Allegion (ALLE) Q2 2025 Earnings Call Transcript

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DATE

Thursday, July 24, 2025 at 8 a.m. ET

CALL PARTICIPANTS

President and Chief Executive Officer — John Stone

Senior Vice President and Chief Financial Officer — Mike Wagnes

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TAKEAWAYS

Revenue: Revenue exceeded $1 billion in the second quarter. up 5.8% compared to Q2 2024 driven by 3.2% organic growth (0.6% volume growth, 2.6% price realization), 1.9% from acquisitions, and 0.7% currency tailwind.

Americas Revenue: Americas revenue was $821.5 million, up 6.6% on a reported basis, with 4.5% organic growth and 2.1 points from acquisitions.

Electronics Revenue: Up low double digits in the Americas segment, consistently cited as a long-term growth driver.

Americas Nonresidential Growth: High single-digit organic increase, supported by healthy project demand and strong aftermarket performance.

Americas Residential Revenue: Declined mid-single digits as management noted continued softness tied to high-interest rates.

Americas Adjusted Operating Income: Americas adjusted operating income was $245.6 million, up 8.6% (adjusted operating income, Americas segment); adjusted operating margin increased by 50 basis points for the Americas segment driven by favorable volume and mix.

International Segment Revenue: organic revenue declined 2.2% as growth in electronics was offset by mechanical portfolio declines.

International Adjusted Operating Income: International adjusted operating income was $26.2 million, an 11% increase in international adjusted operating income versus the prior year, with adjusted operating margin (non-GAAP) up 100 basis points; accretive acquisitions cited as contributors.

Adjusted Operating Margin: Adjusted operating margin was 23.7%, flat compared to Q2 2024, with segment margin expansion offset by higher corporate expenses, mainly incentive compensation.

Adjusted Earnings Per Share (EPS): Adjusted earnings per share was $2.04. up $0.08 or 4.1% versus the prior year, as operational improvements and capital deployment were more than offset by a higher tax rate.

Tax Rate: The tax rate was negatively impacted by discrete items, but full-year tax rate expected in the 17%-18% range.

Available Cash Flow: Year-to-date available cash flow was $275.4 million as of Q2 2025 up 56.5% year-to-date versus the same period last year due to higher earnings, lower capex, and improved working capital.

Dividends and Share Repurchases: Dividend payout of $0.51 per share ($44 million total) and share buybacks of $40 million.

Net Debt to Adjusted EBITDA: Net debt to adjusted EBITDA was 1.5 times, described as a “healthy ratio” by management.

Acquisitions: Four new deals since the Q1 call—Novas (Q2 close), EllaTek, GateWise, and Waitwhile (Q3 close); Elitec in the international segment added growth in electronics in Q3 2025.

Acquisition Impact: Collectively, these are expected to be accretive to 2026 adjusted earnings per share and enhance long-term growth at attractive margins.

Surcharge Revenue: Approximately $40 million is expected from tariff surcharges in the full-year 2025 outlook, now included in organic revenue for the Americas in 2025.

Tariff Impact: Tariff surcharges expected to be EPS neutral, as explicitly stated by management.

API Divestiture: Commitment to divest API, a non-core $6 million-revenue locksmith business in Australia, with close expected in August.

Raised 2025 EPS Guidance: Adjusted EPS guidance was increased to $8.00–$8.15 for 2025, citing operational execution, strong nonresidential demand, accretive acquisitions, and FX update.

Americas Organic Outlook: Increased for the year to mid-single digits, based on nonresidential strength and surcharge inclusion.

International Organic Outlook: Maintained as "roughly flat" according to management’s updated guidance.

SUMMARY

The management ofAllegion plc(NYSE:ALLE) highlighted the company surpassing $1 billion in quarterly revenue for the first time in Q2 2025, attributing this milestone to high single-digit organic growth in Americas nonresidential and ongoing expansion in electronics. Executives pointed to continued margin improvement in both business segments, with acquisition-driven gains in international offsetting weaker mechanical product lines. The updated guidance reflects raised adjusted EPS expectations for 2025, supported by consistent nonresidential demand, tariff surcharge implementation, and accretive acquisitions in both hardware and SaaS, while noting that these tariff surcharges are expected to be EPS neutral for FY2025. The company’s capital deployment included four recent acquisitions and the planned divestiture of a small non-core business, maintaining an active M&A pipeline and affirming confidence in further portfolio growth.

President John Stone said, “This was Allegion's first quarter with revenue in excess of $1 billion and we certainly don't think it'll be our last.”

Chief Financial Officer Mike Wagnes said, “Organic revenue grew 3.2% in the quarter, which included volume growth of 0.6% and price realization of 2.6%,”

The company cited, “We continue to expect tariffs to be neutral at the EPS level, as we shared with you in Q1.”

Management confirmed, “Acquisitions contributed 1.1% to international revenue. Currency was also a tailwind, positively impacting reported revenue by 4%.”

Stone clarified there is no evidence of customers accelerating orders or demand elasticity ahead of tariff changes, stating, “We look for that. We watch that. We monitor ourselves very closely, and there's no evidence of that on the nonres side.”

Management discussed updated surcharge guidance: “Overall, tariffs are about half of that because the trade regulations have changed. Right? So we've updated our assumption to $40 million for 2025.”

INDUSTRY GLOSSARY

Spec Activity: The process of architectural specification writing and product selection for future construction projects, used as an indicator of pipeline demand.

Aftermarket: Sales activity relating to replacement and upgrades within installed customer bases rather than new installations.

SaaS (Software as a Service): A business model in which access to software is provided on a subscription basis and hosted centrally, offering recurring revenue potential.

Surcharge Revenue: Incremental sales generated by passing on additional costs (such as tariffs) to customers via surcharges, often cyclical or policy-driven.

Transactional FX: Foreign exchange effects arising specifically from transaction-related currency conversions, impacting operating margins due to localized cost or revenue mismatches.

Full Conference Call Transcript

John Stone: Thanks, Josh. Good morning everyone and thanks for joining us. Q2 was a strong quarter, once again, demonstrating strategy. We also achieved an exciting milestone. This was Allegion's first quarter of revenue in excess of $1 billion and we certainly don't think it'll be our last. I'm very proud of our team's performance, the high single-digit Americas non-res organic growth and continued segment margin expansion speaks to the resiliency of our business model, our broad end market exposure, and the depth of our relationships with channel partners and end users. We continue to take advantage of our business's strong cash generation, returning cash to shareholders and growing our business through accretive acquisitions that complement our core and create long-term value.

Midway through the year, our team's strong execution gives us confidence in our full-year performance. We're raising our 2025 full-year outlook for adjusted earnings per share to $8 to $8.15. I'll be back later to provide more color on our markets and the outlook. Please go to slide four. Let's take a look at capital allocation for the second quarter, starting with investments for organic growth.

John Stone: As you may have seen at our recent Investor Day in New York, our Simons Voss business continues to be a great success story for Allegion. A known pioneer in our industry, Simons Voss is a leader in electronics, leveraging the global long-term growth trends we see across security and access. Most recently, Simons Voss has introduced a new portfolio of products called Fort Locks, which is launching with some of our key Simons Voss customers this year. Fort Locks is Allegion's first batteryless electronic cylinder offering customers the high quality and ease of use that Simons Voss is known for and now without the need for a battery to power it.

It's an incredible evolution of Simons Voss technology that expands applications and market segments that we can serve. Turning to M&A, since we spoke at Q1 earnings, Allegion has announced four additional acquisitions. Novas closed in Q2, while EllaTek, GateWise, and Waitwhile closed early in the third quarter. I'll spend some time on the next slide discussing these recent additions to the portfolio and how they support our long-term growth strategy. Allegion continues to be a dividend-paying stock and in the second quarter, this amounted to $0.51 per share or approximately $44 million. And lastly, we made share repurchases in the quarter of approximately $40 million.

We remain committed to balanced, consistent capital allocation with a clear priority of investing for growth. Please go to Slide five, where I'll discuss our recent acquisitions. At that meeting, we outlined a capital allocation strategy that takes advantage of Allegion's demand generation model, channel and distribution strength, and solid relationships. This framework also includes growing our portfolio with additional electronics products as well as software and services that differentiate our hardware and security in environments where Allegion has a right to win. Starting with additions to our mechanical portfolio, Allegion recently completed the acquisition of Tremco in the Americas, which we announced prior to Q1 earnings, and NOVAS in the International segment.

Both of these businesses leverage existing go-to-market channel strength in their respective geographies while broadening the high-quality hardware offerings we provide to our customers. Tremco expands our accessories portfolio in non-res America markets while Novas adds to our residential offering in Australia. Moving to our electronics portfolio, Allegion closed our acquisition of Germany-based Elitec in the third quarter, adding to our international segment.

John Stone: Similar to our existing electronics portfolio, EloTech has an attractive growth profile in the high single to low double-digit range with strong profitability. EllaTech's readers and credentials bolster Allegion's Electrify portfolio globally, including in the U.S., and expand our reach into new applications of customers. Lastly, we'll continue to look to acquire complementary software and service businesses that differentiate our hardware and drive adoption in security and access environments where Allegion has a right to win. Our two most recent July acquisitions highlight this. We added GateWise, a software as a service provider that offers a modern and retrofit-friendly gate entry system for multifamily communities.

This business is a hand-in-glove fit with Allegion's electronic locks and Sentra multifamily property access solution, bringing together expanded perimeter security with unit and common area security. We also acquired Wait While, a leading software as a service provider that specializes in cloud-based appointment scheduling and queue management. With Wait While, we can connect the virtual queue to secure and seamless physical access at the door in core nonresidential markets that we know well, ultimately providing the right access to the right people at the right time, all while streamlining operations for the building of the campus.

Both of these SaaS businesses have strong growth fundamentals and deliver recurring value to our customers in a way that differentiates and supports our electronic hardware business. Collectively, we expect these acquisitions to be accretive to 2026 adjusted earnings per share and increase the long-term growth potential of Allegion at attractive margins. Mike will now walk you through the second quarter financial results.

Mike Wagnes: Thanks, John, and good morning, everyone. Thank you for joining today's call. Please go to Slide number six. As John shared, our Q2 results reflect continued strong execution from the Allegion team, delivering another quarter with mid-single-digit top-line growth. Revenue for the second quarter was over $1 billion, an increase of 5.8% compared to 2024. Organic revenue increased 3.2% in the quarter as a result of favorable price and volume, led by our Americas nonresidential business where demand remains strong. Q2 adjusted operating margin was 23.7%, flat to the prior year. Both our segments had margin expansion, which was offset by increased corporate expenses primarily for incentive compensation.

Volume leverage and mix were accretive to margins driven by our Americas nonresidential business. Price and productivity, net of inflation and investment, was a headwind in the quarter of $5.3 million for the enterprise. Adjusted earnings per share of $2.04 increased $0.08 or 4.1% versus the prior year. Operational performance and accretive capital deployment were more than offset by higher tax. Our Q2 tax rate was negatively impacted by discrete items. We still anticipate the full-year tax rate to be in the range of 17% to 18%. Finally, year-to-date available cash flow was $275.4 million, which was up 56.5% as we continue to generate strong cash flow.

I'll provide more details on the balance sheet and cash flow a little later in the presentation. Please go to Slide number seven. This slide provides an overview of our quarterly revenue. I will review our enterprise results here before turning to our respective regions. Organic revenue grew 3.2% in the quarter, which included volume growth of 0.6% and price realization of 2.6%, as we are taking pricing actions to offset inflationary pressures. Acquisition drove 1.9 points of growth, as both the Americas and international businesses benefited from acquired growth. Currency was a tailwind of 0.7 of a point, bringing the total reported growth to 5.8% in the quarter. Our Americas segment delivered strong operating results in Q2.

Revenue of $821.5 million was up 6.6% on a reported basis and up 4.5% on an organic basis. Organic growth included both favorable price and volume in the quarter. Reported revenue includes 2.1 points of growth from acquisitions. Pricing in our Americas business was 3% in the quarter. This includes a combination of core pricing actions and surcharge revenue. Our nonresidential business increased high single digits organically as demand for our products remains healthy, supported by our broad end market exposure. Our residential business declined mid-single digits in the quarter as markets remained soft in the current high-interest rate environment.

Electronics revenue was up low double digits and continues to be a long-term growth driver for Allegion, as we highlighted at our Investor Day in May. Americas adjusted operating income of $245.6 million increased 8.6% versus the prior year. Adjusted operating margin was up 50 basis points as volume leverage and favorable mix from stronger nonresidential growth were accretive to margins. Price and productivity, net of inflation and investment, and inclusive of transactional FX, were a tailwind to margin rates.

Similar to what we discussed on our Q1 call, we had a slight tailwind from transactional FX, primarily related to our Mexican operations, where a portion of our local costs were favorably impacted by the sizable year-over-year decline in the peso compared to the U.S. Dollar. Please go to Slide number nine. Our international segment delivered revenue of $2.5 million, which was up 2.9% on a reported basis and down 2.2% organically. Our electronic businesses continue to grow organically but were more than offset by pressure in the mechanical portfolio. Acquisitions contributed 1.1% to international revenue. Currency was also a tailwind, positively impacting reported revenue by 4%. International adjusted operating income of $26.2 million increased 11% versus the prior year.

Adjusted operating margin for the quarter increased 100 basis points driven by favorable price and productivity net of inflation and investment as well as accretive acquisitions. Earlier in July, we agreed to divest our API business, a small non-core locksmithing operation in Australia, which we expect to close in early August. The API business had approximately $6 million of revenue in the first half of 2025. Please go to Slide number ten, and I will provide an overview of our cash flow and our balance sheet. Year-to-date available cash flow was approximately $275 million, up nearly $100 million versus last year. This increase is driven by higher earnings, lower capital expenditures, and improvements in working capital.

I'm pleased with the strong cash generation in 2025. Next, working capital as a percent of revenue improved as we continue to effectively convert earnings to cash. Finally, our balance sheet remains strong. Our net debt to adjusted EBITDA is at a healthy ratio of 1.5 times. Our business continues to generate strong cash flow and our balance sheet supports continued capital deployment. I will now hand the call back over to John.

John Stone: Thank you, Mike. Please go to Slide eleven and I'll share our updated outlook. Starting with the Americas, the nonresidential markets, particularly institutional verticals, remain resilient. Allegion is performing very well in the aftermarket. Our spec activity has grown steadily over 2024 and year-to-date 2025, driven by broad end market exposure and supports our outlook. Residential markets have been soft thus far in 2025 with interest rates a key swing factor. We are increasing our organic outlook for the Americas to mid-single digits due to strength in the nonresidential business as well as the inclusion of surcharge revenue from tariffs. International markets have been largely unchanged year-to-date and we continue to expect roughly flat organic performance.

However, we are updating the outlook for completed acquisitions as well as foreign currency changes resulting from the weaker U.S. Dollar. We now estimate approximately $40 million of tariff surcharge revenue in the outlook, and as I noted earlier, this is included in our organic revenue outlook in the Americas. We continue to expect tariffs to be neutral at the EPS level, as we shared with you in Q1. As a result, we're raising our 2025 adjusted EPS outlook to $8 to $8.15 based on our strong operational execution thus far in the year, continued strong demand in nonresidential, accretive acquisitions announced to date, and updated foreign exchange rates.

You can find additional details as well as below-the-line model items in the appendix. Please go to slide twelve. In summary, I feel Allegion is executing at a very high level while staying agile and steadily delivering on the long-term commitments we shared with you at our Investor Day. We've delivered strong performance led by an enduring business model in nonresidential Americas, double-digit electronics growth, and accretive capital deployment as we acquire good businesses in markets where we have a right to win. I'm very proud of our team's performance in this dynamic environment, which gives us the confidence to raise our EPS outlook for the year. With that, we'll take your questions.

Operator: Thank you. We'll now begin the question and answer session. Our first question comes from Joe O'Dea from Wells Fargo. Please go ahead.

Joe O'Dea: Hi, good morning. Thanks for taking my question. Just activity levels in nonres in Americas. First, just with the overall tariff backdrop, any signs of pull forward that you saw in the quarter to get ahead of some of the pricing? And then just bigger picture, you touched on specification activity that's up year-to-date. Just what you saw in Q2 versus Q1. Any indications of elevated uncertainty and impacts on specification activity?

John Stone: Yes, Joe, this is John. I think both really good, really timely questions. And in terms of any abnormal ordering or pull ahead because of tariffs, I would say no. We look for that. We watch that. We monitor ourselves very closely, and there's no evidence of that on the nonres side. Project demand, project work, for our customers and their customers, is humming along pretty well. So we don't see evidence of pull ahead. On the spec activity, like we shared last couple of quarters, spec writing accelerated through 2024. That momentum has continued year-to-date 2025. And I would say, continues to be strong. Continues to grow and very much supports the outlook.

So there's, you know, there's new tariff news just about every week. But I think the project activity in nonres is humming along pretty well.

Joe O'Dea: Perfect. And then wanted to touch on Americas margin. Really good in Q1 and then saw sequential growth off of that. Can you talk about the timing of price cost with tariffs? Because I think the framework was that could be a little bit of a headwind in Q2. And then a little bit better in the back half of the year if that's still the case with the lower tariff amount. And then just unpack the mix that you saw in the quarter, the degree to which some of that doesn't continue into the back half or if that's just broadly kind of nonres mix that's favorable.

Mike Wagnes: Yes. Joe, if you think about tariffs, when we met on the Q1 call, we originally had an estimate out there of $80 million and we said there would be about a month lag. Overall, tariffs are about half of that because the trade regulations have changed. Right? So we've updated our assumption to that $40 million for 2025. That month lag is still relevant so you could think of that as, you know, $5 million a month. So if you think about for us, that's about a quarter of our total tariff revenue we expect to recover in the second quarter with the remaining amount being rest of year.

Helps you understand how to kind of model that on the top line. And obviously, when you think about fall through, we would offset that at the operating income level on a neutral basis as we've been discussing for some time. The second piece related to mix, I'll kind of send you over to our 10-Q where we outline the components of our operating income and margin bridge. You'll see we had favorable mix in the second quarter and the first half. And that is primarily the result of the nonresidential growing as well as it is. Right? Nonresidential is a stronger, more profitable business than the residential.

If you think of rest of year, I would say it would be imprudent to assume in the outlook that level of margin expansion. So I wouldn't say we've included it. But I would say we do expect nonresidential to grow to be the driver of growth in the back half of the year as well. That's the market that's really humming as John mentioned.

Joe O'Dea: Understood. Thank you.

Operator: The next question comes from Jeffrey Sprague from Vertical Research. Please go ahead.

Jeffrey Sprague: Hey, thanks. Good morning. Also just wanted and I didn't get a chance to look at the queue yet, Mike, so I'll do that. But just thinking about some of these moving pieces. Right? I would imagine deals are negative to margin rate and price cost parity on surcharge is negative to margin rate. So, you know, is that uplift and solid looking margin performance all mix? Is there some other kind of cost actions, you know, that are supporting that?

Mike Wagnes: Yes. On the enterprise level, obviously, the segment margin performance in the second quarter was positive. You had the offset in corporate, as I mentioned. In the case of the Americas, which I think is where you're going.

Jeffrey Sprague: Yeah. That's where I'm going. Yeah. Yeah.

Mike Wagnes: You see that strong incrementals driven by mix. We did cover price and productivity did cover the inflation and the investments and the slight tailwind from the transactional FX, which I talked about on the first quarter. I think you have to remember that as well. And then as far as acquisitions, you got to look at them by regions. They are accretive and international and they're not enough to really call out either way for the Americas in the first half.

Jeffrey Sprague: I see. Great. Thanks. And then, John, just back to kinda market conditions. You know, you are kind of later cycle. I mean, it sounds like from the spec activity though, that stuff entering the pipeline, you know, is still reasonably positive. How do you I know we kinda talked about this before, but how do you square that relative to the weak ABI and these, you know, folks like Sherwin Williams missing and things like that? I mean, do you think you're gaining share or is there just some other dynamic at play here?

John Stone: Yeah, Jeff, it's a good question. I think there's lots of factors going into that. I think, you know, the ABI has been rather depressed for pretty much my entire tenure here with Allegion. And I think the snapback in demand from the pandemic followed by labor shortages, followed by wrap inflation just really disrupted some of these more traditional leading indicators. And you had a dynamic to where construction backlog remained pretty high. Projects were delayed because of labor, so that long tail got a little bit longer. On an individual project basis even.

And then you've got where a lot of projects went through the planning phase, went through the design phase and hit pause waiting for some interest rate relief. You see now, today, Jeff, you've got segments that have been depressed for a long time like commercial office actually showing little signs of growth here and there. Particularly in major metro areas where you're seeing tenant turnover, tenant fit out, starting to come back in places where it was really flatlined. I think you've got a mix of end user verticals where some might be depressed, some might be up, the have been hanging in there very well.

A lot of work in both of those verticals, both from the spec activity and from the project work. So I think institutional has remained quite positive. Data centers, of course, growing very nicely. It is small for us. But growing nicely. And so you add all that together and we're still seeing high single-digit organic growth in nonres Americas. I do feel that Allegion is finding our way to gain some share. Probably at the expense of the smaller players in the industry. Not so much our largest competitor. And that's just due to better supply chain performance, better operational performance in the factories, so we can really get out and compete for more of the discretionary work.

But all in all, I'd say project work remains very healthy.

Jeffrey Sprague: Great. Thanks. I'll leave it there. Appreciate it.

Operator: And the next question comes from Julian Mitchell from Barclays. Please go ahead.

Julian Mitchell: Hi, good morning. Maybe first off, I just wanted to try and understand that slide eighteen is kind of very useful. Maybe if you could help us with kind of, you know, of that EPS guide raise, you know, thirty cents plus or so versus a few months ago, which is sort of the biggest pieces there. Sort of moved around and maybe just clarify for us what's embedded now for FX effects versus previous?

Mike Wagnes: Yeah. Thanks for the question, Julian. First on the FX, obviously, there's been a big swing in currency rates hitting our international business the largest. You see it impacting top line. FX will fall to the bottom line based on normal translational impact. So you can calculate that but that is impacting EPS. In addition, we put in the acquisitions on the EPS side. Right? And you can calculate what year-to-date is. We put that in the previous page, and you see the full year on the page of fifteen to twenty cents. So you have an idea between FX and acquisitions, the increase of the raise associated with both of those.

The last item obviously, the first half performance has been quite strong. So that's been a big driver in our operational income operating income number you see there on the first bar. So those three items are the big drivers of the EPS raise. This was not an EPS raise where it's all back end loaded. You know, it's those three big items that are driving the majority of it.

Julian Mitchell: That's helpful. Thank you. And maybe just on the more sort of operational part of it, homing in on that for a second. You got a slight acceleration, I suppose, in organic sales growth dialed in for the second half versus the first half performance, and that's really in the Americas. Maybe sort of flesh out, you know, to what extent that's kind of price versus volume driven or something in nonres versus res. Any sense of kind of know, why that second half is a little bit stronger than the first half.

Mike Wagnes: Yeah. I would say on the tariff piece, the biggest item is what I discussed earlier. It's now included in the outlook, and you have three quarters of that $40 million in the back half. Versus only one quarter in the first half. So that's a big driver of it. You could think of that driving the full year outlook of $40 million. That's a point plus as you think about the Americas. And then as far as other accelerations, I would just say nonresidential continues to be strong. And we expected that to be the driver of growth in the back half for us.

Julian Mitchell: Great. Thank you.

Operator: And the next question comes from Brett Linzey from Mizuho. Please go ahead.

Brett Linzey: Hey, good morning. Congrats on the quarter. Likewise. Yay. Wanted to revisit the organic sales outlook one more time here. So the $40 million surcharge and the revenue contribution, I guess, how did that compare relative to the original expectation on a netting basis? Were there any surcharge rollbacks you had to do on the de-escalation? And then or do you think you're pretty well covered for the balance of the year?

Mike Wagnes: Yeah. We actually have updated our surcharge not only in our estimates to you, but even the announcements to our channel partners and customers. So as this moves, these surcharges allow us to be flexible and agile to our customer base. And, Brett, continue to think of it as neutral. We're going to drive the surcharge to offset the inflationary pressures. And I think as you saw in the first quarter, that price productivity inflation investment for the Americas was pretty close to that. So it was breakeven. So look for us to continue to drive that to offset it at the enterprise level.

Such that when you think of the full year, also expect PPII to be breakeven to slightly positive at the enterprise level.

Brett Linzey: Okay, great. And then just on the acquisitions side, so four additional here encouraging to see. I know your long-term framework target the three points of annual acquired growth. You know, certainly running ahead here. I guess as you look at this scope and the size of the pipeline, was there some pull forward on deals you thought you had a shot on? Or should we think of it as maybe a little bit upside to that target as we look out over the next, you know, twelve to twenty-four months?

John Stone: This is John. Brett, appreciate the question. And I'd say, you know, each acquisition takes on a life of its own. Certainly, we had several acquisitions that came to the point of closure in a pretty tight time window. But if you just take a look at Eltek, I mean, that's a company we've had our eye on for a long time. And so really excited to bring that into the portfolio here, very excited to have them on the team. I think our pipeline remains active in both of our segments, in international and in the Americas. It remains active in mechanical as well as electronic products. So looks very good. I think our team is performing very well.

I think our integration muscle, our synergy capture is accelerating. And I think this will be a source of continued profitable growth for the company.

Brett Linzey: Alright. Great. Thanks for the insight.

Operator: Thank you. And the next question comes from David MacGregor from Longbow Research. Please go ahead.

Joe Nolan: Hi, good morning. This is Joe Nolan on for David.

John Stone: Hi, Joe.

Joe Nolan: I was just going to ask price costs remain modestly positive in the quarter. Just your view into the second half and what you're seeing with some of the different cost talk through some of those. Thanks.

Mike Wagnes: Yes. Thanks for the question. As I mentioned earlier, obviously, there's going to be more tariffs coming, which we're going to offset with the associated revenue. And then as you think about pricing actions, look for us to continue to take the necessary actions to cover inflationary pressures. I try not to get into the details of providing an outlook for any one individual item but rather just say look for us in totality to cover that by combination of pricing and productivity, covering the cost pressure.

Joe Nolan: Got it. And then nonres, strong outlook into the second half. Just with the tariff surcharges, have you seen any demand elasticity related to that or it doesn't sound so much like it, but just wanted to check on that?

John Stone: It's a fair question, and I'd say no. Project activity in the nonres space has been strong. Demand has been good. As a business, we operate predominantly in a short lead time made-to-order environment. Book and ship kind of business. Our customers operate in a similar manner. And that's really the dynamic today. So I think project work continues on. And I have not seen that elasticity impact that you asked about.

Joe Nolan: Great. Thank you.

Operator: And the next question comes from Tomo Sano from JPMorgan. Please go ahead.

Tomo Sano: Thank you. So I'd like to ask you about the international business for the second half outlook, especially. So you had volume decline 3.2%. Any changes that you see from the past quarters, and how do you see the flattish market outlook on a full-year basis? Any things that we should look at in the second half for this business, please?

Mike Wagnes: Yeah. I would just, I know you've been following us a little less than maybe others on the call. If you think of our business, our fourth quarter in international tends to be our strongest business. So as you think about modeling this, just take a look at the historic quarterly phasing for seasonality. And then with respect to the outlook, I would say still think the year is around flat. We talked about that Q1 on our outlook. And at the beginning of the year and still expect full year to be roughly around that flat organic outlook.

Obviously, we have the benefit of currency rates and acquisitions, which you need to make sure you take into account, and we give that detail as well.

Tomo Sano: Yep. That's very helpful. Thank you. And, just follow-up on the margin side on the international business. So in terms of the recent acquisitions, accretive to margins, how should we think about the levels of the margins from the recent acquisition into 2026 for international business? If you have some thoughts of like, how it's actually exciting in terms of the margin side of Genesis, please.

Mike Wagnes: Yeah. The biggest acquisition, obviously, Ellitech. That is margin accretive for international. We gave some details when we put out the earnings release where you can calculate that and see that, you know, you're thinking mid-twenties percent, which is certainly accretive to international on that business. So as I think about margin rates on M&A for international, think of it as accretive to the margin rate.

Tomo Sano: Alright. Thank you very much. That's all.

Mike Wagnes: Thanks, Tomo.

Operator: And our next question comes from Chris Snyder from Morgan Stanley. Please go ahead.

Chris Snyder: Thank you. I just wanted to ask on price. I think the company in April was pushing surcharges for about $80 million of tariffs. Obviously, you guys are kind of putting that number at $40 million. So, like, is Q3 price effectively lower than Q2 price? I think Q2 came in at plus 3% because of that rollback. Just any thoughts on, you know, that price trajectory intra-quarter Q2 and then as we kind of go into the back.

Mike Wagnes: No. If you think about our tariffs, think of 25% of the full year. So 25% of the $40 million will be in the second quarter and then the remaining 75% will be pretty even over the last six months of the year. So that can kind of give you an idea of the tariff revenue.

Chris Snyder: Okay. So the company wasn't really realizing price on that, you know, on the surcharges at the $80 million level in Q2.

Mike Wagnes: Yeah. Let me kind of walk this back for you, Chris. We came out with the $80 million shortly thereafter the government changed their policy on what tariffs were and we immediately adjusted what we went to the marketplace and adjusted the surcharge. Think of it as, number one, we're going to offset it on a dollar basis. Then I gave you the components for you to model it throughout the year.

Chris Snyder: Thank you. Thank you. I appreciate that. And then if we kind of look at the guide, I guess it's up, you know, 150 bps at the midpoint, 4% organic from 2.5% organic. Price is one point of that, the $40 million, and then I guess they're just, like, modest better volumes in some other piece of the business. I guess where do you guys see the volumes getting better versus prior? Thank you.

Mike Wagnes: I think it's fair to say nonresidential. As you think about this versus the beginning of the year, our nonresidential business in the Americas is performing quite well, even better than we expected.

Chris Snyder: Thank you. I appreciate that.

Operator: This concludes our question and answer session. I'd like to turn the conference back over to John Stone for any closing remarks.

John Stone: Thanks very much for the engagement and the questions. Again, I would just reiterate, I feel that Allegion is performing very well, executing at a high level and steadily delivering on the commitments we made to you at our Investor Day. Thank you very much.

Operator: Conference has now concluded. Thank you for attending today's presentation. You may now disconnect.

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