Good morning, everyone, and welcome to the Westinghouse Air Brake Technologies Corporation Fourth Quarter 2025 Earnings Conference Call. All participants will be in a listen-only mode. Should you need assistance, please say no conference specialist by pressing the star. After today's presentation, there will be an opportunity to ask questions. Please also note today's event is being recorded. At this time, I'd like to turn the floor over to Kyra Yates, Vice President of Investor Relations. Please go ahead.

Thank you, operator. Good morning, everyone, and welcome to Westinghouse Air Brake Technologies Corporation's fourth quarter 2025 earnings call. With us today are President and CEO, Rafael Ottoni Santana, CFO, John A. Olin, and Senior Vice President of Finance, John Mastlers. Today's slide presentation, along with our earnings release and financial disclosures, were posted to our website earlier today and can be accessed on the Investor Relations tab. Some statements we are making are forward-looking and based on our best view of the world and our business today. For more detailed risks, uncertainties, and assumptions relating to our forward-looking statements, please see the disclosures in our earnings release and presentation. We will also discuss non-GAAP financial metrics and encourage you to read our disclosures and reconciliation tables carefully as you consider these metrics. I will now turn the call over to Rafael Ottoni Santana.

Thanks, Kyra, and good morning, everyone. Before John and I get into the details of the fourth quarter, I'd like to take a moment to reflect on our performance over the past year and share my thoughts on the year ahead. 2025 was another outstanding year reflecting the strength and resilience of our business model and our ability to execute in dynamic markets. We delivered top-line growth of 7.5% and grew adjusted EPS by nearly 19%. We accomplished all of that while converting a record orders pipeline into a very strong multiyear backlog. As we move into 2026, our orders backlog and pipeline momentum remain very strong, supported by growing demand. We also advanced our strategic priorities through acquisitions and integration initiatives, unlocking synergies and driving operational efficiencies. To these ends, we're very pleased with the businesses that we acquired in 2025, the teams that came with these businesses, and the strong financial results that we have seen from day one of our ownership. Additionally, our efforts on integration, cost management, and simplification continue to exceed our expectations. As we exit 2025, the underlying momentum of our business gives us the confidence in delivering another strong cycle. We expect 2026 to mark our sixth consecutive year of mid to high teen adjusted EPS growth, positioning us to drive very significant long-term value creation. Finally, our financial position remains strong. We continue to execute against our capital allocation framework to maximize shareholder value by investing for future growth and returning value to our shareholders. As a result of our performance in 2025 and our confidence in the future, our Board of Directors has increased our dividend by 24% and has increased our share buyback authorization to $1.2 billion. This is the strongest position our company has been in, and we're both…

Thanks, Rafael, and hello everyone. Turning to slide 10, I'll review our fourth quarter results in more detail. Overall, the quarter came in slightly ahead of our expectations for both revenue and EPS. Cash from operations significantly exceeded expectations, while operating margins were lower than planned. Operating margins were adversely impacted by higher compensation expense driven by our outstanding operating cash flow and cash conversion performance during the quarter. Sales for the quarter were $2.97 billion, which reflects a 14.8% increase versus the prior year, with strong contributions from both the freight and transit segments. As expected, Q4 sales benefited from very strong organic growth behind strong orders and sales momentum, along with catch-up on locomotive deliveries that shifted from the second quarter due to a supply part issue. We also delivered strong inorganic growth led by Inspection Technologies, which outperformed our acquisition plan. Excluding the impact of currency, Q4 sales were up 13.2%. For the quarter, GAAP operating income was $356 million. The increase was driven by higher sales and improved gross margin as we continue to focus on productivity and simplification. GAAP operating margin fell in the quarter due to higher restructuring and transaction costs. Adjusted operating margin for the quarter was 17.7%, up 0.8 percentage points versus the prior year. This increase was driven by improved gross margins of 2.1 percentage points, which was partially offset by operating expenses, which grew at a higher rate than revenue. GAAP earnings per diluted share was $1.18, which was down 4.1% versus the year-ago quarter. During the quarter, we had net pretax charges of $55 million for restructuring, which were primarily non-cash and related to our integration and portfolio optimization initiatives, to further integrate and streamline Westinghouse Air Brake Technologies Corporation's operations, as well as transaction costs related to most…

Thanks, John. Now let's turn to Slide 18 to discuss our 2026 outlook and guidance. We continue to see underlying demand for our products and solutions across the business. Our pipeline is very strong, and both our twelve-month and multi-year backlogs provide clear visibility to profitable growth ahead. Our team is fully committed to driving top-line growth and margin expansion in 2026. With these factors in mind, we expect 2026 sales of between $12.2 billion to $12.5 billion, up 10.5% at the midpoint, and adjusted EPS to be between $10.05 and $10.45, which represents 14% growth at the midpoint. It is important to note that this guidance incorporates the expected impact from the Delner acquisition. As we discussed earlier, our cash conversion performance has been very strong, and we expect that to continue. Over the past two years, we have delivered an average of over 110% cash conversion, which is a testament to the strength of our operating discipline. Best-in-class cash conversion has been and is expected to remain a hallmark of investing in our company. While we will continue to provide long-term cash guidance, beginning 2026, we'll no longer be providing annual cash conversion guidance. I remain confident that Westinghouse Air Brake Technologies Corporation is well-positioned to drive profitable growth and maximize shareholder returns in 2026 and beyond. Now, let's wrap up on Slide 19. As you heard today, our team continues to execute against our value creation framework and our five-year outlook, driven by the strength of our resilient installed base, world-class team, innovative technologists, and our customer-focused approach. With solid underlying demand for our products and technologies, and a rigorous focus on continuous improvement and cost management, we feel strong about the company's future and our ability to maximize shareholder returns. With that, I'd like to thank our team for their great work this year and their continued commitment to drive top quartile performance. I'll now turn the call over to Kyra Yates to begin the Q&A portion of our discussion. Kyra?

Thank you, Rafael. We will now move on to questions. But before we do, and out of consideration for others on the call, I ask that you limit yourself to one question and one follow-up question. If you have additional questions, please rejoin the queue. Operator, we are now ready for our first question.

One. If you are using a speakerphone, we do ask you please pick up your handset prior to pressing the keys to ensure the best sound quality. If at any time your question has been addressed or you'd like to withdraw your questions, you may press star and 2. Again, that is star and then 1 to join the question queue. Our first question today comes from Angel Castillo from Morgan. Please go ahead with your question.

Hi. It's Oliver on for Angel. Thanks for taking our questions. We just wanted to talk about the recent flurry of orders that you guys had announced. You know, with those signed, does your pipeline of opportunities, you know, potentially narrow a little bit? And if not, could you talk about how that's grown across different regions and different end markets? Any color there would be super helpful.

So now we continue to have a very strong pipeline of opportunities, and internationally it's very, very strong. Our teams are continuing to work very hard to convert that pipeline into orders. And it speaks to really some markets where we have a strong presence. Places like Australia, Brazil, East Asia, we continue to have opportunities in Africa and parts of the CIS region. Of course, we are encouraged by the momentum we saw here in North America. I think this reflects ultimately strong customer commitment to win and grow the business through improved reliability, lower operating costs, better fuel efficiency, and reduced fleet obsolescence. So as we look at aging fleets out there, I think that's much more pronounced in North America. And that continues to be probably the single biggest powerful tailwind we have in the company.

Got it. Thanks, Raj. So that's super helpful. And then just on your components business, I know your railcar deliveries are to be down 20%, 25% again this year. Can you talk about potential offsets there, whether it's in the industrial business or the heat transfer piece? Potentially, do you see that growing to offset some of that decline?

Thank you. So as we look into 2026, every single one of our businesses, we see them driving profitable growth. With regards to the components business, I think we're very pleased with the progress there despite the softer freight car builds. I think those teams have continued to take decisive action to adjust the cost structure to new volume levels. And what I like about what I'm seeing there, and it's across the company, is really the portfolio is working. Right? I mean, we've made investments, but if you think about the organic plays or inorganic plays in the case of Freight Components, some of the investments we've made in the heat exchanger business in industrials is really paying off, and that's where you see some of those offsets taking place along those businesses. To continue to perform.

Our next question comes from Scott Group from Wolfe Research. Please go ahead with your question.

Hey, thanks. Rafael, can you just kind of go through that bit about the cash conversion and the guidance change and just the rationale there?

Yes. Hey, Scott. Number one, very strong cash conversion for the business as we expected. We're continuing to operate and reward our stakeholders in the business based on cash performance. So that continues to be paramount for the company. We continue to have very strong variation. As you see it not just quarter to quarter, year to year, it's certainly more pronounced as you go into some of the international deals and you collect cash earlier, we expect to continue to improve. Cash performance in the company. Yes, Scott. With regards to the overall guidance, we continue to shoot for above 90% in our long-term guidance. As we look at what we've done over the last six years, we've averaged 99% on a business that is growing its working capital quite substantially as our revenues and profits have grown very much since then. And actually, Scott, if you look at the last two years, we've been up 110%. Average cash conversion. So with that, we'll continue to stay focused. Our comp plans are all very much tied into cash, both short-term and long-term. And it has become a hallmark of an investment in Westinghouse Air Brake Technologies Corporation. But with that, we'll continue to shoot for the 90%. But in terms of an annual guide, we're pulling the 90% this year.

Okay. I think I understand. This transition we're starting to see with fewer mods and more new, I guess, should we think about the net impact here? Maybe just a couple of things to just do you think our sales with the class one rails growing this year and then sort of this shift to more new, how do we think about the net impact to margins for that business and I guess bottom line? With this shift?

Let me start here, Scott, first with regards to new units and mods. We continue to see the combination of that at a global level growing. Well, while I say that's true for the globe, it's not true for North America. And especially driven this year again by mods. Last year, the modernizations, we had a pronounced decline. It was double digits. It's more pronounced this year. And we have seen a shift towards some of the tier four units. With that being said, I think we continue to see a modernization of the aged fleet in North America, one of the most powerful tailwinds we have as we continue to really invest in solutions. We just announced the Evo Advantage, and that opens up a fleet that's growing to really 10,000 units here. It's a global fleet with, I'll call, very compelling elements of payback tied to fuel efficiency, tied again to reliability. So, I think we're continuing to invest in that, and that's going to be a very compelling piece of it. But new locomotives are certainly making more and more headlines there in terms of investment.

Our next question comes from Ken Hoexter from Bank of America. Please go ahead with your question.

Hey, great. Good morning. Hey, I'm on a plane, so I'll be quick. So just given the orders, what was in the backlog and what is new when you think about those recent announcements? And then thanks for the update on the backlog, but in your outlook for EPS, can you talk about what the upside downside to the target is?

With regards to what's in the backlog, Ken, it's everything that was done in the fourth quarter is certainly in the backlog. So when we talk about the $2.2 billion on our key wins sheet, that's all in backlog.

Right?

And when we talk about things in the pipeline, which Rafael did, they're not in the backlog yet, but as they convert, they will certainly be put in the backlog. Now when we look at overall guidance, Ken, we feel real good about where we're at. And the range that we have there. We've got a fair amount, we got a lot of good things happening within our business. We have some headwinds. We just talked about mods but also on the railcar build. But with that, we've also got a fair amount of headwinds with regards to tariffs coming at us. Right? We've seen in the third quarter to fourth quarter, a significant increase in the cost of tariffs as things come out of inventory in through the P&L, we would expect that to see the same type of dynamic in 2026 and in particular the first half while we are running all our mitigants against that. So we believe we've got a very balanced plan and a good guide as we go into 2026 to manage any eventualities that come at us.

Thanks, John. I guess my question was of all the Class one rails that have just put out orders, were half of those already in the backlog as of last quarter? Is it all new? And then follow on would be just thoughts on the first new build order from Progress Rail in a long time. Is that likely to see something you're seeing increasing competitive step back in? Thanks.

For clarity, Ken, everything that we've announced on the Class 1s, some of those have been announced this quarter, they are in last quarter's backlog. We signed those agreements in 2025. And so there's nothing that we've done that is not in the backlog at this point. With regards to your second part of your question, I'm not going to comment on the specifics of a competitor order. What I'll tell you is very confident about the portfolio of solutions we have. In the case of Tier four in specific, this is about really proven reliability, availability of over 1,000 units that we got running out there. Those are units that we've continued to really invest and to continue to further create advantages versus competitive products that are out there. So we're very confident about that portfolio. When it comes to Tier four and when it comes to modernizations as well. So you'll see us keep being advancing that and coupling that with really a lot of the elements of software and the digital electronics, digital intelligence business. So we're not sitting on our laurels. We've got the best products that are out there. And we're certainly investing to make them better.

Our next question comes from Jerry Revich from Wells Fargo. Please go ahead with your question.

Yes, hi. Good morning, everyone. Jerry. Hi. Rafael, so really nice to hear the Evo Class locomotives are entering the commercial phase of the rebuild cycle. Can you talk about based on customer interest and the pipeline, when do you expect to see those locomotives enter the rebuild pipeline and separately what are lead times like today for North America? I know combine mods plus new. Can you just talk about the overall lead times in the facilities, if you don't mind as well?

They are entering that phase. So some of the first evals delivered back in 2005. So that makes it again a compelling case here. On that. I think that's a positive for the overall business. In terms of lead times, it will depend very specifically on the fleets that you're looking at it. But I'd say at this point, when we look especially at 2026, we've got the coverage we need. Regards to both mods and new units. So discussions with regards to new programs would really for most of it sit towards 2027 and beyond. Which is, by the way, where most of really the orders that have been announced, it really sits on '27 and beyond. From that perspective, Jerry.

Super. Thank you. And then obviously very active M&A environment for you folks over the past couple of years and know it's early on Delaware in particular, but I'm wondering if we could just talk about how your expectations for the performance of the business have evolved since you've announced the acquisition acquisitions and anything interesting in terms of opportunities that you're seeing as you're integrating the assets?

Gerry, a couple of comments. We just had our Board meeting last week and we actually reviewed the acquisition since 2019. And we're ahead of pro forma great IRRs on those. With regards to specifically the three announced last year ahead of pro forma really strong performance from that perspective. I think some of my comments I mean, it's good to see, let me take just the case of Avnet. We've got three new product introductions happening on that business on each one of their product lines. And that coupled with I'll call it just a global reach we have, we're seeing strong interest on that. We've got one of the products, it's on the RVI on the remote visual inspection. The other one is on the MDT side with ultrasonic and the other one on the ANI piece of that. Strong demand, we're having to really make sure we continue to invest in the supply chain to support that. So positive dynamics, it's great to see the teams we brought on board and good progress. Early days, first six months here for Avnet and FrauShare we just announced, but good momentum.

Our next question comes from Steve Barger from KeyBanc. Please go ahead with your question.

Good morning. This is Christian Zyla on for Steve Barger. Thanks for taking my questions. Hi, Christian. With orders and backlog so strong, can you just talk about how that impacts your near-term and long-term visibility? Your twelve-month backlog is nearing annual levels, and your total backlog is about two years' worth of sales now. So do you guys just have better than usual visibility into 2027? And are customers giving you longer road maps or more information about the modernization efforts long term?

So near term, I'd say if you look at the coverage we have for '26, it's really consistent with the coverage we had a year ago. And of course, that's not including the acquisitions that we did, those have shorter lead times. So the coverage there is a last, but very consistent. From that perspective. When you look at '27 beyond, it's stronger. Debt coverage. And with that, I mean, we have also a very strong pipeline. So that gives us really think a good opportunity here. To convert more orders and really add into that coverage for 2027 and beyond.

Got it. And then there just seems to be a pickup in new builds for locomotives and mod activity along with maybe an inflection in over road freight? Like do you see those as indicators to overall freight improvement? Just what are your thoughts on kind of how that inflection is playing out? Thank you.

I think you're to separate a little bit here. North America from international in some of that regard. We're continuing to see strong demand internationally. I think we've been quite specific about fleets growing at a base of 5%. So that continues to be very robust. Megawatt hours, which is really fleets are running harder as well. So that's quite a positive. When you look at North America, the dynamic short term '26 we're actually going down when you look at the elements of both modernizations and new units. I think it's very important to keep that in mind. By the way, when you think about our service business, overall, while the core of service is really strong, numbers are coming down. And it's a function of really modernizations. Driving that. The core service business continues to be very strong. It's one that it's expected to continue to outperform the growth average of the company over time. The fleets are running harder in North America. So the megawatt hours are tracking in the right direction. But we've got lower dynamics going to the modernization, which is alcohol pulling some of those numbers down. But I think it's very important to emphasize that underlying trajectory of the core growth of service remains solid, strong, and above mid-single digits as we look into 2026 and beyond.

Our next question comes from Brady Steven Lierz from Stephens. Please go ahead with your question.

Yes, great. Thanks. Morning, everyone. Rafael, I just wanted to follow-up on some of the EVO mod commentary from earlier. Is there any way you can help us think about the size of the EVO mod opportunity compared to the over 2,500 mods you've already completed? And just do any of your recently announced mod orders with the class ones include this new EVO modernization product, or are they all still FDL?

So we would expect first programs on EVO to start this year, Meninck, to progress with customers there. I think that opens a significant opportunity. That fleet's growing to be close to 10,000 units globally. That's an important installed base. That we have with really very strong track record on that product. I think the biggest opportunity really immediately continues to be this aging fleet. We talk about when you think about the active fleet, over 25% of units are still DC traction. Just an enormous opportunity here for significant payback for customers. And as I mentioned before, we see that as one of the most powerful tailwinds for the company in that regard. And those units are also over 25% over 20 years of age. So at that point in cycle, so we continue to see opportunities for that to continue to happen, and it's more pronounced in North America.

Great. Thanks. That's helpful color. Maybe just as a quick follow-up, John, SG&A was up a pretty meaningful amount sequentially and year over year. Could you just help us understand what drove the increase? I know in your remarks you mentioned higher incentive comp. Was that really the majority of the driver? Just any color there would be helpful.

Yes. So there's two things, Brady, that drove it. One is just the acquisitions. Now we've got the SG&A for Evident and Fraucher in those numbers. But in addition to that, is the comp accrual that we had in the fourth quarter was much higher than what we had anticipated. So as we talked about cash a little bit earlier, right, cash is a hallmark of our investment in our company, and we take it very seriously. And we do have it in our comp program, both our bonus and our long-term. As we got to the through third quarter, we're about 57% cash conversion. We were expecting more in the 90% range on the year. But the team knows how important it is, and they did a fantastic job of bringing in working capital. And we finished the year with an incredible cash conversion in the fourth quarter, almost 300 percent and $992 million of absolute cash. So with that, it comes with a compensation accrual. And it doesn't come with additional earnings on that, right. So that pushed our SG&A up as a percent of revenue. But we feel really good about the overall dynamics of our margin in the fourth quarter. When you look at the driver of margin, our gross margin was really strong, up 2.1 percentage points, and that includes a fair amount of headwinds with regards to mix. Remember, you saw that evident, I'm sorry, equipment at a lower margin is growing at 33.5% versus services, a higher margin being down that 5%, and that's that flip flop between new and mods we've been talking about. And then in addition, tariffs grew quite a bit from third quarter to fourth quarter. Remember, we've talked about it takes two to four quarters to get through our inventory. And we're at that spot, we're about a year into tariffs, and we're starting to really see it come out of inventory. Inventory onto our P&L, and we'll see that as we move into 2026 as well, Brady.

Our next question comes from Harrison Bauer from Susquehanna. Please go ahead with your question.

Hey, thanks for taking my question. You guys mentioned the largest multiyear North American backlog, which is great. Do you see or the need to make any investments in your North American capacity to ramp total new locomotive and mod productions? As you look further out or maybe just add production lines? And then do you expect relatively stable, modest, you know, new locomotive and mods over time from North America or really just an extended visibility? So just curious on ramps investment in your capacity you might have to make in North America. Thank you.

We have the capacity in North America, and we continue to invest in the quality of that capacity. So, we continue to improve productivity and so forth. So, feel very positive from that perspective. I think with regards to the dynamics of North America, I mean, CapEx is actually down if you think about a Class 1s into 2026, which reflects a bit some of the dynamics I just described on the combination of mods and new units big down. For this year versus last year. With that being said, we're sitting on a very significant opportunity here that really provides very significant payback for our customers. So they can win with their customers, they can grow volumes and on very proven programs that will ultimately reduce the total cost of ownership, it will improve fuel efficiency, it will drive reliability and service levels. So, I think that continues to be a significant opportunity that customers are going to be evaluating. In North America.

Thanks. And maybe just as a follow-up on tariffs. I know that the guidance assumes tariffs ineffective the latest. But could you maybe provide what you saw as maybe the realized tariff impact in 2025? And then maybe bridge to what your guidance implies for 2026 and what that incremental year-over-year tariff impact might be? Thank you.

Yes. If you're referring to an absolute number, we're not providing an absolute number. We want our stakeholders to focus on the actions that were taken to mitigate and certainly on the growth trajectory of our overall business. What I can say is that just as we had expected, the financial impact of tariffs is growing. It's growing exponentially as we come out of the third quarter into the fourth quarter. And we'll expect that growth as we move into the first half of the year. Right now, it's a significant number, but also we've been at this for a year in terms of our mitigates and how we're going to minimize those tariffs. And we've talked about in the past, a four-pronged approach which we continue to employ. Which is one, getting all the exemptions that we're entitled to. The second is on the supply chain. Right, is are we sourcing these parts and products from the right places today given the new landscape? Now that takes more time. Those things sometimes can take up to a couple of years to requalify suppliers and those types of things. But that is in the mix. And the third one certainly is sharing the cost with our customers. And when we take those three, those are not enough to mitigate. All the tariffs that we have coming at us in particular in 2026. And that kind of leaves us with that fourth lever, right, which is an overall proactive approach to how we're managing our company's cost. But in aggregate, we feel that we'll mitigate those costs. And quarter to quarter, we're going to feel more headwinds in the '26 than in the back half with regards to tariffs, and that's where we expect them to peak.

Our next question comes from Ben Moore from Citigroup. Please go ahead with your question.

Hi, morning. Thanks for taking my question. Rafael, John, John, and Kyra. So trying to understand the lower sales on for your service on significantly lower North American mods? And maybe if I can ask it this way, last year, you gave your cadence of services versus equipment revenue on the lumpiness first half versus second half. Can you give a similar kind of view on the cadence of that 2026? And then also kind of driving impact on freight operating first half versus second half?

Yes. Absolutely. What we're seeing in the fourth quarter with equipment up 33.5% and services down five is what we had been talking about most of last year. In the first half of last year, we saw services growing at a faster rate, and actually equipment was down. We knew that was going to flip in the back half. And it's just a matter of timing of our runs between mods and new locos. But it played out exact the quarter, and with that, we had a mix headwind. But let's turn our attention to next year. And broaden the question out a little bit from just services, but let's talk about the overall cadence of our earnings. When we look at the midpoint of our guidance that we just came out with, we're at ten point five percent year-over-year growth on volumes. Think the way to think about that is that about half of that is driven by inorganic growth. Right. That's the three acquisitions that are coming at us. And partially offset by portfolio optimization, which continues to serve the company very well. And then to think about the other part of it about mid-single-digit organic growth. So on an absolute basis, we're looking at more revenue in the second half than the first half, not a lot, but certainly it will be bigger in the second half. And when we turn and look at the growth of our revenues first half to second half, we would expect our growth in the first half to be significantly higher than the second half. And that's going to be driven by two things. The first thing is number one, is the acquisitions. Right. In 2026, we will have revenue from our three acquisitions, EVID, Inspection Technologies, Frauchers, and Delner across…

Amazing. Thank you so much, John. Maybe for Rafael, switching to sort of more of a longer-term outlook. Your freight backlog has been averaged at about $18 billion for several years now, and it's been great to see the jump $21 billion from the Kazakh order last quarter and then to $23 billion today, which is fantastic. How is your view for the outlook given all the puts and takes from international and U.S. opportunities in the pipeline? Should we see that step back down to $18 billion for the longer term going back to the last several years average? Can we see incremental step up and staying, above the 21% or even the 23 going beyond?

We are very pleased with the progress, especially with regards to the pipeline. I mean, despite of record order intake, that pipeline continues to be very strong, and it's international, it's really a very significant part of it. It's driven by international. But there's some other parts of the business that are doing very well. You think about mining, in specific, we're continuing to see a strong demand for ultra-class trucks, which we happen to be very well positioned to work on that as well. And I think we're very happy to see how the portfolio is working. I made some earlier comments on areas that we're seeing soft demand. But the investments we've made, and I mentioned on both fronts on organic, some of the investments we made on PTC2.0, that's allowing a lot of the international orders for our digital intelligence business. So that's a very important part of it. But also in areas like inorganic, we talked about the drop in the freight car manufacturing side of it. And we're seeing the opportunity for parts of the business like in the heat exchanger, in the industrials to really offset some of those pressures. So I think we're going moving forward towards with that portfolio. With that, some parts of that portfolio might not have necessarily the same dynamics if you think about the elements of especially backlog. But it's a stronger portfolio. So the progress with acquisitions is clear. We're moving in the right direction here. Ahead of pro forma. And I think most important here is the quality of the backlog. The margins as you look at individual products and individual elements of that we have higher margins. The other piece which we can't underscore enough is the amount of really activity the team's got going on right now in terms of simplifying, taking cost out. It's really an element of record cost out those teams are going to be driving. And it's encouraging to see that momentum. Across the portfolio. With that, I think we're very confident in committed to deliver on what I guess we've highlighted here as another cycle of meaningful profitable growth.

Our next question comes from Tami Zakaria from JPMorgan. Please go ahead with your question.

Hi, good morning. Thank you so much. And thanks for all the color on the margin cadence. We would think the Transit segment probably doesn't have a lot of tariff impact. So if you could provide some color on how to think about seasonality for that segment as it relates to last year?

Let me just start here. We remain very much on track to expand full-year margins again, and that's supported by a lot of the elements of Integration three point zero, the portfolio optimization we continue to do, and the fact that team continues to be very selective on the order intake. And over our strategic plan, we expect transit margins to move into the high teens. I think that's very much the direction. We're very pleased with the overall progress we're continuing to make. But John, And specific seasonality, Tammy, we talked a little bit earlier this year in the second quarter and third quarter that the team in transit was trying to better level load some of their production. And what they did was they brought forward some of the volumes. So we saw a greater organic growth in the second and the third quarter than the fourth. And we garnered some of those manufacturing efficiencies in Q2 and Q3, a little bit to the detriment of the fourth quarter. And having said that, as we look into 2026, we would expect a pretty balanced view of volume growth and margin growth over that year. Now there's always variations quarter to quarter. We saw a variation certainly in our fourth quarter for both Transit and the full company adherent '25 with regards to the extraordinary cash performance that we had. We'll always see those things, but I think we'll see a more balanced delivery out of transit in 2026.

That's very helpful. And quickly on the incremental $50 million savings that you've talked about, is it mostly according to the transit segment or freight or pretty much split between the two?

Yeah. When we look at the integration at March, as we did two point zero, transit's a little bit overshared. So yes, I think, Tammy, we're closer to the kind of the fifty-fifty between the two segments, even though the Transit segment's a smaller part of overall revenue.

Understood. Thank you.

And ladies and gentlemen, that will conclude today's question and answer session. At this time, I'd like to turn the conference call back over to Kyra Yates for any closing remarks.

Thank you, Jamie, and thank you everyone for your participation today. We look forward to speaking with you again next quarter.

And with that, ladies and gentlemen, we'll conclude today's conference call and presentation. We thank you for joining. You may now disconnect your lines.