NYSE:PHIN PHINIA Q2 2025 Earnings Report $53.01 -0.37 (-0.69%) Closing price 10/17/2025 03:59 PM EasternExtended Trading$53.06 +0.05 (+0.10%) As of 10/17/2025 04:31 PM Eastern Extended trading is trading that happens on electronic markets outside of regular trading hours. This is a fair market value extended hours price provided by Polygon.io. Learn more. ProfileEarnings HistoryForecast PHINIA EPS ResultsActual EPS$1.27Consensus EPS $0.99Beat/MissBeat by +$0.28One Year Ago EPS$0.88PHINIA Revenue ResultsActual Revenue$890.00 millionExpected Revenue$836.51 millionBeat/MissBeat by +$53.49 millionYoY Revenue Growth+2.50%PHINIA Announcement DetailsQuarterQ2 2025Date7/24/2025TimeBefore Market OpensConference Call DateThursday, July 24, 2025Conference Call Time8:30AM ETUpcoming EarningsPHINIA's Q3 2025 earnings is scheduled for Tuesday, October 28, 2025, with a conference call scheduled at 8:30 AM ET. Check back for transcripts, audio, and key financial metrics as they become available.Q3 2025 Earnings ReportConference Call ResourcesConference Call AudioConference Call TranscriptSlide DeckPress Release (8-K)Quarterly Report (10-Q)SEC FilingEarnings HistoryCompany ProfileSlide DeckFull Screen Slide DeckPowered by PHINIA Q2 2025 Earnings Call TranscriptProvided by QuartrJuly 24, 2025 ShareLink copied to clipboard.Key Takeaways Positive Sentiment: Net sales in Q2 rose 2.5% year-over-year to $890 million with adjusted EBITDA of $126 million (14.2% margin), boosting adjusted EPS to $1.27 from $0.88. Positive Sentiment: Returned $50 million to shareholders via $40 million in share repurchases and $10 million in dividends, and agreed to acquire Swedish Electromagnetic Invest for $47 million to bolster alternative-fuel systems. Positive Sentiment: Refined 2025 outlook by raising the low end of net sales guidance to $3.33 billion and targeting an adjusted EBITDA margin of 13.7%–14.1%, while maintaining free cash flow guidance at $160 million–$200 million. Neutral Sentiment: Achieved substantial mitigation of tariff impacts, limiting the net Q2 headwind to $2 million through regional sourcing and customer price recoveries, with final audits expected by Q3. Negative Sentiment: Identified as the supplier in Ford’s recall of 850,000 vehicles for a potential fuel-pump defect; discussions with Ford are ongoing but no changes to current accruals. AI Generated. May Contain Errors.Conference Call Audio Live Call not available Earnings Conference CallPHINIA Q2 202500:00 / 00:00Speed:1x1.25x1.5x2xThere are 6 speakers on the call. Speaker 400:00:00Good morning. My name is Audra and I will be your conference operator today. At this time, I would like to welcome everyone to the PHINIA second quarter 2025 earnings call. Today's conference is being recorded. All lines have been placed on mute to prevent any background noise. After the speaker's remarks, there will be a question and answer session. If you would like to ask a question during this time, simply press the star key followed by the number one on your telephone keypad. If you would like to withdraw your question, press star one again. At this time, I would like to turn the conference over to Kellen Ferris, Vice President of Investor Relations. Please go ahead. Speaker 500:00:37Thank you and good morning everyone. We appreciate you joining us. Our conference call materials were issued this morning and are available on PHINIA's Investor Relations website, including a slide deck that we'll be referencing in our remarks. We are also broadcasting this call via webcast. Joining us today are Brady Ericson, CEO. Speaker 200:00:56And Chris Gropp, CFO. Speaker 500:00:58During this call we will make forward-looking statements, which are based on management's current expectations and are subject to risks and uncertainties. Actual results may differ materially from these. Speaker 200:01:08Statements due to a variety of factors. Speaker 500:01:10Including those described in our SEC filings. We caution listeners not to place undue reliance upon any such forward-looking statements, and with that, it is my pleasure to turn the call over to Brady. Thank you, Kellen, and thank you, everyone, for joining us this morning. I will start with some overall comments on the second quarter and then provide some thoughts on 2025 and beyond. Chris will then provide additional details on our financials and discuss our 2025 guidance. We will then open the call for questions. Earlier this month, we celebrated the two-year anniversary of the spinoff from our former parent. We've accomplished a lot in that short period of time, expanding into new markets, establishing a strong foundation, refinancing our debt, and notably returning over $464 million to shareholders in the form of dividends and share repurchases. Speaker 500:02:03For all their hard work and dedication, I want to say thank you to our entire PHINIA team. Now, our results for the second quarter highlight the strength and resiliency of our business in the face of a challenging and unpredictable environment. Before getting into the specific operating results and commentary, I want to highlight a few key messages from the quarter. We returned approximately $50 million to shareholders via share repurchase and dividends. Our balance sheet remains healthy. We're moving into new markets and winning new business, including Conquest. We recently announced our first acquisition. Both segments performed well as we managed tariffs, and lastly, we were refining to a narrow 2025 guidance. Now let me discuss each of these in more detail. Speaker 500:02:55During the second quarter, for the first time since the spin, both Aftermarket Solutions segment sales and Fuel Systems segment sales were higher on a year-over-year basis, albeit benefiting from favorable FX and customer tariff recoveries. It was still nice to see net sales in the quarter were $890 million, up 2.5% from the same period of the prior year, which included contract manufacturing or CMA sales. Excluding the impacts of foreign currency and CMAs that ended in 2024, sales increased 1%. Both segments also had strong adjusted operating income performance, Aftermarket Solutions again over 16% and Fuel Systems returning above 10% to 11.5%. While the external environment continues to evolve, our results reflect our strong operational execution along with our diverse products, markets, and customers we serve, which drive more stable and predictable results. Speaker 500:03:58We reported adjusted EBITDA of $126 million with a margin of 14.2%, a 60 basis point year-over-year expansion. Our EBITDA margin expansion highlights the success of the actions we are taking, which include an increased focus on pricing, supplier cost savings efforts, and productivity improvements. Total segment adjusted operating margin was 13.4%, a 120 basis point increase when compared with the second quarter of 2024. We are also starting to show solid progress on reducing our tax rate and have adjusted our expected range for the full year accordingly. Adjusted earnings per diluted share, excluding non-operating items as detailed in the appendix, was $1.27, up from $0.88 in the same period of the prior year. In an uncertain market, our performance for the first half was solid. Let me now provide a quick update on the impact of tariffs. Speaker 500:05:01Our strategy to source and produce in the same region where we sell to customers not only results in improved customer service but also limits our exposure to tariffs. The diversification of our customer base and our geographic footprint puts us in an advantaged position to the extent we have direct tariff exposure. We believe we have substantially mitigated the current tariffs with customer price increases, tariff recoveries from OEMs, and supply chain initiatives. We still had a net headwind in Q2, but substantial progress has been made and we expect further progress in Q3, including completing the necessary customer audits. As a reminder, the majority of our products produced in Mexico are USMCA compliant and we continue to work with customers and look at our operations for ways to drive our compliancy higher. Speaker 500:05:55Our strong financial performance in the quarter is a testament to our team's disciplined execution in a highly dynamic environment. We remain nimble and focused on delivering positive revenue growth while managing costs in a deliberate manner and leveraging our global sourcing infrastructure to adeptly respond to geopolitical and market uncertainties. Let us now move to slides 5 and 6 for discussion of new business wins. We continue to leverage our strengths, particularly during these uncertain times, offering our customers great products manufactured at state-of-the-art facilities, industry-leading SKU coverage, and order fill rates. Our well-recognized brands and high-quality products are helping us secure new customers and increasing share of wallet with existing customers. We are privileged to work with a diverse and innovative group of customers. Now let me highlight a few recent business wins on page five. Speaker 500:06:56New business award for gas direct injection or GDI fuel rail assembly and pump for a leading domestic Chinese OEM to be applied on new hybrid engine platform for multiple vehicle models within China and for a Brazilian market flex fuel E100 application, first GDI pump business with a leading North American OEM, a port fuel injection or PFI compressed natural gas injector for a major Indian OEM. Our first PFI application with this customer. Moving next to our aftermarket business, which is an important driver of sales as shown on slide 6, we're also winning both new business and expanding relationships with existing customers. We highlighted an aftermarket business win with a new diesel fuel injection service with a major off-road equipment supplier in our earnings release. Speaker 500:07:51As shown on this page, there were other key wins across product lines and geographic regions, including shared wallet gains with customers, growing our propulsion agnostic braking and suspension technology. The outlook is encouraging for non-discretionary aftermarket parts for the internal combustion engine market. According to industry reports, the average age of U.S. light vehicles increased by two months for the second consecutive year and rose to roughly 12.8 years, according to the same report. We're focused on leveraging our ability to offer a broad range of products for all makes and models, not only light passenger vehicles globally, but also light commercial trucks, medium duty trucks, and heavy duty Class 8 trucks. Tariffs continue to cause uncertainty. Despite these challenges, we expect rational prices for our products from our customers. We remain committed to offering quality products and being a reliable partner. Speaker 500:08:50This, combined with exceptional value-added services, will continue to distinguish our company. Our expanded portfolio of innovative solutions has further diversified our end markets. As I mentioned on a previous call, we're now winning new business in the aerospace and defense industry, and we're actively pursuing additional opportunities across both military and civil aviation. To support this initiative. We recently exhibited at the Paris Air Show, our first time as an exhibitor. We are bringing our expertise for high performance applications to this industry and are committed to becoming a long term high value partner in the global aerospace supply chain. Speaker 500:09:34As a reminder on Slide 7, our long term strategy is to grow our CV Industrial and Aerospace OE business and aftermarket and service offerings, which currently account for 73% or roughly $2.5 billion of our revenues, while maintaining our light vehicle OE sales level at roughly $900 million through market share gains. Favorable long term industry dynamics continue to bode well for the company, and we're well positioned for sustainable top and bottom line growth. Now moving on to Slide 8, capital allocation. Consistent with our capital allocation priorities to invest in our business for long term profitable growth, we invested $34 million in capital expenditure during the quarter. Speaker 500:10:22I'm also pleased that in June we announced our first acquisition with plans to acquire Swedish Electromagnet Invest (SEM), a 100-year-old leading provider of advanced natural gas, hydrogen and other alternative fuel ignition systems, injector stators, and linear position sensors for the commercial vehicle and off highway sectors. This strategic transaction brings together two industry leaders in alternative fuel technology. SEM also opens up adjacent market opportunities for us as well as providing customers with a wider range of products and turnkey solutions. We will pay approximately $47 million for SEM, which is expected to generate approximately $50 million in annual revenue and approximately $10 million of annual adjusted EBITDA. We expect the transaction to close in the third quarter. Also on the capital allocation front, during the quarter we returned $50 million to our shareholders, including $10 million in quarterly dividends and $40 million in share repurchases. Speaker 500:11:25We have $224 million remaining under the current repurchase authorization. We expect to continue to look at what's best for our shareholders on a quarterly basis. Since the spinoff in July of 2023, we have repurchased approximately 18.6% of the outstanding shares. We have a solid balance sheet with cash and cash equivalents of $347 million, and combined with our undrawn revolver, our total liquidity is approximately $850 million. Importantly, our net leverage ratio remained at 1.4, just under our 1.5 times target. Looking forward, global economic activity remains subdued, but we continue to perform well and are maintaining our full year outlook, which Chris will discuss in more detail to wrap up. We're pleased with our solid first half performance and the momentum we carry into the second half of the year. This reflects the operational improvements we've made and continue to make throughout the business. Speaker 500:12:30Despite ongoing economic uncertainties, we are optimistic and encouraged by our team's execution. Looking to Q3, I look forward to another milestone when we compare our results to clean numbers from Q3 of 2024 as we had substantially exited all TSAs and CMAs by then, along with all corporate costs being in place. With that, I'll hand it over to Chris who will walk us through our Q2 results and discuss our outlook for the year. Chris. Speaker 300:13:04Thanks Brady, and thank you all for joining us this morning. As a reminder, reconciliations of all non-GAAP financial measures that I will discuss can be found in today's press release and in the presentation, both of which are on our website. Looking at slide 4, our business and financial results were solid and in line with our expectations in the face of a challenging geopolitical economic environment. We generated $890 million in net sales, an increase of 2.5% versus the same period a year ago. In contrast to the first quarter, we experienced favorable foreign exchange tailwinds and began recovery of new tariff regimes from customers. Excluding the impact from foreign currency and contract manufacturing sales that ended last year, sales increased 1% year over year, reflecting the noted tariff recoveries and improved pricing. Speaker 300:14:06Our Aftermarket Solutions segment sales were up slightly year over year, primarily due to favorable SX tariff recovery and volume increases in the European aftermarket. This was partially offset by lower OE volumes in North America, mainly related to heavy duty product lines. Fuel Systems segment sales were up 3.7% including prior year contract manufacturing sales or 4.7% excluding the effect of contract manufacturing. The increase in Fuel Systems was also attributable to favorable FX and customer tariff recoveries. From a core business performance standpoint, our segments reported solid overall margins. Q2 segment adjusted operating margin was healthy at 13.4%, up 120 basis points from the same period of the prior year. This was primarily related to favorable volume and product mix combined with positive supply chain savings offset by net tariff and other costs. Speaker 300:15:19Our adjusted net earnings per diluted share in the second quarter were $1.27, which excludes non-operating items which are described in the appendix of our presentation and influenced by lower share count as we continued share repurchases. Moving to slide 10, adjusted operating income was $94 million or 10.6%, up 90 basis points. Corporate costs were higher mainly on increased employee stock compensation plans. The Aftermarket Solutions segment margin increased 100 basis points, ending the quarter at 16.1%, benefiting from favorable product mix. This was partially offset by some slower customer tariff recoveries which we expect to recover via pass through to customers in the coming months. Q2 Fuel Systems segment margins were 11.5%, up 140 basis points year over year, primarily due to supply chain savings, productivity improvements, and favorable foreign currency impacts. Speaker 300:16:31Let me now bridge our adjusted revenue and adjusted EBITDA for the second quarter, which you can find on pages 11 and 12 in the presentation. Beginning with revenue compared to Q2 2024, FX was a tailwind of $18 million as the dollar weakened mainly against the British pound and euro. Revenue in the quarter also benefited from tariff recovery of $9 million. Overall, we saw strength in sales within independent aftermarket in Europe, light passenger and light commercial vehicle sales in China, while commercial and heavy duty vehicle sales remained flat to down in all regions. Moving next to the bridge on slide 12, adjusted EBITDA was $126 million with a margin of 14.2%, representing a year over year increase of $9 million, 60 basis points. Higher sales created a tailwind of $6 million in the quarter on positive product sales mix. Speaker 300:17:35Corporate costs were higher by $4 million, reflecting increased employee costs. Foreign exchange created gains of $8 million. Supplier cost savings were a tailwind of $6 million, offset by net tariff costs of $2 million and other costs of $5 million. Now for a quick recap of our balance sheet and cash flow. Maintaining a healthy balance sheet is a priority for us and provides the financial flexibility to support our growth initiatives and capital allocation priorities. We ended the quarter with substantial current liquidity. Cash and cash equivalents were $347 million, while available capacity under our credit facilities remained at approximately half a billion dollars for resulting liquidity of approximately $850 million. Net cash generated from operations in Q2 was $57 million, compared to $109 million in the same period of the prior year. Speaker 300:18:35During the quarter, adjusted free cash flow was $20 million compared to $108 million in the same period of the prior year. Working capital was negative in the quarter as our Aftermarket Solutions segment added strategic inventory to help ensure full product coverage over the busy summer season. In addition to timing for capital spend, we continue to remain confident in our ability to generate full year adjusted free cash flow and in the $160 million to $200 million range, as noted and reiterated in our 2025. Speaker 300:19:08Outlook. Speaker 300:19:11Capital spend was $34 million or 3.8% of sales and $69 million or 4.1% of sales for the three and six month periods respectively. Funds were primarily used for investments in new machinery and equipment for new program launches. Now moving to Slide 13 for a discussion of our 2025 outlook. As a reminder, more than 60% of our sales are generated outside of the U.S. and our strategy is to source and produce in the same region where we sell to customers, which reduces our tariff exposures. Also, as a reminder, we have not closed on the announced Swedish Electromagnet Invest (SEM) acquisition, so our outlook does not factor in the proposed transaction. Speaker 300:19:58With all this in mind, we are refining our outlook on net sales to increase the low end from $3.23 billion to $3.33 billion and keeping the high end of our range the same at $3.43 billion. This projection tightens our expected sales range and acknowledges the increased sales as a result of tariffs and foreign exchange offset by continued softness in our CV business. Adjusted EBITDA and adjusted EBITDA margin are projected to be $455 million and 13.7% of sales to $485 million and 14.1% of sales, adjusted from our previous guidance of $450 million and 13.7% of sales to $490 million and 14.5% of sales. The performance of our segments gives us confidence that we can achieve our originally stated adjusted EBITDA. However, the addition of tariff revenue with zero margin will result in a slightly lower percentage of sales return. Speaker 300:21:09We project no changes to our full year adjusted free cash flow guidance which remains strong despite minor delays related to timing on tariff recovery. Our adjusted tax rate is now projected to be an improved 36% to 40% range from our original projection of 38% to 42% as ongoing tax structuring projects gain traction and progress. We do not expect this will have a material impact on our cash taxes in 2025. Our diverse and global customer base continues to provide resilience to our business in the face of a challenging macro-economic environment. This strong foundation, combined with our performance year to date and our outlook for the second half, gives us a high level of confidence in our trajectory for the remainder of the year. Speaker 300:22:06We remain extremely proud of the focus and execution demonstrated by our teams who continue to drive value for our customers and shareholders alike. We will continue to execute on our strategic priorities in operating with excellence and driving productivity. We are pleased with our financial performance to date and are optimistic about the second half of the year as the teams are expected to welcome and work to integrate the SEM business into PHINIA. In closing, we remain firmly committed to building sustainable value for all our stakeholders. Thank you all for your attention today and we will now move to the Q and A portion of our call. Operator, please open the lines for questions. Speaker 400:22:54Thank you. We will now begin the question and answer session. If you have dialed in and would like to ask a question, please press Star one on your telephone keypad to raise your hand and join the queue. If you would like to withdraw your question, simply press Star one. Again, we'll take our first question from Bobby Brooks at Northland Capital Markets. Speaker 500:23:15Hey, good morning guys. Speaker 500:23:16Thank you for taking my question. It was really great to see such a strong bounce back in the business from the first quarter, and you guys touched on it a little bit, but I was curious if we could dive a little bit deeper on the dynamics driving that. Obviously, you guys had very good visibility on the bounce back, but maybe it was more so dynamics in the first quarter that were a drag and alleviated in 2Q. Just curious to hear more discussion on this. Speaker 500:23:43As we kind of explained at the end of Q1 call, you know. Speaker 300:23:47Things came back from the Christmas holiday shutdown a little bit slower, and it took a little bit of a while for folks to ramp up as they did some inventory adjustments. We saw that and tried to communicate that into Q1, which is why we had confidence in us still hitting our H1 expectations. With what the order board that we saw for Q2, obviously there was a little bit of benefit with FX, a little bit of benefit with tariffs, but we saw some of that already coming in at the end of Q1. We continue to see good momentum going into the second half as well, which is why we upped the lower end of our revenue guide as well. Speaker 300:24:34Got it. You mentioned you hosted the booth for the first time at the Paris Air Show during the quarter. I was just curious to hear what were the conversations like there and maybe remind us on the timing. What exactly are some of those aerospace certifications you're working towards this year for launching your first product or producing your first products in the fourth quarter? Speaker 300:24:59Yeah, we've got our first launch in the fourth quarter, our second launch in Q1 of next year. Things are progressing well. I think at the Paris Air Show as well, we got our kind of first piece, kind of plaque from our customer. Safran is the one that we're working with and had a great meeting with them as well as great meetings with a number of other folks while we were there. Our certification process is going well. We had another audit here this past month or actually earlier this month, went well, and we're just kind of going through that process. We're on pace to get, you know, fully certified and approved. I think the final certification will come a little bit after SOP because they want to see some of the production going through. Everyone's very confident and excited about our progress so far. Speaker 300:25:51Got it. Speaker 300:25:52Could you just, for my last one, dive a little bit deeper on the strategic rationale behind this Swedish Electromagnet Invest (SEM)? The SEM acquisition. Do you guys see significant cross sell opportunities to your current commercial vehicle customer base? Maybe. How should we think about the growth opportunity with this? Because it seems like a really unique technology you could leverage. Speaker 300:26:18Yeah, I mean obviously they're focused on a lot of alternative tech or alternative fuels, you know, hydrogen, natural gas and others. That's an area where we have a lot of fuel injection and we have the engine control unit. We have a number of applications and test engines that we have going on with customers that have the SEM injector ignition system, our injection system, and our ECU that's controlling the calibration of both the ignition as well as the fuel injection. We see this as a nice opportunity to provide greater system solutions for our customers because we're already doing a lot of the calibration work on these components. This is a way for us to provide better service to them. SEM is a small company and they've had a difficult time expanding globally. Speaker 300:27:13We can leverage our existing manufacturing sites and our existing engineering teams that are in all of the different regions to support customers locally and accelerate their growth. Our view is that on the commercial vehicle and industrial side, alternative fuels, more carbon neutral and carbon free fuels are a good trend. We see opportunities for this product line to continue to grow along with our alternative fuel fuel injection systems. Speaker 300:27:44Appreciate the call as always, Brady. Thank you very much. I'll turn to the queue. Speaker 400:27:50Thank you. We'll move next to Jake Scholl at BNP Paribas. Speaker 500:27:58Hey guys. Speaker 500:28:00First I just wanted to ask about the Ford recall announced in the quarter. Ford announced a recall of 850,000 vehicles for potentially faulty fuel pump. PHINIA was the supplier named in the recall. Could you talk about just any impact you expect to have on your financials this year from the recall? Speaker 500:28:20Thank you. Yeah, I mean there's nothing we've. Speaker 300:28:25We didn't update our disclosures, and there's really nothing for us to say. I think this is a Ford issue. They made a decision. They're working with NHTSA on that decision, and we're comfortable with our numbers at this point. Any specific questions on the cause or why we would reference to. Speaker 500:28:46Ford. Speaker 300:28:49All right, thanks, Brady. Speaker 300:28:50Can you talk a little bit about your capital allocation intentions for the rest of the year? You did $42 million of buybacks in the first quarter when most of the suppliers didn't do anything. We also have the Swedish Electromagnet Invest (SEM) acquisition closing later this year. How do you think about repurchases for the remainder of the year? Thank you. Speaker 500:29:14Yeah, just to clarify. Speaker 300:29:16I think the total was actually 40. I think there was $2 million of tax, I think on their excise tax that comes with some of those buybacks. As we mentioned in the call, we're going to continue to look at it. We still have a very strong balance sheet. We have plenty of cash. Cash flow was a little bit lighter than we wanted in Q2 because of some of the working capital, but we're confident that we'll work through that throughout the year. We'll still have plenty of cash flow even after the Swedish Electromagnet Invest (SEM) acquisition. We're still under our leverage target as well. We still feel that, as we purchased in the quarter, we thought it was a good investment for our shareholders to continue to purchase our shares at these prices. Speaker 300:30:04I think we'll continue to look at it on a quarterly basis and take a look at our cash flow and our expectations and make a decision on our repurchase plans for the quarter. I think we mentioned in the. Speaker 500:30:20Last one, I don't. Speaker 300:30:21(SEM) is not going to. I mean, it'll take some of our cash, but it's not, it's maybe a typical 1/4 of our cash flow, and we don't feel pressured on our cash or our balance sheet at this point. Speaker 500:30:39All right, thanks, Brady. Speaker 400:30:43As a reminder, if you would like to ask a question, please press Star one. We'll go next to Joseph Spack at UBS. Speaker 200:30:53Good morning, everyone. Chris, maybe just to confirm, I'm just going through some of the notes. You said the tariff recoveries was, you said, you know, $6 million. I'm sorry, I think you said about $6 million or $5 million recoveries. My notes actually a little bit shaky here, but I just want to confirm that that was related to tariffs. You said the net tariff was minus $2 million. Speaker 300:31:22Are you talking about? Speaker 200:31:24The same thing there when you're talking about recoveries and the net tariff headwind? Speaker 300:31:29Morning, Joe. The total tariff is, I mean, you can see it in our queue pretty clearly. In the quarter we recovered $9 million, and then we had $11 million outgoing. That's the net of $2 million negative. That combines with the $4 million that we had in Q1. We see we're going to get it back all full year. Right now, $9 million is the starting point for starting to recovery, but there's just a little bit that's lagging. Speaker 300:32:01Yeah, I think the team did a good job. I think we closed the gap. I think as I mentioned, we still got a little bit of work to do here in Q3 to kind of finalize that out, but team's making good progress. Just one note, I don't think the Q is out yet, so we may not have the Q. Speaker 300:32:15Sorry. Speaker 300:32:15Sorry about that, Joe. Speaker 300:32:17I live in my own world. Speaker 300:32:22Okay. Speaker 200:32:25Yeah, I guess if I look at like slide. Speaker 300:32:3712, how does that. Speaker 200:32:38You say supplier savings are recovering $6 million. I guess how does that sort of tie into the numbers you just gave? That's sort of where I'm confused. Speaker 300:32:49Supplier savings is just GSM material savings. That is not the same thing. If you go down, it says tariff cost net of recovery of 2. If you go to the pre, I mean, we're not laying out the tariff in here. When the queue comes out, you'll see it very plainly because it's in the walk. Here it's a little bit more. The supplier savings is literally just our GSM guys working on cost savings and material cost downs. Speaker 300:33:20Okay. Speaker 200:33:21Okay. I guess since the queue is not yet out, Brady, in relation to an answer earlier about the fuel pump issue with Ford, you mentioned you updated your disclosures. Is there anything else you could tell us there? Was there sort of a change to your accrual balance? Just broadly, when issues do arise, how does the rule of thumb for who's responsible for what work, like parts versus labor, work? Is that just a negotiation with your customers and maybe NHTSA? Speaker 500:34:02Yeah, I guess in the. Speaker 300:34:03There's no change to our disclosures and no change to our expected accruals. You know, they're kind of in line. This is just unique in the fact that it's public. There are a lot of different discussions we have with customers. It's a complex system. We just got involved here recently in that, and we'll leave it to Ford to have any specific response to that. At this point, there's no change on our side. Okay, but is. Speaker 200:34:37Is that conversation with Ford finalized at this point, or is that still an ongoing discussion? Speaker 300:34:45I mean, they haven't announced a fix yet, so they don't have a solution of how they're going to solve it. It's still an ongoing discussion as we have many ongoing discussions in general. Speaker 200:34:56Okay, thanks so much, team. Speaker 400:35:00Thank you. Speaker 500:35:00Thank you. Speaker 400:35:03That concludes our Q and A session. I will now turn the conference back over to Brady Ericson for closing remarks. Speaker 500:35:10Great. Thanks, everybody. Speaker 300:35:11Thanks for the questions. Really appreciate it. I just want to thank all of our employees around the world. A good, solid quarter. We're taking a look at things and, you know, I think it's. Speaker 500:35:22One of our revenue wise, one of. Speaker 300:35:24Our best quarters since we've spun, really good EPS from the team as well, and really good, solid performance in a relatively challenging market. We expect to continue to operate in a very efficient manner going forward. Speaker 500:35:42I really thank the team for that. Speaker 300:35:44Thank you very much and we'll. Speaker 500:35:45Talk to you soon. Speaker 200:35:47Thank you. Speaker 400:35:48This concludes today's conference call. Thank you for your participation. You may now disconnect.Read morePowered by Earnings DocumentsSlide DeckPress Release(8-K)Quarterly report(10-Q) PHINIA Earnings HeadlinesPHINIA (NYSE:PHIN) and Cooper-Standard (NYSE:CPS) Head-To-Head ContrastOctober 18 at 3:15 AM | americanbankingnews.comStocks With Rising Relative Strength: PHINIAOctober 15 at 2:21 PM | msn.comNvidia CEO’s Regret: ‘I Wish I Gave [Elon] More’…Earlier this year I predicted that the only reason Elon was in Washington was to push an AI-first agenda. Since then, we've seen a massive rollout of AI legislation, and the some of the stocks I recommended back then have doubled the market's return. 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Email Address About PHINIAPHINIA (NYSE:PHIN) engages in the development, design, and manufacture of integrated components and systems that optimize performance, increase efficiency, and reduce emissions in combustion and hybrid propulsion for commercial and light vehicles, and industrial applications. The company operates through Fuel Systems and Aftermarket segments. The Fuel Systems segment provides advanced fuel injection systems, including pumps, injectors, fuel rail assemblies, and engine control modules; fuel delivery modules; canisters; sensors; and electronic control modules. The segment also offers complete systems comprising associated software and calibration services, that reduce emissions and improve fuel economy for traditional and hybrid applications. The Aftermarket segment is involved in the sale of starters, alternators, and other new and remanufactured products, as well as maintenance, test equipment, and vehicle diagnostics solutions. It servs original equipment manufacturers of passenger cars, trucks, vans, sport-utility vehicles, medium-duty and heavy-duty trucks, and buses, as well as other off-highway construction, marine, and agricultural and industrial applications. 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There are 6 speakers on the call. Speaker 400:00:00Good morning. My name is Audra and I will be your conference operator today. At this time, I would like to welcome everyone to the PHINIA second quarter 2025 earnings call. Today's conference is being recorded. All lines have been placed on mute to prevent any background noise. After the speaker's remarks, there will be a question and answer session. If you would like to ask a question during this time, simply press the star key followed by the number one on your telephone keypad. If you would like to withdraw your question, press star one again. At this time, I would like to turn the conference over to Kellen Ferris, Vice President of Investor Relations. Please go ahead. Speaker 500:00:37Thank you and good morning everyone. We appreciate you joining us. Our conference call materials were issued this morning and are available on PHINIA's Investor Relations website, including a slide deck that we'll be referencing in our remarks. We are also broadcasting this call via webcast. Joining us today are Brady Ericson, CEO. Speaker 200:00:56And Chris Gropp, CFO. Speaker 500:00:58During this call we will make forward-looking statements, which are based on management's current expectations and are subject to risks and uncertainties. Actual results may differ materially from these. Speaker 200:01:08Statements due to a variety of factors. Speaker 500:01:10Including those described in our SEC filings. We caution listeners not to place undue reliance upon any such forward-looking statements, and with that, it is my pleasure to turn the call over to Brady. Thank you, Kellen, and thank you, everyone, for joining us this morning. I will start with some overall comments on the second quarter and then provide some thoughts on 2025 and beyond. Chris will then provide additional details on our financials and discuss our 2025 guidance. We will then open the call for questions. Earlier this month, we celebrated the two-year anniversary of the spinoff from our former parent. We've accomplished a lot in that short period of time, expanding into new markets, establishing a strong foundation, refinancing our debt, and notably returning over $464 million to shareholders in the form of dividends and share repurchases. Speaker 500:02:03For all their hard work and dedication, I want to say thank you to our entire PHINIA team. Now, our results for the second quarter highlight the strength and resiliency of our business in the face of a challenging and unpredictable environment. Before getting into the specific operating results and commentary, I want to highlight a few key messages from the quarter. We returned approximately $50 million to shareholders via share repurchase and dividends. Our balance sheet remains healthy. We're moving into new markets and winning new business, including Conquest. We recently announced our first acquisition. Both segments performed well as we managed tariffs, and lastly, we were refining to a narrow 2025 guidance. Now let me discuss each of these in more detail. Speaker 500:02:55During the second quarter, for the first time since the spin, both Aftermarket Solutions segment sales and Fuel Systems segment sales were higher on a year-over-year basis, albeit benefiting from favorable FX and customer tariff recoveries. It was still nice to see net sales in the quarter were $890 million, up 2.5% from the same period of the prior year, which included contract manufacturing or CMA sales. Excluding the impacts of foreign currency and CMAs that ended in 2024, sales increased 1%. Both segments also had strong adjusted operating income performance, Aftermarket Solutions again over 16% and Fuel Systems returning above 10% to 11.5%. While the external environment continues to evolve, our results reflect our strong operational execution along with our diverse products, markets, and customers we serve, which drive more stable and predictable results. Speaker 500:03:58We reported adjusted EBITDA of $126 million with a margin of 14.2%, a 60 basis point year-over-year expansion. Our EBITDA margin expansion highlights the success of the actions we are taking, which include an increased focus on pricing, supplier cost savings efforts, and productivity improvements. Total segment adjusted operating margin was 13.4%, a 120 basis point increase when compared with the second quarter of 2024. We are also starting to show solid progress on reducing our tax rate and have adjusted our expected range for the full year accordingly. Adjusted earnings per diluted share, excluding non-operating items as detailed in the appendix, was $1.27, up from $0.88 in the same period of the prior year. In an uncertain market, our performance for the first half was solid. Let me now provide a quick update on the impact of tariffs. Speaker 500:05:01Our strategy to source and produce in the same region where we sell to customers not only results in improved customer service but also limits our exposure to tariffs. The diversification of our customer base and our geographic footprint puts us in an advantaged position to the extent we have direct tariff exposure. We believe we have substantially mitigated the current tariffs with customer price increases, tariff recoveries from OEMs, and supply chain initiatives. We still had a net headwind in Q2, but substantial progress has been made and we expect further progress in Q3, including completing the necessary customer audits. As a reminder, the majority of our products produced in Mexico are USMCA compliant and we continue to work with customers and look at our operations for ways to drive our compliancy higher. Speaker 500:05:55Our strong financial performance in the quarter is a testament to our team's disciplined execution in a highly dynamic environment. We remain nimble and focused on delivering positive revenue growth while managing costs in a deliberate manner and leveraging our global sourcing infrastructure to adeptly respond to geopolitical and market uncertainties. Let us now move to slides 5 and 6 for discussion of new business wins. We continue to leverage our strengths, particularly during these uncertain times, offering our customers great products manufactured at state-of-the-art facilities, industry-leading SKU coverage, and order fill rates. Our well-recognized brands and high-quality products are helping us secure new customers and increasing share of wallet with existing customers. We are privileged to work with a diverse and innovative group of customers. Now let me highlight a few recent business wins on page five. Speaker 500:06:56New business award for gas direct injection or GDI fuel rail assembly and pump for a leading domestic Chinese OEM to be applied on new hybrid engine platform for multiple vehicle models within China and for a Brazilian market flex fuel E100 application, first GDI pump business with a leading North American OEM, a port fuel injection or PFI compressed natural gas injector for a major Indian OEM. Our first PFI application with this customer. Moving next to our aftermarket business, which is an important driver of sales as shown on slide 6, we're also winning both new business and expanding relationships with existing customers. We highlighted an aftermarket business win with a new diesel fuel injection service with a major off-road equipment supplier in our earnings release. Speaker 500:07:51As shown on this page, there were other key wins across product lines and geographic regions, including shared wallet gains with customers, growing our propulsion agnostic braking and suspension technology. The outlook is encouraging for non-discretionary aftermarket parts for the internal combustion engine market. According to industry reports, the average age of U.S. light vehicles increased by two months for the second consecutive year and rose to roughly 12.8 years, according to the same report. We're focused on leveraging our ability to offer a broad range of products for all makes and models, not only light passenger vehicles globally, but also light commercial trucks, medium duty trucks, and heavy duty Class 8 trucks. Tariffs continue to cause uncertainty. Despite these challenges, we expect rational prices for our products from our customers. We remain committed to offering quality products and being a reliable partner. Speaker 500:08:50This, combined with exceptional value-added services, will continue to distinguish our company. Our expanded portfolio of innovative solutions has further diversified our end markets. As I mentioned on a previous call, we're now winning new business in the aerospace and defense industry, and we're actively pursuing additional opportunities across both military and civil aviation. To support this initiative. We recently exhibited at the Paris Air Show, our first time as an exhibitor. We are bringing our expertise for high performance applications to this industry and are committed to becoming a long term high value partner in the global aerospace supply chain. Speaker 500:09:34As a reminder on Slide 7, our long term strategy is to grow our CV Industrial and Aerospace OE business and aftermarket and service offerings, which currently account for 73% or roughly $2.5 billion of our revenues, while maintaining our light vehicle OE sales level at roughly $900 million through market share gains. Favorable long term industry dynamics continue to bode well for the company, and we're well positioned for sustainable top and bottom line growth. Now moving on to Slide 8, capital allocation. Consistent with our capital allocation priorities to invest in our business for long term profitable growth, we invested $34 million in capital expenditure during the quarter. Speaker 500:10:22I'm also pleased that in June we announced our first acquisition with plans to acquire Swedish Electromagnet Invest (SEM), a 100-year-old leading provider of advanced natural gas, hydrogen and other alternative fuel ignition systems, injector stators, and linear position sensors for the commercial vehicle and off highway sectors. This strategic transaction brings together two industry leaders in alternative fuel technology. SEM also opens up adjacent market opportunities for us as well as providing customers with a wider range of products and turnkey solutions. We will pay approximately $47 million for SEM, which is expected to generate approximately $50 million in annual revenue and approximately $10 million of annual adjusted EBITDA. We expect the transaction to close in the third quarter. Also on the capital allocation front, during the quarter we returned $50 million to our shareholders, including $10 million in quarterly dividends and $40 million in share repurchases. Speaker 500:11:25We have $224 million remaining under the current repurchase authorization. We expect to continue to look at what's best for our shareholders on a quarterly basis. Since the spinoff in July of 2023, we have repurchased approximately 18.6% of the outstanding shares. We have a solid balance sheet with cash and cash equivalents of $347 million, and combined with our undrawn revolver, our total liquidity is approximately $850 million. Importantly, our net leverage ratio remained at 1.4, just under our 1.5 times target. Looking forward, global economic activity remains subdued, but we continue to perform well and are maintaining our full year outlook, which Chris will discuss in more detail to wrap up. We're pleased with our solid first half performance and the momentum we carry into the second half of the year. This reflects the operational improvements we've made and continue to make throughout the business. Speaker 500:12:30Despite ongoing economic uncertainties, we are optimistic and encouraged by our team's execution. Looking to Q3, I look forward to another milestone when we compare our results to clean numbers from Q3 of 2024 as we had substantially exited all TSAs and CMAs by then, along with all corporate costs being in place. With that, I'll hand it over to Chris who will walk us through our Q2 results and discuss our outlook for the year. Chris. Speaker 300:13:04Thanks Brady, and thank you all for joining us this morning. As a reminder, reconciliations of all non-GAAP financial measures that I will discuss can be found in today's press release and in the presentation, both of which are on our website. Looking at slide 4, our business and financial results were solid and in line with our expectations in the face of a challenging geopolitical economic environment. We generated $890 million in net sales, an increase of 2.5% versus the same period a year ago. In contrast to the first quarter, we experienced favorable foreign exchange tailwinds and began recovery of new tariff regimes from customers. Excluding the impact from foreign currency and contract manufacturing sales that ended last year, sales increased 1% year over year, reflecting the noted tariff recoveries and improved pricing. Speaker 300:14:06Our Aftermarket Solutions segment sales were up slightly year over year, primarily due to favorable SX tariff recovery and volume increases in the European aftermarket. This was partially offset by lower OE volumes in North America, mainly related to heavy duty product lines. Fuel Systems segment sales were up 3.7% including prior year contract manufacturing sales or 4.7% excluding the effect of contract manufacturing. The increase in Fuel Systems was also attributable to favorable FX and customer tariff recoveries. From a core business performance standpoint, our segments reported solid overall margins. Q2 segment adjusted operating margin was healthy at 13.4%, up 120 basis points from the same period of the prior year. This was primarily related to favorable volume and product mix combined with positive supply chain savings offset by net tariff and other costs. Speaker 300:15:19Our adjusted net earnings per diluted share in the second quarter were $1.27, which excludes non-operating items which are described in the appendix of our presentation and influenced by lower share count as we continued share repurchases. Moving to slide 10, adjusted operating income was $94 million or 10.6%, up 90 basis points. Corporate costs were higher mainly on increased employee stock compensation plans. The Aftermarket Solutions segment margin increased 100 basis points, ending the quarter at 16.1%, benefiting from favorable product mix. This was partially offset by some slower customer tariff recoveries which we expect to recover via pass through to customers in the coming months. Q2 Fuel Systems segment margins were 11.5%, up 140 basis points year over year, primarily due to supply chain savings, productivity improvements, and favorable foreign currency impacts. Speaker 300:16:31Let me now bridge our adjusted revenue and adjusted EBITDA for the second quarter, which you can find on pages 11 and 12 in the presentation. Beginning with revenue compared to Q2 2024, FX was a tailwind of $18 million as the dollar weakened mainly against the British pound and euro. Revenue in the quarter also benefited from tariff recovery of $9 million. Overall, we saw strength in sales within independent aftermarket in Europe, light passenger and light commercial vehicle sales in China, while commercial and heavy duty vehicle sales remained flat to down in all regions. Moving next to the bridge on slide 12, adjusted EBITDA was $126 million with a margin of 14.2%, representing a year over year increase of $9 million, 60 basis points. Higher sales created a tailwind of $6 million in the quarter on positive product sales mix. Speaker 300:17:35Corporate costs were higher by $4 million, reflecting increased employee costs. Foreign exchange created gains of $8 million. Supplier cost savings were a tailwind of $6 million, offset by net tariff costs of $2 million and other costs of $5 million. Now for a quick recap of our balance sheet and cash flow. Maintaining a healthy balance sheet is a priority for us and provides the financial flexibility to support our growth initiatives and capital allocation priorities. We ended the quarter with substantial current liquidity. Cash and cash equivalents were $347 million, while available capacity under our credit facilities remained at approximately half a billion dollars for resulting liquidity of approximately $850 million. Net cash generated from operations in Q2 was $57 million, compared to $109 million in the same period of the prior year. Speaker 300:18:35During the quarter, adjusted free cash flow was $20 million compared to $108 million in the same period of the prior year. Working capital was negative in the quarter as our Aftermarket Solutions segment added strategic inventory to help ensure full product coverage over the busy summer season. In addition to timing for capital spend, we continue to remain confident in our ability to generate full year adjusted free cash flow and in the $160 million to $200 million range, as noted and reiterated in our 2025. Speaker 300:19:08Outlook. Speaker 300:19:11Capital spend was $34 million or 3.8% of sales and $69 million or 4.1% of sales for the three and six month periods respectively. Funds were primarily used for investments in new machinery and equipment for new program launches. Now moving to Slide 13 for a discussion of our 2025 outlook. As a reminder, more than 60% of our sales are generated outside of the U.S. and our strategy is to source and produce in the same region where we sell to customers, which reduces our tariff exposures. Also, as a reminder, we have not closed on the announced Swedish Electromagnet Invest (SEM) acquisition, so our outlook does not factor in the proposed transaction. Speaker 300:19:58With all this in mind, we are refining our outlook on net sales to increase the low end from $3.23 billion to $3.33 billion and keeping the high end of our range the same at $3.43 billion. This projection tightens our expected sales range and acknowledges the increased sales as a result of tariffs and foreign exchange offset by continued softness in our CV business. Adjusted EBITDA and adjusted EBITDA margin are projected to be $455 million and 13.7% of sales to $485 million and 14.1% of sales, adjusted from our previous guidance of $450 million and 13.7% of sales to $490 million and 14.5% of sales. The performance of our segments gives us confidence that we can achieve our originally stated adjusted EBITDA. However, the addition of tariff revenue with zero margin will result in a slightly lower percentage of sales return. Speaker 300:21:09We project no changes to our full year adjusted free cash flow guidance which remains strong despite minor delays related to timing on tariff recovery. Our adjusted tax rate is now projected to be an improved 36% to 40% range from our original projection of 38% to 42% as ongoing tax structuring projects gain traction and progress. We do not expect this will have a material impact on our cash taxes in 2025. Our diverse and global customer base continues to provide resilience to our business in the face of a challenging macro-economic environment. This strong foundation, combined with our performance year to date and our outlook for the second half, gives us a high level of confidence in our trajectory for the remainder of the year. Speaker 300:22:06We remain extremely proud of the focus and execution demonstrated by our teams who continue to drive value for our customers and shareholders alike. We will continue to execute on our strategic priorities in operating with excellence and driving productivity. We are pleased with our financial performance to date and are optimistic about the second half of the year as the teams are expected to welcome and work to integrate the SEM business into PHINIA. In closing, we remain firmly committed to building sustainable value for all our stakeholders. Thank you all for your attention today and we will now move to the Q and A portion of our call. Operator, please open the lines for questions. Speaker 400:22:54Thank you. We will now begin the question and answer session. If you have dialed in and would like to ask a question, please press Star one on your telephone keypad to raise your hand and join the queue. If you would like to withdraw your question, simply press Star one. Again, we'll take our first question from Bobby Brooks at Northland Capital Markets. Speaker 500:23:15Hey, good morning guys. Speaker 500:23:16Thank you for taking my question. It was really great to see such a strong bounce back in the business from the first quarter, and you guys touched on it a little bit, but I was curious if we could dive a little bit deeper on the dynamics driving that. Obviously, you guys had very good visibility on the bounce back, but maybe it was more so dynamics in the first quarter that were a drag and alleviated in 2Q. Just curious to hear more discussion on this. Speaker 500:23:43As we kind of explained at the end of Q1 call, you know. Speaker 300:23:47Things came back from the Christmas holiday shutdown a little bit slower, and it took a little bit of a while for folks to ramp up as they did some inventory adjustments. We saw that and tried to communicate that into Q1, which is why we had confidence in us still hitting our H1 expectations. With what the order board that we saw for Q2, obviously there was a little bit of benefit with FX, a little bit of benefit with tariffs, but we saw some of that already coming in at the end of Q1. We continue to see good momentum going into the second half as well, which is why we upped the lower end of our revenue guide as well. Speaker 300:24:34Got it. You mentioned you hosted the booth for the first time at the Paris Air Show during the quarter. I was just curious to hear what were the conversations like there and maybe remind us on the timing. What exactly are some of those aerospace certifications you're working towards this year for launching your first product or producing your first products in the fourth quarter? Speaker 300:24:59Yeah, we've got our first launch in the fourth quarter, our second launch in Q1 of next year. Things are progressing well. I think at the Paris Air Show as well, we got our kind of first piece, kind of plaque from our customer. Safran is the one that we're working with and had a great meeting with them as well as great meetings with a number of other folks while we were there. Our certification process is going well. We had another audit here this past month or actually earlier this month, went well, and we're just kind of going through that process. We're on pace to get, you know, fully certified and approved. I think the final certification will come a little bit after SOP because they want to see some of the production going through. Everyone's very confident and excited about our progress so far. Speaker 300:25:51Got it. Speaker 300:25:52Could you just, for my last one, dive a little bit deeper on the strategic rationale behind this Swedish Electromagnet Invest (SEM)? The SEM acquisition. Do you guys see significant cross sell opportunities to your current commercial vehicle customer base? Maybe. How should we think about the growth opportunity with this? Because it seems like a really unique technology you could leverage. Speaker 300:26:18Yeah, I mean obviously they're focused on a lot of alternative tech or alternative fuels, you know, hydrogen, natural gas and others. That's an area where we have a lot of fuel injection and we have the engine control unit. We have a number of applications and test engines that we have going on with customers that have the SEM injector ignition system, our injection system, and our ECU that's controlling the calibration of both the ignition as well as the fuel injection. We see this as a nice opportunity to provide greater system solutions for our customers because we're already doing a lot of the calibration work on these components. This is a way for us to provide better service to them. SEM is a small company and they've had a difficult time expanding globally. Speaker 300:27:13We can leverage our existing manufacturing sites and our existing engineering teams that are in all of the different regions to support customers locally and accelerate their growth. Our view is that on the commercial vehicle and industrial side, alternative fuels, more carbon neutral and carbon free fuels are a good trend. We see opportunities for this product line to continue to grow along with our alternative fuel fuel injection systems. Speaker 300:27:44Appreciate the call as always, Brady. Thank you very much. I'll turn to the queue. Speaker 400:27:50Thank you. We'll move next to Jake Scholl at BNP Paribas. Speaker 500:27:58Hey guys. Speaker 500:28:00First I just wanted to ask about the Ford recall announced in the quarter. Ford announced a recall of 850,000 vehicles for potentially faulty fuel pump. PHINIA was the supplier named in the recall. Could you talk about just any impact you expect to have on your financials this year from the recall? Speaker 500:28:20Thank you. Yeah, I mean there's nothing we've. Speaker 300:28:25We didn't update our disclosures, and there's really nothing for us to say. I think this is a Ford issue. They made a decision. They're working with NHTSA on that decision, and we're comfortable with our numbers at this point. Any specific questions on the cause or why we would reference to. Speaker 500:28:46Ford. Speaker 300:28:49All right, thanks, Brady. Speaker 300:28:50Can you talk a little bit about your capital allocation intentions for the rest of the year? You did $42 million of buybacks in the first quarter when most of the suppliers didn't do anything. We also have the Swedish Electromagnet Invest (SEM) acquisition closing later this year. How do you think about repurchases for the remainder of the year? Thank you. Speaker 500:29:14Yeah, just to clarify. Speaker 300:29:16I think the total was actually 40. I think there was $2 million of tax, I think on their excise tax that comes with some of those buybacks. As we mentioned in the call, we're going to continue to look at it. We still have a very strong balance sheet. We have plenty of cash. Cash flow was a little bit lighter than we wanted in Q2 because of some of the working capital, but we're confident that we'll work through that throughout the year. We'll still have plenty of cash flow even after the Swedish Electromagnet Invest (SEM) acquisition. We're still under our leverage target as well. We still feel that, as we purchased in the quarter, we thought it was a good investment for our shareholders to continue to purchase our shares at these prices. Speaker 300:30:04I think we'll continue to look at it on a quarterly basis and take a look at our cash flow and our expectations and make a decision on our repurchase plans for the quarter. I think we mentioned in the. Speaker 500:30:20Last one, I don't. Speaker 300:30:21(SEM) is not going to. I mean, it'll take some of our cash, but it's not, it's maybe a typical 1/4 of our cash flow, and we don't feel pressured on our cash or our balance sheet at this point. Speaker 500:30:39All right, thanks, Brady. Speaker 400:30:43As a reminder, if you would like to ask a question, please press Star one. We'll go next to Joseph Spack at UBS. Speaker 200:30:53Good morning, everyone. Chris, maybe just to confirm, I'm just going through some of the notes. You said the tariff recoveries was, you said, you know, $6 million. I'm sorry, I think you said about $6 million or $5 million recoveries. My notes actually a little bit shaky here, but I just want to confirm that that was related to tariffs. You said the net tariff was minus $2 million. Speaker 300:31:22Are you talking about? Speaker 200:31:24The same thing there when you're talking about recoveries and the net tariff headwind? Speaker 300:31:29Morning, Joe. The total tariff is, I mean, you can see it in our queue pretty clearly. In the quarter we recovered $9 million, and then we had $11 million outgoing. That's the net of $2 million negative. That combines with the $4 million that we had in Q1. We see we're going to get it back all full year. Right now, $9 million is the starting point for starting to recovery, but there's just a little bit that's lagging. Speaker 300:32:01Yeah, I think the team did a good job. I think we closed the gap. I think as I mentioned, we still got a little bit of work to do here in Q3 to kind of finalize that out, but team's making good progress. Just one note, I don't think the Q is out yet, so we may not have the Q. Speaker 300:32:15Sorry. Speaker 300:32:15Sorry about that, Joe. Speaker 300:32:17I live in my own world. Speaker 300:32:22Okay. Speaker 200:32:25Yeah, I guess if I look at like slide. Speaker 300:32:3712, how does that. Speaker 200:32:38You say supplier savings are recovering $6 million. I guess how does that sort of tie into the numbers you just gave? That's sort of where I'm confused. Speaker 300:32:49Supplier savings is just GSM material savings. That is not the same thing. If you go down, it says tariff cost net of recovery of 2. If you go to the pre, I mean, we're not laying out the tariff in here. When the queue comes out, you'll see it very plainly because it's in the walk. Here it's a little bit more. The supplier savings is literally just our GSM guys working on cost savings and material cost downs. Speaker 300:33:20Okay. Speaker 200:33:21Okay. I guess since the queue is not yet out, Brady, in relation to an answer earlier about the fuel pump issue with Ford, you mentioned you updated your disclosures. Is there anything else you could tell us there? Was there sort of a change to your accrual balance? Just broadly, when issues do arise, how does the rule of thumb for who's responsible for what work, like parts versus labor, work? Is that just a negotiation with your customers and maybe NHTSA? Speaker 500:34:02Yeah, I guess in the. Speaker 300:34:03There's no change to our disclosures and no change to our expected accruals. You know, they're kind of in line. This is just unique in the fact that it's public. There are a lot of different discussions we have with customers. It's a complex system. We just got involved here recently in that, and we'll leave it to Ford to have any specific response to that. At this point, there's no change on our side. Okay, but is. Speaker 200:34:37Is that conversation with Ford finalized at this point, or is that still an ongoing discussion? Speaker 300:34:45I mean, they haven't announced a fix yet, so they don't have a solution of how they're going to solve it. It's still an ongoing discussion as we have many ongoing discussions in general. Speaker 200:34:56Okay, thanks so much, team. Speaker 400:35:00Thank you. Speaker 500:35:00Thank you. Speaker 400:35:03That concludes our Q and A session. I will now turn the conference back over to Brady Ericson for closing remarks. Speaker 500:35:10Great. Thanks, everybody. Speaker 300:35:11Thanks for the questions. Really appreciate it. I just want to thank all of our employees around the world. A good, solid quarter. We're taking a look at things and, you know, I think it's. Speaker 500:35:22One of our revenue wise, one of. Speaker 300:35:24Our best quarters since we've spun, really good EPS from the team as well, and really good, solid performance in a relatively challenging market. We expect to continue to operate in a very efficient manner going forward. Speaker 500:35:42I really thank the team for that. Speaker 300:35:44Thank you very much and we'll. Speaker 500:35:45Talk to you soon. Speaker 200:35:47Thank you. Speaker 400:35:48This concludes today's conference call. Thank you for your participation. You may now disconnect.Read morePowered by