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Honeywell is an integrated operating company that provides products and software across a wide range of industries. Its four main segments are aerospace technologies, building automation, energy and sustainability solutions, and industrial automation. Honeywell announced in October 2024 that it plans to spin off its advanced materials business, and in February 2025 followed up with plans to spin off its aerospace and automation businesses to form a trio of independent publicly traded companies.

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Thank you for standing by, and welcome to the Honeywell Fourth Quarter 2025 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 Sean Meakim, Vice President of Investor Relations. Please go ahead.

Thank you. Good morning, and welcome to Honeywell's fourth quarter 2025 earnings and 2026 outlook conference call. On the call with me today are Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, Vimal Kapur, and Senior Vice President and Chief Financial Officer, Mike Stepniak, as well as Mark Macaluso, who will be leading Investor Relations for Honeywell going forward. 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 that may be of interest or material to our investors on this website. Our discussion today includes 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 risks and uncertainties, including the ones described in our recent SEC filings.

This morning, we'll review our financial results for the fourth quarter and full year 2025 and discuss our guidance for the first quarter and full year 2026. As a reminder, we began reporting Advanced Materials as discontinued operations beginning in the fourth quarter of 2025, following the successful spin of Solstice Advanced Materials on October 30, 2025. The fourth quarter results we present today exclude Solstice. As always, we'll leave time for your questions at the end. With that, it's my pleasure to turn the call over to Vimal, who'll begin on slide three.

Thank you, Sean, and good morning, everyone. Honeywell delivered a strong fourth quarter to close 2025, exceeding our expectations for both adjusted sales and adjusted EPS, with orders up 23%, driving our backlog to over $37 billion. This performance reinforces the strength of our end market positions and execution. We exited the year with a sales growth of 6%, excluding the impact of 2024 Bombardier agreement, which demonstrates the outcome of our portfolio actions and our emerging focus on innovation stemming from continued investment in R&D. This gives us conviction in another year of meaningful top and bottom-line growth of 2026. Looking ahead, we expect to once again drive strong organic growth, fueled by conversion of our record backlog, disciplined price execution, and momentum in new product introductions.

The strong organic growth, coupled with productivity and an aggressive reduction in stranded costs related to the spins, will enable us to deliver 6%-9% earnings growth in 2026, along with accelerating cash generation. It was about a year ago that we announced our intention to spin off aerospace, which will result in creation of three leading pure-play independent public companies. We have made tremendous progress throughout the year with the advanced materials spin complete, and we now expect to complete the aerospace spin in the third quarter of 2026. Both aerospace and automation will host Investor Day in June, and I hope many of you can join us then. Our teams are working around the clock to ensure this gets done as quickly and judiciously as possible, and I want to thank all our employees for their commitment and dedication to this process.

We also remain very excited about the progress at Quantinuum on key technological and commercial milestones that position the business to lead the way in quantum computing. I will talk more about Quantinuum and its progress in a few minutes. 2026 will be exciting year as we move forward the final stages of our portfolio simplification. This positions each business with the right strategic focus, organizational agility, and tailored capital allocation strategies needed to grow faster and drive incremental value for our all stakeholders. Let's now turn to slide 3 to discuss the latest update on our portfolio transformation. As I mentioned, we are progressing faster than originally anticipated on our separation milestones. On October 30, Solstice began trading as independent public company, and we now expect the aero spins to occur in quarter three.

To that end, we announced the aerospace leadership team last week, comprised of tenured aerospace veterans, and made key board appointments to bring extensive operating experience to our teams. Jim Currier, who will serve as President and CEO of Honeywell Aerospace at the time of separation, will be joined by Josh Jepsen, who will serve as Chief Financial Officer. Additionally, we announced that Craig Arnold, the former Chairman and CEO of Eaton Corporation, will serve as Non-Executive Chair of Honeywell Aerospace Board of Directors. Craig brings more than two decades of experience in leadership roles at industrial and tech businesses, where he delivered transformational results through operational excellence and disciplined capital allocation. Together, Craig, Jim, and Josh bring the right mix of industry, company, and capital market experience to maximize the value for our customers, partners, employees, and our shareowners.

We're also excited to welcome Indra Nooyi, former Chair and CEO of PepsiCo, to Honeywell's Board of Directors, further strengthening our team with her proven track record of leading diverse global businesses and accelerating long-term growth. Beginning in 2026, we reorganized Honeywell segment into more simplified structure, focused on cohesive, synergetic business model.... Moving forward, we'll be reporting four segments: Aerospace Technologies, Building Automation, Process Automation and Technology, and Industrial Automation. The three automation reporting segments will be organized into six strategic business units, enabling us to better solve customer challenges and deliver in-house outcomes with Honeywell Forge platform. Finally, we concluded the strategic review of Productivity Solution and Services and Warehouse and Workflow Solutions, and have announced that we intend to pursue a sale of both businesses in first half of 2026.

All of these actions position both aerospace and automation for a strong beginning as new industry-leading public companies in 2026. Let's turn to slide four to discuss the recent advancements of Quantinuum. Following the recent fundraising, in which Quantinuum raised approximately $840 million at a $10 billion pre-money valuation, the pace of both technological and commercial progress at Quantinuum is rapidly increasing. Close collaboration with shareholders such as Quantinuum, NVIDIA, J.P. Morgan, Amgen, and Mitsui have led to new commercial partnerships that are supporting the development of critical applications for improving drug discovery, cybersecurity, and encryption for large financial institutions.

In November, Quantinuum announced the launch of Helios, the world's most accurate commercial quantum computer, which nearly doubles the qubit count of its predecessor, H2, and we believe sets a new standard for quantum computing performance with the highest fidelity for quantum computing qubits ever released in the market. Helios' groundbreaking design and advanced software stack brings quantum programming closer to the ease and flexibility of classical computing, which we believe positions the company to accelerate quantum's commercial adoption. Quantinuum also announced a partnership to integrate Helios with NVIDIA's AI supercomputing technology to create powerful new architecture that can solve the world's most pressing challenges. This collaboration between Quantinuum and NVIDIA is creating a future where AI becomes more expansive through quantum computing, and quantum computing becomes more powerful through AI.

As Quantinuum achieves these important technological and commercial milestones, I am confident of the company's future, and the best is yet to come. Before Mike talks about 4Q results, let's move to slide five to discuss our recent growth acceleration. This chart demonstrates the recent acceleration in organic growth, stemming from a combination of strong end market demand, our portfolio simplification, and innovation. This drove a 300-400 basis point improvement in LTM average organic growth since the beginning of 2024. As I noted earlier, we see favorable end market dynamics across aerospace and defense, process and building automation. We are enabling this further with an intentional shift to higher growth verticals. Our performance simplification efforts are positioning the company toward less cyclical and less capital-intensive markets, where we can build our install base and leverage this to driv e software and services growth.

This is being compounded by recent acquisition in Access Solutions, LNG process technology, Compressor Controls, and defense technology. On innovation, we delivered 4% organic growth from our new product introduction in 2025, with majority coming from innovation in new markets and offering, as opposed to upgrade on existing core products. This is direct result of our meaningful step up in R&D investments in 2025, which continues at these level in 2026, as well as management's focus on growth through new products. On the people side, we have made concerted effort to enhance our talent pool to drive growth. We added approximately 600 engineers to our workforce in 2025, which has greatly bolstered our R&D capacity and have also allocated the overwhelming majority of R&D to new product development.

Additionally, our sales team incentives are now better aligned to our objective of prioritizing the commercialization of new products, further reinforcing our plan to drive growth through innovation while building stronger customer intimacy. With that, I will now turn the call over to Mike to go through our fourth quarter results, starting on slide six.

Thank you, Vimal, and good morning. We ended the year with robust fourth quarter results. Sales grew 11% organically, or 6%, excluding the impact of the 2024 Bombardier agreement, led by double-digit growth in aerospace and high single-digit growth in building automation. We also continued to drive price across the portfolio, as Vimal noted, which contributed roughly 4 percentage points to the top line. On a segment basis, aerospace sales grew 11% organically, excluding Bombardier, led by continued strength in both commercial aftermarket and defense and space. Commercial OE growth accelerated as expected from the third quarter, as shipments continued to recouple with customers' bill rates. Robust demand across all end markets led a third consecutive quarter of strong double-digit order growth and book-to-bill of 1.2.

Building automation grew 8% organically, supported by growth of 9% in solutions and 8% in products. Regionally, North America and Middle East led the overperformance, with Europe and up strong mid-single digits as well. Orders increased both year-over-year and sequentially, driven by ongoing momentum across both Building Solutions and products, and highlighted by strength in the projects and fire businesses. Industrial automation grew for a second consecutive quarter, with organic sales up 1%, led by Warehouse and Workforce Solutions and sensing, as well as a return to growth in Productivity Solutions and Services. Process solution sales were flat, as strength in aftermarket services was offset by lower volumes in measurement and controls products. Finally, organic sales in energy and sustainability solutions declined 7%, stemming from lower petrochemical catalyst shipments, coming in slightly below our expectations due to continued project deferrals.

However, orders momentum in UOP continued, with over 40% orders growth in refining and petrochemicals projects, which supports our confidence in a gradual 2026 recovery. In total, Honeywell orders grew 23% organically after 22% growth in the third quarter. Wins in long cycle aerospace, energy, and broad-based demand in building automation led the way, resulting in total book-to-bill above one and pushing backlog up 15% to a new record. On profitability, adjusted segment profit increased 23% or 2%, excluding Bombardier, with segment margin of 22.8%, led by ongoing margin expansion in building automation, partially offset by the timing of high-margin catalyst shipments in ESS and a headwind from a step-up in R&D.

In aerospace, adjusted segment margin expanded 40 basis points sequentially to 26.5%, as we again delivered stronger volumes enabled by supply chain improvements, while in BA, margins expanded 20 basis points year over year to 27%, driven by commercial excellence and volume leverage. This was partially offset by declines in IA and ESS, driven principally by unfavorable mix from lower catalyst volumes and cost inflation. As a reminder, ESS fourth quarter and full year 2025 results include only the UOP business unit following the fourth quarter reclassification of advanced materials to discontinued operations, and this will be the last quarter we present results for ESS.

Adjusted earnings per share of $2.59 was up 17% and down 3%, excluding the impact of the Bombardier agreement, driven primarily by higher segment profit and a lower share count, overcoming a 24-cent year-over-year headwind from the timing of taxes. You can find additional information on the fourth quarter adjusted EPS bridge in the appendix of our presentation. Finally, free cash flow of $2.5 billion was up 48% or up 13%, excluding the impact of prior year Bombardier agreement. Growth in free cash flow was driven by higher operational income and collections, offset by higher cash taxes and interest payments. On capital deployment, we returned $900 million to shareholders in the quarter through dividends and share repurchases while funding $300 million in high return capital projects.

We also repaid $2.3 billion of debt in fourth quarter. For the full year, sales increased 7% organically, or 6%, excluding the impact of the Bombardier agreement, exceeding the high end of original full-year guidance by 2 points. Adjusted segment profit grew 11% or 6%, excluding Bombardier, with adjusted segment margin expansion of 40 basis points, or contraction of 40 basis points, excluding Bombardier, to 22.5%. Adjusted earnings per share was $9.78, up 12% year-over-year, or up 7% excluding Bombardier. Finally, free cash flow was $5.1 billion, up 20% or up 7%, excluding the impact of the Bombardier agreement, presenting 14% margin.

We deployed $10 billion to capital in 2025, including $3.8 billion to repurchase 18 million shares, $2.2 billion to acquisitions, $1 billion to capital expenditures, and $3 billion to dividends. We also repaid $3.8 billion of debt to lower interest expense. All in all, a very strong performance to end the year, with plenty of momentum heading into 2026. With that, let's turn to slide 8 to discuss our 2026 segment outlook. In aerospace, we expect top-line growth in the high single-digit range organically. We anticipate continued end market strength, supported by resilient supply chain that continues to grow its output. Commercial OE growth should accelerate in 2026 as we move past customer destocking and ramp our shipments alongside increasing production rates, particularly in commercial air transport.

Defense and space should maintain its momentum as higher global spending drives substantial orders growth and record backlog. Steady increases in flight hours in air transport and business jet underpin ongoing commercial aftermarket strength, though we expect modest normalization in growth rates from the prior year. Segment margin should expand modestly as volume leverage, better pricing alignment with tariff costs, and tapering acquisition integration costs more than offset mixed pressure from stronger growth in defense and space and commercial OE. For building automation, we expect full-year sales growth above mid-single digits, highlighted by strength in growing data center and healthcare end markets. We expect growth to be led by North America and acceleration in Europe on increased investments in healthcare and decarbonization infrastructure buildup. For the year, both products and solutions will grow at similar rates.

We anticipate BA margin to expand over 50 basis points, driven by volume leverage, pricing, and productivity actions. Process automation technology sales are expected to be roughly flat organically year-over-year. Slower first-half growth in petrochemicals and refining should be offset by robust demand in global projects, particularly in life sciences and cybersecurity solutions. We expect margin to be roughly flat, with pricing and productivity offsetting material cost inflation. Finally, in industrial automation, we expect sales to be down low single digits to roughly flat, with stable growth industrial solutions offset by headwinds from a challenging prior year compression in products. Within this framework, we're not assuming any rebound on underlying end market demand. We expect IA to lead margin expansion across all segments in 2026 through meaningful productivity actions and fixed cost reduction.

Let's now turn to slide 9 to double-click on process automation and technology dynamics in 2026. During the second half of 2025, we saw 17% organic orders growth in the new P&T segment, which led a corresponding 16% rise in the opening backlog. This continues to be a significant part of our long cycle order strength, particularly in LNG and refining, both in the U.S. and internationally. The backlog growth gives us confidence in an expected second half ramp, especially when measured against our historical backlog conversion rates. Winds in LNG and a num ber of large module equipment deals are expected to convert to sales in the back half of the year.

In addition, we're encouraged by our pipeline in P&T, which grew high single digits year over year, signaling that the strength of long cycle orders is expected to persist, contingent on the pace of final investment decisions from our customers. We're diligently tracking the slower-than-expected aftermarket order rates for catalysts, particularly within petrochemicals, which has been influenced by overcapacity in the market. Catalyst shipments can be temporarily delayed in the short term, but are ultimately necessary for our customers to maintain yields, and those can only be deferred for a period of time. So while we acknowledge the challenges this business face in 2025, we're encouraged by orders growth and backlog, as well as pent-up catalyst demand that should eventually fuel strong growth as we progress through 2026 and into 2027.

Let's move to slide 10 to talk further about our expected segment margin expansion for 2026. In 2026, we anticipate the demand for our differentiated high-value solutions and continued pricing that is outpacing inflation will drive further margin expansion. On a segment basis, we expect improved volume leverage, principally in our Building Automation, Aerospace Technologies businesses, which will drive solid incremental margins, while P&T margins will be roughly flat in 2026 due to the impact of stronger projects growth in the second half. Our focus on productivity action and rigorous fixed cost management will continue in 2026. We're working diligently to rightsize our cost structure ahead of the planned aerospace spin and expect to eliminate the stranded costs in 12 to 18 months after the spin.

We have already neutralized the impact of Solstice stranded costs in 2025 through productivity and fixed cost reduction in the rest of the business. Finally, Quantinuum investments in R&D and technology will be a modest headwind to margin in 2026. As Vimal noted, Quantinuum is making significant commercial R&D investment to maintain its leadership position in quantum computing. With that as the backdrop, let's move to slide 11 to go through the details of our full year 2026 guidance. Before we get into the specifics, I want to point out that our 2026 guidance includes full year outlooks for aerospace, Productivity Solutions and Services, and warehouse and workflow solutions, and does not incorporate the pending acquisition of Johnson Matthey's Catalyst Technologies business. We intend to update our outlook when these transactions are complete.

For the full year 2026, we anticipate sales of $38.8 billion-$39.8 billion, up 3%-6% organically. We expect growth to be led by Aerospace on higher commercial demand and increased defense budgets, and Building Automation driven by new product innovations. This will be partially offset by a slower start to the year in process automation technology, which turns to growth in the second half, driven by order visibility and significantly easier comps and mixed regional and end market dynamics in industrial automation. Segment margins are expected to be up 20 to 60 basis points to 22.7%-23.1%, as the benefits from price execution and productivity actions more than offset cost inflation and a roughly 30 basis points headwind from increased investments in Quantinuum.

Industrial automation will lead for the year, driven by targeted fixed cost takeout, followed by building automation as higher volumes continue to drive margin expansion. Aerospace margins should expand modestly as volume leverage is partially dampened by mixed pressures. Finally, we expect P&T segment margins to be roughly flat year-over-year, with pricing and productivity offsetting material cost inflation. We expect a combination of strong top-line growth, coupled with productivity and fixed cost reduction, will drive adjusted earnings per share of $10.35-$10.65, up 6%-9%. Our guidance assumes a 1% reduction in share count stemming from share repurchases. As we have signaled, we intend to focus our cash deployment in 2026 on reducing debt ahead of the separation.

Moving to cash, we expect free cash flow of $5.3 billion-$5.6 billion, up 4%-10%, which represents an approximately 14% free cash flow margin and 83% conversion at the high end, or 90% excluding non-cash pension income. Capital expenditures are anticipated to increase by roughly $250 million to support growth investment attached to orders we already have in built backlog. This increase in spending will be funded by improvements in working capital efficiency with a continued focus on aerospace inventory.... Let's move to slide 12 to briefly review a full year, 2026 EPS bridge. The main takeaway on this slide is that the overwhelming majority of our earnings growth in 2026 is expected to come from segment profit growth, adding approximately $0.64 at the midpoint.

We expect to benefit from higher volumes, enhanced productivity, and favorable price costs, offset by higher investment in Quantinuum, as I noted. As you can hopefully see, we have fairly clean, high-quality, and straightforward path to our 2026 outlook. A few other points to note. Below-the-line expenses should be roughly flat year-over-year, as higher pension income of approximately $660 million is offset by increased repositioning expenses as we prepare for separation, while net interest expense remains in line with 2025 levels. We expect the tax rate to remain roughly 19% and average shares outstanding to decline approximately 1%, adding $0.08 to earnings per share. Additional below-the-line details are available in the appendix of the presentation. Now let's turn to slide 13 to talk briefly about 1Q guidance.

We anticipate first quarter organic sales growth of 3%-5% organically. By segment, we anticipate organic sales growth in aerospace, building automation, and industrial automation to look very similar to our full-year outlook for these businesses. While process automation technology will be more in line with 4Q25 levels, given the slow start, as mentioned earlier. In addition, we expect to see normal seasonal step down in revenue from 4Q to 1Q, similar to past years. We expect segment margin to be in the range of 22.4%-22.6%, flat to up 20 basis points, led by productivity actions in our automation businesses. We anticipate aerospace margins to be down slightly from the prior quarter on seasonally lower volumes. This will drive adjusted earnings per share growth in the first quarter of 2%-6%.

We expect a roughly $70 million increase in below the line, driven by higher interest expense from recent acquisition and increased repositioning expense ahead of the separation. Additionally, as we announced last week, following a settlement of all Flexjet-related litigation matters, we made a one-time cash payment of $377 million in the first quarter, which is excluded from our full-year free cash flow guidance. I'll now hand the call back over to Vimal to wrap up before Q&A.

Thank you, Mike. We are pleased with our strong finish to 2025, with adjusted sales and adjusted earnings per share exceeding the high end of our guidance range. This performance underscores the resilience of our business model approach and highlights the growing demand for our innovative solution. Looking ahead, our guidance for 2026 is underpinned by continued strength in our orders growth, price execution, and record beginning backlog. As always, our guidance serves as a prudent baseline for performance that we have a strong conviction we can achieve. Moreover, we continue to progress our separation milestone, which we are tracking ahead of plan, paving a clear path for both aerospace and automation to emerge as industry-leading companies in 2026.

We look forward to sharing more about our strategy and long-term growth at the upcoming Honeywell Aerospace Investor Day on June second and third in Phoenix, followed by Honeywell Automation Investor Day on June eleventh in New York City. These events will provide an excellent opportunity for us to engage with our investors and showcase the strength of our portfolio. Before turning to Q&A, I want to take a moment to acknowledge our Head of Investor Relations, Sean Meakim, for all his contribution over the past four years. As you know, Sean will be moving to Aerospace with a spin-off to establish another world-class investor relations function, as he did in Honeywell. He will be an incredible asset to Craig, Jim, and Josh as they begin their journey as a standalone entity.

Sean effectively communicated the vision and value of Honeywell's strategy with credibility and conviction, laying the framework with investors for our emergence post-separation. On behalf of the leadership team and shareholders, I want to thank Sean for your dedication and commitment, and say that I could not be happier to have you lead the IR function at Honeywell Aerospace. Congratulations, and with that, Sean, let's take the questions.

Thanks for the kind words, Vimal. I'm very grateful for the opportunity to lead IR and be part of this team. It's been a great learning experience, and I'm really excited about what's ahead for both Aerospace and Honeywell. Vimal and Mike are now available to answer your questions. We ask that you please be mindful of others in the queue by only asking one question and one related follow-up. Operator, please open the line for Q&A.

Thank you. If you'd like to ask a question, please press star one on your telephone keypad. A confirmation tone will indicate your line is in the question queue. You may press Star two if you'd like to remove your question from the queue. For participants using speaker equipment, it may be necessary to pick up your handset before pressing the star keys. Our first question comes from the line of Julian Mitchell with Barclays. Please proceed with your question.

Hi, good morning, and yes, I want to say thank you, Sean, for all the help. If we think about the margin progression, just to try and understand that a little bit more, for the total company. So it's sort of flattish year-on-year in the first quarter, picks up steam over the balance of the year. Maybe help us understand how second half-weighted that margin acceleration is, and are there any specific items on a segment level driving that, please?

Sure, Julian, thank you for the question. So we on the, on the headline numbers, we're expanding 20-60. Operationally, we really are expanding margins about 50-90 basis points. And, we have a little bit of a headwind, about 30 basis points this year from Quantinuum. That headwind is a little bit higher in the, the first quarter. In the first quarter, we also, our taxes are the highest, and, we're paying our interest expense for the year is the highest, so that's easing. So I think what you'll receive from us, 20-20 basis points in the first quarter and then sequentially improving. Second half looks much better than the first half.

Yeah, and then Julian, what I'll add is that, the fundamental playbook, which Honeywell always executed on margin expansion, which is price, volume, productivity, that will be in full play this year. We do expect, as Mike mentioned, our operational margins to expand, you know, 50-90 basis points and invest some money back in Quantinuum. But, we are very well programmed to deliver margin expansion, as we did in the past, like, 2023, we were 100 basis points margin expansion. So we are very confident on delivering our margin expansion, rubric for 2026.

I would just also maybe add that last year we talked about it. We stepped up on engineering from R&D standpoint. That's now normalized going into 2026. It's not a headwind for us. And last year was about, I think, 50 basis points of headwind, if you take 2025 as a whole.

That's helpful. Thank you. Then just a quick follow-up on the aerospace margins specifically. I think they're starting out the year, maybe down a touch year-over-year, and then up a few tens of basis points for the year in aggregate. Maybe clarify kind of how you see those mix impacts playing out through the year. And there's been some discussion on commercial OE contract renewal timings and so forth. Is that a factor this year affecting the aero margins at all?

Sure. So maybe I'll just start with the 2025 progression, but I think it's important, as you think about 2026. So we entered 2025, and we said we'll finish about 26% for the year. That's exactly what we did, and the team executed well, despite the Expiration Day, having to contend with the tariffs. Largely, tariffs are behind us. Going to 2026, price will be better, for aerospace. Acquisition integration costs are abating. That's also a tailwind, and supply chain is continuing to improve.

So for 2026, really, to me, it's a margin expansion question is really just a question of how much, and that's a factor of mix and how is mix going to play out in the business, as well as how we continue to unlock and scale the supply chain and how the trajectory progresses. But 2026, I fully expect margin expansion in aerospace.

Julian, to your question on the OE contracts, yeah, we are indeed negotiating our contracts with multiple OEs as we speak, both on the commercial side and business jet side. You know, those are under progress right now. And what I can share you is that longer term, it will play out quite well for aerospace margin expansion, because nature of these are long term, so we remain very confident that this is gonna have a positive impact on our margin expansion story for the business in the times ahead.

Julian, one last piece I would just add on. Just think about the first quarter reminder that Expiration Day was in April, so there's a little bit of a lapping where we have that little bit of a lag on the pricing impact relative to the tariffs in Aerospace in the first quarter for the OE business.

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

Thanks. Good morning. So a lot going on here, guys. Quantinuum, you announced, you filed a confidential S-1, earlier this, this month. Are you, are you fully committed to an IPO at this point, or is there an option to bring in a strategic investor? And then just, I just want to make sure we get the right numbers on the investment spending. It looks like it's picking up by about $100 million year-over-year. So that would be, what? $250 million of total spend, within corporate. Just want to make sure that's the number. And does the free cash flow or rather the cash burn, kind of equate to that number as well?

So I'll start, and I'll let Vimal comment on the, just on the commercial progress, et cetera. But you're exactly right. It's about $100 million year-over-year increase. We fully consolidate Quantinuum right now. As you know, our raise was quite successful, so Quantinuum has plenty of cash, but it, it flows through for Honeywell's financials. But it's about $100 million year-over-year increase in terms of maturation and commercial efforts that the team is progressing.

Nigel, you put it well, a lot going on in Honeywell, so we are absolutely working on the Quantinuum leg. What I can share with you is we are obviously in the legal restrictions on what we can share, but as a practical matter, the progression on platform continues to be very promising, which is the reason we are investing more R&D dollars to continue to progress to launch the next version of our quantum machine, which is committed in 2027 timeframe. So that's a driver. And I actually spend a lot of time with the customers now to talk about leveraging quantum for commercial applications. So think about banks, think about pharmaceutical companies, and think about large governments. They're all very interested, given we are coming closer to time to value....

And we are also building leadership team of Quantinuum business, you know, expanding its capability so that it could stand alone as a independent company at the right time. That's what I can share. I think a lot of, lot of wheels in motion, and we continue to work very hard to make it a successful business.

That's very helpful. Thanks. And then my follow-on is really just wanted to dig into the extraordinary strength in the process orders. Last time we checked in with you guys, you were talking about softness in large project activity. That seems to have changed, you know, 180. So just wondering what's changed? And perhaps a bit more detail on where you're seeing the strength by geography or end market.

So, Nigel, there are two dynamics going on in the market. On the positive side, people are spending capital to build more capacity in LNG and refining. That defined, that's showing our orders up, it's so substantially and backlog up by 15%. So that's positive. Those are long cycle, and we, therefore, will show more revenue accretion from them in second half of 2026, because the cycle time is 12-18 months. So we started lapping up our bookings from quarter three of last year and build the backlog, which will convert now Q3 and Q4 of 2026. Also, on the positive side, the LNG business continues to do quite well. Sundyne business we acquired is going to become baseline, you know, and organic growth, so that's gonna help in the second half of the year.

On the other side of the ledger, we continue to see pressure on the catalyst demand on petrochemical side. Petrochemical has excess capacity in the world, so our customers are shying to buy more catalysts, and also, I would say, in automation side, some of our migration offerings. So there's certainly a slowness there. Our guide doesn't factor any change in that in 2026. Now, I'm not suggesting it won't change, but we are cautious on how we are guiding at this point, and that remains the low point in the business. So strength in long cycle, in LNG and refining, and weakness in short cycles, specifically in the petrochemical side.

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

Glad to see the final spin-off moving up here. But look, I wanted to talk a little bit about price, because forever, Honeywell was kind of a 1%-2% price company, and now the last couple of years, you've been able to capture meaningfully more, 4% now, which is still meaningfully more than the peer group average. But what-- can you guys walk through... You know, there's kind of two angles here. I mean, one is kind of passing through tariff impacts, you know, and that's not a structural price increase, that's more of a pass-through. But can you talk about really how much of this price is kind of a change in pricing strategy, how you guys approach projects, contracts? You know, obviously, new products help, I would imagine.

How much of that 4% is kind of just the run-of-the-mill passing on tariffs? Thanks.

Yeah. Scott, it's a great question, and, and I think a lot about it, you know, on the dynamic. I think fundamentally, the inflation drivers have become more persistent in the markets we serve. And I divide the inflation drivers into three buckets. Labor cost is increasing, typically 3%-4% in a typical year. There are labor shortages. There's enough talk, you know, messaging around that. We also see cost increase in electronics prices. Memory is a new, new driver now. Of course, it's a small portion of what we buy, but it all starts compounding. And then, commodity prices keep going up. I mean, there's a lot of news on gold, but then there's also other commodities which keep ramping up.

So when you put it all together, fundamentally, the inflationary trend in industrial segment and segments, specifically Honeywell Forge, they remain quite persistent. And our pricing strategy, therefore, has become more mature, really, to look at it as a long-term trend, work with our customers, and align with them that what's coming ahead, and minimize the impact on their businesses to the extent we can, and deploy pricing, which is also different by regions. It could be one in U.S., different in Europe, different in other parts of the world. Also different for new products, because we need to see where we have some leverage there, based upon feature function, which are differentiated. So a lot going on in the pricing front, and I would say 2026 is gonna look very similar to 2025 in the same zip code.

We spend a lot of time to make sure that the price cost doesn't become a headwind for us, and we do maximum to preserve our volume while we are preserving our margins.

I would just maybe add that, too. If you look at our portfolio, we've been migrating to high-growth verticals where we can afford better pricing, and we have a bigger step up in terms of revenue that is generated by NPI, and these products tend to be accretive and, and give us better pricing as well.

Yeah. Now, and then just the natural follow-up would just be, is there... You know, when you talk about NPI, and you talked about product launches, but do you guys use a vitality index or anything internally in any kind of way to kind of compare the acceleration of NPI versus the past?

Yeah, you saw one of the mentions of that in our growth acceleration chart in our prepared remarks. One thing we've certainly started measuring is how much of revenue in a given year is coming from new products, net new growth coming from new products, and last year it was approximately 4%. It means our R&D dollars are creating a differentiated demand into our offerings, and we are able to either keep share or gain share or able to move to new verticals. So we are measuring two key KPIs. One is vitality. We used to measure that, Scott, for many years, and what I learned is some of our segments, high vitality is just, you know, right to play, because the turnaround of the products is so fast.

If your vitality is not, you know, 40s and 50s, you basically may start losing share. So incrementally, while we continue to measure vitality and remain at Honeywell, we'll have vitality in high 40s. Think about 45% or so. We also now measure every quarter new product revenue coming from new products. And our internal target is, like we did 4% last year, like to maintain that rate. That requires a lot of, you know, ideation, working with the customers, having the right ideas and so on. But that's going to be the new playbook for Honeywell, that we want to grow through new products and then whatever the market allows us to pick up on price. So, yeah, that's, that's, that's how I would summarize that, that, that comment.

Very helpful. Thanks. I'll pass it on, and best of luck this year, guys.

Thank you. Our next question comes from the line of Steve Tusa with JPMorgan. Please proceed with your question.

So just to clarify that answer, so you're expecting roughly 3% price this year?

Price will be above 3%. I would say most likely 3.5. Depending on geography and vertical, we're deploying 3%-4%. On average, should be 3.5. Quarterly also, I think there'll be a little bit of movement, but that's kind of the framework we're using for the year with the teams.

So at the low end of the range, you have volume down 50 basis points?

It really just depends on the we deploy price at SKU level, essentially. So it's depending on how fast if the product is growing at 1% and market doesn't allow us to deploy more price, we won't do that.

I think low end, I would say, Steve, is volume growth in the low end of the guide, 3-6 is 0. High end, it is about 3. So that's kind of how you want to look at the guide. 3-6, price being somewhere around 3-3.5, and the balance is volume.

Yeah, it seems pretty conservative with your order growth rate, but I won't belabor that point. Just on the stranded costs, it seems like I would have maybe expected the advanced material stranded costs to come out a little bit quicker. Can you maybe just level set us on where those stranded costs lie today, especially on the aero side, what to expect and how those should, you know, layer out of the numbers? Because that seems to be a relatively heavy burden that, you know, you're leaving in there, but should, you know, be a tailwind at some point in the next 18 months or so.

No, you're right, Steve. So we have already neutralized the advanced materials stranded costs in 2026. So that's one of the work we are showing in our margin expansion, that it is net neutral, so the headwind of that is gone, which shows that we are looking ahead and executing it as simultaneously as we work through spin. Now, specifically coming to the aerospace question, right now, I will admit that we are so heavily focused to make spin happen in Q3. We'll share the specifics of stranded cost, et cetera, during our Investor Day coming up in June. But we are absolutely confident and committed that we will eliminate stranded costs in 12-18 months' time. Earlier, the better. We absolutely get it, but that's the range we expect to take it out.

Okay. Then just one last one on aero. Can you give us any kind of magnitude of margin improvement embedded in the guidance for aero this year? Is it, you know, 25, 50 basis points? Like, maybe just a little bit of color on directionally magnitude.

Yeah, I would say modest, Steve. Think like low 30s incrementals.

Thank you. Our next question comes from the line of Dean Dray with RBC Capital Markets. Please proceed with your question.

Thank you. Good morning, everyone, and congrats to the team on hitting these transformation milestones earlier. And also best to Sean, and welcome back to Mark. Just the first question, just, you've been now more specific about the portfolio cleanups for PSS and warehouse. What can you tell us about the sales process?

So, I would say at this point, we have a lot of interest on both the businesses. And we expect to do sign of the deals in quarter two. None of specifically in the quarter, it's hard to pinpoint a month here at this point, but we do expect that quarter two will be able to sign it, and the close will be customary, you know, regulatory approvals. So that you can then, you know, estimate that the total time this business may not be part of Honeywell. You know, what it does is, Dean, interestingly, when we complete the transaction of warehouse automation business, Intelligrated, and Productivity Solutions business, it simplifies us into three end markets: process, buildings, and industrial.

Because this allows us to make a choice not to be in a transportation, logistics, and warehouse markets. Not that these are bad markets, it's more question of where we want to participate as a company. So it's a choices to be made. The second thing it does is, it makes industrial automation as a sensing and measurement business. We had one of the challenge of industrial automation being a complex business to understand, with a lot of segments and a lot of drivers. So with this decision, we are able to narrow down the business to sensing and measurement, which gives us a platform on which we will build upon, you know, through organic growth and, you know, hopefully we look at more inorganic actions in the future. So it, it plays out extremely well in our overarching strategy.

That's really helpful. And, the second question, there was a reference about pockets of weakness in Europe and China. Maybe just give us a sense of, from the geographies, what you're seeing at the margin.

I would say that, you know, those comments are specifically for industrial automation business. Industrial automation business is seeing strength in North America and U.S. in particular. The segments are performing extremely well. But the segments of IA business in China and in Europe, the exposures we have in end markets we serve, we see pressure there, and that's a weakness in short cycle in Europe. Now, that's not true for other parts of Honeywell. If you see building automation, they don't see pressure in Europe and China because they serve different markets and they have different product lines. So it's very specific to industrial automation at this point, and we'll observe how the year progresses.

What we are doing is, we are focused on launching more, much more new products, so that we are able to generate more demand organically to offset some of these, you know, drivers. We'll observe how the year progresses with our actions to counter some of these market conditions.

Thank you. Our next question comes from the line of Sheila Kahyaoglu with Jefferies. Please proceed with your question.

Good morning, guys, and thank you. I'll focus on aerospace, if that's okay. All three end markets grew double digits in 2025. Maybe if you could tell us the rank order of how you're thinking about 2026 end markets and any changes around the medium-term growth trajectories as we prep for Investor Day in June.

Thanks, Sheila. Yeah, I would say that we were really pleased with the progress the team made on supply chain. Really great performance on volume, especially to end the year. So great momentum, particularly with the order rates going into 2026. Looking at the growth rates by end market, we'd say defense and space is likely to lead, so high single digits may be creeping into low double, depending on supply chain progress. We then expect OE to be high single digit growth, and then still strong performance in aftermarket, but continue on that path towards normalization. So call it mid to high single digit growth is the range, and all that should blend to a high single digit performance for 2026.

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