Stephen Scherger

Chief Financial Officer & Executive Vice President, Amcor

Search every verified Stephen Scherger interview, podcast appearance, and on-the-record quote — each transcript cross-checked by AI and human review to confirm speaker identity. Stephen Scherger, Chief Financial Officer and Executive Vice President at Amcor, participated in the company’s fiscal 2026 fourth quarter earnings calls held on August 12–13, 2026. During the calls, he discussed Amcor’s financial results, which included a 26% increase in net sales to $6.4 billion and an adjusted earnings per share that exceeded expectations. Scherger noted that the company delivered strong operating performance despite a challenging macroeconomic environment, with broad-based volume growth across business segments and regions, including strength in emerging markets and sequential improvement in North America and Europe. Scherger also addressed the company’s cash flow and leverage expectations, stating that Amcor anticipates leverage of approximately three times by the end of December 2026 and expressed confidence in recovering $500 million in cash flow related to the Middle East conflict. He mentioned that the company’s assumptions include reasonable stability in cost inputs and that the recovery of cash flow is not included in working capital improvement assumptions but rather in cash flow projections.