Vontier Increases Share Repurchase Authorization to $1.0 Billion and Approves Regular Quarterly Dividend
Company intends to deploy a majority of its full year 2026 Adjusted Free Cash Flow toward share repurchases with at least $125 million in the second quarter
Vontier Corporation (NYSE:VNT), a leading global provider of critical technologies and solutions to connect, manage and scale the mobility ecosystem, announced today that its Board of Directors has approved an increase to its share repurchase authorization pursuant to which the Company may repurchase up to $1.0 billion of Vontier shares effective on May 19, 2026. The program increases Vontier's existing $500 million authorization approved April 30, 2025, under which there was approximately $165 million remaining as of May 15, 2026. Year-to-date, the Company has completed $105 million in share repurchases and expects to deploy a majority of its adjusted free cash flow in 2026 to further repurchases, including at least $125 million in the second quarter.
"The increase to our share repurchase authorization underscores the confidence we have in our strategy, and in our ability to deliver on our financial commitments," said Mark Morelli, President and CEO of Vontier. "It further reflects the disciplined approach to capital allocation we've taken, including an enhanced focus on share repurchase over the last several years, having bought back $1 billion worth of stock since 2022 while strengthening the balance sheet and investing for growth."
Under the authorization, the Company may repurchase shares from time to time in the open market, through block trades, accelerated share repurchase transactions or by means privately negotiated transactions, including those pursuant to a trading plan that may be adopted in accordance with Securities and Exchange Commission Rule 10b5-1 under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended. The timing, manner, price and amount of any repurchases will be determined at the Company's discretion and will depend on a variety of factors, including market conditions, stock price, trading volume, general business and economic conditions, legal requirements, and other considerations. The share repurchase authorization does not obligate the Company to acquire any particular amount of its common stock, and the authorization may be suspended, modified or discontinued at any time without prior notice.
The Company also announced that its Board of Directors declared a regular quarterly cash dividend of $0.025 per share payable on June 25, 2026 to stockholders of record on June 4, 2026. Although Vontier expects to pay dividends on a quarterly basis, any subsequent declaration of dividends, including the amount, the record dates and the payment dates for any such future dividend payments, is subject to the discretion of the Board of Directors.
ABOUT VONTIER
Vontier (NYSE:VNT) is a global industrial technology company uniting productivity, automation and multi-energy technologies to meet the needs of a rapidly evolving, more connected mobility ecosystem. Leveraging leading market positions, decades of domain expertise and unparalleled portfolio breadth, Vontier powers the way the world moves – delivering smart, safe and sustainable solutions to our customers and the planet. Vontier has a culture of continuous improvement and innovation built upon the foundation of the Vontier Business System and embraced by colleagues worldwide. Additional information about Vontier is available on the Company's website at www.vontier.com.
NON-GAAP FINANCIAL MEASURES
In addition to the financial measures prepared in accordance with generally accepted accounting principles (GAAP), this earnings release also references "core sales growth," "adjusted operating profit," "adjusted operating profit margin," "adjusted net earnings," "adjusted diluted net earnings per share," "free cash flow," "adjusted free cash flow", "adjusted free cash flow conversion," "EBITDA," "adjusted EBITDA," "net debt," and "net leverage ratio" which are non-GAAP financial measures. The reasons why we believe these measures, when used in conjunction with the GAAP financial measures, provide useful information to investors, how management uses such non-GAAP financial measures, a reconciliation of these measures to the most directly comparable GAAP measures and other information relating to these measures are included in the supplemental reconciliation schedule attached. The non-GAAP financial measures should not be considered in isolation or as a substitute for the GAAP financial measures, but should instead be read in conjunction with the GAAP financial measures. The non-GAAP financial measures used by Vontier in this release may be different from similarly-titled non-GAAP measures used by other companies.
FORWARD-LOOKING STATEMENTS
This release contains forward-looking statements within the meaning of the federal securities laws. These statements include, but are not limited to statements regarding Vontier Corporation's (the "Company's") business and acquisition opportunities, anticipated sales growth, anticipated adjusted operating margin expansion, anticipated adjusted net earnings per share, anticipated adjusted cash flow conversion, and anticipated earnings growth, and any other statements identified by their use of words like "anticipate," "expect," "believe," "outlook," "guidance," or "will" or other words of similar meaning. There are a number of important risks and uncertainties that could cause actual results, developments and business decisions to differ materially from those suggested or indicated by such forward-looking statements and you should not place undue reliance on any such forward-looking statements. These risks and uncertainties include, among other things, deterioration of or instability in the economy, the markets we serve, changes in U.S. and international geopolitics, including trade policies, volatility in financial markets, contractions or lower growth rates and cyclicality of markets we serve, competition, changes in industry standards and governmental policies and regulations that may adversely impact demand for our products or our costs, our ability to successfully identify, consummate, integrate and realize the anticipated value of appropriate acquisitions and successfully complete divestitures and other dispositions, our ability to develop and successfully market new products, software, and services and expand into new markets, the potential for improper conduct by our employees, agents or business partners, impact of divestitures, contingent liabilities relating to acquisitions and divestitures, impact of changes to tax laws, our compliance with changes in applicable laws and regulations, risks relating to global economic, political, war or hostility, public health, legal, compliance and business factors, risks relating to potential impairment of goodwill and other intangible assets, currency exchange rates, tax audits and changes in our tax rate and income tax liabilities, the impact of our debt obligations on our operations, litigation and other contingent liabilities including intellectual property and environmental, health and safety matters, our ability to adequately protect our intellectual property rights, risks relating to product, service or software defects, product liability and recalls, risks relating to product manufacturing, our relationships with and the performance of our channel partners, commodity costs and surcharges, our ability to adjust purchases and manufacturing capacity to reflect market conditions, reliance on sole sources of supply, security breaches or other disruptions of our information technology systems, adverse effects of restructuring activities, impact of changes to U.S. GAAP, labor matters, and disruptions relating to man-made and natural disasters. Additional information regarding the factors that may cause actual results to differ materially from these forward-looking statements is available in our SEC filings, including our Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2025. These forward-looking statements represent Vontier's beliefs and assumptions only as of the date of this release and Vontier does not assume any obligation to update or revise any forward-looking statement, whether as a result of new information, future events and developments or otherwise.
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INVESTOR RELATIONS:
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