Earnings call transcript: Philips Q2 2025 sees stock surge on raised guidance

Philips reported its second-quarter 2025 earnings, showcasing a 20% year-on-year increase in adjusted diluted EPS to €0.36. With trailing twelve-month EBITDA of $2.76 billion and revenue of $19.45 billion, the company raised its full-year adjusted EBITA margin guidance and improved its free cash flow outlook, leading to a 10.84% surge in its stock price. According to InvestingPro analysis, the stock appears undervalued based on its Fair Value metrics, and the company maintains a strong gross profit margin of 43.42%. The market reacted positively to Philips’ financial performance and strategic innovations, despite challenges in certain regions.

Key Takeaways

• Philips’ adjusted diluted EPS rose 20% year-on-year.
• Full-year EBITA margin guidance was raised to 11.3-11.8%.
• Stock price increased by 10.84% following the earnings release.
• Strong product innovation with new AI-powered and healthcare solutions.
• Productivity savings of €344 million year-to-date.

Company Performance

Philips demonstrated a robust performance in Q2 2025, with comparable sales growth of 1% and an adjusted EBITA margin increase of 130 basis points to 12.4%. The company continues to benefit from its strategic focus on innovation and operational efficiency, as evidenced by its raised guidance and improved cash flow outlook. InvestingPro data reveals the company’s strong financial health with a healthy current ratio of 1.28 and an impressive Altman Z-Score of 5.84, indicating solid financial stability. Subscribers can access 8 additional ProTips and comprehensive financial metrics on the platform.

Financial Highlights

• Adjusted diluted EPS: €0.36, up 20% year-on-year
• Adjusted EBITA margin: 12.4%, increased by 130 basis points
• Productivity savings: €344 million year-to-date
• Free cash flow outlook: Raised to €200-400 million

Market Reaction

Philips’ stock surged by 10.84% after the earnings announcement, reflecting investor optimism in the company’s performance and future prospects. With a beta of 0.82, the stock historically shows lower volatility than the broader market. The stock’s movement aligns with the company’s strategic advancements and improved guidance, positioning it favorably within the market. For detailed analysis and valuation insights, check out the comprehensive Pro Research Report available on InvestingPro, covering what really matters for informed investment decisions.

Outlook & Guidance

Philips maintained its comparable sales growth outlook at 1-3% and expects sequential sales improvement through 2025. The company targets mid-single-digit growth and mid-teens margins beyond 2025, with a Capital Markets Day planned for February 2026. Despite challenges in the China market, Philips remains cautiously optimistic about recovery.

Executive Commentary

CEO Roy Jacobs highlighted, "We continue to build our trajectory into this mid-single digit growth and this kind of mid- to high-teens margins." He also noted the encouraging uptake of innovations in healthcare settings and improvements in patient safety and supply chain management.

Risks and Challenges

• Slow recovery in the China market may impact revenue growth.
• Restructuring and acquisition-related costs of €86 million in Q2.
• Variability in consumer sentiment across regions.
• Potential macroeconomic pressures affecting global demand.

Q&A

During the earnings call, analysts inquired about margin expansion drivers, the impact of China destocking, and the performance of the ultrasound and monitoring business. Philips addressed these concerns, emphasizing its strategic focus and mitigation strategies for tariffs.

Full transcript - Philips (PHIA) Q2 2025:

Conference Moderator: Welcome to the Philips Second Quarter and Semiannual twenty twenty five Results Conference Call on Tuesday, 07/29/2025. During the call hosted by Ms. Roy Yacob, CEO and Ms. Charlotte Hanneman, CFO, all participants will be in a listen only mode. After the introduction, there will be opportunity to ask questions.

Please note that this call will be recorded and replay will be available on the Investor now hand the conference over to Ms. Durga Dorosami, Head of Investor Relations. Please go ahead, ma’am.

Durga Dorosami, Head of Investor Relations, Philips: Hello, everyone. Welcome to Philips results webcast for the second quarter and half year twenty twenty five. I’m here with our CEO, Roy Jacobs and our CFO, Charlotta Hanuman. The press release and investor presentation can be accessed on our Investor Relations website. The replay and full transcript of this website of this webcast will be available on our website after this call concludes.

I want to draw your attention to our safe harbor statement on the screen and in the presentation. I will now hand over to Roy.

Roy Jacobs, CEO, Philips: Thanks, Durga. Good morning, everyone. Thank you for joining us today. We entered Q2 with momentum, and we further strengthened it throughout the period. Order intake grew 6%, building on 9% last year.

Comparable sales increased by 1%, with strength in Personal Health offsetting performance in D and T and Connected Care. Margin expanded by 130 basis points in the quarter to 12.4%, demonstrating that our innovation and ongoing productivity measures are driving strong gross margins. We delivered as planned in the first half of the year, and we are sustaining this momentum into Q3. We reiterate our full year comparable sales growth outlook of 1% to 3%, and we increased our 2025 adjusted EBITA margin range to between 11.311.8%. This 50 basis points increase includes recent tariff developments.

We now expect full year free cash flow to be between €200,000,000 and €400,000,000 Of course, all of the above assume that current tariff levels hold, whilst we continue to focus fully on executing our planned tariff mitigation actions, which are well underway and on track. Now, let’s look at our Q2 performance in more detail. Let’s start with orders first. Q2 order intake growth was broad based across most regions. We saw sustained double digit growth in North America and strong performance across growth geographies.

Globally, our order book has increased in recent quarters. It’s up 7% year over year, with an improved margin profile from our latest innovations. What does this mean for a second half? This order momentum, combined with our robust order book, positions us well to deliver a full year sales outlook. In Diagnosis and Treatment, orders grew double digit across most regions.

In particular, is strong demand for our recently launched innovations, which drove order intake growth in both image guided therapy and precision diagnosis. Let me share some examples. Our leadership in minimally invasive procedures was underscored in Q2 by a multi year nationwide agreement with the Indonesian Ministry of Health. This will expand access to image guided therapy using our industry leading Azurion platform. Millions of patients with cardiac, stroke and cancer conditions across all of the country will benefit from it.

Additionally, this partnership marks a significant step in strengthening Indonesia’s healthcare infrastructure for high impact disease areas. It extends beyond equipment to services. It includes training, scalable digital solutions and service hubs. It will deliver nationwide long term care. Meanwhile, in the area of iced tea innovation, our award winning Azure Neuro BiPane R3, which we introduced last year, is fueling double digit year on year order growth.

This new innovation is also contributing to higher win rate across all our biplane systems. In Precision Diagnosis, we experienced also strong year on year order intake growth, in both Diagnostic Imaging as well as in Ultrasound, led by North America. This is another great example of momentum driven by strong demand, recently launched innovations and improved commercial execution. In MR, we were the first and remain the only company to offer a commercially available whiteboard one half T Helium Free system. And this is gaining traction.

Customer feedback is positive and all one half T MRI orders today are now from our helium free BlueSeal system. This breakthrough innovation saves 1,500 liters of helium per system, significantly reduces installation costs over lifetime, while offering full flexibility in facility placement. It’s setting MR free. We also strengthened our position as an AI leader, with the FDA five ten clearance of MR SmartBee precise dual AI software. This AI solution delivers three times faster scanning and up to 80% sharper images, all in just one click.

CT growth was driven by strong demand for the CT5300, our AI enabled productivity workhorse, and the clinically advanced Spectral CT7500. By the end of the second quarter, these two systems alone accounted for more than half of all CT order intake value. It clearly demonstrates the clinical and operational impact of these recent launches for customers who need to deliver better outcomes, but as much need to increase access to imaging. Moving to Connected Care. Following exceptional growth of over 20% in the prior year, underlying order intake remained very resilient, declining slightly.

Demand for our solutions in hospital patient monitoring remained strong. This is fueled by significant customer partnerships, including six major US agreements finalized in just Q2 alone. And this includes dislodging incumbents. How? Because we drive efficiencies, as we streamline operations across care settings and across hospital systems.

IntelliView patient monitors, plus our AI powered virtual patient information center, work together to create comprehensive and efficient patient monitoring and information management system. With a strong and growing order book, up year on year and improving sequentially, and the increasing momentum, D and T and Connected Care are well positioned to accelerate growth and margin in the second half of the year. Now, let’s move to Personal Health. All three businesses within the segment grew, driven by strong traction from new innovations and enhancements to our core products, supported by targeted investments. These innovations are resonating, not just with customers, but also with high performing partners, such as Amazon, Costco, Walmart, MSH, jd.com and Douyin, along with local accelerators.

Why? Because they are driving measurable increases in sellout, category growth and share, and they are accelerating access to consumers in our key growth markets. In Q2, sell out trends remained robust across Europe and most growth geographies, supported by these partnerships. China continued to lag due to subdued consumer sentiment. In The US, sentiment has remained relatively stable, but we are maintaining a close watch on evolving consumer dynamics.

More broadly, we are continuously tracking consumer sentiment and spending across all regions to ensure agility in our response. We continue to execute on our priorities, from enhancing patient safety and supply chain resilience to simplifying our operations. Here are some key highlights in the quarter. Firstly, with quality embedded in our businesses, innovation and our culture, we have simplified and strengthened our quality management system and Kappa processes, completed deep reviews of post market surveying signals and accelerated our response to newly emerging post market signals. As a result, we have reduced field actions and product updates by approximately 20% year to date, following 20% reduction in 2024 compared to 2023, which reflects a sustained improvement in overall quality performance.

Moving to supply chain. Through continued product simplification and operational focus, our teams delivered our products to hospital and patients with greater speed and reliability. In Q2, service levels reached an all time high of 86%, an improvement of more than 10 percentage points year on year. Improved supply chain reliability and agility support our progress in executing tariff mitigation in line with our plan. Lastly, we continue to identify and execute opportunities with a new operating model to reduce complexity and better align our resources to where growth is happening, resulting in strong and continued productivity improvements.

Charlotte will discuss this further. The fundamentals of the markets we serve remain strong, though the dynamics continue to vary by region. Let me take a moment to reflect on what we’re hearing from our customers. Starting with North America, we continue to see steady fundamental hospital demand. Customer pool for productivity solutions remains strong.

They seek smarter ways to manage increasing workload and navigate resource constraints whilst having to serve more patients. We are well positioned to meet this need as innovation and productivity partner, as evidenced by the double digit order intake growth in 2024 and the first half of this year. While we have not observed significant shifts in CapEx plans, we are closely monitoring the environment. In China, stimulus activity is picking up and tender activity is increasing, although from a low base. That said, we have not yet seen a significant change in market dynamics.

Therefore, we continue to maintain a cautious view on China in our full year outlook. Globally, Osverol capital expenditure remains solid. We are seeing increasing demand in Europe and Latin America. India and Saudi Arabia are investing in healthcare infrastructure and digitalization, representing high growth geographies to us, as also evidenced by the Sharon deal in Indonesia. Staying close to our customers and partners is more important than ever.

They are navigating an increasingly complex environment, facing rising demand, resource constraints and shifting priorities. That’s why we’re focused on innovating with purpose to deliver better and more care, solving their most pressing challenges through smart, scalable and AI enabled solutions. I’m proud of how our teams are stepping up and delivering impact where it matters most. Gerald will now discuss our second quarter performance and our outlook for 2025.

Durga Dorosami, Head of Investor Relations, Philips: Thank you, Roy. I will start with segment level performance. In Diagnosis and Treatment, comparable sales decreased by 1% in the quarter, as expected, on the back of a high two year comparison base. Image Guided Therapy continued its solid top line performance, driven primarily by higher installations of our flagship Zurian systems in Europe and growth geographies, along with strong performance in coronary devices. Precision Diagnosis sales declined in the low single digits year over year.

This was mainly due to a particularly high comparison base in magnetic resonance. As we noted in Q1, this elevated base was driven by prior year’s improvements in the supply chain and persisted into Q2. D and T adjusted EBITA margin improved by 130 basis points to 13.5%. Recently launched innovations such as next generation Blu Seal MR, CT5300 and Azurion Neuro Biplane continue to contribute to the improvement of the gross margin. The improvement in adjusted EBITDA was further supported by productivity measures, improved operational efficiency and favorable mix effect.

There was contribution from services, which was partially offset by cost inflation. In Connected Care, comparable sales declined 1% in the quarter, mainly due to a low single digit decline in Monitoring. Similar to Diagnosis and Treatment, our hospital patient monitoring business faced a high two year comparison base globally, following prior period supply chain improvements. As Roy said, we continue to see solid demand in hospital patient monitoring, driven by large partnerships in North America. Connected Care adjusted EBITA margin improved by 160 basis points to 10.4%.

This was mainly driven by productivity measures, improved operational efficiency and a low comparable base, partially offset by cost inflation. Personal Health delivered strong growth in Q2 across most geographies. This strong performance was partially offset by a decline in China, reflecting the impact of inventory destocking, which concluded in the quarter as anticipated. Personal Health adjusted EBITA margin declined by 170 basis points to 15.2%. Higher sales and productivity measures were more than offset by mix, cost inflation and advertising and promotion spend to drive long term demand and support our recent launches.

These included the AI powered i9000 electric shaver range and Sonicare range of toothbrushes. Finally, sales in the Other segment were in line with the previous year, and adjusted EBITDA for this segment increased by €24,000,000 year on year, mainly driven by lower costs and higher royalty income. Turning to our group results and operating highlights in the quarter. Comparable sales growth for the group was 1%. Geographically, overall growth was supported by growth geographies.

This was mostly offset by a decline in China, as expected, mainly due to the decline in Personal Health. Adjusted EBITA margin increased by 130 basis points to 12.4%, driven by productivity measures, improved gross margin from innovation, favorable mix effect and improved operational efficiency. This was partially offset by advertising and promotion spend in Personal Health, cost inflation, including the initial impact of increased tariffs, currency headwinds and lower sales in China. Tariffs remain dynamic. We have largely completed short term mitigation actions, such as optimizing inventory locations and flow of goods, leveraging special programs and pursuing exceptions.

We made solid progress on mid term initiatives, including supplier network and manufacturing location optimization to enhance cost efficiency and operational agility. This process is carefully managed to balance regulatory, operational and customer considerations. Our disciplined approach to cost management and productivity initiatives has delivered €2,100,000,000 in savings since the start of our three year plan in 2023. These savings have contributed meaningfully to adjusted EBITA expansion. In Q2, we delivered 197,000,000 in savings, bringing the year to date total to €344,000,000 We remain on track to achieve €800,000,000 in productivity savings in 2025.

One of the key levers supporting this multiyear delivery is product simplification and SKU reduction across portfolio. These efforts reduce complexity and costs in R and D, procurement and supply chain. Also, this enables us to focus resources on areas with the highest growth potential. As a result, we’re accelerating innovation and structurally improving our margin profile. Roy mentioned earlier that we are continuing to find opportunities to reduce complexity and further align with our new operating model.

This requires making tough but necessary choices about what we stop doing, freeing up our teams to focus externally on customers and competitive dynamics. These simplification efforts are already delivering results, contributing to productivity savings in Q2 and sharpening our commercial focus, creating the space for our teams to accelerate growth. Restructuring and acquisition related costs continue to require close attention. In the quarter, adjusting items amounted to €86,000,000 of which €54,000,000 were related to Respironics field action and consent decree remediation. This is below our Q2 twenty twenty five outlook range of €150,000,000 mainly driven by cost phasing within the year.

Adjusted diluted EPS from continued operations was €0.36 in the quarter, up 20% year on year, which benefited from improved gross margin. Free cash flow in the quarter was €230,000,000 driven by higher earnings, offset by working capital outflows due to seasonal phasing. Moving to the balance sheet. We ended the quarter with approximately €1,800,000,000 of cash and net debt of approximately 6,600,000,000.0 Our leverage ratio remained in line with Q1 twenty twenty five and last year at 2.2 times on a net debt to adjusted EBITDA basis. We successfully raised €1,000,000,000 this quarter through a well supported notes offering, with the five and ten year tranches oversubscribed more than three and four times respectfully.

We remain committed to maintaining a strong investment grade credit rating. Now turning to the outlook. Our comparable sales growth outlook remains unchanged at 1% to 3%, with a greater weighting towards the fourth quarter as previously expected. As Roy mentioned, the strength in our order book across both Diagnosis and Treatment and Connected Care as well as our Personal Health sales momentum positions us well to drive accelerated growth in the second half of the year. This is further supported by a lower prior year comparison in China.

We continue to expect sequential improvement in comparable sales through the 2025, with Q3 projected to come in slightly above the full year range of 1% to 3% and further improvement anticipated in Q4. The tariff landscape remains dynamic. There have been two notable revisions since the outlook we provided on May 6. Tariffs on U. S.-China bilateral trade and tariffs on imports from the European Union into The U.

S. Are both expected to be lower than our previous assumptions. At current levels, the estimated net impact for 2025 is between 150,000,000 and €200,000,000 down approximately €100,000,000 from the previous estimates. We now expect adjusted EBITA margin to be between 11.311.8%, which is 50 basis points above our May outlook. We estimated the current impact of tariffs using the same consistent approach as before based on announced measures and net of substantial mitigation actions, which we are actively executing on with Agility.

As mentioned during our earnings call in May, the tariff impact will be more pronounced in the second half of the year, reflecting the timing lag between higher inventory costs and the recognition of the impact in the P and L. As a result, we expect Q3 adjusted EBITA margin to decline year over year, primarily due to tariffs and the timing of royalty income in the Other segment. Moving to free cash flow. At current tariff levels, we now expect free cash flow for the full year to range between 200,000,000.0 and €400,000,000 up from slightly positive previously. As a reminder, our 2025 free cash flow includes the €1,000,000,000 outflow related to the Respironics settlement paid in Q1.

Our Q3 and full year 2025 outlook excludes potential wider economic impact and the ongoing Philips Respironics related proceedings, including the investigation by the Department of Justice. With that, I would like to hand it back to Roy for his closing remarks.

Roy Jacobs, CEO, Philips: Thank you, Charlotte. Before we conclude, I would like to share that we’ll host a Capital Markets Day next February. The event will mark the completion of the three year plan I launched when I became CEO. It will provide an opportunity to reflect on the fundamental progress we have been delivering since. It also sets the stage to outline the next phase of our strategy: accelerating profitable growth, unlocking the full potential of our segments and enabling better care for more people, now and into the future.

This position us to continue building towards our trajectory of mid single digit growth and mid teens margins beyond 2025. We look forward to that discussion. To sum up, in the second quarter, we delivered solid order intake growth, sales growth and strong margin improvement. As you have said from the start of the year, our performance is weighted towards the second half and we are on track to deliver. Our confidence is underpinned by order intake momentum and robust order book, providing clear visibility into second half sales conversion.

We are seeing encouraging uptake of our innovations in Healthcare settings and sales momentum in Personal Health, all while the tariff landscape continues to evolve. We keep execution on track and actively adapt our mitigation measures accordingly. These dynamics position us well to execute and deliver against our full year outlook and operational priorities, and allowed us to increase our full year outlook for adjusted EBITA margin and free cash flow, including currently announced tariffs, whilst we reiterate our comparable sales growth outlook for the year. We achieved what we set out to do in the first half, while navigating a complex and in several ways unchartered global environment. Looking ahead to the second half, we are confident in our ability to do the same.

We are building on momentum and delivery to date, with a clear focus on driving underlying margin expansion. Thank you, and we are now ready for your questions.

Conference Moderator: Thank you, sir. Due to the time, please limit yourselves to one question and one follow-up. This will give more people the opportunity to ask questions. There will be a short pause while participants register for question. We will now take our first question from the line of Hassan Al Wakil from Barclays.

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Hassan Al Wakil, Analyst, Barclays: have three, please. Firstly, can you talk about the improvement in T and T margins and, the underlying, expansion here? I know that you highlighted gross margin as a driver, but can you quantify, how much of that was driven by gross margin? And within gross margin, whether it’s price or mix or both and whether you see yourself at an inflection in the D and T margin? Secondly, on the margin guidance, why have you only banked the tariff improvement and not the EBITA beat in the quarter?

Is this conservatism on your part? Or do you see or do you not see the margin improvement as sustainable? And then finally, can you please help us unpack the decline in Connected Care in the quarter by segment, particularly monitoring and S and RC? What is driving this? How is the share gain opportunity being realized in Europe in S and RC?

And then in monitoring, I can see that there was a decline this quarter and that comes against a flat performance last year. So I’d love to get the detail behind that. Thank you.

Durga Dorosami, Head of Investor Relations, Philips: Thank you, Hassan. Let me start with your first question on the D and T margin. We’re indeed very pleased with the D and T margin expansion in the quarter of 130 basis points. And as I said in my prepared remarks, a lot of that is indeed related to gross margin expansion on the back of in our the great innovations that we’ve been bringing to market, including our BlueSeal MR, our Spectral CT7500 and as well as our Azurion Neuro BiPlay. And so we really see strength across the modalities.

In addition to that, we’ve also continued to focus on productivity. You heard me talk about in my prepared remarks about the portfolio simplification as well as the SKU reduction, and we start seeing the impact of that in our gross margin as well. And then lastly, we also saw favorable mix impact that have helped on the back of also solid IGT sales as well as increased contribution from our services portfolio as well. So there’s a lot to be pleased about in the second quarter there. If I then continue on to your second question on the full year margin guidance.

And again, I’d say that, first of all, we’re happy with our outlook revision to include the current tariff levels of that have gone down, both from a U. S.-China perspective as well as from an EU U. S. Perspective. What I would just remind you of, though, is that if we look back at the first half, we are at minus 1% sales growth and 30 basis points of expansion.

In order to deliver on this guidance, we have to accelerate our margin expansion in the second half of the year whilst absorbing the tariff impact that will hit us in earnest in the second half of the year because of the way that flows into our P and L. Of course, also, we have potential FX headwinds to take into account, So that’s also what we’re taking into account. What I would add on top of that is specifically on Q3, we expect adjusted EBITA margins to go down as a result of that tariff impact impacting our P and L.

Roy Jacobs, CEO, Philips: Thank you, Hassan. And then on Connected Care. So if you look at Connected Care, the sales declined 1%, primarily driven by low single digit drop in monitoring. And as you know, this business grew low single digits last year, following the strong 20% plus growth in 2023 after earlier supply chain improvements that we realized. So it’s coming from this high base.

And as we also have seen in the order intake growth and the strength there, actually momentum in monitoring is very strong. And also, monitoring represents 6% of the total revenue. The demand for monitoring solutions remains strong, especially also with The U. S. Demand, and we concluded six big partnerships there with major healthcare systems.

If you look to the Respironics SOC performance, we had, of course, a very strong pickup last year. Now we see a bit slower pickup this year, also on the back of that strong uptake last year. We have strong momentum in the masks, as we have shared before, where the new launches are gaining traction, and we are working our way back into the markets that we are reentering. So actually, we are also looking forward to the second half of the year, where we see actually Connected Care momentum growing on the basis of the order book and order momentum that we have been seeing. And we are confident that, that will also then showcase itself into Q3 and Q4 performance.

Hassan Al Wakil, Analyst, Barclays: That’s really helpful. If I can just follow-up, where are you in the European market on the system side versus where you are prior to the recall, please, in share terms?

Roy Jacobs, CEO, Philips: It’s I would hard to kind of say exactly in share terms, Hassan. As said, we are now back in full markets. We’re also expanding in the markets. We’re also working closely with the big partners in these markets. But of course, we’re still working our way back in.

So I think it’s too early to call specific market share numbers on that. But we are kind of rebuilding the momentum. And actually, that’s going in line with plans. So actually, we are staying the course on that and see really that the customers are welcoming us back, as we said earlier.

Hassan Al Wakil, Analyst, Barclays: Thank you very much.

Conference Moderator: Thank you. We will now take our next question from the line of Graham Doyle from UBS. Please state your question, Graham.

Graham Doyle, Analyst, UBS: Good morning. Thanks for taking my questions. Just a couple really relating to China and one quick one on tariffs. Just in terms of the destock of personnel, how far to the quarter did that actually kind of complete? And then would you be able to give us some color on what you’re seeing in terms of the medical equipment side of things on tenders and how that’s translating into orders and hopefully, at some point, revenues?

And then very briefly, just on tariffs for 2026, should we effectively take what we’re looking at for the second half and sort of annualize that?

Roy Jacobs, CEO, Philips: So thank you, Graham. On China destocking, so indeed, we completed the destocking program in the second quarter. And at the same time, I think we have been spending behind the continued strong sellout. So actually, that combination was important because we built on the momentum that we see step by step rebuilding in China. We had an 18.6 festival where we actually saw an improvement for the first time also in sellout coming in.

We ranked number one on jd.com in our category, so actually it was good performance. So we see China playing out as we planned. We’re still cautious on the full year, but we do see it strengthening, and that’s also what we’ll take in the second half. As you know, we’ll also get the comparable then supporting us. But also on the underlying sellout, we see that actually we are rebuilding the momentum in the market, and that goes with the demand that step by step is increasing.

On the medical side, we see also in line with our outlook, as we said earlier, that there’s a slow recovery. Tenders are coming into the market. It’s a competitive situation, and the process is still prolonged. So that’s also something that we see, therefore, still hitting us in the second quarter with slower growth from China on the medical side. But in the second half, we also expect that to improve, although from a low base and, of course, also at a slow pace.

So I think China is fully baked in the guidance that we have now put out there for the full year. So in that sense, it’s I think we feel comfortable with what we are planning for, and we remain very close to the market. I was there last two weeks ago myself again, talking to customers and the government. They really want to strengthen the Chinese market, and we continue to believe in the longer term prospects of it, but it does take time. I think that’s still fair to say.

And we are gaining in that market good momentum with the market base, and that’s something that kind of we also see then continuing into 2026. So we don’t expect that this is a short term hiccup. We expect structural improvement. So step by step, we expect China to come back into the mid single digit ranges that have been before, and that’s what we’re working towards.

Durga Dorosami, Head of Investor Relations, Philips: Yes. Thank you, Graham. And maybe to your next question on the 2026 tariffs. So maybe first to give you a little bit of context. So as we started seeing those tariffs, we’ve established a multifunctional SWAT team a few months ago, really going through all the different scenarios that we see.

And as a result, we’ve been able to digest the latest dynamic updates. And if we then particularly go into 2026 and also what Roy said in his prepared remarks around us building towards our trajectory of mid single digit growth and mid teens margins beyond 2025, that incorporates the new tariff reality. So that is the best I can say at this point in time.

Graham Doyle, Analyst, UBS: Awesome. That’s really clear. Thanks a lot, guys. Appreciate it.

Conference Moderator: Thank you. We will now take our next question from the line of Veronika Dubajova from Citi. Please state your question, Veronika.

Veronika Dubajova, Analyst, Citi: Hi, guys. Good morning, thank you, Roy and Charlotte, for taking my questions. I will keep it to two, please. One, just was hoping you could elaborate on the strength you’re seeing in Personal Health. And just in particular, I think you alluded to high single, low double digit growth rates in Europe and The U.

S. Obviously, that’s quite at odds with a lot of the other consumer data points So, Rory, maybe you can give us a little bit of color on sort of how you’re thinking, what’s driving that, how sustainable that might be? And I guess the guidance for the year where you were looking for growth that is above the 1% to 3%, just curious if it’s mid or high single digits kind of what’s realistic because the comps do get easier in the back half of the year and clearly, China is better. So that’s my first question.

I appreciate there’s a lot of moving parts. And then my second question is just on the order strength. Roy, would love you would love for you to elaborate a little bit on the modalities in particular where you think you’re doing better. And maybe you you’ve touched upon the regional color in terms of North America, but if there are any other regions you’d call out there as well, that would be helpful. Thank you so much.

Roy Jacobs, CEO, Philips: Yeah. Thank you, Veronica, for your questions. Let me start on PH. So, as we actually saw in due course of the year, we see the consumer momentum for our solutions in particular strengthening. We saw that in Q1.

We saw a further step up in Q2, and we actually expect that to continue into the second half, that momentum that we have been building. That was, in particular, of course, outside of The U. S. Sorry, outside of China. So we saw strong U.

S. And also strong Europe and rest of the world. Now I think we mentioned that this is quite broad based, so we see good uptake about our new grooming and beauty ranges. In particular, we launched the new high end shaver, the I 9,000, really doing really well. And that’s generating not only good sales but also good margins.

So that’s a very important launch that is generating traction. We had the midrange in Sonicare that we launched that actually is also making good headway in China but also in the rest of the world. So actually, we see an update that’s supported. But also in our modern child care business that is actually doing well, we see that our AI powered Advent baby monitor but also natural feeding bottles are doing well. So we see that there is a structural support for our solutions, and we see the growth from a regional perspective in North America, in Western Europe and especially outside of China.

Now in the second half, we do expect China to further pick up. I just mentioned it. We see sellouts strengthening quarter over quarter in China. And of course, we have the comparison base because the destocking comes out of our numbers. Now if you then look at the guidance for the year, indeed, we said we would be probably slightly above the range.

We still have a second half to go, so we want to be kind of also prudent on that outlook. But we see a sustained support for the demand that we have been seeing increasing. So that’s the outlook. And we remain, of course, also cautious on the consumer sentiment, staying on top of it. But for the moment, we are confident on pH outlook.

Now then secondly, on the orders in health systems, actually also there, we saw it was quite broad based. So starting with the strongest, which was IGT, which saw double digit order intake growth, and that was coming in from various places. So we had North America, double digit growth of orders. We had the Indonesia deal that you saw in Asia. We also had good growth in Europe.

So we see that IGT is resonating. We had the new launch of the Neural Biplane that actually is really coming in strong, but also the base platform still generating a lot of interest and expanding its position. So that’s in IGT. Then in PD, we also had high single digit growth, actually nicely contributed by both from MR and CT perspective. I mentioned that actually we see now that all our kind of one off the orders are coming from the Blue Shield.

So that is actually making really good inroads. Including in China. Actually, we see a good support for that platform. And then also in our CT range, the 5,300 that we launched, the AI enabled kind of platform that really drives 80% lower radiation and lower image noise does really well in the market, but also a spectral in volumes actually is picking up, and we saw also a nice step up in Q2 versus Q1 from a CT perspective. And then ultrasound, not to forget, came in strong as well.

So we had a good contribution from ultrasound. We launched some new innovations with the Epic, the Affinity, also a new point of care offering came into play. So from a D and T perspective, strong pull from across regions. Then connected care, I already alluded to that we were very pleased actually that based on a more than 20% exceptional growth in Q2 twenty twenty four with a big deal in North America, we now saw good growth coming in with a slight decline in Q2, again, fueled strongly from North America, also kind of strong growth there with six big partnerships. But also outside of North America, see good momentum, and we see the need for more patient monitoring really strengthening and doing that in an efficient manner.

And that’s what our platform really provides into and provides for. So we kind of saw that momentum also doing well. So overall, we have an order momentum and also the funnel that actually supports us with the momentum into the second half. We have strong visibility into that. And actually, we see that the new innovations are generating the traction that we were hoping for.

And that gives us also the underpinning not only for the order intake outlook but also for, of course, sales in the second half.

Veronika Dubajova, Analyst, Citi: That’s super helpful. Thank you so much, Roy.

Conference Moderator: Thank you. We will now take our next question from David Atlinton from JPMorgan. Please state your question, David. David, your line is open. Can you hear me?

David Atlinton, Analyst, JPMorgan: Questions. Two, please. So firstly, on personal health, it sounds like you’ve invested quite a lot. Hello? Can you hear me?

Roy Jacobs, CEO, Philips: We can hear you now. Yes. Yeah. We can hear you now. Yeah.

David Atlinton, Analyst, JPMorgan: Hello?

Durga Dorosami, Head of Investor Relations, Philips: Yep. Yes. We can.

David Atlinton, Analyst, JPMorgan: Okay. Perfect. Hey, guys. Yeah. So, yeah, just on personal health, you’ve invested quite a lot in advertising and promotional spend in PH in the quarter.

I just wondered if you could pull out how much of that was in price. May maybe just talk about pricing dynamics. And then secondly, as you look into 2026, U. S. Hospital markets tend to face some challenges in 2026.

Just wanted to tell your early conversations with customers are and how they’re thinking about the market in 2026. Thank you.

Durga Dorosami, Head of Investor Relations, Philips: Yes. Thank you, David. So let me take the first question on personal health. Indeed, we fueled the innovations that we’ve done and that Roy spoke about. We fueled that with advertising and promotion spend, and we’ve invested quite heavily also particularly in China as we are finalizing the destocking that we spoke about of the inventory, we were investing behind the sellout by putting marketing campaigns and investing in influencer campaigns there.

So that is driving part of the investment there. What I would tell you from a pricing perspective, in personal health, it’s broadly flat. So we are not reducing our prices to gain market share or to drive sales. This is really a marketing campaign to drive the great innovations that Roy just put. And then on the second question, U.

S. CapEx conversion, maybe over to you, Roy.

Roy Jacobs, CEO, Philips: Yes. So we see continued strength in the demand in North America. I think we see the patient volumes are strong, procedures are still up. I think what is important to segment over systems kind of where we see specific demands, because on one hand, we see kind of the bigger systems still consolidating, and we can provide them with really platforms that make them more efficient because they are really looking for productivity, able to serve more patients but at a lower cost because they also face cost pressures. At the same time, they also want to have more ambulatory solutions to also serve patients outside of the hospital system.

So we see that also ongoing. In part, we saw also that kind of in the deals that we have, there are some monitoring as a service deal still in place. So also the OpEx is being used to kind of convert that demand. So we continue to see strong demand in North America. It has been fueling now six one half year actually of double digit growth in orders.

We don’t see an immediate trend breach. Of course, we stay on top of it. We also are very close to our customers, discussing how we can support them, but we are actually looking forward to continuing to grow in North America. We have been strengthening our position there, both in terms of our commercial position. We also, of course, continue to support the supply position in line with the trend in the world.

So that’s something that kind of supports our win rate in North America. But most importantly, we see demand also for next year as strong, and therefore, we continue to fuel the North American market with our innovations.

Durga Dorosami, Head of Investor Relations, Philips: Yes.

David Atlinton, Analyst, JPMorgan: That’s clear. Thank you.

Conference Moderator: Thank you. Our next question comes from the line of Ed Riley Day from Rothschild and Co, Redburn. Please go ahead, Ed.

Ed Riley, Analyst, Rothschild and Co, Redburn: Good morning. Thank you. Yes. Firstly, on ultrasound, could you just, give us further color on the growth in the ultrasound revenue, in the quarter? And also a follow-up in terms of, D and T more broadly, If you could either give the China decline or give us some more color on the performance of D and T excluding China, that would be helpful.

And then a quick follow-up on the monitoring, questions from earlier. In terms of your market share in monitoring, one of your competitors has been struggling in recent years. Do you consider you are still taking share in the particularly U. S. Market?

Roy Jacobs, CEO, Philips: So on ultrasound, growth in ultrasound, we have been slightly declining in ultrasound growth. That was on the back of strong order intake growth that we’ve seen coming in. So actually, for second half, we see ultrasound performance strengthening. We have the new launches that are really seeing a good uptake. You already talked about kind of the high single digit order growth in Precision Diagnosis, and Ultrasound is strongly contributing to that.

So we expect that also to come into sales growth of the second half. In the growth, if you see China versus ex China, we still had a dilution effect from China coming into Q2, and that’s in line with our expectation. Orders strengthening sales also strengthening into the second half, but still negative. It will turn positive from the second half, right? That’s where kind of our expectation is.

That’s still up on a low base, and it’s in line with our cautious outlook, but it is increasing quarter by quarter, right? That’s, I think, our view on the China dynamics as we see it evolving, and that’s also what we expect when you look a bit further ahead into 2026. And on monitoring, we have continued strong momentum in monitoring. I think you saw it from indeed these six deals that we took in North America. We have great momentum in the customers that we have, but also are taking and that’s also what I mentioned, and we are dislodging some incumbents.

So we’re also taking order sockets. So the combination of our monitors with Pic INX, with the AI solution on top and also Capsule is really driving a very strong positioning, and that’s what we continue to build and expand

Conference Moderator: question comes from the line of Richard Felton from Goldman Sachs. Please state your question, Richard.

Richard Felton, Analyst, Goldman Sachs: Thank you very much. Good morning. Two questions for me, please. The first one is a follow-up on the D and T margin. Charlotte, you mentioned SKU reduction as one of the drivers for margin expansion in that division.

Just curious how far along you are in that process? How much more is there to go on the SKU rationalization? And within D and C, which businesses are most impacted by that? And then my second question, I suppose, is a slightly bigger picture question. As Philips plans for a CMD in February 2026, I’d be interested to hear your thoughts on what parts of the current strategy have been working well and which areas you think there are still rooms for improvement.

Thank you.

Conference Moderator: Thank you, Richard. Let me take your first question on

Durga Dorosami, Head of Investor Relations, Philips: D and T margin and double clicking a little bit on the SKU reduction that we’ve been working on. A few more color that I would give. First of all, this is really a multiyear process that we started last year. We’re making good progress, but it’s really a quarter after quarter, year after year progress, because as you can imagine, if we’re, for instance, reducing the number of transducers in ultrasound, which we are doing, that takes time to phase that out of the market. So we are making progress.

We’re on track there, but we also see this is a multiyear process as well. And then to your question on the number of modalities, we’re looking at all modalities in D and T. So I gave you an ultrasound example. We’ve been working on IGT, reducing the number of platforms there. We’re looking at MR.

So it’s really across all modalities that we’re looking at this. And as I said earlier, we’re seeing the initial impact with reducing complexity, which ultimately helps R and D production and supply chain as well as procurement.

Roy Jacobs, CEO, Philips: Thank you, Richard, for your second question on the CMD. Now we’re looking forward, of course, to give you the full update in February. I think what we and maybe just a short kind of look back and what’s coming. In the plan that we presented, we said that we had a lot of fundamental work to do. And I think as you have been seeing and also as we’re showcasing today, we have a much better control on our patient safety and quality, on the supply chain, and also on the simplification and the organizational productivity.

That is what has really been working well. We’ve put a lot of progress in, and we’re starting now to kind of bear the fruits, because on parallel, we started to innovate and really focus our innovation on bigger platforms that have kind of scalable impact. And that innovation you see now coming through in the order intake growth momentum that we have seen dialing up over the last year. Now you see the 7% year on year growth, but in particular, now also in this year. And we also take that into the second half.

So the profitable growth expansion will be, of course, a big theme also as part of the C and D because we want to expand our innovations and our positions, especially also building on the strongholds that we have. So we’re very excited about kind of be able to do that on a stronger platform that we have been putting in place for Philips overall. And that is kind of from an innovation perspective, that is from a commercial perspective, that’s also from an operational perspective. And I think you also saw how quickly we can now adjust our supply chain. I think if you would go three years back, it would have been a much bigger struggle.

Now we can really quickly adapt. We have the mitigation fully in play. We are able to up our service levels. We have been down in quality incidents. And actually, we have been driving margin expansion across the period in a very strong way.

You see that margin expansion also coming through in Q2, and we also kind of intend to continue that strong operational margin expansion into the full year. Of course, we have tariff that we have to take into account, and we also will take that into account moving forward. But as I also mentioned at the beginning remarks, we continue to build our trajectory into this mid single digit growth and this kind of mid- to high teens margins for the different segments that we play in. So that’s something that we’re excited by, and we’ll start to talk to in February.

Richard Felton, Analyst, Goldman Sachs: Thanks very much.

Conference Moderator: Thank you. Our next question comes from the line of Hugo Sovei from BNP Paribas. Please state your question, Hugo.

Hugo Sovei, Analyst, BNP Paribas: Hi, guys. Thanks for taking questions and congrats on the results. I have two quick follow-up, please. First on China trends, you mentioned destocking ending in the quarter and a follow-up to Graham’s question. On the momentum that is rebuilding, can you clarify whether or not that implies that you’re restocking or seeing restocking already in Q3?

And how confident are you in delivering probably the flat to low single digit sales increase into H2 that is implied by the guide? Roy, maybe on the second question, beyond 2025, I appreciate there’s a lot of moving parts, tariff, cost inflation, China, but also you and Charlotte have been doing a fantastic job on cost efficiency measures. What’s your level of confidence to get above the mid to above the mid teens, sorry, given your current guide for mid to high teens? In the call earlier, you referred a lot to mid teens, but just wondering if mid to high is still within reach. Thank you.

Roy Jacobs, CEO, Philips: Yes. Thank you, Hugo. Let me take the first one on the China trend. So on PH, so what we have said kind of we expected the first half, we need still to kind of finish the destocking program. That indeed has happened.

So what means what that means is that currently, our partners have stock levels, which they see appropriate in line with the sellout levels. So that was the first step of getting to that new balance. That’s how we go into the second half. So there’s no need to restock. Now we want to keep sell out in line with stock, right?

So that’s actually what the whole destocking program was geared towards. Now what the other point I said is there’s still subdued consumer demand in China, but we do see more spend, right? So and that’s kind of where we see the sellout momentum strengthening, and we will build on that also in the second half. Overall, that still is in the cautious outlook on China for the full year. So I think we are getting and seeing more confidence in the China recovery and getting the signals for that, but we still remain kind of cautious on it.

That’s also how we baked it into our full year guidance. And so that actually, the majority of, of course, our plan is winning outside of China. Now we win in China with the market, but we are not getting ahead of ourselves in terms of expectations of that market and the contribution. If you then look into your second question in terms of the beyond 2025 margin expansion, I think we have been putting a lot of work into margin expansion so far. There was a lot of what we would call self help in that first part of the trajectory, where we have been driven productivity and especially organizational simplification in a big way.

What 2025 and beyond will also very much focus on, how we can drive growth, get the impact on that, get the impact from mix because driving the higher growth and higher margin segments will also help us to expand through that lever, whilst we will not back off from productivity. We already continue to kind of look into how we can further strengthen that journey that we have been on in terms of how we can lean out our organization. We have been resetting the organization model to winning in segments with a more verticalized model. That is working, and we will continue to drive that also moving forward. So we see ample opportunity to continue to work on margin expansion.

Of course, we also need to take inflation and tariffs into account. It will be a mix of all that kind of will determine how much and how far we can go, and that we will then also be able to further explain when we have the CMD in February.

Hugo Sovei, Analyst, BNP Paribas: Thank you.

Conference Moderator: Thank you. Our next question comes from the line of Julien Dumoulin from Jefferies. Good morning, Roy. Good morning, Charlotte. Thanks for taking my questions.

I have three,

Durga Dorosami, Head of Investor Relations, Philips0: if that’s okay. JULIEN The first one relates to the large order you signed in Indonesia. Just wondering whether that was included in the order intake in the second quarter and maybe give a rough idea of whether that was meaningful into the 6% order intake you posted in the quarter. Second question relates to China, but at the group level, I think you previously alluded to sales in the country to be down mid single to high single digit for the full year. So just curious what’s been the overall momentum.

So let’s say, for example, Q2 versus Q1 and how we should think about the back half of the year for the country, again, at the group level. And my last question is on the other business line. We have seen innovation and central costs come down quite a bit, and that’s probably been driven most likely by productivity initiatives. I was just wondering whether we could ultimately see the adjusted EBITA for the other line turn structurally positive in the years to come. Thank you.

Roy Jacobs, CEO, Philips: Okay. Let me take the first one to start off with. So the Indonesia order is included for into the order intake, but only for a limited amount of period because we are quite stringent on our order intake policy. So that’s kind of this is a multiyear deal. So it had a contribution into the order intake for the quarter.

But as we also mentioned, actually, the strongest contribution in North America, double digit order intake growth. So that was not from Indonesia. And also, it’s coming from the other segments. I mentioned that we had high single digit order intake growth in PD, and we had strong hospital patient monitoring order intake the back on a very strong comparable. So that showed that actually was a very broad based contribution into order intake growth from across our segments and across the world.

So I think, at SeaWorld, we are very happy with the Indonesia deal because it’s a nationwide deal. It shows the strength of the platform to really contribute in a meaningful manner to two eighty million of patients kind of giving them access to this technology, which was very limited to date. And of course, with that, there’s also a sizable amount of revenue attached to it, but that’s over time. And therefore, part of that we have been taking into the order intake into the quarter. Then China at the group level.

So in terms of if you look at the China outlook for the year, it’s still in line with what we guided and what kind of the expectations were. So China had a negative first half and will turn into positive in the second half. And that’s actually then will be compounding to kind of a slight contribution of China into this year’s plan, but we will still mainly depend on other regions and geographies to kind of deliver on our full year outlook, and that’s also what we kind of are confident in doing and what we have planned for. So that, I think, is on the China question. And then the third one for you, Shaul.

Conference Moderator: Yes. Thank you, Julien.

Durga Dorosami, Head of Investor Relations, Philips: I think your third question on the other bucket, which indeed includes innovation central costs, but also very much royalty income. So what we’ve guided for 2025 is that we keep the outlook as is, that the benefit you saw in Q2 is primarily phasing because of the way the royalty income is flowing through our P and L. I would think very in a very similar way for the years beyond 2025. Yes, there are puts and takes, but overall, I don’t see meaningful shifts there.

Durga Dorosami, Head of Investor Relations, Philips0: Thank you very much.

Conference Moderator: Thank you. Thank you all. That was the last question. Mr. Jacobs, please continue.

Roy Jacobs, CEO, Philips: Thank you so much for dialing in today. We’re happy to announce that we delivered a strong quarter with strong order intake growth of 6% on the back of 9% last year, giving us good confidence and momentum into the second half. We have positive sales growth, especially seeing also strong sales momentum in Personal Health, which we see continue in the second half. And we worked diligently on margin expansion in a combination of innovation contribution as well as productivity. And then based on that, we have been raising the outlook for the year, including the recently announced tariffs by increasing by 50 basis points the adjusted EBITDA outlook and then also free cash flow for the year.

So we will continue our execution focus, focus on what we can control and making sure we deliver the year as we have been laying out and presenting to you. So thank you for your attention. Looking forward to engage with you later and more.

Conference Moderator: Thank you. This concludes the Royal Philips second quarter and semiannual twenty twenty five results conference call on Tuesday, 07/29/2025. Thank you for participating. You may now disconnect your lines.

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