Eaton Corporation plc Q2 FY2024 Earnings Call

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Overall Performance Highlights

  • Record quarterly adjusted EPS of $2.73, up 24% from Q2 2023.
  • Record segment margin of 23.7%, up 210 basis points year-over-year.
  • Record quarterly sales of $6.4 billion, up 8% (9% organic).
  • Operating cash flow reached $946 million, up 11% year-over-year; free cash flow of $759 million, up 10%.
  • Strong rolling 12‑month order growth: Electrical +9%; Aerospace +4%.
  • Total backlog reached $14.9 billion (Electrical $11.4B, Aerospace $3.5B), up 27% and 14% respectively from last year.

Key Business Segment Performance

Electrical Americas

  • Organic growth: +13% (10th consecutive quarter of double‑digit growth).
  • Operating margin: 29.9%, up 300 bps YoY.
  • Backlog up 29% YoY; book-to-bill 1.2.
  • Strong demand from data center and industrial end markets.
  • Major project negotiation pipeline up 18% YoY and 42% since Q2 2022.

Electrical Global

  • Organic growth: +3.5% (FX headwinds impacted total results).
  • Margin: 19%, up 50 bps YoY.
  • Strength in APAC and GEIS; weakness in EMEA and residential markets.
  • Rolling 12‑month orders up 7%; book-to-bill 1.1.

Aerospace

  • Organic growth: +13% driven by commercial and military OEM and aftermarket demand.
  • Margin: 21.5%, down 100 bps YoY due to inefficiencies and growth-related costs.

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Operator: Ladies and gentlemen, thank you for standing by, and welcome to the Eaton Second Quarter 2024 Conference Call. At this time, all participants are in a listen-only mode. Later, we will conduct a question-and-answer session. [Operator Instructions] And as a reminder, today's call is being recorded. I would now like to turn the conference over to your host,. Please go ahead. Yan Jin: Good morning. Thank you all for joining us for Eaton's second quarter 2024 earnings call. With me today are Craig Arnold, our Chairman and CEO; and Olivier Leonetti, Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer. Our agenda today includes operating remarks by Craig, then he will turn it over to Oliver who will highlight the Company's performance in the second quarter. As we have done in our past calls, we'll be taking questions at the end of Craig's closing commentary. The press release and the presentation we'll go through today have been posted on our website. This presentation, including adjusted earnings per share, adjusted free cash flow and other non-GAAP measures. They are reconciled in the appendix. A webcast of this call is accessible on our website and will be available for replay. I would like to remind you that our commentary today will include statements related to the expected future results of the Company and are therefore forward-looking statements. Our actual results may differ materially from our forecasted projection due to a wide range of risks and uncertainties

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