PHINIA Inc. (PHIN) Earnings Call Transcript & Summary

February 25, 2026

NYSE US Consumer Discretionary Automobile Components Analyst/Investor Day 168 min

Earnings Call Speaker Segments

Kellen Ferris

Executives
#1

Good morning, everyone. My name is Kellen Ferris. I'm VP of Investor Relations at PHINIA. I'm excited to be your host this morning for today's this morning's event. Thank you for joining us here in New York and all of us who are joining virtually around the world. Hosting an Investor Day, 2 days after [indiscernible] has been a challenge, we were determined to be here with you today. It's great to see a number of familiar faces in the room, along with some new ones. We appreciate you taking the time to spend the morning with us, especially those of you we've seen quite a bit over the last few months on the conference circuit. We have a lot -- we're looking forward to sharing with you all this morning, including how we're thinking about the business, where we see opportunity across our end markets and how we're positioning the company for long-term value creation. Before we get into it quickly, I'll quickly take a bit of a required housekeeping on the legal side. Today's presentation and material will include forward-looking statements that are based on management's current expectations and assumptions subject to risks and uncertainties, and factors relating to our business and operations. Factors that could cause actual results to materially differ from the expectations laid out today are more fully described in our 2025 10-K and other SEC filings. Please refer to our cautionary note on forward-looking statements included in today's materials for additional detail. You'll also hear references to certain non-GAAP financial measures this morning. Reconciliations to the most directly comparable GAAP measures can be found in the appendix of today's presentation materials, which will be available following this event on our Investor Relations website. As you can see in the agenda on the screen, we'll begin with an overview of our strategic vision from Brady, followed by Todd Anderson, who will walk through our product leadership and technology innovation road map. From there, Neil Fryer will take you through a market overview of our independent aftermarket business before [ Pedro Bru ] discusses our OE strategies by end market. We'll then take a short break where you'll have the opportunity to visit our booth displays and engage directly with PHINIA leadership team. Following the break, Chris Gropp will walk through our financial framework and capital discipline priorities. Brady will return for some closing remarks and will conclude the formal presentation with a Q&A session with members of our leadership team. We expect to wrap up the formal program around 11:45, followed by a box lunch, and additional time to connect with the team. If you look at the slide on the screen, we've also included a glossary slide that defines a number of the acronyms used throughout today's presentation. That can be accessed using the QR code, and the slide will also be available in our full presentation deck on our Investor Relations website. With that, I'll turn it over to our President and Chief Executive Officer, Brady Ericson.

Brady Ericson

Executives
#2

Thank you, Kellen, and welcome. We appreciate your time today and look forward to sharing the progress we've made since the spin and more importantly, where we're headed. Just to level set us, let's take a quick snapshot of PHINIA today. PHINIA is a diversified industrial company with about $3.5 billion in 2025 sales, attractive margins and solid adjusted free cash flow. Our team of 12,000 employees around the world keeps us close to our customers and the markets that we serve. We have a broad product portfolio and our brands are strong, helping us open doors to new growth opportunities and to attract top talent. We've been a steady and reliable performer. Now let's start our journey by going back to 2023. Needless to say, the expectations for PHINIA in the broader market environment are very different from when we held our first Investor Day in 2023. We also have a lot more people interested in our story with so many more people in the room and registered online than we had just a few years ago. Again, thank you for joining us, making it through all the weather. Really appreciate it. Much of what we've outlined has been achieved. A few broad themes stand out. Combustion technology is here to stay. It will play a key role on the path toward carbon neutrality for the broader transportation and industrial markets. Advancements in efficiency, performance, integration with hybrid technologies, and in alternative fuels will keep combustion technology as a core technology and transportation for the rest of the century. The practicality and utility of a liquefied or gases fuel remains strong, from the ease of transporting to storage, being able to utilize and establish infrastructure and its energy density. With that said, we do expect to help our customers on the journey of the carbon neutrality by supporting the transition from carbon-based fossil fuels to lower carbon and zero carbon fuels of tomorrow. Such fuels such as ethanol, methanol, natural gas, synthetic fuels, sustainable aviation fuel and hydrogen. We are winning new business and gaining share across all regions, products and end markets. From expanding our coverage in the independent aftermarket, the 500bar fuel systems for hybrids, long-life heavy-duty starters and alternators, to ignition systems for natural gas power generation. Our commitment, investment and focus on combustion products has been key to our customers awarding us new business with both OEM and aftermarket customers. We also have a proven -- we've also proven our ability to expand successfully into new end markets, including aerospace and defense, by leveraging our existing capabilities, human capital and installed manufacturing capacity. To date, we've been awarded 3 programs, launched 2, and received our [ EN 9100 ] aerospace quality certification. We're doing this in a disciplined way by expanding our portfolio to these growing markets while not sacrificing our financial performance today. Finally, we've also established a track record of financial discipline, consistent operational performance and capital allocation that focuses on long-term value creation and maximizing shareholder returns. We are committed to maintaining this reputation. Now let me set the stage for what's to come. Our long-term value-creation pillars remain unchanged. I'll provide a quick highlight on each before handing it over to the team to walk you through them in more detail. Todd Anderson will cover how we will go to market via our product leadership strategy, providing customers with market-leading technology that delivers value, whether this is in the product itself, through our manufacturing processes, system integration, software and calibration, or a full offering of new and reman service parts. Neil and Pedro will cover the broad array of end markets that provide opportunities for us to deliver stable growth. The diversity of our end markets, regions, customers and products will provide us the opportunity to deliver consistent growth and reliable free cash flow through this decade and beyond. Chris Gropp will then take you through how we have and we'll continue to maintain our financial discipline, whether it's evaluating opportunities based on economic value added using our internal hurdle rate of 15%, our focus on cash generation or our capital allocation decisions. We feel our strategy execution and discipline will deliver long-term value creation and strong total shareholder returns. Now a quick reminder of what we shared a few weeks ago during our earnings call and issued in our 10-K. First, to improve operational efficiency and reduce administrative efforts we moved some of our OES sales from our aftermarket segment to the Fuel Systems segment. Second, we've changed our cash conversion calculation, which better aligned with industry norms. It's not a change in our cash generation expectations, just a different formula. Third, we provide a greater end market segmentation with the addition of off-highway, industrial and other, which will include construction and agricultural machinery, vocational vehicles, marine, industrial applications, power generation, aerospace and defense and various other applications. Finally, we provided additional breakdowns of our segments. Much of this is in the appendix. Now let me give you a quick overview of each of the pillars before I hand it over to the team. Our go-to-market strategy is unchanged. Deliver products and services that create tangible value for our customers, whether it's through efficiency, performance, durability or cost, we leverage our proprietary manufacturing capabilities including precision machining to submicron tolerances, diamond-like coatings and laser drilling and ablation to differentiate ourselves. We complement our products and processes with robust system integration, software and calibration support. Finally, in order to keep these applications running cleaner and longer, we provide service support with new and remanufactured components, technical training, inventory management and test equipment. All of this brings an extra level of support that makes us a critical supplier partner. Here is how we've expanded segmentation of the end markets we serve, starting with our largest end-use segment, which is service. This includes both new and remanufactured products for distribution through our OE partners, dealerships, or OES, and various independent aftermarket channels, or IAM. It then goes from light passenger vehicle to light commercial vehicle to medium- and heavy-duty commercial vehicles and finally, to the fast-growing off-highway, industrial and other segments. Neil and Pedro will walk you through each area, providing insight into the market drivers, opportunities and competitive landscape, and how we will differentiate ourselves and grow. Here is an overview of the diversity of our business across regions, customers and end markets. It provides resiliency as each has its own unique cycles and dynamics. Our efforts to grow in new and emerging markets are bearing fruit as we leverage our existing manufacturing and human capital. This has allowed us to continue to deliver strong margins and cash flow today, while positioning us for higher growth in the future. This is core to our expectation of being a stable and consistent performer under various economic conditions, performing as a diversified industrial company. After solid performance through 2023, broad cyclical declines across several industries temporarily pushed us outside our target average sales CAGR range. Although we don't see much recovery in the markets we serve in 2026, we do expect PHINIA to outgrow the market and get back into the range, albeit on the low side. As economies in these industries recover, we continue to expand into new end markets and with our increasing market penetration, we expect to move higher in the range. At the midpoint of the sales CAGR range, we expect to grow sales to $4.2 billion by the end of the decade. To be clear, $4.2 billion in 2030 assumes no M&A or other portfolio adjustments. I'll also come back to this $4.2 billion in closing. Financial discipline remains a foundational and key pillar of our strategy. We are focused on increasing economic value on a year-over-year basis and strong cash flow generation, both of which anchor our annual incentive programs. With an internal hurdle rate of 15%, cash conversion of over 40%, moderate leverage and ample liquidity, we believe we are well positioned to perform consistently through industry and economic cycles. The same financial discipline guides our capital allocation decisions. First, we allocate the necessary capital to support, protect and grow our core business. Second is ensuring we deliver on our dividend commitments. From there, we look to utilize the remaining capital to further enhance shareholder returns. Given our valuation, we have prioritized share repurchases. Buying back more than 9.8 million shares, or nearly 21% of our total number of shares outstanding at spin, at an average price of just above $44. Adding in $109 million of dividends we've returned over $0.5 billion to shareholders. We also completed our first acquisition. It was at a valuation that made sense when compared to our own valuation, with synergistic with our portfolio, helps us grow into new markets with new customers, and would strengthen our long-term growth outlook. We will continue to allocate capital in a way that we feel will drive long-term shareholder value and maximize shareholder returns. We believe our execution over the last few years provides a good template of what to expect moving forward. The prior 3 pillars of product leadership, stable growth and financial discipline are all focused on our final pillar, delivering strong shareholder returns over the long term. Now let's see how we've been doing. The first thing that needs to be said is a big thank you to all of our PHINIA employees who helped deliver reliable and consistent results. Without it, we would not have seen the returns shown here. We also need to thank our customers who put their trust in us, suppliers who partner with us and our investors who are enjoying the journey with us. And I say with us on purpose. Because when I travel around the world meeting with our teams, they are just as interested in our stock price as our investors, whether they own shares or not. They ask what drives our stock price. What we need to do better and why is stock price appreciation important? [indiscernible] that our stock has been performing well because of all of their hard work and dedication to delivering consistent and reliable results. We need to continue to drive efficiency in everything we do to help increase economic value and free cash flow. Strong share price appreciation creates a more secure work environment, opens up opportunities and gives us the right to continue to invest in our business, both organically and through acquisitions. It's a testament to the results we're delivering and the trust our investors have in us. Our culture of financial discipline, PHINIA values and our [ gold ] operating model, globally optimized and locally driven, [indiscernible] us grounded, resilient and adaptable to overcome challenges and quickly grab opportunities. It is because of the strong foundation that we are confident in the direction we are headed and welcome those who want to join the journey with us. And with that, I'll hand it over to Todd to take us through the first pillar of product leadership.

Todd Anderson

Executives
#3

Thank you, Brady. I'm glad to discuss PHINIA's foundational value of product leadership. Our focus on product leadership drives us to deliver innovative solutions to the industry, which add value to our customers and bring profitable business to PHINIA. Supported by a global team of around 1,600 engineers, scientists and technicians, our roots go deep with over a century of experience as a global product leader. We demonstrate product leadership in 4 major categories. Product, process, system software calibration and services. Product leadership results in PHINIA innovation, or commercialize creativity that adds value to our customers as we supply customized solutions that meet specific market needs. It is supported by core competencies in innovative design, technology development, world-class manufacturing processes, high-performance components and full system solutions, underpinned with experienced software programmers, system integrators, calibration and controls engineers. These activities have resulted in a strong and growing intellectual property portfolio with over 350 patents granted since PHINIA was formed. With these competencies, we're able to design, develop, validate and provide technical support in every region in the world, close to customers in regional markets. Our product leadership includes a focus on remanufacturing -- and extends beyond our OE portfolio and business. To service part needs, whether an independent aftermarket, or [indiscernible] service parts. Our technology development process is tied to product line strategies that are [indiscernible] by customers, market, operational teams. Product line strategy teams are the foundation of our technology road map and an adaptive avenue to define targeted growth areas unique to each product line. Our approach gathers information from customer reviews, tech days and industry events. Commercial team input on opportunities and advanced research development ideas. These three areas provide information which then help define the technology road map per product line. In support of a continually changing market, we have detailed product road maps each product line. In our technology planning and resource allocation, we [ look ] across product lines with agility to flex resources and focus based on market needs. These cross-functional global teams ensure we have input from across the globe and all areas are aligned. Technology, sales, purchasing, manufacturing, finance. This approach ensures that we not do technology development in a vacuum and focuses our technical innovation on providing real business value. PHINIA operates across a diverse and resilient range of markets with a comprehensive product and system portfolio. We focus our growth efforts on our commercial and industrial portfolios, but still have a sizable share in the light vehicle market, especially in hybrids. We have a balanced global technical footprint and are recognized as industry experts in our product categories, including both traditional fuels of gasoline and diesel as well as alternative fuels such as biofuels, hydrogen, ethanol and [indiscernible] We have flexibility in our technology development and product portfolio, which is a key differentiator for PHINIA, and supports and protects our future growth, while providing a level of protection against competitive threats. We expect reliance on gasoline and diesel fueled high systems to continue for light vehicles in the short and medium term. Commercial vehicles and other demanding segments will continue to depend on ICE technologies for the longer term, even through the rest of the century. We continually invest a healthy level of funding to our R&D efforts at approximately 6% of sales on a gross basis. This includes investment in current products, efficiency improvements, customer programs, advanced development and future technology. Our investments in alternative fuel technologies support the transition to lower carbon and zero carbon fuels. In fact, 89% of our R&D budget is spent on efficiency improvements. Alternative fuels is a great example of this, including hydrogen. We leverage our existing technology and skills to supply alternative fuel solutions, including our recent acquisition of [ SEM ], adding ignition systems as a complementary product line. Underlying and supporting each market area are our skills and expertise in system integration, software and calibration, and increasingly rare competency in the industry is required to realize the full performance of high-quality products. Over 1/3 of our revenue in 2024 and 2025 comes from service in the OES and independent aftermarket channels. We continue to build our technology footprint in these markets with strong new to range releases and product programs. PHINIA's products and processes contain advanced precision technology to operate in extreme environment that's inherent with fuel systems. From operating pressures of 40,000 psi, it's almost 3x the pressure seen in the deepest part of the ocean, to the need to cycle in milliseconds for a vehicle, which is operating over 1.6 million kilometers. Our product must have the highest standards of quality and precision. One key factor is the submicron tolerances of our products and manufacturing processes. For scale, if we consider the chart from the right of the slide, the rope looking item represents the size of a human hair. Our tolerances can be less than 1 micron, or [indiscernible] of a meter, reflected by the red arrow in the lower left of this chart, somewhere between wildfire smoke and the [ corona virus ]. As an example, the heart of one of our products is the nosel control valve. The pin for this valve is made from hardened and coated alloy steel. And while smaller than a pencil led, it has over 20 key control characteristics for manufacturing and product performance, and is produced at high volume with tolerances less than 1 micron. Our team is doing an excellent job at making these reliably at high and low volumes, having outstanding single-digit parts per million quality performance. You'll have an opportunity to explore this more deeply in our product booth. For our parts to operate durably for billions of cycles, we incorporate a diamond-like carbon, or DLC coating in key areas of the parts. This process has evolved and continues to evolve as product requirements become even more demanding. We have significant experience, skills and competencies including high-volume production manufacturing processes in the DLC coating process. The example shown on the right depicts a production equipment, and a schematic of multiple layers of hardened coating, which is applied to specific features in the valve guide shown in the fixture on the right. We require high technology and precision not only in our products but also in our manufacturing processes. Another example of our proprietary high-technology production process is that of laser ablation. We accomplished this process through the use of highly precise [indiscernible] lasers to remove exactly the amount of material needed in the right places without touching the part with no resulting [ burs ] or metal chips remaining. As an example, we produce precisely controlled parallelism on key injector features, which results in better performance and durability. This innovation enables us to use lab precision metrology repeatedly in our high-volume production processes for tens of thousands of parts every week. Another example of PHINIA's process innovations are our laser drilling techniques, where conventional drilling processes struggle to produce consistent holes in hardened steel that are less than 100 micrometers. We regularly use laser drilling to make precise holes less than that in repeatable and consistent ways. This allows our design engineers to incorporate features to drive fuel efficiency and product performance in ways that were not possible just a few years ago. As a result of this competency, we have a competitive advantage in what is possible for our suite of products and solutions. Not only do we produce market-leading products and develop high technology processes, but using our software system integration and calibration and testing services allows us to offer full turnkey solutions to the markets that we serve. This key differentiator creates tight customer relationships and provides value to customers, including those who may have under-invested in this combustion area and need additional support and guidance. Supported by hundreds of [indiscernible] software and calibration engineers across multiple regions are software, system integration and calibration expertise enables full turnkey solutions. Linking our strong OE technology to our excellent aftermarket service organization provides a first-to-market advantage in many production introductions. Our aftermarket service team is strongly focused on meeting market needs and delivering excellent service to our customers wherever they are around the world. Key customer groups are technicians who work with our products every day and distribution partners who make sure that the parts they need are available for them when they need them. We have extensive training material available for technicians through our masters of motion in [ Garage 360 ] programs, which have hundreds of YouTube training videos in an online learning platform for longer-form digital training courses. We also offer in person training and certification programs for our loyal customers in facilities around the world. Consequently, our service team has intimate market and customer knowledge to guide our advanced technology development efforts. The result is a leadership position in the aftermarket, with high levels of market coverage in key product lines identified in cataloging systems, which makes it easy to identify the right part for any given repair every time. By continuing to expand our product basket with thousands of new to range releases every year, we demonstrate product life cycle management, including many first-to-market releases for new vehicle service parts that keep our customers ahead of the competition. All these embedded activities and processes support our competitive advantage and lead to stable, sustainable growth. In addition to strong technology competencies, PHINIA's technical leadership is evident in multiple ways. First, we've significantly contributed to the industry by researching and publishing publicly available emissions booklets for both heavy-duty and light vehicle emission standards around the world. We've collaborated with other industry partners in this effort. Second, as a leader in the industry, PHINIA is keenly aware of the impact of global emissions regulations. Through 2025 and continuing in 2026, we've seen changes in these regulations and follow closely the developments for emissions legislation across multiple regions. PHINIA employees create, publish and share technical papers and studies, which are presented at industry conferences and audience events with government agencies around the world. This includes, but is not limited to U.S. EPA and CARB, the European Commission, the France Ministry of Technology, the U.K. [ Minister ] of Transportation, the U.K. Advanced [ Proposing ] Center, the Korea Hydrogen Consortium and others. Third, our focus on intellectual property, consisting of both patents and trade secrets in product technology and manufacturing processes further increases the strength of our organization. This is across all markets, and I'm pleased to share that we've been granted over 350 patents in the first 2 years of PHINIA's existence, supported by over 200 inventors, which builds on our approximately 2,000 active patent portfolio. [ Reflects ] our technology and resources across multiple markets and fuels. This includes the ability to design, develop, source, validate, produce, sell and service in region, ensuring that we're meeting the local regional needs with flexibility, while remaining consistent with our global standards. Consider PHINIA's legacy, traditional fuel, engineering and manufacturing resources and assets, these tools for internal combustion engines provides significant value and competitive advantage. In addition, we can shift resources in assets from traditional fuel solutions in locations to future alternative fuel systems to other markets, including aerospace, and realign production locations. Let me share 4 examples of this flexibility. First, gasoline product designs have been utilized to move technology forward with ethanol in compressed natural gas fuels. Second, our team in [indiscernible] France have utilized historical diesel resources to support other markets in marine, industrial, stationary power generation and aerospace. Third, production assets have been reallocated from Europe to China in the Americas to streamline our footprint and provide in-region support to a changing marketplace. And fourth, software system integration and calibration, skills and services have been allocated to multiple programs across regions, product lines and markets in support of achieving business growth and value. So this seamless flexibility of product technology and manufacturing processes strongly supports the position of PHINIA in the market. Well, all of these prior efforts that I've talked about only matter if they turn into new business and growth. So building on strong new product launches and portfolio expansion in 2024 and in 2025, PHINIA has actionable brands to continue this performance. Product launches will continue in 2026 and beyond. Fuel Systems are strengthened via our [ GDI ] 500bar system and alternative fuels. Growth in ignition systems, which leverages synergies with fuel systems will take place. We'll expand into new end markets, including aerospace, power generation, marine. We'll provide full system solutions to an industry which has reduced skill in capacity. And further product line expansion in other areas such as 24-volt starters and alternators, brushless motors, fuel delivery modules. With PHINIA's value of product leadership, we have strong future opportunities for sustained growth, protected by a broad and resilient product portfolio. Now I'll hand it over to my friend and colleague, Neil Fryer.

Neil Fryer

Executives
#4

Thank you, Todd, and good day, everybody. I'm now going to review the addressable markets that make up PHINIA's continued growth opportunity. As you can see from the chart, that we have 5 key segments, and we look at the evolution from 2024 to 2035, working out goods from the bottom of the chart. First, service, which consists of original equipment service and independent aftermarket. Its PHINIA's largest addressable market, representing over 60% of the total in 2024, and growing to 68% by 2035. This growth is driven by 3 global tailwinds. An increasing number of vehicles in operation, rising average vehicle age and more miles driven per vehicle. Next, light passenger vehicles, which are a declining market because of electrification trends. However, as the [indiscernible] for [indiscernible] of internal combustion engines are relaxed in Europe and North America, we see growth opportunities in the midterm, driven by higher DDI penetration rates, which Pedro will talk about later in the presentation. The light commercial vehicle market shows the electric vehicle impact as well, owing to growth in the sales of battery electric last-mile delivery vehicles, which travel limited [indiscernible] roots and usually return to the same point at the end of each day. Medium and heavy-duty commercial vehicles, there's growth in this market in the midterm before the market starts to decline with increased electrification. We expect city buses will be the main driver of electrification while long-haul on-highway trucks continue to use internal combustion engines for years to come. And we expect to see opportunities for our alternative fuel products in this segment through the 2030s, although the relative long-term market share for different [indiscernible] technologies is not yet clear. Finally, the gold section of each column shows tangible opportunities as we expand into new end markets and with our core technology. Historically, we focused on-highway applications, but tighter emissions regulations for sectors such as agriculture, construction, marine, industrial and aviation are creating new opportunities for our fueling technology. So when we look at all the markets we serve, PHINIA's total addressable market will grow to $121 billion despite the impact of declining light passenger vehicle sales, and we know that there are still more opportunities to explore in adjacent markets. Now let me turn to the service market in more detail. The total market, including products like tires, lubricants and crash parts is worth well over $1 trillion globally. PHINIA's addressable market totaled $66 billion of that with the product portfolio we have today. The core offered market, that's the market for the products in our portfolio in all the territories we sold them into today, is worth $41 billion, which is a sizable opportunity to capture market share in itself and expanding our market reach will fuel further growth. So the size of the [ salable ] market, the long life cycles of our products, the tailwinds I mentioned earlier and slower than previously expected electric vehicle penetration, all favor us in the independent aftermarket, and we've defined plans to take advantage of this, which I would now like to talk through. But before I do that, let me show you a video explaining our go-to-market approach. [Presentation]

Neil Fryer

Executives
#5

I'd like to clarify that everything you saw in the video and everything I'll discuss in the next few minutes is focused on the independent aftermarket. You see here the products we sell. Our offer is built out from the PHINIA Fuel Systems OE programs for diesel and gas fueling that you see on the left-hand side of the chart. We supplement the offer with the additional products on the right-hand side of the chart, vehicle electronics and chassis products. In the center, you see workshop solutions which helped to create demand for our products. These offerings keep us top of mind with technicians so that they're more likely to look for [indiscernible] products to complete a repair or maintenance job. We take the portfolio to market through a global distribution network that puts inventory close to customers -- over 4,000 customers across the globe. That way, we can deliver excellent off-the-shelf availability to retailers, warehouse distributors and online players wherever they are. We operate globally with about half our sales in Europe and 40% in the Americas. The rest of the world accounting for the remaining 10%. We make sure that we're set up to meet the differing needs of our customers in those regions day in, day out. And remanufacturing is an important part of the program as well. [ Reman ] diesel fuel injection products and starters and alternators have been part of our business for many years. They are a way to deliver cost-effective solutions to vehicle owners right through the life cycle, as well as being sustainable solutions that reduce waste, and energy use compared to new replacement parts. Our product sourcing is balanced between fuel systems, aftermarket manufacturing and third-party suppliers to build ranges that can cover over 95% of the vehicles on the road in each category. Fuel Systems starters and alternators and aftermarket parts manufactured internally account for approximately 50% of sales. The remainder comes from products sourced from third-party suppliers. And our strong customer relationships in the independent aftermarket across multiple channels, such as international buying groups, individual wholesalers, retailers and online players, help us gain share of wallet and capture new opportunities. We also leverage our independent aftermarket competencies in supply chain and product management to deliver value to manufacturer service programs for certain original equipment customers. Our mission as an aftermarket business is to deliver best-in-class products, services and customer experience. Solving the challenges of today and preparing for a cleaner tomorrow. You heard Todd talk about precision manufactured fuel systems products that help our OEM customers meet increasingly stringent emissions requirements. When we sell these products in the aftermarket, we aim to make sure that vehicles continue to perform the way they did the day they left the production line so that emissions are minimized. Similarly, third-party source products we sell are produced to our exacting standards so that fitting one of our products to a vehicle ensures it performs as it was designed to throughout its life. We take the products to market with the trusted brands, Delphi, Delco Remy and [ Heartridge ] which have many years of original equipment heritage. A key criterion for technicians is whether they can fit and forget the parts they use every day. They don't want customers to come back because replacement parts aren't fit for purpose, and they know they can trust our brands and solutions. Our business model is built on the 3 pillars I just talked about. The portfolio, the sourcing approach and brands customers can trust. To win in the market we take a customer-centric approach. We have two target customer groups, our distribution partners and the technicians who fit our products to vehicles every day. 5 key areas of product leadership, [indiscernible] PHINIA value to deliver what distribution partners need. First, we aim to have market-leading coverage in the categories we offer targeting to have the widest range of any competitor for the vehicles on the road. This way, we provide complete solutions to our customers so they don't need supplementary supply sources to complete their product offerings. Second, we strive to be first to market with [indiscernible] for new vehicles. so that our distribution partners are always able to offer repair and maintenance solutions for every vehicle that a technician may encounter in their daily work. Third, our product life cycle management teams are focused on making sure we offer solutions for vehicles right through their lifetimes. The average age of vehicles in operation globally is in excess of 12 years in many markets. So we aim to cover both newly introduced vehicles and those that have been on the road for 25 years or more in some cases. Fourth, cataloging excellence. Distribution partners and technicians need to be able to identify the correct part for any given repair first time. So an easy-to-use, accurate and comprehensive catalog is central to their requirements. Finally, when products are in the catalog, it's key to be able to deliver them to the customer who needs them as soon as possible anywhere in the world. This drives our obsession with off-the-shelf availability from our warehouses. Together, these 5 pillars cement customer relationships with distribution partners. At the same time, we work to create demand for our products, and this is where training and workshop solutions come in. We want our product brands, Delphi and Delco Remy, to be top of mind for technicians. We communicate directly with them, offering advice on solving problems with the vehicles they encounter in their daily work. We launched a communication program specific to technicians in Europe in 2022, which is now being rolled out across all regions to reinforce our brand presence. Our online learning platform and face-to-face training help technicians develop their skills further and deepen our relationship with them. I've covered our value proposition to distribution partners and technicians in some detail. Now I want to talk about market dynamics and aftermarket agility. As I mentioned, the average age of vehicles in operation is over 12 years in many markets, whether they're passenger or commercial vehicles. This means we're dealing with trends at the opposite ends of the spectrum, catering for new and aging vehicles. Aging vehicles need appropriate solutions. We must satisfy the owner of a 25-year-old truck who wants a value for money repair. So we've worked on developing a value proposition for private label programs targeted at those customers. In the same way, our remanufactured products can deliver OE performance at lower cost. Together, these offerings allow us to remain competitive in supplying parts for older vehicles. At the same time, we're rapidly expanding our coverage for newer vehicles. PHINIA's propulsion-agnostic chassis parts programs feature extensive coverage for battery electric and hybrid cars plus light commercial vehicles. And last year, we introduced over 4,300 new part numbers in these categories to remain competitive. That's 75% of the new products we introduced overall. We've also capitalized on rapid development by Chinese vehicle manufacturers in markets across the globe to reinforce our first-to-market credentials. There are about 220 million vehicles produced by Chinese OEMs in operation today. That's almost 15% of the vehicles in operation in the world. We focused engineering and product development on introducing products for these vehicles, which are capturing market share in South and Central America, Europe and Southeast Asia so that we can satisfy demand as it develops. And this is what aftermarket agility means. We respond to emerging aftermarket trends to stay relevant and ahead of competition. We've outgrown the IAM independent aftermarket since 2022 through greater penetration of the markets we sell to by extending our reach to underserved markets and by selectively extending the product offer where we have a right to win. Market penetration includes capturing a greater share of wallet with our existing customer base, winning business with new customers and broadening our market coverage within product categories to complete our offer. To expand our market, we focus on selling the existing product portfolio in new geographies. As I mentioned earlier, we don't sell all of the portfolio in every region today. So we're executing plans to introduce selected ranges into those regions. We're also working to enter channels such as e-commerce, where we have not served them in the past. We expand our product offer by remanufacturing competitive products, building on our strong supplier relationships to cover new product categories and by identifying opportunities to manufacture more products in-house using existing capabilities and production capacity more efficiently. We also see opportunities to grow inorganically, and we look at them critically. But with our clear opportunities to grow organically, we would be very selective about any acquisitions. We've already proved that we can deliver organic growth with a low-risk model, and I want to talk about how we do that. We launched a new product range in one new region at a time, limiting financial exposure and the risk of management distraction. We only move on to other regions once execution is successful, and we see that we have traction. Here's an example. Steering suspension is a significant product category that was not historically offered in North America. We entered the market with our European range to cover import vehicles in the U.S. and Canada. And based on positive customer feedback, we took the decision to expand and offer a full range covering domestic, Asian and European vehicles, leveraging our existing supply base to create market coverage and the strength of the Delphi brand to enter the market through existing distribution channels. In our latest step towards becoming a full solution provider in this category, we launched a severe duty program of steering and suspension for work trucks and last-mile delivery vehicles in late 2025, with the goal of penetrating a market segment that demands specific harder wearing, longer-life products than the OE equivalents. Steering and suspension sales in the region have increased year-on-year since 2019 and now represents 16% of our independent aftermarket sales in North America. With the full year impact of a recent new business win, we expect this to be close to 20% in 2026. And we've now started to launch steering and suspension in South America using the same approach. So what I've shown you today is PHINIA's approach to winning in the independent aftermarket. We stand out as a strong competitor because we're global, and we combine Tier 1 supplier expertise and technology with the agility of an aftermarket specialist supplier. Our customers know they can trust our strong go-to-market brands and rely on our product management, marketing and supply chain capability to deliver what they want consistently every day. Our fuel systems product ranges and starters and alternators have longevity in the aftermarket because of long product life cycles. And together with our propulsion-agnostic products, they're well positioned to make us a relevant supplier for all types of vehicles in the future. We're a profitable growth engine with significant organic opportunities to grow, which can be supplemented by selective acquisitions if the conditions are right. We've delivered profitable growth through the last 3 years and are positioned to continue to grow above market to the end of this decade and beyond. Thank you. And now I'd like to hand over to my colleague, Pedro, to talk about OE strategies.

Pedro Abreu

Executives
#6

Good morning, all. So Neil has took us through the PHINIA total addressable market and more deeply its aftermarket outlook. And so we are now going to briefly review PHINIA's strategies for its OE business. I will be presenting you with an overview of the 4 different OE markets we operate in. We will start with light passenger vehicles, followed by light commercial vehicles, then on-highway, heavy-duty and medium-duty commercial vehicles; and lastly, off-highway, industrial and other applications. In each of them, I will be highlighting their main developments, their competitive landscape, major key developments and PHINIA road map to address them as well as our estimates for future sales. Future sales estimates will rely on an aspirational target to become a $5 billion company in the years to come. This goal is comprised not only of future organic sales, but also includes hypothetical M&A activity focused on the commercial vehicle, aftermarket and industrial segments. We will start with light passenger vehicles. This market, which is one of the largest ones within the OE automotive industry is undergoing a major transformation, driven by electrification, shifting consumer preferences and evolving global production dynamics. The latest industry forecasts highlight rapid growth in hybrid and electric vehicles. Strong demand for SUVs and ongoing adjustments to global supply chain disruptions. As automakers respond to regulatory and trade pressures, seems to be broadly accepted that although growth is rapid, the pace of adoption of battery electric vehicles or PEPs has slowed in recent outlooks, resulting in larger-than-expected market shares for both hybrid and pure ICE powertrains for a longer period. We are seeing smaller competitors exiting and the larger players are prioritizing other areas, namely electrification. This has allowed us to opportunistically gain share, and we anticipate that we will keep doing so. Pursuit of higher efficiency, higher performance, cost-effective and optimized carbon technologies remain key development trends within this market. PHINIA has the ability with its portfolio to support our customers to meet all these needs and trends. Global light vehicle production also continues to adjust to shifting factors, including, among others, U.S. trade policies, supply chain shifts and regional market dynamics. OEMs are reshoring or regionalizing production to reduce geopolitical risks. PHINIA sees growth opportunities in the short to medium term within this market, specifically from GDi penetration rates, a technology that is key to further improve overall powertrain efficiency on ICE and hybrid vehicles. We are also seeing the adoption of alternative fuels and declining competition. On the left-hand side of the slide, you can see IHS projections for the passenger car market for 2030 split by propulsion type. The bar on the left is a projection from July 2024. And on the right, you can see the exact same data and market, but based on their projection from October 2025, 1.5 years later. Between the 2 projections, the outlook for market share for pure battery electric vehicles in 2030 worldwide decreased 900 basis points from 40% to 31%. ICE and hybrid powertrain share outlook on the other hand, has increased by the same 900 basis points from 60% to 69%, with GDI increasing 700 basis points from 37% to 44%. This highlights how the core ICE light vehicle technology will be dominant for a much longer period than was previously assumed. Our strategy remains equal. We want to strive as one of the limited number of global suppliers capable to provide solutions for applications where reliability and emissions compliance are nonnegotiable, bearing in mind that enhancements and new challenges might be ahead. We will keep supporting our customers, leveraging our decades of customer intimacy and enlarging our client base. Within light passenger car segment, BEV adoption will increase in years to come. This is undeniable, but some regions are focusing on lower carbon and zero carbon fuels as their pathway to carbon neutrality rather than BEV. The reasons vary, but include availability of renewable power, infrastructure challenges, national security and energy independence. A clear example of what I just mentioned is PHINIA having been recently nominated in India by 3 major local OEMs for more than 1 million compressed natural gas injectors per year of brand-new programs to be launched in the next couple of years. Similarly, we have won with brand-new customers, brand-new programs in the recent past 500 power GDI applications entering currently into production within the Chinese market. We believe we are well positioned to increase share within this market. Total available market is expected to decrease, but with our product portfolio, we pledge to keep supporting our customer needs as well as record of recent nominations, which stands our intention to remain with a flat revenue estimation for this segment in the years to come. We will be moving on now into the light commercial vehicle market. This market is characterized by 2 main type of vehicles, trucks and vans. Vehicles in this category have a maximum gross vehicle weight of around 3.5 tons. They are mostly dedicated to small business logistics, service fleets, utility services, rental fleets and last mile delivery. We are ending a decade defined by electrification, rapid e-commerce expansion and a major shift towards fleet-centric ownership models. But while electrification increases, hybrid, gasoline, diesel and alternative fuels, namely CNG, LPG, ethanol, methanol and certainly hydrogen remain highly relevant for certain regions and applications. PHINIA is focused on customers from this segment in Europe, Asia and Americas, with the majority of its business actually based here in the U.S.A. This includes 2 prominent U.S. OEMs and their main truck models. The light-duty on-highway commercial vehicle market is a very significant segment of the global commercial vehicle industry, as I said, driven by e-commerce, urban logistics and expanding fleet operations. Vans are mainly used by professionals, whilst trucks have a more dual usage, serving for professional and private purposes. Within the van segment, BEV penetration will consistently increase in the years to come, and it's expected to come close to a 50% share by 2037, in line with some of the more optimistic outlooks for the passenger car market. For trucks, the market is expected to have a more moderate BEV penetration, peaking shy of 20% in the later years of the next decade. One of our main priorities is obviously to retain our strong U.S. truck market position, which is less exposed to electrification. And we also want to leverage both portfolio and manufacturing assets to target new customers and applications with sustainable longevity. The total market available to PHINIA is expected to slightly decrease in the next few years, whilst our outlook revenue is for it to remain roughly flat around $0.5 billion. Our expectation is to maintain absolute revenue at 2025 levels for the years to come. The longer ICE market tail, our minimal exposure to the van segment and targeted customers and programs for market expansion gains will support this goal. We will now move over into the medium and heavy-duty commercial vehicle segment. PHINIA currently has a range of customers within this market spread across the world. We are building on our reputation for market-leading technology to extend our business into new customers and to increase share of wallet within the ones we already operate with. Our extended portfolio of fuel injection, fuel handling, starters and alternators and ignition systems as well as our capability to integrate this to deliver complete system solutions distinguishes PHINIA from the majority of its competitors. The majority of our competitors have switched their focus either to electrification, minimizing commitments and investments to support customers within the ICE landscape. One of the main characteristics of the segment is the nondiscretionary nature of purchases by its operators. On the left-hand side of this slide, you can see how resilient this market is. The market quickly recovered from the 2008 global financial crisis as well as rebounding fast from the worldwide COVID disruption in the early 2020s. This market will be clearly dominated by internal combustion engine technology for the decades to come despite some BEV penetration, especially in China and urban or regional applications. The overall market is expected to grow in the low single digits year-over-year, with internal combustion engine volumes expected to remain more or less stable at around 3.2 million units per year for at least the next decade. This means internal combustion engines will still represent just shy of 80% of the total commercial vehicle market by 2035. The takeaways is that ICE powered with diesel as well as with lower carbon and zero carbon alternative fuels will continue to dominate with relatively moderate levels of BEV. PHINIA's strategy is to focus on customer needs, as always, deliberate partnerships and utilizing and optimizing existing assets supported by financially disciplined investments. Tiny incremental improvements in engine efficiency can translate into huge annual savings for the operators when vehicles are traveling hundreds of thousands of miles every year. We have the technology to support these improvements. Our main goal is to increase share through incremental content per vehicle and by conquering brand-new customers and applications. In an overall flat total addressable market, PHINIA is committed to increase its share within this segment. We have an aspirational target of roughly doubling our revenue in the next years, reaching EUR 1 billion of sales. Lastly, we will be reviewing the off-highway, industrial and other segments we operate in. In recent years, PHINIA has planted seeds to grow beyond the automotive landscape. As a result, we now have customers from aerospace, marine, stationary engines, agriculture and industrial backgrounds. This expansion into new end markets with our core technology, existing assets and engineering know-how was a very logical thing to do. The same drivers for tighter regulations, optimized efficiency, higher performance and carbon neutrality in off-highway applications are exactly what we have addressed in the on-highway space. So we are perfectly placed to support our off-highway customers that are facing these challenges. PHINIA has an exceptional level of skill and technology in high precision, high-technology machining and manufacturing owned over many years of development in the automotive market. We are finding that these are exactly the competencies that customers are looking for in adjacent markets like aerospace and industrial applications. These sectors are lower volume than automotive, but are characterized by higher content per vehicle, and they highly value our automotive experience and standards. Significant market growth expected in this segment for the next 10 years with civil aircraft production expected to double and defense spending increasing with geopolitical tensions. Aerospace engine manufacturers are looking for new partners. There are many small suppliers still in the industry that might become a bottleneck, and that is where our right to play comes in. We are well placed to assess this market with our hydraulic components. It aligns perfectly with our existing capabilities. Market we expect to serve operates with similar machining tolerances and requirements as the one we operate in currently. PHINIA expects to more than double its revenue within this segment in the years to come. We have a goal to attain 10% of sales of our aspirational EUR 5 billion target. We expect to go from EUR 200 million of sales in 2025 to EUR 500 million year of sales in the years to come. Two industry sectors that PHINIA is now successfully penetrating are both the aerospace and the power generation markets. In aerospace, PHINIA won recently several fuel component programs with a major global engine manufacturer. We have an objective of reaching EUR 100 million sales by 2030. We have also been attending and will continue attending several air shows, like the Farnborough Airshow, the Paris Airshow and quite recently, the Aero Americas here in the U.S.A. Goal is to reach out to customers and make them aware of our capabilities. We have been able to promote ourselves and several customer leads are ongoing with positive prospects. The industry is heavily certified, a hurdle that PHINIA has already overcome. We got the EN 9100 certification some weeks ago and are fully compliant to deliver our products to aero engine builders. Some context from the industry is that the costs involved with resourcing are quite significant. The product sourcing cycles are around 15 to 20 years versus a cycle of 3 to 5 years within the automotive industry. The level of enthusiasm and number of projects we are working on within this market encourage us to proceed and assure us our right to play is real. In industrials, PHINIA has gained access to new customers for large stationary engines with the acquisition of SEM in 2025. We are seeing increased demand for these large stationary engines, driven in particular by demand for AI data centers. And we are well positioned to support these kinds of applications. We have also recently supported the launch of a brand-new agro application with an hydrogen engine from a U.K. customer. Alternative fuels will also play a key role within industrial applications. At the other hand of the scale, the SEM acquisition has also increased our exposure to the small engine market, which continues to grow, especially in South Asia. Time to bring it all together. After Todd's presentation on product leadership, Neil taking us over the unique growth prospects of our independent aftermarket and myself briefly sharing information about what PHINIA intends to do in its OE segments, it's time for a wrap-up. We intend to create value, leveraging our technology and our know-how. We aim to use our innovation capabilities, resilience and adaptability to navigate within legacy markets and pursue new target end markets. Here are just a few examples of our strategy in action. We are continuing to develop the right technologies to help our customers achieve their goals, including launching as worldwide first-to-market gasoline injection at 500 par with Shanghai in 2024. Higher pressure in fuel injection means smaller droplets of fuel, which have a higher overall surface area, which burn cleaner and more efficiently. We continue to retain our existing customers with major new programs across our product portfolio. We have successfully launched our first aerospace applications and have set ourselves aggressive targets for continued growth. We have made our first acquisition with SEM and extended our ability to access industrial markets. All of this demonstrates that we have the ability to evolve as our markets evolve. We will continue to transition our human capital and capital equipment to focus on CV, aftermarket, adjacent markets and carbon-neutral fuel technologies as the market demand arises. In summary, PHINIA is deploying an action plan to ensure stable and steady growth across the independent aftermarket and its OEM markets. We will be doing so by nurturing and redeploying resources and assets effectively. We will continually seek new customers, regional and product diversification. We are committed to leveraging and enhancing our aftermarket business and its strong brands, assume ourselves as a CV top-tier player, maximize and increase share in both light passenger vehicle and light commercial vehicle. We are also targeting new markets like aerospace, industrial and stationary engines, where we clearly seem to have a right to play. As Neil showed you some minutes ago, PHINIA total addressable market is growing. We expect to be operating in a more than $121 billion market by 2035. We want to strive and grow and aim to do so by generating value to our shareholders. We are one of very few competitors able to operate with expertise and address strict OEM specifications. Scarcity value for what we do is increasing due to few players' ability to operate with such rigorous and stretched technical challenges. We are obtaining significant business wins and expect to grow organically in next years due to our technological differentiation factors. We are pursuing targeted end markets while optimizing value in our legacy markets. PHINIA does have a clear viable path to deliver consistent growth on the years to come. Thank you very much for your attention. We will be doing now a break, and we will be returning at -- 10:45, we resume. Thank you very much. [Break]

Kellen Ferris

Executives
#7

Welcome you all back from our short break. We have a couple more speakers here before the Q&A. And with that, I will bring up, Chris Gropp, our CFO. Thank you very much.

Chris Gropp

Executives
#8

All right. We're in the home stretch, everybody. So glad everybody is here. I can tell you that for us, it was almost planes, trains and automobiles to get here today, but we're happy all of you got here. All right. And just a reminder, so I'm going to go through surprise, surprise financial discipline. And then we're going to bring Brady back up to wrap everything up. And then the fun part is Q&A. So as PHINIA was coming together, even before we knew what the name of the company was going to be. We knew integrity, accountability and financial discipline were nonnegotiable for the company. We believe our 2025 results speak to that as the business delivered adjusted diluted earnings per share of $4.96, growth of 28.5% over 2024 and adjusted EBITDA of $478 million on $3.5 billion in sales or 13.7% adjusted margin. It is our responsibility and commitment to deliver quality industry-leading parts to our customers and equally deliver industry-leading returns regardless of the changes or turmoil in the markets. Our segments have delivered on this, providing 2025 segment adjusted operating returns of just over 16% from our aftermarket business and just over 11% from our Fuel Systems business. This amid a backdrop of softness in the CV and LV global market, compounded by hesitation in the market as new government policies were introduced, revised and absorbed and now again revised and absorbed. Our results enabled us to return more than $40 million in dividends to our shareholders in 2025, along with repurchases of $200 million, all while maintaining a consistent strong balance sheet and solid liquidity. Our diversified end markets have provided stability and results regardless of market and regulatory dynamics, as we continue to emphasize is if OE markets are down, aftermarket sales remain strong as our results have demonstrated over the past 3 years. The resulting stability and balance enable investment into new technologies and industries as outlined by Todd, Neil and Pedro, providing a path to future growth and end market diversity. This is reinforced by our 2026 projected sales by region, customer concentration and end market diversity. We do all of this underpinned by financial discipline with data-driven decisions that include reuse and redeployment of existing human and hard capital across regions, helping us maintain a target spend of 3% net R&D or 6% on a gross basis, as Todd noted, and 4% capital spend. These targets across product lines and regions to ensure the highest flexibility and product footprint, also, as Todd outlined, and targeted return on investment, all while ensuring future profitable growth. As Brady noted, cyclical declines -- that's hard to say, cyclical declines across several markets have meant our organic CAGR has been slightly behind our original expectations. While no one loves a down market, we did outpace market performance by 260 basis points. And the shifts in market provided a window into why our business segments make sense together. They create balance and drive each other to expand margins. Neil referred to the fact that half of the supply to our aftermarket segment are for products produced internally by PHINIA. This means the bulk of our sales, including aftermarket, we supply from original equipment to service to aftermarket for products in the field, creating a durable extended life cycle for our systems and products. We're proud of the performance our segments have delivered. Expanded margins on relatively flat revenues that include external dilutive pressures requires skill, diligence and just plain hard work. And as we also keep saying, it requires discipline and baseline returns that the entire team understands and works toward. As guided in our Q4 results call, we expect revenue growth in 2026 of just under 4% year-over-year, including FX changes. Over 3 years since 2024, this would result in a 3.4% revenue CAGR. We also project healthy conversion on the additional revenue and solid adjusted EBITDA returns of above $0.5 million on the $3.6 billion in sales. We are confident we have the right teams in place to achieve this through continued diligent disciplined work from all areas of the business and focus on expansion and diversification into new end markets and products. I think the snow background is sort of appropriate for this week, but that was just a fluke. A key to our success is our people. We have deep technical bench strength within our engineering, operational and administrative teams. Our operational and functional teams have continued their disciplined approach to streamline and optimize operations and processes, ensuring footprint of facilities and infrastructure are correctly sized and reside in optimal proximity to customers with the best cost labor force. Near and dear to my heart is the work our administrative teams have taken on since spin. As a reminder, shortly after spin, our legal and corporate structure resulted in an effective tax rate that was memorable for all the wrong reasons. impressively high and with an underlying structure that was complicated and unwieldy. I want to call out to all of our teams and associates who have worked hard and diligently to improve, dropping to 32.5% in 2025 from our 2024 rate of 41.5%. This financial discipline and perseverance resulted in reduction in cash taxes paid by more than 35%, and we're not done. Our IT and operations teams are working together on a multiyear process to streamline our ERP systems into one consolidated platform to drive process consolidation and efficiencies. These teams are also focused on rightsizing the existing infrastructure while expanding AI capabilities to enhance business processes and expertise. In addition, embedded recurring savings opportunities for supply chain and operational productivity are organic daily processes driven by expert teams and have resulted in productivity savings in addition to approximately $60 million in cumulative global supply chain savings from 2023 to 2025. Results of our drive and focus on financial discipline deliver high-quality free cash flow and free cash flow conversion against earnings compared to our peers, regardless of peer group considered. In fact, since inception, the PHINIA results for free cash flow conversion have exceeded industrial aftermarket and Tier 1 peers consistently. We accomplished this by continually driving improvements, streamlining working capital processing and as noted on the previous slide, striving for simplicity and reasonableness in our structure. All projects, whether driven by the management team or our functional teams or down to our operations are analyzed for required return and payback period expected. As Brady noted and as discussed in our Q4 earnings webcast, we did recast some portions of our segment revenues in 2025 as we streamlined sales and distribution processes to reduce administrative burdens. In short, we choose to analyze and revise structures continuously to reduce the burden of large one-off restructuring events, redeploying assets efficiently to enable reinvestment of resources in new and expanding products and markets, all leading to a disciplined capital allocation model based upon our strong products and brands and demonstrated by managing growth and diversifying our portfolio into emerging fuel applications and industries. This occurs while the company returns material amounts of value back to shareholders in the form of dividends and share repurchases. We maintain a strong balance sheet with robust levels of liquidity and low leverage. With continued focus on our priorities of dividends and share repurchases, which accumulated since inception are approximately 21% of total shares outstanding. In dollar terms, this means share repurchases and dividends back to shareholders of more than $0.5 billion over that period. With more than $2 billion in cumulative free cash flow projected from 2023 to the end of the decade, we expect to maintain a disciplined data-driven approach to prioritization of dividends, share repurchases and growth via strategic accretive merger and acquisition targets. Every financial decision we make is driven by economic value-added models with minimum levels of return that ensure we can meet our revenue growth and return on capital targets, which in turn fuels our capital allocation priorities. As a management team, we are proud of what we've accomplished over the past 3 years and have worked hard to build trust in our products, our returns and our commitment to our shareholders, all evidenced by shareholder return of just above 116% over the last years, market-leading free cash flow yield and adjusted diluted earnings per share growth more than 5x that of our peers. And yet we feel we still have untapped value. Our financial fundamentals are strong, and we believe provide a compelling basis for our stock price. But we're at the start of our journey. We expect our results will continue to differentiate us from our peers and move us to a valuation that truly reflects our products and company value. And finally, to reiterate our 2026 guide, which was presented in our Q4 earnings call. The growth landscape is expected to continue to be challenging in 2026, although starting to recover some product lines and markets. We are well positioned to achieve the targets we laid out almost 3 years ago with 2026 sales expected in the range of $3.5 billion to $3.7 billion, adjusted EBITDA of $485 million to $525 million for return on sales in the range of 13.7% to 14.3%. This will, in turn, lead to adjusted free cash flow in a range of $200 million to $240 million and an adjusted effective tax rate of 30% to 34%. It's been an exciting 3 years out of the gate of PHINIA. And as we enter the next chapter of growth, we look forward to continued success as we focus on profitable revenue growth, product innovation in new markets, business wins, continued disciplined capital allocation and delivering shareholder value. And with that, I told you I'd be short. So I am going to hand it back to Brady to let him wrap things up.

Brady Ericson

Executives
#9

All right. Thank you, Chris, Todd, Neil and Pedro. Now let's do a quick recap as well as provide you some insights on where we're headed. As I started with and the other is built around, we believe product leadership through product, process and service puts us in a strong competitive position to continue to win new business and expand into new markets, leveraging our existing capabilities and capital. The diversity of our regions, customers, products and industries we serve will provide us with stable and reliable growth opportunities through this decade and beyond. This is also supported by a growing total addressable market with service and off-highway industrial and other making up over 75% of our TAM later this decade. We're also investigating additional markets where we could leverage our capabilities and resources. Our financial discipline is focused on delivering year-over-year improvements in economic value, generating cash and being efficient allocators of capital. We've established a solid track record as a consistent and reliable performer. Combine this with our core values and gold operating model, we're confident in our ability to deliver long-term shareholder value and maximize shareholder returns. Now let's talk about where we're going. We put this together to show what we expect to deliver over the decade based on the following assumptions: No M&A or other portfolio changes, sales CAGR at the midpoint of our targeted 2% to 4% range over the decade, solid EBITDA conversion on incremental sales, maintaining CapEx at 4% and net R&D at 3% of our revenues, driving our adjusted effective tax rate down to a reasonable 27%, cash conversion of 45% and increasing the net leverage target to 2x EBITDA given our larger scale and consistent performance. This is provided we see value in doing so. With these assumptions, we would have about $1.9 billion of cash available for capital allocation from 2026 through 2030. This comes from $1.3 billion of adjusted free cash flow, from operations and another $600 million of debt with the increase in annual adjusted EBITDA dollars and net leverage going to 2x. To be clear, this $1.9 billion is after the roughly 4% of sales for CapEx to support organic sales growth of 3% over the decade. We're also committed to our dividend. With our current dividend and share count, we will need around $225 million of dividends, leaving just under $1.7 billion to allocate over the decade. Of note, we've raised our dividend twice since the spin. But with our share count reduction, our annual obligations have stayed into the $40 million to $47 million range. We will continue to use our financial discipline and focus on driving long-term shareholder value when allocating this capital, whether it's to drive growth through acquisitions or higher organic growth or to return additional capital to shareholders through higher dividends and share repurchases. If we don't see good returns from either of these, we're going to stay patient and maintain either a lower net leverage or higher cash balance and liquidity. Investors have asked how we make our capital allocation decisions. My response is it's a dynamic process that we review on a quarterly basis internally and with our Board of Directors. We look at our leverage, our cash balances, cash flow generation forecast, our market valuation versus our internal valuation and the acquisition pipeline. When deciding between share repurchase and acquisition, we're always going to compare valuation multiples, long-term growth expectation and risk on execution. Paying a higher multiple for a business that has similar future expectations, along with uncertainty is not a decision we would make as repurchasing shares would deliver the same or more value with less risk. If we decide to repurchase shares, we generally establish an amount we're comfortable with purchasing in the quarter, and we then establish a pricing grid in which we will purchase various amounts on a daily basis. Other structures may also be used. Again, our decisions are going to be based on delivering long-term shareholder value and maximizing shareholder returns. Although the assumptions and the math are simple to put on a page, we understand that we must continue to execute well on a quarterly basis, year in and year out in order to deliver on these expectations. As we grow organically and look at acquisitions, we're focused on continuing to transition our business and end markets with long-term growth to long-term growth opportunities. Our target business distribution when we reach $5 billion will be to have over 80% of our revenues coming from service, commercial vehicle, off-highway, industrial and other applications, putting us in a more favorable position for consistent and higher long-term growth. With this as our new foundation, we are projecting the following at $5 billion of revenues. With an improved distribution of sales across higher opportunity end markets, we expect to have higher sales CAGR range moving forward. This will also allow us to drive higher adjusted EBITDA margins, stronger cash conversion and adjusted free cash flow while still maintaining a moderate level of debt -- moderate level of net leverage and strong liquidity. Again, this is all about being a consistent, reliable, financially disciplined and value-focused company. And with that, I'd now like to move us to the Q&A session. Thank you.

Unknown Analyst

Analysts
#10

First, I'll open up to the floor and see if anybody wants to lead off with a question. I have several questions I can ask up here, but I just wanted to open up to the floor and see if anyone wants to get started. Joe?

Joseph Spak

Analysts
#11

Joe Spak from UBS. First question is just on the $5 billion 2030 target, which I know that includes M&A. It's also a number you've given out, I think, in mid-'23. And I just want to -- maybe I was wondering if you could help us at a higher level, summarize and understand what's changed because you just sort of spent a good part of the day messaging that some of the underlying factors in the markets are actually moving more in your favor, yet that number is pretty similar. It actually looks like maybe even organically, it's a little bit lower. I understand you're maybe at a lower base because you're maybe a little bit behind. But why sort of a similar level of some of these factors are moving more in your direction?

Unknown Executive

Executives
#12

Yes. I think there's a couple of things. One is we got a lot of feedback, too, of saying, in order to get to the $5 billion by 2030, you have to do an acquisition. Are you going to do an acquisition no matter what? And we tried to lay out here, no, we're not going to do an acquisition. We're only going to do it if it makes sense and it meets our criteria. So that's one of the reasons why we kind of went away from the $5 billion by 2030 as a firm target. So just to give us some more flexibility. If our stock price stays low and we have good organic opportunities, we'll just continue to buy back shares. if we think that's going to create more value for our shareholders. I think from that 2023 time frame, I think the markets have been a lot lower, too, from those original expectations. And so rather than continuing to grow in '23, '24 and '25, we actually started to kind of plateau a little bit. And so we have to catch up to that. And that's why that organic CAGR was at the low end or actually outside the 2% to 4% range. And again, these are just assumptions based on getting to 3%. I think our close to 4% forecasted growth in 2026, I think, is a good omen for us to get back into that range and hopefully push us towards the high end of the range towards the end of the decade.

Joseph Spak

Analysts
#13

Okay. And just to follow up on that, like if we look at the organic levels, 25% to 30%, the 4.2%. It's like a little bit over 3.5% organic growth. I think one of the slides showed your addressable market is about 1.4%. So can you just help us understand what's sort of driving the performance relative to that? Is it continued market share gains? Is it pricing? Or how much is being assumed?

Unknown Executive

Executives
#14

Yes. It's definitely the market share gains and us entering that off-highway industrial and other markets. As you kind of noticed, I think it was over 2/3 of it or 75% of the addressable market in those out years is coming from aftermarket. And if you look at Neil's independent aftermarket and some of the -- in the appendix, the independent aftermarket grew 6%, 7% for us last year. So I think that independent aftermarket will continue to be a strong grower. And I think our growth in the off-highway industrial group is also going to be very high growth. And with CV recovering from being on a down cycle, I think, is also going to help us quite a bit, too.

Kellen Ferris

Executives
#15

Which would -- so Neil can address it better, but that does mean some of that growth would be so price because in aftermarket, there's always going to be a pricing component that builds into that. So...

Joseph Spak

Analysts
#16

Yes. A little differently to the OE business, we would expect to recover inflation in our pricing year-on-year. But we are growing -- have been growing at least twice as fast as the market in volume terms through the last 3 years.

Unknown Executive

Executives
#17

I think we walked you through that before as far as the drivers is 1% to 2% price, 1% to 2%, just the market is growing in the aftermarket with age of fleet and number of vehicles. And then Neil and his team have been doing a great job on picking up additional share and bringing new product lines and new markets. And that's where we expect them to be in the 3% to 6%, and they've been on the high end of that the last couple of years.

Unknown Analyst

Analysts
#18

Brian Sponheimer from Gabelli. Just a question more in the near term. We had a pretty substantial aftermarket supplier run into some significant issues this year. Just wondering if you've seen anything change regarding your relationship with your customer base regarding supply chain financing or any of your payables programs that you otherwise have enjoyed over time.

Unknown Executive

Executives
#19

To split the question a couple of ways. First of all, we've definitely seen opportunities to pick up more business as a result of that supplier failing. And we are actively working on a list of new customer acquisitions for some of our products. So that's positive for us. At the moment, we have not seen any change in supply chain financing arrangements. And I think that most of our customers, probably all of our customers approach that in a very responsible way. So we haven't seen a large kind of aftershock from what's happened in the market.

Neil Fryer

Executives
#20

No. And ours is fairly minimal because most of that financing is based on the North American and some of the practices there. I mean you can see it in our K, it's about $160 million a year for us, which is not a big amount. It's only because of the particulars on working capital related to a few of our customers in the North American aftermarket. We don't look to expand that at all. I know Brian has one. I mean, sorry...

Unknown Analyst

Analysts
#21

Jake Shol, BNP. So I appreciate the... Expected end market mix at $5 billion in sales, but obviously, that requires some level of M&A. So how should we think about what that would look like in the absence of M&A organically at $4.2 billion, especially as we think about the industrial and aftermarket businesses?

Unknown Executive

Executives
#22

I mean I think the aftermarket and the industrial, I think we've got a good plan to get there organically. It may take a little bit longer than 2030 to get to those percentages. And again, our expectation, whether we do M&A or not, we're going to get there if we do it organically, just maybe a few years later than 2030. So that's really where we're still driving a lot of our new business wins and the effort of the of the team. I think we've seen it with the off-highway and industrial business. It was, I think, 4% in '24. We're up to 6% in '25. I think with Chris' numbers, it's going to go up as a percentage of our sales again in 2026. So I think we've got a pretty good path for that off-highway industrial to get to that 10%. And I think Neil's team in the aftermarket and service business has been picking up almost a percent of share of our FHINIA sales as well. So I think they've got a good path. I think those are the 2 that are probably have the most confidence in as far as getting there sooner. I think the other ones, it's going to depend on some of the cycles. how quickly does CV recover? When do we see that really kind of recovering? And again, on some of them, we're not going to turn away light passenger vehicle business if more customers want to award us more or if battery electric penetration rates continue to go down. And so those are the ones that may have a little bit more kind of flex in between them in the outer years.

Neil Fryer

Executives
#23

And in terms of M&A, I mean, Pedro should really address that, and he basically said it in what he said and what we're targeting.

Unknown Executive

Executives
#24

Yes. And there, nothing has changed. I think we were very vocal about it, that all our M&A activity is focused around the CV aftermarket and industrial arena. So no news. We keep on monitoring. Since inception, we have looked more than 100 to 150 opportunities. We keep on our scanning. We're going to be financially disciplined. And if it is the right segment, right fit for our portfolio, right footprint for the right price. So there's a lot of rights here that have a lot of tick marks that have to occur. That's why M&A is so difficult. We might move along. If not, we'll stay patient.

Unknown Analyst

Analysts
#25

And then I know it was a lot of work to get the tax rate down pretty significantly last year. Do you guys still think 27% is the right long-term rate once you're fully past this headache?

Neil Fryer

Executives
#26

It's the next hurdle rate to get to my tax guy probably online dying for what I'm going to say next. But no, I mean, we're going to continue to drive it down, but it just does take a lot of time. So I think mid-20s is a good number that we're shooting for. Would we go lower than that? Yes, but we're not going to do something silly to get there. It has to be something that's sustainable that makes sense and that is not only lowering the rate, but the cash taxes paid and all of the other things.

Unknown Executive

Executives
#27

Yes. I mean we try -- hopefully, you guys have learned from us that we try to be kind of steady and reliable. We're not taking very aggressive positions, both on our taxes, both on our projections and anything else. And so we're trying to be as consistent, reliable and continue to build on the reputation that we deliver on what we say.

Unknown Analyst

Analysts
#28

Dan?

Dan Levy

Analysts
#29

Dan Levy, Barclays. I wanted to double-click on the push into the off-highway, industrial and other end markets. And I know that we're only talking about your longer-term aspiration has increased 4 points of market segment mix. But maybe you could just give us a sense of how truly adjacent these end markets are as far as leveraging the technologies, leveraging the capabilities. I know you're saying that it's the same core technology, but how much incremental effort is there for you to tap these markets? And maybe you could just give a sense of how you stack up versus some of the competitors here versus your positioning in the core light vehicle and CV space.

Unknown Executive

Executives
#30

Sure. I'll pass that off to Todd in just a second. But I guess if you go out there and take a look at some of those injectors, you won't be able to tell the difference between one that's for marine, one that's for JCB and hydrogen or 100% heated tip injector for ethanol in South America or natural gas. And so it's very much the same. And maybe, Todd, if you can expand on that.

Todd Anderson

Executives
#31

Yes. When we look at those markets, the reason they're adjacent is because they're using similar technology. If you have a combustion engine to power a vehicle or a combustion engine to power a stationary power generation or a boat engine, that technology is quite portable between those different applications. So the expertise of our engineers, the manufacturing production processes are quite similar between them, and then we're able to adjust for system supply or component supply in those adjacent markets based on where the needs are. So quite flexible in terms of technology resources, production resources and the capability that's required to serve those adjacent markets.

Unknown Executive

Executives
#32

And again, maybe, Todd, you can expand a little bit on -- as an example, if you're going from a gasoline to 100% ethanol or methanol, it's very corrosive. The design is pretty much the same, but we may have to add a DOC coating or a different material to it to adjust for the corrosive nature of it or depending on the viscosity or the energy density, the holes rather than 60 microns, maybe 80 microns to allow greater flow. Those are the small little changes that are needed in order to then adapt to those new markets. Todd?

Todd Anderson

Executives
#33

Yes. Yes, that's precisely right. So whether it's materials or internal geometry, different flow rates, we adjust those for different vehicle engines, and we can also adjust those for different alternative fuels or different applications. And it does come down to understanding what the material requirements are, what the flow requirements are and being able to adapt the design. But the basic principles are the same principles that we're using across these different applications. It's the adjustments where our expertise and our knowledge kicks in to be able to do that seamlessly regardless of what market is being served.

Dan Levy

Analysts
#34

Okay. As a follow-up, I just want to double-click then on another end market shift that you have and your mix of light passenger vehicle and light commercial vehicle on-highway are going to shrink, but you're telling us that revenue is going to be flat today versus the out year. So there's a share component here. What's the confidence that the share gains will continue to increase and just the positioning versus some of your competitors that enable you to get that higher share?

Todd Anderson

Executives
#35

Yes. I mean we're actually seeing -- as you guys know, we're probably seeing a little bit of tailwind. One is because the BEV penetration rates are shrinking, that's giving us a little bit of tailwind. As you guys know, we have a lot of confidence on the business that we win today, doesn't launch for another few years and is going to continue to 2030 and 2032. So we have really good visibility on the market share gains that we're having and what -- how that's going to have an impact on our business through 2030. And so we generally have a pretty good idea over the next 3, 4 years of that trend. And again, when we actually go through this and Pedro leads it on an annual basis, we'll do a bottoms-up analysis on all the different programs that are available, what's coming, our success rate on keeping our incumbent business as well as potential success rate on some conquests. And so we feel very confident in us being able to continue to deliver that market share gain based on the new business wins we've already had and continue to see.

Neil Fryer

Executives
#36

And some of it depends on the region and the customers because just remember, our landscape in Asia Pacific is that we were always on the local domestic China suppliers who are no longer staying domestic. They're expanding. I think most people saw that BYD is increasing tremendously. And they're one of our customers, one of our -- in our top 4 is one of the domestic China OEs. So as that expands and whether it's expanding in Asia Pacific or it's moving into another region, we're on those products. So yes, that's part of it.

Unknown Executive

Executives
#37

Yes. And if I can add, it's an internal KPI weekly, we have what we call a business case review. And weekly, we review 3, 4 to 5 responses to requests from quotations from our end customers. So there's a lot of activity sourcing, resourcing on light passenger and light commercial vehicle. And we keep on responding to those customer requests worldwide, and our success rates are encouraging. So we're really confident that increasing market share and maintaining absolute revenue until the end of the decade, beginning of the next one is -- we're comfortable with it. It's okay.

Dan Levy

Analysts
#38

I have one that came in. Can you talk about the latest changes relating to tariffs and how it affects your '26 outlook?

Unknown Executive

Executives
#39

Well, which day tariffs. I mean the latest changes with the tariffs that are coming off and then the other tariffs coming on, it's immaterial in the change in terms of how that's going to look. It's a tiny bit, we think, of a windfall, but it depends because if you look at our 2025, we really got payback or pass-through for all of it. So if we get pass-through back on any tariffs, which we're not sure about, and my legal guy is steering at me, he's probably going, don't go there because that outlook on getting back the tariffs is interesting. But if we did get them back, I'm absolutely sure we would have to pass them on. So then you're just talking about the difference in the old tariff scheme to the new tariff scheme, it's immaterial. It's very small.

Dan Levy

Analysts
#40

Then another one that got e-mailed to me. On the slide showing '24 to '26 growth, can you address the slower EBITDA CAGR compared to the sales CAGR?

Unknown Executive

Executives
#41

Yes. That one, again, goes back to the tariffs and FX. If you go from '24 to '25, if you remember at the end of the first quarter of '25, which seems like a long time ago, which was just a year, we did have a big -- that was when the tariffs were introduced. That was when FX dollar weakened. So we did have a big change there like every other company. And those had dilutive effects on our results for the rest of the year because they've remained fairly steady throughout there. Then you get into this year, even we're going to convert, including the dilutive effect of tariffs and FX at 20%. If you take those out, our conversion is almost double that. So it's better. It's last year, you have a good bit of dilutive effect because you have 3 quarters of the FX changes and the tariffs. So that's what creates a bit of a difference because you've got sales on sales with better tariff that are basically hollow sales passing through. Bob?

Robert Brooks

Analysts
#42

Bobby Brooks from Northland. One question I wanted to ask on the expansion into the power generation space. I wanted to get a little bit more granular in terms of kind of what the products you guys are using or selling to supply that and kind of what type of gen sets is the focus centered on? And is that all coming from the SEM acquisition? Just want to get a better picture of kind of the opportunity as a whole.

Unknown Executive

Executives
#43

Yes. It's kind of both. I know a lot of people want to talk about it, but it's pretty much anybody who's on combustion is probably also on power gen. It still has a fuel injection system. It's just sometimes if we sell to a Volvo Penta or a large customer, sometimes we don't know if it's going into a truck, a mining truck or into power generation because it's the same technology. So we've been supplying that market for a lot of years. I think there was a story I'll explain to folks a few years ago, we have this huge demand on one of our mechanical pumps. And we didn't know why. I mean it's a 30-year-old technology and the volume shot up. And it was because they were doing all these backup power generators with Cat Perkins for 5G cell towers. And we had a spike for a few years, and it was great business, and then it kind of tapered back down to what it was again. And so we're on a lot of these backup in power gen. I think it's going to be both with pumps, injectors and now probably on some of the larger things, that's what the SEM is on some of those ignitions for natural gas. Todd, do you want to expand on some of those applications?

Todd Anderson

Executives
#44

Yes. I would add that in the combustion engine part of a stationary power gen, whether as Brady mentioned, it's injectors, pumps or rails. Now with SEM, we have the ignition portion of it. Many of those customers are looking not just on traditional fuels, but also on alternative fuels as well. And that's where some of our technology flexibility can come in, whether it's natural gas or some alternative fuels that are being used in the stationary power generation also. But those would apply, as mentioned, whether it's for telecom, for data centers, even for water management, and we've been supplying those through various OEs for a number of years and continue to grow in that space.

Robert Brooks

Analysts
#45

Got it. And then -- so you've had a lot of success breaking into the aerospace and defense end market, and you mentioned how that's given you confidence that that's the right approach. Are there any markets where you might have initially thought were ripe for entry, but now after a couple of years of trying to penetrate them, it's not as compelling. And the reverse of that, are there any industries where you initially didn't think might be compelling that now fast forward 2 years are more compelling to try to break into? I guess...

Unknown Executive

Executives
#46

Yes. I may mention one that I would say is not now, but maybe in the future is medical. So medical has very precision fluid management requirements, and we do very precise fluid management. So it does make a logical fit. But to your question, we haven't made a significant inroad there, part of that because we have these other adjacent markets, which are taking focus and attention to grow in. I think that's probably the only one that I can think of specifically that we've looked at and have not pursued aggressively at this time, but may at some point in the future, make a good connection.

Kellen Ferris

Executives
#47

I think a lot of it is going to be, can we leverage our existing manufacturing processes and skills. As Todd mentioned, around fluid management, is that's going to be one of the core competencies of our skills, whether that's electrical motors, electrical controls, ECUs, calibration software. Those are kind of our core competencies of the company. And so we're going to be selective on where we see opportunities to grow. I'm not aware of one that we've started and then didn't go back. I think it may have been a little bit on hydrogen. I think we were investing a little bit in hydrogen, but most of that was being subsidized either by our customers or through grants. And we've dialed that back a little bit, but we actually used a lot of that lessons learned for natural gas and other applications. And so we've dialed that back and then we put more on aerospace and defense. And so we can easily kind of move it around -- but the one commitment that we have is that we're not going to sacrifice our financials to go after a medical or go after an aerospace and defense. We're holding to our 3% net R&D or 4% of CapEx and being that consistent, reliable performer. So we're not going to saying, "Hey, trust us, we're going to invest all this money. We're going to sacrifice our margins in hopes of something coming in 2 or 3 years. That's not who we are, and that's not what we're going to do. We're going to maintain our financial discipline. And I think the aerospace is a good example. We had one location in France that kind of said, "Hey, we think we have some capabilities and they were starting to plant some seeds with aerospace probably, what, 7, 8 years ago for some of the first interaction. And they planted those seeds and they waited and waited and just did a small amount. And then it started to pick up. And we kind of said, wow, this is really interesting. We're getting some traction. Now let's really kind of put some additional resources on it and really start driving it, and that's where you've seen some of the success. And so you'll see that both on the OE side. You'll see that on the aftermarket side that we put -- we plant some seeds, and we see which one starts to grow. And one starts to grow, we really start planting a bunch of those seeds around the organization.

Unknown Executive

Executives
#48

Brady, I may just piggyback just briefly on the importance of what Brady mentioned in controller capability, software systems capability. We've done engine control units for a number of years and have what's an increasingly rare skill set in combustion to be able to provide that to customers. But that extends not only to engine control units, but controllers for other elements on vehicle or on engine. So powertrain domain controllers, we've been able to move forward with a key customer in that area as well as other control units that are used. And that leverages this extensive software systems integration calibration capability that we have, which really adds value regardless of what market we're moving into.

Robert Brooks

Analysts
#49

And if I could just squeeze in one more question. I really like Brady, your -- the framing that you used of like planting the seeds and seeing which ones to Sprout. Kind of piggybacking on that, could you just maybe give us a sense of what -- how many seeds are kind of planted today within aerospace that might be starting to sprout comparatively to what that was in entering 2025 or entering 2024?

Unknown Executive

Executives
#50

I mean it's -- there's quite a few. There's not what, 4 or 5 major engine manufacturers to deal with. And so there's not a bunch that we need to go chasing. But we're talking to all of them. I think with the -- with us getting our quality -- aerospace quality certification and them understanding that we're launching with one of the top 5 engine manufacturers in the world gives us a lot of credibility, and that's opened up a lot of doors. And I think that's what I think both Pedro and Todd kind of highlighted is there's a lot of discussion, and I would be disappointed if we don't have additional announcements with additional players this year.

Unknown Analyst

Analysts
#51

I have one that got e-mailed to me from somebody online. How much of the shift toward 80% revenue from service, commercial vehicle and off-highway is organic versus M&A driven? What's the time line and sequencing of that shift? And is that driven more by growth in these segments or intentional decline in LPV?

Unknown Executive

Executives
#52

I think there's a pathway to do it organically. It just may take longer than 2030. As I mentioned earlier, we're not turning down good business on the light passenger vehicle or light commercial vehicle. It's just we see that market is a little more challenged. If they give us a good return and a good -- it's a good program, we're going to support and invest in light passenger vehicle as well. It's just what we see in the market of those dynamics of it being a bit challenged. But the opportunities that we see in CV and aftermarket and off-highway industrial are real, and we see significant growth in those areas. And so we just see those areas growing much faster than the light passenger vehicle.

Unknown Analyst

Analysts
#53

Another one that came in online. How do you see the Indian market as it's only the as it's the only large high-growth market kind of out there, this question says. And what are your strategies in India?

Unknown Executive

Executives
#54

Yes. I mean we're clearly present in India. We've got a wholly owned location as well as a joint venture in India that's unconsolidated. And we continue to see good solid growth. As Pedro mentioned, we've just been awarded 3 from 3 different OEMs on natural gas. And so we'll be launching those over the next few years. And as you mentioned, India is one of the few locations that still sees combustion engine growth through this decade and beyond. And so we've got multiple locations, manufacturing locations. We have an engineering tech center there, both for IT support as well as software and calibration and application support for customers. And so I go there on a regular basis, and so is the rest of our team. And so we see as a nice growth opportunity on alternative fuels. They're probably the most advanced on natural gas, both on light vehicle, medium and heavy-duty vehicles. They have a lot of interest in hydrogen as well and ethanol applications. And so we're very present there, and we continue to grow there well.

Unknown Analyst

Analysts
#55

You brought up hydrogen. This one came in online. So Todd, this question is for you. 89% of R&D is focused on efficiency improvements. How does that evolve as alternative fuels scale?

Unknown Executive

Executives
#56

So part of the efficiency improvement is with alternative fuels. and part of it is with traditional fuels. As we improve efficiency with our traditional fuels of gasoline or diesel, whether it's improved performance or fuel economy, that's an innovative part of our development activity. And then part of it is with alternative fuels. I think that percentage roughly will stay about the same as we move forward. There just may be a shift within it from traditional fuels to alternative depending on the market transition and our customers' road maps.

Unknown Analyst

Analysts
#57

And Todd, what's the 11% made of?

Todd Anderson

Executives
#58

The 11% is for existing component supply, product supply supporting our plants. So some of this foundational engineering activity that supports our manufacturing and operations to continue to deliver the results that we saw earlier. And I guess, is that flex -- Federico?

Federico Merendi

Analysts
#59

Federico Morandi, Wolfe Research. So you have a strong presence in the aftermarket segment, right? And most of it -- most of your sales from what I recall are North America and Europe. But is there an opportunity in APAC given that the -- basically the vehicles in operations are growing? And I guess that maybe they're still on the younger side, but they will also age over time. And on the top of that, do you think that's an area where you can actually see M&A going through to help you to boost your presence in the region? And lastly, could you remind us what percentage of the aftermarket is exposed to light vehicle, passenger light vehicle, commercial and medium and heavy duty?

Unknown Executive

Executives
#60

Yes. I think there's -- and Neil, if you want to hit the Asia Pacific opportunity and what we're doing there, and then I'll hit the last one.

Neil Fryer

Executives
#61

Yes. Asia Pacific is an area that we're really focusing on in our business development. I would really say that we need to think about it as 2 separate markets. One is China, which is half of the regional opportunity and the other half is the rest of the markets in Asia Pacific. We see lots of opportunity across those markets outside China, and we have the team focused on those. As I talked about in my presentation, the key success factors are making sure you have the right range, making sure you are first to market and you give the right logistics support. So we're really setting ourselves up to do that. Then China is a slightly different market, but our strong OE position with the domestic Chinese manufacturers, I think, gives us opportunity in the longer term as we see our GDi systems and other products coming into the market there and starting to fail. So it's one of the areas we really want to work on and has, I would say, been an area that hasn't developed as quickly as we would have liked in the past. So -- that's the focus we have.

Unknown Executive

Executives
#62

Yes. Well, I think there's a couple of unique things with Asia market. One is our starter and alternator business is primarily a North America CV business, and so we don't have a lot of presence there. So that's always going to make it a little bit smaller. I think the other side of it on the GDI side, we were a little bit later getting into that market, and we're just ramping up now. And so once those vehicles get a little bit older as well, I think we'll have more opportunity to grow with that business. M&A in Asia, it's challenging. We've looked at a few. But again, it's getting the right technology and the right fit and not having unknown things. When you're purchasing in China with a local Chinese company, there comes a lot of different risks that have kept us kind of away from that market in general. I think the split was the last question. I think you're roughly about 50-50 between, say, light vehicle and commercial vehicle in our aftermarket segment.

Unknown Analyst

Analysts
#63

Got another one here. This one is for Pedro. So medium-duty and heavy-duty is targeted to grow to over 20% at $5 billion. What is that -- is that share gain, market growth or mix shift? And what pricing pressure exists in the segment?

Unknown Executive

Executives
#64

Yes. Good question. It's a mix of all. We're being successful in gaining new customers and extending our product portfolio in existing ones. So we're gaining market share. CV has been performing relatively weak in the past years. We expect it to somehow take off and recover. And on our aspirational target, we also have a portion allocated to the CV section. So it is actually a blend of all the 3 points.

Unknown Analyst

Analysts
#65

So you had indicated increasing net leverage to 2x could be appropriate. Under what conditions would you execute that?

Unknown Executive

Executives
#66

Well it adds shareholder value. I guess -- and one, as you saw on there, I think as we continue to get credibility and stability and get a little bit larger in size, similar to how we went from 1 to 1.5, we're going to do it on a conservative basis as we start to get consistent results. I think also, if you'll see, too, even though we may increase from 1.5 to 2, our debt costs may not go up that much. As the last time when we did the refinancing, we actually went from 1 to 1.5, but our debt service costs actually stayed flat because our interest rates dropped. If you see where our debt is trading right now, it's another 100, 150 basis points below what we went out with. And so we'll look at that, probably not this year because it's a -- the first one is a 5 non-call 2, and it's a little expensive to do right now. But if we go and get additional debt, it's probably at least 150 basis points lower. So it's becoming a lot more attractive for us to look at that. But we're only going to do it if we think there's a good use of that cash. Same thing with the 2.0. I think as we get closer to $4 billion on a consistent basis and our margins continue to convert and increase, we could probably afford to go to 2x and still be in a very reasonable net leverage and debt service cost position. But again, going to 2x only makes sense if we think we can create additional shareholder value is that through an acquisition at a great price that makes sense to our current valuation or if our multiple drops again and we're opportunistically buy back a bunch of shares because the share price is well below where we think is fair value, we could do that, too. And I think you saw that over the last few years when we refinanced the last time, we took out a little extra cash. I think cash on hand went close to $500 million as we increased kind of our net leverage target to 1.5. And most of that money was used in the share repurchase program, which I think was a really good return for investors. At an average share price of $44 seemed like a pretty wise thing to do. And so we're going to continue to be opportunistic. When we see good opportunities to buy back our shares, we'll buy back our shares. If the price goes to $120, we may back off a little bit and look at other opportunities may open up. And so again, there's not -- I can't say I'm just going to do one or the other. It all kind of depends, and it's going to change every quarter.

Unknown Analyst

Analysts
#67

How should we think about incremental margin on revenue growth in '26?

Unknown Executive

Executives
#68

20% Well, 20%, and that's including FX. And that's what we always strive for. I tell Neil, his incremental should be a little higher than Fuel Systems, but we do a blended average of about 20%. And as we said, we are doing -- we are expecting that this year on the additional revenue. But if you strip out FX and tariff changes year-over-year, it's actually higher than that.

Neil Fryer

Executives
#69

And that's -- I mean, I think both on the up and downside, that's a good number to kind of use that 20% expectation on EBITDA. I think to Chris' point, we're actually showing a little bit higher, and that's primarily because of some of the IT and restructuring that we've done. We're starting to get some benefits there. Our supply chain team has done a really good job on some of the productivity in the plants. And so we're actually seeing some, I guess, what people like to call the self-help things that are coming through as well that's helping us. And so we're going to continue to drive those things. But I think a consistent number is in that 20% on the upside and downside for a conversion number on incremental sales in a more standard environment.

Unknown Analyst

Analysts
#70

I have a couple more that just came in. We might have touched on this one a little bit, but you're targeting $100 million of aerospace revenue by 2030. Can you explain what the revenue ramp profile looks like that? And then in aerospace and defense, how do you compete against Tier 1 incumbent suppliers?

Unknown Executive

Executives
#71

Yes. I mean, as Pedro said, it's a little bit aspirational. We don't have that one as clear as we have on the light vehicle side for market share gains. But what we're seeing in that space is we're generally being able to win the business and launch it within 12 to 18 months after winning the business. The last one that we just announced, I think, launches in 2027. So our view is that we'll be able to continue to kind of continue with that ramp. The other thing to remind folks is in a lot of these applications, we're just getting 50% of the volume at this point because they're kind of letting us enter the market. They're going to see how we perform. If we execute well, our expectation is that we'll be able to then take over 100% of the volume, and that may then allow us to ramp up a little bit faster. So that's on the organic side. I think there's a lot of interesting opportunities for us to continue to grow on that on the organic side. And the second part was...

Unknown Analyst

Analysts
#72

How do you compete against Tier 1?

Unknown Executive

Executives
#73

Competing against the -- the Tier 1s. I think what -- the feedback that we get from our -- these aerospace customers is really around -- they have a lot of small mom-and-pop shops or small medium enterprises that are doing machine components. And they're having struggles. They're not being reinvested. Their second, third generation may not be all that interested in. So we're picking up some of that business because we have a lot of component manufacturing skill sets, whether it's with DLC, laser, laser drilling, machining, ablation. But what they also like from us, not only can we do the components, but we can also do the assembly and the complete system. And so they tend to have 2 groups of suppliers, ones that do components and ones that do complete systems, and we actually have the capability to do both. And what that enables us to do is to do things a lot faster for them and adapt to their needs very quickly. And that's one of the things I think the aerospace side struggles with is the speed. I think I shared this with people before on this first program launch that we had, we were actually ahead of schedule on PPAP and ready to go into production. They didn't know what to do with us because they never had a supplier that was on time, let alone early with a launch. And so it's that type of reputation that we're building with them, and that's why we're continuing to pick up additional business and why we have confidence that we'll continue to win moving forward.

Unknown Analyst

Analysts
#74

Neil, during your part of the presentation, there was a nice graph of what I think was called out as like $41 billion in core market opportunities. Just wanted to understand that a bit better. Is that $41 billion in sales opportunity a year? Just want to understand kind of what that encompass.

Neil Fryer

Executives
#75

That was the total addressable market for all the products that you saw in our portfolio everywhere in the world. And as I mentioned in the presentation, we don't necessarily sell all of the products in every market in the world. So one of the opportunities we have is to do that geographic expansion and to penetrate those markets. If we did sell $41 billion, that would be 100% market share, which would be great, but probably not realistic. So it certainly is an opportunity that helps us towards that target of $2 billion aftermarket revenue from organic growth is simply making sure that we take all the opportunities we have with the products that we have in the portfolio today.

Unknown Analyst

Analysts
#76

I don't want to keep everyone here longer than they need to be. So we'll wrap with the Q&A there. If anyone has any questions that didn't get asked, feel free to give me -- shoot me an e-mail at [email protected] or you can contact through our -- contact us through our Investor Relations website. And again, thank you all for coming, battling the weather. It's great to see you here in person, and we look forward to seeing you out at some conferences in the future and being at your conferences in the future. So thank you very much.

Unknown Executive

Executives
#77

Great. Thank you very much.

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