Veralto Reports First Quarter 2025 Results

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Veralto (NYSE: VLTO) reported strong Q1 2025 financial results with sales reaching $1,332 million, marking a 6.9% year-over-year increase and 7.8% non-GAAP core sales growth.

Key financial highlights:

• Operating profit margin: 24.2%
• Net earnings: $225 million ($0.90 per diluted share)
• Operating cash flow: $157 million

The company showed strong performance across both segments: Product Quality and Innovation (PQI) and Water Quality. PQI benefited from positive trends in consumer-packaged goods markets, while Water Quality saw robust growth in North America and double-digit growth in Europe.

Looking ahead, Veralto reaffirmed its full-year 2025 guidance with adjusted earnings per share of $3.60-$3.70 and expects Q2 2025 core sales to grow low-to-mid single-digits with adjusted earnings of $0.84-$0.88 per share.

Positive

• Sales increased 6.9% YoY to $1,332M with core sales growth of 7.8%
• Strong operating profit margin at 24.2% (25.0% adjusted)
• Net earnings reached $225M ($0.90 per diluted share)
• Double-digit adjusted earnings per share growth
• Broad-based growth across both Product Quality and Water Quality segments
• Double-digit growth in European water analytics business
• Strong operating cash flow of $157M and free cash flow of $142M
• Company reaffirmed full-year 2025 guidance

Negative

• Impact of tariffs requiring implementation of countermeasures
• Q2 2025 guidance shows slower growth (low-to-mid single-digits)
• Operating profit margin expansion guidance limited to flat to +50 basis points

Insights

Financial Analyst

Veralto delivered strong Q1 results with 7.8% core sales growth and maintained full-year guidance despite tariff challenges.

Veralto's Q1 2025 results demonstrate robust financial performance across key metrics. The company achieved $1,332 million in sales, representing a 6.9% year-over-year increase, with an even stronger 7.8% core sales growth. This growth trajectory shows the company's products maintain strong market demand despite macroeconomic uncertainties.

Profitability metrics are equally impressive with operating profit margin at 24.2% and non-GAAP adjusted operating profit margin at 25.0%. Net earnings reached $225 million ($0.90 per diluted share), while adjusted net earnings were $237 million ($0.95 per diluted share), indicating solid bottom-line execution.

Cash generation remains healthy with $157 million in operating cash flow and $142 million in free cash flow. For the full year, management projects free cash flow conversion of 90-100%, demonstrating efficient capital utilization and strong cash generation capabilities.

Despite implementing countermeasures to address tariff impacts, management confidently maintained their full-year 2025 adjusted EPS guidance range of $3.60-$3.70. The outlook includes low-to-mid single-digit core sales growth and potential operating profit margin expansion of up to 50 basis points year-over-year, signaling stability in their business outlook despite external pressures.

Water and Industrial Solutions Specialist

Veralto's essential water and product quality solutions drove broad growth across segments despite tariff headwinds.

Veralto's Q1 performance highlights the durable demand for their essential solutions in water quality and product integrity markets. The broad-based growth across both business segments demonstrates the critical nature of their offerings in the global supply chain for clean water and consumer goods.

In the Product Quality and Innovation (PQI) segment, positive trends in consumer-packaged goods markets supported growth in both marking and coding systems as well as digital workflow solutions for packaging and color management. These technologies are fundamental to product traceability, authentication, and quality control—areas companies continue to invest in regardless of economic conditions.

The Water Quality segment showed particularly strong momentum with robust growth in water treatment solutions throughout North America. Their water analytics business maintained steady global performance, with noteworthy double-digit growth in Europe. This geographic diversification provides natural hedging against regional economic fluctuations.

Management's implementation of countermeasures against tariff impacts demonstrates operational agility. Their focus on "essential" products—clean water, safe food, and trusted goods—creates natural defensiveness against economic headwinds, explaining their confidence in maintaining full-year guidance despite macroeconomic challenges. This positions Veralto as a resilient operator in markets driven by fundamental, non-discretionary needs.

WALTHAM, Mass., April 29, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- Veralto (NYSE: VLTO) (the "Company"), a global leader in essential water and product quality solutions dedicated to Safeguarding the World's Most Vital Resources™ announced results for the first quarter ended April 4, 2025.

Key First Quarter 2025 Results

• Sales increased 6.9% year-over-year to $1,332 million, with non-GAAP core sales growth of 7.8%
  
  
• Operating profit margin was 24.2% and non-GAAP adjusted operating profit margin was 25.0%
  
  
• Net earnings were $225 million, or $0.90 per diluted common share
  
  
• Non-GAAP, adjusted net earnings were $237 million, or $0.95 per diluted common share
  
  
• Operating cash flow was $157 million and non-GAAP free cash flow was $142 million

"We delivered excellent first quarter results across the enterprise driven by disciplined execution in both segments. Building off the operating momentum generated last year, we achieved strong core sales growth, solid margin expansion and double-digit adjusted earnings per share growth. Our commercial teams executed on strategic initiatives to gain new customers and increase market penetration, while also capitalizing on favorable demand across our key end markets and geographies," said Jennifer L. Honeycutt, President and Chief Executive Officer. 

"Our core sales growth in the first quarter was broad-based across Product Quality and Innovation (PQI) and Water Quality. In PQI, positive trends in consumer-packaged goods markets supported growth across both our marking and coding business and digital workflow solutions in our packaging and color business. In Water Quality, we continued to drive robust growth of our water treatment solutions in North America, complemented by steady growth of our water analytics globally, including double-digit growth in Europe," continued Honeycutt.

"In response to changes in the global economic landscape, our team has implemented several countermeasures to mitigate the impact of tariffs and enhance our operational flexibility. Based on these countermeasures and currently known factors, we are reaffirming our full year 2025 adjusted earnings per share guidance. We remain confident that the Veralto Enterprise System will enable us to navigate on-going changes in the macroeconomic environment with agility and discipline, while helping our customers deliver clean water, safe food and trusted essential goods. Furthermore, we believe the essential nature of our products, our durable business model and the secular growth drivers across our end markets position us to create value for all stakeholders over both the short and long-term," concluded Honeycutt.

2025 Guidance

The Company provides forecasted sales only on a non-GAAP basis because of the difficulty in estimating the other components of GAAP sales, such as currency translation, acquisitions, and divestitures. 

The guidance below includes the Company's current assessment of the macro-economic environment, including tariffs and the Company's actions to mitigate adverse financial impacts. 

For the second quarter of 2025, Veralto anticipates that non-GAAP core sales will grow low-to-mid single-digits year-over-year with adjusted diluted earnings per share in the range of $0.84 to $0.88 per share.

For the full year 2025, the Company reaffirmed its adjusted earnings per share guidance in the range of $3.60 to $3.70 with free cash flow conversion in the range of 90% to 100%. This assumes core sales growth in the low-to-mid single digits and adjusted operating profit margin expansion in the range of flat to +50 basis points on a year-over-year basis. 

Conference Call and Webcast Information

Veralto will discuss its first quarter results and financial guidance for 2025 during its quarterly investor conference call tomorrow starting at 8:30 a.m. (ET). Access to the call, webcast and an accompanying slide presentation will be available on the "Investors" section of Veralto's website, www.veralto.com, under the subheading "News & Events" and additional materials will be posted to the same section of Veralto's website. A replay of the webcast will be available in the same section of Veralto's website shortly after the conclusion of the call and will remain available until the next quarterly earnings call.

The conference call can be accessed by dialing +1 (800) 343-4136 (U.S.) or +1 (203) 518-9843 (INTL) (Conference ID: VLTO1Q25). A replay of the conference call will be available shortly after the conclusion of the call and until May 9, 2025. You can access the replay dial-in information on the "Investors" section of Veralto's website under the subheading "News & Events."

ABOUT VERALTO

With annual sales of over $5 billion, Veralto is a global leader in essential technology solutions with a proven track record of solving some of the most complex challenges we face as a society. Our industry-leading companies with globally recognized brands help billions of people around the world access clean water, safe food and trusted essential goods. Headquartered in Waltham, Massachusetts, our global team of nearly 17,000 associates is committed to making an enduring positive impact on our world and united by a powerful purpose: Safeguarding the World's Most Vital Resources™.

NON-GAAP MEASURES AND SUPPLEMENTAL MATERIALS

In addition to the financial measures prepared in accordance with generally accepted accounting principles (GAAP), this earnings release also contains non-GAAP financial measures. Calculations of these measures, the reasons why we believe these measures provide useful information to investors, a reconciliation of these measures to the most directly comparable GAAP measures, as applicable, and other information relating to these non-GAAP measures are included in the supplemental reconciliation schedule attached.

In addition, this earnings release, the slide presentation accompanying the related earnings call, non-GAAP reconciliations and a note containing details of historical and anticipated, future financial performance have been posted to the "Investors" section of Veralto's website (www.veralto.com) under the subheading "Quarterly Earnings."

FORWARD-LOOKING STATEMENTS

Certain statements in this release, including statements regarding the Company's second quarter and full year 2025 financial performance and guidance, the Company's differentiation and positioning to continue delivering sustainable, long-term shareholder value and any other statements regarding events or developments that we believe or anticipate will or may occur in the future are "forward-looking" statements within the meaning of the federal securities laws. All statements other than historical factual information are forward-looking statements, including, without limitation, statements regarding: projections of revenue, expenses, profit, profit margins, asset values, pricing, tax rates, tax provisions, cash flows, pension and benefit obligations and funding requirements, Veralto's liquidity position or other projected financial measures; Veralto's management's plans and strategies for future operations, including statements relating to anticipated operating performance, customer demand, cost reductions, restructuring activities, new product and service developments, competitive strengths or market position, acquisitions and the integration thereof, divestitures, spin-offs, split-offs, initial public offerings, other securities offerings or other distributions, strategic opportunities, stock repurchases, dividends and executive compensation; growth, declines and other trends in markets Veralto sells into, including the impact of changes to global trade policies, restrictions on imports, related countermeasures and reciprocal tariffs; future new or modified laws, regulations, accounting pronouncements or public policy changes; regulatory approvals and the timing and conditionality thereof; outstanding claims, legal proceedings, tax audits and assessments and other contingent liabilities; future foreign currency exchange rates and fluctuations in those rates; results of operations and/or financial condition; general economic and capital markets conditions; the anticipated timing of any of the foregoing; assumptions underlying any of the foregoing; and any other statements that address events or developments that Veralto intends or believes will or may occur in the future. Additional information regarding the factors that may cause actual results to differ materially from these forward-looking statements is available in our SEC filings. These forward-looking statements speak only as of the date of this release and except to the extent required by applicable law, the Company 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.

VERALTO CORPORATION CONSOLIDATED CONDENSED STATEMENTS OF EARNINGS ($ and shares in millions, except per share amounts) (unaudited)
	Three-Month Period Ended
	April 4, 2025		March 29, 2024
Sales	$          1,332		$             1,246
Cost of sales	(527)		(499)
Gross profit	805		747
Operating costs:
Selling, general and administrative expenses	(419)		(394)
Research and development expenses	(64)		(60)
Operating profit	322		293
Nonoperating income (expense):
Other income (expense), net	(6)		(15)
Interest expense, net	(27)		(28)
Earnings before income taxes	289		250
Income taxes	(64)		(66)
Net earnings	$            225		$                184
Net earnings per common share:
Basic	$           0.91		$               0.75
Diluted	$           0.90		$               0.74
Average common stock and common equivalent shares outstanding:
Basic	247.9		246.9
Diluted	250.1		248.8

This information is presented for reference only. 

VERALTO CORPORATION
RECONCILIATION OF GAAP TO NON-GAAP FINANCIAL MEASURES

Reconciliation of GAAP to Non-GAAP Financial Measures ($ in millions)
	Three-Month Period Ended April 4, 2025
	Sales		Operating profit		Operating profit margin		Net earnings for calculation of diluted net earnings per common share		Diluted net earnings per common share
Reported (GAAP)	$      1,332		$         322		24.2 %		$                225		$          0.90
Amortization of acquisition-related intangible assets A	—		9		0.7 %		9		0.04
Loss on disposition of certain product lines B	—		—		—		6		0.02
Other items C	—		2		0.2		2		0.01
Tax effect of the above adjustments E	—		—		—		(3)		(0.01)
Discrete tax adjustments F	—		—		—		(2)		(0.01)
Rounding	—		—		(0.1)		—		—
Adjusted (Non-GAAP)	$      1,332		$         333		25.0 %		$                237		$          0.95

 

	Three-Month Period Ended March 29, 2024
	Sales		Operating profit		Operating profit margin		Net earnings for calculation of diluted net earnings per common share		Diluted net earnings per common share
Reported (GAAP)	$      1,246		$         293		23.5 %		$                184		$          0.74
Amortization of acquisition-related intangible assets A	—		11		0.9		11		0.04
Loss on disposition of certain product lines B	—		—		—		15		0.06
Separation costs D	—		1		0.1		1		—
Tax effect of the above adjustments E	—		—		—		(3)		(0.01)
Discrete tax adjustments F	—		—		—		1		—
Rounding	—		—		—		—		0.01
Adjusted (Non-GAAP)	$      1,246		$         305		24.5 %		$                209		$          0.84

 

VERALTO CORPORATION
RECONCILIATION OF GAAP TO NON-GAAP FINANCIAL MEASURES
Notes to Reconciliation of GAAP to Non-GAAP Financial Measures

($ in millions)

A	Amortization of acquisition-related intangible assets in the following historical periods (only the pretax amounts set forth below are reflected in the amortization line item above):

	Three-Month Period Ended
	April 4, 2025		March 29, 2024
Pretax	$                9		$              11
After-tax	7		9

B	Loss on the disposition of certain product lines in the three-month period ended April 4, 2025 ($6 million pretax and after-tax as reported in this line item) resulting in a $0.02 impact to Adjusted Diluted Net Earnings Per Common Share. Loss on the disposition of certain product lines in the three-month period ended March 29, 2024 ($15 million pretax and after-tax as reported in this line item) resulting in a $0.06 impact to Adjusted Diluted Net Earnings Per Common Share.
C	Costs incurred in the three-month period ended April 4, 2025 related to certain strategic initiatives ($2 million pretax as reported in this line item and $1 million after-tax).
D	Costs incurred in the three-month period ended March 29, 2024 related to the separation of the Company from Danaher primarily related to IT costs and certain regulatory fees due to registration with the NYSE ($1 million pretax as reported in this line item).
E	This line item reflects the aggregate tax effect of all nontax adjustments reflected in the preceding line items of the table. In addition, the footnotes above indicate the after-tax amount of each individual adjustment item.  Veralto estimates the tax effect of each adjustment item by applying Veralto's overall estimated effective tax rate to the pretax amount, unless the nature of the item and/or the tax jurisdiction in which the item has been recorded requires application of a specific tax rate or tax treatment, in which case the tax effect of such item is estimated by applying such specific tax rate or tax treatment.
F	Discrete tax matters relate to changes in estimates associated with prior period uncertain tax positions, audit settlements and excess tax benefits from stock-based compensation.

 

VERALTO CORPORATION
RECONCILIATION OF GAAP TO NON-GAAP FINANCIAL MEASURES

Sales Growth by Segment, Core Sales Growth by Segment
	% Change Three-Month Period Ended April 4, 2025 vs. Comparable 2024 Period
			Segments
	Total Company		Water Quality		Product Quality and Innovation
Total sales growth (GAAP)	6.9 %		6.0 %		8.3 %
Impact of:
Acquisitions/divestitures	(0.4) %		0.1 %		(1.3) %
Currency exchange rates	1.3 %		1.3 %		1.3 %
Core sales growth (non-GAAP)	7.8 %		7.4 %		8.3 %

 

VERALTO CORPORATION
RECONCILIATION OF GAAP TO NON-GAAP FINANCIAL MEASURES

Forecasted Core Sales Growth, Adjusted Operating Profit Margin, Adjusted Diluted Net Earnings per Share and Free Cash Flow to Net Earnings Conversion Ratio

The Company provides forecasted sales only on a non-GAAP basis because of the difficulty in estimating the other components of GAAP revenue, such as currency translation, acquisitions and divested product lines. Additionally, we do not reconcile adjusted operating profit margin (or components thereof), adjusted diluted earnings per share or free cash flow to net earnings conversion ratio to the comparable GAAP measures because of the difficulty in estimating the other unknown components such as investment gains and losses, impairments and separation costs, which would be reflected in any forecasted GAAP operating profit, forecasted diluted earnings per share or forecasted net earnings ratio.

 

	% Change Three-Month Period Ending July 4, 2025 vs. Comparable 2024 Period
Core sales growth (non-GAAP)	+Low-to-mid-single digits
	Three-Month Period Ending July 4, 2025
Adjusted Diluted Net Earnings per Share (non-GAAP)	$0.84 to $0.88
	% Change Year Ending December 31, 2025 vs Comparable 2024 Period
Core sales growth (non-GAAP)	+Low-to-mid-single digits
	Year Ending December 31, 2025
Adjusted Operating Profit Margin (non-GAAP)	flat to +50 basis points
Adjusted Diluted Net Earnings per Share (non-GAAP)	$3.60 to $3.70
Free cash flow to net earnings conversion ratio (non-GAAP)	90% to 100%

 

VERALTO CORPORATION
RECONCILIATION OF GAAP TO NON-GAAP FINANCIAL MEASURES

Cash Flow and Free Cash Flow ($ in millions)
	Three-Month Period Ended				Year-over-Year Change
	April 4, 2025		March 29, 2024
Total Cash Flows:
Net cash provided by operating activities (GAAP)	$            157		$             115
Total cash used in investing activities (GAAP)	$             (11)		$             (23)
Total cash provided by (used in) financing activities (GAAP)	$             (26)		$             (20)
Free Cash Flow:
Total cash provided by operating activities (GAAP)	$            157		$             115		~ 36.5           %
Less: payments for additions to property, plant & equipment (capital expenditures) (GAAP)	(15)		(13)
Free cash flow (non-GAAP)	$            142		$            102		~ 39.0           %

We define free cash flow as operating cash flows, less payments for additions to property, plant and equipment ("capital expenditures") plus the proceeds from sales of plant, property and equipment ("capital disposals").

 

Statement Regarding Non-GAAP Measures

Each of the non-GAAP measures set forth above should be considered in addition to, and not as a replacement for or superior to, the comparable GAAP measure, and may not be comparable to similarly titled measures reported by other companies. Management believes that these measures provide useful information to investors by offering additional ways of viewing Veralto Corporation's ("Veralto" or the "Company") results that, when reconciled to the corresponding GAAP measure, help our investors:

• with respect to the profitability-related non-GAAP measures, understand the long-term profitability trends of our business and compare our profitability to prior and future periods and to our peers;
  
  
• with respect to core sales and related sales measures, identify underlying growth trends in our business and compare our sales performance with prior and future periods and to our peers; and
  
  
• with respect to free cash flow and related cash flow measures (the "FCF Measure"), understand Veralto's ability to generate cash without external financings, strengthen its balance sheet, invest in its business and grow its business through acquisitions and other strategic opportunities (although a limitation of free cash flow is that it does not take into account the Company's non-discretionary expenditures, and as a result the entire free cash flow amount is not necessarily available for discretionary expenditures).

Management uses these non-GAAP measures to measure the Company's operating and financial performance.

• The items excluded from the non-GAAP measures set forth above have been excluded for the following reasons:
  
  
  • Amortization of Intangible Assets: We exclude the amortization of acquisition-related intangible assets because the amount and timing of such charges are significantly impacted by the timing, size, number and nature of the acquisitions we consummate. While we have a history of significant acquisition activity, we do not acquire businesses on a predictable cycle, and the amount of an acquisition's purchase price allocated to intangible assets and related amortization term are unique to each acquisition and can vary significantly from acquisition to acquisition. Exclusion of this amortization expense facilitates more consistent comparisons of operating results over time between our newly acquired and long-held businesses, and with both acquisitive and non-acquisitive peer companies. We believe however that it is important for investors to understand that such intangible assets contribute to sales generation and that intangible asset amortization related to past acquisitions will recur in future periods until such intangible assets have been fully amortized.
    
    
  • Restructuring Charges: We exclude costs incurred pursuant to discrete restructuring plans that are fundamentally different (in terms of the size, strategic nature and planning requirements, as well as the inconsistent frequency, of such plans) from the ongoing productivity improvements that result from application of the Veralto Enterprise System. Because these restructuring plans are incremental to the core activities that arise in the ordinary course of our business and we believe are not indicative of Veralto's ongoing operating costs in a given period, we exclude these costs to facilitate a more consistent comparison of operating results over time.
    
    
  • Other Adjustments: With respect to the other items excluded from the profitability-related non-GAAP measures, we exclude these items because they are of a nature and/or size that occur with inconsistent frequency, occur for reasons that may be unrelated to Veralto's commercial performance during the period and/or we believe that such items may obscure underlying business trends and make comparisons of long-term performance difficult.
    
    
• With respect to core operating profit margin changes, in addition to the explanation set forth in the bullets above relating to "restructuring charges" and "other adjustments", we exclude the impact of businesses owned for less than one year (or disposed of during such period and not treated as discontinued operations) because the timing, size, number and nature of such transactions can vary significantly from period to period and may obscure underlying business trends and make comparisons of long-term performance difficult.
  
  
• With respect to core sales related measures, (1) we exclude the impact of currency translation because it is not under management's control, is subject to volatility and can obscure underlying business trends, and (2) we exclude the effect of acquisitions and divested product lines because the timing, size, number and nature of such transactions can vary significantly from period-to-period and between us and our peers, which we believe may obscure underlying business trends and make comparisons of long-term performance difficult.
  
  
• With respect to the FCF Measure, we exclude payments for additions to property, plant and equipment (net of the proceeds from capital disposals) to demonstrate the amount of operating cash flow for the period that remains after accounting for the Company's capital expenditure requirements.

 

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FAQ

What was Veralto's (VLTO) Q1 2025 earnings per share?

Veralto reported Q1 2025 earnings of $0.90 per diluted common share, with adjusted net earnings of $0.95 per diluted share.

How much did Veralto's (VLTO) sales grow in Q1 2025?

Veralto's sales increased 6.9% year-over-year to $1,332 million, with non-GAAP core sales growth of 7.8% in Q1 2025.

What is Veralto's (VLTO) earnings guidance for full year 2025?

Veralto reaffirmed its full year 2025 adjusted earnings per share guidance of $3.60 to $3.70, with free cash flow conversion between 90% to 100%.

What drove Veralto's (VLTO) growth in Water Quality segment Q1 2025?

Veralto's Water Quality segment showed robust growth in water treatment solutions in North America and steady growth in water analytics globally, including double-digit growth in Europe.

What is Veralto's (VLTO) Q2 2025 earnings forecast?

For Q2 2025, Veralto expects low-to-mid single-digit core sales growth with adjusted diluted earnings per share between $0.84 to $0.88.