Earnings Call Transcript - ATR Q2 2025

Operator, Operator

Ladies and gentlemen, thank you for joining us for Aptar's 2025 Second Quarter Results Conference Call. Introducing today's conference call is Ms. Mary Skafidas, Senior Vice President of Investor Relations and Communications. Please go ahead, Mary.

Mary Skafidas, Senior Vice President, Investor Relations and Communications

Thank you. Hello, everyone and thanks for being with us today. Our speakers for the call are Stephan Tanda, our President and CEO and Vanessa Kanu, our Executive Vice President and CFO. Our press release and accompanying slide deck have been posted on our website under the Investor Relations page. During this call, we will be discussing certain non-GAAP financial measures. These measures are reconciled to the most directly comparable GAAP financial measure and the reconciliations are set forth in the press release. Please refer to the press release disseminated yesterday for reconciliations of non-GAAP measures to the most comparable GAAP measures discussed during this earnings call. As always, we will also post a replay of this call on our website. I would now like to turn the call over to Stephan. Stephan, over to you.

Stephan B. Tanda, President and CEO

Thank you, Mary, and good morning, everyone. We appreciate you joining us on the call today. I will begin my remarks by highlighting our second quarter results. Later in the call, Vanessa Kanu, our CFO, will provide additional details on key drivers for the quarter. Starting on Slide 3, we delivered a strong second quarter exceeding the high end of our guidance range, delivering an adjusted earnings per share of $1.66, an increase of 18% over the prior year quarter. Each of our segments contributed to our growth in the quarter. Core sales increased driven by our Pharma and Closures segments. We saw solid demand for our Pharma segment's proprietary drug delivery systems used for emergency medicines, asthma, COPD, and ophthalmic treatments. Additionally, strong sales of elastomeric components for injectables and active materials as well as royalties helped drive our strong results. Demand for dispensing closures for sauces, salad dressings, and functional drinks also contributed positively to our quarterly results. Three of our divisions in Pharma showed robust core sales growth this quarter. Prescription delivered a core sales increase of 8%; Injectables, 9%; and Active Materials Science Solutions grew core sales by 11%. The exception was our Consumer Healthcare division, which continued to be impacted by softer demand for dispensing technologies in the nasal saline and nasal decongestants. Consumer Healthcare's two largest regions are Europe and North America, while sales in North America grew nicely, Europe has not yet recovered from the excess inventory due to a weaker cold and flu season. The visibility into future European demand for cold and cough medication has not improved meaningfully. A few weeks ago, we announced the acquisition of Mod3 Pharma's clinical trial manufacturing capabilities. This expands Aptar Pharma services into the highly specific CDMO field supporting Phase I and Phase II GMP fill and finished services for orally inhaled nasal drug products, an area we view as a significant unmet market need. We believe this added capability will help accelerate adoption of our proprietary drug delivery devices and further strengthen our position as a preferred partner in early-stage development. As a result of this acquisition, we now operate an FDA-inspected state-of-the-art facility in New Jersey featuring cGMP clean rooms, high-potency API suites, biologic capabilities, and advanced small-scale fill-finish technologies fully aligned with our drug delivery portfolio. The acquisition is also expected to enable future expansion into dermal, ophthalmic injectable and packaging solutions powered by our Active Materials Science division. Our Closures segment had a great quarter, bringing Closures under one roof appears to be really paying off. Core sales have been spurred by a solid innovation pipeline, enabling the segment to grow faster than the industry while also improving utilization rates and managing costs to expand margins. We're energized by the future of the segment and the opportunities ahead. Now let me touch on Beauty. Cost management is a well-developed muscle in the segment, and the beauty industry remains resilient and poised for sustained growth, driven by regional expansion, product innovation, and evolving consumer preferences. While Prestige beauty has faced headwinds from trade uncertainties, which is slowing demand recovery despite a few encouraging signs, our growth in Masstige fragrance is helping to offset some of that softness. Additionally, continued momentum in Personal Care supported by a broad and globally relevant portfolio reinforces the resilience of the segment. To further enhance the competitiveness of our industrial footprint, earlier this week, we executed a previously agreed-upon call option to increase the ownership in our BTY joint venture to 80%. While the JV assets are based in China and serve the broader Asia region, BTY brings highly specialized custom decoration capabilities that will also be leveraged at our flagship beauty facility in Oyonnax, France. Moving to Slide 4. I'm proud to highlight recent corporate awards and recognitions. At the end of the quarter, Aptar was named one of Time Magazine's World's Most Sustainable Companies for the second year in a row. For this recognition, over 5,000 of the world's largest and most influential companies are assessed based on revenue, market capitalization, and public prominence. Only the top 10% were recognized with an award. Following the end of the quarter, Aptar was again named to CDP's Supplier Engagement Assessment A List for the 2024 disclosure cycle. This CDP assessment evaluates companies on their performance on governance, targets, Scope 3 emissions, and value chain engagement. Turning to Innovation. I want to now highlight just a few recent technologies and product launches as shown on Slide 5. Our recent innovation, the lateral control system with a shorter nozzle and easy one-push button actuation for precise dosing is the dispensing solution of choice for Haleon's nasal Theraflu brand congestion relief in the U.S. This is Theraflu's first nasal decongestion product. I also wanted to cover a topic that spans both beauty and pharma markets. The combined dermacosmetics and medical aesthetics market has been growing double digits over the past 5 years. According to IQVIA, these markets are expected to keep growing 2 to 3 points above the beauty market average growth rate. We are addressing this fast-rising market with a range of solutions tailored to the needs of dermacosmetic brands. Our recently launched Pharma, Beauty, Derma series features a curated selection of high-performance packaging and dispensing solutions adapted perfectly to the specifications of the dermacosmetic market. Before I turn the call over to Vanessa to share further details of the quarter, I want to highlight that we continue to ramp up share purchases. For the first 6 months of the year, we repurchased approximately 1 million shares for about $150 million and returned about $210 million to shareholders through both dividends and share repurchases.

Vanessa Kanu, Executive Vice President and CFO

Thank you, Stephan and good morning, everyone. Let me begin by summarizing the highlights for the quarter. Starting on Slide 6. Our reported sales increased 6%, which included a foreign currency translation tailwind of approximately 3%. Therefore, core sales grew 3% compared to the prior year period. As shown on Slide 7, we achieved adjusted EBITDA of $218 million, an increase of 13% from the prior year. We reported adjusted earnings per share of $1.66 versus the prior year's $1.41 at comparable exchange rates. The effective tax rate for the second quarter was 20.0% compared to 23.5% in the prior year. The lower effective tax rate reflects the realization of previously unrecognized tax loss benefits as part of our ongoing tax planning as well as greater tax benefits from share-based compensation. Neutralizing for foreign currency effects and tax, adjusted earnings per share would have increased 13% over the prior year quarter. We should note that actual exchange rates and the effective tax rate for the quarter were comparable to the guidance provided on our last earnings call. With those high-level comments, let's take a closer look at segment performance. Turning to Slide 8. Our Pharma segment's core sales increased 3%. Let me break that down by market, starting with our proprietary drug delivery systems. Prescription core sales increased 8%, driven by strong demand for dosing and dispensing technologies for emergency medicines, asthma, and COPD therapeutics and royalty payments. Consumer healthcare core sales decreased 14%, primarily due to continued inventory management by customers in Europe, leading to softer demand for nasal decongestants and nasal saline rinse solutions. Sales for Ophthalmic solutions continued to grow in the quarter, but could not offset the overall decline in cough and cold medicines. Injectables core sales increased 9% and with strong demand for elastomeric components used for biologics, GLP-1, small molecule, and anti-thrombotic applications, contributing positively to the results. Services also contributed positively in the quarter. And for our Active Material Science solutions, core sales increased 11%, driven by strong demand for our active film technology. Pharma's adjusted EBITDA margin for the quarter was 35.4%, a 130 basis points improvement from the prior year. The margin improvement was driven by increased sales of higher-value products, services, and royalties as well as ongoing operational efficiency. Moving to our Beauty segment on Slide 9. Core sales increased 1% in the quarter, primarily driven by stronger tooling sales. Looking at the beauty segment by market, Fragrance, facial skin care, and color cosmetics core sales decreased 4%, primarily due to lower sales of skin care dispensing products for Indie brands as well as muted customer demand for our prestige fragrance dispensing technologies given tariff-related uncertainties. Core sales from Masstige fragrance continued to show solid growth. Personal Care core sales increased 11%. About half of the core sales increase can be attributed to tooling sales, as well as continued strong demand for body care and hair care applications. And core sales for home care were flat in the quarter. The Beauty segment's adjusted EBITDA margin for the quarter was 14.1%, an improvement of 20 basis points, largely attributed to ongoing cost management efforts. Moving to Slide 10. Our Closure segment core sales increased by 7% compared to the prior year. The segment saw product sales growth in key end markets across nearly all regions. When looking at the market fields for Closures, food core sales increased 13%. Product sales for food were driven by strong demand across nearly all of the end market categories, including sauces, condiments, salad dressing, spreads and jellies, as well as food protection. Beverage core sales increased 7%, primarily driven by increased sales of functional drinks and bottled water. Personal Care core sales decreased 4%, primarily due to lower tooling sales compared to the prior year. While in our other category, which includes beauty, home care, and health care, core sales increased 1%, driven by higher sales for dish and laundry care solutions. Closures adjusted EBITDA margin was 16.9%, representing a solid 130 basis points improvement over the prior year, primarily due to volume growth and continued cost management. At the total company level, due to ongoing cost reduction efforts, increased volumes, and improved revenue mix, consolidated gross margins expanded over 30 basis points in Q2 year-over-year while SG&A as a percentage of sales declined from 16.4% last year to 15.6% this year, an 80 basis point reduction year-over-year. One thing I will note on SG&A. Over the last few months, we have begun to incur costs related to litigating our pharma intellectual property rights. While the costs in Q2 were not material to highlight, we do anticipate legal fees associated with this effort to increase significantly, which I will speak to in the quarterly guidance section. Overall, with a strong gross margin and SG&A performance in Q2, consolidated adjusted EBITDA margins expanded by 140 basis points to 22.6%, compared to 21.2% in the prior year. Slides 11 and 12 cover our year-to-date performance and show that both reported sales and core sales increased 2%. Our reported earnings per share increased 10% and adjusted earnings per share increased 8% compared to the prior year, including comparable exchange rates. The current year had an effective tax rate of 22.5% compared to the prior year's effective tax rate of 22.1%. Neutralizing both the effective tax rate and the exchange rate for the year ago period, adjusted earnings per share would have been up 9%. Additionally, during the 6-month period, adjusted EBITDA margin increased by 130 basis points to 21.7%. In the first 6 months, free cash flow was $92 million, comprising cash from operations of $209 million, less capital expenditures net of government grants of $117 million. Free cash flow overall was in line with the prior year period. Finally, we ended June with a strong balance sheet, once again, reflecting cash and short-term investments of nearly $170 million, net debt of $917 million, and a leverage ratio of 1.19. Now moving on to outlook. Slide 13 summarizes our outlook for the third quarter. We anticipate third quarter adjusted earnings per share, which excludes any restructuring expenses, acquisition costs, changes in the unrealized fair value of equity investments as well as an anticipated revaluation of our BTY investments to be in the range of $1.53 to $1.61 per share. EPS for Q3 2025 reflects a negative impact of approximately $0.06 to $0.07, driven by the elevated legal expenses that I mentioned previously associated with litigating our pharma intellectual property rights. The effective tax rate for the third quarter is anticipated to be in the range of 20.5% to 22.5%. Our guidance for the quarter is assuming a 1.15 Euro to U.S. dollar exchange rate. With that, I will turn it over to Stephan to provide a few closing comments before we move to Q&A.

Stephan B. Tanda, President and CEO

Thank you, Vanessa. We are pleased with the continued resilience and adaptability of our teams as they successfully navigated a dynamic second quarter. Despite the complex macroeconomic backdrop, we delivered strong performance and made meaningful progress across several strategic areas. In the second quarter, we saw some end markets pull forward order volumes from quarter 3 to avoid tariff uncertainties as customers moved to secure inventory ahead of potential trade disruptions. At the same time, other markets such as Prestige fragrance were impacted by broader uncertainty, leading to delays in new product launches, which also impacts our sampling business. Our nasal saline and decongestion dispensing solutions continue to face headwinds, and we expect these challenges to persist into the third quarter. So looking ahead for the third quarter, we anticipate continuing to navigate a diverse set of macroeconomic and supply chain conditions across our portfolio. In our pharma segment, we anticipate that injectables are poised for another strong quarter continuing the positive product sales momentum we've seen all year, and we expect to finish the year strong. The industrial capabilities that we have added to our injectables division since 2020 are now contributing nicely to the business' growth. Within proprietary drug delivery systems, we want to call out two specific headwinds. We expect the cough and cold end markets in Europe to continue to face elevated inventory levels while in the U.S., a market inflection point has already been reached. In Emergency Medicine, we anticipate challenging year-over-year comparisons as Naloxone sales begin to normalize following a period of rapid growth. These products are distributed through nontraditional channels, making restocking patterns very difficult to monitor and predict. While most funding for naloxone remains at the state level, recent federal guidance, such as the executive order discouraging federal funding for harm reduction programs has introduced additional uncertainty that may affect future demand. In the medium to long term, we continue to believe in the strength of our pharma pipeline, which is growing and expanding into new areas, including systemic nasal drug delivery. As a recent example, just last week, a study conducted by Wake Forest University School of Medicine in collaboration with Aptar was released demonstrating that intranasal insulin delivered using Aptar's Precision Nasal 3 system successfully reached 11 key brain regions associated with memory and cognition in older adults. This was confirmed through PET or positron emission tomography imaging marking the first direct evidence that active compounds like insulin administered through the nose can reach targeted areas of the brain, an essential step for developing effective Alzheimer's treatment. The study also emphasized that this delivery method could be adapted for other neurological treatments, reinforcing the potential of nasal delivery as a transformative route for central nervous system therapies. The growing recognition of the respiratory system as a viable delivery route for targeted therapies is very exciting for us and will be a substantial future growth platform for our pharma business. In Beauty & Closures, we expect a positive contribution in Q3. Continued product sales growth in Closures is expected to be dampened somewhat by lower tooling sales. And the key question in beauty remains around the timing of the rebound in prestige fragrance dispensing systems. Our data and customer conversations indicate that some clients are operating at very low inventory levels awaiting clarity on tariffs. Last weekend's announcement of the U.S.-EU trade deal should provide the much-needed clarity to our European clients, but the development is too recent to have been incorporated in our Q3 guidance. Across all segments, cost discipline remains a top priority. We continue to explore and execute initiatives that meaningfully enhance earnings per share. In summary, while macroeconomic supply chain and public policy factors may temper revenue in certain end markets, we anticipate continuing to build on the momentum we have established over the past 2-plus years and are well positioned for continued growth. With that, I would like to open up the call for your questions.

Operator, Operator

Our first question comes from Ghansham Panjabi from Baird.

Ghansham Panjabi, Analyst

Stephan, can you provide more details on the naloxone comment regarding sales starting to normalize? How should we consider that dynamic affecting your core sales growth specifically in pharma for the second half of the year and possibly into 2026? Additionally, how will that influence the margin mix?

Stephan B. Tanda, President and CEO

Ghansham, naloxone is part of emergency treatment, which clearly has grown nicely from about 2% of revenue a few years back to today 5%. Now Narcan and its generic versions that we also supply, obviously, are applied to these nontraditional channels. We've called out several times that they are hard to track, and we believe there is inventory, but we can't track it. Now, we start to hear from our customers extreme uncertainty, rescheduling of orders and then this recent executive order on top of it, certainly makes us think that growth is going to be much more muted for naloxone at least for the next quarter or two. And clearly, that will have an impact on the overall pharma growth rate. Now having said that, there's a bit of a relay race going on, Injectables are picking up the pace quite nicely with high single-digit, maybe even low double-digit sales growth. And Active Materials had a great quarter. And clearly, as of quarter 4, we have different comparisons for the consumer healthcare. There will be a mix effect. At the same time, we have royalties kicking in continuously. So yes, we have grown anywhere from 1% to, I think, 12%, 13% in the pharma business and that growth will vary. And this is just a current iteration of these fluctuations. But as we have said often, one single product doesn't make or break the business. We have thousands of products and thousands of customers. But clearly, naloxone is important enough that we wanted to call it out in this current state of extreme uncertainty.

Ghansham Panjabi, Analyst

Okay. And in terms of what you're embedding for pharma growth in the back half of the year versus the first half, I mean, obviously, you've had very strong years for pharma and the core sales is tracking about half of what it's averaged over the last 2 years. Is that going to look very different in the back half of the year? And then just one final clarification. I think you mentioned cough and cold inflected in the U.S. during the quarter. What kind of an inflection did you see in terms of growth?

Stephan B. Tanda, President and CEO

We saw nice growth in the U.S., let's say, mid-single digits. Europe, of course, is still a much bigger part of that.

Ghansham Panjabi, Analyst

And pharma back half growth versus first half?

Stephan B. Tanda, President and CEO

Yes, it will be slower but we don't guide by segment growth rate, as you know, it will continue to have growth in the second half.

Operator, Operator

Our next question comes from George Staphos from Bank of America.

George Leon Staphos, Analyst

My two questions. Maybe the first one, I'll piggyback off of Ghansham's question. So can you talk a little bit more about CHC, the consumer side? This is the deepest downturn and longest downturn in that end market for pharma that you reported since you've been reporting on the end market data which goes back a number of years, Stephan. So, I mean, we get it. There was too much inventory and now we're going through destocking. But what caused such a big buildup and in turn is causing such an extended period of downturn in that particular end market within pharma? Recognizing the comps get easy and hopefully fourth quarter or first quarter next year, it's a different story. But if you could give us a bit more color, that would be great.

Stephan B. Tanda, President and CEO

Sure, George. And sorry for the butchering of your last name. Coming back to the topic. So there are a number of factors involved here. Coming out of COVID, we had a very brisk pickup of growth. And when that happens, I think I mentioned before, sometimes we just can't supply the demand. And then customers take notes, oh, you can't supply. So let me put in an extra order. If you short ship me 3 orders when I only need one, then I still get what I need and they start to build inventory. Of course, if you multiply this across the whole value chain, we believe that's what happened. So it's not just the cold and cough, good season, bad season; you have this upstream in demand and everybody is starting to hoard products. And once they realize, okay, now there's plenty of supply, and let me work off the inventory. So I think that's one part. Two, is the cold and cough season. And three, we talked about also is that we had to step back from a significant portion of the Russian market for obvious reasons. So those three things together really contribute to the development that you highlighted.

George Leon Staphos, Analyst

I would like to clarify a point. Additionally, I have a second question. From your perspective, have you retained your market share in that segment within Europe, and what evidence can you provide to support this? Regarding the legal expenses, I understand that you may have limitations on what you can disclose because of the litigation, but can you share details about the specific areas of intellectual property rights you are litigating? Is this primarily focused on certain regions? Also, based on your insights, will this be an ongoing issue extending beyond the third quarter into the fourth quarter and further?

Stephan B. Tanda, President and CEO

Yes. Regarding the market share, aside from Russia, which has likely been taken over by a competitor, we believe we have maintained our share. I'm quite enthusiastic about recent developments, particularly a new product that features a push-button nasal spray ensuring precise dosing, available in the U.S. under the Theraflu brand. I've already purchased several of these. We are very optimistic about progress in consumer healthcare, and we thank you for your patience as we navigate through this significant inventory cycle. On the legal side, there's a history here that you might recall, where we've had to remind some of our customers about their confidentiality commitments. We previously filed a lawsuit against Kraft Heinz, during a different leadership era, and we won, resulting in us receiving awards from them today. It's important to enforce the rights to our intellectual property, whether it's patents or trade secrets, as outlined in our agreements. This particular legal issue, while we cannot go into specifics due to its ongoing nature, emphasizes our commitment to defending our established business interests. We foresee this matter affecting our operations for a few quarters, although it's not a regular aspect of our business, we will defend our rights diligently when necessary.

Operator, Operator

Our next question comes from Matthew Roberts from Raymond James.

Matthew Burke Roberts, Analyst

Not to dwell on Mr. Staphos' question, but regarding the legal expense you mentioned in Q2, is there anything significant that you can highlight since our last call or June? I believe the response is due in June. Is there anything from the public docket you can share? Or could you outline possible scenarios regarding the settlements and what they might entail? Would you expect monetary damages, or could there be any impact on the pharmaceutical pipeline?

Stephan B. Tanda, President and CEO

So we do not expect any change. And in fact, other than the legal cost, there is no impact on our P&L at the moment, but we want to make sure it stays that way. So this is more of a preemptive move to safeguard our intellectual property. And yes, depending on your Googling skills, you may find something, but we'd rather not discuss it here.

Matthew Burke Roberts, Analyst

Fair enough. I'll work on my Southern District. Switching topics, regarding the beauty sector, fragrance, skincare, and cosmetics, I believe that category was down 4%. What is the overall Prestige market experiencing in Q2? Were the challenges really tied to a specific region? Also, with more clarity on tariffs now, do you have any insights on the expected timing for rollout and what you anticipate for that category in the second half?

Stephan B. Tanda, President and CEO

We are pleased that the uncertainty regarding imports to the U.S. for our European customers, which is crucial for Prestige beauty, has finally been addressed. Unfortunately, this resolution came too late for the third quarter. Many of you are aware that France is closed in August, leaving us with little time in the quarter. I believe we will be able to provide more insight on Q3 soon. Additionally, the increased launch activity in the Prestige sector will not only drive pump sales but also help revitalize our sampling business, which has been quite sluggish. Without new launches, there is less need for samples to support those launches. On a positive note, China and Asia are performing well, particularly for local brands, and that market has been developing positively. However, the European market, which re-exports to the U.S. and Asia, remains significantly larger for us.

Operator, Operator

Our next question comes from Daniel Rizzo from Jefferies.

Daniel Rizzo, Analyst

Just to kind of belabor the point, with the nasal decongestant softness, was that always more of a European issue versus the U.S.? Or has the U.S. just gotten through it faster?

Stephan B. Tanda, President and CEO

Well, first, the European market for us is much bigger. It is historically more of a nasal spray kind of market. And indeed, the U.S. has gotten through it much faster, didn't have as much inventory buildup in the supply chain. And then, of course, Russia is also a big nasal decon market.

Daniel Rizzo, Analyst

And then in beverages, one of competitors called out on-the-go beverages being kind of overstocked, but it's not something that seems to be affecting you guys. I was wondering if that's not really a large market for you guys? Or if you just kind of weathered it better. I guess the quick question though is, have you seen like on-the-go cold beverages being an issue for you over the past quarter, seemingly now?

Stephan B. Tanda, President and CEO

No. Overall, our beverage business is up nicely. It's, of course, very diversified between bottled water, sports drink, energy drinks, and also geographically diversified. So, in addition, we continue to pump innovation into that market. So overall, we're quite happy with the beverage market.

Operator, Operator

Our next question comes from Gabe Hajde from Wells Fargo.

Gabrial Shane Hajde, Analyst

I know it's probably challenging. But I think you mentioned the size of the Narcan, naloxone business for you all at this point. Is there any way to discern where or who's buying those products? I know you mentioned some federal subsidization or funding that may impact the product line as well. Maybe just help us understand from your vantage point, how that could impact it.

Stephan B. Tanda, President and CEO

Yes. It's a very broad set of distributions that have accelerated that market greatly. If you remember, when Narcan went over the counter, it wasn't the people lined up to go to CVS or Walgreens to buy it. It was that the state-level harm reduction agencies could not buy it without a prescription and just distribute it. Those state harm reduction agencies are funded not so much by federal funds, but by the settlement money from the opioid overdose crisis. So those funds are still there. The question is have their distribution points, whether it's fire stations, school buildings, libraries and all the nontraditional stuff being saturated. And depending on the color of the state, this executive order changed their priorities on what they spend on the settlement money. They can spend it on other things. They don't have to spend it on Narcan. And certainly, there is enough noise in the system that we hear from our customers. The best signal we have is what our customers tell us and frankly, what they do with their orders. When they start to get nervous and push orders out and say we're not sure about this and the order was X, now it's Y. We see enough noise in the system that this is real. This is slowing down and that's the best we can tell you.

Gabrial Shane Hajde, Analyst

Fair enough. I appreciate that. It's always tough to track this stuff down to the end user. And I guess on the litigation, I just sort of want to make sure I heard you correctly. The legal expenses, $6 million, $7 million this quarter, and probably persist into Q4. And then hopefully, there's some sort of resolution? Meaning the litigation costs of $6 million to $7 million. Yes, okay, $0.06 to $0.07.

Vanessa Kanu, Executive Vice President and CFO

Yes, it's $0.06 to $0.07. Yes, which is about $5 million to $6 million a quarter. And as Stephan said, we would expect that for the next few quarters. And I think that's a good run rate for now. And, of course, we don't expect this will be a long-term thing, and we'll update you as things progress.

Operator, Operator

Next question comes from George Staphos, Bank of America.

George Leon Staphos, Analyst

Stephan, could you provide some insights into the acquisition in New Jersey? I'm aware that there likely won't be just one type of customer involved, but could you elaborate on the services that will be offered? You mentioned that contract filling might be part of the plans, and I'd appreciate it if you could confirm or clarify that. Any details you have about the acquisition would be valuable. I also have a quick follow-up regarding Beauty.

Stephan B. Tanda, President and CEO

Sure. So thanks for asking for the clarification. No, we're not contract fillers. So we're not changing our scope of our business. This is a further build-out of our service capability in early-stage development. And as innovators need product that they can put in the clinic for Phase I and Phase II trials, that product needs to be filled. Now you're talking very low volumes, but you need to have the qualified clean rooms and cGMP facilities to do that to support early-stage trials. And we just see the pipeline continue to expand and explode probably too much. But significantly expand in systemic nasal drug delivery, we'll give you more color at the upcoming Investor Day. But when you hear things like neurological drugs for Parkinson's, Alzheimer's, and things like that, you really want to make sure that these innovators get everything they need to advance their projects. And this is really expanding that capability that they get in the clinic faster, that they get to do the trials. But we're not the contract manufacturing facility for large-scale filling.

George Leon Staphos, Analyst

Understood. Stephan, recognizing you just venturing into this now, is this something that you could see as perhaps a fourth or fifth leg to the pharma business, recognizing, yes, you've been developing the services component of your business for a few years now? But is this something that you expect you might even be able to broaden out? And if you did, what would it do to margins? What kind of multiples do these businesses trade at? Just curious there.

Stephan B. Tanda, President and CEO

Yes. So look, if you add all of our services, including digital, you get a few tens of millions, certainly less than $100 million, and we may have added a few more million here. At the end of the day, all of this is still to accelerate what's in the pipeline, broaden what's in the pipeline and ensure that we have more device sales at the end that, as you know, for us, to grow in perpetuity. The more of these growing perpetuities you can start to stack on top of each other, the better off we'll be. But compared to device sales, it's still small. And I think we paid for this facility, some $7 million or so. So it's not a major change of our footprint.

George Leon Staphos, Analyst

Okay. I appreciate you going through that. Stephan, it's very helpful. In Beauty, some of the other companies that have reported this reporting period have mentioned that they seem to be doing relatively well. I seem to remember a comment that sampling growth for some of the other players was doing fairly well. I don't know if there's a way again that you can track share there. I know it's kind of a disparate market, but do you think you're losing share in Beauty? Or is it just, hey, listen, it's customer mix and some customers have new products out in the market, yours might not have as many and this just sort of cycles back and forth like a pendulum? How would you have us think about that? And why?

Stephan B. Tanda, President and CEO

Yes, I believe you answered your own question, George. We're focused more on the Prestige segment, and I can't add much more to that. Our geographic distribution is different, and we're not involved in the mass market, so I can't provide any additional insights beyond what you mentioned.

Operator, Operator

Our next question comes from Gabe Hajde from Wells Fargo.

Gabrial Shane Hajde, Analyst

I wanted to follow up on the active packaging press release that you all put out in terms of having an oral solid dose solution for GLP-1. I'm just curious maybe how far along testing is for that or just where we are and maybe it's probably too early, but help us understand maybe what the opportunity set could look like for that?

Stephan B. Tanda, President and CEO

Yes. Maybe backing up a little bit. So our active materials in oral solid dose that basically means there is a film in every blister that contains a pill and that film helps with the conditioning of the atmosphere inside the blister that helps with the stability of a drug or reduces the production of nitrosamine. We also announced that we can reduce oxygen and moisture at the same time. So it's a very sophisticated offering for certain drugs, for example, DESCOVY is one of those. And now this GLP-1 drug is in Phase III. So we certainly don't want to speculate on approval timelines and commercialization timelines. But it's another proof point about how good the technology is.

Operator, Operator

Our next question comes from Matthew Roberts from Raymond James.

Matthew Burke Roberts, Analyst

Earlier you spent a good bit of time talking about emergency medicine and contribution in sales, but I want to ask about another medication, a customer, nasally delivered depression medication was up 53%, again, I believe, in Q2 and sales are now exceeding $1 billion on that product. So could you give a little more color around depression medication and the growth you've seen there? And while those growth rates are certainly very impressive, it seems like it's coming off the peak as well. So any influence that has on that long-term pharma growth rate?

Stephan B. Tanda, President and CEO

Yes. I think you may be referring to Janssen or Johnson & Johnson's SPRAVATO, and that is indeed enabled by our Bidose nasal delivery system. And indeed, it's not categorized as emergency treatment, but it's a great product. It's certainly contributing to our growth. And they also got approval in China, not too far back and continue to drive growth. So it's an exciting product. And we have other products for depression treatment in the pipeline that may have different treatment regimes or different molecules. So it's another example of systemic nasal drug delivery or central nervous system drug delivery.

Matthew Burke Roberts, Analyst

That's helpful. And are you able to quantify how much depression medication is as a percentage of sales in a similar fashion as you've done for emergency medication? Basically, emergency medication is 5%. Is there a quantitation for depression medication?

Stephan B. Tanda, President and CEO

Okay. Maybe Vanessa you should correct me.

Vanessa Kanu, Executive Vice President and CFO

Yes, Matt, it's within our emergency medicine, which Stephan pointed out earlier, about 5% of it.

Operator, Operator

We currently have no questions. So at this time, I'd like to hand back to Stephan Tanda for some closing remarks.

Stephan B. Tanda, President and CEO

Very good. So let me summarize the call by zooming out. I want to express how proud I am of our teams. They have executed with tremendous agility, perseverance, determination, and grit, delivering a very strong quarter across the board and exceeding the upper end of our guidance range, which we do not take lightly, achieving an 18% EPS growth. It's worth noting that April 2 was not long ago, and it created a lot of uncertainty for our customers, supply chains, and consumers globally. Our team has performed exceptionally well in the face of this uncertainty. Our resilience is rooted in our unique leadership positions across critical end markets, providing dispensing solutions for chronic disease treatment and everyday consumer essentials. Although we face uncertainty regarding Naloxone sales and their trajectory, the fundamentals of our pharma end markets remain highly favorable, and our project pipeline continues to grow. We discussed that our novel innovations and decades of experience contribute to a significant body of intellectual property, including patents, know-how, and trade secrets, which we protect vigorously. Our consumer businesses are gaining traction thanks to innovations and ongoing improvements in competitiveness, positively impacting both the top line and bottom line through our region-for-region supply chains, which include over 50 manufacturing sites that enable our agility and operational flexibility. Given all this, we haven’t mentioned it much, but we've accelerated capital returns to shareholders, highlighting our confidence in the business. With that, I wish you a great rest of the summer. We look forward to seeing you at the Investor Day on September 9 in New York City, where you can experience some of our exciting innovations firsthand. You will need to be there for that. Operator, we can now close the call.

Operator, Operator

Thank you very much. This concludes today's call. We thank everyone for joining. You may now disconnect your lines.