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Allegion plc's management answers for the business every quarter. These are the exchanges that explain it best — verbatim, from the call transcripts preserved in Sources. Each link opens the full transcript at that page in a new tab.

Q2 FY2026 Earnings Call — Q2 FY2026

The freshest read on accelerating non-residential demand, electronics-led growth, and how tariffs pass through to pricing and margins. · Open the full transcript →

Why higher education's shift to mobile credentials pulls through large, multiyear hardware-upgrade cycles for Allegion.

John Stone (President and CEO): Let's take a look at capital allocation, starting with our organic investments and ongoing demand trend for electronics. Higher education offers a clear example of continued secular growth in electronics. As demand for mobile technology increases on college campuses, these customers are moving from plastic cards and mechanical keys to contactless mobile credentials provided and managed by Allegion. This also drives large-scale hardware modernization. In a recent example from our team, 2 flagship university deployments turned into multimillion-dollar opportunities for our company, stemming from thousands of Allegion reader and lock upgrades paired with system-wide Allegion credential standardization.

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Tariffs are just another form of inflation, covered by price and productivity to keep margins expanding.

Michael Wagnes (CFO): Yes. I would say, as we think about our business, tariff and inflation, right, tariff is a form of inflation. And what we're going to do is we're going to manage those inputs. We're going to drive pricing and productivity such that we're going to cover the inflation in the investments. What you saw in the second quarter is we're back to expanding margins and covering, obviously, the cost basis. Q1, a little pressure in the Americas, Q2 back to expansionary margins from PPII. I do expect for the full year, we will be neutral to slightly positive on PPII in the Americas. That would be obviously expansionary in the back half.

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The non-res mix: a broad-based recovery, plus data centers as a small but fast-growing future aftermarket.

John Stone (President and CEO); Tomohiko Sano (analyst): And non-res is certainly the largest part of Allegion's business, and demand has been improving. The momentum is good. The forward-looking signals around spec activity and the AIA consensus is favorable. […] I would say, consistent with what we said on the spec activity, the project work, our customers' backlogs are very much broad-based. And you do see some cyclical recovery in commercial verticals like multifamily and ofice that have been depressed for the last few years. […] Data centers, obviously, a very rapid growing space. It's small. It's probably approaching 5% of our non-res business at this point and still growing very rapidly. And that's a future installed base that will generate aftermarket sales in the coming years.

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Q4 and Full-Year 2025 Earnings Call — Q4 FY2025

The annual call that frames the strategy: a brand-led franchise, spec-driven non-res, disciplined M&A, and the 2026 guidance philosophy. · Open the full transcript →

The 100-year brand franchise, extended down-market with mid-tier lines to win more of the non-res aftermarket.

John H. Stone (Chief Executive Officer): A core element of Allegion’s portfolio strength is our brands’ legacy of innovation. Brands like Schlage, Von Duprin, and LCN invented their product categories a hundred years ago and are known as pioneers in our industry. Allegion is built on that legacy by expanding our offerings of mid-tier commercial product lines. Last September, we launched our Schlage Performance Series locks providing more ways to win in the nonresidential aftermarket alongside the mid-price point Von Duprin 70 Series exit devices released in 2024.

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The core thesis: spec-writing, a large installed base and proven pricing power make for a resilient business.

John H. Stone (Chief Executive Officer): before we discuss the 2026 outlook, I want to provide an overview of our key end-market assumptions. In the Americas, we see continued volume growth in nonresidential markets similar to 2025 levels and this is supported by our spec-writing trends.

A broad end-market exposure and large installed base make for a resilient business, one that is less reliant on any single end-market vertical to drive growth. We do expect a more modest price contribution, however, to reflect slightly lower inflation as compared to last year. If inflation were to remain higher, the business has proven our ability to manage inputs and drive the necessary pricing as you saw in 2025.

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Why residential softness gets a prudent 2026 assumption — and why thin channel inventory limits the downside.

Joseph John O'Dea (Wells Fargo); John H. Stone (Chief Executive Officer): But just looking at resi, it did end softer than we had contemplated. And I think that is part of the things that just cause us to at least take what we think is a very prudent assumption into 2026 that we would expect resi to be soft, and certainly, should there be an uptick in that market, we are positioned very well to capture upside there.

I would say with your question around pricing, no, there was not any short-term reaction on pricing nor do I think that contributed to any of the demand softness. The last point would be our channel does not hold a lot of inventory, and so any inventory correction-type actions are usually very short lived.

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How management screens the M&A pipeline: on-strategy, where it has a right to win, and disciplined on returns.

Robert Schultz (analyst); John H. Stone (Chief Executive Officer): And then just on M&A, how does your pipeline look today, and are you seeing any increasing competition for deals now? […] Pipeline is very active, I would say, in both our International and our Americas segments, and largely in line with the strategic overlay we shared with you at our Investor Day last May in terms of core Mechanical portfolio, Electronics, and even complementary software. So I think pipeline is busy. I think it is a very encouraging outlook.

And with all that being said, you can still count on us to be quite disciplined and making sure we are sticking very close to our strategy, understanding where we have got competitive advantage, right to play and a right to win, and very much focused on our shareholder returns.

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The 'tyranny of the math': tariff pricing dilutes margin rate until the comp laps, then core incrementals resume.

Christopher M. Snyder (Morgan Stanley); Michael J. Wagnes (Chief Financial Officer): If you think about the fundamentals of the business, right, that core incrementals we laid out at Investor Day, after we get through Q1, that still holds. Think of that core incrementals being strong once we get through that Q1. So as you think about the full year, margin expansion in the Americas, like I mentioned earlier, just that one more quarter we need to get through. But the business fundamentals remain sound and consistent with what we talked about at Investor Day where we can leverage that volume once we get through this last quarter of the tyranny of the math.

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Q4 and Full-Year 2023 Earnings Call — Q4 FY2023

The decade-retrospective call that lays out how Allegion works: electronics secular growth, the ~50/50 aftermarket base, the margin algorithm, and late-cycle dynamics. · Open the full transcript →

A record decade capped by ~20% electronics growth — the proof point for the seamless-access thesis.

John Stone (President and CEO): After celebrating our 10th anniversary as a standalone company in December, we closed the year with record revenue, adjusted operating income, and adjusted EPS. Reinforcing the thesis behind our seamless access strategy, electronics demand remained strong. We delivered approximately 20% organic growth in electronics for the year as supply chains normalized, and that’s on top of mid-teens organic growth in the prior year.

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The capital-allocation framework: an even split of M&A and shareholder returns; bolt-ons routine, big deals episodic.

John Stone (President and CEO): Reflecting on Allegion’s first 10 years, we’ve had a roughly even split between inorganic growth and the return of capital to shareholders through dividends and share repurchases. We remain committed to balanced, consistent capital allocation, and having quickly delevered from the Access Technologies acquisition, our balance sheet supports this strategy. […] Bolt-on acquisitions that fill portfolio gaps in the hardware space and high margin, recurring revenue business in the access solutions space will remain priorities. Larger deals like Access Technologies may be more episodic, but we will be disciplined and have demonstrated the ability to quickly delever.

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The margin algorithm — roughly 60 bps a year from net price and productivity — and why late-cycle visibility underpins growth.

John Stone (President and CEO): Since the beginning of 2019, we’ve averaged approximately 60 basis points of margin contribution annually from net price and productivity. This has been a hallmark of the business over time and it’s a key driver of our 2024 outlook. […] As you all know, Allegion is a late-cycle business, and starts can lead our business by a year or more. We’re not expecting many market tailwinds, however, we believe the visibility and stability of late-cycle institutional verticals, as well as our large installed base, will allow us to deliver organic growth.

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The demand structure: about 50/50 new construction versus aftermarket, with the stable aftermarket underpinning the portfolio.

Joe O'Dea (Wells Fargo); John Stone (President and CEO): if you think of Allegion has about 50-50 new construction to aftermarket exposure. The aftermarket is quite stable across all verticals, break fix, repair and maintenance, even some tenant turnover here in commercial office. So the aftermarket is still, I think, pretty stable and underpins the overall portfolio, that’s what leads us to come up to low to mid-single digits for growth in non-res.

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The hard question — is non-res weakness just channel destock or the cycle turning? Management calls the destock temporary.

Chris Snyder (UBS); John Stone (President and CEO): So when — and I know, I guess, Americas non-res has stated organic positive, but the growth has decelerated a lot here over the last two to three quarters. But starts only really came down maybe two quarters ago. So when we see that deceleration or softening in the non-res Americas growth rate, is it fair to assume that that’s really just been the channel destock and any sort of cycle pressure that could come from those starts is still on the horizon? […] the channel destock that was, in our opinion, a rather unique and temporary phenomenon that just happened because of all the supply chain disruptions and the lead times got extended and backlogs got extended and ordering patterns were disrupted. I think you saw that manifest itself in late 2022 through about mid ’23. We feel like most of that is in the rearview for the industry.

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More calls

Q1 FY2026 Earnings Call — Q1 FY2026 · 25 pages · Where 2026's tariff-driven Americas margin pressure first appears, alongside the strong non-res specification commentary. · Open →

Q3 FY2025 Earnings Call — Q3 FY2025 · 20 pages · The residential electronics product launch of this quarter that management later cites as its tough 2026 comparison. · Open →

Q2 FY2025 Earnings Call — Q2 FY2025 · 25 pages · A mid-2025 read on non-res momentum and electronics ahead of the demand acceleration. · Open →

Q1 FY2025 Earnings Call — Q1 FY2025 · 24 pages · The start-of-2025 outlook and early demand signals across the Americas and International segments. · Open →

Q4 and Full-Year 2024 Earnings Call — Q4 FY2024 · 24 pages · The prior full-year call: 2024 results, the initial 2025 outlook, and the margin framework carried into 2025. · Open →

Q3 FY2024 Earnings Call — Q3 FY2024 · 20 pages · Non-res spec activity and electronics progress heading into 2025. · Open →

Q2 FY2023 Earnings Call — Q2 FY2023 · 27 pages · The residential downturn and channel destock as they were unfolding through 2023. · Open →

Q4 and Full-Year 2022 Earnings Call — Q4 FY2022 · 23 pages · John Stone's first full-year call as CEO, with the Access Technologies acquisition freshly closed and integrating. · Open →