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Good morning. Thank you for standing by, and welcome to the Honeywell second quarter 2026 earnings conference call. At this time, all participants are in a listen-only mode. After the speaker's presentation, there will be a question and answer session. Please be advised that today's call is being recorded. I would now like to hand the call over to Mark Macaluso, Senior Vice President of Investor Relations. Please go ahead.

Thank you. Good morning, and welcome to Honeywell Technologies second quarter 2026 earnings conference call. Joining me today are Honeywell Technologies Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, Vimal Kapur, and Senior Vice President and Chief Financial Officer, Mike Stepniak. This webcast and the presentation materials, including non-GAAP reconciliations, are available on our investor relations website. From time to time, we post new information on the investor relations website that may be of interest or material to our investors. Our discussion today include forward-looking statements that are based on our best view of the world and of our businesses as we see them today and are subject to certain risks and uncertainties, including those described in our recent SEC filings. This morning, we will review financial results for Honeywell Technologies for the second quarter of 2026 and discuss our updated guidance.

As always, we'll leave time for your questions at the end. I would also like to take a moment to remind our audience that the 2026 results and guidance we will present today exclude results from Honeywell Aerospace following the spin-off on June 29th. Additionally, our guidance reflects both the completion of the Johnson Matthey Catalyst Technologies acquisition as of July 17th, as well as the anticipated closures of the productivity and warehouse divestitures, which we now expect by early August. Pension income and the results of Quantinuum have also been removed from our adjusted results in all prior and future periods. Finally, adjusted EPS for Honeywell Technologies now reflects the impact of the 1-for-2 reverse stock split. You'll find a summary of these changes on slide three. With that, it's my pleasure to turn the call over to Vimal, who will begin on slide four.

Thank you, Mark. Good morning. The second quarter marked an important milestone for Honeywell Technologies as we began our next chapter as a pure-play automation company. At Investor Day, we laid out our go-forward strategy of growing and monetizing installed base through outcome-based services, software, and new product innovation. We also introduced long-term targets for Honeywell Technologies, which will be our roadmap for the next three-plus years. As you can see, we are laying the foundation today to deliver on our commitments. Our results this quarter have demonstrated the strength of the new Honeywell Technologies portfolio. We delivered 4% organic sales growth driven by continued strength in Building Automation and a better than anticipated performance in both Process Automation and Technology and Industrial Automation businesses. Orders grew 16% organically with broad-based demand across all segments, resulting in 9% increase in ending backlog.

Notably, short-cycle orders grew double-digit across all segments. In PAT, orders were up 24% organically, led by roughly 50% orders growth in process technology, providing even greater confidence in their expected second half growth inflection. We also expanded segment margin by 100 basis points, overcoming significant cost inflation headwinds and unfavorable mix through a combination of productivity and volume leverage. This drove earnings in the second quarter above our expectation from early June, with increased confidence heading into the second half of the year. As a result, today, we are raising our full-year outlook for organic growth, segment margin, and adjusted earnings per share. We continue to expect a sharp growth inflection in Process Automation and Technology and continuing momentum in Industrial Automation in the second half of 2026.

Combined with the sustained outperformance in Building Automation, we now expect to grow 4%-6% organically in second half of the year, in line with our long-term targets. We're also raising our adjusted EPS outlook by $0.10 at the midpoint, which reflects a second quarter outperformance and improved second half outlook that is more than offsetting the loss of income from the earlier than anticipated close of the two divestitures. We also took important action this quarter to strengthen the portfolio to support long-term growth. On the portfolio, we closed the acquisition of Johnson Matthey Catalyst Technologies business on July 17. With this business, we add a differentiated technology portfolio that'll expand our installed base and strengthen PAT's portfolio across refining, petrochemicals, and renewable fuels.

Ken and his leadership team are already fully engaged with our new colleagues, meeting with over 90% of employees globally at key sites in just the first week. They have been involved in all aspects of the transaction and are prepared to hit the ground running to deliver for our customers and our shareowners. I could not be more excited to welcome the JM Catalyst Technologies team to Honeywell Technologies. As part of the final stage of our portfolio transformation, we completed the separation of Honeywell Aerospace and also supported the Quantinuum team in their successful initial public offering in June. On Quantinuum, we expect to provide more color on our plans of our 47% ownership stake by early next year. We remain strong supporters of Raj and his team and are excited to be shareholders in such groundbreaking quantum computing company.

Thanks to the great work of our team, we also now expect to close the divestitures of both Productivity Solutions and Services and Warehouse and Workflow Solutions business by early August. This is approximately two months ahead of our initial planning assumption, which has reduced our 2026 revenue expectation by approximately $400 million. We're also confident this will drive greater focus and further simplification of Industrial Automation portfolio, which is already beginning to see improved financial performance. We wish both these businesses and their team continued success as they embark upon next chapter. Our transformed and simplified portfolio is well-positioned to outperform with momentum in both long-term and short-cycle orders, ramping activity in pipeline, and meaningful macro tailwinds for the next several years.

Let's turn to slide five to recap our recent Investor Day, where I had the pleasure of spending time with many of you in New York City last month. On June 11th, we hosted investors, sell-side analysts, media, and others at our Investor Day for the new Honeywell Technologies. We kicked off the day laying out our revamp and focus strategy that will drive value-enhancing solution for customers and drive out performance in our focus markets. Each business leader walked through their differentiated offering, connected strategy, growth framework, and three-year targets. Guests also heard directly from our leading customers and partners, including Exxon, Tengatech, Google, Equinix, Duke Energy, and others about the differentiated outcome we are delivering and the long-standing relationship we have built over many decades. My team and I are highly confident in our ability to deliver on our three-year commitments.

We have a strong position in key end markets, differentiated technologies, a global footprint, and a clear competitive advantage in high-growth verticals. Our team is comprised of Honeywell veterans, talented new additions, and even some folks that rejoined us after successful careers elsewhere. All of this, coupled with a proven Honeywell Technologies Accelerator operating system, positions us for a new chapter of growth and profitability as Honeywell Technologies. The event concluded with us delivering our new three-year target, which you can see on slide six. Over the last three years, we transformed our portfolio through acquisitions, spin-offs, and divestitures into a pure-play automation company focused on innovating in mission-critical environments where uptime, safety, productivity, and efficiency are paramount. This has set us up to deliver on these commitments.

Our strategy focuses on two key pillars, growing our install base, and then monetizing this vast install base through innovative software, services, and outcome-based solutions. While maintaining our leading position in core verticals, we are also increasing our exposure to higher growth verticals like data centers, LNG, grid infrastructure, and life sciences as examples, which are all linked to compelling mega trends. Our projected top-line growth and margin expansion is also underpinned by more meaningful shift towards services and software, annual recurring revenue. On margin, we have over 200 basis points of margin expansion coming quickly from stranded cost removal, portfolio actions in Industrial Automation, and benefit of aerospace trademark agreement. On top of that, we expect to drive 60 basis points a year of operational margin expansion through price, improving mix, new product introduction, and productivity.

As you heard from our CFO in June, we are confident that the 24% target is achievable and provides meaningful upside as we execute our strategy. Collectively, this will drive approximately $12 of adjusted EPS, representing more than 10% growth annually. The important point here is that we will generate these returns right out of the gate given all the actions we took to prepare the organization ahead of aerospace spin. And finally, on cash, we expect to improve our conversion to over 90% and have line of sight already in the second half of this year to hitting 95%. I want to talk more about acquisition of Johnson Matthey Catalyst Technologies business, which will become part of our Process Automation and Technology segment. This addition to Process Technology will unlock strategic growth by increasing our existing install base and creating a more integrated offering across Catalyst and Process Technology.

It also expand Honeywell UOP's capability across refining petrochemicals and renewable fuels with complementary offerings and capability, which you can see on slide seven. What makes this acquisition specifically attractive is its strategic fit with our existing business. We are already on many of the same customer with complementary process units, and the business perfectly aligns to our core verticals. The acquisition also enhances our end-to-end solutions by combining Catalyst Process Technology and digital capabilities powered by Honeywell Technologies Forge. We have clear visibility to both commercial and cost synergies and our long-term outlook for this business as part of Honeywell Technologies has not changed. Let's now turn to slide eight to discuss our order strength in each business. As you can see, our orders growth has been accelerating across the company, driven by strong demand generation, NPI, and continued share gains.

This resulted in 16% organic orders growth in second quarter, with broad-based growth across all short-cycle businesses, driving considerable momentum on the LTM basis as a result. PA&T had incredibly strong quarters of orders growing nearly 25%, leading to a book-to-bill for PA&T above 1.2. Our refreshed portfolio with the addition of Johnson Matthey Catalyst Technologies business is set up well to benefit from an energy upcycle, particularly as customer CapEx forecasts support the ongoing transition to LNG and renewable fuel as priority. Strength across both long and short-cycle orders growth, including increased pipeline activity from refurbishment, rebuilds, and mid-lease, will provide meaningful macro tailwinds for the next several years. In Industrial Automation, we saw strong demand across Europe, Middle East, and China. For the core business that remains after the divestitures, order grew 11% or 7% sequentially, with sensing and industrial measurement orders up over 20%.

Pete and his team continue to execute the turnaround strategy in IA to win back share and grow the core business. Finally, in Building Automation, the team continues to drive innovative NPI that is driving share gain, while growing our position in a high-growth vertical. This quarter, we drove over 50% orders growth and 30% organic sales growth in high-growth verticals while maintaining our strong position in the core with approximately 30% orders growth in our fire business. Orders in Middle East grew over 50% this quarter by our Process Technology business. Regarding the conflict, we are assuming the situation remain as it is today with no improvement from the current tension, but also no significant escalation in the war or further disruption to the supply chain.

This is, of course, a very fluid situation, but our teams in the region have done a tremendous job minimizing impact to our business while ensuring our employees are safe and we're able to continue to support our customers. Finally, book-to-bill for the total company was 1.1, and our ending backlog was up 9%. This and continued momentum we see in all segment supports 4%-6% growth outlook in the second half and over medium term. It's been our pleasure speaking with you this morning, and let me now turn it over to Mike to discuss our second quarter results and 2026 outlook in more detail.

Thank you, Vimal, and good morning. In the second quarter, Honeywell Technologies delivered strong results that surpassed our expectations. Sales grew 4% organically, led by continued momentum in Building Automation and stronger than anticipated growth in Industrial Automation. Process Automation Technology sales decreased 1% organically, but we're still materially ahead of our original outlook for the quarter. On a segment basis, Building Automation delivered 9% organic growth, driven by double-digit growth in products and continued strength in solutions. The teams drove double-digit growth in the fire and services businesses, respectively, and we saw strength in all regions led by Asia Pacific, Middle East, and Americas. All in, another strong quarter from Billal and the Building Automation team. Industrial Automation sales were up 4% in the second quarter, exceeding our expectations led by strength in solutions. Products grew slightly with continued momentum in sensing and industrial measurement, partially offset by utilities.

The core Industrial Automation business, excluding planned divestiture, grew 2% organically in the second quarter. Process Automation Technology sales declined just 1% organically in the second quarter. Ahead of our prior expectations, as the upcycle in energy end markets and activity in global projects begin to materialize. Projects grew 5%, driven by strength in gas, LNG, and petrochemicals. This strength was offset by a 6% decline in aftermarket, due primarily to a tough prior year comparison from a large catalyst shipment in the second quarter of 2025. Consistent with our messaging at the Investor Day, we expect a sharp inflection in growth in Process Automation Technology beginning in the third quarter, led by process technology and driven by backlog conversion and much stronger catalyst shipments.

On profitability, segment profit increased 9%, while segment margin expanded 100 basis points to 19%, with strong margin expansion in Building Automation and Industrial Automation. In addition to ongoing volume leverage and productivity actions, stranded cost removal continues to track ahead of plan. Building Automation segment margin expanded 90 basis points to 27.1% on volume leverage and price, which was partially offset by inflation. Segment margin in Industrial Automation also expanded 90 basis points to 17.2% as pricing and productivity action more than offset inflation and unfavorable mix. In Process Automation Technology segment, margin contracted 180 basis points to 22.1%, largely driven by unfavorable mix from lower catalyst volumes as expected. This, however, was also ahead of our original margin outlook for the quarter. Adjusted earnings per share of $1.95 was up 10%, driven primarily by higher segment profit.

We drove lower net interest expense stemming from debt paydown, which was partially offset by higher reposition costs. As we previewed in the first quarter, a higher adjusted effective tax rate drove a $0.16 headwind, which we overcame with stronger operational performance. You will find additional information on the segment performance in the appendix of our presentation. Rounding out the results, free cash flow grew considerably this quarter, both year-over-year and sequentially to roughly $500 million. This was principally driven by higher income as well as improvements in working capital, which more than offset ongoing collection headwinds in the Middle East. This quarter, we deployed $1 billion of capital through roughly $800 million of dividends and roughly $200 million in high-value capital expenditures.

Year to date, we have deployed over $2.8 billion in capital to repurchase our own shares, pay dividends, and invest in future growth. Let's now move to slide 10 to quickly discuss the second quarter adjusted EPS bridge. As you can see, we delivered high-quality results in the second quarter. Strong segment profit growth, including elimination of stranded costs, lower below-the-line expenses due to interest expense, and lower share count allowed us to overcome the higher tax rate. Excluding the tax headwind, earnings would have been up 20%. Let's turn to slide 11 to discuss our updated 2026 guidance. Today, we're increasing our organic sales growth outlook to 3%-4% for the year, up from previous guidance of 2%-3%, and now expect the second half to grow 4%-6% versus 3%-5% previously.

Building Automation continues to execute well, leading to a mid-single-digit plus organic growth outlook, supported by incredibly strong orders growth in the second quarter, particularly in our focus verticals, including healthcare, hospitality, and data centers. We expect Process Automation and Technology growth to accelerate to high single digits in the second half as global energy projects resume, backlog conversion ramps, and catalyst shipment volumes increase significantly. Finally, Industrial Automation growth will continue in the second half, driven by resilient short-cycle demand for industrial measurement and sensing, continued growth in Europe and China, and strengthening Americas demand. As a result of the momentum in Process Automation and Technology and Industrial Automation, we're increasing our full-year organic growth expectations for both businesses from roughly flat to up low single digits for the full year and meaningful improvement from our original expectations coming into the year.

We now expect full-year segment margin expansion of 250-290 basis points, up 25 basis points at the midpoint from the previous guidance. This reflects the outperformance in the second quarter in Process Automation and Technology and Industrial Automation, significant progress on stranded cost elimination, and accretion related to the accelerated timing of PSS and WWS divestitures. Importantly, we expect Honeywell Technologies will exit the year above 22% segment margin. We now expect full-year adjusted earnings per share of $8.20 at the midpoint, or up approximately 27% versus prior year, and up from our previous midpoint of $8.10. Finally, we continue to expect free cash flow of roughly $2 billion in 2026, with the majority of this coming in during the second half and approximately 95% conversion rate. You can find additional information on 2026 outlook in appendix of our presentation, which includes estimates for corporate and other below-the-line items.

On page 12, you will find the bridge from our June 8th guidance call to today's update. As you can see, we expect full-year adjusted earnings per share will be $8.20 at the midpoint, up from our previous midpoint of $8.10. Let me now turn the call back to Vimal to wrap up before Q&A.

Thanks, Mike. We are pleased with Honeywell Technologies' second quarter results, which enabled us to increase our 2026 outlooks across all key metrics. We successfully navigated an uncertain geopolitical backdrop with the strength of our resilient business model and the rigor of our Honeywell Technologies' Accelerator operating system. With our portfolio transformation complete, our simplified pure-play automation portfolio is well-positioned to benefit from long-term macro tailwinds, including the proliferation of AI, increasing global energy demand, and an aging population, and increased consumption. This, combined with our focus on increasing exposure on high-growth verticals, driving annual recurring revenue growth from outcome-based services and software, and maintaining our innovation engine, will enable us to achieve double-digit annual adjusted EPS growth at greater than 90% free cash flow conversion.

We hit our three-year targets for this new business. I look forward to updating you on our progress to achieving them in coming quarters. Today is only the beginning of that journey. I'm pleased with how we have started, but we have considerably more work and opportunity ahead of us. With that, Mark, let's take the questions.

Vimal, Mike, and I are now available to answer your questions. We kindly ask that you please be mindful of others in the queue by asking only one question and one related follow-up. Operator, please open the line for Q&A.

Thank you. As a reminder, if you'd like to join the question queue, please press star one on your telephone keypad. Our first question comes from the line of Deane Dray with RBC Capital Markets. Please proceed with your question.

Thank you. Good morning, everyone, just like to say congrats to Vimal and the whole leadership team on the successful spins. You got them all done on time. It was well communicated, I do like seeing that boost to guidance here right out of the block. Congrats.

Hey, since it is so topical, I'd like to circle back on the Middle East impacts. You still had double-digit orders, you still have got momentum there. I'm interested about the idea that you've got some collection issues. Is there any risk of force majeure here, any kind of disruptions like that?

I would say, Deane, the Middle East is, the way we have guided the second half, it is the normal which exists today, as we said in our prepared remarks. How things have shaped up over the last four or five months.

We have understood the dynamics on the ground. We did lose some revenue in Q1 and Q2 as we had guided. Now we are assuming our future state is built upon how the conditions prevail today, unless things change dramatically. To your question, we observed some collection issues in pockets. They are modest, they are not material. We have taken a prudent decision to address the customer set where we have limited risk. We don't have any risk to a point of any major disputes and things of that nature. We think business is in good shape. As an example, 50% orders growth in Q2, primarily driven by a few big deals in our process technology business. In a refurbishment which are occurring there, that certainly is providing us some tailwinds. Overall, we believe that we are well-positioned.

As this region invests more, as the things settle mostly in transportation and logistics-related investments, and some resiliency will benefit from that.

Deane, I might just add that majority of our collection issues happened in March and April in Middle East. That started to normalize. We still expect the revenue in Middle East to be about high single digits this year, and orders should be about 40%. We look really forward to seeing Middle East perform in the second half and next year.

Good to hear. Just as a follow-up, and congrats on getting the Johnson Matthey deal closed. Can you talk about the implications? You did renegotiate a lower price. What were the circumstances there, and the conditions that you got the lower price, and what are the near-term plans for integration?

Yeah. We are excited about having this business, the business is really built upon our fundamental belief that the world needs more energy and energy mix will change. Those are the fundamental principles. That was the reason behind doing two acquisition in LNG, the reason behind doing the JMX acquisition, primarily, we believe that the world will need more investment in petrochemicals and renewable fuels, the JM acquisition strengthens our portfolio around that. We also get more install base, our ability to serve it. The negotiations are just part of the normal course in my view, as any deal transaction occurs. There are a few milestones, depending on how the business was trended, we worked with our counterparty to look at how we should value the business.

I don't want to dwell a lot upon that, we remain excited about how we got the deal done at about 13x EBITDA with cost synergies, no sales synergies. You will agree with me that we have acquired this business for commercial synergies at the heart of it. We are not going to count on that in our early innings, we'll build upon it.

I would just add that just I think we got the business at the bottom, I would say that the second half looks good. Even in our own catalyst business, the second half is sequentially versus first half up 25%-30%. We look forward to getting our hands on this business.

Deane, congratulations on retirement and you should have good next innings and we will stay connected.

Appreciate it. Wish you all the best. Thank you.

Thank you. Our next question comes from the line of Nigel Coe with Wolfe Research. Please proceed with your question.

Thanks. Good morning, everyone. Thanks for the question. Mike, it's obviously good news to see the guidance increasing. You did indicate in June that there was scope for upside, but I'm curious if there's anything you saw in June, July to give you more confidence, just any color in terms of how we exited 2Q into 3Q on the end markets. Then within that discussion, maybe just touch on IA. It sounds like the upside came outside the U.S. I'd be curious if you're seeing any momentum in the U.S.

Sure. Look, I would say as just launching the new company here today, what we saw in the second quarter, we feel extremely, I would say, confident in the second half. As you saw, orders across the board were strong. Every business printed double-digit short-cycle orders in the second quarter, which gives us a lot of confidence in the third quarter and the fourth quarter. For IA, I would say the growth and the strength is broad-based, including in China and Europe. U.S. is recovering nicely as well, and the business benefiting from onshoring. I would say across the board, we see a really good outlook for the second half. We raised the guidance, as you saw, I also think there is more room as we're going to go into the third quarter and fourth quarter to beat even the raised guidance.

Only thing I'll add, Nigel, is that I think Pete and his team are executing quicker than we anticipated how the business recovery will occur. As we reported, the orders growth for Industrial Automation business is about 10%, which just signals our performance in the second half. We have the right momentum, and that was the reason behind raising the guide of the business to low single digit in the second half.

I'm confident that Pete will deliver a 22% margin rate in the fourth quarter. The team's worked on it for a long time, and we have a really good line of sight here.

Mike, that's a great segue to my follow-up, which is the two points of sequential acceleration or sorry, two points of expansion in segment margin from 3Q to 4Q. There's a lot going on here with portfolio, the sale of the warehouse PSS businesses, and then sort of costs tapering off in the back half of the year. I'm just wondering if you may just unpack that two points of expansion from 3Q to 4Q for us.

Yeah, sure. Nigel, it's Mark, how are you? Just a couple of things. I think it's pretty broad-based. I mean, BA continues to drive strong volume leverage and productivity. They'll reach their forecast, they'll be up. As Mike mentioned, IA continues to take a considerable step up, including in four Q. PA&T will continue to get better, particularly as the growth resumes, and then also we start to see a little bit more mix towards catalyst. I would say, broadly speaking, it's really in all segments, but just quarter to quarter, probably the largest increase in IA.

I would just add that, we talked about it, I think at the initial of the year and then the investor day, about half of the margin expansion is operational and half of it is, I would say, structural given the portfolio actions. As we stand today, I see the team is driving operationally 100, 120 basis points of margin expansion.

Thank you. Our next question comes from the line of Scott Davis with Melius Research. Please proceed with your question. Mr. Davis, your line is live.

Oh, I was on mute. My apologies. Anyways, I'll start over again. Good morning.

Over the goal line, I will also echo congrats to Deane. We'll miss having Deane around. He's been a great colleague for a lot of years, so we'll miss him, too. Guys, a couple just smaller things here. One, when you look at your M&A pipeline, is it kind of evenly split between your segments? Are there particular segments where you think you're more likely to over-index? Just a little bit color there, please.

Scott, I would say think of M&A in three distinct categories, how we are looking at it. The highest priority is strengthening our Industrial Automation sensing and measurement portfolio. Ian Pete are looking at variety of options. That remains our first priority or our priority number 1. Second bucket is, as we are thinking about accelerating our business in some of the higher growth verticals, whose impact we are can clearly see in our orders growth rate. We are getting more and more convicted that's the right strategy for Honeywell. How can we add some portfolio additions in some of these end markets to further accelerate our growth? We have identified those eight high growth markets. Looking at M&A opportunity. In the end, we like acquire a product line only, like we acquired two businesses in LNG, for example.

What can we do more on same lines in verticals like hospitality and semiconductor, microgrid, et cetera, so they're broad-based. Finally, tuck-in acquisition on the tech side, we always have looked at the frontier technologies, few in fire detection, few on cybersecurity. We'll keep looking at, keep an eye on those. Those are much smaller, of course. They do propel our organic growth.

Okay. That's helpful. Guys, could you just help us kind of size or at least help us understand the opportunity within the data center? I mean, it's pretty easy to picture the fire and security stuff, can you walk us through kind of the longer list of SKUs and opportunity that you have there?

Yeah. I would say we are looking at data center in two dimensions. One is the growth beyond U.S. That we can clearly observe the build out of data center has now grown beyond U.S., across Europe, across Asia, and we have a better position as a company globally given Honeywell's brand and participation globally. That certainly is a tailwind for us. Certainly that's benefiting us. We are also observing now more data centers putting on-site power generation, which allows our Process Automation business to participate in data centers to automate the utilities and energy storage on location, the gas coming in there for pipeline for those power plants. We can clearly see that as a new business opportunity.

None of that is into our orders even yet, we have multiple proposals by Process Automation team, apart from the Building Automation, which you mentioned very correctly, has benefited a lot from fire detection, security, and building management system, which goes into data center. Finally, I would also say the third leg for the stool for Honeywell emerging longer term is liquid cooling. Sensing required in liquid cooling is a good play for us. Our sensors are required as a critical input for liquid cooling. All those OEs are actively working with us to develop new strategies on how they're going to execute the liquid cooling.

All things being equal, we will continue to expand our play in data center from almost, I think three, four years back to that's 5% of the Building Automation business, I expect that we'll be at a higher number across Honeywell as the time progresses.

That's great. Thank you. Best of luck, guys.

Thank you. Our next question comes from the line of Andrew Obin with Bank of America. Please proceed with your question.

Just a question. Did I hear right? I apologize, you mentioned 40% order growth. What was that number related to? Was that on Process Automation in the second half, or was it a refer? I apologize.

No. I think what I said on the catalyst, the second half versus first half should be up 25%-30% on that framework. Our orders for the quarter were up 16%.

No, I was just going to the orders in Process Automation and Technology were up 24% for the quarter.

Okay. Thanks so much. You sort of alluded to seeing orders in Process Automation related to the Middle East, outside of the Middle East. Can you just talk about this trend? What exactly are you seeing? Are people trying to de-risk the exposure to the Middle East, and how soon can you see that show up, A, in orders and, B, in your actual work? Thank you.

Yeah. Andrew, the strength in orders for second quarter in Process Automation and Technology, the biggest enabler was LNG demand globally, U.S., of course, being the big one, but also outside U.S. Some of the big deals in LNG is a big driver for orders growth in the process segment. To your question, where do we see diversification of investment beyond Middle East due to the conflict? Answer is yes. We absolutely are seeing projects coming in. We have large project in Africa we are actively working. Some of it has been booked. Some booking will occur in the technology side of the process business. We see investments there. We also see investments happening in Asia for the downstream refining petrochemical side because, I think as we all observed, there was a very high price for fuels, 200%, 300% cost up for diesel and jet fuel.

There are customers and countries looking at more domestic production for fuels as well as downstream petrochemical products there. Overall, the process market will see more capital investment to de-risk the Middle East conflict situation. That's our forecast.

Thank you so much. Maybe, can you talk about Industrial Automation? Just maybe you can give some KPIs on improving performance, I don't know, sort of on time delivery. Anything you want to share, how you're moving along in improving execution in this segment, driving this improvement. Thank you.

Yes. I would say that, the KPIs we are looking at it is, first of course, how our delivery performance is improving. It's very channel-driven business. The sensitivity to the delivery performance is high. We're working towards high 80% performance as we progress through the course of the year, and that's our trend line. Pete mentioning the call at start of the year, we were in mid-40s, and we are trending from 40 towards 80, as we speak at this point of time. The other critical KPI for us is performance on new products. We have launched several new products end of last year, early this year, and they are becoming enabler for our growth as evidenced by our orders growth rate of 10% in Q2. We do expect continued strength in our orders rate in the segment for the second half of the year.

The actions we are taking on innovation, on operational performance is the foundation of how this business is going to turn around. We expect the improvement trend will continue from no growth to low single-digit growth to, at some point, we'll turn the business into a mid-single digit growth.

Thank you. Our next question comes from line of Nicole DeBlase with Deutsche Bank. Please proceed with your question.

Just wanted to ask on BA continues to show really nice high single-digit growth and orders up 13% in 2Q. It just feels to me that that high single digits should be sustainable into the second half, keeping all of that in mind. Would you disagree with that for any reason? Why wouldn't this, if orders continue to hold up, why couldn't we see high single-digit growth proceed into 2027?

Yeah, Nicole, the evidence suggests you're right. Seven quarters in a row, high single, why it should become more single? There is no real logic. As being a new company, we are printing our new forecast. Obviously our aspiration is meet or beat it, so there's a level of prudence which we have used in our guide. Fundamentally, the strategy of the business is pivot towards high-growth verticals. We clearly see tailwinds in data center, hospitality and healthcare. They are certainly driving a lot more orders growth and pivoting towards more and more acceleration of base business on the strength of new products. In fact, we're going to launch even more new products as we progress in the second half.

Yeah, fundamentally, there is no logic, but we are always cautious given competition can respond to some of our actions over the last two years, and we need to be cautious. I remain optimistic to surprise everybody on the performance of the business in the second half.

Awesome. Thanks, Vimal. We all love beats and raises. Okay. I guess maybe on stranded costs. You guys referred to making more progress than expected. Can you just put a finer point on that with respect to any changes in the stranded cost reduction timeline versus what we got at the investor day or in the periods before? Thank you.

Stranded cost is progressing extremely well. At the investor day, I think we said something around $85 million of stranded cost at the year-end. This is about $20 million better right now. We should enter 2027 with about $60 million-$65 million of stranded cost that we'll proceed to eliminate early next year. It's a good story. It's incrementally better, about $20 million to what we talked about.

Thank you. Our next question comes from the line of Jeff Sprague with Vertical Research Partners. Please proceed with your question.

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