Second half core sales growth expected to accelerate to 5-6%
Guidance · revenue to 5.5%
Veralto reported a strong Q2 with accelerating core sales growth and raised its full-year adjusted EPS guidance. Management expressed high confidence in continued acceleration in the second half, driven by strong demand in water quality and a recovery in the PQI segment. Total sales grew 7.6% YoY (4.2% core), with Water Quality at 5.7% and PQI at 2%.
Veralto reported a strong Q2 with accelerating core sales growth and raised its full-year adjusted EPS guidance. Management expressed high confidence in continued acceleration in the second half, driven by strong demand in water quality and a recovery in the PQI segment. Total sales grew 7.6% YoY (4.2% core), with Water Quality at 5.7% and PQI at 2%.
Guidance · revenue to 5.5%
Total sales grew 7.6% YoY (4.2% core), with Water Quality at 5.7% and PQI at 2%.
Full-year adjusted EPS guidance raised to $4.35-$4.43 (12-14% growth).
Management expressed confidence in continued growth acceleration, raised guidance, and highlighted strong momentum across segments and strategic initiatives.
Management discussed AI in the context of product development and customer workflows, particularly in PQI with digital workflow solutions and inspection technologies. They mentioned offering AI applications layered on top of solutions to customers and using AI to enable mistake-proofing, faster time to market, and regulatory compliance.
PQI second half growth driven by digital workflows and easier comps. Management expressed confidence in continued growth acceleration, raised guidance, and highlighted strong momentum across segments and strategic initiatives.
Management expressed confidence in continued growth acceleration, raised guidance, and highlighted strong momentum across segments and strategic initiatives.
“we continue to engage in partnerships across the enterprise. We're excited about our partnership with Dow to help serve liquid cooling applications and data centers.”
“Overall impact of the tariff refunds on the margin expansion on the adjusted OP was 110 basis points.”
“We also see steady demand in marketing and coding. It's bolstered by an easier comp in Q4. And we do see recovery in our packaging and color equipment.”
“So think about margin expansions to roughly 25 bps in Q3 and for the full year 25 to 50 basis points of Q4 will be, you know, not for 50 as you can think.”
| 지표 | 기간 | 범위 | 중간값 | 상태 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| EPS | FY2026 | $4.35–$4.43 | $4.39 | RAISED |
| Revenue | FY2026 Q4 | 5%–6% | 5.5% | GUIDED |
| 제시 시점 | 지표 | 목표 기간 | 가이던스 | 실제 | 결과 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025 Q4 | EPS | FY2026 Q1 | $0.97–$1.01 | $1.07 | Met / beat |
| FY2025 Q4 | Op margin | FY2026 Q1 | 24.5% | 23.77% | Missed |
The company's industrial water growth is driven significantly by the data center ecosystem, but remains a small part of overall revenue. The company has a partnership with Dow to serve liquid cooling applications. — Highlights the growing importance of data center demand in the water treatment sector and a concrete partnership to tap into this market.
“We're excited about our partnership with Dow to help serve liquid cooling applications and data centers.”
Got it. Okay, fair enough. And then maybe just to dig a little bit deeper into the data center opportunities and how you're targeting that. I know we saw earlier, I guess, in the second quarter, there was a new partnership with Dow and some of their chemical solutions for the data center opportunities. I guess Should we be expecting further types of partnerships and how are you looking to grow out that business? What are the avenues that you can take? And also, I guess, can you speak to potential M&A opportunities that you might see that help further target that market for you? Thanks.
Yeah, great question, John. Yeah, we continue to engage in partnerships across the enterprise. We're excited about our partnership with Dow to help serve liquid cooling applications and data centers. But this is normal course of business for us as we look to extend our value into these high growth areas. you know relative to other applications and so on you know look we can't talk about anything specifically that's in the funnel but we like how we're positioned here and as far as you know M&A and partnerships are concerned you know we're gonna we're gonna look to our power alley of serving the operating environment of the customers workflow where you know there's a good sticky razor razor blade kind of relationship. And, you know, we are the right custodian to deliver the kind of value that those customers want. So I think we're well positioned here. We're looking at lots of things. And, you know, you'll know when we know as far as any assets that come into the portfolio as a function of that.