way in Edge Intelligence. And 2025 will be a record year with over 45 million vehicles at Level 2 ADAS or higher globally, many of which are enabled by Aptiv. In contrast, other edge applications, such as highly automated drones and robots are still in the early stages of growth. But just like in the early days of ADAS we see tremendous potential for Aptiv to accelerate the commercialization of these emerging applications. Now let's take a look at a few that we are particularly excited about. Industrial robots. They share a few of the same subsystems as vehicles. They need to perceive the environment, they need to identify objects and obstacles. And then they need to navigate autonomously, often in close proximity to people, and they need to be continuously connected into the broader IT and OT ecosystem. We are in active discussions with more than half a dozen robotics manufacturers. An example of this is the collaboration we announced with robust AI last week. The robust team is integrating our innovative pulse sensor which will allow their industrial robot to have a much more comprehensive field of view at a substantially lower cost. In fact, early engagements with robust and other similar companies suggest that we can deliver significant savings in addition to the scale and the supply chain benefits we offer. We are also working to deploy our AI-powered perception, fusion behavior and path planning software into these robots to deliver enhanced autonomy. Now ultimately, our ability to deliver higher performance at a lower cost extends to a wide range of industrial automation and robotics applications, which need to interact with the in real time with the physical world. Now these devices in turn, are creating new demands for the infrastructure that supports them, such as 5G Telco networks. Wind River is a leader in decoupling software from hardware enabling network providers to leverage off-the-shelf hardware and to avoid vendor lock-in. With our Wind River cloud platform, we are orchestrating some of the world's largest 5G radio access networks or vRANs. And this proven scalable technology gives us the confidence to take this technology and orchestration capability to new markets. So this most directly impacts the optimized phase that we discussed earlier, right? We want to be -- we want to enable our customers to deploy their edge applications and AI models. We want them to manage and collect the data they generate and then allow them to push updates and enhancements back to the edge, all with extremely high reliability and automation. And as a result of the current and the emerging markets I just addressed, we expect our core automotive TAM will grow at about a 6% CAGR and reach $95 billion by the end of the decade. But what's even more exciting is that our targeted adjacencies, we estimate are growing at a double-digit CAGR and add a cumulative $60 billion to the new addressable opportunity. While we remain selective in the specific applications we target, our productized approach allows us to quickly and efficiently scale into these new markets. Now as Kevin outlined, our success in capturing the significant opportunity depends on our ability to execute. And to that end, operational excellence is at the forefront of everything we do. But before I go into more detail, let me share a brief video, which summarizes our execution capabilities. [Presentation]

So starting with innovation. We are investing in the tools and the processes required to enable an efficient software factory. For example, our AI-assisted code generation tools leverage the vast repository of safety-certified code and complex program requirements across regions to accelerate both current and future programs. Now this expertise plus 20-plus years conceiving, specifying and delivering safety critical systems across 75-plus countries is unparalleled in the industry and I think an essential component of our success. Now these capabilities not only benefit Aptiv, but they also benefit our customers and partners globally. So let me explain. The automotive industry has struggled to transition to agile software development tools and processes. For context, today, a typical ADAS or UX program can run anywhere from 24 to 36 months, involve 500-plus engineers and necessitates that a Tier 1 and an OEM team manage dozens of suppliers across tens of locations around the globe. And in the past, each of these vendors would use their own tools for program requirements, software delivery, defect tracking and testing. Software comes together infrequently via a waterfall approach with long but fixed and integration cycles. As a result, the industry has failed to realize the benefits of future velocity, higher quality and cost savings that a software-defined architecture should be delivering. Now this is where we are taking a unique approach for our programs by leveraging modern development tools and processes like Wind River Studio. Roughly 80% of the Aptiv development programs use Studio today, resulting in up to 25% efficiencies and our suppliers and customers and partners are also increasingly benefiting from its use. So end suppliers and OEMs standardize on the same set of tools and requirements for CI/CD, defect tracking. We are now able to integrate and validate features much more often, deliver high-quality programs at a lower cost and also allow our customers to provide feedback throughout the development process. For example, one in-cabin user experience program in Europe is expected to finish 30% faster and at a lower cost as a result of these steps. Moving to supply chain. Learning from our experiences during the pandemic, we've been particularly focused on SoCs. We have designed our solutions to be SoC agnostic with localized supply chains to mitigate geopolitical risk while managing costs. In fact, our Active Safety and User Experience pack has up to 12 different SoC options supported today. And we have over 1 million supply chain nodes mapped in our database, giving us extremely high traceability. And we have 600 alternative semiconductor components pre-identified for rapid substitution during disruptions. And as a result of our supply chain capabilities, they allow us to deliver both resiliency and cost benefits. Another key competitive advantage for us is our highly automated and cost-competitive manufacturing. At the product level, we not only designed for optimized performance and cost, but also for scalable and automated manufacturing and our product-centric approach is driving efficiency and scale. Our manufacturing footprint is distributed across the globe so that we can support the regional needs of our global customers, which is made possible through automation and modularity of our designs. In the past year alone, our footprint in Integrated Systems was able to support over 150 new launches. This operating rigor in combination with our innovative modular product offerings have translated into commercial success across the globe. Examples of automotive wins this past year span across both product lines and regions with both full system and component wins. While OEM architecture delays have resulted in fewer conquest opportunities, we have benefited from continued program extensions. And additionally, Wind River continues to add new logos across Telco and industrial sectors. This past year, we secured a deal with Vodafone to assist with their 5G rollout and extended our relationship with Schneider Electric. Now in addition, we've got over 250 partnerships with key players across our product domains and end markets, which gives us improved access to a wider set of customers and channels. Now before I turn it over to Joe, I want to summarize the key themes we've discussed. First, the secular trends are driving the need for intelligent safety certified software and more powerful and efficient hardware to run it. As these intelligent edge solutions continue to mature, vehicles and other devices will increasingly sense, think and act independent of human intervention while being optimized over their complete life cycle. Aptiv is one of the few companies delivering these capabilities at scale across any industry. Now we will continue to be a leader in ADAS and user experiences. We are expanding our capabilities to other end markets with similar needs. Varun will talk more about the financial plan later today. But to summarize, this translates into a clear path to revenue growth in the range of 4% to 7%, including building more software revenue streams and EBITDA margin expansion of 180 basis points through 2028. I'm confident that Intelligent Systems will be a value creation engine for customers and shareholders. So with that, it's my pleasure to hand things over to Joe Massaro, who will take you through Aptiv's engineered component business.

Thank you, Javed. Good morning. It's great to see everyone, and thank you for joining us today. I am very excited to be talking to you as President of our Engineered Components business, a global leader in the development and manufacture of harsh environment electrical components and protection solutions. Our Engineered Components products provide the connectivity needed to enable edge devices and solutions to sense, think, act and optimize. And as you will see today, we are successfully leveraging our industry-leading portfolio in core mobility to accelerate Aptiv's growth in a select industrial markets, while continuing our track record of operational excellence, resulting in long-term sustainable and profitable growth. Let's start with a brief overview of Engineered Components. We are a $6.7 billion global business with balanced customer and regional diversification, delivering 4% to 7% growth with EBITDA margins heading to 24%. Engineered Components has also benefited from the successful execution of Aptiv's multiyear strategy to diversify into other end markets. Leveraging both organic product growth and accretive inorganic growth. We have grown our nonautomotive business to over 25% of total engineered components revenues today. We offer more than 100,000 product SKUs to over 10,000 customers worldwide and go to market through a number of channels, including direct to OEM as well as an extensive distribution network. Our top operational priorities remain consistent with our accomplishments in the past several years. As we will continue to grow within automotive, while expanding our position in new accretive end markets and products. And we will maintain our focus on operational excellence, providing customers cost-effective, high-quality solutions, while continuing to expand our margins and cash flows. As Kevin discussed, the long-term secular trends of automation, electrification and digitalization represent strong tailwinds for Aptiv, including engineered components. Across all of our end markets, these trends are driving more complex system requirements that not only demand new robust component solutions, but more often than not, require these solutions in greater numbers per device, providing the added tailwind of content growth. Our ability to capture the benefit generated by these trends really goes back to our long successful track record in auto. With levels of automation, electrification and digitalization, growing in edge devices outside of auto, we see increasing demand for cost and mass optimized component solutions that can be produced globally and at scale, providing us the opportunity to apply our capabilities in these markets. Aptiv's engineered components create the foundational infrastructure that allows edge devices to function as integrated intelligent systems rather than isolated components. The ever-increasing levels of technology, particularly in automation has significantly increased the importance of signal fidelity and robust power connections. Signal and power connections to peripheral sensors and central computes are required to be real-time uninterrupted pathways that ensure data from sensors is communicated cleanly and timely to the compute and that the decisions taken by the compute are clearly communicated to the actuating systems. While everyday examples of systems sensing, thinking and acting come in the forms of autonomous emergency braking systems, or automated warehouse systems. Some of our fastest-growing products and applications all often involves far more exciting examples. Our hermetic connectors are used in multiple aircraft and space applications, including a Gen 5 fighter program, a large air defense system and in a growing number of satellite programs. All applications that not only require signal and power integrity, but complete environmental ceiling as well. One of the most exciting and fastest-growing product categories are what we call high-performance interconnects. Effectively, customer connector assemblies designed to meet very specific mission-critical applications, where the specific device or subsystem has an even more demanding performance requirement than the overall system. Today, Aptiv is a world leader in the manufacturer of high-performance interconnects for automotive airbags, and we are seeing strong growth in our aerospace and defense applications, including several aerospace programs. Edge devices and systems must also be optimized to ensure they can operate reliably for years. We enable this automation through the design of mass optimized components. Because while systems continually require more signal and power, they need to become smaller and lighter and must always be cost effective. Additionally, protection solutions play a very important role in optimizing systems and through HellermannTyton, we are the world leader in management and protection solutions. For example, our heat shrink tubing product provides insulation and environmental ceiling for avionics and submarine applications protecting the underlying systems from extreme temperatures and pressures. As we have successfully diversified our customer end market mix, we have also significantly expanded and tailored our go-to-market and product development capabilities to address market needs. Our automotive DNA provided us the know-how and capabilities to produce robust connection systems at scale on a global basis, meeting high engineering and quality standards, millions of tons per day. The scale and global reach serves us incredibly well in the commercial vehicle and industrial end markets, where solutions are often standardized and can be sold directly and through distribution. And while our entry into the telecom and aerospace and defense markets has certainly benefited from our scale. We must often find that our specialized technologies and manufacturing processes of what our customers are most interested in. Our key technologies like hermetic sealing and RF connectors have 1 important content positions on several large aerospace and defense programs. And while these programs are smaller in overall volumes than automotive programs, the growth rates and program life cycles are considerably higher and longer. As I noted, our leadership in automotive has served as the foundation for Engineered Components, successful growth in other markets. With almost 4 decades of experience in automotive, having started as an offshoot of our EDS business, we have grown into the second largest provider of automotive connectors globally and the leader in cable management and protection solutions. We serve over 25 global OEM customers in every major global Tier wire Harness maker and in addition to serving the broader automotive market through a growing distribution network. Our product development capabilities allow us to not only react to customer needs, but more importantly, anticipate what solutions these secular trends will require, enable us to proactively develop new products. As you will see over the next 2 slides, the strength of our automotive product portfolio, combined with the global scale and expertise of our product development, engineering and manufacturing organizations ensure we are relevant to our automotive customers regardless of vehicle platform type or region. By way of example, a large SUV and pickup truck program representing one of the most successful vehicle platforms in North America. Our engineered component content extends from low voltage and specialty connectors to electrical centers and media modules as well as cable management and protection systems. As the technology content has grown on this platform, we have been able to offer high-performance interconnect solutions, supporting domains such as active and passive safety systems as well as high-speed data connectivity. Our expertise in systems integration has also allowed us to bring novel technologies to the overall system design, including the introduction of many coax connectors providing greater performance, while reducing mass and cost. In the China market, we have been an early leader in developing technology specifically designed for the local Chinese OEMs, who often require unique solutions and demand a much quicker design and deployment cycle than Western OEMs. In this particular program, a fast-growing Chinese OEM. The time line from award to start of production was less than 1.5 years on a new advanced vehicle architecture utilizing zonal controllers. And although a relatively new relationship as compared to the North American OEM we just discussed, our strong product and engineering capabilities in China have allowed us to develop a leading position for high-voltage architecture incorporating all of our relative product offerings, including high-voltage electrical systems, automotive grade bus bars as well as low voltage connectors and fastening systems. While our innovation, scale and execution has been critical for our automotive business, what is equally as exciting is our ability to leverage this foundation to extend our growth in other markets. As we sit here today, greater than 25% of our business is outside of the automotive market and is accretive to our overall segment growth rate and EBITDA margin. The development of the non-auto business, nonautomotive business has been very purposeful, focused both on organic expansion of our product lines in a market like commercial vehicle as well as nonorganic strategies that have included the acquisition of HellermannTyton and Winchester Interconnect. Our integration of these businesses into the broader Aptiv has been well executed, allowing them to continue to focus on driving significant organic growth, HellermannTyton has actually more than doubled size since acquisition, while leveraging core Aptiv capabilities such as supply chain and infrastructure. In addition, a key part of our diversification strategy has been the continued successful development of our go-to-market channels across end markets. While we continue to drive innovation and growth in the automotive industry, our success in addressing the same secular trends in other key markets has provided the business with the benefits of revenue and know-how diversification that helps drive continued growth and margin expansion. Over the past 4 years, we have grown our commercial vehicle business to approximately $500 million in revenue, making us a top 3 global supplier of commercial vehicle engineered components. Leveraging our core automotive technologies, we work closely with several leading OEMs to develop application-specific products, providing this market with differentiated and cost-effective alternatives. Our Compact Transportation Connection Systems or CTCS-series, now serves as the backbone for all electronics applications in commercial vehicles, including powertrain, active and passive safety systems, as well as cabin electronics and telematics. And we also see increasing demand for electrification, allowing OEMs to increase efficiency through hybrid solutions, incorporating our high-voltage technologies. Our success in evolving our product line from innovation extends beyond the core mobility markets. Over the past several years, we have grown our aerospace and defense business to approximately $250 million of revenues. We now serve all major commercial aircraft manufacturers and have wins on major defense platforms, including fifth-generation fighter programs and subsea applications like towed sonars. In addition, we also serve 3 of the top commercial space companies providing content for launch vehicles as well as satellites. And one of our most exciting product innovation of 2025 was the modular connector series developed jointly by our automotive and aerospace product teams. As you see in this video, the product was designed for low earth orbit satellites, providing high-performance signal and power connectivity. Our team took this product from concept through feasibility and customer acceptance testing in under 9 months, and we've already secured initial awards worth $50 million of lifetime revenues. And lastly, we are very excited about the opportunities we have in the telecom and data markets, which we currently serve via both direct relationships as well as through distribution. In addition to high-speed Ethernet cable assemblies and connector solutions, our cable management and protection product line includes our GigaDuct Cable Management System designed to both protect and facilitate installation of high-speed cabling and fiber. We also see growing opportunity for additional high-performance interconnects and data center applications and have several development products -- projects underway with customers serving those markets. As we have diversified our product offering and end market exposure, we have significantly increased our addressable market. We estimate our automotive TAM will grow at a 4% CAGR to reach $40 billion by the end of the decade, driven primarily by content growth, the need for greater levels of connectors, high-performance interconnects and protection solutions in the vehicle. However, with over 25% of our revenues already derived from other end markets today, we have an established product portfolio and go-to-market capability that significantly expands this opportunity. When factoring in these markets, which are growing faster than automotive, we more than double the TAM of our Engineered Components business to $85 billion by 2030, with aerospace and defense, telecom, data and other industrials all achieving mid- to high single-digit growth. As we look across our global product portfolio, we see no shortage of opportunities to continue to deliver the needed innovation and cost-effective product solutions to these customers. While innovation and product development are essential to ensuring our products lead the way in enabling new technologies and applications, reliability and affordability are just as important. To help drive costs out of our business and ensure the quality of our end products, we have developed a number of core operational processes and we are constantly looking at ways to further automate our factories and distribution centers to maximize productivity. We prepared a short video to show you how we operate. [Presentation]

We support our customers with a global team of 4,000 engineers across 6 major technical and engineering centers, specializing in product-centric development that has resulted in 5,000 granted patents. Our global footprint is not only cost effective, with 70% of our engineers in best-cost countries, but also provides broad customer coverage, allowing us to share global practices and technology trends across all markets we serve. This has proven particularly useful as we are seeing increasing opportunities like the [ Modular's ] connector to take products originally designed for automotive into other markets that require harsh environment engineered components produced at scale. As Kevin noted, one of the most important drivers of the resiliency and strength of our business is our global supply chain, utilizing a very proactive and assertive approach to supply chain management ensures we are capable of delivering to our customers despite what seems to be a constant stream of potential risk events. The foundation of this approach is a thorough understanding of the supply chain itself ensuring we know where every key component originates from and ensuring we have identified multiple alternative sources. The supply chain for 95% of our parts and components are fully mapped in our digital twin, including the copper supply with 99% mapped directly to the source. In addition, 90% of critical materials are sourced in region for region. We then use the digital twin to develop BOM health evaluations, allowing us to identify potential risk areas within the individual bills of material and then proactively address ensuring we have ample alternatives. A great example of this system in action goes back a couple of years when a flood in Europe significantly impacted an industry-leading supplier of copper strips, a common component and connectors. Within 24 hours following confirmation of the damage to the suppliers plant, we had already secured alternative supply from other manufacturers and the available distribution channels. In several cases, we reconfirmed our ability to keep customers connected before the customers were even aware that there had been a flood. Based on the strength of our supply chain management approach. We are now engaged in 5 assessments with customers, helping them through BOM health checks and sub-tier mapping of their supply chain. The resiliency of our supply chain is a major contributor to the strength of our manufacturing and distribution capabilities. The high level of surety of supply into our plants allows them to operate at world-class levels and maximize the benefits of our investments in automation and manufacturing processes. And we do this at an amazing scale and volume. Engineered Components ships approximately 270 million parts per day at an on-time delivery rate exceeding 98% and at a quality rate of 99.9% parts per million. We do this across 61 major manufacturing and distribution facilities located within core regions to serve those regions. This regional approach not only provides us with the proximity to our customers, but has also helped us to minimize the impact of recent changes in global trade policies. In addition, we are focused on ensuring we have a balanced approach to site selection, focused around core manufacturing capabilities and centers of excellence as well as cost to operate. When combined with our investments in automation and technology, the efficiency and effectiveness of our manufacturing and distribution footprint helps ensure we are delivering cost-effective products and solutions to our customers. In addition to driving end market diversification, we have also grown our commercial capabilities with the ability to serve Tier 1 and prime suppliers as well as over 4,000 distribution partners, while retaining the ability to develop and sell product directly to OEM customers. Within core mobility, we have established portfolios of products within the technical libraries of all major OEMs, facilitating the innovation and design process at our OEM customers. These library positions also help facilitate sales to the Tier 1 wire harness providers, who rely on the technical libraries to ensure the components comply with OEM specifications and standards. Within other key end markets, we also go direct to OEMs and have developed strong relationships with aerospace and defense primes as we have gained increased design influence and responsibility on key connector and interconnect technologies. Our positioning as a Tier 2 supplier allows us greater flexibility to serve these various channels as demonstrated by our recent booking success, having booked approximately $15 billion of new business awards across multiple end markets and channels over the past 2 years. Let me wrap-up before turning it over to Varun. As we have just covered, the secular tailwinds, our comprehensive product portfolio and market diversification and our focused execution has not only resulted in a strong track record but more importantly, positions us to continue to grow, diversify and expand margins in the coming years. As we look ahead, our priorities are crystal clear. We will continue to expand our leadership in automotive leveraging our global footprint to support our customers as vehicles become increasingly automated, electrified and digitalized. We will deepen our presence in high-growth industries through both organic and inorganic strategies and remain laser-focused on execution, ensuring we continue to drive sustained profitable growth. And now let me turn it over to Varun to cover the financials.

Good morning. It's a pleasure to be here today, and I'm excited to translate everything you've heard from Kevin, Javed and Joe into what it means for our financial trajectory over the next several years. What will come across is that Aptiv represents a compelling investment opportunity within revenue growth and continued margin expansion, resulting in robust free cash flow generation that provides opportunities to further enhance shareholder value via capital allocation. I want to set the stage here today by reviewing total Aptiv's financial performance over the past few years, inclusive of EDS. We've grown revenue at a 4% adjusted compound annual growth rate, since 2022 and that was despite headwinds from slower-than-anticipated EV penetration in North America and Europe. Had this trend aligned with our original outlook, it would have added 4 percentage points to our growth rate. Our automotive revenue growth was, therefore, largely in line with vehicle production of approximately 3%. However, we continue to diversify our business with growth in nonautomotive revenue of 7%, and these markets now account for 19% of total Aptiv revenue. During this 3-year period, we also delivered over 300 basis points of cumulative margin expansion. Let me unpack a few items within this. First, we eliminated approximately $300 million in COVID related and supply chain disruption cost headwinds. Second, we delivered strong performance that essentially offset a headwind of over 400 basis points related to global labor cost inflation. And finally, we overcame over 200 basis points of FX and commodity headwinds. Since 2022, we have generated over $7 billion in cumulative operating cash flow and net of $3.5 billion in capital expenditures. This has translated to over $4 billion in free cash flow. And we returned nearly $2 billion of this to shareholders in the form of share repurchases. If we include the accelerated share repurchase program, this number would be closer to $5 billion. The combination of these dynamics has resulted in a 30% CAGR in earnings per share, since 2022. From this point on, I'm going to focus exclusively on New Aptiv, which excludes our EDS business. Kevin outlined the elements underpinning our robust business model, and our strategy for capitalizing on the growth opportunities that lie ahead. And I will walk you through how all these points translate into an attractive financial profile of revenue growth margin expansion and cash flow generation. Let's begin with our financial plan through 2028. This remains consistent with the framework we outlined in January, when we announced the EDS separation. Our outlook through 2028 includes an expectation for revenue growth per annum in the range of 4% to 7%. And margin expansion of approximately 200 basis points on a cumulative basis to reach approximately 21% and a mid-teens growth rate in earnings per share, which excludes any upside from capital allocation initiatives. And finally, we expect to convert earnings into approximately $4 billion of cumulative free cash flow from 2026 through 2028, which we expect to deploy in a disciplined manner. All of this, we believe, translates into a compelling financial profile for New Aptiv. Over the past 3 years, New Aptiv has delivered revenue CAGR on an adjusted CAGR of approximately 5%. This reflects solid mid-single-digit growth across both our segments despite headwinds related to customer mix in certain geographies as well as a slower-than-anticipated pace of adoption in electrified vehicles. New Aptiv is a well-diversified company, both across geographies and importantly, end markets where nonautomotive markets already account for almost $3 billion in revenue or approximately 1/4 of our business. Going forward, we have high confidence in our ability to grow revenue in the range of 4% to 7% per annum through 2028. Our outlook assumes growth in global vehicle production on an Aptiv weighted basis of approximately 1% annually over the next 3 years. We expect automotive revenue growth to predominantly be driven by increasing content across both our segments related to electrification as well as the adoption of next generation of software-defined vehicle architectures. This outlook is supported by a strong foundation of approximately $65 billion in cumulative bookings, since 2022 across all regions, segments and product lines. Outside of automotive, we expect revenue growth of approximately 8% to 10% through 2028 and this is driven by other industrial end markets, which we expect to grow faster than commercial vehicles. We expect this organic growth to result in nearly $4 billion in revenue to the attributable to nonautomotive end markets by 2028. Now let's turn to the multiple levers we have to improve our cost structure. Our margin expansion from 2022 to 2025 is strong evidence of our relentless focus on our cost structure and operating performance. Our investments in operating performance and cost structure optimization over the past few years have yielded on a pro forma basis, a strong 19% EBITDA margin. And through 2028, there remains significant opportunity for further cost improvements. We will continue to drive material performance through engineering design changes and working with our supply base, as well as manufacturing performance through footprint consolidation and rotation, which will help to offset the impact of continued labor inflation. We expect further reduction in SG&A helped by overhead cost reduction initiatives that we continue to implement. These savings will be partially offset by investments in engineering and commercial capabilities to further penetrate nonautomotive end markets, which brings me to EBITDA margins. As we continue to grow and diversify our business and capitalize on efficiencies created through our best-in-class operating model, we expect to expand EBITDA margins by a cumulative 200 basis points through 2028 to approximately 21%. This will be driven by strong flow-through on sales growth, net of normalized price downs in the range of 1% to 2% as well as an improvement in our product mix during that time frame, namely software and services. As I mentioned on the previous slide, other drivers of expected margin expansion through this period include continued improvement in manufacturing and material performance, which will be partially offset by continued unfavorable labor economics and a reduction in corporate and segment overhead expense as we enhance the scope of our global shared services and expand coverage through best-cost countries. Lastly, it's worth noting that roughly $70 million in stranded corporate costs will remain in our cost structure on day one of the EDS separation. However, we have made solid progress through our internal task force on this topic and I expect that these costs will decline ratably over 2026 and 2027 and fully exit our cost structure by 2028. Let's take a more detailed look at our segments, starting with Intelligent Systems. As Javed discussed earlier, our product portfolio in this segment is becoming increasingly relevant beyond automotive, thanks to the rise of intelligent edge devices. And so we are evolving not only the name of this segment, but also the way we categorize our offerings, sensors and compute and software and services. This now broadly reflects how we will go to market with customers across multiple industries, since 2022, Intelligent Systems segment has delivered a 6% revenue CAGR and has booked approximately $33 billion in new business awards. With this foundation, we expect the segment will grow revenue in the range of 4% to 7%, resulting in roughly $7 billion of revenue in 2028. Within automotive, we expect growth across both our product lines of sensors and compute and software and services, driven by the launch of new active safety programs and also user experience programs. We expect double-digit growth in industrial markets, driven by increasing applications for our technologies in industries such as aerospace and defense, telecommunications, and other industries that are demanding edge AI solutions. Software and services revenue is expected to grow at a mid-teens CAGR driven by continued investments in both product and talent, with the backdrop of this revenue growth, we expect EBITDA margin expansion of approximately 180 basis points cumulatively from 2025 through 2028, driven by flow-through on sales growth and increasing composition of higher-margin software and services revenue and continued improvements in performance, partially offset by investments in engineering. Turning now to Engineered Components. This business is already very well diversified with over 25% of its revenues attributable to nonautomotive end markets including commercial vehicles today. Since 2022, this segment has grown revenue at a 4% adjusted CAGR and has booked approximately $32 billion in new business awards, providing a strong foundation for continued revenue growth. We expect future revenue growth to be consistent with New Aptiv overall at 4% to 7% over these coming years, resulting in over $8 billion of revenue in 2028. Within automotive, we expect solid revenue growth across all regions, driven by the launch of new programs, our high-speed interconnects as well as continued traction with local China OEMs. Beyond automotive, we expect high single-digit revenue growth in other industrial markets, including aerospace and defense. Finally, as Joe discussed, we remain focused on enhancing our commercial capabilities and our distribution footprint, which is expected to deliver strong growth through this channel in the coming years. We expect cumulative EBITDA margin expansion of approximately 200 basis points from 2025 through 2028. This is expected to be driven by flow-through on sales growth and increasing composition of revenue from higher-margin nonautomotive markets and continued improvements in performance aided by further consolidation and rotation of a manufacturing footprint to best cost locations. So what does all of this mean that I just described, what does it look like from the bottom line? A solid path for mid-teens growth in earnings per share on an organic basis, excluding any upside from capital allocation initiatives. Starting with the midpoint of our full year 2025 EPS guidance of $7.70 established on the third quarter earnings call a few weeks ago. On a pro forma basis, accounting for the separation of EDS, New Aptiv earnings per share is expected to be approximately $5.50 in 2025 and is expected to grow to approximately $8 in 2028. We assume no share repurchases in our outlook other than to negate the dilution from equity grants. There remains upside to our EPS growth framework with capital allocation actions. Let's turn to our capital allocation priorities. And this starts with cash flow generation, which we forecast will amount to approximately $4 billion on a cumulative basis from 2026 to 2028. First, we target leverage in the range of 2. We target gross leverage in the range of 2x to 2.5x. The EDS spin will, of course, impact our leverage as we are losing approximately $900 million of EBITDA with the separation. However, we are compensating for this through a onetime dividend from EDS and in addition to existing cash on hand, both of which will be used to pay down debt, such that we anticipate the spin will be a leverage-neutral event pre- to post-spin for New Aptiv. Beyond managing our credit profile, our second priority for capital allocation is to invest in organic growth opportunities. Continuing our efforts over the past decade to expand our product and technology portfolio and by expanding our total addressable market. Third, we will continue to evaluate strategic inorganic investments including acquisitions that will build scale and bring diversification to our business. I'll talk more about these priorities on this priority a little shortly. And finally, we will return excess cash to shareholders primarily in the form of share repurchases, which leads me to M&A. Our focus areas here are twofold fast, acquisitions that drive additional scale of our product portfolio across multiple end markets. These targets are expected to be accretive to our financial profile, while also enhancing our competitive position and increasing our penetration in nonautomotive end markets. And second, investments and acquisitions that add to our product and technology portfolio, this contains the form of bolt-on acquisitions or more likely partnerships and investments. This will allow for efficient capital allocation in a way that will enhance our product portfolio and expand our presence into target markets. So to summarize, New Aptiv is well positioned to create long-term shareholder value, our rigorous execution and relentless focus on unlocking shareholder value will deliver the attractive financial profile that I outlined today, making Aptiv a compelling investment opportunity. With that, I'll hand it back to Kevin to wrap-up this morning's session. Thank you.

Thanks, Varun. I hope you've all learned a lot more about the New Aptiv today. I want to underscore that we've built a tremendous business, and we have significant future growth opportunities in front of us. The secular trends driving continued growth within the automotive market have expanded into other markets, providing additional opportunities. We've transformed Aptiv into a more diversified industrial company providing advanced hardware and open architected software, delivering full system solutions that meet the evolving needs of our customers. And our operating model has been built to thrive in any environment and is uniquely relevant in today's environment, which translates into an attractive financial profile, as Varun just reviewed, that positions us to unlock shareholder value through earnings and cash flow growth and the execution of disciplined capital allocation strategy tailored to the New Aptiv. It's a very exciting time for all of us here at Aptiv, and I'm optimistic about the opportunities that are in front of us. I'm confident in our ability to execute. We have a very strong management team supported by active engagement from our Board of Directors. We have with here today our Lead Independent Director, Paul Meister, who joined us. Paul, thanks for coming. And so thanks to all of you for being here. We're going to take a short 15-minute break before we move on to EDS portion of the day and into the Q&A with all of the presenters following the EDS presentation. So thank you.

Please welcome back, Kevin Clark.

So take a minute, everybody can grab a seat. So thank you, and welcome back, everyone. We're now going to turn our focus to the Electrical Distribution Systems business, which is being spun out as an independent company at the end of the first quarter of 2026. Now this is an exciting moment for EDS as an independent company it will have the focus and the flexibility to accelerate innovation and deliver even greater value to their customers as well as to shareholders. To walk you through the strategy and give more insight into what EDS will look like as a stand-alone public company. I'd like to first welcome Joe Liotine to the stage. And then after that, we'll have Varun Laroyia, who'll take you through the financials and then as we mentioned at the front, we'll all come up on stage, all the presenters, and we'll answer your questions. So with that, I'm going to hand it over to Joe.

Thank you, Kevin. Hello, everyone. It's a pleasure to be here today. Earlier this year, Aptiv outlined the next phase in a strategic evolution to realize the potential of EDS as a stand-alone global leader in electrical architecture design and empower the future of our business as the most respected and trusted player in the industry. Today, I'm proud to be here to share more about the EDS business with you all. We are enabling power, signal and data innovations through purposeful design and thoughtful development combining engineering excellence with agility, seamless partnership with customers and unmatched expertise together in one offering. EDS delivers advanced architectures with unmatched speed and reliability that customers demand. To better understand the opportunity ahead for EDS, let's focus on 5 key areas. First, how the secular demands of automation, electrification and digitalization are reshaping demand for electrical architectures. Second, how EDS differentiation as a full service solutions provider uniquely meets the increasing demand for next-generation architectures. Third, how our leadership in automotive has been enabled by our unparalleled design capabilities rigorous operating model and global scale. Fourth, we'll define our robust expansion plans, including consolidation within our existing industry via bolt-on M&A. And finally, I'll walk you through how all this translates into an attractive financial profile including solid revenue growth and margin expansion as well as strong cash flow. Following my presentation, I'll turn it over to Varun to review the financials. Before I move into the focus area, let me share where we are today. EDS stands as an $8.6 billion revenue company. Global leader in design, manufacturing and delivery of low- and high-voltage architecture. The majority of our revenue comes from the core mobility market, automotive, commercial and agriculture and we're gaining traction in new market verticals, including energy storage and robotics, although small today. We are well diversified across geographies, customers and platforms with approximately 75% of our business now attributable to designed architectures, where we partner closely with customers in the process of predevelopment. This collaborative approach very much differentiates EDS from our competitor set evidenced by our penetration into all of the top 10 OEMs globally. Our operating model is lean and efficient with 95% of our hourly workforce in best cost countries, allowing EDS to deliver scale with flexibility in a highly competitive market. EDS is a clear vision for the future, powered by a proven business strategy, focusing on 4 priorities: first, strengthen our market leadership in automotive, leveraging our bespoke highly optimized solutions with value-added components, our customers demand that are margin accretive for us; second, drive our global scale in automotive to enter businesses in targeted adjacent markets, drawing upon our best-in-class engineering, manufacturing and supply chain. Third, building an attractive financial profile of revenue growth and continued expansion of industry-leading margins, generating strong free cash flows; and finally, drive balanced capital deployment from the outset, including investing to grow our business, pay a competitive dividend and return excess cash to shareholders. We continue to benefit from the same secular trends transforming a number of industries, automation, electrification and digitalization. Let's unpack what those mean for EDS specifically. Starting with automation. OEMs are increasing hardware content to enable more active safety and more autonomous features, which require more robust technical architectures to handle increased data, signal and power. Content is also naturally increasing as a result of electrification, which demands higher voltage electrical architecture content and drives a CPV uplift for us of 70% versus similar ICE vehicles. And finally, digitization or the evolution toward more software-defined, feature-rich vehicles. It's driving an increase in the data they generate, which requires more capable distribution systems to support them. These forces are converging, driving greater demands on electrical architectures and the company is supplying them. Beyond advanced features and vehicles, electrical architectures must be robust to perform in mission-critical capacity, meaning zero tolerance for failure over long service lines. They must also have an optimized design across every facet for size, weight, performance and ultimately cost. That means something different for every customer and every platform we support. While they all use common components, no 2 architectures are the same. On this point, automakers design their vehicles to provide targeted feature sets and electrical architecture is inevitably the last phase in design process. This is why it's important that we drive early engagement with customers to understand their functional and performance requirements and why our proprietary suite of design tools are a unique differentiator. But the requirements do not simply end the products, but rather extend to the requirements of suppliers themselves. Increasingly, the following criteria are critical to source new business. First, end-to-end capabilities from design to delivery and from components to full systems that are optimized for performance and cost; and second, global scale and resiliency, meaning the ability to provide the same product at the same quality on time for global platforms across regions. I want to double-click on full-service capabilities because they truly differentiate EDS in the competitive landscape, architectures that seamlessly incorporate the entire breadth of our capabilities, from design and engineering to manufacturing and supply chain. As I previously shared, this accounts for more than 75% of our revenue. This starts with our comprehensive portfolio, where we are well positioned to deliver any architecture a customer acquires based on their individual objectives and road maps, whether that's distributed, domain-oriented or zonal. It's supported by our design optimization capabilities with early and close collaboration with customers and augmented by our proprietary system of tools and tool suites, including iHarness. And finally, even the best solutions don't work unless we can consistently and reliably deliver them. Here, we are a global leader, thanks to our robust global manufacturing footprint and supply chain. Proprietary in-house automation processes actively improve quality, cost and throughput, combined with tools like our digital twin capabilities designed to strengthen our supply chain resiliency all of which are critical to our customers. All of this results in stronger relationships and influence with our customers through every stage of design, engineering and manufacturing process, which ultimately allows us to design out cost and commoditize content by copper and design in value rich content, which I'll talk more about in a moment. Before I get there, I want to briefly touch upon our comprehensive portfolio, ranging from low-to-high voltage architectures, components, all the way up to full systems, traditional distributed to domain-oriented to optimize zonal architectures, all of which supports miniaturization, standardization, and seamless transmission of increasingly more signal, more data and more power and ultimately, enables more automated, more electrified and more feature-rich vehicles. Now I'm sure many of you are curious what the trend toward advanced architectures, capable of enabling the software-defined vehicle means for EDS. As Kevin discussed earlier, the evolution toward these architectures has manifested with automakers having added more features and functions that need to be supported by increasing electrical architecture content, and that is a good thing for EDS. That's why we are actively supporting our customers in their architecture evolutions. Based on our assumptions for high voltage, ADAS, user experience and other functionality, we see continued content growth, which will be partially offset by optimization. Some of that will be experienced directly by the OEMs in the form of new designs. While other parts of it will come in the form of sharing a portion of the value created by our ongoing design improvements. The net impact of these factors is a content tailwind. Beyond the limited technical and packaging feasibility of larger, more complex harnesses, the need for more optimization resulted in a number of benefits for EDS in both margin and competitiveness. From a margin standpoint, we generally don't realize a lot of benefit from increased copper in the vehicle. So it ends up being dilutive. Secondly, these next-generation architectures break apart the physical complex and give us an opportunity to design new solutions, where we can drive higher levels of automation. However, it's also good from a competitive standpoint as the trends toward more advanced architectures give us an opportunity to differentiate ourselves versus less capable competitors. Let me give you a few examples on the next slide. These are just a couple of the many real-world optimization examples we have provided for our customers. At one end of the spectrum, we have a very low disruption option, where we didn't change anything on the final product. We focused on changes to increase automation of our process, reducing touch time and harness assembly and improving throughput and quality. Again, all without any touches to the architecture itself. At the other end of the spectrum, we re-architected the design under a clean sheet approach, including Zonal partitioning, and we introduced modular connectors, resulting in 30% weight reduction. Evolving our approach also substantially reduces architecture complexity, providing an opportunity for standardization and scalability across models, programs and platforms. The value speaks for itself and is reflected in our scale within automotive. We are one of the top 3 players in every major region in which we operate. With content on 1 in every 6 light vehicles produced globally. But perhaps more important, we are partnered with the right customers on the right programs. We have revenue with all of the top 10 automakers globally, in content on 9 of the top 10 global platforms by volume, meaning those top customers trust us with their most important programs. Beyond that, we support more than 50 customers on 550 programs globally, spanning every region, supporting them with increasing number of increasingly complex launches every year. Just last year, for example, we launched 1,900 new projects, up almost 30% from previous years. The scale of our automotive business and our position with these major automakers is simply unparalleled and one of EDS' greatest competitive advantages. Automotive has long defined our business, but our capabilities translate well beyond this industry. Our right to play in other end markets is because the same attributes and capabilities required in automotive are also valued in many other sectors specifically: 1, the ability to support increasing features and function. 2, demonstrate mission-critical reliability; and 3, design and provide solutions that are optimized for both performance and cost. As well as our end-to-end capabilities across design and engineering to drive global scale with an in-region, for-region footprint to maximize speed, efficiency and responsivity. As well as a resilient supply chain capable of reacting quickly to or mitigating changes in the geopolitical, macroeconomic or trade and tariff environments. And we've already identified and penetrated target markets that represent an attractive economic opportunity and where we have a right to play. Specifically, we have established presence in commercial and off-highway vehicles. While the majority of our more than $800 million in revenue in this vertical today is attributable to on-road commercial vehicles, we also have a growing level of content with the leading players in construction and agricultural segments. A few weeks ago, we shared our entry into energy storage, which was an exciting milestone for the team. And as of today, we have more than $150 million in new business awards and pipeline revenue. It's worth noting that the time line from award to production is shorter, and we have just begun to invest in this area. This is just one example, where we are already seeing success outside of core mobility, and we are confident in our ability to further penetrate new markets. Now if we turn to the following slide. All this translates into an already large addressable market with upside. We estimate our core automotive TAM to grow 2% CAGR to reach $75 billion by the end of the decade, driven by demand for more robust electrical architectures to handle higher data, higher signal and higher power requirements as the industry continues to transition to our automated, electrified and digitized vehicles. However, our addressable market nearly doubles, when accounting for other end markets that we can increasingly service, which are growing at a faster pace than automotive and generally offer higher margins than automotive. We've noted some of the key drivers for this growth on the right-hand side of the slide. But I would emphasize, they are all logical extensions of our capabilities and offer both a compelling revenue opportunity and margin for EDS. Of course, the opportunity only matters, if we can execute, and execution is where EDS excels. We are delivering value to our customers, not only in the product we are selling, but the robust process underpinning it. Everything in this business is precise, and so are we. Our operating model is built on 4 pillars, which is similar to the model Kevin outlined earlier today. Our engineering a resilient supply chain global manufacturing scale and finally, commercial excellence. To illustrate our commitment to operational excellence at EDS we'd like to share a video. Please roll the video. [Presentation]

Now double-clicking on each of the components of our operating model, starting with our strong engineering capabilities. At the heart of our full service offerings and our design optimization capabilities is a proprietary software platform we call iHarness, which manages end-to-end design verification visualization in one seamless interface, true process innovation at work. Here's how it works. We start by incorporating complex customer design data in its unique design language into our i-customer data translator, which converts this unique data into one standardized format. Then this allows our engineers to design, validate and verify an entire architecture within an intuitive digital environment, cutting down on manual drawing time by 50%. Once this architecture is generated, the iHarness tool suite automatically carries out rule checks, creates a board drying, wire kits, producers work instructions and exports or release drawing from engineering to manufacturing. Not to mention, generates a digital twin of the architecture. For example, when a design change is submitted by a customer, this can then be automatically processed. The iHarness system generating the downstream workflows of rule checks, work instructions, kitting packages and beyond. This integrated process, again, enabled by our proprietary software improves productivity, reduces area rates and allows us to adapt to design changes significantly faster, delivering compressed turnarounds and higher quality for our customers. Another differentiator of EDS is a robust and resilient supply chain, which allows us to manage incredible complexity with both precision and reliability. Our supply chain is integrated, supporting rapid order delivery in as little as 10 days for our customers. It's localized operating in region for region. For example, 95% of our cable is sourced in region. And finally, our supply chain is resilient, enabled by our end-to-end supply traceability, where we have 95% supplier visibility down to the Tier 3 level. To put the complexity of our supply chain and our capabilities in a perspective, take for example, a KSK program, which is terminology for a custom just-in-time delivery model. For 1 KSK car model, we manufacture over 1,000 different electrical architecture combinations, depending upon the trim and feature selections by the end customer. Over 1,000 different configurations for just 1 model, just 1 program and just 1 automaker. And from the time the automaker places the order for that specific Vin, requiring a unique harness, EDS is less than a week to deliver to the customer, essentially just in time for assembly. What's even more impressive is the scale at which we are executing, this level of complexity and precision for every single model on every single program at every one of our customers globally. Every day, EDS receives 200 million parts globally from our supply base and ships out more than 1.5 million parts to our customers in more than 1,500 locations globally. As I mentioned earlier, we offer our customers integrated development, working seamlessly in real time across all aspects of the product life cycle, giving OEMs an advantage they cannot provide on their own. Electrical architectures on their own may not strike many as overly tech-driven, but in reality, they are extremely complex as they deliver on a multitude of mobility and sensory demands. Our process is different as it's highly intelligent, leverages advanced engineering and is infused with leading enablers from advanced optimization models, AI and digital twin insights. With this expertise, we process up to 45,000 design change request by customers every year, requiring more than 40 million architecture changes. And finally, perhaps most impressive, we are delivering parts to our customers at 99.9% quality and 99.9% on-time delivery. Calling this operational excellence is an understatement. The level of precision, reliability and complexity we are delivering on a day in and day out basis for our customers is an incredible feat, made possible our ability to innovate, remain versatile and laser-focused on results. As we continue to improve our manufacturing and work processes through the increasing use of automation, improving both cost and quality. Taken together, the components of our operating model are a significant differentiator that drives our commercial success, which is, of course, attributable to our deep and early engagement with our customers. What's important to understand on this slide is that our commercial engagement is a flywheel with all of the critical components cited, supporting one another. Our early engagement with customers is enabled by our proprietary engineering tools like iHarness as well as our knowledge and expertise across electrical architectures from full systems down at the subcomponent level. We create substantial value for our customers and our full-service solutions and specifically, our ability to design out cost and commoditize content and design in value. And lastly, we can meet our customers where they are and offer them any level of configuration to meet their precise needs from traditional, distributed architectures to optimize zonal architectures. And these commercial capabilities have translated into real results with more than $25 billion in cumulative bookings since 2024, translating to more than $12.5 billion annually. And just as important is our aggregate booking number. We are winning business on the right programs with the right customers, as evidenced by the stats here. All of what I just described, the secular tailwinds, our full-service solution offering, our scale in automotive, opportunities in adjacent markets, and our operational excellence stands up to a compelling investment opportunity. EDS remains uniquely positioned to capitalize on these trends and what will be the necessary evolution of electrical architectures. Because of our differentiation sa a full service solution provider and a trusted partner. We have unmatched capabilities and scale in automotive with an extensive and resilient global footprint, improving operational excellence and our strategy for penetrating adjacent markets positions us well for sustainable and profitable growth. I'll leave it to Varun to talk about EDS' financials in more detail, but I wanted to close with noting that all of what I just highlighted translates into a solid financial profile of revenue growth and opportunity for margin expansion in what are already industry-leading margins. More importantly, we plan to deploy our consistent cash flow generation in a disciplined manner. I'm incredibly proud of the strong and resilient company we have built and the ways in which we are evolving to capitalize on these opportunities ahead, all of which I'm confident will unlock significant value for our customers, our employees, and our shareholders. Thank you for your time. I look forward to speaking with all of you more in the future as EDS becomes a public company. Now let's bring up Varun Laroyia, Aptiv's Chief Financial Officer.

Thank you, Joe. Thank you. Hello again. I'm pleased to be back up here speaking about the other component of Aptiv's financials, electrical distribution systems. You just heard from Joe of all the ways in which our EDS business is differentiated and how the team is driving process innovation, efficiency, and ultimately, value for customers Now I'm going to walk you through how that translates into financial performance and what this means an opportunity for shareholders. Much like Aptiv following the separation, EDS as a stand-alone company will benefit from its ability to pursue its own strategic priorities and capital allocation strategies, which we are confident will enhance its market position, drive future revenue, earnings, and cash flow growth and ultimately, shareholder value. Let's dive in. Starting with a look back at EDS' financial performance over the past few years, pro forma as a stand-alone entity, EDS is separating as a scaled business with $8.6 billion of revenue and adjusted EBITDA of approximately $900 million in 2025. Underlying these numbers is a track record of improvement. Since 2022, the business has grown revenue at a 3% CAGR, driven by low single-digit growth in automotive, largely in line with global vehicle production and high single-digit growth in commercial vehicle revenue, which now accounts for approximately 10% of total revenue. The business has expanded EBITDA margins by 40 basis points on a cumulative basis over that time frame as volume flow-through and strong manufacturing and material performance initiatives have more than offset a 250 basis point headwind related to foreign exchange and commodities in addition to offsetting more than $500 million of costs related to global labor inflation. Notwithstanding the headwinds, the business has been laser-focused on future growth, driving more than $50 billion in cumulative new business awards since 2022 across key strategic areas such as electrification, targeted end markets, including commercial vehicles and targeted new customers, in particular, local China OEMs. This lays a strong foundation for the future, which I will now turn to. Looking forward, we are confident that the core pillars of the EDS strategy will drive value for shareholders. This will be in the form of sustainable revenue growth, continued margin expansion, a healthy free cash flow generation, which the company will deploy in a disciplined manner. Now let's turn to the specifics of our financial plan for the business through 2028. Our outlook through '28 includes an expectation of revenue growth per annum in the range of 3% to 4%, paired with margin expansion of approximately 200 basis points on a cumulative basis to bring the already industry-leading margins to 12% by 2028. Combined, we expect these factors to translate into a low teens growth rate in net income and excludes any upside from capital allocation initiatives. And finally, we expect to convert earnings into approximately $1 billion of cumulative free cash flow from 2026 through 2028. That we will allocate in a disciplined manner, anchored by a competitive regular cash dividend. And much like Aptiv, all of this, we believe, translates into a compelling financial profile for EDS. Now let's dive a bit deeper into the future financial trajectory, starting with revenue growth. Over the next 3 years, we have high confidence in EDS' ability to grow revenue in the range of 3% to 4% per annum. Consistent with the past 3 years, this will largely be driven by growth in automotive, which collectively accounts for 90% of EDS revenues. Our outlook assumes growth in global vehicle production of approximately 1% annually over the next 3 years. Beyond production, revenue growth is expected to be driven by new program launches, evidenced by the $50 billion of cumulative bookings over the past few years that I mentioned, including double-digit growth in electrification revenue across major regions. Outside of automotive, we expect continued growth in commercial vehicles, where we have a broad presence from light commercial vans to large Class 8 commercial vehicles as well as growing exposure to agriculture and construction end markets. And lastly, we have revenue opportunity in certain new markets such as energy storage, where EDS capabilities are increasingly applicable, although the sector is currently small in terms of total revenues realized. Now let's turn to the EDS cost structure that supports an industry-leading margin and additional levers the company has on this front. As Joe discussed earlier, these industry-leading margins are enabled by the business' proprietary capabilities and full-service solutions offerings, which allows EDS to partner closely with customers from predevelopment to delivery, driving out cost and weight and complexity for EDS, ultimately designing in value across the board, all of which is margin accretive. That being said, we see additional opportunities for further cost improvements. One of the primary areas of opportunity is manufacturing performance, which is driven by two key initiatives. First, the continued footprint consolidation and rotation to best cost countries, an ongoing initiative and dependent on the macroeconomic landscape. And second is an increasing automation through the manufacturing process. Both initiatives help to offset continued headwinds related to labor inflation. Another area for cost improvement is SG&A as a result of the cost -- overhead cost reduction initiatives. These will, however, be partially offset by an investment in resources to further grow the non-automotive business and investment in engineering, thereby increasing efficiency through the use of software tools to improve quality and throughput, which brings me to EBITDA margins, which we expect to expand by a cumulative 200 basis points through 2028 to approximately 12%. Beyond the initiatives that I just described, margins are expected to be driven by strong flow-through on sales growth, net of normalized price downs in the range of 1% to 2% as well as an opportunity to further improve the business mix of higher-margin full-service solutions offerings, which today comprise more than 75% of total revenue. Now all of what I just described on revenue and margin translates into a path for growth in net income in the low teens range. This excludes any upside from capital allocation initiatives. Specifically, we assume no change in interest expense following the incurrence of debt associated with the spin, which I will get into in a moment. So we remain confident in the outlook for low teens growth with numerous avenues for upside, including share repurchases for EPS. Turning to EDS' capital allocation framework. I want to emphasize that capital allocation is a very important component of the EDS value proposition and a driving force behind the separation of EDS into an independent company. Our capital deployment strategy obviously starts with the cash flow generation, which we forecast will amount to approximately $1 billion on a cumulative basis from 2026 to 2028. The key priorities for capital allocation include the following: First, the business will remain committed to prudently managing its debt profile. This includes a target gross leverage ratio of 2 to 2.5x, consistent with the target level for Aptiv currently. The second capital allocation priority is to invest in the business to support organic growth, including increasing automation of manufacturing processes and further optimizing its production footprint to ensure a competitive cost structure. CapEx as a percent of sales is expected to be in the range of 3% to 4%, and the business is expected to incur cash restructuring costs in the range of $75 million to $90 million per annum, primarily associated with the footprint optimization that I just mentioned. Third, the company is committed to returning cash to shareholders through a competitive common stock dividend with additional flexibility to return excess cash via share repurchases. And finally, EDS has an opportunity to pursue growth inorganically via bolt-on acquisitions, including participating in consolidation across the automotive sector. I would like to now double-click into the balance sheet of EDS that we are targeting at separation. As I mentioned earlier, we are targeting to separate EDS as a well-capitalized company with a strong balance sheet. Our current plan is to access the debt capital markets to raise approximately $1.9 billion, comprising senior unsecured notes and the Term Loan A. We then expect to allocate approximately $300 million as initial cash on hand for EDS operations. The remaining $1.6 billion is expected to be remitted as a onetime dividend back to Aptiv, and Aptiv will use these funds, along with additional cash on hand to pay down debt to compensate for the reduction in EBITDA such that the EDS separation will be a leverage-neutral event for Aptiv. Beyond the target debt to be raised, we plan for EDS to have an $850 million revolving credit facility to further enhance liquidity. All of this we expect will result in a strong sub-investment-grade rated company, as you may have seen in the releases by all three ratings agencies in EDS that were issued earlier this morning. Further, the company is expected to be immediately cash flow generative upon separation and to improve over the next several years. This will provide further optionality for debt paydown and other initiatives that enhance shareholder value. I want to wrap up my presentation by reiterating the value proposition for EDS, which is evidenced by the strong financial profile. Much like Aptiv, EDS continues to benefit from secular tailwinds that are driving demands for its capabilities, which lay a strong foundation for future revenue growth. This will be capitalized on by its best-in-class operating model that drives industry-leading margins and with further opportunity for expansion. This drives strong earnings and cash flow that are reinvested back in the business to drive a flywheel in further enhancing EDS' programs, capabilities, and market position as well as cash flow that is regularly returned to shareholders. In summary, we are very confident in the value of EDS as an independent company and the consistency with which it will drive value for shareholders. With that, we're going to close this session on EDS and bring back the speakers on stage for the Q&A session. Thank you.

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Emmanuel Rosner from Wolfe Research. [indiscernible] Can you share some of your thoughts around expected seasons of growth and margin improvement [indiscernible]. And that's the question on this business.

Sure. So maybe I'll start and then we can have Varun follow up my comments. I think with respect to the environment that we're operating in, clearly, there's -- it's a dynamic environment. So clearly, that causes us to reflect and be prudent as it relates to the guidance we've provided and both from a growth standpoint as well as from a margin standpoint. So I would start with that, and that relates to both businesses. I think secondarily, there's two aspects, top line and bottom line. I'll start with EBITDA actually. As Varun walked you through, we have stranded costs that are certainly in the RemainCo business, and then there's some build-out costs as it relates to the EDS business that, that will flow through our P&L and then out of our P&L beginning in '26, then to '27 and '28. So I would say on a relative basis, when you look at margin rate, you would see incremental margin improvement in year 2 and year 3 versus year 1. So I'd say that's item one. From a revenue growth standpoint, we have solid growth in automotive. We've talked about our strong growth in the non-automotive markets across both businesses, high single digits. That will continue to grow. That's an area where we haven't built into our outlook, but we would -- I would expect that as we get more traction, especially in RemainCo, both from a broader market standpoint as well as a software standpoint, we'd see accelerated growth in, again, years 2, years 3, and then beyond our guidance. So a little bit less in 2026. Part of that is stranded costs and stand-up costs that I talked about, Emmanuel and then I think some natural cadence as we get into years 2 and 3. Anything that you want to add?

No, Kevin, I think just to reiterate what you said, the stranded cost piece you've covered. On RemainCo, I will highlight the strong momentum that we have with software and services within our Intelligent Systems business. And if you recall, at the third quarter earnings, we mentioned that we were expecting the business to grow mid-teens. That is expected to continue. So that's the balance I would provide with regards to within RemainCo, the global vehicle production, call it, 75% of the business. But if you think about where the expected growth is, that continues. So we're excited about that growth. And then from an EDS perspective, we are seeing faster growth in the commercial vehicle side of things relative to automotive.

On M&A and portfolio actions. So I think in the past, M&A has been described as a key, especially for RemainCo [indiscernible]. Can you provide maybe some financial criteria in addition to sort of the strategic ones in terms of [indiscernible] the size of what you consider as desirable for this purpose? And then conversely, as part of portfolio action, is there also room for part of the portfolio to be reconsidered whether they still belong [indiscernible].

Sure. So let me start with your last question first. We're always reevaluating our portfolio. We do that constantly, consistently at a management team level and certainly at a Board level. So we're continuously evaluating our portfolio relative to the secular trends relative to what's going on in the industries that we serve. As it relates to M&A, each of our businesses have very focused organic strategies to take the product portfolio that we have today and either as a singular business or across business, go to markets outside of automotive. So we start with that. And Joe Massaro gave a great example as it relates to our Engineered Components business and marrying up product capabilities between our Winchester business as well as our Connection Systems business to pursue opportunities in commercial space. So that takes place across all of our businesses. To make meaningful progress as it relates to diversification across industries outside of automotive, it does require M&A. I would say from the Engineered Components side, we have a long funnel of bolt-on acquisitions that enhance our exposure to markets like aerospace and defense, commercial aerospace, broader industrial. I think from the Intelligent Systems business, the focus is more on partnerships, investments as well as small potential M&A opportunities that help to build out our software stack or capabilities in other markets. With respect to specific size, that's a challenge that's challenging to do. I would say bolt-on is where I would characterize those sorts of opportunities. As it relates to financial profile, listen, we evaluate alternatives versus returning cash to shareholders like repurchasing stock. So any sort of M&A deal like any organic investment needs to improve the financial profile of our business from a revenue growth standpoint, from a margin standpoint and quite frankly, from a revenue diversification standpoint. So it's really multilayered. It's a great question, but there isn't a specific single number that we could provide you.

I'm Joe Spak from UBS. Kevin, maybe to pick up right where you dropped off, I understand you're saying what you're looking for on the M&A side is more tuck-in in nature. But $4 billion in cash flow, potentially maybe even more cash if there's other portfolio review, that's some decent firepower. So maybe instead of thinking about an individual transaction, if we think about the cumulative impact of M&A over -- and I realize it can be lumpy, but if we think over like a 3-year, 5-year period, do you think M&A can add a point or so to the top line algorithm? Or how do you think about it from that perspective?

Yes. I think with -- both businesses have a very good cash flow dynamics. Certainly, RemainCo, when you think about cash conversion, the amount of cash flow we generate, it presents multiple opportunities to create value, right, whether that's returning cash to shareholders or it's completing M&A transactions. To meaningfully diversify our revenue base, and we need to do that in a prudent way, a planned way, it will require M&A. To get to a situation where 40% of our revenues are non-automotive, which I would say, in general, is an attractive target as we sit here today as long as, again, we can deploy capital in an intelligent way. That's where we'd be focused. I don't know, Joe, if that adds 1 point or 2 points to our growth rate. Clearly, you look at the markets that we operate in, they're growing based on our forecast 2 to 3x faster than what we have our forecast for the automotive market. And the margin profiles tend to be significantly higher. So again, our focus is on taking existing technologies first with our product portfolio that we have today into other markets and then where can we intelligently augment that.

And maybe one on EDS. Like I realize a lot has changed in the environment from earlier this year when you gave some preliminary targets for -- in January. The margins did improve by about 200 basis points. So I'm wondering if you could just update us as sort of what as you reevaluate the change there for the opportunity. And then somewhat related on -- you mentioned manufacturing as a margin driver there between rotation to best cost countries, automation. I think it's given you a point over the next 3 years. But it doesn't seem like it maybe would stop in '28. So maybe you could just give us a sense of where in that journey on those two features you are and what's the opportunity [indiscernible].

Maybe I'll -- Joe, do you want to start and can add to it.

Sure. Thanks, Kevin. Yes. So in terms of our progress this year, we have seen quite a bit of margin improvement, much of that coming from materials as well as manufacturing improvements from an operational standpoint. To your point on automation, that's obviously where our future is, and we're striving toward getting more and more automation to our facilities with every program and every footprint rotation that we take. Over the next 3 years, we expect about 0.5 point of margin improvement to come from that automation. Some of that's contingent upon what architectures really present themselves from OEMs, and some of that is fully in our control within the four walls of the confines of our manufacturing facilities. And so that really is the goal. We think we've demonstrated pretty good progress in '25. So we have confidence we can hit those goals and potentially even do better if the market changes a bit in our favor.

If I can just add, I'd say Joe and his team have done an outstanding job from a manufacturing, improving manufacturing performance both within existing four walls is through facility consolidation and rotation. I would say with respect to automating the manufacturing process, we think we can get to on our own with existing programs, roughly 30% by the end of the decade on our own. We're working with several OEMs now in terms of identifying incremental opportunities, which the constraint there is they will have to change some of their processes, right, to get to the 50% or 60% sort of manufacturing automation as a percent of direct labor hours. But the most important point I want to highlight is Joe and his team are on a great path as we head into the spin in terms of margin expansion through operational rigor.

Itay Michaeli from TD Cowen. First, just curious on the automotive TAM assumptions for 2028 and 2030, kind of what you're assuming broadly for EV penetration as well as penetration of higher levels of autonomy calling L2+ and higher.

Do you want to start?

Let me start with that. So from a global vehicle production perspective, we've obviously kind of given our assumptions underpinning that. From an electrification perspective, we are forecasting mid-teens growth from an electrification perspective. Now clearly, there are differences between the regions. As Kevin mentioned, North America, we expect to be slower in the next couple of years. But if you think about China and where China is, for example, and the path that Europe is on, that's what we're currently expecting from an electrification perspective.

Yes. I think electrification market, roughly 15% global growth. Our outlook from a revenue standpoint is low double-digit growth. And to Varun's point, it varies by region, obviously, much slower growth in North America. As it relates to ADAS and ADAS solutions, broadly speaking, Itay, we can follow up on L2, L2+. We're at roughly high single, low double digits from an overall market growth standpoint or rate of penetration standpoint. Our outlook for our Active Safety business, '25 to '28 is mid- to high-single digits.

Terrific. Just as a quick follow-up, how should we think about the kind of content per unit in non-auto verticals like commercial aero drones and even humanoid robots? And as you think about M&A, are there targets of content per unit that you're trying to strive for to gain more scale? Just kind of curious on those.

So the content opportunity now, our real focus is how do we take our existing product portfolio and our capabilities importantly, like BOM cost reduction into those markets. We feel like on the AS&UX side of the business as it relates to perception systems, advanced compute, software stack, we have a significant portion of the capability to enter those markets. Go-to-market, those are new markets, different markets from where we operate today. So that would be certainly an area of focus. As it relates to engineered components, it's building out the product portfolio. Maybe, Joe, you can comment on that.

Yes. No, sure. Itay, it certainly varies when you get into the non-automotive applications, that traditional content per vehicle or content per sort of device map starts to change really based on the nature of, one, the platform you're on. You're on a fighter jet, obviously significantly more. So your connector content on a relative percent of the BOM is going to be a lot lower. I think what we try to target, what's important for us and what's worked really well is we're very focused on relatively within the component space, products that are a relatively low percentage of the BOM from a cost perspective, but very high cost of failure, right? That's really where we're successful in automotive, and that's really where we've seen the most success. I referenced the hermetic connectors or the RF connectors. It may be a $3,000 connector, but it's going into a $35 billion aircraft, right? But it's an incredibly important component. And that tends to be for us, a sweet spot, just given our engineering strength, given the quality of our manufacturing and our delivery capabilities, that's where we really see the opportunity. But the CPV map doesn't necessarily work as consistent across different platforms, edge devices.

Tom Narayan, RBC. On the topic of the non-automotive business, when you look at the 200 basis EBITDA improvement in '25 to '28, I know you broke out like three parts of that like sales growth, better mix coming from non-automotive business and cost cutting. Could you maybe dimensionalize those three parts? Is most of it coming from the better mix?

Yes. No, let me double-click on your question about non-automotive. We're specifically talking about new Aptiv, right? And that's the 8% to 10% top line growth that we see. Peeling back that, within the non-automotive revenue, we've got commercial vehicles, which we expect to kind of grow in line with production of the industry, so call it mid-single digits. It's the other industrials, which we expect to be growing at double digits to get to that blended 8 to 10 points, right? So that's kind of point number one. We've got a great set of bookings on the commercial vehicle side and expanding into the other industrial also. There is a margin differential, okay? And as Joe just alluded to a couple of minutes ago, the math on the commercial vehicles versus other end markets is significantly skewed towards other industrial end markets. The third piece I'll call out is within our penetration of other end markets is our software business, which resides within our Intelligent Systems business. And that's growing at mid-teens CAGR, okay? The software and services margin profile is significantly different to, say, an automotive margin profile. So it's a combination of those key pieces, which really is driving not just the 8 to 10 points top line growth for non-automotive, but as you kind of peel back the onion and then you think about the margin profile, there is a differential in those pieces.

Maybe the way to think about it, Tom, there's a little bit of overlap between this. But when you look at EBITDA flow-through on RemainCo, for each incremental dollar, excluding foreign exchange, commodity prices, it's roughly 26%, 27% sort of flow-through. Now some of that's the benefit of revenue. Some of that is the benefit of cost actions, although we are investing in engineering as it relates to RemainCo and go-to-market resources for these other markets. But you get the benefit of flow-through through that improved product mix, both software and the Intelligent Systems business as well as continued strong growth in the Engineered Components side. If you compare that to the Electrical Distribution Systems business, that EBITDA flow-through is closer to roughly 22% on an EBITDA basis to put it in perspective. But it's a mix, but product mix is a reasonable portion of that overall 200 basis point expansion.

Maybe as a follow-up to that, there was a slide that showed the TAM growth between '25 and 2030, a lot of it was still automotive. But then the non-automotive was like a much lower point. It looked as though the trajectory after 2030 might be huge. So that 40% you said is like maybe a target for where you want to be on automotive. How do you view this, I don't know, 15, 20 years from now? Is that totally going to transform where you guys are going to be?

Well, we haven't gone out 20 years, to be honest. But listen, the trends that we talk about, right, the automation, the electrification, the digitalization, they are -- and it's something we spent a lot of time on as a management team and quite frankly with our Board, they are trends, they are accelerating across multiple industries. And a bigger piece of that is advanced hardware and software solutions. The trends towards separating hardware and software, it's consistent across all these markets. As we have business outside of automotive, consistently, those customers are coming to us with not only what do we bring from a technology standpoint, but how can we help them with the bill of materials so that they can actually commercialize the technologies that they're developing, whether that be robots, drones, other areas regardless of applications or markets. So we believe there's real opportunity. And yes, you can paint a picture where it's significant exposure, and it is a very different business. As I mentioned to you, I'd say informally, we want to plan or have a -- want to make sure that our plan delivers roughly 40% of our revenues are non-automotive revenues. And we're leveraging technology, which is consistent across markets in those other markets so that, one, we can leverage the capability, but two, we can leverage the investment and have enhanced margins. So I hope that answers your question.

Colin Langan, Wells Fargo. If I look at the growth CAGRs in the Investor Day, it's pretty consistent even with EV slowing for the EDS and the connector business, but a big step down in Intelligent Systems. I think it was last Investor Day, you were talking 10% over market. Now you're talking 6% to 7% overall. Why slowdown in those markets? And any color -- I think you mentioned Active Safety is growing sort of mid- to high single. Any color on the user experience really dragging that down a lot?

Yes. I would say relative to our prior Investor Day, impacting, quite frankly, all of our segments is the slowdown in EV adoption. That probably accounts for roughly a 60% to 70% reduction in overall revenue growth. And again, I would say that's across EDS, connection systems and AS&UX. I think the second part as it relates to Intelligent Systems, sorry about that, is smart vehicle architecture getting pushed out of it. Now smart vehicle architecture revenues were never a big part of the '22 to '25 sort of time frame. Revenue started to show up in a more meaningful way beginning in '26 and '27. So I would say that would be that second leg, Colin, that would have some impact on the growth outlook of that business today versus what we had previously.

I guess a follow-up on user experience. I mean just from the I think over half of the business is Active Safety, which is mid-to-high, the average growth is closer to the mid. Does that imply user experience, which is the other big business fairly growing?

Our outlook for user experience in some of the other product areas within the Intelligent Systems business is mid-single digits.

[indiscernible] mid-single and the other is mid-to-high.

Mid-single digits -- mid- to high-single digits, I said on the Active Safety area and it mixes out to that sort of mid-single digit sort of growth rate, right?

I guess I had an EDS question. So Joe, you talked about a lot of where you're best-in-class across a lot of different metrics. How far would you sort of talk about -- I don't know how much you want to give away, but talk about how far you are ahead of competition on some of those metrics, whether it's manufacturing, full systems? And then just a quick follow-up. What is the relationship, the supplier relationship with Aptiv connectors after the spin or EDS?

So Joe, why don't you touch base, especially on full service versus our other customers, and then I'll talk about the relationship between EDS and connectors.

Okay. Great. Yes. So from an engineering standpoint, we talked quite a bit about it in the presentation. You really do have an integrated suite of tools that are proprietary that are built in-house. And we know that's a big contributor to our early engagement, the number of times we're in predevelopment with customers. And as a consequence, greater than 75% of our business is designed architecture, so full-service solutions. That's definitely not the industry average. It's not public and we don't necessarily know what the industry average is, but we know in general, we're disproportionately perceived as the leader. And so customers come to us for that service. You combine that with how we interplay into manufacturing, and we bring that technology into manufacturing to provide best solutions with the best quality and the best scalability. And then our overall footprint is also quite different from our competitive set in terms of where we're present in what countries, in what regions and the proximity to our customers. So the comparison to competitors, they don't necessarily have visibility of all of that. That's not our information. But we know, in general, we're built a little differently. Our results in this capacity in terms of full service are a little different. And as a consequence, we generally do better in the most complex businesses, complex harnesses because of those tools.

I would say if I can add to Joe's comment. I think if you're supporting or serving automotive customers, you have to have be competitive from a cost structure standpoint. We have to be. And I think in the EDS business, having observed it for the last several years, I think there's two pieces. One is that program mix that we talked about full service. The other is just ability to execute extremely well in very complex situation. As it relates to the relationships between, I would say, RemainCo and our broader portfolio of businesses because we all do some element of business with EDS. So obviously, we have transition services agreements that include everything from IT support and other items as well as for a period of time, commercial agreements so that we make sure as we separate, there's literally no impact on our customer base. So commitments on the RemainCo side as well as the EDS side.

Dan Levy from Barclays. I know we spent a lot of time on the earnings call in the past talking about the China dynamics, the growth relative to the underlying China market. And I know you talked about your exposure with the domestic OEMs. How confident are you that in this upcoming 3-year period that the growth headwinds from customer mix in China will be addressed? And maybe you could just talk to if you are increasing your mix of revenue with domestic Chinese OEMs that the margin on that business is going to be in line with the total opposed dilutive to the overall margin.

Yes, absolutely. So kind of starting off with new Aptiv and then I'll kind of go to EDS. From a penetration of our local China OEMs exposure, over the past couple of quarters, you've kind of heard us talk about the cumulative year-to-date bookings of being about 85% in China with local Chinese OEMs, point number one, that will flow. The second one is in China at this point of time, there's about 5 million to 6 million units that are being exported outside China. We have a growing business on that front, which on a run rate basis this year, will do about $300 million. The third point is a number of the Chinese domestic OEMs are looking to put down sticks out in regions outside China. We are well-positioned on that front also. Talking about the businesses, if you think about our Engineered Components business, it is the one that is, I'd say, the furthest along its revenue exposure to China domestic businesses, local OEMs, followed by AS&UX, which arguably is smaller. And then EDS with its bookings will also ramp up. And your final point was about margins. Yes, while it is a competitive market, all markets are competitive, our teams out there that continue to work through value engineering, working an indigenous supply base, whether it be footprint rotation in addition to that, so moving from the East Coast further inland to the western parts of China have just done an outstanding job to make sure that the margins across all three businesses are not dilutive.

And as a follow-up, I wanted to go back to the topic of EDS margins. You talked a lot about automation. I think we know that the wire harness area is an area that the automakers have to down really fast. They know it really well. And I think this is an area where because of the inflation in recent years, it's been tough to price that out. So I want to understand, is automation here a necessity just to offset underlying wage inflation? Can you expand margins even if the growth in that business is flattish?

Joe, you want to answer?

Yes. So overall, we show a lot of progress this year on overall manufacturing results and costs. Part of that is automation, part of that is just performance elements. In addition, we have footprint opportunities that also contribute to that equation, and that's value accretive for us as well. And so then automation ends up playing multiple roles. It helps defer some cost on labor, certainly, but it also helps quality. It helps other things in the factory. And so we're pursuing different variations of automation depending on where we are in the manufacturing process from final assembly to kind of receiving testing and shipping. And all of those generally have a pretty good return for us. So of course, they help defer the labor cost, but they also help margin. And so in our plan, we have about 0.5 point of margin increase over the 2030 period as a result of automation increases. So we do believe it is accretive in addition to the cost coverage.

I think, Dan, one thing I would say, listen, I think from an automotive standpoint, the business model is over a protracted period of time, no growth makes it challenging to expand margins, right? That is the reality. I think Joe's team, quite frankly, the Aptiv team. So Javed, Joe Massaro, and Joe's team has done a very good job as it relates to as we see labor inflation, going to customers about labor inflation and areas of opportunity to offset that, working with them, whether that be just pure commercial or it be an element of footprint rotation or automation of the manufacturing process. So that's a part of what we work in. I think the second piece is, as it relates to automation, it's not just about labor inflation. The reality is the complexity of harnesses, the size of harnesses, the ability for [indiscernible] to actually assemble harnesses is getting much more complicated and challenging. So there's an element of automation that you need at a minimum in certain parts of the assembly process.

Okay. I think we have time for one more question. There one in the back.

James Picariello from BNP Paribas. On EDS, regarding the addressable content per vehicle slide where you have 2030 baseline versus 2030 optimized. Can you help unpack what's actually embedded in the optimization? And to what extent does that help drive the 200 basis points of margin expansion to 2028 for EDS?

Yes. So on that slide, we were depicting kind of the evolution. And so think about as architectures require more in-cabin autonomous has more demand. So we're building out more complex architectures to meet those needs. That's accretive. Then from an optimization standpoint, we're finding ways, depending on the architecture and the customer to take out copper, to take out other complexities that don't drive a lot of value, essentially cost. And so some of that has to do with what platform it's on, and some of that has to do with us being able to provide full-service solutions to get out the best idea possible. So it's a combination of both. And we're essentially saying even with those optimizations, what we're taking out in large part is copper, which is dilutive. And if you look at that slide, you also see we actually forecast continued price compression of about 1, 1.5 points in addition to the optimization. So we're really just trying to depict that there are net tailwinds even after all those events. The faster we adopt EVs, hybrids, other things, that's even more beneficial because all those vehicles in theory, in practice, essentially carry more content and more requirements, and that's good for us. So that slide, that 1% CAGR is essentially saying affecting all events based on what we see, it's still a good thing for us as opposed to maybe some of the commentary that wasn't sure about that previously.

And I would just add, so that's not a fully optimized smart vehicle architecture sort of solution, right? That's an optimized kind of legacy vehicle architecture program for Aptiv.

Got it. And this was already hit on, but I just want to take a shot for more clarity. As we think about new Aptiv to 2028, 4 to 7 points of revenue growth, 200 basis points of margin expansion. What would you say is the specific contribution from non-automotive towards both those targets? And within the 2028, $14.5 billion of sales, what is the implied non-auto revenue mix?

What is the implied amount of...

Non-auto [indiscernible].

I'm sorry, non-auto [indiscernible].

So today -- so frame it up, 4% to 7% growth, non-automotive growth, which includes both commercial vehicle as well as other industrial growing low double digits. Margin profile obviously favorable on the non-automotive side. Software growing, Varun talked about mid-teens at a margin profile of kind of 25%. So I think if you take the starting point that we showed you, you can back into a range of what those numbers could look like.

James, just to add to what Kevin said, if you think about non-automotive pro forma for new Aptiv approaching $3 billion at this point of time from the $12.5 billion. By the time we get to 2028, our forecasts are that we get to almost $4 billion in non-automotive revenue. That includes commercial vehicles, right? So I just want to kind of give you that. And as you think about the growth trajectory algorithm that Kevin just mentioned, from the 24 points of revenue in today's state for non-automotive, we would expect it to grow roughly about 1 point a year over the next couple -- over the next few years just organically.

Okay. Back to you, Kevin.

All right. So maybe I'll wrap up with the team here. So just a couple of takeaways that I noted is we were going through today, just I wanted to reinforce to everyone. So I'm going to start with EDS. And I want to make sure everybody knows, EDS is, it is the market leader in vehicle architecture, the market leader, and that's reflected in the customer mix, the program mix, the full service mix. And it's obvious it's translated into strong -- a very strong financial profile, which, as Joe has said, is we're in a position to continue to enhance. So plenty of opportunity there from a growth within automotive as well as potentially outside of automotive. As it relates to new Aptiv and a bit aligns with the question Tom asked earlier. Listen, the secular trends are continuing, right? And they're touching a number of industries outside of our primary industry, the automotive industry. And we've, over the last several years, been very purposeful about building out a product portfolio that benefits from tailwinds, secular tailwinds as well as very focused on how do we diversify revenues with customers, with regions as well as across markets. And again, that, in our view, presents a real tailwind. There's real opportunities in the automotive market. We're very focused on continuing to serve our customers and continue to grow there. But we also think there's real opportunities where we can bring the product portfolio that we have today, the capabilities that we've developed in automotive with a customer who's very focused on performance, delivery, execution at low cost. So it's not just solving the technical problem, it's solving the commercial problem for a number of the industries that we've talked about. And we think there's real opportunity to do that, and we validated that with our conversations, our programs, our existing business with several customers. And that presents new meaningful opportunities for profitable growth, which we believe will position the business to continue as well as EDS to create significant shareholder value, which is our principal focus, creating significant shareholder value. So with that, thanks, everyone, for their time. We appreciate you joining us. I think we have lunch at the end. So if you have more questions, we're happy to follow up with you while we're here. So thank you.

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