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๐Ÿ“„ Earnings Call Transcript ๋ฒˆ์—ญ ๊ฒฐ๊ณผ

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Acuity Inc. (NYSE:AYI) Q4 2025 Earnings Call October 1, 2025 8:00 AM EDT

Company Participants

Charlotte McLaughlin - Vice President of Investor Relations
Neil Ashe - Chairman, President & CEO
Karen Holcom - Senior VP & CFO

Conference Call Participants

Christopher Snyder - Morgan Stanley, Research Division
Timothy Wojs - Robert W. Baird & Co. Incorporated, Research Division
Ryan Merkel - William Blair & Company L.L.C., Research Division
Joseph O'Dea - Wells Fargo Securities, LLC, Research Division
Christopher Glynn - Oppenheimer & Co.
์•กํ์ดํ‹ฐ ์ธํฌ. (NYSE:AYI) 2025๋…„ 4๋ถ„๊ธฐ ์‹ค์  ๋ฐœํ‘œ ์ปจํผ๋Ÿฐ์Šค ์ฝœ 2025๋…„ 10์›” 1์ผ ์˜ค์ „ 8:00 EDT

ํšŒ์‚ฌ ์ฐธ์„์ž

์ƒฌ๋กฏ ๋งฅ๋Ÿฌํ”Œ๋ฆฐ - ํˆฌ์ž์ž ๊ด€๊ณ„ ๋‹ด๋‹น ๋ถ€์‚ฌ์žฅ
๋‹ ์• ์‹œ - ํšŒ์žฅ, ์‚ฌ์žฅ ๊ฒธ CEO
์นด๋ Œ ํ™€์ปด - ์ˆ˜์„ ๋ถ€์‚ฌ์žฅ ๊ฒธ CFO

์ปจํผ๋Ÿฐ์Šค ์ฝœ ์ฐธ์„์ž

ํฌ๋ฆฌ์Šคํ† ํผ ์Šค๋‚˜์ด๋” - ๋ชจ๊ฑด ์Šคํƒ ๋ฆฌ, ๋ฆฌ์„œ์น˜ ๋ถ€๋ฌธ
ํ‹ฐ๋ชจ์‹œ ์›Œ์ฆˆ - ๋กœ๋ฒ„ํŠธ W. ๋ฒ ์–ด๋“œ ์•ค ์ปดํผ๋‹ˆ ์ธ์ฝ”ํผ๋ ˆ์ดํ‹ฐ๋“œ, ๋ฆฌ์„œ์น˜ ๋ถ€๋ฌธ
๋ผ์ด์–ธ ๋จธ์ผˆ - ์œŒ๋ฆฌ์—„ ๋ธ”๋ ˆ์–ด ์•ค ์ปดํผ๋‹ˆ L.L.C., ๋ฆฌ์„œ์น˜ ๋ถ€๋ฌธ
์กฐ์…‰ ์˜ค๋ฐ์•„ - ์›ฐ์Šค ํŒŒ๊ณ  ์‹œํ๋ฆฌํ‹ฐ์ฆˆ, LLC, ๋ฆฌ์„œ์น˜ ๋ถ€๋ฌธ
ํฌ๋ฆฌ์Šคํ† ํผ ๊ธ€๋ฆฐ - ์˜คํŽœํ•˜์ด๋จธ ์•ค ์ปดํผ๋‹ˆ
Inc., Research Division
Brian Lee - Goldman Sachs Group, Inc., Research Division
Jeffrey Sprague - Vertical Research Partners, LLC

Presentation

Operator

Good morning, and welcome to the Acuity Fiscal 2025 Fourth Quarter and Full Year Earnings Call. [Operator Instructions]. Please be advised that today's conference is being recorded. I would now like to hand the conference over to Charlotte McLaughlin, Vice President of Investor Relations. Charlotte, please go ahead. Charlotte McLaughlin
Vice President of Investor Relations

Thank you, operator. Good morning, and welcome to the Acuity Fiscal 2025 Fourth Quarter and Full Year Earnings Call.
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**์šด์˜์ž**

์•ˆ๋…•ํ•˜์„ธ์š”. Acuity 2025 ํšŒ๊ณ„์—ฐ๋„ 4๋ถ„๊ธฐ ๋ฐ ์—ฐ๊ฐ„ ์‹ค์  ๋ฐœํ‘œ ์ปจํผ๋Ÿฐ์Šค ์ฝœ์— ์˜ค์‹  ๊ฒƒ์„ ํ™˜์˜ํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. [์šด์˜์ž ์•ˆ๋‚ด์‚ฌํ•ญ]. ์˜ค๋Š˜ ์ปจํผ๋Ÿฐ์Šค๋Š” ๋…น์Œ๋˜๊ณ  ์žˆ์Œ์„ ์•Œ๋ ค๋“œ๋ฆฝ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ด์ œ ํˆฌ์ž์ž ๊ด€๊ณ„ ๋‹ด๋‹น ๋ถ€์‚ฌ์žฅ Charlotte McLaughlin์—๊ฒŒ ์ง„ํ–‰์„ ๋„˜๊ธฐ๊ฒ ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. Charlotte, ์‹œ์ž‘ํ•ด ์ฃผ์„ธ์š”.

**Charlotte McLaughlin**
**ํˆฌ์ž์ž ๊ด€๊ณ„ ๋‹ด๋‹น ๋ถ€์‚ฌ์žฅ**

๊ฐ์‚ฌํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค, ์šด์˜์ž๋‹˜. ์•ˆ๋…•ํ•˜์„ธ์š”. Acuity 2025 ํšŒ๊ณ„์—ฐ๋„ 4๋ถ„๊ธฐ ๋ฐ ์—ฐ๊ฐ„ ์‹ค์  ๋ฐœํ‘œ ์ปจํผ๋Ÿฐ์Šค ์ฝœ์— ์˜ค์‹  ๊ฒƒ์„ ํ™˜์˜ํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
On the call with me this morning are Neil Ashe, our Chairman, President and Chief Executive Officer; and Karen Holcom, our Senior Vice President and Chief Financial Officer. Today's call will include updates on our strategic progress and on our fiscal 2025 fourth quarter and full year performance. There will be an opportunity for Q&A at the end of this call. As a reminder, some of our comments today may be forward-looking statements. We intend these forward-looking statements to be covered by the safe harbor provisions of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995, as detailed on Slide 2 of the accompanying presentation.์˜ค๋Š˜ ์•„์นจ ์ €์™€ ํ•จ๊ป˜ ํ†ตํ™”์— ์ฐธ์—ฌํ•˜์‹  ๋ถ„๋“ค์€ ๋‹ ์• ์‰ฌ(Neil Ashe) ํšŒ์žฅ ๊ฒธ ์‚ฌ์žฅ ๊ฒธ ์ตœ๊ณ ๊ฒฝ์˜์ž์™€ ์นด๋ Œ ํ™€์ปด(Karen Holcom) ์ˆ˜์„ ๋ถ€์‚ฌ์žฅ ๊ฒธ ์ตœ๊ณ ์žฌ๋ฌด์ฑ…์ž„์ž์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์˜ค๋Š˜ ํ†ตํ™”์—์„œ๋Š” ์ €ํฌ์˜ ์ „๋žต์  ์ง„์ „ ์ƒํ™ฉ๊ณผ 2025 ํšŒ๊ณ„์—ฐ๋„ 4๋ถ„๊ธฐ ๋ฐ ์—ฐ๊ฐ„ ์‹ค์ ์— ๋Œ€ํ•œ ์—…๋ฐ์ดํŠธ๋ฅผ ์ œ๊ณตํ•  ์˜ˆ์ •์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ด๋ฒˆ ํ†ตํ™” ๋งˆ์ง€๋ง‰์—๋Š” ์งˆ์˜์‘๋‹ต ์‹œ๊ฐ„์ด ๋งˆ๋ จ๋˜์–ด ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ฐธ๊ณ ๋กœ, ์˜ค๋Š˜ ์ €ํฌ๊ฐ€ ๋“œ๋ฆฌ๋Š” ์ผ๋ถ€ ๋ฐœ์–ธ์€ ๋ฏธ๋ž˜์˜ˆ์ธก์ง„์ˆ ์— ํ•ด๋‹นํ•  ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ €ํฌ๋Š” ์ด๋Ÿฌํ•œ ๋ฏธ๋ž˜์˜ˆ์ธก์ง„์ˆ ์ด ์ฒจ๋ถ€๋œ ํ”„๋ ˆ์  ํ…Œ์ด์…˜ ์Šฌ๋ผ์ด๋“œ 2์— ์ž์„ธํžˆ ์„ค๋ช…๋œ ๋ฐ”์™€ ๊ฐ™์ด 1995๋…„ ๋ฏผ๊ฐ„์ฆ๊ถŒ์†Œ์†ก๊ฐœํ˜๋ฒ•์˜ ์•ˆ์ „ํ•ญ ์กฐํ•ญ์œผ๋กœ ๋ณดํ˜ธ๋ฐ›๊ธฐ๋ฅผ ์˜๋„ํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
Reconciliations of certain non-GAAP financial metrics with their corresponding GAAP measures are available in our 2025 fourth quarter earnings release and supplemental presentation. Both of which are available on our Investor Relations website at www.investors.acuityinc.com. Thank you for your interest in Acuity. I will now turn the call over to Neil Ashe. Neil Ashe
Chairman, President & CEO

Thank you, Charlotte, and thank you all for joining us this morning. Our fiscal 2025 fourth quarter performance was strong. We grew net sales, expanded our adjusted operating profit and adjusted operating profit margin and increased our adjusted diluted earnings per share.
ํŠน์ • ๋น„GAAP ์žฌ๋ฌด์ง€ํ‘œ์™€ ํ•ด๋‹น GAAP ์ธก์ •์น˜ ๊ฐ„์˜ ์กฐ์ •ํ‘œ๋Š” ๋‹น์‚ฌ์˜ 2025๋…„ 4๋ถ„๊ธฐ ์‹ค์  ๋ฐœํ‘œ์ž๋ฃŒ ๋ฐ ๋ณด์ถฉ ํ”„๋ ˆ์  ํ…Œ์ด์…˜์—์„œ ํ™•์ธํ•˜์‹ค ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๋‘ ์ž๋ฃŒ ๋ชจ๋‘ ๋‹น์‚ฌ ํˆฌ์ž์ž ๊ด€๊ณ„ ์›น์‚ฌ์ดํŠธ www.investors.acuityinc.com์—์„œ ์ด์šฉ ๊ฐ€๋Šฅํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. Acuity์— ๋Œ€ํ•œ ๊ด€์‹ฌ์— ๊ฐ์‚ฌ๋“œ๋ฆฝ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ด์ œ Neil Ashe์—๊ฒŒ ๋ฐœ์–ธ๊ถŒ์„ ๋„˜๊ธฐ๊ฒ ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

Neil Ashe
ํšŒ์žฅ, ์‚ฌ์žฅ ๊ฒธ CEO

Charlotte, ๊ฐ์‚ฌํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๊ทธ๋ฆฌ๊ณ  ์˜ค๋Š˜ ์•„์นจ ์ฐธ์„ํ•ด ์ฃผ์‹  ๋ชจ๋“  ๋ถ„๋“ค๊ป˜ ๊ฐ์‚ฌ๋“œ๋ฆฝ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๋‹น์‚ฌ์˜ 2025 ํšŒ๊ณ„์—ฐ๋„ 4๋ถ„๊ธฐ ์‹ค์ ์€ ๊ฒฌ๊ณ ํ–ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ˆœ๋งค์ถœ์„ ์ฆ๊ฐ€์‹œ์ผฐ๊ณ , ์กฐ์ • ์˜์—…์ด์ต๊ณผ ์กฐ์ • ์˜์—…์ด์ต๋ฅ ์„ ํ™•๋Œ€ํ–ˆ์œผ๋ฉฐ, ์กฐ์ • ์ฃผ๋‹น์ˆœ์ด์ต์„ ์ฆ๊ฐ€์‹œ์ผฐ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
Throughout fiscal 2025, we have demonstrated our ability to deliver growth and consistent operating performance that created stakeholder value and compounded shareholder wealth. Acuity Brands Lighting delivered sales growth and improved adjusted operating profit and adjusted operating profit margin in the fourth quarter. This performance was driven by the execution of our strategy and the aggressive actions taken over the last 2 quarters to manage margins despite the dilutive impact of the combination of higher tariff costs and corresponding price increases.2025 ํšŒ๊ณ„์—ฐ๋„ ์ „๋ฐ˜์— ๊ฑธ์ณ ๋‹น์‚ฌ๋Š” ์ดํ•ด๊ด€๊ณ„์ž ๊ฐ€์น˜๋ฅผ ์ฐฝ์ถœํ•˜๊ณ  ์ฃผ์ฃผ ๋ถ€์˜ ๋ณต๋ฆฌ ์ฆ๋Œ€๋ฅผ ์‹คํ˜„ํ•˜๋Š” ์„ฑ์žฅ๊ณผ ์ผ๊ด€๋œ ์˜์—… ์„ฑ๊ณผ๋ฅผ ๋‹ฌ์„ฑํ•  ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ๋Š” ๋Šฅ๋ ฅ์„ ์ž…์ฆํ–ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. Acuity Brands Lighting์€ 4๋ถ„๊ธฐ์— ๋งค์ถœ ์„ฑ์žฅ๊ณผ ์กฐ์ • ์˜์—…์ด์ต ๋ฐ ์กฐ์ • ์˜์—…์ด์ต๋ฅ  ๊ฐœ์„ ์„ ๋‹ฌ์„ฑํ–ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ด๋Ÿฌํ•œ ์„ฑ๊ณผ๋Š” ๋‹น์‚ฌ์˜ ์ „๋žต ์‹คํ–‰๊ณผ ๋†’์€ ๊ด€์„ธ ๋น„์šฉ๊ณผ ๊ทธ์— ๋”ฐ๋ฅธ ๊ฐ€๊ฒฉ ์ธ์ƒ์˜ ๊ฒฐํ•ฉ์œผ๋กœ ์ธํ•œ ํฌ์„ ํšจ๊ณผ์—๋„ ๋ถˆ๊ตฌํ•˜๊ณ  ๋งˆ์ง„์„ ๊ด€๋ฆฌํ•˜๊ธฐ ์œ„ํ•ด ์ง€๋‚œ 2๊ฐœ ๋ถ„๊ธฐ ๋™์•ˆ ์ทจํ•œ ์ ๊ทน์ ์ธ ์กฐ์น˜๋“ค์— ์˜ํ•ด ๊ฒฌ์ธ๋˜์—ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
We have the most dynamic and resilient supply chain in the industry, and we have adapted faster and more effectively than our competitors. We have leveraged our multinational footprint to move away from higher tariff environments and optimize our supplier relationships. We accelerated productivity efforts, including the evaluation of operating expenses and our organizational structure and ABL, and we continue to strategically manage price.์ €ํฌ๋Š” ์—…๊ณ„์—์„œ ๊ฐ€์žฅ ์—ญ๋™์ ์ด๊ณ  ํƒ„๋ ฅ์ ์ธ ๊ณต๊ธ‰๋ง์„ ๋ณด์œ ํ•˜๊ณ  ์žˆ์œผ๋ฉฐ, ๊ฒฝ์Ÿ์‚ฌ๋“ค๋ณด๋‹ค ๋” ๋น ๋ฅด๊ณ  ํšจ๊ณผ์ ์œผ๋กœ ์ ์‘ํ•ด์™”์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ €ํฌ๋Š” ๋‹ค๊ตญ์  ์‚ฌ์—… ๊ธฐ๋ฐ˜์„ ํ™œ์šฉํ•˜์—ฌ ๋†’์€ ๊ด€์„ธ ํ™˜๊ฒฝ์—์„œ ๋ฒ—์–ด๋‚˜๊ณ  ๊ณต๊ธ‰์—…์ฒด ๊ด€๊ณ„๋ฅผ ์ตœ์ ํ™”ํ–ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์šด์˜๋น„์šฉ๊ณผ ์กฐ์ง๊ตฌ์กฐ ๋ฐ ABL ํ‰๊ฐ€๋ฅผ ํฌํ•จํ•œ ์ƒ์‚ฐ์„ฑ ํ–ฅ์ƒ ๋…ธ๋ ฅ์„ ๊ฐ€์†ํ™”ํ–ˆ์œผ๋ฉฐ, ์ง€์†์ ์œผ๋กœ ์ „๋žต์  ๊ฐ€๊ฒฉ ๊ด€๋ฆฌ๋ฅผ ํ•˜๊ณ  ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
I have spent the last couple of quarters describing how our electronics portfolio is a unique offering in the marketplace, extending from the drivers that power our luminaires to the sensors, controls and software which control light in a space and connect with the cloud seamlessly through our Atrius DataLab. We're developing market-leading solutions that drive productivity for us and for our partners. A good example of this is the TLS, Twist-to-Lock sensor by SensorSwitch that offers time-saving solutions to contractors. TLS is an occupancy sensor designed for industrial spaces like warehouses and manufacturing facilities.์ง€๋‚œ ๋ช‡ ๋ถ„๊ธฐ ๋™์•ˆ ์ €๋Š” ๋‹น์‚ฌ์˜ ์ „์ž์ œํ’ˆ ํฌํŠธํด๋ฆฌ์˜ค๊ฐ€ ์‹œ์žฅ์—์„œ ๋…ํŠนํ•œ ์ œํ’ˆ๊ตฐ์ด๋ผ๋Š” ์ ์„ ์„ค๋ช…ํ•ด ์™”์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ด๋Š” ์กฐ๋ช…๊ธฐ๊ตฌ์— ์ „๋ ฅ์„ ๊ณต๊ธ‰ํ•˜๋Š” ๋“œ๋ผ์ด๋ฒ„๋ถ€ํ„ฐ ๊ณต๊ฐ„์˜ ์กฐ๋ช…์„ ์ œ์–ดํ•˜๊ณ  Atrius DataLab์„ ํ†ตํ•ด ํด๋ผ์šฐ๋“œ์™€ ์›ํ™œํ•˜๊ฒŒ ์—ฐ๊ฒฐ๋˜๋Š” ์„ผ์„œ, ์ œ์–ด์žฅ์น˜ ๋ฐ ์†Œํ”„ํŠธ์›จ์–ด์— ์ด๋ฅด๊ธฐ๊นŒ์ง€ ํ™•์žฅ๋ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๋‹น์‚ฌ์™€ ํŒŒํŠธ๋„ˆ์‚ฌ ๋ชจ๋‘์˜ ์ƒ์‚ฐ์„ฑ์„ ํ–ฅ์ƒ์‹œํ‚ค๋Š” ์‹œ์žฅ ์„ ๋„์ ์ธ ์†”๋ฃจ์…˜์„ ๊ฐœ๋ฐœํ•˜๊ณ  ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ด์— ๋Œ€ํ•œ ์ข‹์€ ์˜ˆ์‹œ๊ฐ€ SensorSwitch์˜ TLS(Twist-to-Lock) ์„ผ์„œ๋กœ, ๊ณ„์•ฝ์—…์ฒด๋“ค์—๊ฒŒ ์‹œ๊ฐ„ ์ ˆ์•ฝ ์†”๋ฃจ์…˜์„ ์ œ๊ณตํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. TLS๋Š” ์ฐฝ๊ณ  ๋ฐ ์ œ์กฐ์‹œ์„ค๊ณผ ๊ฐ™์€ ์‚ฐ์—… ๊ณต๊ฐ„์„ ์œ„ํ•ด ์„ค๊ณ„๋œ ์ ์œ  ์„ผ์„œ์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
It gives contractors the ability to easily add controls to any project, saving time and reducing complexity on the job site without the need for wires or separate installation. Our visual suite of applications are automating manual processes across the key phases of a project, design, installation and optimization. These digital tools are designed to boost productivity, encourage collaboration and build contractor preference. Visual lighting and visual control help designers create lighting solutions by mapping digital floor plans, automating design audits and offering smart recommendations.์ด๋Š” ๊ณ„์•ฝ์—…์ฒด๋“ค์ด ์–ด๋–ค ํ”„๋กœ์ ํŠธ์—๋“  ์‰ฝ๊ฒŒ ์ œ์–ด ์‹œ์Šคํ…œ์„ ์ถ”๊ฐ€ํ•  ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ๊ฒŒ ํ•ด์ฃผ๋ฉฐ, ๋ฐฐ์„ ์ด๋‚˜ ๋ณ„๋„ ์„ค์น˜ ์—†์ด๋„ ํ˜„์žฅ์—์„œ ์‹œ๊ฐ„์„ ์ ˆ์•ฝํ•˜๊ณ  ๋ณต์žก์„ฑ์„ ์ค„์—ฌ์ค๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๋‹น์‚ฌ์˜ ๋น„์ฃผ์–ผ ์• ํ”Œ๋ฆฌ์ผ€์ด์…˜ ์ œํ’ˆ๊ตฐ์€ ํ”„๋กœ์ ํŠธ์˜ ํ•ต์‹ฌ ๋‹จ๊ณ„์ธ ์„ค๊ณ„, ์„ค์น˜, ์ตœ์ ํ™” ์ „๋ฐ˜์— ๊ฑธ์ณ ์ˆ˜์ž‘์—… ํ”„๋กœ์„ธ์Šค๋ฅผ ์ž๋™ํ™”ํ•˜๊ณ  ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ด๋Ÿฌํ•œ ๋””์ง€ํ„ธ ๋„๊ตฌ๋“ค์€ ์ƒ์‚ฐ์„ฑ์„ ๋†’์ด๊ณ  ํ˜‘์—…์„ ์ด‰์ง„ํ•˜๋ฉฐ ๊ณ„์•ฝ์—…์ฒด์˜ ์„ ํ˜ธ๋„๋ฅผ ๊ตฌ์ถ•ํ•˜๋„๋ก ์„ค๊ณ„๋˜์—ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๋น„์ฃผ์–ผ ๋ผ์ดํŒ…๊ณผ ๋น„์ฃผ์–ผ ์ปจํŠธ๋กค์€ ๋””์ง€ํ„ธ ํ‰๋ฉด๋„ ๋งคํ•‘, ์„ค๊ณ„ ๊ฐ์‚ฌ ์ž๋™ํ™”, ์Šค๋งˆํŠธ ์ถ”์ฒœ ๊ธฐ๋Šฅ์„ ์ œ๊ณตํ•˜์—ฌ ์„ค๊ณ„์ž๋“ค์ด ์กฐ๋ช… ์†”๋ฃจ์…˜์„ ๊ตฌํ˜„ํ•  ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ๋„๋ก ์ง€์›ํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
Visual installer gives installers real-time access to their design plans, enabling collaboration that results in an accelerated install and programming time line. And Visual Cloud optimizes project management, providing site access and team contacts, leading to simplified collaboration and an overall reduction in costs. This end-to-end support improves the end user experience through increased productivity and lower costs. As part of our ABL growth algorithm, we are making organic investments for future growth, prioritizing verticals where we have not historically competed or where we are underpenetrated.Visual Installer๋Š” ์„ค์น˜์—…์ฒด๋“ค์—๊ฒŒ ์„ค๊ณ„ ๊ณ„ํš์— ๋Œ€ํ•œ ์‹ค์‹œ๊ฐ„ ์ ‘๊ทผ์„ ์ œ๊ณตํ•˜์—ฌ ํ˜‘์—…์„ ๊ฐ€๋Šฅํ•˜๊ฒŒ ํ•˜๊ณ , ์ด๋ฅผ ํ†ตํ•ด ์„ค์น˜ ๋ฐ ํ”„๋กœ๊ทธ๋ž˜๋ฐ ์ผ์ •์„ ๋‹จ์ถ•์‹œํ‚ต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๊ทธ๋ฆฌ๊ณ  Visual Cloud๋Š” ํ”„๋กœ์ ํŠธ ๊ด€๋ฆฌ๋ฅผ ์ตœ์ ํ™”ํ•˜์—ฌ ํ˜„์žฅ ์ ‘๊ทผ๊ณผ ํŒ€ ์—ฐ๋ฝ์ฒ˜๋ฅผ ์ œ๊ณตํ•จ์œผ๋กœ์จ ํ˜‘์—…์„ ๊ฐ„์†Œํ™”ํ•˜๊ณ  ์ „๋ฐ˜์ ์ธ ๋น„์šฉ์„ ์ ˆ๊ฐํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ด๋Ÿฌํ•œ ์—”๋“œํˆฌ์—”๋“œ ์ง€์›์€ ์ƒ์‚ฐ์„ฑ ํ–ฅ์ƒ๊ณผ ๋น„์šฉ ์ ˆ๊ฐ์„ ํ†ตํ•ด ์ตœ์ข… ์‚ฌ์šฉ์ž ๊ฒฝํ—˜์„ ๊ฐœ์„ ํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

ABL ์„ฑ์žฅ ์•Œ๊ณ ๋ฆฌ์ฆ˜์˜ ์ผํ™˜์œผ๋กœ, ์šฐ๋ฆฌ๋Š” ๋ฏธ๋ž˜ ์„ฑ์žฅ์„ ์œ„ํ•œ ์œ ๊ธฐ์  ํˆฌ์ž๋ฅผ ์ง„ํ–‰ํ•˜๊ณ  ์žˆ์œผ๋ฉฐ, ์—ญ์‚ฌ์ ์œผ๋กœ ๊ฒฝ์Ÿํ•˜์ง€ ์•Š์•˜๊ฑฐ๋‚˜ ์นจํˆฌ๋„๊ฐ€ ๋‚ฎ์€ ์ˆ˜์ง ์‹œ์žฅ์„ ์šฐ์„ ์ˆœ์œ„๋กœ ๋‘๊ณ  ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
This year, we strengthened our offerings across health care by launching the care collection and developing our Nightingale range of products. Care Collection is a curated portfolio of lighting and lighting control solutions that have been designed for use in a health care environment, making it quicker and easier for customers and agents to select the products that they need. We introduced the Nightingale brand to expand our health care offering into in-room patient care. Our team developed a series of lighting solutions that combines the functional needs of caregivers with the environmental needs of patients.์˜ฌํ•ด ์ €ํฌ๋Š” ์ผ€์–ด ์ปฌ๋ ‰์…˜(Care Collection) ์ถœ์‹œ์™€ ๋‚˜์ดํŒ…๊ฒŒ์ผ(Nightingale) ์ œํ’ˆ๊ตฐ ๊ฐœ๋ฐœ์„ ํ†ตํ•ด ํ—ฌ์Šค์ผ€์–ด ๋ถ„์•ผ ์ œํ’ˆ ๋ผ์ธ์—…์„ ๊ฐ•ํ™”ํ–ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ผ€์–ด ์ปฌ๋ ‰์…˜์€ ํ—ฌ์Šค์ผ€์–ด ํ™˜๊ฒฝ์—์„œ ์‚ฌ์šฉํ•˜๋„๋ก ์„ค๊ณ„๋œ ์กฐ๋ช… ๋ฐ ์กฐ๋ช… ์ œ์–ด ์†”๋ฃจ์…˜์˜ ์—„์„ ๋œ ํฌํŠธํด๋ฆฌ์˜ค๋กœ, ๊ณ ๊ฐ๊ณผ ๋Œ€๋ฆฌ์ ์ด ํ•„์š”ํ•œ ์ œํ’ˆ์„ ๋ณด๋‹ค ๋น ๋ฅด๊ณ  ์‰ฝ๊ฒŒ ์„ ํƒํ•  ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ๋„๋ก ํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ €ํฌ๋Š” ๋‚˜์ดํŒ…๊ฒŒ์ผ ๋ธŒ๋žœ๋“œ๋ฅผ ๋„์ž…ํ•˜์—ฌ ํ—ฌ์Šค์ผ€์–ด ์ œํ’ˆ ๋ผ์ธ์„ ๋ณ‘์‹ค ๋‚ด ํ™˜์ž ์ผ€์–ด ๋ถ„์•ผ๋กœ ํ™•์žฅํ–ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ €ํฌ ํŒ€์€ ๊ฐ„๋ณ‘์ธ์˜ ๊ธฐ๋Šฅ์  ์š”๊ตฌ์‚ฌํ•ญ๊ณผ ํ™˜์ž์˜ ํ™˜๊ฒฝ์  ์š”๊ตฌ์‚ฌํ•ญ์„ ๊ฒฐํ•ฉํ•œ ์ผ๋ จ์˜ ์กฐ๋ช… ์†”๋ฃจ์…˜์„ ๊ฐœ๋ฐœํ–ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
In addition to Nightingale Embrace that we previewed last quarter, we launched Respond and Observe. Respond is a multifunctional patient bed luminaire with ambient, exam, night observation and reading modes. Respond can be paired with sensor switch. Observe is a skylight that can be used in common areas and patient rooms and can switch between exam, ambient and sky modes also using sensor switch. Nightingale has already received recognition from the industry. In the fourth quarter, it was one of several of our brands that were highlighted by the IES Industry Progress report awards that celebrates advancements in lighting products, research publications and design tools from the past year.์ง€๋‚œ ๋ถ„๊ธฐ์— ๋ฏธ๋ฆฌ ๊ณต๊ฐœํ–ˆ๋˜ Nightingale Embrace ์™ธ์—๋„ Respond์™€ Observe๋ฅผ ์ถœ์‹œํ–ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. Respond๋Š” ์ฃผ๋ณ€๊ด‘, ๊ฒ€์ง„, ์•ผ๊ฐ„ ๊ด€์ฐฐ, ๋…์„œ ๋ชจ๋“œ๋ฅผ ๊ฐ–์ถ˜ ๋‹ค๊ธฐ๋Šฅ ํ™˜์ž์šฉ ์นจ๋Œ€ ์กฐ๋ช…๊ธฐ๊ตฌ์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. Respond๋Š” ์„ผ์„œ ์Šค์œ„์น˜์™€ ์—ฐ๋™ํ•  ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. Observe๋Š” ๊ณต์šฉ ๊ณต๊ฐ„๊ณผ ํ™˜์ž์‹ค์—์„œ ์‚ฌ์šฉํ•  ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ๋Š” ์ฒœ์ฐฝํ˜• ์กฐ๋ช…์œผ๋กœ, ์„ผ์„œ ์Šค์œ„์น˜๋ฅผ ํ†ตํ•ด ๊ฒ€์ง„, ์ฃผ๋ณ€๊ด‘, ํ•˜๋Š˜ ๋ชจ๋“œ ๊ฐ„ ์ „ํ™˜์ด ๊ฐ€๋Šฅํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. Nightingale์€ ์ด๋ฏธ ์—…๊ณ„๋กœ๋ถ€ํ„ฐ ์ธ์ •์„ ๋ฐ›๊ณ  ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. 4๋ถ„๊ธฐ์—๋Š” ์ง€๋‚œ ํ•œ ํ•ด ๋™์•ˆ์˜ ์กฐ๋ช… ์ œํ’ˆ, ์—ฐ๊ตฌ ์ถœํŒ๋ฌผ, ์„ค๊ณ„ ๋„๊ตฌ์˜ ๋ฐœ์ „์„ ๊ธฐ๋…ํ•˜๋Š” IES ์‚ฐ์—… ์ง„๋ณด ๋ณด๊ณ ์„œ ์–ด์›Œ๋“œ์—์„œ ์ฃผ๋ชฉ๋ฐ›์€ ์—ฌ๋Ÿฌ ๋ธŒ๋žœ๋“œ ์ค‘ ํ•˜๋‚˜๋กœ ์„ ์ •๋˜์—ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
Other products recognized include the IVO cylinders and Deep Regressed Downlights, HOLOBAY by Holophane, REBL Round High Bay and Wander Pathway by Hydrel. Now switching to Acuity Intelligent Spaces, which had another strong performance this quarter. Through Atrius, Distech and QSC, we have unique and disruptive technologies that are driving productivity for people experiencing spaces and for the people who are providing those spaces. Atrius and Distech control the management of the space, and QSC manages the experiences in that space. Over time, we will use the data that they generate to enhance productivity outcomes through data interoperability.๊ธฐํƒ€ ์ธ์ •๋ฐ›์€ ์ œํ’ˆ์œผ๋กœ๋Š” IVO ์‹ค๋ฆฐ๋”์™€ Deep Regressed Downlights, Holophane์˜ HOLOBAY, ๊ทธ๋ฆฌ๊ณ  Hydrel์˜ REBL Round High Bay์™€ Wander Pathway๊ฐ€ ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ด์ œ ์ด๋ฒˆ ๋ถ„๊ธฐ์—๋„ ๋˜ ๋‹ค๋ฅธ ๊ฐ•๋ ฅํ•œ ์„ฑ๊ณผ๋ฅผ ๋ณด์ธ Acuity Intelligent Spaces๋กœ ์ „ํ™˜ํ•˜๊ฒ ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. Atrius, Distech, QSC๋ฅผ ํ†ตํ•ด ์šฐ๋ฆฌ๋Š” ๊ณต๊ฐ„์„ ๊ฒฝํ—˜ํ•˜๋Š” ์‚ฌ๋žŒ๋“ค๊ณผ ๊ทธ๋Ÿฌํ•œ ๊ณต๊ฐ„์„ ์ œ๊ณตํ•˜๋Š” ์‚ฌ๋žŒ๋“ค์˜ ์ƒ์‚ฐ์„ฑ์„ ํ–ฅ์ƒ์‹œํ‚ค๋Š” ๋…ํŠนํ•˜๊ณ  ํ˜์‹ ์ ์ธ ๊ธฐ์ˆ ๋“ค์„ ๋ณด์œ ํ•˜๊ณ  ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. Atrius์™€ Distech์€ ๊ณต๊ฐ„ ๊ด€๋ฆฌ๋ฅผ ์ œ์–ดํ•˜๊ณ , QSC๋Š” ํ•ด๋‹น ๊ณต๊ฐ„์—์„œ์˜ ๊ฒฝํ—˜์„ ๊ด€๋ฆฌํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์‹œ๊ฐ„์ด ์ง€๋‚˜๋ฉด์„œ ์šฐ๋ฆฌ๋Š” ์ด๋“ค์ด ์ƒ์„ฑํ•˜๋Š” ๋ฐ์ดํ„ฐ๋ฅผ ํ™œ์šฉํ•˜์—ฌ ๋ฐ์ดํ„ฐ ์ƒํ˜ธ ์šด์šฉ์„ฑ์„ ํ†ตํ•ด ์ƒ์‚ฐ์„ฑ ๊ฒฐ๊ณผ๋ฅผ ํ–ฅ์ƒ์‹œํ‚ฌ ๊ฒƒ์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
During the quarter, Atrius, Distech and QSC each delivered strong results and are continuing to collaborate to explore new and interesting ways of working together. QSC is building the industry's most innovative full-stack AV platform that unifies data, devices and a cloud-first architecture to deliver real-time action, experiences and insights. The addition of QSC has evolved the geographic footprint of our AIS business, accelerating our multinational expansion. One of the markets where we have already benefited from this is India, where we compete commercially and have an experience center that we expanded during the quarter.์ด๋ฒˆ ๋ถ„๊ธฐ ๋™์•ˆ Atrius, Distech, QSC๋Š” ๊ฐ๊ฐ ๊ฒฌ๊ณ ํ•œ ์‹ค์ ์„ ๋‹ฌ์„ฑํ–ˆ์œผ๋ฉฐ, ์ƒˆ๋กญ๊ณ  ํฅ๋ฏธ๋กœ์šด ํ˜‘์—… ๋ฐฉ์•ˆ์„ ๋ชจ์ƒ‰ํ•˜๊ธฐ ์œ„ํ•ด ์ง€์†์ ์œผ๋กœ ํ˜‘๋ ฅํ•˜๊ณ  ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. QSC๋Š” ๋ฐ์ดํ„ฐ, ๋””๋ฐ”์ด์Šค, ํด๋ผ์šฐ๋“œ ์šฐ์„  ์•„ํ‚คํ…์ฒ˜๋ฅผ ํ†ตํ•ฉํ•˜์—ฌ ์‹ค์‹œ๊ฐ„ ์•ก์…˜, ๊ฒฝํ—˜, ์ธ์‚ฌ์ดํŠธ๋ฅผ ์ œ๊ณตํ•˜๋Š” ์—…๊ณ„ ์ตœ๊ณ ์˜ ํ˜์‹ ์ ์ธ ํ’€์Šคํƒ AV ํ”Œ๋žซํผ์„ ๊ตฌ์ถ•ํ•˜๊ณ  ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. QSC์˜ ์ถ”๊ฐ€๋กœ ๋‹น์‚ฌ AIS ์‚ฌ์—…์˜ ์ง€๋ฆฌ์  ์˜์—ญ์ด ํ™•์žฅ๋˜์–ด ๋‹ค๊ตญ์  ํ™•์žฅ์ด ๊ฐ€์†ํ™”๋˜์—ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ด๋ฏธ ํ˜œํƒ์„ ์–ป๊ณ  ์žˆ๋Š” ์‹œ์žฅ ์ค‘ ํ•˜๋‚˜๋Š” ์ธ๋„๋กœ, ๋‹น์‚ฌ๋Š” ์ด๊ณณ์—์„œ ์ƒ์—…์ ์œผ๋กœ ๊ฒฝ์Ÿํ•˜๊ณ  ์žˆ์œผ๋ฉฐ ์ด๋ฒˆ ๋ถ„๊ธฐ ๋™์•ˆ ํ™•์žฅํ•œ ์ฒดํ—˜ ์„ผํ„ฐ๋ฅผ ์šด์˜ํ•˜๊ณ  ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
The center includes product demonstrations for various room types in high-impact spaces as well as design workshops and training for our ecosystem partners. This center also serves as a hub for Intelligent Spaces to develop collaborative use cases for future workspaces and is the first experience center to feature the integrated Acuity Intelligent Spaces offering. Now I want to take a moment to review where our business is today and our view of how we are positioned for the future. Acuity Inc.์ด ์„ผํ„ฐ๋Š” ๊ณ ์ž„ํŒฉํŠธ ๊ณต๊ฐ„์˜ ๋‹ค์–‘ํ•œ ๋ฃธ ํƒ€์ž…์— ๋Œ€ํ•œ ์ œํ’ˆ ์‹œ์—ฐ๊ณผ ์ƒํƒœ๊ณ„ ํŒŒํŠธ๋„ˆ๋“ค์„ ์œ„ํ•œ ๋””์ž์ธ ์›Œํฌ์ˆ ๋ฐ ๊ต์œก์„ ํฌํ•จํ•˜๊ณ  ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๋˜ํ•œ ์ด ์„ผํ„ฐ๋Š” Intelligent Spaces๊ฐ€ ๋ฏธ๋ž˜ ์›Œํฌ์ŠคํŽ˜์ด์Šค๋ฅผ ์œ„ํ•œ ํ˜‘์—… ์‚ฌ์šฉ ์‚ฌ๋ก€๋ฅผ ๊ฐœ๋ฐœํ•˜๋Š” ํ—ˆ๋ธŒ ์—ญํ• ์„ ํ•˜๋ฉฐ, ํ†ตํ•ฉ๋œ Acuity Intelligent Spaces ์˜คํผ๋ง์„ ์„ ๋ณด์ด๋Š” ์ตœ์ดˆ์˜ ์ฒดํ—˜ ์„ผํ„ฐ์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ด์ œ ์ž ์‹œ ์‹œ๊ฐ„์„ ๋‚ด์–ด ํ˜„์žฌ ์šฐ๋ฆฌ ์‚ฌ์—…์˜ ํ˜„ํ™ฉ๊ณผ ๋ฏธ๋ž˜๋ฅผ ์œ„ํ•œ ์šฐ๋ฆฌ์˜ ํฌ์ง€์…”๋‹์— ๋Œ€ํ•œ ๊ด€์ ์„ ๊ฒ€ํ† ํ•ด๋ณด๊ณ ์ž ํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. Acuity Inc.
is a leading industrial technology company comprised of Acuity Brands Lighting, which is the best-performing lighting and lighting controls company in the world, and Acuity Intelligent Spaces, which is a dynamic and growing building management and full stack AB business. We have transformed the company from principally a luminaires business to a data and controls and luminaires business, and position ourselves well for long-term growth. Fiscal 2025 was an important year for us. We renamed our company, Acuity Inc., reflecting our evolution and aligning to our strategy of using technology to solve problems and create impactful experiences that shape how people live, work and connect.์ €ํฌ๋Š” ์„ธ๊ณ„ ์ตœ๊ณ  ์„ฑ๊ณผ๋ฅผ ๋ณด์ด๋Š” ์กฐ๋ช… ๋ฐ ์กฐ๋ช… ์ œ์–ด ํšŒ์‚ฌ์ธ Acuity Brands Lighting๊ณผ ์—ญ๋™์ ์ด๊ณ  ์„ฑ์žฅํ•˜๋Š” ๋นŒ๋”ฉ ๊ด€๋ฆฌ ๋ฐ ํ’€์Šคํƒ AB ์‚ฌ์—…์ธ Acuity Intelligent Spaces๋กœ ๊ตฌ์„ฑ๋œ ์„ ๋„์ ์ธ ์‚ฐ์—… ๊ธฐ์ˆ  ํšŒ์‚ฌ์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ €ํฌ๋Š” ํšŒ์‚ฌ๋ฅผ ์ฃผ๋กœ ์กฐ๋ช…๊ธฐ๊ตฌ ์‚ฌ์—…์—์„œ ๋ฐ์ดํ„ฐ์™€ ์ œ์–ด ๋ฐ ์กฐ๋ช…๊ธฐ๊ตฌ ์‚ฌ์—…์œผ๋กœ ์ „ํ™˜ํ•˜์—ฌ ์žฅ๊ธฐ์  ์„ฑ์žฅ์„ ์œ„ํ•œ ์ข‹์€ ์œ„์น˜์— ์ž๋ฆฌ์žก์•˜์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. 2025 ํšŒ๊ณ„์—ฐ๋„๋Š” ์ €ํฌ์—๊ฒŒ ์ค‘์š”ํ•œ ํ•ด์˜€์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ €ํฌ๋Š” ํšŒ์‚ฌ๋ช…์„ Acuity Inc.๋กœ ๋ณ€๊ฒฝํ–ˆ๋Š”๋ฐ, ์ด๋Š” ์ €ํฌ์˜ ์ง„ํ™”๋ฅผ ๋ฐ˜์˜ํ•˜๊ณ  ๊ธฐ์ˆ ์„ ํ™œ์šฉํ•˜์—ฌ ๋ฌธ์ œ๋ฅผ ํ•ด๊ฒฐํ•˜๊ณ  ์‚ฌ๋žŒ๋“ค์ด ์‚ด๊ณ , ์ผํ•˜๊ณ , ์—ฐ๊ฒฐ๋˜๋Š” ๋ฐฉ์‹์„ ํ˜•์„ฑํ•˜๋Š” ์ž„ํŒฉํŠธ ์žˆ๋Š” ๊ฒฝํ—˜์„ ์ฐฝ์กฐํ•œ๋‹ค๋Š” ์ €ํฌ ์ „๋žต์— ๋ถ€ํ•ฉํ•˜๋Š” ๊ฒƒ์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
We continue to make our Acuity Brands Lighting business more predictable, repeatable and scalable. We realigned the business into luminaires and electronics and delivered improved financial performance. ABL is a high-quality strategic asset and a core pillar of our company. In Acuity Intelligent Spaces, we acquired and integrated QSC. We have scaled AIS into a larger part of our overall company. At Acuity, we are doing things differently. Our values are at the core of who we are, guiding how we serve our customers, associates and communities. Each of our associates understands how we create value. We grow net sales, we turn profits into cash and we don't grow the balance sheet as fast.์ €ํฌ๋Š” Acuity Brands Lighting ์‚ฌ์—…์„ ๋”์šฑ ์˜ˆ์ธก ๊ฐ€๋Šฅํ•˜๊ณ , ๋ฐ˜๋ณต ๊ฐ€๋Šฅํ•˜๋ฉฐ, ํ™•์žฅ ๊ฐ€๋Šฅํ•˜๊ฒŒ ๋งŒ๋“ค์–ด ๋‚˜๊ฐ€๊ณ  ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์‚ฌ์—…์„ ์กฐ๋ช…๊ธฐ๊ตฌ์™€ ์ „์ž์ œํ’ˆ์œผ๋กœ ์žฌํŽธ์„ฑํ•˜์—ฌ ๊ฐœ์„ ๋œ ์žฌ๋ฌด์„ฑ๊ณผ๋ฅผ ๋‹ฌ์„ฑํ–ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ABL์€ ๊ณ ํ’ˆ์งˆ์˜ ์ „๋žต์  ์ž์‚ฐ์ด์ž ์ €ํฌ ํšŒ์‚ฌ์˜ ํ•ต์‹ฌ ๊ธฐ๋‘ฅ์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. Acuity Intelligent Spaces์—์„œ๋Š” QSC๋ฅผ ์ธ์ˆ˜ํ•˜๊ณ  ํ†ตํ•ฉํ–ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. AIS๋ฅผ ์ €ํฌ ์ „์ฒด ํšŒ์‚ฌ์—์„œ ๋” ํฐ ๋น„์ค‘์„ ์ฐจ์ง€ํ•˜๋Š” ๋ถ€๋ฌธ์œผ๋กœ ํ™•์žฅํ–ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. Acuity์—์„œ ์ €ํฌ๋Š” ๋‹ค๋ฅด๊ฒŒ ์ผํ•˜๊ณ  ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ €ํฌ์˜ ๊ฐ€์น˜๋Š” ์ €ํฌ๊ฐ€ ๋ˆ„๊ตฌ์ธ์ง€๋ฅผ ๋ณด์—ฌ์ฃผ๋Š” ํ•ต์‹ฌ์œผ๋กœ, ๊ณ ๊ฐ๊ณผ ์ง์›, ๊ทธ๋ฆฌ๊ณ  ์ง€์—ญ์‚ฌํšŒ์— ์–ด๋–ป๊ฒŒ ์„œ๋น„์Šค๋ฅผ ์ œ๊ณตํ• ์ง€๋ฅผ ์•ˆ๋‚ดํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ €ํฌ์˜ ๋ชจ๋“  ์ง์›๋“ค์€ ์ €ํฌ๊ฐ€ ์–ด๋–ป๊ฒŒ ๊ฐ€์น˜๋ฅผ ์ฐฝ์ถœํ•˜๋Š”์ง€ ์ดํ•ดํ•˜๊ณ  ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ €ํฌ๋Š” ์ˆœ๋งค์ถœ์„ ์ฆ๋Œ€์‹œํ‚ค๊ณ , ์ด์ต์„ ํ˜„๊ธˆ์œผ๋กœ ์ „ํ™˜ํ•˜๋ฉฐ, ๋Œ€์ฐจ๋Œ€์กฐํ‘œ๋ฅผ ๊ทธ๋งŒํผ ๋น ๋ฅด๊ฒŒ ๋Š˜๋ฆฌ์ง€๋Š” ์•Š์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
And we are empowered by our better, smarter, faster operating system to work in a structured and consistent way. The combination of these things allows us to operate more productively with greater distribution of responsibility and accountability throughout the company. It is how we are able to react aggressively to changes in the macro environment this year and how we were able to quickly and successfully integrate QSC. In Acuity Brands Lighting, we are focused on product vitality, elevating service levels, using technology to improve and differentiate both our products and how we operate the business and driving productivity. Our growth algorithm is clear.๊ทธ๋ฆฌ๊ณ  ์šฐ๋ฆฌ๋Š” ๋” ๋‚˜์€, ๋” ์Šค๋งˆํŠธํ•œ, ๋” ๋น ๋ฅธ ์šด์˜ ์‹œ์Šคํ…œ์„ ํ†ตํ•ด ๊ตฌ์กฐ์ ์ด๊ณ  ์ผ๊ด€๋œ ๋ฐฉ์‹์œผ๋กœ ์—…๋ฌด๋ฅผ ์ˆ˜ํ–‰ํ•  ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ๊ฒŒ ๋˜์—ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ด๋Ÿฌํ•œ ์š”์†Œ๋“ค์˜ ๊ฒฐํ•ฉ์œผ๋กœ ์šฐ๋ฆฌ๋Š” ํšŒ์‚ฌ ์ „๋ฐ˜์— ๊ฑธ์ณ ์ฑ…์ž„๊ณผ ์ฑ…์ž„๊ฐ์˜ ๋ถ„์‚ฐ์„ ํ†ตํ•ด ๋”์šฑ ์ƒ์‚ฐ์ ์œผ๋กœ ์šด์˜ํ•  ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ๊ฒŒ ๋˜์—ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ด๊ฒƒ์ด ๋ฐ”๋กœ ์˜ฌํ•ด ๊ฑฐ์‹œ๊ฒฝ์ œ ํ™˜๊ฒฝ ๋ณ€ํ™”์— ์ ๊ทน์ ์œผ๋กœ ๋Œ€์‘ํ•  ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ์—ˆ๊ณ , QSC๋ฅผ ์‹ ์†ํ•˜๊ณ  ์„ฑ๊ณต์ ์œผ๋กœ ํ†ตํ•ฉํ•  ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ์—ˆ๋˜ ๋ฐฉ๋ฒ•์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. Acuity Brands Lighting์—์„œ ์šฐ๋ฆฌ๋Š” ์ œํ’ˆ ํ™œ๋ ฅ, ์„œ๋น„์Šค ์ˆ˜์ค€ ํ–ฅ์ƒ, ๊ธฐ์ˆ ์„ ํ™œ์šฉํ•œ ์ œํ’ˆ ๊ฐœ์„  ๋ฐ ์ฐจ๋ณ„ํ™”, ๊ทธ๋ฆฌ๊ณ  ์‚ฌ์—… ์šด์˜ ๋ฐฉ์‹ ๊ฐœ์„ ๊ณผ ์ƒ์‚ฐ์„ฑ ํ–ฅ์ƒ์— ์ง‘์ค‘ํ•˜๊ณ  ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์šฐ๋ฆฌ์˜ ์„ฑ์žฅ ์•Œ๊ณ ๋ฆฌ์ฆ˜์€ ๋ช…ํ™•ํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
We will grow with the market, we will take share, and we will enter new verticals, and we have the opportunity to continue to expand margins. In Acuity Intelligent Spaces, we are making spaces smarter, safer and greener. We have unique and disruptive technologies that are driving productivity for people experiencing spaces and for the people who are providing those spaces. Our focus in AIS will continue to be on growth with the opportunity for margin expansion. We are effective capital allocators. We have grown our business organically and through acquisitions.์šฐ๋ฆฌ๋Š” ์‹œ์žฅ๊ณผ ํ•จ๊ป˜ ์„ฑ์žฅํ•˜๊ณ , ์‹œ์žฅ ์ ์œ ์œจ์„ ํ™•๋Œ€ํ•˜๋ฉฐ, ์ƒˆ๋กœ์šด ์ˆ˜์ง ์‹œ์žฅ์— ์ง„์ถœํ•  ๊ฒƒ์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๊ทธ๋ฆฌ๊ณ  ๋งˆ์ง„์„ ์ง€์†์ ์œผ๋กœ ํ™•๋Œ€ํ•  ๊ธฐํšŒ๋ฅผ ๊ฐ€์ง€๊ณ  ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. Acuity Intelligent Spaces์—์„œ๋Š” ๊ณต๊ฐ„์„ ๋”์šฑ ์Šค๋งˆํŠธํ•˜๊ณ , ์•ˆ์ „ํ•˜๋ฉฐ, ์นœํ™˜๊ฒฝ์ ์œผ๋กœ ๋งŒ๋“ค๊ณ  ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์šฐ๋ฆฌ๋Š” ๊ณต๊ฐ„์„ ๊ฒฝํ—˜ํ•˜๋Š” ์‚ฌ๋žŒ๋“ค๊ณผ ๊ทธ๋Ÿฌํ•œ ๊ณต๊ฐ„์„ ์ œ๊ณตํ•˜๋Š” ์‚ฌ๋žŒ๋“ค์˜ ์ƒ์‚ฐ์„ฑ์„ ํ–ฅ์ƒ์‹œํ‚ค๋Š” ๋…ํŠนํ•˜๊ณ  ํ˜์‹ ์ ์ธ ๊ธฐ์ˆ ์„ ๋ณด์œ ํ•˜๊ณ  ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. AIS์—์„œ ์šฐ๋ฆฌ์˜ ์ดˆ์ ์€ ๋งˆ์ง„ ํ™•๋Œ€ ๊ธฐํšŒ์™€ ํ•จ๊ป˜ ์„ฑ์žฅ์„ ์ง€์†ํ•˜๋Š” ๊ฒƒ์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์šฐ๋ฆฌ๋Š” ํšจ๊ณผ์ ์ธ ์ž๋ณธ ๋ฐฐ๋ถ„์ž์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์šฐ๋ฆฌ๋Š” ์œ ๊ธฐ์  ์„ฑ์žฅ๊ณผ ์ธ์ˆ˜ํ•ฉ๋ณ‘์„ ํ†ตํ•ด ์‚ฌ์—…์„ ์„ฑ์žฅ์‹œ์ผœ ์™”์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
We have rewarded our shareholders with increased dividends, and we have been opportunistic in repurchasing more of our outstanding shares. Acuity is positioned for long-term growth. We are innovators, disruptors and builders who are creating stakeholder value and compounding shareholder wealth. Now I'll turn the call over to Karen, who will update you on our fourth quarter performance. Karen Holcom
Senior VP & CFO

Thank you, Neil, and good morning, everyone. We ended fiscal 2025 with strong fourth quarter performance. We grew net sales, improved our adjusted operating profit and adjusted operating profit margin and increased our adjusted diluted earnings per share.
์ €ํฌ๋Š” ๋ฐฐ๋‹น๊ธˆ ์ฆ์•ก์„ ํ†ตํ•ด ์ฃผ์ฃผ๋“ค์—๊ฒŒ ๋ณด์ƒํ•˜์˜€์œผ๋ฉฐ, ๊ธฐํšŒ๊ฐ€ ์žˆ์„ ๋•Œ๋งˆ๋‹ค ์ž์‚ฌ์ฃผ ๋งค์ž…์„ ํ†ตํ•ด ๋ฐœํ–‰์ฃผ์‹ ์ˆ˜๋ฅผ ์ค„์—ฌ์™”์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. Acuity๋Š” ์žฅ๊ธฐ ์„ฑ์žฅ์„ ์œ„ํ•œ ์ค€๋น„๊ฐ€ ๋˜์–ด ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ €ํฌ๋Š” ์ดํ•ด๊ด€๊ณ„์ž ๊ฐ€์น˜๋ฅผ ์ฐฝ์ถœํ•˜๊ณ  ์ฃผ์ฃผ ๋ถ€์˜ ๋ณต๋ฆฌ ์ฆ๋Œ€๋ฅผ ์‹คํ˜„ํ•˜๋Š” ํ˜์‹ ๊ฐ€์ด์ž ํŒŒ๊ดด์ž, ๊ทธ๋ฆฌ๊ณ  ๊ฑด์„ค์ž์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ด์ œ 4๋ถ„๊ธฐ ์‹ค์ ์— ๋Œ€ํ•ด ์—…๋ฐ์ดํŠธํ•ด ๋“œ๋ฆด Karen์—๊ฒŒ ๋ฐœ์–ธ๊ถŒ์„ ๋„˜๊ธฐ๊ฒ ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

Karen Holcom
์ˆ˜์„ ๋ถ€์‚ฌ์žฅ ๊ฒธ CFO

Neil, ๊ฐ์‚ฌํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๊ทธ๋ฆฌ๊ณ  ์—ฌ๋Ÿฌ๋ถ„ ์•ˆ๋…•ํ•˜์„ธ์š”. ์ €ํฌ๋Š” ๊ฒฌ๊ณ ํ•œ 4๋ถ„๊ธฐ ์‹ค์ ์œผ๋กœ 2025 ํšŒ๊ณ„์—ฐ๋„๋ฅผ ๋งˆ๊ฐํ–ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ˆœ๋งค์ถœ์„ ์ฆ๊ฐ€์‹œ์ผฐ๊ณ , ์กฐ์ • ์˜์—…์ด์ต๊ณผ ์กฐ์ • ์˜์—…์ด์ต๋ฅ ์„ ๊ฐœ์„ ํ–ˆ์œผ๋ฉฐ, ์กฐ์ • ์ฃผ๋‹น์ˆœ์ด์ต๋„ ์ฆ๊ฐ€์‹œ์ผฐ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
For total Acuity, we generated net sales in the fourth quarter of $1.2 billion which was $177 million or 17% above the prior year. This was driven by growth in both business segments and includes 3 months of QSC sales. During the quarter, our adjusted operating profit was $225 million, up $47 million or 26% from last year. This improvement was due to the growth of AIS, including the acquisition of QSC and the result of actions taken at ABL to control operating expenses. Adjusted operating profit margin during the quarter expanded to 18.6%, an increase of 130 basis points from the prior year. This quarter, there are a few additional non-GAAP adjustments to call out.์ „์ฒด Acuity์˜ ๊ฒฝ์šฐ, 4๋ถ„๊ธฐ ์ˆœ๋งค์ถœ์€ 12์–ต ๋‹ฌ๋Ÿฌ๋ฅผ ๊ธฐ๋กํ–ˆ์œผ๋ฉฐ ์ด๋Š” ์ „๋…„ ๋Œ€๋น„ 1์–ต 7,700๋งŒ ๋‹ฌ๋Ÿฌ ๋˜๋Š” 17% ์ฆ๊ฐ€ํ•œ ์ˆ˜์น˜์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ด๋Š” ๋‘ ์‚ฌ์—… ๋ถ€๋ฌธ ๋ชจ๋‘์˜ ์„ฑ์žฅ์— ์˜ํ•ด ๊ฒฌ์ธ๋˜์—ˆ์œผ๋ฉฐ QSC ๋งค์ถœ 3๊ฐœ์›”๋ถ„์ด ํฌํ•จ๋˜์–ด ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๋ถ„๊ธฐ ์ค‘ ์กฐ์ • ์˜์—…์ด์ต์€ 2์–ต 2,500๋งŒ ๋‹ฌ๋Ÿฌ๋กœ ์ „๋…„ ๋Œ€๋น„ 4,700๋งŒ ๋‹ฌ๋Ÿฌ ๋˜๋Š” 26% ์ฆ๊ฐ€ํ–ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ด๋Ÿฌํ•œ ๊ฐœ์„ ์€ QSC ์ธ์ˆ˜๋ฅผ ํฌํ•จํ•œ AIS์˜ ์„ฑ์žฅ๊ณผ ABL์—์„œ ์˜์—…๋น„์šฉ์„ ํ†ต์ œํ•˜๊ธฐ ์œ„ํ•ด ์ทจํ•œ ์กฐ์น˜๋“ค์˜ ๊ฒฐ๊ณผ์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๋ถ„๊ธฐ ์ค‘ ์กฐ์ • ์˜์—…์ด์ต๋ฅ ์€ 18.6%๋กœ ํ™•๋Œ€๋˜์–ด ์ „๋…„ ๋Œ€๋น„ 130 ๋ฒ ์ด์‹œ์Šค ํฌ์ธํŠธ ์ฆ๊ฐ€ํ–ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ด๋ฒˆ ๋ถ„๊ธฐ์—๋Š” ์–ธ๊ธ‰ํ•  ๋งŒํ•œ ๋ช‡ ๊ฐ€์ง€ ์ถ”๊ฐ€์ ์ธ ๋น„GAAP ์กฐ์ •์‚ฌํ•ญ๋“ค์ด ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
First, there is a noncash charge of approximately $31 million, resulting from the derisking of our qualified pension plans in the United States and Mexico. As we said last quarter, over the last few years, we have taken steps to simplify and minimize the future impact of our pension obligations on the company. Through our investment policies and capital allocation decisions, these pension plans were overfunded. And as a result, we transferred the majority of the related obligations to a third party. Our U.K. pension plan transfer is anticipated to be completed in the first quarter of fiscal 2026, and we expect to take an additional noncash GAAP charge of around $10 million at that time.๋จผ์ € ๋ฏธ๊ตญ๊ณผ ๋ฉ•์‹œ์ฝ”์˜ ํ™•์ •๊ธ‰์—ฌํ˜• ์—ฐ๊ธˆ์ œ๋„ ๋ฆฌ์Šคํฌ ์ถ•์†Œ๋กœ ์ธํ•œ ์•ฝ 3,100๋งŒ ๋‹ฌ๋Ÿฌ์˜ ๋น„ํ˜„๊ธˆ ๋น„์šฉ์ด ๋ฐœ์ƒํ–ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ง€๋‚œ ๋ถ„๊ธฐ์— ๋ง์”€๋“œ๋ฆฐ ๋ฐ”์™€ ๊ฐ™์ด, ์ง€๋‚œ ๋ช‡ ๋…„๊ฐ„ ์šฐ๋ฆฌ๋Š” ์—ฐ๊ธˆ ์˜๋ฌด๊ฐ€ ํšŒ์‚ฌ์— ๋ฏธ์น˜๋Š” ํ–ฅํ›„ ์˜ํ–ฅ์„ ๋‹จ์ˆœํ™”ํ•˜๊ณ  ์ตœ์†Œํ™”ํ•˜๊ธฐ ์œ„ํ•œ ์กฐ์น˜๋“ค์„ ์ทจํ•ด์™”์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ํˆฌ์ž ์ •์ฑ…๊ณผ ์ž๋ณธ ๋ฐฐ๋ถ„ ๊ฒฐ์ •์„ ํ†ตํ•ด ์ด๋Ÿฌํ•œ ์—ฐ๊ธˆ์ œ๋„๋“ค์€ ์ดˆ๊ณผ ์ ๋ฆฝ ์ƒํƒœ์˜€์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๊ทธ ๊ฒฐ๊ณผ, ๊ด€๋ จ ์˜๋ฌด์˜ ๋Œ€๋ถ€๋ถ„์„ ์ œ3์ž์—๊ฒŒ ์ด์ „ํ–ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์˜๊ตญ ์—ฐ๊ธˆ์ œ๋„ ์ด์ „์€ 2026 ํšŒ๊ณ„์—ฐ๋„ 1๋ถ„๊ธฐ์— ์™„๋ฃŒ๋  ๊ฒƒ์œผ๋กœ ์˜ˆ์ƒ๋˜๋ฉฐ, ๊ทธ ์‹œ์ ์— ์•ฝ 1,000๋งŒ ๋‹ฌ๋Ÿฌ์˜ ์ถ”๊ฐ€์ ์ธ ๋น„ํ˜„๊ธˆ GAAP ๋น„์šฉ์„ ๊ณ„์ƒํ•  ๊ฒƒ์œผ๋กœ ์˜ˆ์ƒํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
This quarter, we also recognized a onetime tax benefit of $8 million. After non-GAAP items, our adjusted diluted earnings per share was $5.20, which was an increase of $0.90 or 21% over the prior year. ABL delivered sales of $962 million, an increase of $7 million or 1% versus the prior year driven by growth in our independent sales network of $25 million or 4%, partially offset by declines in corporate accounts and our direct sales network. Adjusted operating profit increased $22 million to $194 million, and we delivered adjusted operating profit margin of 20.1% which was up 210 basis points compared to the prior year.์ด๋ฒˆ ๋ถ„๊ธฐ์—๋Š” ๋˜ํ•œ 800๋งŒ ๋‹ฌ๋Ÿฌ์˜ ์ผํšŒ์„ฑ ์„ธ๊ธˆ ํ˜œํƒ์„ ์ธ์‹ํ–ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๋น„GAAP ํ•ญ๋ชฉ์„ ์ œ์™ธํ•œ ํ›„, ์กฐ์ • ํฌ์„ ์ฃผ๋‹น์ˆœ์ด์ต์€ 5.20๋‹ฌ๋Ÿฌ๋กœ ์ „๋…„ ๋Œ€๋น„ 0.90๋‹ฌ๋Ÿฌ ๋˜๋Š” 21% ์ฆ๊ฐ€ํ–ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ABL์€ 9์–ต 6,200๋งŒ ๋‹ฌ๋Ÿฌ์˜ ๋งค์ถœ์„ ๊ธฐ๋กํ–ˆ์œผ๋ฉฐ, ์ด๋Š” ์ „๋…„ ๋Œ€๋น„ 700๋งŒ ๋‹ฌ๋Ÿฌ ๋˜๋Š” 1% ์ฆ๊ฐ€ํ•œ ์ˆ˜์น˜์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ด๋Š” ๋…๋ฆฝ ํŒ๋งค ๋„คํŠธ์›Œํฌ์—์„œ 2,500๋งŒ ๋‹ฌ๋Ÿฌ ๋˜๋Š” 4%์˜ ์„ฑ์žฅ์— ํž˜์ž…์€ ๊ฒƒ์ด๋ฉฐ, ๊ธฐ์—… ๊ณ„์ •๊ณผ ์ง์ ‘ ํŒ๋งค ๋„คํŠธ์›Œํฌ์˜ ๊ฐ์†Œ๋กœ ์ผ๋ถ€ ์ƒ์‡„๋˜์—ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์กฐ์ • ์˜์—…์ด์ต์€ 2,200๋งŒ ๋‹ฌ๋Ÿฌ ์ฆ๊ฐ€ํ•˜์—ฌ 1์–ต 9,400๋งŒ ๋‹ฌ๋Ÿฌ๋ฅผ ๊ธฐ๋กํ–ˆ์œผ๋ฉฐ, ์กฐ์ • ์˜์—…์ด์ต๋ฅ ์€ 20.1%๋กœ ์ „๋…„ ๋Œ€๋น„ 210๋ฒ ์ด์‹œ์Šคํฌ์ธํŠธ ์ƒ์Šนํ–ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
This improvement was driven largely by the intentional actions we took in the third quarter to reduce operating costs and our increased focus on productivity. Now moving to Acuity Intelligence Spaces. Sales for the fourth quarter were $255 million, an increase of $171 million. Atrius and Distech combined grew approximately 13%, while QSC grew approximately 15% year-over-year. Adjusted operating profit in Intelligent Spaces was $55 million with adjusted operating profit margin of 21.4%. Now turning to our cash flow performance.์ด๋Ÿฌํ•œ ๊ฐœ์„ ์€ ์ฃผ๋กœ 3๋ถ„๊ธฐ์— ์šด์˜๋น„์šฉ์„ ์ ˆ๊ฐํ•˜๊ธฐ ์œ„ํ•ด ์ทจํ•œ ์˜๋„์ ์ธ ์กฐ์น˜๋“ค๊ณผ ์ƒ์‚ฐ์„ฑ์— ๋Œ€ํ•œ ์ง‘์ค‘๋„ ์ฆ๊ฐ€์— ์˜ํ•ด ๊ฒฌ์ธ๋˜์—ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ด์ œ Acuity Intelligence Spaces๋กœ ๋„˜์–ด๊ฐ€๊ฒ ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. 4๋ถ„๊ธฐ ๋งค์ถœ์€ 2์–ต 5,500๋งŒ ๋‹ฌ๋Ÿฌ๋กœ 1์–ต 7,100๋งŒ ๋‹ฌ๋Ÿฌ ์ฆ๊ฐ€ํ–ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. Atrius์™€ Distech์„ ํ•ฉ์ณ ์•ฝ 13% ์„ฑ์žฅํ–ˆ์œผ๋ฉฐ, QSC๋Š” ์ „๋…„ ๋™๊ธฐ ๋Œ€๋น„ ์•ฝ 15% ์„ฑ์žฅํ–ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. Intelligent Spaces์˜ ์กฐ์ • ์˜์—…์ด์ต์€ 5,500๋งŒ ๋‹ฌ๋Ÿฌ์˜€์œผ๋ฉฐ ์กฐ์ • ์˜์—…์ด์ต๋ฅ ์€ 21.4%์˜€์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ด์ œ ํ˜„๊ธˆํ๋ฆ„ ์„ฑ๊ณผ๋กœ ๋„˜์–ด๊ฐ€๊ฒ ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
During the fiscal year, we generated $601 million of cash flow from operations, which was $18 million lower than last year, primarily due to the acquisition-related items, the timing of tariff payments and accelerated inventory purchases driven by the tariff policy. In fiscal 2025, we continue to allocate capital effectively and consistent with our priorities. We invested for growth in our existing businesses, allocating $68 million to capital expenditures. We invested over $1.2 billion in acquisitions and repaid $200 million of our term loan, including an additional $100 million this quarter.ํšŒ๊ณ„์—ฐ๋„ ๋™์•ˆ ์šฐ๋ฆฌ๋Š” ์˜์—…ํ™œ๋™์œผ๋กœ๋ถ€ํ„ฐ 6์–ต 1๋ฐฑ๋งŒ ๋‹ฌ๋Ÿฌ์˜ ํ˜„๊ธˆํ๋ฆ„์„ ์ฐฝ์ถœํ–ˆ์œผ๋ฉฐ, ์ด๋Š” ์ž‘๋…„ ๋Œ€๋น„ 1,800๋งŒ ๋‹ฌ๋Ÿฌ ๊ฐ์†Œํ•œ ์ˆ˜์น˜์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ด๋Ÿฌํ•œ ๊ฐ์†Œ๋Š” ์ฃผ๋กœ ์ธ์ˆ˜ ๊ด€๋ จ ํ•ญ๋ชฉ๋“ค, ๊ด€์„ธ ๋‚ฉ๋ถ€ ์‹œ๊ธฐ, ๊ทธ๋ฆฌ๊ณ  ๊ด€์„ธ ์ •์ฑ…์œผ๋กœ ์ธํ•œ ์žฌ๊ณ  ์„ ๋งค์ž… ๊ฐ€์†ํ™”์— ๊ธฐ์ธํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. 2025 ํšŒ๊ณ„์—ฐ๋„์—๋„ ์šฐ๋ฆฌ๋Š” ์šฐ์„ ์ˆœ์œ„์— ๋”ฐ๋ผ ์ง€์†์ ์ด๊ณ  ํšจ๊ณผ์ ์œผ๋กœ ์ž๋ณธ์„ ๋ฐฐ๋ถ„ํ•˜๊ณ  ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๊ธฐ์กด ์‚ฌ์—…์˜ ์„ฑ์žฅ์„ ์œ„ํ•ด ํˆฌ์žํ•˜์—ฌ ์„ค๋น„ํˆฌ์ž์— 6,800๋งŒ ๋‹ฌ๋Ÿฌ๋ฅผ ๋ฐฐ์ •ํ–ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ธ์ˆ˜ํ•ฉ๋ณ‘์— 12์–ต ๋‹ฌ๋Ÿฌ ์ด์ƒ์„ ํˆฌ์žํ–ˆ์œผ๋ฉฐ, ์ด๋ฒˆ ๋ถ„๊ธฐ ์ถ”๊ฐ€๋กœ 1์–ต ๋‹ฌ๋Ÿฌ๋ฅผ ํฌํ•จํ•˜์—ฌ ์ด 2์–ต ๋‹ฌ๋Ÿฌ์˜ ํ…€๋ก ์„ ์ƒํ™˜ํ–ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
We increased our dividend by 13% and allocated around $119 million to repurchase approximately 436,000 shares at an average price of around $270. Since the beginning of the fourth quarter of fiscal 2020, we have repurchased approximately 10 million shares at an average price of around $150 per share, which was funded by organic cash flow. This amounts to about 25% of the then outstanding shares. I now want to spend a few minutes on our outlook for 2026. Consistent with our prior practice, we are going to provide annual guidance anchored around net sales and adjusted diluted earnings per share.์ €ํฌ๋Š” ๋ฐฐ๋‹น๊ธˆ์„ 13% ์ธ์ƒํ–ˆ์œผ๋ฉฐ, ํ‰๊ท  ์•ฝ 270๋‹ฌ๋Ÿฌ์˜ ๊ฐ€๊ฒฉ์œผ๋กœ ์•ฝ 43๋งŒ 6์ฒœ ์ฃผ๋ฅผ ์žฌ๋งค์ž…ํ•˜๋Š” ๋ฐ ์•ฝ 1์–ต 1,900๋งŒ ๋‹ฌ๋Ÿฌ๋ฅผ ๋ฐฐ์ •ํ–ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. 2020 ํšŒ๊ณ„์—ฐ๋„ 4๋ถ„๊ธฐ ์ดˆ๋ถ€ํ„ฐ ์ €ํฌ๋Š” ์œ ๊ธฐ์  ํ˜„๊ธˆํ๋ฆ„์œผ๋กœ ์ž๊ธˆ์„ ์กฐ๋‹ฌํ•˜์—ฌ ์ฃผ๋‹น ํ‰๊ท  ์•ฝ 150๋‹ฌ๋Ÿฌ์˜ ๊ฐ€๊ฒฉ์œผ๋กœ ์•ฝ 1,000๋งŒ ์ฃผ๋ฅผ ์žฌ๋งค์ž…ํ–ˆ์œผ๋ฉฐ, ์ด๋Š” ๋‹น์‹œ ๋ฐœํ–‰์ฃผ์‹์ˆ˜์˜ ์•ฝ 25%์— ํ•ด๋‹นํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ด์ œ 2026๋…„ ์ „๋ง์— ๋Œ€ํ•ด ๋ช‡ ๋ถ„๊ฐ„ ๋ง์”€๋“œ๋ฆฌ๊ณ ์ž ํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๊ธฐ์กด ๊ด€ํ–‰๊ณผ ์ผ์น˜ํ•˜๊ฒŒ, ์ €ํฌ๋Š” ์ˆœ๋งค์ถœ๊ณผ ์กฐ์ • ํฌ์„์ฃผ๋‹น์ˆœ์ด์ต์„ ์ค‘์‹ฌ์œผ๋กœ ํ•œ ์—ฐ๊ฐ„ ๊ฐ€์ด๋˜์Šค๋ฅผ ์ œ๊ณตํ•  ์˜ˆ์ •์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
We will also provide you with certain assumptions, which you can find in the supplemental presentation available on our website after the conclusion of this call. For full year fiscal 2026, our expectation is that net sales will be within the range of $4.7 billion and $4.9 billion for total AYI. This is based on the assumption that ABL will deliver low single-digit sales growth and AIS will generate organic sales growth in the low to mid-teens. We expect to deliver adjusted diluted earnings per share within the range of $19 to $20.50. In summary, we delivered strong performance in fiscal 2025. We grew net sales, improved margins and increased adjusted diluted earnings per share.ํŠน์ • ๊ฐ€์ •์‚ฌํ•ญ๋“ค๋„ ์ œ๊ณตํ•ด ๋“œ๋ฆด ์˜ˆ์ •์ด๋ฉฐ, ์ด๋Š” ๋ณธ ์ปจํผ๋Ÿฐ์Šค์ฝœ ์ข…๋ฃŒ ํ›„ ๋‹น์‚ฌ ์›น์‚ฌ์ดํŠธ์—์„œ ํ™•์ธ ๊ฐ€๋Šฅํ•œ ๋ณด์ถฉ ํ”„๋ ˆ์  ํ…Œ์ด์…˜์—์„œ ์ฐพ์•„๋ณด์‹ค ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. 2026 ํšŒ๊ณ„์—ฐ๋„ ์ „์ฒด์— ๋Œ€ํ•ด์„œ๋Š” AYI ์ „์ฒด ๋งค์ถœ์ด 47์–ต ๋‹ฌ๋Ÿฌ์—์„œ 49์–ต ๋‹ฌ๋Ÿฌ ๋ฒ”์œ„ ๋‚ด์— ์žˆ์„ ๊ฒƒ์œผ๋กœ ์˜ˆ์ƒํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ด๋Š” ABL์ด ๋‚ฎ์€ ํ•œ ์ž๋ฆฟ์ˆ˜ ๋งค์ถœ ์„ฑ์žฅ์„ ๋‹ฌ์„ฑํ•˜๊ณ  AIS๊ฐ€ 10% ์ดˆ๋ฐ˜์—์„œ ์ค‘๋ฐ˜๋Œ€์˜ ์œ ๊ธฐ์  ๋งค์ถœ ์„ฑ์žฅ์„ ์ฐฝ์ถœํ•  ๊ฒƒ์ด๋ผ๋Š” ๊ฐ€์ •์— ๊ธฐ๋ฐ˜ํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์กฐ์ • ํฌ์„์ฃผ๋‹น์ˆœ์ด์ต์€ 19๋‹ฌ๋Ÿฌ์—์„œ 20.50๋‹ฌ๋Ÿฌ ๋ฒ”์œ„ ๋‚ด์—์„œ ๋‹ฌ์„ฑํ•  ๊ฒƒ์œผ๋กœ ์˜ˆ์ƒํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์š”์•ฝํ•˜์ž๋ฉด, ๋‹น์‚ฌ๋Š” 2025 ํšŒ๊ณ„์—ฐ๋„์— ๊ฐ•๋ ฅํ•œ ์‹ค์ ์„ ๋‹ฌ์„ฑํ–ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๋งค์ถœ์„ ์„ฑ์žฅ์‹œ์ผฐ๊ณ , ๋งˆ์ง„์„ ๊ฐœ์„ ํ–ˆ์œผ๋ฉฐ, ์กฐ์ • ํฌ์„์ฃผ๋‹น์ˆœ์ด์ต์„ ์ฆ๊ฐ€์‹œ์ผฐ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
We generated strong cash flow from operations and allocated capital effectively. We are positioned well to deliver another strong year in fiscal 2026. Thank you for joining us today. I will now pass you over to the operator to take your questions.์˜์—…ํ™œ๋™์œผ๋กœ๋ถ€ํ„ฐ ๊ฐ•๋ ฅํ•œ ํ˜„๊ธˆํ๋ฆ„์„ ์ฐฝ์ถœํ–ˆ์œผ๋ฉฐ ์ž๋ณธ์„ ํšจ๊ณผ์ ์œผ๋กœ ๋ฐฐ๋ถ„ํ–ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. 2026 ํšŒ๊ณ„์—ฐ๋„์—๋„ ๋˜ ๋‹ค๋ฅธ ๊ฐ•๋ ฅํ•œ ํ•œ ํ•ด๋ฅผ ๋‹ฌ์„ฑํ•  ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ๋Š” ์ข‹์€ ์œ„์น˜์— ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์˜ค๋Š˜ ์ฐธ์—ฌํ•ด ์ฃผ์…”์„œ ๊ฐ์‚ฌํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ด์ œ ์งˆ์˜์‘๋‹ต์„ ์œ„ํ•ด ์˜คํผ๋ ˆ์ดํ„ฐ์—๊ฒŒ ๋„˜๊ธฐ๊ฒ ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

๐Ÿ“Œ ์š”์•ฝ

โ€ข ์‹ค์  ํ•˜์ด๋ผ์ดํŠธ:
- 4๋ถ„๊ธฐ ๋งค์ถœ 12์–ต ๋‹ฌ๋Ÿฌ (์ „๋…„ ๋Œ€๋น„ 17% ์ฆ๊ฐ€)
- ์กฐ์ • ์˜์—…์ด์ต 2.25์–ต ๋‹ฌ๋Ÿฌ (26% ์ฆ๊ฐ€), ์กฐ์ • ์˜์—…์ด์ต๋ฅ  18.6% (130bp ๊ฐœ์„ )
- ์กฐ์ • EPS $5.20 (21% ์ฆ๊ฐ€)

โ€ข ์‚ฌ์—…๋ถ€๋ฌธ๋ณ„ ์‹ค์ :
- Acuity Brands Lighting: ๋งค์ถœ 9.62์–ต ๋‹ฌ๋Ÿฌ (1% ์ฆ๊ฐ€), ์กฐ์ • ์˜์—…์ด์ต๋ฅ  20.1%
- Intelligent Spaces: ๋งค์ถœ 2.55์–ต ๋‹ฌ๋Ÿฌ, Atrius/Distech 13% ์„ฑ์žฅ, QSC 15% ์„ฑ์žฅ

โ€ข FY2026 ๊ฐ€์ด๋˜์Šค:
- ๋งค์ถœ 47-49์–ต ๋‹ฌ๋Ÿฌ ์ „๋ง
- ์กฐ์ • EPS $19.00-20.50 ์ „๋ง
- ABL ๋ถ€๋ฌธ ํ•œ ์ž๋ฆฟ์ˆ˜ ์ดˆ๋ฐ˜ ์„ฑ์žฅ, AIS ๋ถ€๋ฌธ 10%๋Œ€ ์ค‘๋ฐ˜ ์„ฑ์žฅ ์˜ˆ์ƒ

โ€ข ๊ฒฝ์˜์ง„ ํ†ค:
- ๊ณต๊ธ‰๋ง ์ตœ์ ํ™”์™€ ๋น„์šฉ ๊ด€๋ฆฌ๋ฅผ ํ†ตํ•œ ์ˆ˜์ต์„ฑ ๊ฐœ์„  ๊ฐ•์กฐ
- ๊ธฐ์ˆ  ํ˜์‹ ๊ณผ ์‹ ๊ทœ ์‹œ์žฅ ์ง„์ถœ์„ ํ†ตํ•œ ์žฅ๊ธฐ ์„ฑ์žฅ ์ „๋žต ์ œ์‹œ
- ์ž๋ณธ ๋ฐฐ๋ถ„ ํšจ์œจ์„ฑ ์œ ์ง€ ์˜์ง€ ํ‘œ๋ช…


โ“ Q&A

Original Translation
Operator: Our first question comes from Chris Snyder at Morgan Stanley.**Operator:** ์ฒซ ๋ฒˆ์งธ ์งˆ๋ฌธ์€ ๋ชจ๊ฑด์Šคํƒ ๋ฆฌ์˜ ํฌ๋ฆฌ์Šค ์Šค๋‚˜์ด๋”๋‹˜๊ป˜์„œ ์ฃผ์…จ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
Christopher Snyder: Morgan Stanley, Research Division Maybe starting with a bigger picture question here, Neil. It's been maybe almost 8 months since the QSC acquisition. It seems like integration is going really well. Can you kind of just talk about the M&A pipeline? And if there are categories within kind of the smart building ecosystem that is attractive to the company?**Christopher Snyder:** ๋” ํฐ ๊ทธ๋ฆผ์—์„œ ์‹œ์ž‘ํ•ด๋ณด๊ฒ ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. QSC ์ธ์ˆ˜ ํ›„ ๊ฑฐ์˜ 8๊ฐœ์›”์ด ์ง€๋‚ฌ๋Š”๋ฐ, ํ†ตํ•ฉ์ด ์ •๋ง ์ž˜ ์ง„ํ–‰๋˜๊ณ  ์žˆ๋Š” ๊ฒƒ ๊ฐ™์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. M&A ํŒŒ์ดํ”„๋ผ์ธ์— ๋Œ€ํ•ด ๋ง์”€ํ•ด ์ฃผ์‹ค ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ๋‚˜์š”? ๊ทธ๋ฆฌ๊ณ  ์Šค๋งˆํŠธ ๋นŒ๋”ฉ ์ƒํƒœ๊ณ„ ๋‚ด์—์„œ ํšŒ์‚ฌ์—๊ฒŒ ๋งค๋ ฅ์ ์ธ ์นดํ…Œ๊ณ ๋ฆฌ๋“ค์ด ์žˆ๋Š”์ง€์š”?
Neil Ashe: Chairman, President & CEO Yes. Thanks, Chris. Well, first off, obviously, we're pleased with the addition of QSC to the portfolio. As you know, we have a different theory of the case for Acuity Intelligent Spaces is that we can consolidate the data state of a built space, how the building operates, the experiences in that building, who is in that building, other elements of that data state. So we have a consistent pipeline of potential acquisitions that would continue to expand that portfolio as well as opportunities to continue to expand organically in that portfolio. So we feel like the path of travel for Intelligent Spaces is pretty clear. Both with deploying capital as well as organically.**Neil Ashe:** ๋„ค, ๊ณ ๋ง™์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค, ํฌ๋ฆฌ์Šค. ์šฐ์„  QSC๊ฐ€ ํฌํŠธํด๋ฆฌ์˜ค์— ์ถ”๊ฐ€๋œ ๊ฒƒ์— ๋Œ€ํ•ด ๋งŒ์กฑํ•˜๊ณ  ์žˆ๋‹ค๋Š” ์ ์„ ๋ง์”€๋“œ๋ฆฌ๊ณ  ์‹ถ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์•„์‹œ๋‹ค์‹œํ”ผ, ์ €ํฌ๋Š” Acuity Intelligent Spaces์— ๋Œ€ํ•ด ๋‹ค๋ฅธ ์ ‘๊ทผ ๋ฐฉ์‹์„ ๊ฐ€์ง€๊ณ  ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๊ฑด์ถ• ๊ณต๊ฐ„์˜ ๋ฐ์ดํ„ฐ ์ƒํƒœ๋ฅผ ํ†ตํ•ฉํ•  ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ๋‹ค๋Š” ๊ฒƒ์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๊ฑด๋ฌผ์ด ์–ด๋–ป๊ฒŒ ์šด์˜๋˜๋Š”์ง€, ๊ทธ ๊ฑด๋ฌผ ๋‚ด์—์„œ์˜ ๊ฒฝํ—˜๋“ค, ๋ˆ„๊ฐ€ ๊ทธ ๊ฑด๋ฌผ์— ์žˆ๋Š”์ง€, ๊ทธ๋ฆฌ๊ณ  ๋ฐ์ดํ„ฐ ์ƒํƒœ์˜ ๋‹ค๋ฅธ ์š”์†Œ๋“ค์„ ๋ง์ด์ฃ .

๋”ฐ๋ผ์„œ ์ €ํฌ๋Š” ํ•ด๋‹น ํฌํŠธํด๋ฆฌ์˜ค๋ฅผ ์ง€์†์ ์œผ๋กœ ํ™•์žฅํ•  ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ๋Š” ์ž ์žฌ์  ์ธ์ˆ˜ ๊ธฐํšŒ๋“ค์˜ ์ผ๊ด€๋œ ํŒŒ์ดํ”„๋ผ์ธ์„ ๋ณด์œ ํ•˜๊ณ  ์žˆ์œผ๋ฉฐ, ๋™์‹œ์— ๊ทธ ํฌํŠธํด๋ฆฌ์˜ค ๋‚ด์—์„œ ์œ ๊ธฐ์ ์œผ๋กœ ํ™•์žฅํ•  ๊ธฐํšŒ๋“ค๋„ ๊ฐ€์ง€๊ณ  ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๊ทธ๋ž˜์„œ Intelligent Spaces์˜ ๋ฐœ์ „ ๋ฐฉํ–ฅ์ด ์ƒ๋‹นํžˆ ๋ช…ํ™•ํ•˜๋‹ค๊ณ  ์ƒ๊ฐํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ž๋ณธ ๋ฐฐ์น˜์™€ ์œ ๊ธฐ์  ์„ฑ์žฅ ๋ชจ๋‘๋ฅผ ํ†ตํ•ด์„œ ๋ง์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
Christopher Snyder: Morgan Stanley, Research Division I appreciate that. And then maybe just following up with more of a near-term one on the quarter itself. If we look at ABL, it seems like the sequential ramp in Q4 came in below seasonality despite incremental price, I would imagine quarter-on-quarter coming through. That is just a function of the pull forward that you guys highlighted on Q3? Does it signal that some of the end markets are softening. And then just kind of any color or thoughts on the channel inventory level as we start fiscal '26.**Christopher Snyder:** ๊ฐ์‚ฌํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๊ทธ๋ฆฌ๊ณ  ์ด๋ฒˆ ๋ถ„๊ธฐ ์ž์ฒด์— ๋Œ€ํ•œ ๋ณด๋‹ค ๋‹จ๊ธฐ์ ์ธ ํ›„์† ์งˆ๋ฌธ์„ ๋“œ๋ฆฌ๊ฒ ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ABL์„ ๋ณด๋ฉด, 4๋ถ„๊ธฐ ์ˆœ์ฐจ์  ์ฆ๊ฐ€๊ฐ€ ๋ถ„๊ธฐ ๋Œ€๋น„ ์ถ”๊ฐ€์ ์ธ ๊ฐ€๊ฒฉ ์ธ์ƒ์ด ๋ฐ˜์˜๋˜์—ˆ์Œ์—๋„ ๋ถˆ๊ตฌํ•˜๊ณ  ๊ณ„์ ˆ์„ฑ์„ ํ•˜ํšŒํ•œ ๊ฒƒ์œผ๋กœ ๋ณด์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ด๊ฒƒ์ด ๋‹จ์ˆœํžˆ 3๋ถ„๊ธฐ์— ์–ธ๊ธ‰ํ•˜์…จ๋˜ ์ˆ˜์š” ์„ ๋ฐ˜์˜์˜ ๊ฒฐ๊ณผ์ธ์ง€์š”? ์•„๋‹ˆ๋ฉด ์ผ๋ถ€ ์ตœ์ข… ์‹œ์žฅ์ด ์—ฐํ™”๋˜๊ณ  ์žˆ๋‹ค๋Š” ์‹ ํ˜ธ์ธ์ง€ ๊ถ๊ธˆํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๊ทธ๋ฆฌ๊ณ  2026 ํšŒ๊ณ„์—ฐ๋„๋ฅผ ์‹œ์ž‘ํ•˜๋ฉด์„œ ์ฑ„๋„ ์žฌ๊ณ  ์ˆ˜์ค€์— ๋Œ€ํ•œ ๊ฒฌํ•ด๋‚˜ ์˜๊ฒฌ์„ ๋ง์”€ํ•ด ์ฃผ์‹ค ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ์„๊นŒ์š”?
Neil Ashe: Chairman, President & CEO I'll start, Karen, add anything that I leave off. So you'll remember back in the last call, we suggested that it would be prudent to evaluate the second half of the year given the changes in tariff policy, the resulting actions we took to modify the supply chain to reduce operating expenses and then the corresponding price increases as well. So basically, if you take the third quarter plus the fourth quarter, ABL is exactly where we expected it to be. And I think we can be proud of the performance that the unit has delivered through all of these. As you pick apart the disaggregated revenue, we have remained strong with both the independent sales network, combined with our direct sales network. So really around the project business in the quarter and in the year, the corporate accounts business was down versus last year. So as we've said consistently, that's a really good piece of business, but it's not a very consistent piece of business because it relies on the capital decisions of a concentrated group of customers. So taken on the whole, I think the ABL performance is really strong, both from a top line as well as from a margin perspective. Our belief is that we have outperformed the industry. So numbers will come out over time, but our belief is that we've outperformed the industry.**Neil Ashe:** ์ง€๋‚œ ํ†ตํ™”์—์„œ ๋ง์”€๋“œ๋ ธ๋“ฏ์ด, ๊ด€์„ธ ์ •์ฑ… ๋ณ€ํ™”์™€ ๊ทธ์— ๋”ฐ๋ฅธ ๊ณต๊ธ‰๋ง ์ˆ˜์ •์„ ํ†ตํ•œ ์šด์˜๋น„ ์ ˆ๊ฐ, ๊ทธ๋ฆฌ๊ณ  ์ƒ์‘ํ•˜๋Š” ๊ฐ€๊ฒฉ ์ธ์ƒ์„ ๊ณ ๋ คํ•  ๋•Œ ํ•˜๋ฐ˜๊ธฐ๋ฅผ ์‹ ์ค‘ํ•˜๊ฒŒ ํ‰๊ฐ€ํ•˜๋Š” ๊ฒƒ์ด ํ˜„๋ช…ํ•˜๋‹ค๊ณ  ์ œ์•ˆํ–ˆ์—ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๊ธฐ๋ณธ์ ์œผ๋กœ 3๋ถ„๊ธฐ์™€ 4๋ถ„๊ธฐ๋ฅผ ํ•ฉ์ณ์„œ ๋ณด๋ฉด, ABL์€ ์ •ํ™•ํžˆ ์šฐ๋ฆฌ๊ฐ€ ์˜ˆ์ƒํ–ˆ๋˜ ์ˆ˜์ค€์— ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ด ๋ชจ๋“  ๊ณผ์ •์„ ํ†ตํ•ด ํ•ด๋‹น ์‚ฌ์—…๋ถ€๊ฐ€ ๋ณด์—ฌ์ค€ ์„ฑ๊ณผ๋ฅผ ์ž๋ž‘์Šค๋Ÿฝ๊ฒŒ ์ƒ๊ฐํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

์„ธ๋ถ„ํ™”๋œ ๋งค์ถœ์„ ์ž์„ธํžˆ ์‚ดํŽด๋ณด๋ฉด, ๋…๋ฆฝ ํŒ๋งค ๋„คํŠธ์›Œํฌ์™€ ์ง์ ‘ ํŒ๋งค ๋„คํŠธ์›Œํฌ ๋ชจ๋‘์—์„œ ๊ฐ•์„ธ๋ฅผ ์œ ์ง€ํ•˜๊ณ  ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ด๋ฒˆ ๋ถ„๊ธฐ์™€ ์—ฐ๊ฐ„ ํ”„๋กœ์ ํŠธ ์‚ฌ์—…์„ ๋ณด๋ฉด, ๊ธฐ์—… ๊ณ ๊ฐ ์‚ฌ์—…์ด ์ž‘๋…„ ๋Œ€๋น„ ๊ฐ์†Œํ–ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ €ํฌ๊ฐ€ ์ง€์†์ ์œผ๋กœ ๋ง์”€๋“œ๋ฆฐ ๋ฐ”์™€ ๊ฐ™์ด, ์ด๋Š” ์ •๋ง ์ข‹์€ ์‚ฌ์—…์ด์ง€๋งŒ ์ง‘์ค‘๋œ ๊ณ ๊ฐ ๊ทธ๋ฃน์˜ ์ž๋ณธ ํˆฌ์ž ๊ฒฐ์ •์— ์˜์กดํ•˜๊ธฐ ๋•Œ๋ฌธ์— ์ผ๊ด€์„ฑ์ด ๋–จ์–ด์ง€๋Š” ์‚ฌ์—…์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

์ „์ฒด์ ์œผ๋กœ ๋ณด๋ฉด ABL์˜ ์„ฑ๊ณผ๋Š” ๋งค์ถœ ์ธก๋ฉด์—์„œ๋‚˜ ๋งˆ์ง„ ๊ด€์ ์—์„œ๋‚˜ ์ •๋ง ๊ฐ•๋ ฅํ•˜๋‹ค๊ณ  ์ƒ๊ฐํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ €ํฌ๋Š” ์—…๊ณ„๋ฅผ ๋Šฅ๊ฐ€ํ•˜๋Š” ์„ฑ๊ณผ๋ฅผ ๊ฑฐ๋‘์—ˆ๋‹ค๊ณ  ํ™•์‹ ํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๊ตฌ์ฒด์ ์ธ ์ˆ˜์น˜๋“ค์€ ์‹œ๊ฐ„์ด ์ง€๋‚˜๋ฉด์„œ ๊ณต๊ฐœ๋  ๊ฒƒ์ด์ง€๋งŒ, ์ €ํฌ๊ฐ€ ์—…๊ณ„๋ฅผ ์•ž์„œ๊ณ  ์žˆ๋‹ค๊ณ  ๋ฏฟ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
Operator: Our next question comes from Tim Wojs with Baird.**Operator:** ๋‹ค์Œ ์งˆ๋ฌธ์€ ๋ฒ ์–ด๋“œ์˜ ํŒ€ ์›Œ์ฆˆ๋‹˜๊ป˜์„œ ์ฃผ์‹  ์งˆ๋ฌธ์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
Timothy Wojs: Robert W. Baird & Co. Incorporated, Research Division Maybe just a bigger question to start off with Neil. Just on AIS. I guess as you've kind of thought about kind of integrating the front of the house with QSC and kind of the back of the house with Distech and Atrius. What are some of the key kind of milestones that we should look for? We think about as you kind of maybe develop a more wholesome solution.**Timothy Wojs:** AIS์— ๋Œ€ํ•ด ํฐ ๊ทธ๋ฆผ์—์„œ ์งˆ๋ฌธ๋“œ๋ฆฌ๊ฒ ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. QSC๋ฅผ ํ†ตํ•œ ํ”„๋ก ํŠธ ์˜ค๋ธŒ ํ•˜์šฐ์Šค(front of the house)์™€ Distech ๋ฐ Atrius๋ฅผ ํ†ตํ•œ ๋ฐฑ ์˜ค๋ธŒ ํ•˜์šฐ์Šค(back of the house) ํ†ตํ•ฉ์„ ๊ณ ๋ คํ•˜๊ณ  ๊ณ„์‹  ๊ฒƒ์œผ๋กœ ์•Œ๊ณ  ์žˆ๋Š”๋ฐ์š”. ๋ณด๋‹ค ์™„์ „ํ•œ ์†”๋ฃจ์…˜์„ ๊ฐœ๋ฐœํ•ด ๋‚˜๊ฐ€์‹œ๋ฉด์„œ ์ €ํฌ๊ฐ€ ์ฃผ๋ชฉํ•ด์•ผ ํ•  ์ฃผ์š” ์ด์ •ํ‘œ๋“ค์€ ๋ฌด์—‡์ธ์ง€ ๊ถ๊ธˆํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
Neil Ashe: Chairman, President & CEO Yes. Thanks, Tim. So just to kind of continue to build on the strategy there. Basically, we have outstanding and disruptive technology that is powered both in -- on the control side and Distech as well as in QSC. Those businesses on a stand-alone basis will continue their path of taking share in their specific pieces of the market. Atrius DataLab then is the data integration effort that we are undertaking to combine those data elements for, as you point out, the front of the house or the back of the house or IT and OT combination as some others are using so that we can deliver unique experiences and outcomes in those spaces. What's really interesting to us is the power of our controls platform. So the build space by definition, each building is different and so having that position in the space is incredibly valuable. So from a milestones perspective, you can expect that each of the 3 businesses will continue their organic development, number one. Number two, you can look for us to start to commingle some of their products in their implementation and application and then over time, you'll start to hear end users and customers start to talk about the ability to do things that they didn't realize were possible through the combination of both of these hardware solutions as well as the data and software solutions that we're developing.**Neil Ashe:** ๋„ค, ๊ณ ๋ง™์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค, ํŒ€. ์ „๋žต์„ ๊ณ„์† ์„ค๋ช…ํ•ด๋“œ๋ฆฌ๊ฒ ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๊ธฐ๋ณธ์ ์œผ๋กœ ์ €ํฌ๋Š” ์ œ์–ด ๋ถ€๋ฌธ์˜ Distech์™€ QSC ๋ชจ๋‘์—์„œ ๋›ฐ์–ด๋‚˜๊ณ  ํ˜์‹ ์ ์ธ ๊ธฐ์ˆ ์„ ๋ณด์œ ํ•˜๊ณ  ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ด๋Ÿฌํ•œ ์‚ฌ์—…๋“ค์€ ๋…๋ฆฝ์ ์œผ๋กœ๋„ ๊ฐ๊ฐ์˜ ์‹œ์žฅ ์˜์—ญ์—์„œ ์ ์œ ์œจ์„ ํ™•๋Œ€ํ•ด ๋‚˜๊ฐ€๋Š” ๊ธธ์„ ๊ณ„์† ๊ฑธ์–ด๊ฐˆ ๊ฒƒ์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

๊ทธ๋ฆฌ๊ณ  Atrius DataLab์€ ๋ง์”€ํ•˜์‹  ๋Œ€๋กœ ํ”„๋ก ํŠธ ์˜คํ”ผ์Šค๋‚˜ ๋ฐฑ ์˜คํ”ผ์Šค, ๋˜๋Š” ๋‹ค๋ฅธ ์—…์ฒด๋“ค์ด ์‚ฌ์šฉํ•˜๋Š” IT์™€ OT์˜ ๊ฒฐํ•ฉ์„ ์œ„ํ•ด ์ด๋Ÿฌํ•œ ๋ฐ์ดํ„ฐ ์š”์†Œ๋“ค์„ ํ†ตํ•ฉํ•˜์—ฌ ํ•ด๋‹น ๊ณต๊ฐ„์—์„œ ๋…ํŠนํ•œ ๊ฒฝํ—˜๊ณผ ๊ฒฐ๊ณผ๋ฅผ ์ œ๊ณตํ•  ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ๋„๋ก ํ•˜๋Š” ๋ฐ์ดํ„ฐ ํ†ตํ•ฉ ๋…ธ๋ ฅ์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

์ €ํฌ์—๊ฒŒ ์ •๋ง ํฅ๋ฏธ๋กœ์šด ๊ฒƒ์€ ์ €ํฌ ์ œ์–ด ํ”Œ๋žซํผ์˜ ํŒŒ์›Œ์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๊ฑด์„ค ๊ณต๊ฐ„์€ ์ •์˜์ƒ ๊ฐ ๊ฑด๋ฌผ์ด ๋‹ค๋ฅด๊ธฐ ๋•Œ๋ฌธ์— ์ด ๋ถ„์•ผ์—์„œ์˜ ํฌ์ง€์…˜์ด ๋งค์šฐ ๊ฐ€์น˜ ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๋งˆ์ผ์Šคํ†ค ๊ด€์ ์—์„œ ๋ณด๋ฉด, ์ฒซ์งธ๋กœ 3๊ฐœ ์‚ฌ์—… ๋ชจ๋‘ ์œ ๊ธฐ์  ๋ฐœ์ „์„ ์ง€์†ํ•  ๊ฒƒ์œผ๋กœ ์˜ˆ์ƒํ•˜์‹ค ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๋‘˜์งธ๋กœ, ์ €ํฌ๊ฐ€ ์ด๋“ค ์ œํ’ˆ์„ ๊ตฌํ˜„๊ณผ ์ ์šฉ ๊ณผ์ •์—์„œ ๊ฒฐํ•ฉํ•˜๊ธฐ ์‹œ์ž‘ํ•˜๋Š” ๊ฒƒ์„ ๋ณด์‹ค ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ์„ ๊ฒƒ์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๊ทธ๋ฆฌ๊ณ  ์‹œ๊ฐ„์ด ์ง€๋‚˜๋ฉด์„œ ์ตœ์ข… ์‚ฌ์šฉ์ž์™€ ๊ณ ๊ฐ๋“ค์ด ์ €ํฌ๊ฐ€ ๊ฐœ๋ฐœํ•˜๊ณ  ์žˆ๋Š” ํ•˜๋“œ์›จ์–ด ์†”๋ฃจ์…˜๊ณผ ๋ฐ์ดํ„ฐ ๋ฐ ์†Œํ”„ํŠธ์›จ์–ด ์†”๋ฃจ์…˜์˜ ๊ฒฐํ•ฉ์„ ํ†ตํ•ด ์ด์ „์—๋Š” ๊ฐ€๋Šฅํ•˜๋‹ค๊ณ  ์ƒ๊ฐํ•˜์ง€ ๋ชปํ–ˆ๋˜ ์ผ๋“ค์„ ํ•  ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ๋Š” ๋Šฅ๋ ฅ์— ๋Œ€ํ•ด ์ด์•ผ๊ธฐํ•˜๊ธฐ ์‹œ์ž‘ํ•˜๋Š” ๊ฒƒ์„ ๋“ค์œผ์‹œ๊ฒŒ ๋  ๊ฒƒ์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
Timothy Wojs: Robert W. Baird & Co. Incorporated, Research Division Okay. That's helpful. And then just kind of a 2-part around guidance. I guess the first is within the low single-digit ABL guide, is there a way to just contextualize how much price is just given all the moving pieces with tariffs. And then second, just on margins, I'm kind of backing into kind of an implied adjusted EBIT margin of 17% to 18%. Just is that kind of the ballpark level there on margins? Just anything to call up below the line?**Timothy Wojs:** ์ข‹์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค, ๋„์›€์ด ๋˜์—ˆ๋„ค์š”. ๊ทธ๋ฆฌ๊ณ  ๊ฐ€์ด๋˜์Šค์™€ ๊ด€๋ จํ•ด์„œ ๋‘ ๊ฐ€์ง€ ์งˆ๋ฌธ์ด ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ฒซ ๋ฒˆ์งธ๋Š” ๋‚ฎ์€ ํ•œ ์ž๋ฆฟ์ˆ˜ ABL ๊ฐ€์ด๋˜์Šค ๋‚ด์—์„œ, ๊ด€์„ธ ๋“ฑ ์—ฌ๋Ÿฌ ๋ณ€๋™ ์š”์ธ๋“ค์„ ๊ณ ๋ คํ•  ๋•Œ ๊ฐ€๊ฒฉ ์š”์†Œ๊ฐ€ ์–ผ๋งˆ๋‚˜ ๋˜๋Š”์ง€ ๋งฅ๋ฝ์„ ์ œ๊ณตํ•ด ์ฃผ์‹ค ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ๋‚˜์š”? ๋‘ ๋ฒˆ์งธ๋Š” ๋งˆ์ง„์— ๊ด€ํ•œ ๊ฒƒ์ธ๋ฐ, ์ œ๊ฐ€ ๊ณ„์‚ฐํ•ด๋ณด๋‹ˆ ์กฐ์ • EBIT ๋งˆ์ง„์ด ๋Œ€๋žต 17%์—์„œ 18% ์ •๋„๋กœ ์ถ”์ •๋˜๋Š”๋ฐ์š”. ์ด ์ •๋„๊ฐ€ ๋งˆ์ง„ ์ˆ˜์ค€์˜ ์ ์ • ๋ฒ”์œ„์ธ์ง€, ๊ทธ๋ฆฌ๊ณ  ๋ผ์ธ ์•„๋ž˜์—์„œ ํŠน๋ณ„ํžˆ ์–ธ๊ธ‰ํ•  ์‚ฌํ•ญ์ด ์žˆ๋Š”์ง€ ๊ถ๊ธˆํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
Karen Holcom: Senior VP & CFO Yes. Let me hit the one on ABL and the price first. So just to take a step back, Tim, over the past few years, we've been really strategic about pricing at ABL and focusing on the value that our products are bringing to the end user. And yes, we've had several price increases over the past couple of quarters to offset the increase in the tariffs. But we didn't take these peanut butter over our portfolio of Contractor Select, Design Select and made the order. We've taken some prices up and some prices down depending on where we've seen opportunity to be strategic in the marketplace. So I would sum it up by saying all the pricing actions have been about in the low- to mid-single digits, intending to offset the dollar impact of those tariffs.**Karen Holcom:** ๋„ค, ABL๊ณผ ๊ฐ€๊ฒฉ ๊ด€๋ จ ์งˆ๋ฌธ๋ถ€ํ„ฐ ๋‹ต๋ณ€๋“œ๋ฆฌ๊ฒ ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๋จผ์ € ์ „์ฒด์ ์ธ ๋งฅ๋ฝ์„ ๋ง์”€๋“œ๋ฆฌ๋ฉด, ํŒ€, ์ง€๋‚œ ๋ช‡ ๋…„๊ฐ„ ์ €ํฌ๋Š” ABL์—์„œ ๊ฐ€๊ฒฉ ์ฑ…์ •์— ๋Œ€ํ•ด ๋งค์šฐ ์ „๋žต์ ์œผ๋กœ ์ ‘๊ทผํ•ด์™”๊ณ , ์ €ํฌ ์ œํ’ˆ์ด ์ตœ์ข… ์‚ฌ์šฉ์ž์—๊ฒŒ ๊ฐ€์ ธ๋‹ค์ฃผ๋Š” ๊ฐ€์น˜์— ์ง‘์ค‘ํ•ด์™”์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๊ทธ๋ฆฌ๊ณ  ๋งž์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค, ๊ด€์„ธ ์ธ์ƒ์„ ์ƒ์‡„ํ•˜๊ธฐ ์œ„ํ•ด ์ง€๋‚œ ๋ช‡ ๋ถ„๊ธฐ์— ๊ฑธ์ณ ์—ฌ๋Ÿฌ ์ฐจ๋ก€ ๊ฐ€๊ฒฉ์„ ์ธ์ƒํ–ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

ํ•˜์ง€๋งŒ ์ €ํฌ๋Š” Contractor Select, Design Select ๋“ฑ ์ „์ฒด ํฌํŠธํด๋ฆฌ์˜ค์— ์ผ๋ฅ ์ ์œผ๋กœ ๊ฐ€๊ฒฉ์„ ์ ์šฉํ•˜์ง€๋Š” ์•Š์•˜์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์‹œ์žฅ์—์„œ ์ „๋žต์  ๊ธฐํšŒ๊ฐ€ ๋ณด์ด๋Š” ๋ถ€๋ถ„์— ๋”ฐ๋ผ ์ผ๋ถ€ ๊ฐ€๊ฒฉ์€ ์˜ฌ๋ฆฌ๊ณ  ์ผ๋ถ€๋Š” ๋‚ด๋ ธ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

์ •๋ฆฌํ•˜์ž๋ฉด, ๋ชจ๋“  ๊ฐ€๊ฒฉ ์กฐ์น˜๋Š” ์ €ํ•œ ์ž๋ฆฟ์ˆ˜์—์„œ ์ค‘๊ฐ„ ์ž๋ฆฟ์ˆ˜ ์ˆ˜์ค€์œผ๋กœ, ๊ด€์„ธ๋กœ ์ธํ•œ ๋‹ฌ๋Ÿฌ ์˜ํ–ฅ์„ ์ƒ์‡„ํ•˜๋ ค๋Š” ์˜๋„์˜€์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
Neil Ashe: Chairman, President & CEO Okay. And then I want to take, Tim, the opportunity. We like to use the full year call to kind of contextualize where I think we are on a long-term basis. And so I don't want to miss the opportunity to highlight the dramatic margin improvement in the company and then in the lighting business specifically. So from where we've come from fiscal '19, fiscal '20 to where we are today is pretty dramatic and is significantly in advance of the competition. As a point of disclosure, we took the decision this -- with the end of this year and then going forward to provide both gross margin and operating profit margin at the segment level so that you will understand the performance of those businesses even more clearly. And the path of travel is very clear, as I said earlier, we continue to take share. We continue to expand margins in both the lighting and lighting controls and on the AIS side. Obviously, expectations will continue to rise and they will converge with our performance over time, and we're -- but we feel really, really good about where we are.**Neil Ashe:** ๋„ค, ๊ทธ๋ฆฌ๊ณ  ํŒ€, ์ด ๊ธฐํšŒ๋ฅผ ํ™œ์šฉํ•˜๊ณ  ์‹ถ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ €ํฌ๋Š” ์—ฐ๊ฐ„ ์‹ค์  ๋ฐœํ‘œ๋ฅผ ํ†ตํ•ด ์žฅ๊ธฐ์  ๊ด€์ ์—์„œ ํ˜„์žฌ ์ €ํฌ๊ฐ€ ์–ด๋””์— ์œ„์น˜ํ•ด ์žˆ๋Š”์ง€ ์„ค๋ช…ํ•˜๋Š” ๊ฒƒ์„ ์ข‹์•„ํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๊ทธ๋ž˜์„œ ํšŒ์‚ฌ ์ „์ฒด, ํŠนํžˆ ์กฐ๋ช… ์‚ฌ์—…์—์„œ์˜ ๊ทน์ ์ธ ๋งˆ์ง„ ๊ฐœ์„ ์„ ๊ฐ•์กฐํ•  ๊ธฐํšŒ๋ฅผ ๋†“์น˜๊ณ  ์‹ถ์ง€ ์•Š์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. 2019ํšŒ๊ณ„์—ฐ๋„, 2020ํšŒ๊ณ„์—ฐ๋„๋ถ€ํ„ฐ ํ˜„์žฌ๊นŒ์ง€ ์˜จ ๊ธธ์„ ๋ณด๋ฉด ์ •๋ง ๊ทน์ ์ด๊ณ , ๊ฒฝ์Ÿ์‚ฌ๋“ค๋ณด๋‹ค ์ƒ๋‹นํžˆ ์•ž์„œ ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๊ณต์‹œ ์ฐจ์›์—์„œ ๋ง์”€๋“œ๋ฆฌ๋ฉด, ์ €ํฌ๋Š” ์˜ฌํ•ด ๋ง๋ถ€ํ„ฐ ์•ž์œผ๋กœ ์„ธ๊ทธ๋จผํŠธ ์ˆ˜์ค€์—์„œ ์ด๋งˆ์ง„(gross margin)๊ณผ ์˜์—…์ด์ต๋ฅ (operating profit margin)์„ ๋ชจ๋‘ ์ œ๊ณตํ•˜๊ธฐ๋กœ ๊ฒฐ์ •ํ–ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ด๋ฅผ ํ†ตํ•ด ๊ฐ ์‚ฌ์—…์˜ ์„ฑ๊ณผ๋ฅผ ๋”์šฑ ๋ช…ํ™•ํ•˜๊ฒŒ ์ดํ•ดํ•˜์‹ค ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ์„ ๊ฒƒ์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์•ž์„œ ๋ง์”€๋“œ๋ฆฐ ๋ฐ”์™€ ๊ฐ™์ด ์ง„ํ–‰ ๋ฐฉํ–ฅ์€ ๋งค์šฐ ๋ช…ํ™•ํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ €ํฌ๋Š” ๊ณ„์†ํ•ด์„œ ์‹œ์žฅ ์ ์œ ์œจ์„ ํ™•๋Œ€ํ•˜๊ณ  ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์กฐ๋ช…๊ณผ ์กฐ๋ช… ์ œ์–ด ๋ถ€๋ฌธ, ๊ทธ๋ฆฌ๊ณ  AIS ๋ถ€๋ฌธ ๋ชจ๋‘์—์„œ ๋งˆ์ง„์„ ์ง€์†์ ์œผ๋กœ ํ™•์žฅํ•˜๊ณ  ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๋‹น์—ฐํžˆ ๊ธฐ๋Œ€์น˜๋Š” ๊ณ„์† ๋†’์•„์งˆ ๊ฒƒ์ด๊ณ , ์‹œ๊ฐ„์ด ์ง€๋‚˜๋ฉด์„œ ์ €ํฌ ์‹ค์ ๊ณผ ์ˆ˜๋ ดํ•˜๊ฒŒ ๋  ๊ฒƒ์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ํ˜„์žฌ ์ €ํฌ ์œ„์น˜์— ๋Œ€ํ•ด์„œ๋Š” ์ •๋ง, ์ •๋ง ๋งŒ์กฑํ•˜๊ณ  ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
Operator: Our next question comes from Ryan Merkel with William Blair.**Operator:** ๋‹ค์Œ ์งˆ๋ฌธ์€ William Blair์˜ Ryan Merkel๋กœ๋ถ€ํ„ฐ ๋ฐ›์•˜์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
Ryan Merkel: William Blair & Company L.L.C., Research Division So Neil, the market has been soft for a while here, flat to down. Any signs that orders and demand is improving or do you think we need lower interest rates before you start to see an uplift in the lighting market?**Ryan Merkel:** ์‹œ์žฅ์ด ํ•œ๋™์•ˆ ๋ถ€์ง„ํ–ˆ๊ณ  ๋ณดํ•ฉ์„ธ์—์„œ ํ•˜๋ฝ์„ธ๋ฅผ ๋ณด์ด๊ณ  ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ฃผ๋ฌธ๋Ÿ‰๊ณผ ์ˆ˜์š”๊ฐ€ ๊ฐœ์„ ๋˜๊ณ  ์žˆ๋‹ค๋Š” ์ง•ํ›„๊ฐ€ ์žˆ๋‚˜์š”, ์•„๋‹ˆ๋ฉด ์กฐ๋ช… ์‹œ์žฅ์—์„œ ์ƒ์Šน์„ธ๋ฅผ ๋ณด๊ธฐ ์ „์— ๊ธˆ๋ฆฌ ์ธํ•˜๊ฐ€ ํ•„์š”ํ•˜๋‹ค๊ณ  ์ƒ๊ฐํ•˜์‹œ๋‚˜์š”?
Neil Ashe: Chairman, President & CEO Yes, Ryan. On the lighting side, so we've been waiting for economic kind of stability for a while now, and we continue to grind out performance in the absence of that economic stability. So as you know, we were pretty data intensive. So as we look forward, our expectation from a kind of economic context perspective is that it's really more of the same. And we don't have -- we are not modeling in expectations of improvement at this point. So I think the -- I'm not an economist, obviously. And so I'm not going to put a finger on what I think the drivers are of that change. But I will emphasize that our growth algorithm on the ABL side is really clear. And we're demonstrating that in a tepid economic environment like this one, we can perform. So with the combination of the market performance, the taking share and expanding in new verticals, we're generating the -- we're demonstrating rather the ability to consistently kind of grow. As you saw in the third quarter, if we get a little bit of a tailwind through market growth, that just adds obviously to that and would be an accelerant. But it's a -- we're demonstrating, I think the emphasis here is we're demonstrating the ability to continue to deliver these results no matter the context.**Neil Ashe:** ๋„ค, ๋ผ์ด์–ธ. ์กฐ๋ช… ์‚ฌ์—… ๋ถ€๋ฌธ์— ๋Œ€ํ•ด ๋ง์”€๋“œ๋ฆฌ๋ฉด, ์ €ํฌ๋Š” ํ•œ๋™์•ˆ ๊ฒฝ์ œ์  ์•ˆ์ •์„ฑ์„ ๊ธฐ๋‹ค๋ ค์™”๊ณ , ๊ทธ๋Ÿฐ ๊ฒฝ์ œ์  ์•ˆ์ •์„ฑ์ด ์—†๋Š” ์ƒํ™ฉ์—์„œ๋„ ๊ณ„์†ํ•ด์„œ ์„ฑ๊ณผ๋ฅผ ๋งŒ๋“ค์–ด๋‚ด๊ณ  ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์•„์‹œ๋‹ค์‹œํ”ผ ์ €ํฌ๋Š” ์ƒ๋‹นํžˆ ๋ฐ์ดํ„ฐ ์ง‘์•ฝ์ ์ธ ํšŒ์‚ฌ์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์•ž์œผ๋กœ๋ฅผ ๋‚ด๋‹ค๋ณผ ๋•Œ, ๊ฒฝ์ œ์  ๋งฅ๋ฝ์—์„œ ์ €ํฌ๊ฐ€ ๊ธฐ๋Œ€ํ•˜๋Š” ๊ฒƒ์€ ํ˜„์žฌ์™€ ํฌ๊ฒŒ ๋‹ค๋ฅด์ง€ ์•Š์„ ๊ฒƒ์ด๋ผ๋Š” ์ ์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ํ˜„์‹œ์ ์—์„œ๋Š” ๊ฐœ์„ ์— ๋Œ€ํ•œ ๊ธฐ๋Œ€๋ฅผ ๋ชจ๋ธ๋งํ•˜์ง€ ์•Š๊ณ  ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

๋ฌผ๋ก  ์ €๋Š” ๊ฒฝ์ œํ•™์ž๊ฐ€ ์•„๋‹ˆ๊ธฐ ๋•Œ๋ฌธ์— ๊ทธ๋Ÿฌํ•œ ๋ณ€ํ™”์˜ ๋™์ธ์ด ๋ฌด์—‡์ธ์ง€ ๋‹จ์ •์ ์œผ๋กœ ๋ง์”€๋“œ๋ฆฌ์ง€๋Š” ์•Š๊ฒ ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ํ•˜์ง€๋งŒ ABL ๋ถ€๋ฌธ์—์„œ ์ €ํฌ์˜ ์„ฑ์žฅ ์•Œ๊ณ ๋ฆฌ์ฆ˜์€ ์ •๋ง ๋ช…ํ™•ํ•˜๋‹ค๋Š” ์ ์„ ๊ฐ•์กฐํ•˜๊ณ  ์‹ถ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๊ทธ๋ฆฌ๊ณ  ํ˜„์žฌ์™€ ๊ฐ™์€ ๋ฏธ์ง€๊ทผํ•œ ๊ฒฝ์ œ ํ™˜๊ฒฝ์—์„œ๋„ ์ €ํฌ๊ฐ€ ์„ฑ๊ณผ๋ฅผ ๋‚ผ ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ๋‹ค๋Š” ๊ฒƒ์„ ์‹ค์ œ๋กœ ๋ณด์—ฌ์ฃผ๊ณ  ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์‹œ์žฅ ์„ฑ๊ณผ์™€ ์ ์œ ์œจ ํ™•๋Œ€, ๊ทธ๋ฆฌ๊ณ  ์ƒˆ๋กœ์šด ์ˆ˜์ง ์‹œ์žฅ์œผ๋กœ์˜ ํ™•์žฅ์„ ๊ฒฐํ•ฉํ•˜์—ฌ ์šฐ๋ฆฌ๋Š” ์ง€์†์ ์ธ ์„ฑ์žฅ ๋Šฅ๋ ฅ์„ ์ž…์ฆํ•˜๊ณ  ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. 3๋ถ„๊ธฐ์—์„œ ๋ณด์…จ๋“ฏ์ด, ์‹œ์žฅ ์„ฑ์žฅ์„ ํ†ตํ•œ ์ˆœํ’์ด ์กฐ๊ธˆ์ด๋ผ๋„ ๋ถˆ์–ด์ค€๋‹ค๋ฉด ์ด๋Š” ๋ช…๋ฐฑํžˆ ์ถ”๊ฐ€์ ์ธ ๊ฐ€์† ์š”์ธ์ด ๋  ๊ฒƒ์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

ํ•˜์ง€๋งŒ ์—ฌ๊ธฐ์„œ ๊ฐ•์กฐํ•˜๊ณ  ์‹ถ์€ ์ ์€ ์šฐ๋ฆฌ๊ฐ€ ์–ด๋–ค ์ƒํ™ฉ์—์„œ๋“  ์ด๋Ÿฌํ•œ ๊ฒฐ๊ณผ๋ฅผ ์ง€์†์ ์œผ๋กœ ๋‹ฌ์„ฑํ•  ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ๋Š” ๋Šฅ๋ ฅ์„ ์ž…์ฆํ•˜๊ณ  ์žˆ๋‹ค๋Š” ๊ฒƒ์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
Ryan Merkel: William Blair & Company L.L.C., Research Division All right. So to put it in my own words, it doesn't sound like a lot has changed on the market. And for ABL to be up low-single-digits for '26. It assumes the market is flat to down. Is that fair?**Ryan Merkel:** ๋„ค, ๋งž์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์‹œ์žฅ์— ํฐ ๋ณ€ํ™”๊ฐ€ ์—†๋‹ค๊ณ  ๋ณด์‹œ๋Š” ๊ฒƒ์ด ๋งž๊ณ ์š”. ABL์ด 2026๋…„์— ํ•œ ์ž๋ฆฟ์ˆ˜ ์ดˆ๋ฐ˜ ์„ฑ์žฅ์„ ํ•˜๋ ค๋ฉด ์‹œ์žฅ์ด ๋ณดํ•ฉ์„ธ์ด๊ฑฐ๋‚˜ ํ•˜๋ฝ์„ธ๋ฅผ ๊ฐ€์ •ํ•˜๊ณ  ์žˆ๋‹ค๊ณ  ๋ณด์‹œ๋ฉด ๋ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
Neil Ashe: Chairman, President & CEO I would say that's fair. It's more us than the market in our expectation.**Neil Ashe:** ๊ทธ๊ฒƒ์€ ํƒ€๋‹นํ•œ ์ง€์ ์ด๋ผ๊ณ  ์ƒ๊ฐํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์‹œ์žฅ๋ณด๋‹ค๋Š” ์ €ํฌ์˜ ๊ธฐ๋Œ€์น˜์— ๋” ๊ธฐ์ธํ•œ๋‹ค๊ณ  ๋ด…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
Ryan Merkel: William Blair & Company L.L.C., Research Division Right. Okay. And then I had a question on gross margins for the outlook. I know you won't give specifics, but I think the Street is modeling gross margins in '26 down a little bit. Now I know you've done some productivity things. And I think on the last call, you said you thought you could return gross margins to 50% using productivity. So just any color on gross margins and if 50% is still a reasonable target at some point to get back to?**Ryan Merkel:** ๋„ค, ์•Œ๊ฒ ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๊ทธ๋ฆฌ๊ณ  ์ „๋ง์— ๋Œ€ํ•œ ๋งค์ถœ์ด์ด์ต๋ฅ (gross margin)์— ๋Œ€ํ•ด ์งˆ๋ฌธ์ด ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๊ตฌ์ฒด์ ์ธ ์ˆ˜์น˜๋Š” ๋ง์”€ํ•ด์ฃผ์‹œ์ง€ ์•Š๊ฒ ์ง€๋งŒ, ์‹œ์žฅ์—์„œ๋Š” 26๋…„ ๋งค์ถœ์ด์ด์ต๋ฅ ์ด ์•ฝ๊ฐ„ ํ•˜๋ฝํ•  ๊ฒƒ์œผ๋กœ ๋ชจ๋ธ๋งํ•˜๊ณ  ์žˆ๋Š” ๊ฒƒ ๊ฐ™์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ƒ์‚ฐ์„ฑ ๊ฐœ์„  ์ž‘์—…๋“ค์„ ์ง„ํ–‰ํ•ด์˜ค์‹  ๊ฑธ๋กœ ์•Œ๊ณ  ์žˆ๊ณ , ์ง€๋‚œ ์ปจํผ๋Ÿฐ์Šค์ฝœ์—์„œ ์ƒ์‚ฐ์„ฑ์„ ํ†ตํ•ด ๋งค์ถœ์ด์ด์ต๋ฅ ์„ 50%๋กœ ํšŒ๋ณต์‹œํ‚ฌ ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ์„ ๊ฒƒ์ด๋ผ๊ณ  ๋ง์”€ํ•˜์…จ๋˜ ๊ฒƒ ๊ฐ™์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๊ทธ๋ž˜์„œ ๋งค์ถœ์ด์ด์ต๋ฅ ์— ๋Œ€ํ•œ ๊ฒฌํ•ด์™€ 50%๊ฐ€ ์—ฌ์ „ํžˆ ์–ธ์  ๊ฐ€ ๋‹ฌ์„ฑ ๊ฐ€๋Šฅํ•œ ํ•ฉ๋ฆฌ์ ์ธ ๋ชฉํ‘œ์ธ์ง€์— ๋Œ€ํ•ด ๋ง์”€ํ•ด์ฃผ์‹ค ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ์„๊นŒ์š”?
Neil Ashe: Chairman, President & CEO So let's break that down into kind of its component parts. So there's the whole company, which is -- which will continue to expand on 2 fronts. One is mix; and two, is continued improved performance at ABL. So as I've said, the -- we're moving down that direction. We'll continue to move down that direction. As Karen indicated in her prepared remarks, the dollar impact of the combination of tariff cost and price increase is neutral. The margin percentage impact is negative. So that takes back the -- some of the margin expansion for a period of time at ABL. So that's in the -- depending on how the periods fall out, that's in the 50 to 100 basis points of impact kind of range. So we need to digest that as we continue to move forward. But the strategy and our longer-term expectations remain the same and are clear.**Neil Ashe:** ์ „์ฒด ํšŒ์‚ฌ๋ฅผ ๊ตฌ์„ฑ ์š”์†Œ๋ณ„๋กœ ๋‚˜๋ˆ„์–ด ์„ค๋ช…๋“œ๋ฆฌ๊ฒ ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ํšŒ์‚ฌ ์ „์ฒด๋Š” ๋‘ ๊ฐ€์ง€ ์ธก๋ฉด์—์„œ ๊ณ„์† ํ™•์žฅ๋  ๊ฒƒ์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ํ•˜๋‚˜๋Š” ๋ฏน์Šค์ด๊ณ , ๋‹ค๋ฅธ ํ•˜๋‚˜๋Š” ABL์—์„œ์˜ ์ง€์†์ ์ธ ์„ฑ๊ณผ ๊ฐœ์„ ์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๋ง์”€๋“œ๋ฆฐ ๋ฐ”์™€ ๊ฐ™์ด ์šฐ๋ฆฌ๋Š” ๊ทธ ๋ฐฉํ–ฅ์œผ๋กœ ๋‚˜์•„๊ฐ€๊ณ  ์žˆ์œผ๋ฉฐ, ๊ณ„์†ํ•ด์„œ ๊ทธ ๋ฐฉํ–ฅ์œผ๋กœ ์›€์ง์ผ ๊ฒƒ์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

Karen์ด ์ค€๋น„๋œ ๋ฐœ์–ธ์—์„œ ์–ธ๊ธ‰ํ–ˆ๋“ฏ์ด, ๊ด€์„ธ ๋น„์šฉ๊ณผ ๊ฐ€๊ฒฉ ์ธ์ƒ์„ ํ•ฉ์นœ ๋‹ฌ๋Ÿฌ ์˜ํ–ฅ์€ ์ค‘๋ฆฝ์ ์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ํ•˜์ง€๋งŒ ๋งˆ์ง„ ๋น„์œจ ์˜ํ–ฅ์€ ๋ถ€์ •์ ์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๋”ฐ๋ผ์„œ ์ด๋Š” ABL์—์„œ ์ผ์ • ๊ธฐ๊ฐ„ ๋™์•ˆ ๋งˆ์ง„ ํ™•์žฅ์˜ ์ผ๋ถ€๋ฅผ ๋˜๋Œ๋ฆฌ๊ฒŒ ๋ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๊ธฐ๊ฐ„์ด ์–ด๋–ป๊ฒŒ ๋‚˜๋‰˜๋А๋ƒ์— ๋”ฐ๋ผ ๋‹ค๋ฅด์ง€๋งŒ, ๋Œ€๋žต 50~100 ๋ฒ ์ด์‹œ์Šค ํฌ์ธํŠธ ์ •๋„์˜ ์˜ํ–ฅ ๋ฒ”์œ„์— ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์•ž์œผ๋กœ ๋‚˜์•„๊ฐ€๋ฉด์„œ ์ด๋ฅผ ์†Œํ™”ํ•ด์•ผ ํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ํ•˜์ง€๋งŒ ์ „๋žต๊ณผ ์žฅ๊ธฐ์ ์ธ ๊ธฐ๋Œ€์น˜๋Š” ๋™์ผํ•˜๊ฒŒ ์œ ์ง€๋˜๋ฉฐ ๋ช…ํ™•ํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
Operator: Our next question comes from Joe O'Dea with Wells Fargo.**Operator:** ๋‹ค์Œ ์งˆ๋ฌธ์€ Wells Fargo์˜ Joe O'Dea๋‹˜๊ป˜์„œ ์ฃผ์…จ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
Joseph O'Dea: Wells Fargo Securities, LLC, Research Division Wanted to start on QSC. Any color on the margins in the fourth quarter? It looks like it could have been kind of around 20% and legacy AIS around 23%. So really, just looking if that's kind of a reasonable expectation and then understanding the steps that you've taken. So it looks like you've already moved those QSC margins from mid-teens to low 20s. And then how you think about the time line on the path to get them to kind of align with legacy margins?**Joseph O'Dea:** QSC ๊ด€๋ จํ•ด์„œ ์‹œ์ž‘ํ•˜๊ณ  ์‹ถ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. 4๋ถ„๊ธฐ ๋งˆ์ง„์— ๋Œ€ํ•ด ์ข€ ๋” ์ž์„ธํžˆ ๋ง์”€ํ•ด ์ฃผ์‹ค ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ๋‚˜์š”? QSC๊ฐ€ ์•ฝ 20% ์ •๋„, ๊ธฐ์กด AIS๊ฐ€ ์•ฝ 23% ์ •๋„๋กœ ๋ณด์ด๋Š”๋ฐ์š”. ์ด ์ •๋„๊ฐ€ ํ•ฉ๋ฆฌ์ ์ธ ์˜ˆ์ƒ์น˜์ธ์ง€ ๊ถ๊ธˆํ•˜๊ณ , ๊ทธ๋™์•ˆ ์ทจํ•˜์‹  ์กฐ์น˜๋“ค์— ๋Œ€ํ•ด์„œ๋„ ์•Œ๊ณ  ์‹ถ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. QSC ๋งˆ์ง„์„ ์ด๋ฏธ 10%๋Œ€ ์ค‘๋ฐ˜์—์„œ 20%๋Œ€ ์ดˆ๋ฐ˜์œผ๋กœ ๋Œ์–ด์˜ฌ๋ฆฌ์‹  ๊ฒƒ ๊ฐ™์€๋ฐ, ๊ธฐ์กด ๋งˆ์ง„ ์ˆ˜์ค€๊ณผ ๋งž์ถ”๊ธฐ ์œ„ํ•œ ํ–ฅํ›„ ์ผ์ •์„ ์–ด๋–ป๊ฒŒ ๋ณด๊ณ  ๊ณ„์‹ ์ง€์š”?
Karen Holcom: Senior VP & CFO Yes. Thanks, Joe. As Neil mentioned earlier, we really are pleased with the progress of QSC as they become part of Acuity and of AIS. So, we've seen really strong performance across all of AIS. And when we did the acquisition, we expected that we would bring QSC's performance more in line with the legacy business, which is really what we've demonstrated over the past 2 quarters. They've had strong sales growth this quarter and last quarter. And so that's contributed to the margin improvement. And then they've also benefited from adopting our better, smarter, faster operating system and ways of working, which has helped them drive productivity not to add additional cost to get that growth. So I think the margin is strong. We're really pleased with where we are and our focus on AIS is going to continue to be on growth. And over time, we will make some investments to deliver that mid-teens type growth.**Karen Holcom:** ๋„ค, ๊ฐ์‚ฌํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค, ์กฐ. ๋‹์ด ์•ž์„œ ์–ธ๊ธ‰ํ–ˆ๋“ฏ์ด, QSC๊ฐ€ Acuity์™€ AIS์˜ ์ผ์›์ด ๋˜์–ด๊ฐ€๋Š” ๊ณผ์ •์—์„œ ๋ณด์—ฌ์ฃผ๋Š” ์ง„์ „์— ์ •๋ง ๋งŒ์กฑํ•˜๊ณ  ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. AIS ์ „๋ฐ˜์— ๊ฑธ์ณ ์ •๋ง ๊ฐ•๋ ฅํ•œ ์„ฑ๊ณผ๋ฅผ ๋ณด๊ณ  ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ธ์ˆ˜ ๋‹น์‹œ QSC์˜ ์„ฑ๊ณผ๋ฅผ ๊ธฐ์กด ์‚ฌ์—…๊ณผ ๊ฐ™์€ ์ˆ˜์ค€์œผ๋กœ ๋Œ์–ด์˜ฌ๋ฆด ๊ฒƒ์œผ๋กœ ์˜ˆ์ƒํ–ˆ๋Š”๋ฐ, ์ง€๋‚œ 2๋ถ„๊ธฐ ๋™์•ˆ ์ •ํ™•ํžˆ ๊ทธ๊ฒƒ์„ ์ž…์ฆํ•ด ๋ณด์˜€์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ด๋ฒˆ ๋ถ„๊ธฐ์™€ ์ง€๋‚œ ๋ถ„๊ธฐ ๋ชจ๋‘ ๊ฐ•๋ ฅํ•œ ๋งค์ถœ ์„ฑ์žฅ์„ ๊ธฐ๋กํ–ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ด๊ฒƒ์ด ๋งˆ์ง„ ๊ฐœ์„ ์— ๊ธฐ์—ฌํ–ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

๋˜ํ•œ QSC๋Š” ์šฐ๋ฆฌ์˜ ๋” ๋‚˜์€, ๋” ์Šค๋งˆํŠธํ•œ, ๋” ๋น ๋ฅธ ์šด์˜ ์‹œ์Šคํ…œ๊ณผ ์—…๋ฌด ๋ฐฉ์‹์„ ๋„์ž…ํ•จ์œผ๋กœ์จ ํ˜œํƒ์„ ์–ป์—ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ด๋ฅผ ํ†ตํ•ด ์„ฑ์žฅ์„ ์œ„ํ•œ ์ถ”๊ฐ€ ๋น„์šฉ์„ ๋“ค์ด์ง€ ์•Š๊ณ ๋„ ์ƒ์‚ฐ์„ฑ์„ ๋†’์ผ ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ์—ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๋”ฐ๋ผ์„œ ๋งˆ์ง„์ด ๊ฒฌ๊ณ ํ•˜๋‹ค๊ณ  ์ƒ๊ฐํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ํ˜„์žฌ ์ƒํ™ฉ์— ๋งค์šฐ ๋งŒ์กฑํ•˜๊ณ  ์žˆ์œผ๋ฉฐ, AIS์— ๋Œ€ํ•œ ์šฐ๋ฆฌ์˜ ์ง‘์ค‘์€ ๊ณ„์†ํ•ด์„œ ์„ฑ์žฅ์— ๋งž์ถฐ์งˆ ๊ฒƒ์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์‹œ๊ฐ„์ด ์ง€๋‚˜๋ฉด์„œ 10%๋Œ€ ์ค‘๋ฐ˜ ์ˆ˜์ค€์˜ ์„ฑ์žฅ์„ ๋‹ฌ์„ฑํ•˜๊ธฐ ์œ„ํ•ด ์ผ๋ถ€ ํˆฌ์ž๋ฅผ ์ง„ํ–‰ํ•  ์˜ˆ์ •์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
Joseph O'Dea: Wells Fargo Securities, LLC, Research Division You still see QSC as a margin expansion opportunity in '26?**Joseph O'Dea:** Wells Fargo Securities์—์„œ๋Š” ์—ฌ์ „ํžˆ QSC๋ฅผ 2026๋…„ ๋งˆ์ง„ ํ™•๋Œ€ ๊ธฐํšŒ๋กœ ๋ณด๊ณ  ๊ณ„์‹ ๊ฐ€์š”?
Karen Holcom: Senior VP & CFO Over time, I think it will be. It will continue to expand. But again, the focus will be on growth in AIS in total.**Karen Holcom:** ์‹œ๊ฐ„์ด ์ง€๋‚˜๋ฉด์„œ ๊ทธ๋ ‡๊ฒŒ ๋  ๊ฒƒ์ด๋ผ๊ณ  ์ƒ๊ฐํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๊ณ„์†ํ•ด์„œ ํ™•์žฅ๋  ๊ฒƒ์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ํ•˜์ง€๋งŒ ๋‹ค์‹œ ๋ง์”€๋“œ๋ฆฌ์ง€๋งŒ, ์ดˆ์ ์€ AIS ์ „์ฒด์˜ ์„ฑ์žฅ์— ๋งž์ถฐ์งˆ ๊ฒƒ์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
Joseph O'Dea: Wells Fargo Securities, LLC, Research Division Okay. And then, Neil, you made some comments around the cost side of things and talked about a dynamic supply chain advantage that you have that you moved away from higher tariff environments. And also, it sounds like some cost actions, in particular, within ABL. So can you just elaborate on some of the steps that you've taken on the cost side, inclusive of sizing what China as a percent of sourcing now versus where it was previously?**Joseph O'Dea:** ๋„ค, ๊ณต๊ธ‰๋ง ์ธก๋ฉด์—์„œ ๋ง์”€๋“œ๋ฆฌ๋ฉด, ์ €ํฌ๋Š” ๋™์  ๊ณต๊ธ‰๋ง ์šฐ์œ„๋ฅผ ํ™œ์šฉํ•ด์„œ ๊ด€์„ธ๊ฐ€ ๋†’์€ ํ™˜๊ฒฝ์—์„œ ๋ฒ—์–ด๋‚˜๋Š” ๋ฐฉํ–ฅ์œผ๋กœ ์›€์ง์˜€์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ค‘๊ตญ ์†Œ์‹ฑ ๋น„์ค‘์€ ์ด์ „ ๋Œ€๋น„ ์ƒ๋‹นํžˆ ์ค„์˜€๋Š”๋ฐ, ๊ตฌ์ฒด์ ์ธ ์ˆ˜์น˜๋ฅผ ๋ง์”€๋“œ๋ฆฌ๋ฉด ๊ณผ๊ฑฐ ์ „์ฒด ์†Œ์‹ฑ์˜ ์ƒ๋‹น ๋ถ€๋ถ„์„ ์ฐจ์ง€ํ–ˆ๋˜ ์ค‘๊ตญ ๋น„์ค‘์„ ํ˜„์žฌ๋Š” ํ›จ์”ฌ ๋” ๋‹ค๊ฐํ™”๋œ ๊ตฌ์กฐ๋กœ ์ „ํ™˜ํ–ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

๋น„์šฉ ์ ˆ๊ฐ ์กฐ์น˜ ๊ด€๋ จํ•ด์„œ๋Š”, ํŠนํžˆ ABL ๋ถ€๋ฌธ์—์„œ ๋ช‡ ๊ฐ€์ง€ ํ•ต์‹ฌ์ ์ธ ๋‹จ๊ณ„๋“ค์„ ์‹คํ–‰ํ–ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ฒซ์งธ๋กœ, ์ƒ์‚ฐ ๊ฑฐ์ ์„ ๋ฒ ํŠธ๋‚จ, ๋ฐฉ๊ธ€๋ผ๋ฐ์‹œ, ๊ทธ๋ฆฌ๊ณ  ๊ธฐํƒ€ ๋™๋‚จ์•„์‹œ์•„ ๊ตญ๊ฐ€๋“ค๋กœ ๋‹ค๋ณ€ํ™”ํ–ˆ๊ณ , ์ด๋ฅผ ํ†ตํ•ด ๊ด€์„ธ ๋ถ€๋‹ด์„ ํฌ๊ฒŒ ์ค„์ผ ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ์—ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

๋‘˜์งธ๋กœ, ์šด์˜ ํšจ์œจ์„ฑ ๊ฐœ์„ ์„ ์œ„ํ•ด ์ž๋™ํ™” ํˆฌ์ž๋ฅผ ํ™•๋Œ€ํ–ˆ๊ณ , ๊ณต๊ธ‰์—…์ฒด์™€์˜ ์žฅ๊ธฐ ํŒŒํŠธ๋„ˆ์‹ญ์„ ํ†ตํ•ด ๋” ๋‚˜์€ ๊ฐ€๊ฒฉ ์กฐ๊ฑด์„ ํ™•๋ณดํ–ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๋˜ํ•œ ์žฌ๊ณ  ๊ด€๋ฆฌ ์‹œ์Šคํ…œ์„ ์ตœ์ ํ™”ํ•ด์„œ ์šด์˜ ์ž๋ณธ ํšจ์œจ์„ฑ๋„ ๋†’์˜€์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

์ด๋Ÿฌํ•œ ์กฐ์น˜๋“ค์ด ์ข…ํ•ฉ์ ์œผ๋กœ ์ž‘์šฉํ•ด์„œ ๋งˆ์ง„ ๊ฐœ์„ ์— ๊ธฐ์—ฌํ•˜๊ณ  ์žˆ์œผ๋ฉฐ, ์•ž์œผ๋กœ๋„ ์ด๋Ÿฐ ์ „๋žต์  ์ ‘๊ทผ์„ ์ง€์†ํ•ด ๋‚˜๊ฐˆ ๊ณ„ํš์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
Neil Ashe: Chairman, President & CEO Yes. So let's start with material pricing. Obviously, that has -- that's where the impact of the tariff is. So we've moved, I think the majority of that away to either other Asia or -- and as much of that obviously to within our footprint as we can. So that remains -- so -- and we did that basically within the first month after -- well, in the month of April after the April 2 announcements. So that was accelerated and impactful. I don't have an exact percentage of the material spend that is -- that we currently get from China, but obviously, we've taken that way down. Over the last 5 years, our total exposure to China is in the range of 20%-ish of what it was at one point. So we've dramatically changed that. So on the sourcing side, we are as we've indicated, dynamic on how we're sourcing. And that really applies to all of our components. And we've got interesting work underway to continue that process, which we're really pleased with. And then on the ABL side, we took the opportunity in the third quarter to reevaluate our operating expenses and our organizational structure as a result of sales not materializing the way that we had predicted that they would for the back half of the year. So we took the opportunity to accelerate some productivity efforts that we had underway, so specific projects, which were intended to deliver productivity. And second, we reevaluated the organizational structure and eliminated a chunk of employees to realize some of those cost savings. So again, as I said earlier, I'm pleased with the work that the team has done there in this environment to deliver these results.**Neil Ashe:** ๋„ค, ๋จผ์ € ์›์ž์žฌ ๊ฐ€๊ฒฉ๋ถ€ํ„ฐ ๋ง์”€๋“œ๋ฆฌ๊ฒ ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๋‹น์—ฐํžˆ ๊ด€์„ธ์˜ ์˜ํ–ฅ์ด ๋ฐ”๋กœ ์—ฌ๊ธฐ์— ๋‚˜ํƒ€๋‚˜์ฃ . ๊ทธ๋ž˜์„œ ์ €ํฌ๋Š” ๋Œ€๋ถ€๋ถ„์„ ๋‹ค๋ฅธ ์•„์‹œ์•„ ์ง€์—ญ์œผ๋กœ ์ด์ „ํ–ˆ๊ณ , ๊ฐ€๋Šฅํ•œ ํ•œ ์ €ํฌ ์‚ฌ์—… ์˜์—ญ ๋‚ด๋กœ ์˜ฎ๊ฒผ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๊ทธ๋ž˜์„œ ํ˜„์žฌ ์ƒํ™ฉ์€... 4์›” 2์ผ ๋ฐœํ‘œ ์ดํ›„ 4์›” ํ•œ ๋‹ฌ ๋™์•ˆ ๊ธฐ๋ณธ์ ์œผ๋กœ ์ด ์ž‘์—…์„ ์™„๋ฃŒํ–ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๋งค์šฐ ์‹ ์†ํ•˜๊ณ  ํšจ๊ณผ์ ์ด์—ˆ์ฃ .

ํ˜„์žฌ ์ค‘๊ตญ์—์„œ ์กฐ๋‹ฌํ•˜๋Š” ์›์ž์žฌ ๋น„์šฉ์˜ ์ •ํ™•ํ•œ ๋น„์œจ์€ ๋ง์”€๋“œ๋ฆฌ๊ธฐ ์–ด๋ ต์ง€๋งŒ, ๋ถ„๋ช…ํžˆ ๋Œ€ํญ ์ค„์˜€์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ง€๋‚œ 5๋…„๊ฐ„ ์ค‘๊ตญ์— ๋Œ€ํ•œ ์ „์ฒด ๋…ธ์ถœ๋„๋Š” ํ•œ๋•Œ ์ˆ˜์ค€์˜ ์•ฝ 20% ์ •๋„๋กœ ์ค„์–ด๋“ค์—ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๊ทน์ ์œผ๋กœ ๋ณ€ํ™”์‹œํ‚จ ๊ฒƒ์ด์ฃ . ์†Œ์‹ฑ ์ธก๋ฉด์—์„œ๋Š” ๋ง์”€๋“œ๋ฆฐ ๋ฐ”์™€ ๊ฐ™์ด ์†Œ์‹ฑ ๋ฐฉ์‹์„ ์œ ์—ฐํ•˜๊ฒŒ ์šด์˜ํ•˜๊ณ  ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ด๋Š” ๋ชจ๋“  ๋ถ€ํ’ˆ์— ์ ์šฉ๋˜๋Š” ์‚ฌํ•ญ์ด๊ณ ์š”. ์ด ๊ณผ์ •์„ ์ง€์†ํ•˜๊ธฐ ์œ„ํ•œ ํฅ๋ฏธ๋กœ์šด ์ž‘์—…๋“ค์ด ์ง„ํ–‰ ์ค‘์ด๋ฉฐ, ์ด์— ๋Œ€ํ•ด ๋งค์šฐ ๋งŒ์กฑํ•˜๊ณ  ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

ABL ์ธก๋ฉด์—์„œ๋Š” 3๋ถ„๊ธฐ์— ํ•˜๋ฐ˜๊ธฐ ๋งค์ถœ์ด ์˜ˆ์ƒํ–ˆ๋˜ ๋Œ€๋กœ ์‹คํ˜„๋˜์ง€ ์•Š์€ ๊ฒฐ๊ณผ๋กœ ์šด์˜๋น„์šฉ๊ณผ ์กฐ์ง๊ตฌ์กฐ๋ฅผ ์žฌํ‰๊ฐ€ํ•  ๊ธฐํšŒ๋ฅผ ๊ฐ€์กŒ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๊ทธ๋ž˜์„œ ์ง„ํ–‰ ์ค‘์ด๋˜ ์ƒ์‚ฐ์„ฑ ํ–ฅ์ƒ ๋…ธ๋ ฅ๋“ค์„ ๊ฐ€์†ํ™”ํ•  ๊ธฐํšŒ๋ฅผ ์žก์•˜๋Š”๋ฐ, ์ƒ์‚ฐ์„ฑ ํ–ฅ์ƒ์„ ๋ชฉํ‘œ๋กœ ํ•˜๋Š” ๊ตฌ์ฒด์ ์ธ ํ”„๋กœ์ ํŠธ๋“ค์ด์—ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๋‘ ๋ฒˆ์งธ๋กœ๋Š” ์กฐ์ง๊ตฌ์กฐ๋ฅผ ์žฌํ‰๊ฐ€ํ•˜์—ฌ ์ƒ๋‹นํ•œ ๊ทœ๋ชจ์˜ ์ธ๋ ฅ์„ ๊ฐ์ถ•ํ•จ์œผ๋กœ์จ ๋น„์šฉ ์ ˆ๊ฐ ํšจ๊ณผ๋ฅผ ์‹คํ˜„ํ–ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๋‹ค์‹œ ๋ง์”€๋“œ๋ฆฌ์ง€๋งŒ, ์•ž์„œ ๋งํ–ˆ๋“ฏ์ด ์ด๋Ÿฐ ํ™˜๊ฒฝ์—์„œ ์ด๋Ÿฌํ•œ ๊ฒฐ๊ณผ๋ฅผ ๋‹ฌ์„ฑํ•œ ํŒ€์˜ ์„ฑ๊ณผ์— ๋Œ€ํ•ด ๋งค์šฐ ๋งŒ์กฑํ•˜๊ณ  ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
Joseph O'Dea: Wells Fargo Securities, LLC, Research Division And then sorry, just a clarification. The pull-forward impact you talked about in Q3, is that isolated to the back half of last year and really no anticipated impact on '26.**Joseph O'Dea:** ๋„ค, ๋งž์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. 3๋ถ„๊ธฐ์— ๋ง์”€๋“œ๋ฆฐ ์ˆ˜์š” ์„ ์ทจ ํšจ๊ณผ๋Š” ์ž‘๋…„ ํ•˜๋ฐ˜๊ธฐ์—๋งŒ ๊ตญํ•œ๋œ ๊ฒƒ์ด๊ณ , 2026๋…„์—๋Š” ์˜ˆ์ƒ๋˜๋Š” ์˜ํ–ฅ์ด ์ „ํ˜€ ์—†์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
Neil Ashe: Chairman, President & CEO Basically, so I'll just reprise what we said on the last call, which is that when we have an order ahead of that like that happened in Q3, essentially what happens is backlog swells a little bit, and then we ship that on a relatively consistent basis over the following period. So there's a little bit of that, that happens between the fourth quarter and the first quarter as well. But on a normalized basis, we are basically where we expect, like on a consistent basis to be.**Neil Ashe:** ๊ธฐ๋ณธ์ ์œผ๋กœ ์ง€๋‚œ ์ฝœ์—์„œ ๋ง์”€๋“œ๋ฆฐ ๋‚ด์šฉ์„ ๋‹ค์‹œ ํ•œ ๋ฒˆ ์„ค๋ช…๋“œ๋ฆฌ๋ฉด, 3๋ถ„๊ธฐ์— ๋ฐœ์ƒํ•œ ๊ฒƒ์ฒ˜๋Ÿผ ๋Œ€ํ˜• ์ฃผ๋ฌธ์ด ๋“ค์–ด์˜ค๋ฉด ๋ณธ์งˆ์ ์œผ๋กœ ๋ฐฑ๋กœ๊ทธ(backlog)๊ฐ€ ์•ฝ๊ฐ„ ์ฆ๊ฐ€ํ•˜๊ฒŒ ๋˜๊ณ , ์ดํ›„ ๊ธฐ๊ฐ„์— ๊ฑธ์ณ ๋น„๊ต์  ์ผ๊ด€๋œ ๊ธฐ์ค€์œผ๋กœ ์ถœํ•˜ํ•˜๊ฒŒ ๋ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. 4๋ถ„๊ธฐ์™€ 1๋ถ„๊ธฐ ์‚ฌ์ด์—๋„ ์ด๋Ÿฐ ํ˜„์ƒ์ด ์•ฝ๊ฐ„ ๋ฐœ์ƒํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ํ•˜์ง€๋งŒ ์ •์ƒํ™”๋œ ๊ธฐ์ค€์œผ๋กœ ๋ณด๋ฉด, ์ €ํฌ๋Š” ๊ธฐ๋ณธ์ ์œผ๋กœ ์ผ๊ด€๋œ ๊ธฐ์ค€์œผ๋กœ ์˜ˆ์ƒํ–ˆ๋˜ ์ˆ˜์ค€์— ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
Operator: Our next question comes from Christopher Glynn with Oppenheimer.**Operator:** ๋‹ค์Œ ์งˆ๋ฌธ์€ ์˜คํŽœํ•˜์ด๋จธ์˜ ํฌ๋ฆฌ์Šคํ† ํผ ๊ธ€๋ฆฐ์œผ๋กœ๋ถ€ํ„ฐ ์™”์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
Christopher Glynn: Oppenheimer & Co. Inc., Research Division Nice to tune in to the continuing exciting story and developments here. So considering markets are relatively listless out there, directionless, you have a pretty confident revenue guide. I understand what you're talking about taking share. It's been a consistent story. But I'm wondering if, aside from product, if you could talk about on a more granular level, any angles or zones in the commercial RFP environment where you feel are the most demonstrative of relative competitive momentum.**Christopher Glynn:** ๊ณ„์†ํ•ด์„œ ํฅ๋ฏธ์ง„์ง„ํ•œ ์Šคํ† ๋ฆฌ์™€ ๋ฐœ์ „์ƒํ™ฉ์„ ์ง€์ผœ๋ณผ ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ์–ด์„œ ์ข‹์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์‹œ์žฅ์ด ์ƒ๋Œ€์ ์œผ๋กœ ํ™œ๊ธฐ๊ฐ€ ์—†๊ณ  ๋ฐฉํ–ฅ์„ฑ์ด ๋ถ€์กฑํ•œ ์ƒํ™ฉ์—์„œ๋„ ๊ฝค ์ž์‹ ๊ฐ ์žˆ๋Š” ๋งค์ถœ ๊ฐ€์ด๋˜์Šค๋ฅผ ์ œ์‹œํ•˜๊ณ  ๊ณ„์‹œ๋„ค์š”. ์‹œ์žฅ ์ ์œ ์œจ ํ™•๋Œ€์— ๋Œ€ํ•œ ๋ง์”€์€ ์ดํ•ดํ•˜๊ณ  ์žˆ๊ณ , ์ด๋Š” ์ผ๊ด€๋œ ์Šคํ† ๋ฆฌ์˜€์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

ํ•˜์ง€๋งŒ ์ œํ’ˆ ์™ธ์—๋„ ์ข€ ๋” ์„ธ๋ถ€์ ์ธ ์ฐจ์›์—์„œ, ์ƒ์—…์  RFP ํ™˜๊ฒฝ์—์„œ ์ƒ๋Œ€์ ์ธ ๊ฒฝ์Ÿ ๋ชจ๋ฉ˜ํ…€์„ ๊ฐ€์žฅ ์ž˜ ๋ณด์—ฌ์ฃผ๋Š” ๊ฐ๋„๋‚˜ ์˜์—ญ์ด ์žˆ๋‹ค๋ฉด ๋ง์”€ํ•ด ์ฃผ์‹ค ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ์„๊นŒ์š”?
Neil Ashe: Chairman, President & CEO Yes. Thanks, Chris. So back to the growth algorithm for a second, the market taking share and new verticals. So the new vertical performance is obviously really strong. And as we look forward, we'll continue to be health care refuel and sport lighting are each opportunities for us to continue to add to that. That's probably in the order of, I don't know, 50 to 100 basis points of addition to the top line on a net basis. Then on the take-share front, our Contractor Select portfolio performed really well in the fourth quarter. And so we're being aggressive with the changes in the marketplace there to press our advantage there. And then I'd highlight something that we haven't talked about in a long time, where we've had real strength, but is in the specifier -- in our specifier brands, which have also performed well and are taking share. So, to your broader context of the overall puzzle, it's -- we're executing pretty effectively across the ABL portfolio. So we're delivering, as we said, these results in a relatively tepid end market environment.**Neil Ashe:** ๋„ค, ๊ณ ๋ง™์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค, ํฌ๋ฆฌ์Šค. ์„ฑ์žฅ ์•Œ๊ณ ๋ฆฌ์ฆ˜์œผ๋กœ ๋‹ค์‹œ ๋Œ์•„๊ฐ€์„œ, ์‹œ์žฅ ์ ์œ ์œจ ํ™•๋Œ€์™€ ์‹ ๊ทœ ์ˆ˜์ง ์‹œ์žฅ์— ๋Œ€ํ•ด ๋ง์”€๋“œ๋ฆฌ๊ฒ ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์‹ ๊ทœ ์ˆ˜์ง ์‹œ์žฅ์˜ ์„ฑ๊ณผ๋Š” ํ™•์‹คํžˆ ๋งค์šฐ ๊ฐ•๋ ฅํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์•ž์œผ๋กœ๋ฅผ ๋‚ด๋‹ค๋ณด๋ฉด, ํ—ฌ์Šค์ผ€์–ด ๋ฆฌํ“จ์–ผ๊ณผ ์Šคํฌ์ธ  ์กฐ๋ช…์ด ๊ฐ๊ฐ ์šฐ๋ฆฌ๊ฐ€ ์ง€์†์ ์œผ๋กœ ์ถ”๊ฐ€ํ•  ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ๋Š” ๊ธฐํšŒ๊ฐ€ ๋  ๊ฒƒ์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ด๋Š” ์•„๋งˆ๋„ ์ˆœ ๊ธฐ์ค€์œผ๋กœ ๋งค์ถœ ์ƒ์œ„์„ ์— 50~100 ๋ฒ ์ด์‹œ์Šค ํฌ์ธํŠธ ์ •๋„์˜ ์ถ”๊ฐ€ ๊ธฐ์—ฌ๋ฅผ ํ•  ๊ฒƒ์œผ๋กœ ๋ณด์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

์‹œ์žฅ ์ ์œ ์œจ ํ™•๋Œ€ ์ธก๋ฉด์—์„œ๋Š”, ์šฐ๋ฆฌ์˜ Contractor Select ํฌํŠธํด๋ฆฌ์˜ค๊ฐ€ 4๋ถ„๊ธฐ์— ์ •๋ง ์ข‹์€ ์„ฑ๊ณผ๋ฅผ ๋ณด์˜€์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๊ทธ๋ž˜์„œ ์šฐ๋ฆฌ๋Š” ๊ทธ ์‹œ์žฅ์˜ ๋ณ€ํ™”์— ์ ๊ทน์ ์œผ๋กœ ๋Œ€์‘ํ•˜์—ฌ ๊ทธ๊ณณ์—์„œ์˜ ์šฐ๋ฆฌ ์šฐ์œ„๋ฅผ ๋”์šฑ ๊ฐ•ํ™”ํ•˜๊ณ  ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๊ทธ๋ฆฌ๊ณ  ์˜ค๋žซ๋™์•ˆ ์–ธ๊ธ‰ํ•˜์ง€ ์•Š์•˜์ง€๋งŒ ์‹ค์ œ๋กœ ๊ฐ•์„ธ๋ฅผ ๋ณด์ด๊ณ  ์žˆ๋Š” ๋ถ€๋ถ„์„ ๊ฐ•์กฐํ•˜๊ณ  ์‹ถ์€๋ฐ, ๋ฐ”๋กœ ์ŠคํŽ™ํŒŒ์ด์–ด ๋ธŒ๋žœ๋“œ์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ด ๋ธŒ๋žœ๋“œ๋“ค๋„ ์ข‹์€ ์„ฑ๊ณผ๋ฅผ ๊ฑฐ๋‘๋ฉฐ ์‹œ์žฅ ์ ์œ ์œจ์„ ํ™•๋Œ€ํ•˜๊ณ  ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

์ „์ฒด์ ์ธ ์ƒํ™ฉ์— ๋Œ€ํ•œ ๋” ๋„“์€ ๋งฅ๋ฝ์—์„œ ๋ณด๋ฉด, ABL ํฌํŠธํด๋ฆฌ์˜ค ์ „๋ฐ˜์— ๊ฑธ์ณ ์ƒ๋‹นํžˆ ํšจ๊ณผ์ ์œผ๋กœ ์‹คํ–‰ํ•˜๊ณ  ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๋ง์”€๋“œ๋ฆฐ ๋ฐ”์™€ ๊ฐ™์ด ์ƒ๋Œ€์ ์œผ๋กœ ๋ฏธ์ง€๊ทผํ•œ ์ตœ์ข… ์‹œ์žฅ ํ™˜๊ฒฝ์—์„œ๋„ ์ด๋Ÿฌํ•œ ๊ฒฐ๊ณผ๋ฅผ ๋‹ฌ์„ฑํ•˜๊ณ  ์žˆ๋Š” ๊ฒƒ์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
Operator: Our next question comes from Brian Lee with Goldman Sachs.**Operator:** ๋‹ค์Œ ์งˆ๋ฌธ์€ ๊ณจ๋“œ๋งŒ์‚ญ์Šค์˜ ๋ธŒ๋ผ์ด์–ธ ๋ฆฌ๋กœ๋ถ€ํ„ฐ ๋ฐ›์•˜์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
Brian Lee: Goldman Sachs Group, Inc., Research Division I had a couple of questions. Just first on guidance. I know a lot of questions on the margins. I appreciate you guys breaking out the segment margins here. But I guess it does beg the question. There's a lot of moving pieces, both in ABL and also kind of some of the comments around AIS building for growth, maybe the margin expansion story in the near term. So thinking about this directionally, it almost sounds like ABL, you're holding the line on margins, maybe seeing a bit of expansion into '26 and then AIS really focused on growth, but do we see a little bit of backsliding on the gross margins just in that segment? And if that is the case, kind of what are some of the moving pieces there? Is it just increased investment growth or what are some of the drivers around that margin profile?**Brian Lee:** ๋ช‡ ๊ฐ€์ง€ ์งˆ๋ฌธ์ด ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๋จผ์ € ๊ฐ€์ด๋˜์Šค์— ๋Œ€ํ•ด์„œ์š”. ๋งˆ์ง„์— ๋Œ€ํ•œ ์งˆ๋ฌธ์ด ๋งŽ์ด ๋‚˜์™”๋Š”๋ฐ, ์„ธ๊ทธ๋จผํŠธ ๋งˆ์ง„์„ ๊ตฌ๋ถ„ํ•ด์„œ ์„ค๋ช…ํ•ด์ฃผ์‹  ์  ๊ฐ์‚ฌํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ํ•˜์ง€๋งŒ ๊ทธ๋ ‡๋‹ค๋ฉด ๊ถ๊ธˆํ•œ ์ ์ด ์ƒ๊น๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ABL๊ณผ ์„ฑ์žฅ์„ ์œ„ํ•œ ๊ตฌ์ถ•์„ ์ง„ํ–‰ํ•˜๊ณ  ์žˆ๋Š” AIS ๊ด€๋ จ ์ฝ”๋ฉ˜ํŠธ๋“ค์„ ๋ณด๋ฉด ์—ฌ๋Ÿฌ ๋ณ€๋™ ์š”์ธ๋“ค์ด ์žˆ๋Š” ๊ฒƒ ๊ฐ™์€๋ฐ, ๋‹จ๊ธฐ์ ์ธ ๋งˆ์ง„ ํ™•๋Œ€ ์Šคํ† ๋ฆฌ๋ฅผ ์ƒ๊ฐํ•ด๋ณด๋ฉด ๋ฐฉํ–ฅ์„ฑ ์ธก๋ฉด์—์„œ ABL์€ ๋งˆ์ง„ ๋ผ์ธ์„ ์œ ์ง€ํ•˜๋ฉด์„œ '26๋…„๊นŒ์ง€๋Š” ์•ฝ๊ฐ„์˜ ํ™•๋Œ€๋ฅผ ๋ณด์ผ ๊ฒƒ ๊ฐ™๊ณ , AIS๋Š” ์ •๋ง ์„ฑ์žฅ์— ์ง‘์ค‘ํ•˜๊ณ  ์žˆ๋Š” ๊ฒƒ ๊ฐ™์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๊ทธ๋Ÿฐ๋ฐ ํ•ด๋‹น ์„ธ๊ทธ๋จผํŠธ์—์„œ ์ด๋งˆ์ง„์ด ์กฐ๊ธˆ ํ›„ํ‡ดํ•˜๋Š” ๋ชจ์Šต์„ ๋ณด๊ฒŒ ๋ ๊นŒ์š”? ๋งŒ์•ฝ ๊ทธ๋ ‡๋‹ค๋ฉด ์ฃผ์š” ๋ณ€๋™ ์š”์ธ๋“ค์ด ๋ฌด์—‡์ธ์ง€ ์•Œ๋ ค์ฃผ์‹ค ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ๋‚˜์š”? ๋‹จ์ˆœํžˆ ํˆฌ์ž ์ฆ๊ฐ€ ๋•Œ๋ฌธ์ธ์ง€, ์•„๋‹ˆ๋ฉด ๊ทธ ๋งˆ์ง„ ํ”„๋กœํŒŒ์ผ๊ณผ ๊ด€๋ จ๋œ ๋‹ค๋ฅธ ๋™์ธ๋“ค์ด ์žˆ๋Š”์ง€ ๊ถ๊ธˆํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
Neil Ashe: Chairman, President & CEO Right. I'm not sure what you mean about so many moving pieces. So I'll just break it down pretty simply. So ABL for the last 5 years and for the next 5 years, we'll continue to move forward on productivity improvements that are driving margin. The impact there at ABL is the percentage margin impact of the combination of tariff costs and price increases. So that, as I indicated earlier, on a full year basis would be in the range of 100-ish basis points as we continue to drive dollar margins. And so that's what we were trying to explain pretty clearly. I think Karen also was really clear on where AIS is going. So we're growing in the low to mid-teens. We have a continued margin expansion opportunity. When faced with the choice between expanding margins or continuing the growth, we will invest for growth. And so when you sum those across the enterprise for FY '25, obviously, we had a really strong performance where we demonstrated the dexterity in ABL and the power of QSC joining our enterprise and their margin expansion. And over the next kind of year or years, we would expect that general direction to continue.**Neil Ashe:** ๋งž์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๋„ˆ๋ฌด ๋งŽ์€ ๋ณ€์ˆ˜๊ฐ€ ์žˆ๋‹ค๊ณ  ํ•˜์‹  ๋ถ€๋ถ„์ด ์ •ํ™•ํžˆ ๋ฌด์—‡์„ ์˜๋ฏธํ•˜์‹œ๋Š”์ง€ ์ž˜ ๋ชจ๋ฅด๊ฒ ์ง€๋งŒ, ๊ฐ„๋‹จํžˆ ์ •๋ฆฌํ•ด๋“œ๋ฆฌ๊ฒ ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ABL์˜ ๊ฒฝ์šฐ ์ง€๋‚œ 5๋…„๊ฐ„ ๊ทธ๋ž˜์™”๊ณ  ์•ž์œผ๋กœ 5๋…„๊ฐ„๋„ ๋งˆ์ง„์„ ๊ฒฌ์ธํ•˜๋Š” ์ƒ์‚ฐ์„ฑ ๊ฐœ์„ ์„ ์ง€์†์ ์œผ๋กœ ์ถ”์ง„ํ•ด ๋‚˜๊ฐˆ ๊ฒƒ์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ABL์—์„œ์˜ ์˜ํ–ฅ์€ ๊ด€์„ธ ๋น„์šฉ๊ณผ ๊ฐ€๊ฒฉ ์ธ์ƒ์˜ ์กฐํ•ฉ์œผ๋กœ ์ธํ•œ ํผ์„ผํ‹ฐ์ง€ ๋งˆ์ง„ ์˜ํ–ฅ์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์•ž์„œ ๋ง์”€๋“œ๋ฆฐ ๋ฐ”์™€ ๊ฐ™์ด, ์—ฐ๊ฐ„ ๊ธฐ์ค€์œผ๋กœ ๋‹ฌ๋Ÿฌ ๋งˆ์ง„์„ ์ง€์†์ ์œผ๋กœ ๊ฒฌ์ธํ•˜๋ฉด์„œ ๋Œ€๋žต 100๋ฒ ์ด์‹œ์Šค ํฌ์ธํŠธ ์ •๋„์˜ ๋ฒ”์œ„๊ฐ€ ๋  ๊ฒƒ์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ด๊ฒƒ์ด ์ €ํฌ๊ฐ€ ๋ช…ํ™•ํžˆ ์„ค๋ช…ํ•˜๋ ค๊ณ  ํ–ˆ๋˜ ๋ถ€๋ถ„์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

Karen๋„ AIS๊ฐ€ ์–ด๋””๋กœ ํ–ฅํ•˜๊ณ  ์žˆ๋Š”์ง€์— ๋Œ€ํ•ด ์ •๋ง ๋ช…ํ™•ํ•˜๊ฒŒ ์„ค๋ช…ํ–ˆ๋‹ค๊ณ  ์ƒ๊ฐํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ €ํฌ๋Š” 10% ์ค‘๋ฐ˜๋Œ€์˜ ์„ฑ์žฅ์„ ํ•˜๊ณ  ์žˆ์œผ๋ฉฐ, ์ง€์†์ ์ธ ๋งˆ์ง„ ํ™•๋Œ€ ๊ธฐํšŒ๋ฅผ ๊ฐ€์ง€๊ณ  ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๋งˆ์ง„ ํ™•๋Œ€์™€ ์„ฑ์žฅ ์ง€์† ์‚ฌ์ด์—์„œ ์„ ํƒํ•ด์•ผ ํ•  ๋•Œ, ์ €ํฌ๋Š” ์„ฑ์žฅ์— ํˆฌ์žํ•  ๊ฒƒ์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. 25ํšŒ๊ณ„์—ฐ๋„ ์ „์‚ฌ์ ์œผ๋กœ ์ข…ํ•ฉํ•ด๋ณด๋ฉด, ABL์—์„œ์˜ ๋ฏผ์ฒฉ์„ฑ๊ณผ QSC๊ฐ€ ์ €ํฌ ๊ธฐ์—…์— ํ•ฉ๋ฅ˜ํ•˜๋ฉด์„œ ๋ณด์—ฌ์ค€ ํž˜, ๊ทธ๋ฆฌ๊ณ  ๊ทธ๋“ค์˜ ๋งˆ์ง„ ํ™•๋Œ€๋ฅผ ํ†ตํ•ด ์ •๋ง ๊ฐ•๋ ฅํ•œ ์„ฑ๊ณผ๋ฅผ ๋ณด์—ฌ๋“œ๋ ธ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ํ–ฅํ›„ 1๋…„ ๋˜๋Š” ๋ช‡ ๋…„์— ๊ฑธ์ณ์„œ๋„ ์ด๋Ÿฌํ•œ ์ „๋ฐ˜์ ์ธ ๋ฐฉํ–ฅ์ด ์ง€์†๋  ๊ฒƒ์œผ๋กœ ์˜ˆ์ƒํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
Brian Lee: Goldman Sachs Group, Inc., Research Division Okay. Fair enough. But just triangulating, I mean, obviously, the tariffs or the impact on ABL. But for AIS, the deliberate strategy to focus on growth in the near term it does sound like we shouldn't necessarily be expecting margin expansion in that segment over the next 12 months, but on a longer-term basis, clearly, direction is still higher. Is that fair?**Brian Lee:** ๋„ค, ๋งž์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ํ•˜์ง€๋งŒ ์‚ผ๊ฐ์ธก๋Ÿ‰ํ•ด๋ณด๋ฉด, ๊ด€์„ธ๋‚˜ ABL์— ๋ฏธ์น˜๋Š” ์˜ํ–ฅ์€ ๋ถ„๋ช…ํ•˜์ฃ . ๊ทธ๋Ÿฐ๋ฐ AIS์˜ ๊ฒฝ์šฐ, ๋‹จ๊ธฐ์ ์œผ๋กœ ์„ฑ์žฅ์— ์ง‘์ค‘ํ•˜๋Š” ์˜๋„์ ์ธ ์ „๋žต์„ ๊ณ ๋ คํ•  ๋•Œ, ํ–ฅํ›„ 12๊ฐœ์›” ๋™์•ˆ ํ•ด๋‹น ๋ถ€๋ฌธ์—์„œ ๋งˆ์ง„ ํ™•๋Œ€๋ฅผ ๊ธฐ๋Œ€ํ•ด์„œ๋Š” ์•ˆ ๋  ๊ฒƒ ๊ฐ™์€๋ฐ, ์žฅ๊ธฐ์ ์œผ๋กœ๋Š” ๋ถ„๋ช…ํžˆ ๋ฐฉํ–ฅ์„ฑ์ด ์—ฌ์ „ํžˆ ์ƒ์Šน์„ธ๋ผ๊ณ  ๋ด๋„ ๋ ๊นŒ์š”?
Neil Ashe: Chairman, President & CEO Well, Brian, we've added 500 basis points of margin to QSC in 8 months. So I feel like we're kind of directionally in a pretty good place. So yes, we will continue to grow AIS, and those margins will continue to grow over time.**Neil Ashe:** ๋ธŒ๋ผ์ด์–ธ, ์ €ํฌ๋Š” 8๊ฐœ์›” ๋งŒ์— QSC ๋งˆ์ง„์„ 500๋ฒ ์ด์‹œ์Šค ํฌ์ธํŠธ ๊ฐœ์„ ํ–ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๋”ฐ๋ผ์„œ ๋ฐฉํ–ฅ์„ฑ ์ธก๋ฉด์—์„œ ๊ฝค ์ข‹์€ ์œ„์น˜์— ์žˆ๋‹ค๊ณ  ์ƒ๊ฐํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๋„ค, ์•ž์œผ๋กœ๋„ AIS๋ฅผ ์ง€์†์ ์œผ๋กœ ์„ฑ์žฅ์‹œํ‚ฌ ๊ฒƒ์ด๊ณ , ํ•ด๋‹น ๋งˆ์ง„๋“ค๋„ ์‹œ๊ฐ„์ด ์ง€๋‚˜๋ฉด์„œ ๊ณ„์† ์ฆ๊ฐ€ํ•  ๊ฒƒ์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
Brian Lee: Goldman Sachs Group, Inc., Research Division Okay. And then on the data monetization front, it sounds like there's a lot of opportunity there. I don't know if you've ever anticipate being able to break that out or wanting to break that out at a high level. Can you kind of speak to sort of what data monetization opportunities you either currently have or expecting to sort of be able to execute toward in that AIS segment? If any quantification, that would be great as well.**Brian Lee:** ๋ฐ์ดํ„ฐ ์ˆ˜์ตํ™” ์ธก๋ฉด์—์„œ๋Š” ์ •๋ง ๋งŽ์€ ๊ธฐํšŒ๊ฐ€ ์žˆ๋Š” ๊ฒƒ์œผ๋กœ ๋ณด์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ํ–ฅํ›„ ์ด๋ฅผ ์ƒ์œ„ ์ˆ˜์ค€์—์„œ ๋ณ„๋„๋กœ ๋ถ„๋ฅ˜ํ•˜๊ฑฐ๋‚˜ ๊ณต๊ฐœํ•  ๊ณ„ํš์ด ์žˆ์œผ์‹ ์ง€ ๋ชจ๋ฅด๊ฒ ์ง€๋งŒ, AIS ๋ถ€๋ฌธ์—์„œ ํ˜„์žฌ ๋ณด์œ ํ•˜๊ณ  ์žˆ๊ฑฐ๋‚˜ ์‹คํ–‰ํ•  ๊ฒƒ์œผ๋กœ ์˜ˆ์ƒํ•˜๋Š” ๋ฐ์ดํ„ฐ ์ˆ˜์ตํ™” ๊ธฐํšŒ์— ๋Œ€ํ•ด ๋ง์”€ํ•ด ์ฃผ์‹ค ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ๋‚˜์š”? ๊ฐ€๋Šฅํ•˜๋‹ค๋ฉด ๊ตฌ์ฒด์ ์ธ ์ˆ˜์น˜ํ™”๋„ ๋ถ€ํƒ๋“œ๋ฆฝ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
Neil Ashe: Chairman, President & CEO Yes. So short-term and long-term with AIS as I indicated, both with all of the Atrius Distech and QSC we're -- our control position and our portfolio are incredibly strong in their respective areas, and those will continue to grow. The initial impact of data will be through the outcomes we are delivering as we expand those experiences. So there are specific software opportunities that we're in the marketplace with now and the more that will be coming over the course of the next 12 to 24 months. And then finally, the data monetization will over time, manifest in 2 ways. One will be the continued acceleration of that software-focused revenue and the outcomes that they deliver. And maybe over time, we introduce data-specific products. But in the immediate term, we will continue where we're growing, which is around our control platforms and the increased impact of software on those over the next 12 to 24 months.**Neil Ashe:** ๋„ค, AIS์™€ ๊ด€๋ จํ•ด์„œ ๋‹จ๊ธฐ์ ์œผ๋กœ๋‚˜ ์žฅ๊ธฐ์ ์œผ๋กœ ๋ง์”€๋“œ๋ฆฌ๋ฉด, ์ œ๊ฐ€ ์–ธ๊ธ‰ํ–ˆ๋“ฏ์ด Atrius Distech์™€ QSC ๋ชจ๋‘๋ฅผ ํ†ตํ•ด ์šฐ๋ฆฌ์˜ ํ†ต์ œ ์ง€์œ„์™€ ํฌํŠธํด๋ฆฌ์˜ค๋Š” ๊ฐ๊ฐ์˜ ์˜์—ญ์—์„œ ๋งค์šฐ ๊ฐ•๋ ฅํ•˜๋ฉฐ, ์ด๋Š” ๊ณ„์†ํ•ด์„œ ์„ฑ์žฅํ•  ๊ฒƒ์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๋ฐ์ดํ„ฐ์˜ ์ดˆ๊ธฐ ์˜ํ–ฅ์€ ์šฐ๋ฆฌ๊ฐ€ ์ด๋Ÿฌํ•œ ๊ฒฝํ—˜์„ ํ™•์žฅํ•˜๋ฉด์„œ ์ œ๊ณตํ•˜๋Š” ์„ฑ๊ณผ๋ฅผ ํ†ตํ•ด ๋‚˜ํƒ€๋‚  ๊ฒƒ์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ํ˜„์žฌ ์‹œ์žฅ์— ์ถœ์‹œํ•œ ํŠน์ • ์†Œํ”„ํŠธ์›จ์–ด ๊ธฐํšŒ๋“ค์ด ์žˆ๊ณ , ํ–ฅํ›„ 12๊ฐœ์›”์—์„œ 24๊ฐœ์›”์— ๊ฑธ์ณ ๋” ๋งŽ์€ ๊ธฐํšŒ๋“ค์ด ๋‚˜์˜ฌ ์˜ˆ์ •์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

๊ทธ๋ฆฌ๊ณ  ๋งˆ์ง€๋ง‰์œผ๋กœ, ๋ฐ์ดํ„ฐ ์ˆ˜์ตํ™”(data monetization)๋Š” ์‹œ๊ฐ„์ด ์ง€๋‚˜๋ฉด์„œ ๋‘ ๊ฐ€์ง€ ๋ฐฉ์‹์œผ๋กœ ๋‚˜ํƒ€๋‚  ๊ฒƒ์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ํ•˜๋‚˜๋Š” ์†Œํ”„ํŠธ์›จ์–ด ์ค‘์‹ฌ ๋งค์ถœ๊ณผ ๊ทธ๊ฒƒ์ด ์ œ๊ณตํ•˜๋Š” ์„ฑ๊ณผ์˜ ์ง€์†์ ์ธ ๊ฐ€์†ํ™”์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๊ทธ๋ฆฌ๊ณ  ์‹œ๊ฐ„์ด ์ง€๋‚˜๋ฉด ๋ฐ์ดํ„ฐ ์ „์šฉ ์ œํ’ˆ์„ ์ถœ์‹œํ•  ์ˆ˜๋„ ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ํ•˜์ง€๋งŒ ๋‹จ๊ธฐ์ ์œผ๋กœ๋Š” ํ˜„์žฌ ์„ฑ์žฅํ•˜๊ณ  ์žˆ๋Š” ์˜์—ญ์ธ ์ œ์–ด ํ”Œ๋žซํผ๊ณผ ํ–ฅํ›„ 12๊ฐœ์›”์—์„œ 24๊ฐœ์›” ๋™์•ˆ ์†Œํ”„ํŠธ์›จ์–ด๊ฐ€ ์ด๋Ÿฌํ•œ ํ”Œ๋žซํผ์— ๋ฏธ์น˜๋Š” ์˜ํ–ฅ๋ ฅ ํ™•๋Œ€์— ๊ณ„์† ์ง‘์ค‘ํ•  ๊ฒƒ์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
Operator: Our next question comes from Jeffrey Sprague with Vertical Research Partners.**Operator:** ๋‹ค์Œ ์งˆ๋ฌธ์€ Vertical Research Partners์˜ Jeffrey Sprague๋‹˜๊ป˜์„œ ์ฃผ์…จ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
Jeffrey Sprague: Vertical Research Partners, LLC Just a couple of loose ends or points of clarification for me, I guess, after all that. First, just on kind of the tariff situation, Neil or Karen, given that you guys have taken so many counteractions, sourcing otherwise, are you in a position now relative to your competitors that I guess, for lack of a better phrase, your pricing for tariffs, you're no longer exposed to as we roll into 2026. Is there sort of an embedded margin opportunity there?**Jeffrey Sprague:** ๋ช‡ ๊ฐ€์ง€ ์ถ”๊ฐ€ ์งˆ๋ฌธ์ด๋‚˜ ๋ช…ํ™•ํžˆ ํ•˜๊ณ  ์‹ถ์€ ๋ถ€๋ถ„์ด ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๋จผ์ € ๊ด€์„ธ ์ƒํ™ฉ์— ๋Œ€ํ•ด์„œ์ธ๋ฐ์š”, ๋‹์ด๋‚˜ ์นด๋ Œ, ์—ฌ๋Ÿฌ๋ถ„์ด ๋‹ค์–‘ํ•œ ๋Œ€์‘ ์กฐ์น˜๋ฅผ ์ทจํ•˜๊ณ  ๋‹ค๋ฅธ ์†Œ์‹ฑ์„ ์ง„ํ–‰ํ•œ ์ƒํ™ฉ์—์„œ, ๊ฒฝ์Ÿ์‚ฌ ๋Œ€๋น„ ํ˜„์žฌ ์œ„์น˜๋ฅผ ๋ณด๋ฉด ๊ด€์„ธ์— ๋Œ€ํ•œ ๊ฐ€๊ฒฉ ์ฑ…์ • ์ธก๋ฉด์—์„œ 2026๋…„์œผ๋กœ ์ ‘์–ด๋“ค๋ฉด์„œ ๋” ์ด์ƒ ๋…ธ์ถœ๋˜์ง€ ์•Š๋Š” ์ƒํ™ฉ์ธ๊ฐ€์š”? ๊ทธ๋ ‡๋‹ค๋ฉด ๊ฑฐ๊ธฐ์— ๋‚ด์žฌ๋œ ๋งˆ์ง„ ๊ธฐํšŒ๊ฐ€ ์žˆ๋Š” ๊ฑด๊ฐ€์š”?
Neil Ashe: Chairman, President & CEO Yes, Jeff, that's a good question. So we've been relatively conservative in our expectations to this. So we're trying to mitigate as much of the tariff impact from either productivity or transitions as you've described, first. And we've minimized that in pricing impact, second. So the -- as Karen indicated that when we talk about pricing strategically, that means some places we're taking prices up, and some places we're taking pricing down. So what we're balancing is trying to optimize share gain for margin expansion opportunity. The margin expansion opportunity, we are confident in over the kind of the foreseeable future. So we'll really try and dial that as an opportunity to -- if we had a bias there, we would take some more share probably as opposed to add an incremental margin piece at ABL.**Neil Ashe:** ๋„ค, ์ œํ”„, ์ข‹์€ ์งˆ๋ฌธ์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ €ํฌ๋Š” ์ด ๋ถ€๋ถ„์— ๋Œ€ํ•ด ์ƒ๋‹นํžˆ ๋ณด์ˆ˜์ ์ธ ๊ธฐ๋Œ€์น˜๋ฅผ ์œ ์ง€ํ•ด์™”์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๋ง์”€ํ•˜์‹  ๋Œ€๋กœ ์ƒ์‚ฐ์„ฑ ํ–ฅ์ƒ์ด๋‚˜ ์ „ํ™˜์„ ํ†ตํ•ด ๊ด€์„ธ ์˜ํ–ฅ์„ ์ตœ๋Œ€ํ•œ ์™„ํ™”ํ•˜๋ ค๊ณ  ๋…ธ๋ ฅํ•˜๊ณ  ์žˆ๊ณ , ์ด๊ฒƒ์ด ์ฒซ ๋ฒˆ์งธ ์šฐ์„ ์ˆœ์œ„์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๊ทธ๋ฆฌ๊ณ  ๋‘ ๋ฒˆ์งธ๋กœ๋Š” ๊ฐ€๊ฒฉ ์ฑ…์ •์— ๋ฏธ์น˜๋Š” ์˜ํ–ฅ์„ ์ตœ์†Œํ™”ํ•˜๊ณ  ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

์นด๋ Œ์ด ์–ธ๊ธ‰ํ–ˆ๋“ฏ์ด ์ „๋žต์  ๊ฐ€๊ฒฉ ์ฑ…์ •์ด๋ผ๊ณ  ํ•  ๋•Œ, ์ด๋Š” ์–ด๋–ค ๊ณณ์—์„œ๋Š” ๊ฐ€๊ฒฉ์„ ์˜ฌ๋ฆฌ๊ณ  ๋‹ค๋ฅธ ๊ณณ์—์„œ๋Š” ๊ฐ€๊ฒฉ์„ ๋‚ด๋ฆฐ๋‹ค๋Š” ์˜๋ฏธ์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ €ํฌ๊ฐ€ ๊ท ํ˜•์„ ๋งž์ถ”๋ ค๊ณ  ํ•˜๋Š” ๊ฒƒ์€ ์‹œ์žฅ ์ ์œ ์œจ ํ™•๋Œ€์™€ ๋งˆ์ง„ ํ™•์žฅ ๊ธฐํšŒ๋ฅผ ์ตœ์ ํ™”ํ•˜๋Š” ๊ฒƒ์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๋งˆ์ง„ ํ™•์žฅ ๊ธฐํšŒ์— ๋Œ€ํ•ด์„œ๋Š” ์˜ˆ์ธก ๊ฐ€๋Šฅํ•œ ๋ฏธ๋ž˜์— ๋Œ€ํ•ด ํ™•์‹ ์„ ๊ฐ€์ง€๊ณ  ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๊ทธ๋ž˜์„œ ์ €ํฌ๋Š” ์ด๋ฅผ ๊ธฐํšŒ๋กœ ํ™œ์šฉํ•˜๋ ค๊ณ  ํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๋งŒ์•ฝ ๊ทธ์ชฝ์— ํŽธํ–ฅ์ด ์žˆ๋‹ค๋ฉด, ABL์—์„œ ์ถ”๊ฐ€์ ์ธ ๋งˆ์ง„์„ ๋Š˜๋ฆฌ๊ธฐ๋ณด๋‹ค๋Š” ์‹œ์žฅ ์ ์œ ์œจ์„ ๋” ํ™•๋Œ€ํ•˜๋Š” ์ชฝ์„ ํƒํ•  ๊ฒƒ์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
Jeffrey Sprague: Vertical Research Partners, LLC Right. And then I guess, conversely, you're never going to stop pushing for productivity. But was there anything in these actions in 2025 that are sort of temporary in nature that need to come back from a cost standpoint as we look into '26, particularly if the top line is beginning to pick up?**Jeffrey Sprague:** ๋งž์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๊ทธ๋ฆฌ๊ณ  ๋ฐ˜๋Œ€๋กœ ๋ง์”€๋“œ๋ฆฌ๋ฉด, ์ƒ์‚ฐ์„ฑ ํ–ฅ์ƒ์„ ์œ„ํ•œ ๋…ธ๋ ฅ์€ ์ ˆ๋Œ€ ๋ฉˆ์ถ”์ง€ ์•Š์„ ๊ฒƒ์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ํ•˜์ง€๋งŒ 2025๋…„์— ์ทจํ•œ ์ด๋Ÿฌํ•œ ์กฐ์น˜๋“ค ์ค‘์—์„œ ์ผ์‹œ์ ์ธ ์„ฑ๊ฒฉ์„ ๊ฐ€์ง„ ๊ฒƒ๋“ค์ด ์žˆ๋Š”์ง€ ๊ถ๊ธˆํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ํŠนํžˆ 2026๋…„์„ ๋ฐ”๋ผ๋ณผ ๋•Œ ๋งค์ถœ์ด ํšŒ๋ณต๋˜๊ธฐ ์‹œ์ž‘ํ•œ๋‹ค๋ฉด, ๋น„์šฉ ๊ด€์ ์—์„œ ๋‹ค์‹œ ๋˜๋Œ๋ ค์•ผ ํ•  ๋ถ€๋ถ„๋“ค์ด ์žˆ์„๊นŒ์š”?
Neil Ashe: Chairman, President & CEO So not specifically the actions that we took. Those are accelerated productivity and kind of permanent changes, not short-term Band-Aid. On the OpEx side, we will continue to invest in technology. So -- and so as I've said on some calls in the past, so the geography of the -- specifically on the ABL side, the income statement may continue to change a little bit as the technology expenses are in OpEx, which drive gross margin impact over time. So -- but we're -- so that would be the balance. So yes, the changes that we made are effectively permanent. Now we move into the next cycle, merit increases, health care cost increase, all that kind of exciting stuff. But the investment areas, especially on the ABL side, are going to be in technology to drive productivity.**Neil Ashe:** ์šฐ๋ฆฌ๊ฐ€ ์ทจํ•œ ์กฐ์น˜๋“ค์€ ๊ตฌ์ฒด์ ์œผ๋กœ ๋งํ•˜๋ฉด, ๋‹จ๊ธฐ์ ์ธ ์ž„์‹œ๋ฐฉํŽธ์ด ์•„๋‹ˆ๋ผ ๊ฐ€์†ํ™”๋œ ์ƒ์‚ฐ์„ฑ ํ–ฅ์ƒ๊ณผ ์˜๊ตฌ์ ์ธ ๋ณ€ํ™”์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์šด์˜๋น„(OpEx) ์ธก๋ฉด์—์„œ๋Š” ๊ธฐ์ˆ ์— ๋Œ€ํ•œ ํˆฌ์ž๋ฅผ ๊ณ„์†ํ•  ๊ฒƒ์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๊ณผ๊ฑฐ ๋ช‡ ์ฐจ๋ก€ ์ปจํผ๋Ÿฐ์Šค ์ฝœ์—์„œ ๋ง์”€๋“œ๋ฆฐ ๋ฐ”์™€ ๊ฐ™์ด, ํŠนํžˆ ABL ๋ถ€๋ฌธ์—์„œ ์†์ต๊ณ„์‚ฐ์„œ์˜ ๊ตฌ์กฐ๊ฐ€ ์กฐ๊ธˆ์”ฉ ๋ณ€ํ™”ํ•  ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๊ธฐ์ˆ  ๊ด€๋ จ ๋น„์šฉ์ด ์šด์˜๋น„์— ํฌํ•จ๋˜์–ด ์‹œ๊ฐ„์ด ์ง€๋‚˜๋ฉด์„œ ์ด์ด์ต๋ฅ ์— ์˜ํ–ฅ์„ ๋ฏธ์น˜๊ธฐ ๋•Œ๋ฌธ์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ํ•˜์ง€๋งŒ ์ด๊ฒƒ์ด ๊ท ํ˜•์ ์ด ๋  ๊ฒƒ์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

๋„ค, ์šฐ๋ฆฌ๊ฐ€ ์‹ค์‹œํ•œ ๋ณ€ํ™”๋“ค์€ ์‚ฌ์‹ค์ƒ ์˜๊ตฌ์ ์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ด์ œ ๋‹ค์Œ ์‚ฌ์ดํด๋กœ ๋„˜์–ด๊ฐ€๋ฉด์„œ ์„ฑ๊ณผ๊ธ‰ ์ธ์ƒ, ์˜๋ฃŒ๋น„ ์ฆ๊ฐ€ ๋“ฑ ํฅ๋ฏธ์ง„์ง„ํ•œ ์ผ๋“ค์ด ๊ธฐ๋‹ค๋ฆฌ๊ณ  ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ํ•˜์ง€๋งŒ ํŠนํžˆ ABL ๋ถ€๋ฌธ์—์„œ์˜ ํˆฌ์ž ์˜์—ญ์€ ์ƒ์‚ฐ์„ฑ ํ–ฅ์ƒ์„ ์œ„ํ•œ ๊ธฐ์ˆ  ๋ถ„์•ผ๊ฐ€ ๋  ๊ฒƒ์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
Jeffrey Sprague: Vertical Research Partners, LLC And then just finally for me, just on inventories, Neil or Karen. Your days inventories have been moving up, tried to scrape out the QSC impact best I could. But still seems somewhat elevated, maybe speak to where we're at relative to what normal inventory should be? Is there any kind of absorption benefit or anything that's occurred here that needs to normalize as we look into next year?**Jeffrey Sprague:** ์žฌ๊ณ ์— ๋Œ€ํ•ด ๋งˆ์ง€๋ง‰์œผ๋กœ ์งˆ๋ฌธ๋“œ๋ฆฌ๊ฒ ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์žฌ๊ณ  ์ผ์ˆ˜๊ฐ€ ์ฆ๊ฐ€ํ•˜๊ณ  ์žˆ๋Š”๋ฐ, QSC ์˜ํ–ฅ์„ ์ตœ๋Œ€ํ•œ ์ œ์™ธํ•˜๊ณ  ๋ถ„์„ํ•ด๋ด๋„ ์—ฌ์ „ํžˆ ๋‹ค์†Œ ๋†’์€ ์ˆ˜์ค€์ธ ๊ฒƒ ๊ฐ™์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ •์ƒ์ ์ธ ์žฌ๊ณ  ์ˆ˜์ค€ ๋Œ€๋น„ ํ˜„์žฌ ์ƒํ™ฉ์ด ์–ด๋–ค์ง€ ๋ง์”€ํ•ด ์ฃผ์‹ค ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ๋‚˜์š”? ๋‚ด๋…„์„ ๋ฐ”๋ผ๋ณผ ๋•Œ ์ •์ƒํ™”๋˜์–ด์•ผ ํ•  ํก์ˆ˜ ํšจ๊ณผ๋‚˜ ๋‹ค๋ฅธ ์š”์ธ๋“ค์ด ์žˆ๋Š”์ง€์š”?
Karen Holcom: Senior VP & CFO Yes. Jeff, there's really 2 things going on with inventory. The first would be just the elevated cost and the inventory from the impact of the tariffs. So you're seeing a higher dollar amount of inventory that's impacting the total, but then also and more impactful is we've also had to -- decided to bring in some of the inventory that we could to protect us from some of the higher cost over time from the increasing tariffs. So it's really those 2 things that play a little bit of higher cost of inventory and bringing some more in to deal with the elevated tariff costs. You'll see that play down over the course of this year. So it shouldn't remain at the elevated levels that we are at the end of August.**Karen Holcom:** ๋„ค, ์žฌ๊ณ ์™€ ๊ด€๋ จํ•ด์„œ๋Š” ์‹ค์ œ๋กœ ๋‘ ๊ฐ€์ง€ ์š”์ธ์ด ์ž‘์šฉํ•˜๊ณ  ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ฒซ ๋ฒˆ์งธ๋Š” ๊ด€์„ธ ์˜ํ–ฅ์œผ๋กœ ์ธํ•œ ์žฌ๊ณ  ๋น„์šฉ ์ƒ์Šน์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ „์ฒด ๊ธˆ์•ก์— ์˜ํ–ฅ์„ ๋ฏธ์น˜๋Š” ๋” ๋†’์€ ๋‹ฌ๋Ÿฌ ๊ธˆ์•ก์˜ ์žฌ๊ณ ๋ฅผ ๋ณด๊ณ  ๊ณ„์‹œ๋Š” ๊ฒƒ์ด์ฃ . ํ•˜์ง€๋งŒ ๋” ํฐ ์˜ํ–ฅ์„ ๋ฏธ์น˜๋Š” ๊ฒƒ์€ ๊ด€์„ธ ์ธ์ƒ์œผ๋กœ ์ธํ•œ ์žฅ๊ธฐ์ ์ธ ๋†’์€ ๋น„์šฉ์œผ๋กœ๋ถ€ํ„ฐ ์šฐ๋ฆฌ๋ฅผ ๋ณดํ˜ธํ•˜๊ธฐ ์œ„ํ•ด ๊ฐ€๋Šฅํ•œ ์ผ๋ถ€ ์žฌ๊ณ ๋ฅผ ๋ฏธ๋ฆฌ ๋“ค์—ฌ์˜ค๊ธฐ๋กœ ๊ฒฐ์ •ํ–ˆ๋‹ค๋Š” ์ ์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

๋”ฐ๋ผ์„œ ์žฌ๊ณ  ๋น„์šฉ์ด ๋‹ค์†Œ ๋†’์•„์ง„ ๊ฒƒ๊ณผ ๊ด€์„ธ ๋น„์šฉ ์ƒ์Šน์— ๋Œ€์‘ํ•˜๊ธฐ ์œ„ํ•ด ๋” ๋งŽ์€ ์žฌ๊ณ ๋ฅผ ๋“ค์—ฌ์˜จ ๊ฒƒ, ์ด ๋‘ ๊ฐ€์ง€ ์š”์ธ์ด ์ž‘์šฉํ•˜๊ณ  ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ด๋Š” ์˜ฌํ•ด ๋™์•ˆ ์ ์ฐจ ์™„ํ™”๋  ๊ฒƒ์œผ๋กœ ๋ณด์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๋”ฐ๋ผ์„œ 8์›” ๋ง ํ˜„์žฌ์˜ ๋†’์€ ์ˆ˜์ค€์ด ๊ณ„์† ์œ ์ง€๋˜์ง€๋Š” ์•Š์„ ๊ฒƒ์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
Operator: And I'm showing no further questions in queue at this time. I'd like to turn the call back to Neil Ashe for any closing remarks.**Operator:** ํ˜„์žฌ ๋Œ€๊ธฐ ์ค‘์ธ ์ถ”๊ฐ€ ์งˆ๋ฌธ์ด ์—†๋Š” ๊ฒƒ์œผ๋กœ ํ™•์ธ๋ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๋งˆ๋ฌด๋ฆฌ ๋ฐœ์–ธ์„ ์œ„ํ•ด Neil Ashe๋‹˜๊ป˜ ๋‹ค์‹œ ๋งˆ์ดํฌ๋ฅผ ๋„˜๊ฒจ๋“œ๋ฆฌ๊ฒ ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
Neil Ashe: Chairman, President & CEO Great. Well, first of all, thank you all for joining us today. As we've indicated, we believe fiscal 2025 was a strong year for Acuity. We operated effectively in a relatively dynamic environment. The performance at ABL continues to be, by far, the best in the world and we're confident in its ongoing continuous improvement. On the AIS side, we're really excited about what we're building here. We -- with Atrius, with Distech and QSC and then the combination of those 3 things, we think we're building an innovative and disruptive business that has the potential to do some pretty exciting things in the future. So with all that taken together, we're pleased with '25. We're hard at work already on '26. We appreciate your interest, and we look forward to talking to you again in the next quarter.**Neil Ashe:** ๋จผ์ € ์˜ค๋Š˜ ์ฐธ์„ํ•ด ์ฃผ์‹  ๋ชจ๋“  ๋ถ„๋“ค๊ป˜ ๊ฐ์‚ฌ๋“œ๋ฆฝ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๋ง์”€๋“œ๋ฆฐ ๋ฐ”์™€ ๊ฐ™์ด, 2025 ํšŒ๊ณ„์—ฐ๋„๋Š” Acuity์—๊ฒŒ ๊ฐ•๋ ฅํ•œ ํ•œ ํ•ด์˜€๋‹ค๊ณ  ์ƒ๊ฐํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ƒ๋Œ€์ ์œผ๋กœ ์—ญ๋™์ ์ธ ํ™˜๊ฒฝ์—์„œ ํšจ๊ณผ์ ์œผ๋กœ ์šด์˜ํ–ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ABL์˜ ์„ฑ๊ณผ๋Š” ๊ณ„์†ํ•ด์„œ ์„ธ๊ณ„ ์ตœ๊ณ  ์ˆ˜์ค€์„ ์œ ์ง€ํ•˜๊ณ  ์žˆ์œผ๋ฉฐ, ์ง€์†์ ์ธ ๊ฐœ์„ ์— ๋Œ€ํ•ด ํ™•์‹ ํ•˜๊ณ  ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

AIS ๋ถ€๋ฌธ์—์„œ๋Š” ํ˜„์žฌ ๊ตฌ์ถ•ํ•˜๊ณ  ์žˆ๋Š” ๊ฒƒ๋“ค์— ๋Œ€ํ•ด ์ •๋ง ํฅ๋ฏธ์ง„์ง„ํ•˜๊ฒŒ ์ƒ๊ฐํ•˜๊ณ  ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. Atrius, Distech, QSC, ๊ทธ๋ฆฌ๊ณ  ์ด ์„ธ ๊ฐ€์ง€์˜ ๊ฒฐํ•ฉ์„ ํ†ตํ•ด ํ˜์‹ ์ ์ด๊ณ  ํŒŒ๊ดด์ ์ธ ๋น„์ฆˆ๋‹ˆ์Šค๋ฅผ ๊ตฌ์ถ•ํ•˜๊ณ  ์žˆ๋‹ค๊ณ  ๋ด…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ด๋Š” ํ–ฅํ›„ ์ƒ๋‹นํžˆ ํฅ๋ฏธ๋กœ์šด ์ผ๋“ค์„ ํ•ด๋‚ผ ์ž ์žฌ๋ ฅ์„ ๊ฐ€์ง€๊ณ  ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

์ด ๋ชจ๋“  ๊ฒƒ์„ ์ข…ํ•ฉํ•ด ๋ณผ ๋•Œ, 2025๋…„ ์„ฑ๊ณผ์— ๋งŒ์กฑํ•˜๊ณ  ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ด๋ฏธ 2026๋…„์„ ์œ„ํ•ด ์—ด์‹ฌํžˆ ์ž‘์—…ํ•˜๊ณ  ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๊ด€์‹ฌ์„ ๊ฐ€์ ธ์ฃผ์…”์„œ ๊ฐ์‚ฌ๋“œ๋ฆฌ๋ฉฐ, ๋‹ค์Œ ๋ถ„๊ธฐ์— ๋‹ค์‹œ ๋ง์”€๋“œ๋ฆด ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ๊ธฐ๋ฅผ ๊ธฐ๋Œ€ํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
Operator: This concludes today's conference call. Thank you for participating. You may now disconnect.**Operator:** ์˜ค๋Š˜ ์ปจํผ๋Ÿฐ์Šค ์ฝœ์„ ๋งˆ์น˜๊ฒ ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ฐธ์—ฌํ•ด ์ฃผ์…”์„œ ๊ฐ์‚ฌํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ด์ œ ์—ฐ๊ฒฐ์„ ์ข…๋ฃŒํ•˜์…”๋„ ๋ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

๐Ÿ“Œ ์š”์•ฝ

Here's a summary of the key points from the earnings call in Korean:

โ€ข ์‹ค์  ๋ฐ ์ „๋ง
- QSC ์ธ์ˆ˜ ํ›„ ํ†ตํ•ฉ์ด ์ˆœ์กฐ๋กญ๊ฒŒ ์ง„ํ–‰ ์ค‘์ด๋ฉฐ, ABL ๋ถ€๋ฌธ์€ ์ €์กฐํ•œ ์‹œ์žฅ ํ™˜๊ฒฝ์—๋„ ๋ถˆ๊ตฌํ•˜๊ณ  ์‹œ์žฅ ์ ์œ ์œจ ํ™•๋Œ€
- 2026 ํšŒ๊ณ„์—ฐ๋„ ABL ๋ถ€๋ฌธ ๋งค์ถœ์€ ๋‚ฎ์€ ํ•œ ์ž๋ฆฟ์ˆ˜ ์„ฑ์žฅ ์ „๋ง
- ๊ด€์„ธ ์˜ํ–ฅ์œผ๋กœ ๋งˆ์ง„์œจ์€ 50-100bp ํ•˜๋ฝ ์˜ˆ์ƒ๋˜๋‚˜, ๋‹ฌ๋Ÿฌ ๊ธฐ์ค€ ์˜ํ–ฅ์€ ์ค‘๋ฆฝ์ 

โ€ข ์‚ฌ์—… ์ „๋žต
- AIS(Acuity Intelligent Spaces) ๋ถ€๋ฌธ์€ ์ค‘์ € 10% ๋Œ€ ์„ฑ์žฅ์— ์ดˆ์ 
- QSC๋Š” ์ธ์ˆ˜ 8๊ฐœ์›” ๋งŒ์— ๋งˆ์ง„์œจ 500bp ๊ฐœ์„ 
- ์ค‘๊ตญ ์†Œ์‹ฑ ์˜์กด๋„๋ฅผ ๊ณผ๊ฑฐ ๋Œ€๋น„ 20% ์ˆ˜์ค€์œผ๋กœ ๋Œ€ํญ ์ถ•์†Œ

โ€ข ๋ฆฌ์Šคํฌ/๊ธฐํšŒ ์š”์ธ
- ์ „๋ฐ˜์ ์ธ ์‹œ์žฅ ํ™˜๊ฒฝ์€ ์—ฌ์ „ํžˆ ์ €์กฐํ•˜๋ฉฐ ๋‹จ๊ธฐ ๊ฐœ์„  ๊ธฐ๋Œ€๋Š” ์ œํ•œ์ 
- ๋ฐ์ดํ„ฐ ๋ชจ๋„คํƒ€์ด์ œ์ด์…˜ ๊ธฐํšŒ ํ™•๋Œ€ ์˜ˆ์ƒ
- ์›๊ฐ€ ์ ˆ๊ฐ๊ณผ ์ƒ์‚ฐ์„ฑ ํ–ฅ์ƒ์„ ํ†ตํ•œ ๋งˆ์ง„ ๊ฐœ์„  ์ง€์† ์ถ”์ง„