Blake D. Moret
Analyst · Citigroup
Yes. Let me start by saying the projects that we're attracting, we're seeing delays, but not cancellations. People are still looking at these as opportunities to increase their resilience to make market share moves. In general, among our customers, they're just being subject to a higher level of scrutiny. People are looking again and again at the business case to make sure they have a good handle on their cost, what the demand picture is and so on. That being said, when projects do pass that hurdle rate, they are being green lit, and we've seen greenfields and brownfields. Overall, we expect to see a higher intake of orders related to new U.S. capacity in fiscal year '25, and we expect that number to go up again in fiscal year '26. We're tracking it. We're having a good success rate as we look at these and coordinate our coverage around the world. So I'm encouraged by that. And as I mentioned, we saw some nice development in, in particular, discrete and hybrid verticals, which, of course, is our strength. We've been in automotive for a long time, and we had some nice wins in both basic control as well as in software there. Food and beverage, our single biggest vertical, over half of that business is really concentrated through machine builders, especially packaging machine builders and some of our new products are helping us win new business there. So we saw some good results in the quarter. We didn't show it on the slide, but home and personal care, we're also seeing some spend there. So we think we're in a good spot, and we're looking forward to as hopefully, additional certainty frees up some of that CapEx spend, but we're not waiting. We're continuing to be on offense, both in terms of winning every order that is available out there as well as continuing to expand our margins.