Ralliant Corporation (RAL) Earnings Call Transcript & Summary
February 17, 2026
Earnings Call Speaker Segments
Piyush Avasthy
AnalystsThank you, everyone. We are really excited to be up here with Ralliant. We have President and CEO, Tami Newcombe and CFO, Neill Reynolds. I think, Tami, you have some opening remarks, and then we'll get into Q&A.
Tamara Newcombe
ExecutivesYes. Thanks for having us, Piyush. Thanks for everybody here in person and those that are joining us virtually. It's a pivotal time to be a part of Ralliant. We've just completed our first 2 quarters as an independent publicly traded company and starting our first full year. It was a year ago. It's been interesting being here today because a year ago, I was at this conference. And if I think back to a year ago, we were planning to spin at the end of the year. And to realize we did that 2 quarters early is really quite an accomplishment for the team. I also think about we are really pragmatic about ensuring that the presidents in our operating businesses stay focused on our customers. And we're removed from any of the noise about standing up the public company. And they focus on customers, they focus on new product innovation. They were focused on growth because that was one of our thesis that we could grow these businesses faster. And as we come into 2026, we look at our guide for Q1, and that guide is a 5% to 8% growth on businesses that had traditionally been growing 3% and both segments growing. So Test & Measurement back to growth. And what I say to the team is, and we're just getting started. We posted the presentation today and filed an 8-K. So you can find the presentation on our website. And also, there's some new information here, so we did post an 8-K. So there's a couple of messages that I want to share today. The first one is to just state as we're getting started here, we are building a company to endure for decades to come. We believe in the long-term value of this company. And with that, we have executed on a share buyback for $39 million. We have authorization for $200 million, but wanted to share that we had executed that. Second, as we thought about our guide for 2026, the midpoint of our growth we shared was at 4%. The adjusted EBITDA, the profit in the business is 18% to 20%. That is below the long-term guide that we shared during our Investor Day. At Investor Day, we talked about 3% growth, which we're seeing opportunity to overachieve that this year, but we also called low 20s to mid-20s in adjusted EBITDA and profits. So we're going to talk today, give a little bit more clarity on how we got there. And then a little bit -- I think what's most important is what are we doing about it, and we'll get into that. And then I just want to give a quick shout out to the team. In our first 2 quarters for the metrics that we guided, we were at or above each of those for Q3 and for Q4. So great job by the team. The next 3 slides are an overview on Ralliant for those that are new to the company. I'm going to combine two of them here and start on, I think this is Slide 6. I can't see the slide numbers. I think we're on Slide 6. So Ralliant is a global precision technologies company. We design, manufacture, sell and service products. It's good to be a products company these days. We sell products to customers that care about uptime, they care about accuracy, reliability and typically harsh and demanding environments. We refer to them as critical, mission-critical, outdoor environments. Our end users and what our employees are extremely proud about is we serve engineers and scientists and innovators around the world. Our growth strategy, which we have shared and really the progress that we're making on this starts with RBS Everywhere. This is core to who we are. This is our operating rigor. This is our toolkit for how we get after driving efficiencies in our business and how we drive innovation and growth across the business. I'll come back to this as we start getting into what we're going to do about it. In our stronghold positions, this is where we're embedded, an extensive installed base. We've been there for decades. We have customers that trust us, very loyal customers. We're still innovating there. We're still investing there. One of the examples is in how customers now can find parts replacement because if you've got -- had a part for 15 years in a manufacturing facility, maybe a dairy plant and something fails, well, you can now click a picture as a technician and be able to know exactly what part that is and what distributor has that in stock. That's how we think about innovating in our stronghold positions for our customers there to create more lifetime value and reduce friction. We spent a lot of time talking about our winning growth vectors. This is where we see secular trends that we expect to last for years where we believe we can outperform the market because we're very well positioned to win here. And this is in defense, utilities and power electronics, which is really electronics any place, whether it's at the low end of consumer or the high end of really power thirsty applications, power electronics is critical. We go to market in two segments, and we're diversified across a number of different end markets. But what our customers know and trust are the flagship brands you see across the bottom. That's what customers talk about. They'll ask for a Keithley. We need a Keithley. It's strong brand recognition. And it's not just about the product. It's really about the domain expertise that we've been bringing to our customers. We understand that application, that electronic device under test, how you do that test. We understand in some of our niche applications exactly the issues that they're going to have in that environment, and they come to us for that domain expertise. But we've been doing this for decades and truly creating that value with our loyal customers. Now I'm going to step into the guidance and long-term targets. These were shared in our earnings call about 1.5 weeks ago. I'm going to go a step deeper to provide some clarity. From a revenue growth standpoint, midpoint of our guidance here is 4% with a high end of 6%, and that's growth across both segments. I think T&M back to growth is a positive for us. The low point of that business was Q1 of 2025 in the test and measurement space. Every quarter last year, we saw the business improve. The revenue was bigger every quarter and turn to positive here in Q1. Our adjusted EBITDA margins, I called out that the 18% to 20% guide for 2026 is below our Investor Day long-term target. And therefore, our commitment here on higher incrementals, the incrementals of 40% to 45% as we move back into our target profit ranges. And I'm going to -- I'll talk about some of what we're doing about it. But at spin, we did talk about our cost savings program. We came right out of the spin and announced a $9 million to $11 million cost savings program to get after some of the cost takeout we needed to do from the dis-synergies. This is our first full year as a public company. We have an adjusted EPS of $2.22 to $2.42. And then another example or result of our discipline and rigor, our RBS playbook is the amazing free cash flow the team was able to generate last year at 117% and continue our commitment to be above 95%. I wanted to now just make sure we are clear on our adjusted EBITDA margins. So we have provided a breakdown here. And I'll start with this number one, and there's a sheet behind this that goes into even more detail. But I think the -- just to be blunt about number one, our OpEx cost and a steady state when we landed as a public company are higher than we had anticipated. We talked about this increase in our August earnings call. We talked about an OpEx number, if you remember, a $170 million number we talked about. And when we announced our earnings just 1.5 weeks ago, we missed on that number, and it's a $175 million number that was actuals on that. And so that's where you -- if you take our Q3 and Q4 OpEx and you normalize that for a full year, we didn't have a full year as a public company, but we wanted to do that normalization just so that we understood where we're starting from, and we would build from there. And we can answer any follow-up questions that you have on that. Some of these costs are corporate costs. Some of these costs are employee costs, which show up in the segments. And then some of the costs are dis-synergies, just less price leverage as a smaller company. I'm going to spend some time now on number two and number three to talk about what are we doing about it. So this is the detail that I just spoke through that you have in your backup. And then here is how we get after it. And we have a proven track record as an organization. If you recall, this was a segment. And between 2019 and 2024, we proved that we can grow our profit, which is our adjusted EBITDA faster than our revenue. And how we do it is really our Ralliant Business System and our RBS playbook. I talked about getting out of the gates quickly with the cost savings program. Our RBS productivity initiatives, those span labor productivity, sourcing savings, price realization tools, value engineering that we do, all of those productivity initiatives happen underneath how we run the business. We also do dynamic resource allocation. And we had a couple of actions taken within the operating companies in the fall time frame to shift some G&A to more R&D to drive growth. Through all of this, we're expected to deliver 40% to 45% incremental adjusted margins, and that is -- that's in 2016 or -- 2026, flash back 10 years ago. And that is above what we had set at our Investor Day, which is the right thing to do because our overall margins are below. So growing top line profits faster than revenue, that's step one. We add to that with growth. And our growth opportunity in front of us starts with the 30% of our business that is in defense and utilities, the top 2 there. At Investor Day, we called this market around 5% to 7%. As we came out of the Investor Day in Q3 and Q4, we've continued to get incrementally more positive news about these spaces. In the defense space, we've seen replenishment, which has driven almost a 2x backlog in our business there. In utilities, there is a super cycle of expansion going on in the electric grid worldwide, which is driving an up above the 5% to 7% that you see on this chart. And we've experienced some of that. We expect that to continue. That's 30% of our business that is outgrowing our expected market growth. Our industrials business, which has been soft for the last 2 to 3 years, we've seen there was supply challenges, there was tariffs, there was uncertainty. We're starting to see a pickup now in the U.S. We had a nice Q4 in our industrials business. And we believe that the near term, we're probably at the high end, it's maybe a little above that range, but very healthy in our industrials business. And then Test & Measurement, the headline is we're back to growth in 2026 in our first quarter, and we're expecting this business to grow throughout the year. We had several new product innovations that were announced last year. Total amount was 8, which is about twice what we've seen in our Test & Measurement business in prior years, and we're going to build on that. We announced a couple of platforms that will allow us to innovate even faster. But this is the combination of our RBS playbook and doing what we've always done at lower growth and then really turning our sights to a higher growth is the combination of how we first deliver those incrementals and then get back into our long-term range of low 20s to mid-20s in our adjusted EBITDA. We're executing against our capital allocation approach. We've outlined a couple of places that we want to invest organically. We want to ensure capacity in our defense and our utilities business. We want to continue to fuel some selling resources, especially with some AI augmentation to scale and drive productivity and then continue to invest in our best innovation ideas. You've seen us return capital. We have done the buyback. We've authorized the dividend, and we're toggling that with tuck-ins. We're continuing to keep a good funnel of tuck-ins, but right now, focused on returning that capital. I think this is probably a good place for me to wrap up. There's not -- there's no change in the formula. We're just more energized and excited about delivering it. We believe we have the growth opportunity there. We'll be pragmatic, and we've got the discipline and the rigor to deliver the margins we talked about. You've seen our ability to convert the free cash flow, and you've seen us return capital. This team is a winning team, and we want to win for our customers. We want to win for our employees, and we want to be winners for every shareholder. So thank you for letting me share a few prepared remarks. And now I'll turn it back to you, Piyush.
Piyush Avasthy
AnalystsAll right. Perfect. A lot here. So let's take a step back. To start off, like as you said, Ralliant has been operating as a public company for not too long. You have been with the brand for a significant amount of time, but relatively the CEO seat and Neill, you are relatively new to the company. We are obviously coming off a tough quarter with a significant stock price reaction. In hindsight, could you have done anything different? Like any lessons learned, if you want to share that?
Tamara Newcombe
ExecutivesYes. If I think about I think it goes back to sitting here a year ago, and I know I talked to a number of my peers who kept saying spins are hard, spins are complicated. There's a lot of moving parts in the spin. And boy, were they right? It's a lot to land. So we stood up an entire team. We built our culture. When we say about standing up a public spin like literally standing up Oracle for finances, for HR, standing up every single IT system, they are complicated. And I think we've landed in a good place 2 quarters sooner. If I reflect back to 1.5 weeks ago, I think the clarity that we're providing now is the clarity that was needed in some incremental changes that we made, and we needed to put it all together. Hopefully, the slides today, I guess we'll learn more as we exit today. But I think that clarity to bring everybody along is really important.
Piyush Avasthy
AnalystsHelpful. And as we sit here today, you kind of talked about this bridge. But would you say that you fully understand and are on top of the cost structure and that investors should not be concerned with any more cost surprises?
Tamara Newcombe
ExecutivesYes, the benefit we have is we have now had two full quarters to operate the business and actually to close the books here on 2025 with minimal, almost no TSAs in the business, which is extremely, extremely helpful. The team that I was bringing together in hiring, if you go back to Q1, Q2, I think Neill started about 3 weeks before our Investor Day. They've now got two quarters under their belt. The other part is just building the funnel of countermeasures. And as we came through Q3 and into Q4 and could really start to see what we needed to get after and got that visibility, we now have the levers underneath to go execute on what we have to do. And this team is built to go execute and operate these businesses. So I have high confidence that what we have called out and talked about from an adjusted EBITDA, from a top line, from our incrementals that we've got multiple paths to achieving those results.
Piyush Avasthy
AnalystsHelpful. And we'll stay with margins. You did mention this bridge. Do you have a time frame in mind in terms of like how do you get from that 18% or like how fast can you get from that 18% to 20% EBITDA guidance to your longer-term target? Is it like a step away? Or is it like -- will it be more gradual?
Neill Reynolds
ExecutivesSo I think there's a couple of components here as you start to look at the margin transition both into 2026 and beyond. And if you look at the range, it was 18% to 20%. So I think at the high end of the range is up to 200 basis points. So I think we're touching on that. There's a few things that are built in here, and I think Tami talked about it a bit in her remarks. One is we got to go execute our playbook. And I think if you took and extrapolated what we look at as '26, I think as you get out in time, we're probably trending to the lower end of that range in the low to mid-20s. But that doesn't include the opportunity to go execute on some also what we talked about. I think we have a longer runway here to go execute cost programs. We have a longer runway here to look at some of the growth opportunities we have, particularly in defense and utilities where we could outperform there. So I think there's lots of opportunity to get into the mid and high end of that range, but then we just have to get after it. So I think with the guidance that we have, I feel like we've got nice control over the narrative, a nice control over the business in terms of how we want to communicate going forward. And I think we have a nice runway in front of us. And I think one thing you have to remember is that the starting point might be a bit lower than we anticipated, and we own that and we understand that. But the playbook going forward is basically the same. It's what we've talked about previously, growing our profitability faster than our revenue, and we think we've got good line of sight to that in 2026 and beyond.
Piyush Avasthy
AnalystsGot it. Let's shift to growth. There has been a bit of macro volatility and some of your end markets are in a cyclical recovery. You have 3% organic growth, as you mentioned, as a long-term target and your guidance range for '26 is 2% to 6%, suggesting that a slightly higher growth rate. How much of this growth would you attribute to stabilization or improvement in your end markets versus your own initiatives to outgrow? There are recovering cyclical end markets, competitive dynamics and then Ralliant's own self-help. Like can you walk us through the puts and takes of your top line guidance framework?
Tamara Newcombe
ExecutivesYes. I think to start with just how we thought about the 3% was historically what these set of businesses had done. And we thought prudent to say we land as a public company, we had better be able to do that. So that was kind of the flag in the ground that we need to be able to drive 3% growth. As we look at the opportunity out there and the 2 quarters that we've been running this business, we see even more opportunity in the defense and utility space where we are extremely well positioned, embedded supplier with our end customers and markets that are growing. I think in both those spaces, we can make our own luck, and we can outperform the market in both of those spaces. I think in industrial, we play in a lot of niche markets. In those niche markets, I think we get our fair share of opportunities, but they're slower growth opportunities, not as big of a SAM there. And I think making our own luck there is going to look a little bit different. I think it's going to look like how do we help our customers go faster. I talked about the AI application to get a replacement part in 2 days, really simple and really easy. I think we're thinking about how do we transform that business in a different way if we're going to grow outside and above the market. And then in T&M, it's all about innovation. And we got to put more innovation in the hands of our electrical engineers, and that's what drives outperformance in that space.
Piyush Avasthy
AnalystsGot you. And we know like new product introduction has been a key focus, and I think you have highlighted expectations that NPI this year could be 2x historical average. First, are you on track with that goal? And second, help us understand how you balance investments in R&D and innovation versus driving margin. I think on the earnings call, and you mentioned like 50 to 100 bps impact from reinvestments. If you could dig a bit deeper into these investments and how they better position Ralliant in the market.
Tamara Newcombe
ExecutivesYes, I'll start a little bit there, and then we'll get to the investment part. New product innovation in our Test & Measurement business was 2x last year of what we've seen historically. So that was a milestone and with that to have two platforms. And when I talk about a platform, our MP5000 platform is modular. So what they'll be working on and announcing this year are more modules that go into that platform. So you can see how velocity can accelerate there. What's very exciting and something we don't talk about a lot in our defense business that Neill and I were just at PacSci EMC, and they had a record year last year in new product innovation with over 24 new products, customer-funded products in that business. But those are programs that will start rolling into production. It will take 2 to 3 years for those to ramp, but that's also exciting. So your question was a little bit more how do you make the trade-offs? How do you decide what you're going to do here? And we don't think about it as just a percentage of sales. We think about it as what are the best ideas. And we have a process, a dream process that we go through that really takes the ideas in and then does business cases on how big are these going to be? How valuable will they be? What are the margins going to be on those? And that's how we really decide what programs get funded. And then maybe you talk a little bit about how we make the trade-offs with investing for some accelerated growth.
Neill Reynolds
ExecutivesYes. So I think when we said it earlier, I think if you look back at this business over the last number of years, even pre-spin, I think with the hallmarks of execution is around growing the profitability faster than revenue. We're absolutely committed to that. Clearly, we've included that in the guide for next year. And so how do we do that? And I think the key here is as we reinvest into the business, we've got to drive some offsets and some savings. We've got to earn it in terms of how we think about investing into these businesses. Tami talked about, we took -- in one business, we looked at taking G&A costs down and invest in more R&D, and that's embedded in there. In other places, we've looked and seen where we've had higher growth and much higher margins where you can go back and reinvest in the business and still get great incrementals. So that's all embedded, I think, into the incremental margins that we talked about going into '26 and beyond. So as you look at the investment levels, there's a trade-off that we have to make within the business. But I would say we're absolutely committed to having discipline around that and including that in the margin expansion opportunity and driving that as we go forward.
Tamara Newcombe
ExecutivesSo the words that Neill used are something we use internally is we have to earn that. We've made commitments on what our profitability would be. We want to make investments. We have to earn them.
Piyush Avasthy
AnalystsI'll pause for a second if there are any audience questions.
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Tamara Newcombe
ExecutivesYes. The -- so what's in the middle of that is this tariff piece that we had in 2025, and we have been able to cover our tariff costs, price being one of the actions. There are multiple actions that be able to cover that and gotten pretty regular 1% to 2% price realization across the business. So I don't think there's a big fluctuation that you're going to see. I think you'll see more of the -- the margins are higher on the places where we add the most value, and that's at the high end of the portfolio, and that was some of the announcements that we made late last year.
Unknown Analyst
AnalystsWhen you think about PacSci and new product innovation, what are the specific submarkets that those are really tied to? I mean, is it space launch? We see a lot of talk about missile interceptors, munitions. Like what are the applications driving that?
Tamara Newcombe
ExecutivesWell, you know the space pretty well because I think you covered a couple of them. We think from -- the business, 80% of the business or so today is missiles and munitions. And when you see the new product innovation, it's everything from deep sea to deep space with a higher mix of space programs today.
Unknown Analyst
AnalystsJust a high-level question on Test & Measurement. Could you describe the cycle there and the drivers of the cycle? It seems to differ from what I call a general industrial cycle. Is it more tied to R&D of your customers to CapEx? Just anything you could help me there to understand the cycle in T&M versus general industrial?
Tamara Newcombe
ExecutivesYes. T&M has traditionally followed technology cycles. So right now, we're in an up cycle around anything around the data center, whether it's communications or cooling systems or upgrade of power racks in the data center. So it tends to be technology inflection points. It was at one point, the mobile phone. It was a computer. We can go through time, and we can talk about those large technology inflection points. And somewhere between 4 to 5 years from a peak to peak, those tend to be. I don't know if one exactly matches another, but if you talk in general sense, that's what we've seen. We also see that the semiconductor business, when semiconductors are doing well, test and measurement is typically doing well. And that's because all those components coming out of semiconductor companies find their way into electronics everywhere, electronics that go in your robots, that go in your glucose monitoring machines, that go into agriculture. So those electronics or there's some engineer there that's taking and designing some electronics for that new product. So usually, those -- a new wave of semiconductor technologies will also drive our diversified electronics business.
Piyush Avasthy
AnalystsI'll ask the same question in a slightly different way. Like diversified electronics had a challenging year, but it seems you are seriously working some stabilization there. Communications seems strong. And then semis is lumpy, but you sounded positive in the long term. You ended '25 down mid-teens, and it seems most of your end markets are bottoming or at least like improving sequentially, but you kept the Test & Measurement '26 guidance below the enterprise outlook. I know there is EV demand drag, but is it a relatively -- it is a relatively small part of the portfolio. So what do you think is holding back the growth at Ralliant in the segment?
Tamara Newcombe
ExecutivesYes. I think that's a question on many people's minds. So I'll tell you how we guided and how we thought about Test & Measurement. We've seen three sequential quarters of improvement. As we come into Q1, we talked about the 5% to 8% growth. Test & Measurement is right in there with that growth rate. Test & Measurement for us, about 70% of the business is short-cycle business, book and turn business in a 30- to 60-day window, definitely within the quarter. So we have got good line of sight to Q1 and Q2, and we look at our direct sales funnels. We look at the sell-through at our partners, our distributors. We look at quote activity. We've got probably a dozen metrics that we look at that we feel confident in the first half, which is nice to have a business that's front-end loaded. We also said we need to be prudent. It's our first year out as a public company, and we need to be really prudent that the guide that we put out, it's a pretty wide range, 2% to 6%. We want to make sure that we land in that range. So we'll provide more information as we go, but that's the guide that we have for the year and how we thought about Test & Measurement.
Piyush Avasthy
AnalystsHelpful. And we think investors understand that Ralliant is more aligned with R&D workflow, but it seems that you have been trying to also focus on validation. You had a few new products announcements in 4Q, and I understand that it's still early. But would you say that validation could be a more meaningful contributor to earnings growth?
Tamara Newcombe
ExecutivesYes. We do believe that, that is an opportunity. It's an adjacency to the R&D workflow. a place where people have used our bench instruments in validation, but we've never had a purpose-built platform for test automation. The ramp will be a little bit slower. We don't have the large installed base that we have in high-end oscilloscopes. And much of the work gets done through system integrators, which is a new ecosystem for us. But the potential down the road here is, yes, that we have opened up a new serviceable market that presents a new opportunity in the test and measurement space.
Piyush Avasthy
AnalystsHelpful. And one on Test & Measurement margin. I think you expect T&M margin in '26 to be at the low end of your mid-teens to low 20s longer-term EBITDA guidance range. Maybe talk about the confidence level here. How much of this is dependent on growth and end market recovery versus your own self-help actions? I know this business can have strong incremental margin, but you also have your pricing and cost actions. So help us understand the visibility to what seems to be a sizable margin expansion this year.
Neill Reynolds
ExecutivesYes. So if you look at the outlook for Test & Measurement for the year, and Tami hit on this a little bit already is I'd say the growth rate we have in Q1 is higher than the year. And the reason for that is exactly what we talked about. I think the timing of the book and ship orders, the short-cycle nature of the business is something that you want to get better visibility to earlier. And we have, I think, lower growth rates in the back half of the year. Now underlying that are positive signals around the funnels and the 60- to 90-, 120-day funnel that we have in terms of the activity that's going on in the business that's heading in the right direction. As we said, we're returning to growth. So as I think as we look at 2026, I think we've got some nice momentum coming off the bottom of the cycle. We see better growth here earlier in the year. And as we get better visibility into the mid and later part of the year, we'll give an update on that. So I think all the signals are positive at this point, but we want to see some proof points around how that plays out for the year. And as we see those things, we'll update our outlook.
Piyush Avasthy
AnalystsHelpful. And moving to Sensors & Safety margin. I think your long-term EBITDA margin guidance is high 20s. The last two quarters you reported -- that you reported, you were averaging high 20s. But for '26, you're pulling it back a little to mid-20s to high 20s. If you could comment on that, like I think you -- there are some mix headwinds you mentioned on the call and then you are reinvesting in the portfolio. How soon can you go back to that long-term guidance range? And more importantly, would you say that these reinvestment -- with these reinvestments, Ralliant is being more aggressive to go to the market?
Neill Reynolds
ExecutivesYes. So I'd say on the margins for Sensors & Safety Systems, well, first of all, it's got very strong margins, mid- to high 20s. We saw growth last year in 2025. We're forecasting pretty nice growth mid-single digits here in 2026. So I think from a growth rate perspective and a margin perspective, we're in really solid shape. So I guess the question then is like why are we at the kind of mid- to low versus -- sorry, mid- to high 20s in margins versus the high 20s in margins. As we look to the year, I think some of the corporate costs or some of the allocated costs that go to the segments that Tami talked about earlier is affecting that a little bit. I also think the higher growth in defense, where we have margins that are lower than the total in Sensors & Safety drive a little bit of a mix headwind in that. But as you look out to the year, I think the key here is driving the initiatives we talked about earlier. I don't think that this is so much as -- and more growth investment is causing us to -- is holding us back. I think about driving more growth to drive more margin enhancement. We talked about it earlier, the playbook we have is to drive our profitability faster than our revenue. And we think in Sensors & Safety, we can do that as well and get back up to those margins over time. But right now, that's what we've guided to, given the visibility, given how we look at the cost structure of the business coming out of the call. But as we go execute for the remainder of the year, we'll continue to look for ways to -- continue to drive that profitability faster than revenue.
Piyush Avasthy
AnalystsAll right. And Neill, on capital deployment, you guys like Tami touched on it a little. You highlighted the $200 million in share buyback. It seems like the stock has pulled back. So could you be a little bit more aggressive there? It seems you are, right? It seems like it's already down to $160 million. And then on M&A, I think the focus is tuck-ins, but given the competitive dynamics versus your own offerings and the demand potential that you see across some of your higher growth verticals, could you lean in more on M&A going forward as you are a good generator of cash?
Neill Reynolds
ExecutivesLook, I think that the profile and the order in which we allocate capital hasn't changed. I think first and foremost, it's around organic reinvestment in the business. We talked about a number of those areas where we continue to look to grow profitability, but also reinvest in the business organically. From a capacity perspective, we've taken up our CapEx from about 2% to 2% to 3%, and that's really about funding capacity investment in some of these higher-growth areas where we're going to need capacity out beyond 2026. The second piece of that is going to be returning cash to shareholders, one in the form of dividend, but also in the buyback that we've talked about today. And we'll continue to look to be -- to execute on that. And then the last piece is then the tuck-in M&A. And I think we're going to start out with looking to augment these areas where we've got great organic growth opportunity and start out there and start to build our case and our credibility around executing on M&A. And as Tami mentioned, toggling between, I think, the share buyback or the return to shareholders and with M&A. But look, I think the business has terrific cash flow capability moving forward from a free cash flow perspective. And I think as we think about being disciplined within our turns rate from a debt perspective, that will unleash some potential for us as we start to continue to generate cash flow and allocate capital within that framework.
Piyush Avasthy
AnalystsGot it. This is a question we ask every company, and you can tag team on this, like what are the top 2 or 3 innovations and structural changes affecting your company over the next 5 years? And are there any emerging industry trends that are perhaps being overlooked in the current discourse?
Tamara Newcombe
ExecutivesYes. I know we're coming up on time. So just take one, AI. We're taking advantage of it across the company internally for efficiencies and externally to create more value for our customers.
Piyush Avasthy
AnalystsPerfect. We appreciate you guys joining us.
Neill Reynolds
ExecutivesThank you.
Tamara Newcombe
ExecutivesThank you so much.
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