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FY26 Full Year and Fourth Quarter Earnings Release and Webcast

Parker-Hannifin Corp (PH)

Earnings Call FY2026 Q4 Call date: 2026-08-06 Concluded

Guidance

from the 8-K filed Aug 6, 2026
Metric Guided
Reported sales growth Initiated
fiscal 2027
5.5% – 8.5%
Organic sales growth Initiated
fiscal 2027
5.5% – 8.5%
Segment operating margin Initiated
fiscal 2027
24.5% – 24.9%
EPS Initiated
fiscal 2027
$30.00 – $31.00
Adjusted EPS Initiated
fiscal 2027
$34.25 – $35.25
Adjusted segment operating margin Initiated
fiscal 2027
27.5% – 27.9%
Organic growth Initiated
fiscal 2031
4% – 6%
Free cash flow margin Initiated
fiscal 2031
17%
Adjusted segment operating margin target Initiated
fiscal 2031
30%

Transcript

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Operator

Good morning, everyone. Welcome to Parker-Hannath Incorporation's Fiscal 2026 Fourth Quarter and Full Year Earnings Conference Call and Webcast. At this time, all participants are in a listen-only mode. After the prepared remarks, there will be a question and answer session. To ask a question during this period, you will need to press star 1 on your telephone. If you would like to remove yourself from the queue, please press star 2. Please be advised that today's conference is being recorded, and if you should need operator assistance today, please press star zero at any time. I would now like to turn the call over to Mr. Todd Liam Bruno, Chief Financial Officer. Please go ahead, sir.

Thank you, Beau. I'd like to welcome everyone to Parker's Fiscal Year 2026. Officer speaking, and with me today, as usual, is Jenny Parmentier, our Chairman and Chief Executive Officer. Exciting things to review with everyone today, and we appreciate your time this morning. Thanks for joining us. Let's move to slide two to address our disclosures on forward-looking projections and non-GAAP financial measures. Items listed here could cause actual results to vary from presentation here, and reconciliations for all those non-GAAP measures were released this morning and are available under the investors. It's what we did with capital deployment actions this year, and introduce our new FYI change to our organizational results and guidance today.

As many questions as we're attending the call today and channel partners raising margin targets. Margin expansion has been an exciting part. One strategy to drive margin expansion will continue at the beginning in fiscal year 27 for our industrial segment. The strongest quarter of

the fiscal year when it comes. It was just slightly unfavorable at 0.3 percent and the Curtis acquisition added one point. It was adjusted to an operating margin for the quarter. Prior year Net income was one per turn on sales. It's an outstanding way to finish the year. Your margins across the board. They said this already, but really we can't thank our teams enough for their continued hard work and dedication throughout the quarter and really finishing the year. If we jump to slide 9, this just displays the walk, the $1.58 increase in EPS. Prior to this one, this was from the team. Over 80% of the EPS growth came from increased segment operating income dollars. That added $1.29, or 17%, of the EPS growth for its prior year. Corporate GNL, the result of a year, that added $0.09 to the quarter, and lower interest expense added $0.02. To our guide, but compared to last year, it was unfavorable by just $0.07 to $9.27, $9.27 of just segments. I mentioned this, but organic growth was up 8%, but beginning in FY27, Order reporting for all businesses using the 12-month rolling and the 12-month year, but this will be the last quarter week. In the appendix of this, margin performance for the North American. Orders in North America. Businesses, sales are positive. Here is adjusted. The operating margin is a new record, amazingly strong here, 24% on a three-month comparison, 10%. Completely well prior year and refund here, again, 18% versus prior year. That's our cash flow performance, and we detail some of those capital deployment actions that Jenny mentioned. Generations surpassed $4 billion for the first time ever in the history of the company. That is $1 billion in shares that we announced for the year, really underpinning our commit

to adjusted economic growth, digit growth for in-plant and industrial distribution that the industrial recovery is broadening. We're spending on automation. This is offset by lower growth assumptions for the trends we saw in mining.

Eight and a half or seven industrial business additional guidance items. Corporate G&A is expected to be about $200 million. that we take on when filtration group and circular adjusted EPS is, that's an increase of 8% first prior year. The range on that is plus or minus 50 cents. It would be positive, approximately 9%. Positive at approximately 8%. Forecasting adjusted EPS is over $8 at lots of additional guidance details. By 15, if you look at the bridge, this just shows 0.5% in segment operating income dollars, dollars of additional EPS for the year. Lower interest rate resulting from what we've been able to pay down in the year adds about $0.38, lower share count. We'll add street items that are not yet known. We went from what we, nothing unusual there, just forecasted to be unfavorable, $0.14, and that's really due to this exchange that we experienced. The adjusted EPS is $34.75. That's up 8%. We'll get it back to you.

That's outperformance. Certainly, sir.

Operator

Ladies and gentlemen, at this time, if you do have any questions, please press star 1 on your telephone. To withdraw your question at any time, please press star 2. and so others can hear your questions clearly, we ask that you please pick up your handset for best sound quality. We'll go first today to Scott Davis with Melius Research.

Scott Davis Analyst — Melius Research

Hey, good morning, Jenny and Todd and Jeff. Good morning. Congrats on a great year. It must sound like a broken record because you've had quite a few of them for the last few years anyways. Thank you. Just a cleanup item here. What are the final hurdles left to close the filtration group in CIRCOR? Any major hurdles?

No major hurdles. We still anticipate closing both of them during the second half of this calendar year, the first half of our fiscal year. As you know, closing remains subject to all the customary conditions pending regulatory clearances, but ongoing.

Scott Davis Analyst — Melius Research

Okay, fair enough. And then just as a follow-up, when you look at your targets, your new targets on slide five, can you give us a sense of, you know, maybe where you're most comfortable and least comfortable, if that's such a thing? I'm sure there's some minimum level of comfort, but just love to get a sense of where you feel are going to be the easier targets to hit versus the harder targets to hit.

Scott, I'll start with that. I'll let Jenny jump in here. You know, none of these targets are easy by any stretch of the imagination, but what What gives me great confidence is the way our team – I've told you this many times before, I've never seen such alignment across the company. These are not easy to achieve by any stretch of the imagination, and we are just so proud. Raising that margin target to 30, that's a big number, right? That is a big number. It's 300 basis points. You know, if you look at what we've done on the EPS CAGR, if you can get margin expansion and top-line growth of capital allocation, you know, that works as well. So I feel really good about this. I don't really have any concerns.

The strategy has never been stronger, and the alignment has never been stronger. Obviously, in these targets, we've included the acquisitions that we've yet to close. We're going to use our integration playbooks and do a great job, as we have done in the past, and the team's going to continue to do what we've been doing.

Scott Davis Analyst — Melius Research

Well, good to hear. I wish you guys the best. Have a great next year. I'll pass it on.

Operator

We'll go next now to Jeff Sprague with Vertical Research.

Jeffrey Sprague Analyst — Vertical Research

Hey, thanks. Good morning, everyone. So where to start, you know, embarrassing our riches here. I guess the first thing is just on the strength of the orders on the rolling three basis here in the quarter, you know, particularly in international, but can you just provide a little bit more color on what was going on there? Was there something that proved to be a real catalyst in a couple key end markets?

Yeah, I would tell you, for instance, really, you know, but it was really driven by electronic single-digit growth rate.

Jeffrey Sprague Analyst — Vertical Research

And then just thinking about the new framework here, you know, if we look at the rolling for exit for Q4 2025, right, it almost exactly called the 2026 organic growth, you know, for both NAN and international. So I guess the question here is, you know, if we're exiting at 9 to 10 here in Q4 on the rolls, what's sort of the gap or the hedge between sort of the 5 to 8 or the 4 to 7 that you're giving us in North America and international? Anything else to be aware of in that equation? Thanks for that caller.

An increase from Q4.

Operator

We'll go next now to Chris Snyder of Morgan Stanley.

Chris Snyder Analyst — Morgan Stanley

Thank you. Maybe just following up on some of that commentary on the industrial business line. So you guys guided every vertical to mid-single-digit growth in industrial for next year. Can you just maybe talk about ones, you know, maybe that are exiting with more strength or the ones where you guys feel better about the prospects and the opportunity into 27?

You know, again, I'll repeat, as a reminder, 10% of industrial sales are tied to aerospace and defense growing high single digits. So that is, while it's not large enough to be a vertical, we are expecting another year of strong electronics and data center business. When we look at the market vertical forecast and we look at in-plant and industrial equipment, you know, we've been saying for quite some time a gradual recovery here. And it's been very encouraging to see that the demand is improving and we expect gradual acceleration on a broadening recovery. We've seen distribution orders be strong in the fourth quarter. We're not calling a full restock yet, but we have, you know, heard from some distributors that they are doing more stocking than they have done in the past. So we feel really good about what's going to happen in in-plant industrial. Transportation, strong heavy-duty truck orders. You know, build rates are increasing. When you look at off-highway, acceleration in construction has been driven by infrastructure spend. And as I commented earlier, we see strong power gen growth in the energy vertical. And, you know, we feel good about the guy here at mid-single-digit growth.

Chris Snyder Analyst — Morgan Stanley

Absolutely. Thank you for that, Jenny. And then maybe going over to the M&A side. So obviously, you have the two big deals that are closing over the next quarter or so. Can you just maybe talk about the appetite or bandwidth to do incremental deals in 27? or is it going to be a year more about focusing on, you know, just integrating those two businesses? So anything you could just kind of talk about the appetite, the willingness, and then even anything just on the pipeline of opportunities you guys see.

Continuing to, we're going to get these two acquisitions closed. The teams are going to work hard on integration, but the work on the pipeline never stops. Always working on that pipeline, building relationships with targets. Many times we're not in control of the timing of when these targets become available. So, you know, we might touch three with our leverage with these two deals. It'll take us about six quarters to get that back down to two. So I would say we still have an appetite, but we're going to stay true to doing what makes sense for the company.

Operator

Thank you. We'll go next now to Steve Volkman of Jefferies.

Steve Volkmann Analyst — Jefferies

Good morning, guys. I echo the embarrassment of riches. I think you've tripled the margin since I started covering you guys. But in the spirit of what have you done for me lately, I'm curious, I think 27 might be, we might be on track for an analyst day. And I know we've had win 3.0 here doing well for the last few years. Is there a win 4.0 and sort of what's next for the win strategy? How do you progress from here?

Well, there will be a win 4.0. Definitely there will be. And, you know, we're talking about the next investor day now. So I would say stay tuned, but we definitely think that we'll have more things to share in the future.

Steve Volkmann Analyst — Jefferies

All right, we'll wait for that.

I just checked the map, Steve. You are correct. We have triple margins.

Steve Volkmann Analyst — Jefferies

Yeah, I got it right. So just a quick follow-up here. Are your orders getting a lot lumpier? Are you taking in some, like, some really chunky orders now? And the uncertainty around that, maybe that's behind the switch to the trailing 12 and maybe expecting that the fourth quarter might not be repeated going forward?

I'm sitting here today that I don't think the fourth quarter could be repeated. I will tell you that international orders have been very choppy in the past. We've also seen some quarters where we've had some high aerospace and defense orders, some of our businesses. And then the next couple quarters, we don't see that. So, you know, we do think that this method of 12-12 is a much better correlation to what we can see for near-term organic growth. The business is just so different than it was when we started reporting these quarterly order rate comparisons. You know, aerospace engineer materials infiltration used to be 35% of the company, and now it's 65% of the company. So we really think that this is going to give a more accurate view of what's to come for organic growth.

Steve, I would just add, when you think about, you know, the aerospace business, you know, today 10% of the industrial business, so that does create, whether that's in the industrial international businesses.

Steve Volkmann Analyst — Jefferies

I'll pass it on.

Operator

We'll go next now to Andy Kapowitz at Citigroup.

Speaker 12

Hey, good morning, everyone. Next quarter.

Thanks, Andy.

Speaker 12

Jenny, I think you prudently initially forecasting 7% to 10% growth for aero in FY27, but as you've said, you've now had four years in a row of double-digit growth in aero, and I think backlogs up mid-team. So maybe give us a little more lay of the land between what you're seeing, commercial aero and defense. Are you still forecasting strong commercial aero aftermarket growth in FY27, for instance, or do you expect to see much higher OE-related growth?

Yeah, so I'll give you the rundown of what we have built into the guidance. For commercial OEM, well, first of all, the OE aftermarket split that we have in the guidance is 52% OE, 48% aftermarket, and we just ended the year at 51 OE, 49 aftermarket, so we're planning on higher OE mix here. Commercial OEM, we see mid-teens growth for the fiscal year, and that's really built on commercial aircraft, build rate increases, aircraft demand is still greater than supply, and widebodies are going to meet international traffic demand. Commercial MRO, we're saying plus mid-single-digit growth for fiscal year 27. You know, there's still a lot of older aircraft flying. The fleet still relies on that. Engine repair shop visits and component restocking continues. And, again, international traffic continues to grow faster than domestic. On defense OEM, mid-single-digit growth, demand for legacy and missile programs continues. increasing defense budgets in response to what's going on in the world, and F-35 deliveries are at peak. Defense MRO plus mid-single-digit growth, and that's really based on fleet upgrades and service extensions, increasing defense budgets, and a focus on retrofits, and bringing that all together is how we've come up with the guidance for the floor.

Speaker 12

Very helpful, Jenny. And then, Todd, for the FY27 margin guide, it was nice to hear that you've gotten to the high end of your normal 30 to 35 percent incrementals but obviously you've been trending closer to 40 so how should we think about mix or any price costs headwinds impact in the businesses you know by 27 i think you do want to be somewhat conservative given those things yeah that's a great great point you know when it comes to price you know we're obviously going to cover any increases that come across uh... whether that is terror logistics commodities uh... you know we've said this constantly.

We want to return to a normal pricing environment. And what better time to do that was when you're in an element of growth here. So, you know, when you look across the percent range, it feels good when we look at when we pressure tested it internally. And I would tell you there's nothing that looks abnormal when it comes.

Speaker 12

Great. Thanks, Todd.

Operator

We'll go next now to Meg Dobre at Baird.

Meg Dobre Analyst — Baird

Hey, thank you. A couple of longer term questions that I guess I'm just going going to roll into one. You know, from a capacity standpoint, when we kind of look at your growth, right, you talk about higher growth than what you've had in the past, and I'm sort of curious as to where you are from a capacity standpoint in your facilities, manufacturing facilities, to be able to deliver on that sustained higher growth over the next few years. So maybe it'd be helpful if you can comment on that. I'm thinking about the industrial business specifically. And related to all of this, you know, you guys for CapEx here, 2.5% of sales, which is pretty much consistent with what you've done historically. A lot of other industrial companies that are talking about higher growth are also talking about higher CapEx and investing in capacity. So I'm curious if your circumstances are different and whether or not we should be planning for maybe a little more capex as we think about, you know, later in a decade or maybe early 2030.

I actually made the last, and it's just, you know, expansion built in to some businesses. The capacity is already there, other than our lean tools.

Operator

We'll go next now to Jamie Cook with Truist.

Jamie Cook Analyst — Truist

Good afternoon, and congrats on another fantastic order, guidance rates. I guess a couple questions. Just, Jenny, back to Sprague's question. I don't think you commented on the strength in North America orders. He up 16%. So what sort of was what were the end market drivers there? And was there any lumpiness? And even within international, you commented specifically on electronics, just trying to get a feel for what's going on in the other end markets. And then I guess my second question is just Congrats on raising the meeting term targets to 30%. How do we think about, you know, what's implied in that margin target in terms of international versus aerospace? Do you think over the next several years we can get to a point where international closes the gap on aerospace, or does aerospace continue to move higher to get you to that 30%?

Okay. Okay, well, I'll take the first half of that, and then I'll go to North America on the 3-12 and 9 on the 12-12 that we're talking about. So strength in aerospace and defense in plants, and, you know, I mentioned that we saw distribution orders much stronger in Q4. Construction, again, on infrastructure spending. So really we saw positive of the major market burden. I did mention earlier that kind of mid-single-digit growth for EMEA. And at EMEA, we do see some strength in construction and mining and some in plant.

But, again, you know, the thing I love about these targets is that everyone has a part in these targets. Just like the way we got to over 27%, every single one of our businesses has generated higher margins than they did when we started those targets. So everyone's got a new target, and that's what I love about the company. Expansion, four years of double-digit organic growth has really helped that. have done an unbelievable job. They are constantly looking at, you know, that's no different than north end margins, but I think the industrial business.

Jamie Cook Analyst — Truist

Congrats again.

Operator

We'll go next now to Tim Thine with Raymond James.

Tim Thine Analyst — Raymond James

Thank you. Good morning. I had a longer term question on aerospace within the context of your 2031 target, the organic growth target. I'm just curious. I mean, I mean, they're obviously coming off what is, as Todd pointed out, a really long stretch of growth. But the demand backdrop for both commercial and defense seems to be getting a bit better. So you obviously have a bit more visibility here given the backlog. So how would you think about that kind of growth algorithm for aerospace looking out beyond 27?

Well, we've forecasted long-term growth drivers for each of the areas in aerospace. We see aerospace as high single digits through that time period. We feel like it's going to be, it's going to continue at that rate until the time that we reach these targets.

Space and Defense business, when that closes, that will be another that becomes organic over the five years. And again, I can't de-emphasize enough 10% of the industrial business.

Tim Thine Analyst — Raymond James

Yeah, I understood. And just on more near-term, on pricing with respect to aerospace, you know, just given some of the LTA that I'm guessing may have been renegotiated coming out of COVID may have provided a little bit of a bump. Are we kind of back to a setting where those are more, I guess, normal in terms of the I guess the spirit of the question is just the contribution to price, not asking for quantification, but just directionally how that is trending in 27?

Yeah, so on the industrial side of the business, we are back to a what we would consider more of a normal pricing environment. And in aerospace, there's still pricing opportunity. There have been a lot of negotiations. There's some negotiations that are still in play. So I would say that there's still some opportunity in aerospace.

Tim Thine Analyst — Raymond James

Very good. Thank you.

Operator

We'll connect now to Amit Mehrotra at UBS.

Speaker 10

Thanks, Operator. Hi, everybody. Thanks for taking my questions. I guess the first one, just on the North American industrial inflection, the 16 percent growth of the orders, Any color you could talk about between sort of the distribution channel and the direct OEM channel? I know the distributor channel has been maybe a little bit more stubborn, and I think you've talked about it a little bit more positively. But any more color around the activity you're seeing and the confidence coming back in that specific channel?

Yeah, well, you know, I've been saying for a lot of quarters here that distributors have been very positive. And the order growth, the strength that we saw in 2.4, really supports that positive sentiment and what they've been telling us. So we definitely feel like, you know, that is a broadening recovery instead of what we've just been saying as a gradual recovery. So we feel good about that. Still not calling, you know, a restock, though. Some distributors are telling us that they are stocking for, you know, projects that they're working on for their customers or business that they see coming. But I wouldn't call the whole channel as an overall restock. On the OEM side, you know, obviously we've seen production rates increase for heavy-duty That's been very encouraging. We've seen construction and mining get stronger. But we've also seen agriculture remain where it's been, pretty soft, and automotive pretty But there's commercial HVAC and refrigeration that is growing. There's energy with PowerGen. So there's been some strong OEM orders and strong OEM growth along with what we see in distribution.

Speaker 10

Okay, thanks. And just the sort of natural follow-up question to that is obviously the mixed dynamic, if there is one between distributors versus OEM, I know you've taken a lot of price in the distribution channel and we're kind of waiting for the volume to recover. Or if I think about this guidance of the collection and growth, organic growth in North American industrial, is it all the incremental, is it all volume? Is there a little bit more price as maybe some of that distribution volume comes through? Just give us a little bit of a flavor specifically with North American industrial.

Yeah, we're back to a normal pricing environment here, and this is all volume.

Speaker 10

Okay, easy enough.

Operator

We'll go next now to Andrew Buscaglia at B&T Paribas.

Andrew Buscaglia Analyst — B&P Paribas

Andrew Buscaglia Hey, good morning, everyone. Andrew Buscaglia I know this is small, but can you comment on your data center exposure? I believe you have some interesting equipment, hoses and connectors that play into the space. And I'm wondering if we're seeing interesting order activity there. And then any comments you can make on are you seeing any specification activity related to liquid cooling as an interesting growth driver?

Yeah, so we do have really nice exposure, and it grew nicely last year, and we think it's going to continue to grow. It's about 1.5% of our sales, and we've been previously saying 1%. So it is growing, but it's not quite large enough yet to have its own market vertical. This is a great story for our interconnected technologies because you mentioned a few of our products. But it's hoses, couplings, manifolds, fittings, engineered materials for thermal management. So really, really a good showcase. We're working with the industry leaders. We are seeing good orders here. We provide liquid cooling systems and subsystem components. So our teams are doing a really fantastic job in this space. We have a very highly skilled, high-performance team serving these data center customers. And as I mentioned, it's a nice growth area.

Andrew Buscaglia Analyst — B&P Paribas

Okay, thank you. And, you know, maybe just on the longer-term outlook, I couldn't help but notice you call for about 200 basis point margin expansion in 2027 and 2029, and the 300 basis point step-up from 2029 to 2031. I think I got that right. Why would you – let's use that confidence. Do you see sort of an acceleration in your margins? And I wonder if it's pertaining to the recent acquisitions that you expect to close.

Yeah, I could take that. Just to clarify, what we are calling out is we're calling out 300 basis points of improvement from a 27.0 target that we just surpassed in FY26. That was originally our FY29 target. We're restating that to FY31, and the new target is 30%. You know, as far as what's going to get us there, we have included the filtration group, corporation acquisition, and the CERCOR aerospace and defense business. in those margin targets, but when you look at that, it's really coming from our existing business just because of the size of the existing. Those two great additions we're going to have, and it's going to be everything that got us to 27.3 to get there, and it should be spread.

Operator

Got it. Thanks, Todd.

Thank you.

Operator

We're next now to Nicole DeBlaze with Deutsche Bank.

Nicole DeBlaze Analyst — Deutsche Bank

Yeah, thanks. Good morning, guys. Echoing my congrats on a really great quarter. Sure. I guess maybe first, Jenny, if we could touch on how the orders progressed throughout the quarter, and if you've observed continued strength in July, I would assume so, based on what you guys expect for 27, but would love to hear any perspective on that.

I would say that there's nothing that's happened that concerns me that would not support the guide that we put out.

Nicole DeBlaze Analyst — Deutsche Bank

Okay, understood. Thank you. And then with the electronics strength in international, Was that like, are there big, lumpy orders that are coming through in the quarter? What I'm trying to get at is, is that electronic strength sustainable, or do you think that was kind of like a 4Q dynamic that might not last into 2027?

I think it's going to remain strong. I mean, obviously it came in much stronger than we were expecting. I think we had about a 10% in for Asia Pacific, and it came in much stronger. So, you know, I would say, you know, the guide reflects what we expect out of international. But this is a strong area for us.

Nicole DeBlaze Analyst — Deutsche Bank

Thank you. I'll pass it on.

Thanks, Cole.

Operator

We'll go next now to Nathan Jones with Stiefel.

Nathan Jones Analyst — Stiefel

Good morning, everyone. Good morning, Nathan. I guess I'll follow up a little bit on some of the international order strength here, kind of alerting that there's a good chance that that continues. If it does, would that maybe improve the outlook for the second half of fiscal 27? And in the guidance that you've given out today, do you assume that some of this order strength in international land in North America continues or that it moderates a little bit from here?

So obviously we did have a very, we believe that we have the orders to support what we have in for Q1 and for the rest of the year. So I would tell you that, obviously, as the year goes on, we hope that we can raise those, but this is the best picture we have right now.

Yeah, Nathan, the 32 split somehow works out every year, year after year. Before here, the second half of FYI, but if you look at the dollars, the dollars are weighted like they normally are, you know, much heavier in the second half.

Nathan Jones Analyst — Stiefel

Follow-up question on the Circo Aerospace business. can you just talk a little bit more about what the strategy is with that i think it already has extremely high uh margins after it got rid of all the build to print work several years ago uh so is this a you know a revenue synergy play it doesn't seem like it would be a cost energy play giving the margins are already high but just any any comments you can make around the strategy for that acquisition please thanks for taking the question sure to date um you know What we love about CERCOR is it brings complementary flight-critical motion and flow control capabilities to our portfolio.

And as I mentioned before, these are proprietary technologies. This is what we like to bring into our suite of projects. This is an 80% OEM business and 50-50 sales split across commercial and defense. We have not modeled any revenue synergies. We have said 10% synergies. That's approximately $26 million. They ended calendar year 26, their estimate for calendar year 26 is $270 million with more than 40% adjusted EBITDA margin, and that's before Synergy. So this is going to be a really nice addition to our portfolio, and like I said earlier, we'll get this hopefully closed before the end of this calendar year.

Operator

We'll go next now to Joe Giordano with TD Cowan.

Speaker 10

Hey, Joe. The growth by end market that you guys have for next year, like how consistent is that with where order rates were for you by those end markets for 26?

You know, we finished the year pretty strong. We called out, you know, the longer cycle nature of some of those things. But what we're guiding for, you know, to give you an example for Q1 is, you know, it's a slight increase from where we exited Q4. You know, like Jenny said, I think we're giving you the best look. And, you know, we feel pretty positive. This is the highest organic growth guide that we've had in modern history.

Speaker 10

And that's consistent on, like, an end market basis as well?

Meg Dobre Analyst — Baird

Like, yeah, it's not like a buildup of backlog anywhere in any of those particular end markets?

No, I mean, there might be a little bit more strength in a heavy-duty truck, but everything else is pretty consistent. That's why they're all, you know, mid-single-digit growth forecast.

Speaker 12

And you don't feel like there's anything pulled forward or anything into the fourth quarter from anything that would have been 1Q orders?

No, you know, we've never really experienced that. I think our focus for years has been on delivering to customers when they need it. And, you know, we've been active on price and making sure that.

Yeah, one of the things that we've worked really hard on the last several years is, you know, demanding capacity planning with our customers and with our suppliers, something that's given us the ability to be much more efficient in our operations and make sure that the customers know that they can get the product from Parker in a faded lead time.

Thanks, Joe. Hey, Bo, I think we might have time for one more if we have anyone left in the queue.

Operator

We do. We'll take our final question today from Chigusa Katoku with J.P. Morgan.

Speaker 0

Good morning. Thanks for taking my question. I just want to touch briefly on energy. I think it's a tale of two worlds, power strong and oil and gas softer. I think last quarter you expected 2026 was about low single digit for this vertical, and you're expecting the mid-single digit this year. I'm just curious, is it more driven by power being stronger and oil and gas kind of unchanged? Is any color there would be great?

Yeah, we definitely see power gen growth, and we think that's going to continue to be strong and a little bit stronger. Oil and gas, we think it's going to be flat. You know, there could be an upcycle coming, but we don't have any signs of that yet. So this is, you know, flat oil and gas and stronger power.

Speaker 0

Okay, great. Thanks. And then just trying to put a finer point on the orders acceleration in North America industrial, it really accelerated nicely. It sounded like it was broad-based. but you didn't I didn't hear you call out power or data center but what were kind of the trends there just if you could put any finer point on what really led to this acceleration versus the third quarter that would be helpful.

Yeah I mean it was it was across you know many market verticals we saw strong aerospace and defense in the industrial businesses in plant and industrial demand higher distribution we saw transportation improvement with heavy truck we saw construction growth we saw power gen growth and commercial HVAC so we just saw really really nice growth okay great thanks thank you okay I think that is all we have from a time standpoint we appreciate appreciate your attention year for Parker Hannafin it was our safest year ever it was another

the year of operational excellence, and obviously, as Jenny said, a very active year when it comes to looking forward to an even better, if I'm confident in that path, to our new 30% segment operating margin target. If it's going to be possible, a sincere thank you to our global team members. And we'll be available today if there's any follow-ups that are needed. Thanks again for joining us, and have a great day.

Operator

Thank you very much, Mr. Liam Bruno, and thank you, Ms. Parmentier. Again, ladies and gentlemen, this will conclude today's Parker-Hannigan Incorporation's Fiscal 2026 Fourth Quarter and Full Year Earnings Conference Call and Webcast. Again, thanks so much for joining us, everyone. We wish you all a great

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