Flex Ltd. (FLEX) Q1 2027 Earnings Report, Transcript and Summary

Thank you for standing by. Welcome to Flex's First Quarter Fiscal 2027 Earnings Conference Call. Presently, all participants are in a listen-only mode. After the speakers' remarks, there will be a question-and-answer session. This call is being recorded. I will now turn the call over to Mrs. Michelle Simmons. Ms. Simmons, you may begin.

Good morning. And thank you for joining us today for Flex's first quarter fiscal 2027 earnings conference call. With me today is Revathi Advaithi, our Chief Executive Officer; Kevin S. Krumm, our Chief Financial Officer; and Michael Hartung, our Chief Commercial Officer. Slides for today's call as well as a copy of the earnings press release are available on the Investor Relations section at flex.com. Call is being recorded and will be available for replay on our corporate website. Today's call contains forward-looking statements, which are based on current expectations and assumptions. These statements involve risks and uncertainties that could cause actual results to differ materially. These statements reflect expected results for the full fiscal year and did not give effect to the planned spin-off of the cloud and power infrastructure segment. For a full discussion of these risks and uncertainties, please see the cautionary statement in our presentation press release, or in the Risk Factors section in our most recent filings with the SEC. Note, this information is subject to change, and we undertake no obligation to update these forward-looking statements. Please note, all growth metrics will be on a year-over-year basis unless stated otherwise. Additionally, all results will be on a non-GAAP basis unless we specifically state it is a GAAP result. The full non-GAAP to GAAP reconciliations can be found in the appendix slides of today's presentation as well as in the summary financials posted on the Investor Relations website. Now I would like to turn the call over to our CEO.

Good morning, and thank you, Michelle. In Q1, our teams delivered another exceptional quarter while continuing to prepare two industry-leading companies for the next phase of growth as standalone businesses. We delivered strong revenue growth, margin expansion across all three segments, and record adjusted earnings per share of $1.00. Our cloud and power infrastructure segment grew 35% year-over-year And as we stated before, our investments in this are on track to drive accelerated growth and margin expansion in the second half of the fiscal year. We also saw strong growth in our communications and industrial business units driven by high-value markets such as networking, automation and energy infrastructure. Now we are in the midst of a generational build-out driven by AI and demand is not slowing down. We have built two focused companies to win in the AI era and these results reflect the strength of our strategy. Our results also reflect our focus on long-term execution. Our addition to the S&P 500 last month reflects our progress over the last several years and the enduring strength of our strategy. We also continue to build momentum in some of our fastest growing markets, expanding our partnership with Cerebras to scale manufacturing of the CS-3, one of the world's most advanced AI accelerator systems right here in the United States. We also launched a new liquid cooling solution through our JetCool and showcased our next-generation power and infrastructure technologies at Computex. As we continue executing our long-term strategy for both Flex and SpinCo, I want to reiterate our vision for both companies. We have built two great businesses that are entering different phases of growth. The spin allows each company to sharpen its strategic focus, align capital allocation with its growth priorities, and create greater value for customers and shareholders. SpinCo requires a capital allocation framework designed for rapid growth as demand for AI infrastructure accelerates. Many people still think about AI as a compute story. I think it is increasingly becoming an infrastructure story and more specifically a power story. AI may live in the cloud, but the infrastructure behind it is very physical. It must be built, powered, cooled, integrated, and deployed at scale. As AI scales, the constraint is no longer just the chip. it is everything around the chip. Power, cooling, electrical systems, and ultimately, the grid capacity. That is the challenge customers are trying to solve today. We saw this coming years ago, and That is why we invested in power and thermal management technologies long before AI became front-page news. What started inside Flex is set of businesses supporting the next-generation of data centers has evolved into a leading solutions provider. I want to be very clear. SpinCo is not a data center components company. it is a digital and electrical infrastructure company built to help customers solve the power cooling and scaling challenges that come with AI. That is where we believe SpinCo is uniquely positioned to excel. We see our ability to bring together power thermal management and compute technologies combined with the ability to deploy these capabilities at global scale as a true differentiator in this space. We have spent years working alongside the world's leading technology company as they design, build, and expand critical infrastructure. That combination of power expertise, systems integration, and execution is difficult to replicate. I would say we are still early, We believe we are at the beginning of one of the largest electrical transformations happening today. What is happening in the data centers is just the starting point. As AI scales, demand will extend far beyond compute driving investment across power systems cooling technologies, electrical infrastructure, and ultimately, the grid itself. That is why we do not view this as a short-term investment cycle. The work required to power the next-generation of AI will take years. Creating ongoing opportunity across the broader electrical ecosystem with a very long tail. We are building SpinCo to lead that transformation. At the same time, Flex is exceptionally well positioned to drive long-term value creation as a leading global manufacturing platform. Following the separation, Flex will remain a global manufacturing leader with a proven playbook and strategy with deep customer relationships across diversified end markets and exposure to attractive long-term secular growth trends. These include healthcare, where an aging population and increasing prevalence of chronic disease are driving demand for medical devices and drug delivery solutions. And robotics and warehouse automation, where regionalization and labor shortages support meaningful operations opportunities for continued growth. While SpinCo will focus on digital and electrical infrastructure, Flex will continue to benefit from pull-through demand in data centers, providing contract manufacturing services in the advanced networking and energy infrastructure markets. What remains underappreciated is the strength of the Flex portfolio and the related opportunity ahead. The same disciplined playbook that has driven our transformation over the last seven years will continue to guide Flex as it enters this next phase of growth. Ultimately, we are creating two distinct and focused leaders. Each with the scale strategy, and opportunity to succeed on its own. Now turning to our transaction update on slide 6, our dedicated separation management office and cross-functional teams continue to make tremendous progress towards the separation, and they are on track for tax-free spin-off in the first quarter of calendar 2027. Today, we are also pleased to announce additional appointments for both SpinCo and Flex, effective upon completion of the separation. Thanks to the strong bench and depth of expertise we have built at Flex in recent years, we have strong leadership teams in place for both companies ready to execute from day one. Providing confidence, clarity, and continuity for our customers, employees, and shareholders. For more details on the extended leadership teams of each company, please refer to the press release we issued this morning. While it is certainly an exciting and dynamic time at Flex, we are executing from a position of strength. Our teams are winning by delivering incredibly well for our customers and at the same time executing with discipline to deliver exceptional results. We are excited about what is ahead. And we look forward to sharing more in the months to come including at our Investor Day on November 10, where we will provide additional details on the path forward for both companies. With that, I will turn the call over to Kevin, who will walk through the financials in more detail.

Thank you, Revathi, and good morning, everyone. I am honored to be a part of this exciting journey and to work alongside both teams during this transformative period. It has been an incredible journey so far, and I am energized about the opportunities in front of these businesses. I will now review our results for the first quarter fiscal year 2027, which reflects strong execution as we continue preparing for the upcoming spin-off of our cloud and power infrastructure segment. I will start with our key financials on slide 8. First quarter revenue came in at $7.9 billion up 21% year-over-year. Adjusted gross profit totaled $761 million and adjusted gross margin improved to 9.6%. Up 50 basis points from the prior year. Adjusted operating profit was $534 million up 35% year-over-year with adjusted operating margins at 6.7% up 70 basis points from the prior year driven by business mix and underlying productivity improvements. Finally, earnings per share for the quarter increased to $1.00 per share up 39% year-over-year. Turning to our quarterly segment results on the next slide. Regulated Manufacturing Solutions revenue was $2.7 billion up 12% year-over-year driven by strength in industrial. Adjusted operating income was $176 million and adjusted operating margin was 6.6%. Up 130 basis points year-over-year driven by the aforementioned strong performance in industrial. Revenue from Integrated Technology Solutions segment totaled $3.1 billion an increase of 20% year-over-year driven by exceptional growth in communications. Adjusted operating income was $158 million adjusted operating margin was 5.2%. Up 10 basis points year-over-year driven by the strong performance in communications and offset by weakness in consumer-related end markets. Finally, cloud and power infrastructure revenue totaled $2.2 billion up 35% from the prior year driven by strong growth in power as cloud and cooling continues to ramp new programs. Adjusted operating income was $214 million and adjusted operating margin was 9.7%, up 20 basis points year-over-year driven by growth and margin expansion in power. Moving to cash flow on slide 10, free cash flow in the quarter was $41 million. free cash flow was negatively impacted by one-time cash costs of $24 million driven by activity related to the announced spin-off. Q1 inventory was up 10% sequentially and 24% year-over-year largely driven by revenue growth. Inventory net of working capital advances was 56 days. An increase of one day from the prior year. First quarter net CapEx totaled $235 million or approximately 3% of revenues. Turning to our updated outlook on slide 11. For fiscal year 2027, our expectations are the following. Revenue to be between $33.7 billion and $35.2 billion up 23% at the midpoint. Adjusted operating margin to be between 7.7% and 8.2%, an increase of approximately 80 basis points year-over-year at the midpoint. We expect an adjusted tax rate of approximately 21%. We expect adjusted EPS to be between $4.42 and $4.74 a share. Up 39% at the midpoint. Finally, we expect CapEx to be in the range of $1.5 billion to $1.6 billion As a reminder, our prior guidance for free cash flow conversion of 60% excluded costs associated with the spin-off of our CPI segment. Incorporating costs associated with the spin-off, we now expect free cash flow conversion to be approximately 40%. Moving to our updated fiscal year 2027 segment outlook. For RMS, we expect revenue to be up mid-single digits to high-single digits due to continued strength in high-value end markets within industrial. Including warehouse automation, robotics, and energy infrastructure. For ITS, we expect revenue to be up high-single digits to low-double digits driven by continued strong performance in communications. And for CPI, we expect revenue to be up 65% to 75% driven by both cloud and power with power's growth rate exceeding cloud. Finishing off with our guidance for the second quarter on slide 13. We expect RMS revenue to be up mid-single digits to high-single digits on continued strength in industrial. We expect ITS revenue to be up high-single digits to low-double digits on continued strength in communications. Offset by weakness in consumer-related end markets. We expect CPI revenue to be up 45% to 55% as new programs continue to ramp in both cloud and power. For total Flex, we expect revenue in the range of $7.95 billion to $8.25 billion up 19% at the midpoint with adjusted operating income between $535 million and $565 million. Interest and other expense is estimated to be around $58 million and the adjusted tax rate to be around 21%. Lastly, we anticipate adjusted EPS to be between $1.00 and $1.07 per share, up 32% at the midpoint based on approximately 375 million weighted average shares outstanding. In summary, we are off to a strong start for fiscal year 2027. And we are well positioned to deliver upon the commitments we made at the beginning of the year. With that, I will now turn the call back over to the operator to begin Q&A.

Thank you. We will now be conducting a question-and-answer session. Our first question today is coming from Ruplu Bhattacharya from Bank of America. Your line is now live.

Hi, thanks for taking my questions. Maybe with you, first question is on margins in the CPI segment. Looks like revenues grew sequentially, but op margin was slightly lower, maybe 20 bps Is that because of program ramps that you are focused on? And in a in a broader sense, can you talk about growth drivers for margins in this segment? Power has good margins, but today lower than some of its peers. So how do you plan to grow margins in the power segment? And then for compute, what guardrails do you have to make sure margins remain within your target range as some AI projects could have lower margins? And I have a follow-up. Thank you.

Yeah, Ruplu, thanks for that question. I would say that margins in CPI are pretty much on track with the guidance we gave for the quarter and the year. We said that in the CPI segment that the revenue is kind of back-half loaded. We have been making investments in that. And then we also said that we expect to have at least 100 basis points improvement in margin in the CPI segment for the year from a year-over-year perspective. And we are on track with that. So feel very good about that. I would say what guides margins for this segment, obviously, on the compute side, we have been executing on that strategy for a while, and we are fairly mature in these. When there are new programs, which there are always new programs, initially, there is some investment. But when the program matures, then the margin flow-through rate is pretty good. So those ups and downs in the cloud side and the compute integration side as part of the game. But as you have seen in our full-year results, typically, that through the year, we do pretty well in terms of both revenue and our margin. I would say on the power side, we have said that, hey. We have built the power business through a whole bunch of acquisitions. Which requires investment, particularly when these businesses are growing at 70%-plus. So we are making those investments. Investments, and that drives kind of requirement for, the margin to be slightly muted compared to our peers, but we are very comfortable with moving it in the direction of where the peers in the electrical infrastructure are. I would say, Ruplu, in summary, CPI is absolutely where we said the quarter would be and where the guide would be for the year, and we are on track to deliver the margin improvement just as we said for kind of our current fiscal year.

Okay. Thanks for the details there, Revathi.

The follow-up maybe is for Michael or for Kevin. When you think about the segments in RemainCo, the regulated markets and especially the ITS segments, Are you happy with the product portfolio? I mean, if the focus is on longer lifecycle, higher margin segments, is there more potential to do more pruning or more optimization of both the portfolio as well as the footprint. So how are you thinking about that as you look out over the next couple of years? Thank you.

Yes. Good morning, Ruplu. Thanks for the question. I would say we are absolutely happy with where we are starting from in the business. And if you might recall, our strategy going forward will be to continue to emphasize the high-value growth markets that are tied to these longer-term secular trends And these markets exist in both the RMS business and the ITS business. So up to this point in time we have been deploying capital both human and financial towards the highest returns and that has been the data center The strategic clarity as a result of the spin enables us to provide greater focus on those high-value growth markets. In terms of optimization, a regular part of our process here in the business is to always look to optimize the portfolio. You have seen the benefits of that in our Q4 results, our Q1 results, and our guide, and we expect to continue to optimize the portfolio as we go forward in the theme of emphasizing high-value markets and deemphasizing low-value markets along the way. So short, really pleased with the starting point of where we jump off from on this business.

Thank you for all the details.

Thank you. Our next question today is coming from Mark Delaney from Goldman Sachs. Your line is now live.

Yes, good morning and thank you very much for taking the questions. I was hoping to start on CPI. I think the full-year guidance for CPI revenue implies second-half revenue is up closer to 100%, so some acceleration. I know the company has program wins as you were just describing, but can you speak more on your visibility into that acceleration for second-half? And on that kind of broader theme of visibility into the CPI growth, any change in your views for CPI into next year because I think you are expecting an acceleration to over 80% growth for fiscal 2028?

Mark, good morning. This is Kevin. From a CPI perspective, directionally the ramp that you were referring to is what is going to happen as we move through the year. So we started at 35% in Q1. We are guiding to 45% to 55% in Q2 and then still the 65% to 75% for the full-year. So certainly, strong growth in the back half of the year as you referenced. I would say from a visibility standpoint, we have talked about our demand see-through in this business and it remains strong. We are still at that 90%-plus booked business at this point. For the next three quarters. So we feel good and remain confident in our visibility around this business. I would say as we think about next year, while we are not going to guide to next year on a quarterly basis, the framework that we offered earlier in the year still holds and we expect the investments that we are making this year in CapEx and the ramp we see in the back half of the year to continue strong growth performance next year and our visibility next year still remains robust.

That is helpful context.

My other question was on cooling. And Revathi, you mentioned JetCool and so about cooling. So I was hoping you could give a bit more detail on how big that market might be for Flex today? And maybe more qualitatively, if you could speak around the traction that you are seeing in areas like cold plates and CDUs? Thank you.

Yes. I would say, Mark, the market for cooling liquid cooling, as you are aware, is growing quite well, and the market size is increasing as more air cooling is getting replaced with liquid cooling. I would say our acquisition with JetCool, you know, really got us some cold plate capability at the industry-leading cold plate capability and then we had to develop and introduce CDUs into the market. We are in the process of qualifying those products with the right end customers to scale that business up. It also gave us kind of manufacturing capability and co-design capability with some who already have their cooling product that helps us co-design with them. The way I think about cooling in the CPI portfolio is that it is still nascent, and it will be a pretty big part of our growth strategy overall for CPI. Within the cloud segment. So we are pretty bullish about it. I would say, but there is work to be done in terms of scaling that business to where we need it to go.

Thank you.

Our next question today is coming from Timothy Long from Barclays. Your line is now live.

Thank you. Yes, just one and then a follow-up, if I could. On the communications business, it sounds like it was really strong. The outlook is very favorable there. Just give us a little bit of color on kind of visibility, sustainability of that strength. How broad-based is it in the customer base? And then I will come back with a follow-up. Thank you.

Good morning, Timothy. Thanks for the question. Yes, we have identified within our communications business that our advanced networking business in particular is one of those high-value growth markets that we expect to drive growth over a sustained period in our business. And that is being positively influenced by pull-through demand from the data center. If you step back and think about this business, communications continues to be one of our largest, healthiest businesses in RemainCo going forward. It will continue to really spread across not just high-speed switches, but optical switches, network interface cards. So it is fairly broad-based within that advanced networking ecosystem. And very much tied to the sustained demand from the data center.

Okay. Great. Great.

And then maybe a follow-up for Revathi. You mentioned kind of being able to bundle or a little bit more and have a full solution power cooling rack. Could you just touch on kind of the I know it is early on the cooling side, but maybe just give us some examples or some thoughts of customer activity where you are seeing the benefit of having these multiple pieces?

Yeah. I would say, Timothy, that, we are seeing it across multiple customers, hyperscalers without naming out any, would say that you can see that most customers now are quickly thinking about hey, we need to before we deploy the next-generation silicon, we need to be thinking about the power capability and power requirements. They are already thinking about what does life look like when we go to an SSD technology. So we are seeing a lot of conversations at a very high level and strategic level with customers on kind of silicon cooling, and power, how all that comes together for next-generation products, which we did not see two and three years ago. Because what customers do not want to be is in the situation they are today, where the power requirement becomes an issue, and then we are in a struggle to make sure that we have enough power for these data centers. So I would say in the last kind of few months, several hyperscaler customers at a very high level, we have had strategic conversations around power cooling and kind of thinking about next-generation silicon. And that really puts us in the unique position of one of the few people who are able to do this. So I feel pretty good that three years ago, we thought this is where it would go, but now the conversations are heading in that direction. I would say from a platform perspective, what we announced with NVIDIA, a few months ago in terms of developing an overall modular platform which encompasses everything that we do is a good example of a company who is thinking about it and moving it in that direction.

Okay. Thank you.

Our next question today is coming from Joseph Cardoso from JPMorgan. Your line is now live.

Hi, good morning and thank you for the question. Maybe just for the first one, relative to the CPI growth, outlook that you provided, maybe can you just discuss the constraints that you are seeing just given the current backdrop that we are in? Just interested in hearing potentially what is limiting you from calling for further upside here. And where things are maybe more acute in terms of the constraints that you guys are seeing? And how are you thinking about those trending going forward? And any levers you have internally in terms of how you are thinking about offsetting of And then I have a follow-up. Thank you.

Yeah. Joseph, I will start by saying that our guide for CPI for the year was 70%. So growth year-over-year. So it is a pretty strong and robust number in terms of year-over-year growth. So we feel really good about that. I would say, we beat the midpoint of our guide for Q1. We said 30%; we came in higher than that. So obviously, the year is accelerating exactly like we planned and Q2 is higher than Q1, and we had clearly mentioned that this is back-half loaded. Which is mainly driven by the capacity investments we are making. We announced a big CapEx which involves pretty significant investment in terms of facilities, cooling infrastructure, manufacturing infrastructure, all of those are going in place. And that combined with the customer's generational shift in platforms is what has driven the way we have given our guidance for the full-year. So we feel very good about the 70% guide that we have given for this year and the 80% that we have given for next year because those are pretty significant numbers. Do not see any significant constraints per se other than putting the, capacity investments in place and making sure those factories are ramped up, which we know how to manage really well. So, Joseph, I feel really good about the guidance we gave, and we are on track to deliver that.

That is great to hear. And then maybe just as my follow-up, you mentioned the engagement with Cerebras. I am not sure how much you can talk about it, but any way you can kind of frame out how representative this engagement is to Flex's broader AI accelerator opportunity? And really what I am trying to get at is, for example, is this mostly advanced manufacturing? Or are you also seeing some pull-through around power cooling in the rest of the portfolio there?

Yeah. I would say we have talked, we have been quite public about and Cerebras has been public about our engagement with them, and we have-- I think there are videos by us and them in terms of our full engagement. We have been working on this a while, right, with them and I would say that it is definitely a cooling engagement because those go hand in hand. But it is also we are also working on things like next-generation power, which is things that we will be thinking about with them in the future. So it is a pretty holistic partnership with Cerebras. It is going extremely well. We are scaling up a lot for them. So I would say that this is a good example of us diversifying our hyperscaler involvement in our CPI business that we have talked about. It is a great example of scaling up with another customer.

Thank you.

Our next question is coming from Ruben Roy from Stifel. Your line is now live.

Yes. Hi, thanks. First question, I had a follow-up on Timothy's question on ITS. Kevin, you mentioned advanced networking and we have got the guide moving higher for the year. Can you talk a little bit about some of the dynamics there? Are you seeing share gains in advanced networking versus just broader market growth, which we are hearing from a lot of your peers? And I guess the kind of the longer-term question is how you are thinking about durability into fiscal 2028 on that business? Thanks.

Thanks for the question, Ruben. This is actually Michael. In terms of the communications business, and the underlying strength in the advanced networking business itself, First, it was a driver in our Q4 result. It was a big driver in our Q1 results and that strength is continuing into our Q2 guide and in our FY 2027. So we are seeing continued strength in that business. I would say it is a combination of two of the things that you mentioned. One is ongoing increased demand from the customers that we have had for a number of years in many cases and we are actually winning share in some of those product segments as well. So we have good diversity across a number of large OEMs in the advanced networking space. And we also cover a number of product categories as well from high-speed switching, to optical products to interface technologies as well. So I would say two things. One, yes, sustained demand in our advanced networking business, good diversity across customers, and good diversity across product segments as well. And we feel good about the durability into FY 2028 because it is all related to AI infrastructure spending. Right? So as that continues, right, you are going to continue to see this business ramp with that.

Right. Thank you, Michael. Revathi, if I could follow up on further follow-up on the CPI discussion. And thinking through capacity adds and that type of thing. You talked a little bit about that in May. But 90 days later, can you give us an update on sort of installed capacity against sort of the large second half ramp? I do not know if you can give us a percentage or high level view on what is cost-qualified today or what you still have to commission towards kind of meeting the strong growth you are expecting in the second half? Thanks.

Yes. Ruben, I would say we feel very good about our full-year plan here for this business. These capacity investments and movements have been going on for a bit. So it just did not start. You know, 90 days ago, we had been doing that before that. So feel very good about it. You can see that in the acceleration in Q2. Just like we planned. And then we see the back half pretty much going per plan. And most of the, you know, CapEx that we announced is for this acceleration in FY 2027 and 2028. We are installing that CapEx. I do not see any major concerns about, how that capacity installation is going. It is going really well. Flex knows how to do this extremely well. We run large projects well. And this is both in cloud and power. Our power business is also growing in the 70%-plus range. So feel very good about the progress in terms of both cloud and power. And feel very good about the guide for the year. We are on track for it. Definitely to the 70% or better than that.

Thank you.

Our next question today is coming from Luke Junk from Baird. Your line is now live.

Good morning. Thanks for taking the questions. To start with Revathi, it would just be great to get your updated perspective on the transition to high voltage, both 400-volt plus-minus and 800-volt and specifically, to the extent there might be any risk of delays or push out, just how we should think through what impacts might or might not be relative to the CPI guidance, I think especially for fiscal 2028? Thank you.

Yeah. I would say first is on 400-volt, which is kind of the immediate programs that we are working on followed by 800-volt we feel very good about the progress on those programs. Do not see any major limitations, at least to the guide we have given for 2027 and 2028. We feel pretty good about that guide. You know, I am sure there is lots of conversations about, you know, component and all of that, but we have planned all of that in the guide we have given. And, you know, if anything, there should be some upside to that, I would say, as availability becomes better. But the technology transition itself is going well. We feel good about the pace of customers and how that is being deployed. So I would say, you know, we have mentioned this before. Flex is kind of the leader in the transition on that, but on the power side, and you know, I would say that our ability to develop and deploy that 400-volt technology followed by 800-volt is really, really strong. So I feel really good about that we are on track for it, and we will see kind of as we update our long-term guidance and at the Investor Day, we will give you some more clarity around that.

Okay. Yes, we look forward to that. For a follow-up, Revathi, I was hoping you could just double-click on the company's modular capabilities and CPI. Certainly, we are getting more questions about this. You outlined some pretty interesting capabilities in the past. Just wondering how that figures into the expanded infrastructure opportunity overall that you reviewed in the prepared comments.

Yeah, I would say, Luke, when I think about modular, right, you can think about modular in terms of like I talked about earlier, the partnership we announced with NVIDIA, which is you know, putting everything in a modular capability and deploying a kind of mini data center. That is one way to think about modular. The other way to think about modular is you know, power businesses have been doing modular deployment for power for a long period of time, whether it is a new utility space or the data center space. And for that, we added capacity in Dallas, after our Crown acquisition. Now with EP acquisition, we are adding capacity in Iowa to really continue to drive that modular power business. So we are very mature in that, and if anything, that is growing pretty significantly. So I think about it in terms of the holistic, like, modular deployment, which is what people are doing in terms of IT deployment or power deployment. It should become a bigger and bigger part of, I would say, all customers' requirements. And if anything, I think we are fighting against capacity constraints in that space to do more of it. But it is the direction everyone is heading, Luke, because it is just so much easier to pick it up and deploy it at the customer site.

Thank you.

Our next question today is coming from Steven Fox from Fox Advisors. Your line is now live.

Hi, good morning. I was wondering if you could do a deep dive into some of the industrial strength you mentioned. Much of it is cyclical versus secular and how, you know, what you are doing to continue to address that demand? And then I have a follow-up.

Yes. Good morning, Stephen. This is Michael. Thanks for the question. I would say when you think about our industrial business that has been identified as one of the business units that will really be containing multiple high-value markets that will be our growth focus going forward. Within that group, you have two different markets that I would like to point out. The first one is around energy infrastructure. Now as you already know, we are spinning our power product portfolio into SpinCo and we are maintaining our contract manufacturing capability for that industry. And so we will be a contract manufacturer for things ranging from power generation, transmission, distribution, and storage. And that energy infrastructure business has great pull-through demand from not just data center infrastructure, but also utility-scale infrastructure as well. So we see sustained demand from that segment within industrial. On the other side, we have our robotics and warehouse automation business. And again, tied to the longer-term secular trend in this case around regionalization. As we talked about regionalization is accelerating and many of those regions are now suffering from things like wage inflation, labor scarcity, and they are on the constant search for productivity improvements. Our warehouse automation business is perfectly aligned to help solve those problems for our OEM partners. So both of those markets we have called out as being high-value growth markets and both are tied to these longer-term secular trends. We think are sustainable over the long term.

And just to be clear, Michael, right now you are saying that this is all more secular in nature than any kind of cyclical recovery?

Yeah. We see this tied very much to an ongoing infrastructure build-out. Both directly with the energy infrastructure businesses and then supporting productivity over the long-term in our warehouse automation business.

Got it.

And then as a follow-up, can you give us an update on the Amazon partnership? You had a big commercial agreement announced, I guess, it is been over a year now. Maybe longer. And then how does that work out as you split the business? Is that all tied to one side of the business or another? Can you just sort of give us a feel for that too? Thank you.

Hey, Steve, this is Kevin. Good morning.

I will answer the last part of that question first, which is the benefit to the Amazon arrangement really is across all of our businesses. So you will see that both on the CPI business that we are spinning off, as well as the existing business that we have. And Michael talked about some of the end markets that we work in there. So I would say from that perspective it is broad across the Flex portfolio. From an update standpoint, there is really nothing to update. I would say that we will continue to assess the arrangement with them as we move through this year and get ready to spin the CPI business in early 2027. And when we have an update, of course, we will update everybody.

Thank you.

Our next question today is coming from Steve Barger from KeyBanc Capital Markets. Your line is now live.

Thanks. Revathi, you talked about your first-mover advantage in terms of serving broad segments of the data center. It does look like other EMS companies are also expanding capabilities in a similar way. What percentage of your engagements are contracting for the power cooling and compute portfolio versus taking a more selective approach to your products and services?

I would say, Steve, first is, when we are talking about other EMS companies moving into the same space, I think maybe there is some misconception around it because our power business is based on having true IP and product capability. It is not where we do contract manufacturing for end markets there. That will stay with kind of the base energy infrastructure business that Michael talked about. So I think there is some confusion around, kind of what the real capability is. So the real requirement in the power business is, you know, not just being able to develop products for what is needed, but then be able to integrate that in, like I talked about, with 400-volt design, 800-volt design, and then the future of solid-state that is going to be coming our way. So integrated design, like I had mentioned earlier in the call today, which is thinking about sidecars on power, cooling racks, and a fully integrated modular design is becoming a bigger and bigger conversation at very high levels in the hyperscalers. To be able to do that, you have to have true product technology. You need to be able to design in 400-volt and 800-volt design to be able to have those conversations. So, you know, I would say where I see the differentiation is we are an electrical player with true product capability, cooling player with true product, and then an integrated design capability including all of compute integration I would say I have not seen anybody just have that capability yet.

No. I agree. I do think you have a really good model. And I am just-- can you tell us are most of your conversations at a high level talking about taking that full suite of integrated products?

I would say I would not say it is more about taking the full suite of integrated products, but it is about designing that full suite of integrated products. Which is kind of more important than anything else. Right? So that is how I see it. I want us to win in each individual category, Steve, whether it is cooling or sidecar or compute integration, or even just building and developing your metal for fabricating all of that. But I want to lead the technology conversation with our customers in terms of what does the future of power look like with your next-generation silicon? How can we cool it enough? What kind of cooling makes sense? Those are the conversations we are having, and I think that is the most important part of how we lead this conversation.

Thank you.

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Thank you. We delivered another strong quarter and we are executing our proven strategy as we move towards the spin-off. As always, I want to thank our customers for their trust and partnership; of course, our shareholders for their support, and then the global Flex team for their continued dedication and contributions. We look forward to speaking with you again next quarter. Thank you, everyone.

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