Strategic Imperatives

Strategic Imperatives


Relentlessly pursuing these three initiatives will enable us to deliver long-term value and push the boundaries for our industry.

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Activating Brands with Purpose

Our brands must stand for quality, safety and productivity, and we must invest to continue to deepen our connection with end users. Our aim is to ensure every product, solution and service aligns with the end users’ evolving needs and helps to solve their challenges.

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Driving Operational Excellence

Operational excellence is a mindset: continuous improvement to deliver stronger results, and more effective resource allocation with higher return on investment. We focus on net productivity achievement to support continued margin expansion, thereby unlocking the ability to further reinvest in the business to build our brands and fuel innovation.

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Accelerating Innovation

Our end users demand the best products. To lead this market, our speed of innovation must exceed the pace at which end users’ expectations increase. Our platforming method enables speed to market by leveraging modularity combined with purposeful differentiation to deliver uncompromised productivity and value.

Mid-Single Digit in a 
Low-Single Digit Market

Organic Revenue Growth²

 

35% to 37%
 

Adjusted Gross Margin²

 

Mid-to-High Teens
% of Sales

Adjusted EBITDA²

 

~100% of GAAP Net Income Over a Multi-Year Period

Free Cash Flow Conversion²

 

Low-to-Mid Teens by 2028; ≥ Mid-Teens beyond 2028

CFROI²

 

Solid Investment
Grade

Credit Rating

 

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Contacts

Michael Wherley
Vice President, Investor Relations

Christina Francis
Senior Director, Investor Relations

1000 Stanley Drive
New Britain, CT 06053
investorrelations [at] sbdinc.com (Email)

Debora Raymond
Vice President, Public Relations
Debora.Raymond [at] sbdinc.com (Email)

Shareholder correspondence should be mailed to:

Computershare Investor Services
P.O. BOX 43006
Providence, RI 02940-3006

Overnight correspondence should be sent to:

Computershare Investor Services
150 Royall St., Suite 101
Canton, MA 02021

Phone: (888) 660-5513
Phone: (781) 575-3120

Shareholder website
www.computershare.com/investor

Shareholder online inquiries
web.queries [at] computershare.com

Independent Accountants

Ernst & Young
Hartford, CT

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1. These goals assume the tariff landscape as of January 2026, low single digit market growth, and inflation around 2% per year.

2. Non-GAAP financial measure. A reconciliation for these non-GAAP measures is not available without unreasonable effort due to the inherent difficulty of forecasting the timing and/or amount of various items that have not yet occurred, including the high variability and low visibility with respect to certain gains or charges that would generally be excluded from non-GAAP financial measures and which could be material to the Company’s results in accordance with U.S. GAAP. Additionally, estimating such GAAP measures and providing a meaningful reconciliation consistent with the Company’s accounting policies for future periods requires a level of precision that is unavailable for these future multi-year periods and cannot be accomplished without unreasonable effort. The Company believes such a reconciliation would also imply a degree of precision that is inappropriate for these forward-looking measures. Refer to Management’s Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations in Item 7 of the Company’s 2025 Annual Report on Form 10-K for additional information on such Non-GAAP financial measures, including related definitions.