TE Connectivity三季度订单57亿美元并指引全年销售增长约15%

Earnings Call Insights: TE Connectivity (TEL) Q3 FY2026
Management View
- "Our strategic positioning around the accelerating data and power trend continues to drive broad-based outperformance" (CEO & Executive Director Terrence Curtin), and "for the full fiscal year, we now expect sales to grow approximately 15%... while delivering margin expansion and earnings per share growth above 20%."
- "The strength of these trends is reflected in our record order performance with double-digit order growth in every business across both segments" (CEO & Executive Director Curtin), including "record order levels of $5.7 billion" and "a record backlog position... as we move into our fiscal 2027."
- "In digital data networks... sales increasing 34% year-over-year" and "in Energy... our organic sales increased a very strong 33%" (CEO & Executive Director Curtin), with Energy demand tied to "grid hardening" and "data center build-outs."
- "Today, we signed an agreement to acquire Astrodyne TDI" (CEO & Executive Director Curtin), and management described it as "a bolt-on acquisition that broadens our portfolio of power and filter products for mission-critical applications" within Industrial.
- "For the quarter, we achieved adjusted operating income of over $1.1 billion and adjusted operating margins of 21.9%" (CFO, Executive VP & Executive Director Heath Mitts), while GAAP operating income "included $9 million of acquisition-related charges, $83 million of restructuring and other charges and $56 million of amortization expense."
Outlook
- "Looking forward, we expect our fourth quarter sales of approximately $5.25 billion" and "adjusted earnings per share of approximately $3.05" (CEO & Executive Director Curtin), and "for the full year, we expect to deliver growth of 15% in sales and 23% in adjusted EPS year-over-year."
- Management’s Q4 outlook follows Q2’s call where the company said, "we are expecting third quarter sales to be $5 billion" and "adjusted earnings per share... around $2.83" (CEO & Executive Director Curtin).
- Analyst-estimate comparisons were not included because the estimates tag used a different fiscal-quarter format than the required validation fields.
Financial Results
- "In the third quarter, sales were $5.2 billion" and "record order levels of $5.7 billion" (CEO & Executive Director Curtin), alongside "record adjusted earnings per share of $2.94" and "adjusted margins expanded 90 basis points."
- "GAAP EPS was $2.55" and "included restructuring, acquisition and other charges of $0.23 and amortization expense of $0.15" (CFO, Executive VP & Executive Director Mitts), with an "adjusted effective tax rate... 23% in Q3" and Q4 expected "between 22% and 23%."
- "Cash from operations was $1.2 billion and free cash flow was $883 million during the quarter" (CFO, Executive VP & Executive Director Mitts); year-to-date, free cash flow was "roughly $2.2 billion" and TE "returned approximately $2 billion to shareholders through dividends and share buybacks so far this year," while still expecting "free cash flow conversion to be roughly 100% this year."
- Astrodyne TDI is expected to "generate more than $250 million in annual sales" and had a "purchase price of approximately $1.4 billion" (CFO, Executive VP & Executive Director Mitts), with closing expected "by the end of this calendar year."
Q&A
- Scott Davis, Melius Research LLC: "can you talk a little bit about the ramp you expect in your FAU optical business?" CEO Curtin: "You won't really see revenue... until we get to '28 and beyond that" and "near term, we're investing in it... scaling of the manufacturing as well as the engineering teams."
- Mark Delaney, Goldman Sachs Group, Inc., Research Division: asked how orders/backlog shape 2027 and why DDN revenue is "in line" despite AI orders. CEO Curtin: "this momentum is really going to deliver more into next year" and "we do expect DDN to be up in our fourth quarter sequentially over the third quarter."
- Ruplu Bhattacharya, BofA Securities, Research Division: asked about China domestic vs export. CEO Curtin: "our China business grew 6% against 2% down in production" and "exports are sort of out of our China OEMs are offsetting a weak China local market."
- Christopher Glynn, Oppenheimer & Co. Inc., Research Division: asked if Energy growth was "peculiar". CEO Curtin: Energy is driven by "grid hardening" plus data-center-related power, and "think about it more of a mid-teens grower" looking ahead.
- Steven Fox, Fox Advisors LLC: asked what is "special" about Astrodyne and whether TE is "more aggressive" in power. CEO Curtin: Astrodyne has a strong position in "power filters" and "custom power solutions"; CFO Mitts: the deal "will be accretive to our growth rates and our margins" and TE sees "operational synergies."
Sentiment Analysis
- Analysts’ tone was slightly skeptical and detail-seeking around AI mix, optics timing, and China/energy sustainability, including questions pressing on reconciling "record orders and backlog" with DDN revenue tracking "in line" (Mark Delaney, Goldman Sachs).
- Management’s tone was positive and confident in prepared remarks and generally steady in Q&A, emphasizing visibility and investment pacing, including "our record order momentum provides heightened confidence" (CFO, Executive VP & Executive Director Mitts) and "we feel very good" about content outperformance (CEO & Executive Director Curtin).
- Versus the prior quarter’s call, management repeated the same strategic frame on "data and power" and kept emphasizing backlog into 2027; the current call added a major new capital deployment action with the announced Astrodyne TDI agreement.
Quarter-over-Quarter Comparison
- The current call introduced a new M&A announcement, with management saying, "we signed an agreement to acquire Astrodyne TDI" (CEO & Executive Director Curtin), compared with the prior call’s emphasis on the recently completed RAM Photonics deal: "we acquired a leading technology for passive optical connectivity solutions" (CEO & Executive Director Curtin).
- Guidance language moved from Q2’s next-quarter view ("third quarter sales to be $5 billion" and EPS "around $2.83") to Q3’s Q4 outlook ("sales of approximately $5.25 billion" and EPS "approximately $3.05") and firmer full-year framing ("sales to grow approximately 15%" and "23% in adjusted EPS") (CEO & Executive Director Curtin).
- Q&A focus stayed heavily weighted to AI/copper-vs-optical, but the current quarter added more scrutiny on power architecture shifts (including "800-volt") and on acquisition rationale and accretion.
Risks and Concerns
- "There is a project nature to some of our programs because you're selling into infrastructure" (CEO & Executive Director Curtin) in Energy, which management linked to variability in infrastructure timing.
- "People [are] prioritizing to the AI workload" (CEO & Executive Director Curtin), which he said can leave non-AI areas seeing "down a little bit" as investment shifts.
- Management highlighted execution needs in optical, saying on FAU that TE is investing to "meet the intercept point that our customers expect us to meet" (CEO & Executive Director Curtin), with meaningful revenue timing pushed to "'28 and beyond."
Final Takeaway
TE Connectivity’s leadership described Q3 FY2026 as driven by AI-linked data and power demand, pointing to record $5.7 billion orders and a record backlog as support for continued growth into FY2027. Management guided to Q4 sales of approximately $5.25 billion and adjusted EPS of approximately $3.05, while raising full-year expectations to about 15% sales growth and 23% adjusted EPS growth. The call also added a new portfolio move: an agreement to acquire Astrodyne TDI for about $1.4 billion, which management said is expected to be accretive to TE’s growth and margins and expands its power-filter and custom power-supply footprint in mission-critical applications.
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