Brett Merritt20:33
Good morning everybody. I'm Brett Merritt and I lead the engine business, but more importantly after that introduction, I'm a proud 25 plus year season ticket holder for our national champion Indiana. So with that, the engine business has been at the heart of Cummins for more than a hundred years. And after nearly 17 years with the company and an additional 10 years in the industry, I've lived through many industry cycles. But what excites me today isn't the history. It's how strong the business is right now and how well positioned we are for the future. Our engines power some of the most critical work in the world, keeping communities safe, infrastructure moving, and economies running. This business is built around strengths and it yields big advantages to Cummins including technology, customer relationships and financial performance. Many of you know Cummins for our position in the heavy duty trucking industry in the United States and that remains a critical part of our business. But as you see from the slide, the engine business extends well beyond that. Our engines go into applications where failure is just not an option. Think about fire engines responding to wildfires across the western United States. Excavators and haul trucks building infrastructure around the world in literally any location. And school buses driving our kids to and from school. These are applications where uptime and reliability aren't just expectations. They're what drives our customers economics and ultimately what drives their demand for Cummins products. Across all these applications, we leverage a common set of global engine platforms which allows us to move technology and capability across regions rather than reinventing solutions market by market. That platform approach creates global scale. And when you combine that with our presence in regions where markets and our customers operate, it becomes a real differentiator for Cummins. That's a scale that's reinforced by deep, longstanding OEM partnerships. These are not transactional relationships. They're built upon trust and technology leadership. We've been partnering with Paccar since the 30s. We've been partnering with Komatsu since the early 60s, Tata since the early 80s, and XCMG since the mid 1980s, just to name a few. From humble beginnings to billions of dollar relationships. And an important extension of that model is our joint ventures, particularly in India and China. On an unconsolidated basis, these JVs generated approximately $4.6 billion of additional revenue in 2025 for the engine business alone. They allow us to compete at scale locally while still leveraging global platforms and technology, strengthening our market position and enhancing returns without overconcentrating capital in those markets. Our revenue is pretty balanced across on-highway, off-highway and a growing aftermarket. That balance enables both growth and performance through cycles. This combination, global scale, strong partnerships, mission-critical applications, and a global aftermarket is a foundation for continued growth in the engine business. Even in a down North America market last year, we produced roughly 1.3 million engines globally, well over double our nearest competitor. That's the kind of scale that gives us purchasing leverage, manufacturing efficiency, and the ability to weather specific market downturns. What makes the scale so powerful is how we execute it regionally. We design and source globally, but we manufacture locally for the regions we serve. That local-for-local model is intentional, and it's a huge advantage for Cummins. The US is a great example. We build engines and aftertreatment and our components in the United States for the United States with a strong domestic manufacturing supporting our North American customers in an increasingly complex geopolitical environment that gives customers confidence that supply is secure, that we're responsive, and that we're aligned with all the local requirements. We've also been investing with a clear objective to have the most technologically advanced customer focused engines in the market. That investment shows up in how our engines perform and it's a key reason we've been gaining customers over time. This is an operational model that strengthens our OEM partnerships. Our partners leverage the global platforms and technology and combine that with regional content and manufacturing. They get the scale, consistency, and engineering expertise of Cummins and the local supply. The result of all this is number one global positions in medium duty truck, heavy duty truck, bus, and off highway. This combination, long-term regional investment, technology leadership, and strong partnerships is what underpins our customer relationships and generates cash. The engine business is built to perform through cycles and the strength you see today has been building over time. Engines remain critical to our core applications and are staying in service longer extending the period over which they generate value both for the customers and for Cummins. Additionally, we're adding content and winning new business across many markets. While we do expect North American truck markets to normalize, that's not really the story here. The headline is the additional content and why customers continue to choose Cummins and how long that value will persist. The aftermarket is the other critical piece and it's an earnings growth story. Because we've been winning across multiple emission cycles, we now have a larger and growing population of engines in the field. That growing population is going to yield meaningful higher aftermarket revenue over time. It's also a stable revenue source. So when OEM markets start to soften, aftermarket demand continues to build. That's the power of having more engines in the field, higher content, and running longer. And our peak investment period is largely behind us. Over the past several years, we've made deliberate investments in new platforms and manufacturing capabilities. Those investments are largely complete and they're now translating into launches, capability, and growth. Taken together, this is what drives engine performance for the long term. Revenue driven by content and customer pull, a growing aftermarket that keeps building, and the investment to support all this already in place. Over the past two decades, Cummins has built a track record that few can match, consistently reducing emissions while improving fuel economy at the same time. That's not easy to do. It requires deep engineering expertise, sustained investment, and the ability to execute across multiple technology cycles. You can see that pattern on the chart. As emission standards have stepped down, we've continued to drive improvements in fuel economy, which is ultimately what matters to a lot of our customers. And the numbers tell the story. Since 2007, we've reduced NOx by 96% while improving engine efficiency by 14%. And when you optimize the engine as a part of the total Cummins powertrain, which is how many of our North American customers experience it, that's an additional 8% efficiency gain on top of that. That efficiency advantage is a key reason customers continue to choose Cummins and why we've been gaining share in many of our markets over time. We're delivering increasingly complex technology that works reliably over the broadest range of applications and duty cycles at a scale no one else can match. The 2027 platforms reset the hardware baseline and create a foundation for continued year-on-year efficiency gains beyond this transition, just as we've done in every previous cycle. And to meet the EPA 2027 transition, we've invested in a core set of Helm platforms, high efficiency, low emission, multi-fuel engines designed to scale globally. These aren't one-off solutions. They're common platforms built to serve multiple markets, applications, and fuel types. And we're already seeing that product come to life with products like the X-15N, which is our natural gas heavy duty engine available and able to be ordered today. A key part of that approach generates content expansion. As emissions requirements tighten, we're adding meaningful content at the engine level and across the broader powertrain. EPA 2027 is the first application of the Helm platforms and there are more to come. A good example of the evolution of the Helm platforms is the movement from the L9 to the X10. The X10 moves from a legacy big bore design to a true heavy-duty architecture. In layman terms, this adds 70 additional horsepower, 400 foot-pounds of torque, and it improves our oil drain interval, 25,000 miles versus the current L9. Simply put, the L9 performs phenomenally well in the medium duty market, but the X10 will also be not only in the medium duty market, but also the heavy duty truck market across vocational, pickup, delivery, transit, coach, emergency. As you can tell, many, many applications. More capability, longer life, lower operating costs without forcing customers into a larger package. We've already announced the X10 for Mack's Granite platform. That's the first heavy-duty application as Granite is the heavy duty application for Mack. In fact though, it will be available in nearly every OEM platform in North America. These platforms were engineered alongside new after treatment systems from the start. Fully integrated solutions, not add-ons. Combined with industry-leading power density and packaging, this allows Cummins to allow OEMs to standardize on Cummins across more applications without trade-offs as standards tighten. Industry estimates suggest that EPA 2027 could add roughly $10,000 to the cost of a truck and the majority of this sits in the powertrain and powertrain related systems. That's exactly where Cummins plays. That added content shows up across our engines and our components business. With millions of miles of validation already behind us, this portfolio gives us a full set of compliant, scalable solutions ready to launch. And it positions us to capture more content per vehicle as customers look for partners who can manage complexity and deliver these platforms. At the center of our market strategy is the product. Everything starts with this high performing engine that I just went through. And from there, our model adapts, but the model is definitely push-pull. That means OEMs are making the powertrain decision. They're choosing what engine system am I going to use? And driven by technology requirements, a transition complexity, a need for a particular part of our broad portfolio. The partners are looking for another partner who can deliver these engines and execute at scale. During major transitions like EPA 2027, OEMs turn to Cummins because we can reduce risk and we can accelerate their time to market. More and more we are increasingly pulled and it's an important distinction here. It's the end users, the fleets, the operators, those who are running trucks who are choosing Cummins. They choose Cummins because of what they experience. They get a competitive acquisition cost, lower total cost of ownership when they're operating the engine, the truck, and then a stronger resale value. That rare combination drives a clear preference. And that preference flows back to the OEMs, pulling our product into more platforms, more applications, and more OEMs. You can see the power of pull in areas like our medium-duty North American share or in engine offerings at our partners Kenworth and Peterbilt that reflects end-user confidence in Cummins performance and long-term partnerships translating into major OEM decisions. Uptime is really the third leg of this model. Our global distributors support customers and thousands of dealers globally and they must do so for the life of the product. That uptime commitment reinforces both the push and the pull. OEMs trust our support infrastructure and the end-users experience the support every single day. These three elements continue to reinforce each other and create momentum. Push, pull, and uptime together drive repeat business, platform wins, and life cycle growth, extending the value well beyond the initial sale of the engine. Our market strategy has yielded a growing presence for Cummins. Take the North American market where we've been introducing 200,000 plus engines per year into the market driven by high share for many, many years. This increased OEM share drives a higher population of engines rolling in the field. Today, that is at least 2.2 million active on-highway engines in the North American market alone. And that number continues to grow. Aftermarket demand increases as the engines mature, and it comes to a peak somewhere between 7 and 11 years when engines reach major maintenance or rebuild cycles. As the engines move from early service into that peak window, parts intensity builds meaningfully, meaning more revenue and more part sales. A growing population of engines with higher content per engine running for longer. That means aftermarket revenue doesn't just hold through cycles. It keeps building. And the value doesn't stop at 11 years or 15 years on the slide. Last year alone, we sold $250 million in engine and components parts built before the year 2000. These engines are still running, still being serviced, and still generating revenue both for Cummins and our customers. Well, more than two decades later. Our distribution and service network supports this across the full life of the engine, keeping customers running and lowering the total cost of ownership. That network is a critical enabler of the aftermarket growth story. Looking ahead, EPA 2027 engines and components entering service will extend this dynamic well into the next decade. More content, longer service life, and a growing base of engines continue to generate value year after year. Stepping back, this is how the strategy comes together. Revenue growth is driven by things we control, we have visibility to. This is new content. These are big new customer wins and eventually market normalization as North American truck cycles recover. Emission cycles are a major contributor. The content required for these transitions add meaningful value both across engine and components, creating growth opportunities well beyond my business alone. At the same time, the aftermarket continues to build. And again, a growing population of engines in the field with higher content and longer service life supports increasing parts and service demand over a long period of time. And that strengthens not only engines and components, but also our distribution business. And the investment to support this is already in place. We're ready to build more engines later this year. We're confident that the engine business will continue to grow revenue and improve returns over time. The foundation is strong. We have leading products. We have global scale, deep customer relationships, a growing aftermarket, and a distribution network no one else can match. This is a business built to perform through cycles. And we're just getting started with the next one. With that, I'm going to turn it over to Jenny Bush, who will take you into the power systems business, where you'll see many of these same strengths in a market that's definitely accelerating. And I have to admit, every now and then, I'm pretty jealous of her very large engines.