Renishaw H2 2026 Earnings Results & Report

Renishaw EPS Results

• Actual EPS: GBX 179.50
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Renishaw Revenue Results

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We are a world leader in measuring and manufacturing systems. Our products give high accuracy and precision, gathering data to provide customers and end users with traceability and confidence in what they're making. This technology also helps our customers to innovate their products and processes. We are guided by our purpose: Transforming Tomorrow Together. This means working with our customers to make the products and the materials that are going to be needed for the future. We believe that our purpose is incredibly relevant in today's environment where the pace of change in technology is faster than ever. We also know that the future will be a world of scarce resources, needing high-performance, intelligent, personalised solutions that make the best use of these resources, and our expertise can help deliver this. Our vision is to innovate and transform the capabilities of our customers and end users through unparalleled levels of: Precision, Productivity and Practicality

Renishaw H2 2026 Earnings Call Transcript

Key Takeaways

• Positive Sentiment: FY 2026 was strong financially: revenue rose 14% to £816 million, adjusted operating profit increased 36% to £153 million, operating margin reached 18.7%, and EPS grew 30%. The company proposed a 5% regular dividend increase plus a £0.70-per-share special dividend.
• Positive Sentiment: Position Measurement revenue grew 26% and Specialised Technologies revenue surged 43%, driven by semiconductor encoders, automation, robotics, aerospace and defense, and additive manufacturing. All Specialised Technologies product lines are now profitable, although Industrial Metrology grew more slowly and sensors were flat.
• Neutral Sentiment: Management expects further strong revenue, profit and margin progress, supported by a growing order book and AI-related semiconductor demand, but acknowledged that current results benefit from a cyclical semiconductor upswing. Capacity investment will significantly increase, including a doubling of capital expenditure on production assets, with much of the additional capacity arriving by the end of FY 2027.
• Positive Sentiment: Renishaw highlighted growth opportunities from new products including the ASTRiA inductive encoder, improved additive-manufacturing software, Equator X and new laser-encoder systems. ASTRiA could become a significant revenue generator over the next few years, while software and AI are being used to improve customer productivity and ease of use.
• Negative Sentiment: The company paused its global ERP rollout through the end of the calendar year after a difficult UK implementation, as the existing design was deemed unsuitable for continued deployment. Management also cited ongoing weakness in automotive-related European machine-tool markets and increasing competition from domestic Chinese suppliers.

Presentation

[Will Lee, CEO at Renishaw]

Right, I have the thumbs up from the back, so we are good to go. Welcome everyone to our full year results presentation for 2026. I am going to go through on strategy and outlook after John, our Chief Financial Officer, has given an update on the financial results for the year. Clearly, it has been an excellent year for us, and I just wanted to go through some of the highlights today before handing over to John. Great progress, revenue and profit growth in all areas. Clearly the headline driver and star there has been the investment triggered by AI going into semicon investment. For me, most pleasing though is the progress that we have made in our portfolio of emerging businesses, and we will touch more on that later.

[Will Lee, CEO at Renishaw]

We remain very well-positioned in a range of attractive markets, and I really think we are making the most of that opportunity with our innovation-led strategy. Important new products that we have released that are really going well, and more coming through. Again, I will touch more on this later. We are investing. We have been investing in capacity. This is targeted to meet the needs and the demands that we are seeing. We are doing this very cognizant of the fact that we operate in cyclical industries, particularly that semiconductor one, of making sure that we invest in the right way to support our customers there. We are doing this also making sure that we are focusing on the underlying productivity of the group, making sure that we are really well-positioned there for the future. So an exciting time.

[Will Lee, CEO at Renishaw]

John is going to talk through now the financial performance.

[John Shipsey, CFO at Renishaw]

Thank you. Right. Thanks, Will, and good morning, everyone. It is a great pleasure to present my first Renishaw results, and I do so very much on behalf of the wider team who delivered the successful year. Let us start with the headlines. Revenue increased by 14% to GBP 816 million, or 17% at constant FX. Adjusted operating profit grew by 36% to GBP 153 million, lifting margin by 3 percentage points to 18.7%. Earnings per share grew 30%. Reflecting this performance and our strong balance sheet, we are proposing a 5% increase in the regular dividend for the year, plus a special dividend of GBP 0.70 per share. These results demonstrate positive progress against our medium-term financial targets. We are delivering high single-digit through cycle revenue growth. Operating margin is moving closer to the 20% threshold, and indeed surpassed it in the second half.

[John Shipsey, CFO at Renishaw]

Cash conversion fell year-on-year, but remained above our 70% target, and return on invested capital broke back above 15%. Undoubtedly, our performance was boosted by positive cyclical trends that will reverse at some point. We acknowledge that, and we are focused on driving sustainable through cycle improvement in all four metrics. Let us now look at revenue and profit by segment, starting with Industrial Metrology. Industrial Metrology, which accounts for more than half of the business, delivered steady progress. Revenue grew by 4%, or 7% at constant FX, supported by rising demand for five-axis coordinate measuring machines and Equator gauges. Metrology sensors were flat, with higher demand from consumer electronics customers offset by weaker sales to machine builders in Europe. Operating margin was broadly stable at just over 17%, with currency headwinds offsetting the benefits of cost reduction. Position Measurement delivered an excellent performance.

[John Shipsey, CFO at Renishaw]

Revenue increased by 26%, or 29% at constant FX. Growth was led by optical encoders for semiconductor equipment and magnetic encoders for automation and robotics. Laser encoders were lower, but started to recover in the second half, and the order book is in growth. We also secured early production orders for ASTRiA inductive encoders for aerospace and defense applications. That top-line growth converted to even stronger profit growth. Operating profit was up more than 50%, and operating margins jumped by 5 percentage points to 27.4%. Specialised Technologies achieved the strongest revenue growth of all three segments. It was up 43%, or 46% at constant FX. Additive manufacturing was the engine of this growth, with strong demand from aerospace and defense customers. Spectroscopy dipped slightly. Overall, operating margin for Specialised Technologies grew by almost 18 percentage points to 4.4%, driven by the operating leverage in additive manufacturing.

[John Shipsey, CFO at Renishaw]

It is also pleasing to note that all product lines in this segment are now profitable. Turning back to the group as a whole, you can see the change in operating margin from 15.7% in FY 2025 to 18.7% in FY 2026. Currency was a significant headwind because of both forward contracts and in-year average FX rates. That was more than offset by the benefits of restructuring. Gross margin dipped slightly, principally because of product mix. The biggest impact came from operating leverage as a result of volume growth. That drove margins up to 18.7% for the year, and indeed, to over 21% in the second half. Turning to cash. Adjusted operating cash flow was GBP 121 million. Cash conversion dipped to 79% from 91% in the prior year.

[John Shipsey, CFO at Renishaw]

CapEx was actually down year-on-year, but working capital was up, especially receivables, in line with the very strong sales growth in Q4. After tax cost reduction expenditure, dividends, and other movements, net cash increased by GBP 17 million. We closed the year with cash and deposit balances of GBP 291 million, maintaining a strong financial position. The special dividend of GBP 0.70 per share will reduce H1 FY 2027 cash flow by GBP 51 million. Finally, a look at return on invested capital. There is no doubt we are currently benefiting from the semiconductor super cycle, but our focus is on taking action to improve ROIC through cycle. In FY 2026, we successfully restructured our cost base.

[John Shipsey, CFO at Renishaw]

In FY 2027, we will significantly increase manufacturing capacity, primarily for encoders. That will mean a doubling of CapEx on production assets. Over the medium term, productivity improvements will extend beyond just manufacturing to include sales and the back office. One Renishaw is a multi-year program to implement standardized, globalized processes that will enable existing and future business. All three initiatives are designed to ensure that Renishaw is positioned for long-term sustainable success through the business cycle.

[John Shipsey, CFO at Renishaw]

I will hand back to Will.

[Will Lee, CEO at Renishaw]

Thank you, John. Let's now take a look at strategy going forward. We are very much focused on being a world leader in sensors and systems for both measuring and manufacturing. We have a very strong purpose. I am very fortunate I get to see this in action out visiting our customers, and it is then you really realize the important role that we play with them, those long-term relationships that we have and how we help them meet the needs of today and the future, those precision needs, those productivity needs, those challenges that they face. We have a clear strategy underpinning this, that very clear innovation-led or organic growth strategy, making sure we are disciplined on those investments. Secondly, focusing on the attractive markets, so good through cycle growth if cyclical.

[Will Lee, CEO at Renishaw]

Next, we have this strategy of really accelerating our growth, so really disruptive R&D coming through on close adjacent markets, making sure that we are accelerating the growth broader than just the core. Then finally, of looking at relatively small targeted acquisitions close to our core, really accelerating growth through those as well. So when we are discussing this, we put this all together in a model that I am sure many of you are familiar with now, our value creation model. If we take a look at this, then on the left here, we have what is happening to us from the outside, the markets that we operate in. On the right, we have our strategy to drive out performance. So markets, fortunate, definitely growing more than 5% per annum through cycle. Accessible market up to GBP 7 billion, certainly on those drivers and trends.

[Will Lee, CEO at Renishaw]

I will talk through some of the more of the end markets shortly. But definitely AI and the pull through there is the most significant, clearly at the moment. That strategy then, for outperformance, very much to start with our traditional sensor business. These three pillars at the top you can see here. Growing in the existing market with that traditional sensor business. Increasing technology value, so the Industrial Metrology and the AM systems, so the hardware and software enabled systems there. Then extending into new markets, of which our ASTRiA Inductive Encoder is a prime example of moving very close to where we are with new disruptive technology. As John has mentioned, clearly this middle layer is really important for us, making the most of the investments that we are making for the future with a very targeted, focused execution.

[Will Lee, CEO at Renishaw]

Then that portfolio growth strategy of starting with what has to be very disruptive, patented new R&D, driving that through into the future profitable businesses of tomorrow. So if we take a little look about what is happening externally and the range of industries that we serve. First of all, so with the numbers here, before we have a look at some of the changes here. That sort of health warning that these are estimates. So sometimes we know for sure where we are selling. So if we are selling a position encoder to a company that makes semiconductor manufacturing equipment, we know for sure where that is going to end up. If we are selling a machine tool sensor to a machine tool builder, we do not know. We are looking then at estimates to try and gauge that.

[Will Lee, CEO at Renishaw]

I think the other thing worth stressing here is when we are selling our products, we have very generic solutions. An example here would be our Industrial Metrology systems. It's the same hardware and software that we are selling to a consumer electronics, as it is to an automotive, as to an aerospace. We're not aligned so much on specific solutions there. If we look at the specific out-performers then for this year, then a few key green ones are going up. Two of those feel very much like they're powered by that AI driver that we talked about before. Clearly the semiconductor equipment is, but also the energy generation with investment into gas turbines, and also into backup power with internal combustion engine units there, driving that market well as well. Also we are seeing definitely a flow-through in aerospace and defense.

[Will Lee, CEO at Renishaw]

Let's have a look a little bit more at a couple of those areas. Within the world of semiconductor, our sales here, this is our position encoders, our range of position encoders, from optical encoders through to laser encoders, right through to a whole range from manufacturers of front-end equipment, back-end equipment, advanced packaging, a whole different range. What we see here really is the benefit, I think, of investment over many years of the innovation to make sure we've got the products that are needed and customer relationships and working with these customers for many years, integrating our solutions with them, making sure they meet their metrology needs. We are now seeing the real benefits of that on this upturn. That is meaning that we are investing significantly in our capital.

[Will Lee, CEO at Renishaw]

This is right across from machining centers for machining of encoder bodies, electronics manufacturing ramping up, and also then the automation equipment for putting together the encoders themselves. You can see here, this is actually an ATOM cell here with the robot doing a lot of the heavy lifting in the assembly of an ATOM product. We have been investing. We continue to invest here. Our strategy is very much to make sure we support our customers on the upcycle. We have to be there, we have to be a trusted partner for them to supply their customers during these cycles that we see. The benefit of this, because clearly we're very cognizant that this is cyclical, we've lived through this before, of the upturns and the downturns.

[Will Lee, CEO at Renishaw]

The investments that we're putting in are helping us to drive the underlying productivity, and therefore the manufacturing efficiency of these products. If we next look at aerospace and defense, certainly we are seeing a flow-through of investment here, and this is customers investing both in capability and in capacity. This has been a very strong traditional market for us, but when you think of this for Renishaw, you think of our IM sensors and you think of our IM systems business, and that is indeed doing well, and we're spending a lot of time with customers of how do we help them support and ramp up in that area. But two areas really wanted to talk on today. The first is with additive manufacturing.

[Will Lee, CEO at Renishaw]

Particularly in the defense space here, what we're seeing is customers really understanding the benefits that additive manufacturing can give in terms of design freedom and what they can achieve. A couple of examples, some gun suppressors for large guns. This is not how they're supposed to be. They wouldn't work very well like that, obviously. That's just so you can see the insides. Also small jet engines for drones, which can be 3D printed. Lots of investment going in there. The other area with defense to mention is our new ASTRiA inductive encoder. Customers here that we talked to are really appreciating the combination of the metrology, the accuracy, so this is rotational accuracy that we can give them, the robustness and ruggedness of the product, and also its ease of installation. We seem to really have hit a sweet spot.

[Will Lee, CEO at Renishaw]

We are investing here again in manufacturing ramp-up. This is quite new, going through our new product manufacturing facilities at the moment, so we're investing in that, and also in a range of sizes that our customers are after there. This really shows, I think, here, the benefit of the investment that we put in in our innovation engine. ASTRiA, a prime one there coming through. Also additive recent advances, in terms of the software programs we've talked about with LIBERTAS, for example, and TEMPUS, of really driving up the productivity of the machine. This means actually not only are there opportunities coming through, but we feel we're in a really competitive position that in the mid-size market, we have the most productive platform, and we think that we are therefore gaining share there relative to our competitors. So that investment in long-term innovation is key for us.

[Will Lee, CEO at Renishaw]

We continue to invest over GBP 100 million a year in engineering. That is right the way through from current to the real blue sky thinking. The areas I just talked about, and actually the Equator-X that you can see here, which also has been extremely well received, and again, we're in a ramp-up phase with, together with the MotorSIM software, are very much targeted towards our emerging businesses. So when I said at the start, really pleased with the progress we're making there. That is underpinned, and the future of that, by what you're seeing here. Now, really importantly, though, for us, if you remember back to our strategy, it's that sensors business that's our core. What has been really nice was actually, we have just launched a new sensors. This is for our CMM and machine tools business, and you can see pictures of these down here.

[Will Lee, CEO at Renishaw]

Was over in Germany last week, AMB trade show, meeting up with customers, and they really understood the benefits that we are bringing to them with new measurement capabilities, both in what they can measure and how quickly they can measure with these sensor technologies. Also in our core business, the product you can see here in the middle is our latest generation, which is coming through release now of our new laser encoder system. So here we have a strong position with the companies that make. This is for front-end wafer inspection. They have phenomenally tough metrology challenges. We are very strong in this market. The new product moves us on to keep us ahead of their metrology challenges, ahead of the game, and again, shows that strong relationship that we have.

[Will Lee, CEO at Renishaw]

Looking forward, over the long term, we're clearly excited about the opportunities that we have with the market drivers. We're very pleased with the progress that we're making with the strategy here, with the innovation that's come through, and the innovation that is there for the ensuing years. In the short term, what we clearly have is a continued growing order book. We are investing in that capacity, as I talk about, in a number of different areas to make sure we support our customers through that growth. But we're doing that very mindful that some of these areas are cyclical. This year, really, then we are looking at further strong progress on revenue, profit, and operating margin.

[Will Lee, CEO at Renishaw]

Right. Thank you very much for listening. It's John and I now. Would welcome questions, apart from anything to do with the semiconductor cycle and our predictions on how long, how fast, when it will change.

[Mark Davies Jones, Analyst at ODDO BHF]

Hi. Mark Davies Jones from ODDO BHF. A few things. Could you talk a little bit about geographic patterns and what you're seeing in China in particular? Because that's been a big growth market over time, but a little more competitive recently. How's that faring? On the encoder side, is there any change to the competitive position? It was a sort of two-horse race at the top end of that market. Is that still the case, or is that picture changing as the market grows?

[Will Lee, CEO at Renishaw]

Why don't we do this? Let's do the second one. I think these link, actually, I would say. I think we've done very well as a company against our traditional competition, and I think what we are seeing is the benefits of that now coming through in the semiconductor space. We're certainly seeing different competitive landscape from China. When we discuss this through as an ExCo and board, certainly China is one of our biggest opportunities and risks. There are domestic Chinese competitors across the board. But certainly in the space of encoders then, yes, there are competitors there that are supplying good products to customers in China. And we compete with those on performance, capability, price.

[Will Lee, CEO at Renishaw]

The first question was on Sorry, remind me now.

[Mark Davies Jones, Analyst at ODDO BHF]

Was China as a market, really. Because it has been a strong top line, but a tougher profit market for you, I think, for a little while.

[Will Lee, CEO at Renishaw]

Yeah. China is still going very well. We are adapting and looking for the future as to what do we do and the strategies, and I think we have talked about here in the future of having some China-for-China products. Looking at domestic supply chains for those to make the most of the entry-level market there, particularly from a sensor point of view. On some of the areas, then, some of the things I talk about with additive manufacturing or inductive encoders, we do not sell over in Asia at all, actually, at the moment.

[Mark Davies Jones, Analyst at ODDO BHF]

Okay. Thank you.

[Will Lee, CEO at Renishaw]

Don't have anything specific, John, you want to add on?

[John Shipsey, CFO at Renishaw]

No.

[Jonathan Hurn, Analyst at Barclays]

Hey, guys. Good morning. It's Jonathan Hurn from Barclays. I just have three questions, please. Firstly, just on orders. Obviously, you don't give an order book, and I'm not going to ask for that. But I don't know if you can just give us a feel for the book-to-bill by division that you saw through the last fiscal year. Anything there would be super helpful. The second one was just on your inductive sensor, ASTRiA. Can you just put a sort of an addressable market to that, what you think the revenue opportunity for that sensor could be? And then a third one was just on your software. Obviously, you've put new stuff into the market, it's going very well. Can you just give us a feel for how that side of the business, the software side, is growing within Renishaw?

[Will Lee, CEO at Renishaw]

Okay. Let's[crosstalk].

[John Shipsey, CFO at Renishaw]

Can I do order book?

[Will Lee, CEO at Renishaw]

Yes.

[John Shipsey, CFO at Renishaw]

You can do the other two?

[Will Lee, CEO at Renishaw]

Yes.

[John Shipsey, CFO at Renishaw]

Okay, great. You are right, we do not disclose order book or by division. What I would say is that we tend to have a longer order book in Position Measurement, and actually more so now in additive manufacturing. It is relatively shorter in Industrial Metrology, but our order book has continued to grow in those divisions.

[Will Lee, CEO at Renishaw]

Next was ASTRiA. ASTRiA is interesting. We did not target this going in thoughtfully saying, "This is perfect for the defense market." This was us saying, "Here is something that feels very novel, where we have something neat and can make a difference." Then from going out with the early stages, where we used the MVP strategy, certainly then the focus went on to the interest from defense customers. In terms of the size of the market, I do not think it is worth. We do not know for sure, and I would not want to give numbers. What I would say is from the interest that we are seeing from a limited number of customers, this has the potential, in a few years' time, to be a significant revenue generator for us.

[Will Lee, CEO at Renishaw]

We will see on the potential and how that flows through. It is one that could be a very quick transformer for us. That is on Renishaw time, not on a. Then finally, sorry, number three was.

[Jonathan Hurn, Analyst at Barclays]

[audio distortion] Just on software.

[Will Lee, CEO at Renishaw]

Yeah. Really interesting time is with software. I think the big bet we are putting is on the MODUS IM, which although we are focused on Equator, that is a platform from across the board, a common programming interface for whether you are doing a CMM or a machine tool. We have targeted making this disruptive because of the ease of use and simplicity, and also that it gets the best out of our products by driving them very quickly. This is accelerating through. Very strong feedback on ease of use.

[Will Lee, CEO at Renishaw]

The discussions we are starting to get into now, interestingly, is not just on how do you open up this so that the person running the machine tool can now program in the manufacturing environment, his shop floor metrology, not have the person from the CMM lab do it, but what is the role of AI in terms of coordinating it and programming this all as well. It is a really exciting time, not just from the productivity benefit we are seeing with AI complementing our internal software development, but thinking about that from a user experience as well. 12 months' time, I think this is going to be a really interesting time to have seen exactly the impact this has had. [audio distortion].

[Analyst]

Hey, guys. Thank you for the presentation. Just on precision measurement, clearly an excellent year. Can you just talk about how much of the growth is volume versus pricing and how you see that going forwards? Thank you.

[Will Lee, CEO at Renishaw]

Do you want to talk about pricing, John? Any thoughts?

[John Shipsey, CFO at Renishaw]

Well, I will talk about volume. All of the growth is volume. If you think of the two levers, volume and price, everything that we did in 2026 was volume. I think we have more to learn about price and more I would like us to develop more our positive agency on price. At the moment, we are very focused on, and I think rightfully focused on, trying to meet customer demand in position measurement. Price is something that we have more capability to develop on, whether that is up or down.

[Richard Paige, Analyst at Deutsche Numis]

Morning. Richard Paige from Deutsche Numis. Three questions, I think, if I may. Firstly, coming back to precision measurement. In the Q4, obviously a big step up in sales on Q3. I know there's capacity constraints, and you're adding capacity, as you made clear there. Is there anything unusual in terms of customer product releases or anything that made that unusual in terms of that step up? I'm thinking more about how Q1 might look relative to Q4 in that division. Secondly then, just a view from you, because I know this has been very rangy, and we're adding capacity on operational gearing, particularly, I guess I'm thinking about additive manufacturing now profitable, whether that should demonstrate the same processes there.

[Richard Paige, Analyst at Deutsche Numis]

Finally on the Industrial Metrology environment, I know it feels pretty downbeat. I know you've been quite downbeat on Europe recently about machine tool manufacturers. Are there any signs of any change there, please?

[Will Lee, CEO at Renishaw]

Shall I do that last one, and there's probably some finance bits because that's quite topical, having just come back from Germany and met a lot of the machine tool builders there and some others. It feels like Europe is starting to see some green shoots and definitely is on the recovery. I think definitely the one part that isn't is automotive. So anyone that has exposure, whether that's a machine tool builder that has stayed highly exposed to automotive, is struggling. All the other ones that are diversified are definitely starting to see pick up. I think the other area that is probably really struggling is the traditional sort of high-end German job shops doing mold and die for auto, because not only have they got a weak auto, but where they have, they're being undercut by imports coming through.

[Will Lee, CEO at Renishaw]

So that sort of traditional five-axis machine with a HEIDENHAIN controller in it, 10 of them in a German ship, that's tough.

[John Shipsey, CFO at Renishaw]

Okay. So maybe I'll talk to Q4 more generally. So Q4, you'll have seen, had a very big impact from additive manufacturing from Specialised Technologies. There was an unsustainably high level just where capital goods orders came in in Q4. Having said that, how have we started the year? We've started the year in line with the same level of activity overall in Q4, with the other divisions taking up some of that slack from Specialised Technologies. Of course, we will update you on Q1 in about a month's time. But we're about kind of at the same level as Q4 year to date.

[John Shipsey, CFO at Renishaw]

That run rate, not the total. That run rate. That would be very good. The other question was about operational gearing, particularly in Specialised Technologies. That for us is quite hard to judge. Obviously, it is a big move from a negative operating margin to the 4% you saw for the year. I think for us, we do see additive manufacturing growing. It is on a good trajectory. It is difficult to give you an algorithm for the operation profit conversion, I am afraid.

[Richard Paige, Analyst at Deutsche Numis]

Is it going to be significantly different to the other divisions would you say?

[John Shipsey, CFO at Renishaw]

I think I would struggle to answer that, to be honest. It is a new business building scale, and it is hard to gauge that trajectory. It very much is driven by the top line.

[Will Lee, CEO at Renishaw]

It is also probably not going to be as smooth.

[John Shipsey, CFO at Renishaw]

No. There will be ups and downs, but the value of each item, particularly in AM,

[Will Lee, CEO at Renishaw]

The value on the individual machines themselves.[audio distortion].

[John Shipsey, CFO at Renishaw]

Yeah.

[Harry Philips, Analyst at Peel Hunt]

Harry Philips of Peel Hunt. Just one question, please, which is around One Renishaw and productivity, and obviously you have got additional CapEx going in. Just trying to think about how you clearly delivered GBP 244 million of revenue in Q4, and the suggestion, I think from what you are saying, John, is that we continue at that run rate into Q1. There are several aspects, I guess. One is, as new CapEx comes on, how quickly does that come on, and is this CapEx for growth or is this CapEx to just, you are almost so busy at the moment, this CapEx comes in to just ease the pressure, if you like. It is that sort of nuance.

[Harry Philips, Analyst at Peel Hunt]

Secondly, I suppose once the world settles down, if it ever settles down, that potential impact on margin and that broader productivity program and the broader concept of One Renishaw. I suppose what I am trying to get at is[crosstalk].

[John Shipsey, CFO at Renishaw]

Is this one question, Harry?

[Harry Philips, Analyst at Peel Hunt]

It's got supplementaries in there. The 20%+ margin target through cycle, I get, and through cycle being the key word there. But here we are 21.7 in the second half, et cetera. That's a quantum above. So it's broader productivity and run rate.

[John Shipsey, CFO at Renishaw]

Well, I'll try and answer selected bits of the question. The CapEx, this also does relate to Jonathan's question on order book. The CapEx is broadly, the capacity is on a 12-month lead time. So that capacity isn't going to fully come on stream until the end of this fiscal year. The order book, to Jonathan's question, our order book is growing, particularly in Position Measurement. But that order book is not committed orders. And it's important to remember that. At the moment, there is a scarcity, and it's hard to interpret what that order book actually means, hence we don't disclose it. But the CapEx is to increase capacity, and it will fully come on stream by the end of the year. It does have a short payback, so it's a relatively long lead time, but it has a short payback on that capacity.

[John Shipsey, CFO at Renishaw]

That's in the short run. Then, yes, our focus is on building productivity throughout Renishaw, particularly in the sales and back office. Some of that is efficiency and cost. A lot of it is effectiveness. We want to free our salespeople to sell, not to deal with internal bureaucracy. We have probably, I would describe it as a deficit in those areas. We have a historical deficit. We're brilliant at inventing new products, but our business processes have not kept up with the growth, and they are quite diverse across the world. It's a big opportunity for us to be more efficient, more agile, particularly when we're faced with business cycles, more agile in our responses up or down. As I say, then to be more effective in areas like sales. That is a multiyear program.

[Lacie Midgley, Analyst at Bloomberg Intelligence]

Thanks. Lacie Midgley at Bloomberg Intelligence. John, just following up on that, and the ERP process that's now been paused. Is that because you've seen more opportunity and there's different things you can do there? A little bit more color on that pause in how long it's going to be paused for, if you can tell us a bit more on that.

[John Shipsey, CFO at Renishaw]

Yep. Pause it maybe. Let me describe it. We have had a lot of challenges. As I think you all know, we went live in the U.K. with a new system. That has been very painful. It took us 10 months to come out of hypercare. Clearly, we recognize that design is not fit for purpose for us to continue the rollout around the world. We are pausing between now and the end of the calendar year to do a diagnosis phase, diagnostic on that design. What can we keep, and what needs a redesign? Frankly, everything is on the table in that phase.

[Lacie Midgley, Analyst at Bloomberg Intelligence]

Okay. That's helpful. Thank you. Just on the CapEx, I think you said majority of that that's going in 2027 is for the supporting where you are now. Can you put a number on that for, think about 2028? Number might be there? What it is.[crosstalk].

[John Shipsey, CFO at Renishaw]

Yeah. Afraid so. Yeah.

[Lacie Midgley, Analyst at Bloomberg Intelligence]

Tried.

[John Shipsey, CFO at Renishaw]

Yeah.

[Lacie Midgley, Analyst at Bloomberg Intelligence]

Okay. Thank you. Then, just on ASTRiA. I think someone asked on the sort of revenue opportunity. If I just think about the margin, assuming because of the end markets and where you are selling to there, is it right to assume that that is stronger than your traditional margin there? Are we seeing any of that in that strong PM margin in Q4, or is that too early? Given the size of the orders that would probably

[Will Lee, CEO at Renishaw]

Yes, it is too early to have any meaningful impact at all at the moment. This is all for the future, and yes, the margin will be decent there particularly some markets.

[Lacie Midgley, Analyst at Bloomberg Intelligence]

Understood. Thank you.

[Oliver Swift, Analyst at Panmure Liberum]

Morning, guys. Thanks for the presentation. Oliver Swift with Panmure Liberum. Just a few questions, if I may. Firstly, could you give some more color on the M&A you referenced? What could we expect acquisitions to look like, and what areas of the business? Secondly, on the special dividend, how should we think about returns going forward? Can we expect more, and at what level of net cash should we expect this? Lastly, on the sensor side of the business, I guess why has it been weaker? Should we expect this to inflect with kind of more general machine tool demand, or is it that the business has been over-indexed to Europe?

[Will Lee, CEO at Renishaw]

Okay.

[John Shipsey, CFO at Renishaw]

I do the first

[Will Lee, CEO at Renishaw]

Right. Yes.

[John Shipsey, CFO at Renishaw]

First two?

[Will Lee, CEO at Renishaw]

Yeah.

[John Shipsey, CFO at Renishaw]

M&A, I think the very important first statement is that almost exclusively our focus is on organic growth. We will look to complement that with selective M&A, but we have next to no track record in that area, and we need to build our capability and we need to take a long run-up. So what we would like to be able to do is to find small, close-in, bolt-on acquisitions, complementary technology, for example. But we are going to build our internal know-how. We are not going to go out and do something radical. The second question was about the buyback.

[Oliver Swift, Analyst at Panmure Liberum]

Special dividend.

[John Shipsey, CFO at Renishaw]

Sorry, specialist, not the buyback. I think, not the buyback. Sorry about that. It is a very short answer. Do not read anything into what we have done, as in project for the future. This is just a particular set of circumstances. Please do not read into what will happen in the future. What you should just understand is we continue to look at our capital allocation, and we will be responsible about it.

[Will Lee, CEO at Renishaw]

Finally, it is the Industrial Metrology sensors that has been that sluggish area for some time now, and we talked, yes, about German machine tool, but also other areas have been relatively weak as well. It certainly feels like if you look at JMTBA numbers, the recent ones are fairly bullish going forward. A bit of recovery in Germany, and U.S. consumption pretty strong. No, I think that that is very much for us just we have been through this rather prolonged, depressed cycle there.

[Oliver Swift, Analyst at Panmure Liberum]

Perfect. Thanks, guys.

[Will Lee, CEO at Renishaw]

Any more? Right.

[Jonathan Hurn, Analyst at Barclays]

Just one very quick follow-up. I think last fiscal year you had GBP 20 million of savings from your cost reduction actions.

[John Shipsey, CFO at Renishaw]

Correct.

[Jonathan Hurn, Analyst at Barclays]

How do we think about that number in the profit bridge for this year? What kind of level of savings are we going to see, would you say?

[John Shipsey, CFO at Renishaw]

The cost reduction exercise was done at the start of the year, so there isn't any material flow-through. Yep.

[Jonathan Hurn, Analyst at Barclays]

That's it.

[John Shipsey, CFO at Renishaw]

Yep.

[Dini Magoon, Analyst at UBS]

Thank you for the presentations. Dini Magoon from UBS. I just wanted to ask a question on the PM margin. How can we think about the sustainability of that margin going forward once we adjust for the impairment? Was there anything that sort of boosted the margin in H2, like accelerated contract closeouts, et cetera? Thank you.

[John Shipsey, CFO at Renishaw]

No, there wasn't. Clearly, we are in a time of high demand and supply constraint, not just within Renishaw but beyond. But no, there was nothing in the second half that was unusual in terms of boosting it.

[Oliver Swift, Analyst at Panmure Liberum]

Another question, if I may. Just on Position Measurement, you'd previously flagged quite difficult comps with laser encoders. Does that get easier now? Should that then be supportive to the margin?

[John Shipsey, CFO at Renishaw]

I'm afraid I don't know the answer to that off the top of my head, I'm afraid.

[Will Lee, CEO at Renishaw]

I would say so laser encoders certainly is favorable from a margin point of view. The demand there coming through from the front-end semi, those wafer inspection companies, is strong at the moment. Exactly how that relates back to that one-off cycle we have. But yes, I see that as a positive going forward. It also tends to be slightly more stable because of the value of the equipment they're going onto.

[Oliver Swift, Analyst at Panmure Liberum]

Perfect. Thanks.

[Will Lee, CEO at Renishaw]

That sounds like we are there with questions, so thank you. Have we got anything from No? [Liza]. So thank you all very much for attending today. Clearly exciting times for us, looking forward for that long term, and also a strong year ahead for us. Thank you all.

[John Shipsey, CFO at Renishaw]

Thank you.

Participants

Executives

• Will Lee, CEO
• John Shipsey, CFO

Analysts

• Mark Davies Jones, Analyst at ODDO BHF
• Jonathan Hurn, Analyst at Barclays
• Analyst
• Richard Paige, Analyst at Deutsche Numis
• Harry Philips, Analyst at Peel Hunt
• Lacie Midgley, Analyst at Bloomberg Intelligence
• Oliver Swift, Analyst at Panmure Liberum
• Dini Magoon, Analyst at UBS