Vertiv Reports Strong First Quarter with Diluted EPS Growth of 136% (Adjusted Diluted EPS Growth of +83%); Raises Full-Year Guidance

First Quarter 2026 Results

• Net sales of $2,650 million, 30% higher than first quarter 2025
• Operating profit up 51% and adjusted operating profit⁽¹⁾ up 64% from first quarter 2025. Adjusted operating margin of 20.8%, up 430 basis points compared to first quarter 2025
• Operating cash flow of $767 million and adjusted free cash flow of $653 million, an increase of 153% and 147%, respectively, compared to prior year first quarter. Net leverage of ~0.2x at the end of first quarter 2026

Full Year 2026 Guidance

• Expect net sales of $13,500 to $14,000 million, with organic sales growth of 29% to 31% compared to 2025
• Expect full year 2026 diluted EPS of $5.60 to $5.70 and adjusted diluted EPS of $6.30 to $6.40, an increase of 66% and 51%, respectively, at the midpoint compared to full year 2025

COLUMBUS, Ohio, April 22, 2026 /PRNewswire/ -- Vertiv Holdings Co (NYSE:VRT), a global leader in critical digital infrastructure, today reported financial results for its first quarter ended March 31, 2026. Vertiv reported first quarter net sales of $2,650 million, an increase of $614 million, or 30%, compared to first quarter 2025, driven by 23% organic sales growth, 4% contribution from acquisitions, and 3% favorable currency translation impact. The Americas region led the organic sales growth, expanding 44% on strong data center demand.

First quarter operating profit of $440 million increased $149 million and adjusted operating profit of $551 million increased $214 million, up 51% and 64%, respectively, from first quarter 2025. Adjusted operating margin was 20.8%, up 430 basis points compared to first quarter 2025, driven by operational leverage on higher volume and positive price-cost, inclusive of tariff impacts and associated tariff mitigation countermeasures.

"We're seeing data center infrastructure requirements evolve significantly, with customers prioritizing optimized design, deployment speed, and operational efficiency - reshaping their approach to deployment," said Giordano Albertazzi, Vertiv's Chief Executive Officer. "This quarter's financial performance reflects our ability to meet customers at this critical moment with unique capabilities. Our investments in technology and capacity, combined with strategic acquisitions, are translating into market share gains as customers demand faster deployment, greater reliability, and comprehensive services. As infrastructure density increases and deployment timelines compress, we're positioned to be the partner customers need to bring their most ambitious projects to life, at scale."

"This quarter demonstrates that Vertiv has built the kind of competitive position that compounds over time," said Dave Cote, Vertiv's Executive Chairman. "When customers face their toughest infrastructure challenges, they're choosing us - not only because of our technology, but because we can deliver at scale. Our addition to the S&P 500 in March reflects strong financial performance and market leadership in critical digital infrastructure. The strategic momentum gives me confidence in our long-term trajectory."

Adjusted Free Cash Flow and Liquidity

Net cash generated by operating activities in the first quarter was $767 million and adjusted free cash flow was $653 million, increasing 153% and 147%, respectively, from first quarter 2025. First quarter adjusted free cash flow was driven by higher adjusted operating profit, working capital efficiency and lower cash interest, partially offset by higher cash taxes and increased capital expenditures to support growth investments.

Liquidity remained strong at $5.0 billion and net leverage was approximately 0.2x at the end of first quarter, driven by continued strong cash generation and working capital efficiency.

After receiving inaugural investment grade ratings from Moody's (Baa3) and S&P (BBB-) in February 2026, Vertiv completed a $2.1 billion senior unsecured notes issuance and put in place a new $2.5 billion revolving credit facility while also retiring its outstanding term loan and ABL revolver in March, enhancing financial flexibility to support continued growth.

Updated Full Year and Second Quarter 2026 Guidance

The data center market continues to demonstrate robust momentum, supported by strong underlying demand fundamentals.  Vertiv is further accelerating capacity expansion and strategic investments to be well positioned to meet this demand and capture market share. 

First Quarter 2026 Earnings Conference Call

Vertiv's management team will discuss the Company's results during a conference call on Wednesday, April 22, starting at 11 a.m. Eastern Time. The call will contain forward-looking statements and other material information regarding Vertiv's financial and operating results. A webcast of the live conference call will be available for interested parties to listen to by going to the Investor Relations section of the Company's website at investors.vertiv.com. A slide presentation will be available before the call and will be posted to the website, also at investors.vertiv.com. A replay of the conference call will also be available for 30 days following the webcast.

About Vertiv Holdings Co

Vertiv (NYSE:VRT) brings together hardware, software, analytics and ongoing services to enable its customers' vital applications to run continuously, perform optimally and grow with their business needs. Vertiv solves the most important challenges facing today's data centers, communication networks and commercial and industrial facilities with a portfolio of power, cooling and IT infrastructure solutions and services that extends from the cloud to the edge of the network. Headquartered in Westerville, Ohio, USA, Vertiv does business in more than 130 countries. For more information, and for the latest news and content from Vertiv, visit vertiv.com.

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Non-GAAP Financial Measures

Financial information included in this release has been prepared in accordance with Generally Accepted Accounting Principles ("GAAP"). Vertiv has included certain non-GAAP financial measures in this news release, as indicated above, that may not be directly comparable to other similarly titled measures used by other companies and therefore may not be comparable among companies. These non-GAAP financial measures include organic net sales growth (including on a segment basis), adjusted operating profit, adjusted operating margin, adjusted diluted EPS and adjusted free cash flow, which management believes provides investors with useful supplemental information to evaluate the Company's ongoing operations and to compare with past and future periods. Management also uses certain non-GAAP measures internally for forecasting, budgeting and measuring its operating performance. These measures should be viewed as supplementing, and not as an alternative or substitute for, the Company's financial results prepared in accordance with GAAP. Pursuant to the requirements of Regulation G, Vertiv has provided reconciliations of non-GAAP financial measures to the most directly comparable GAAP financial measures.

Information reconciling certain forward-looking GAAP measures to non-GAAP measures related to second quarter and full-year 2026 guidance, including organic net sales growth, adjusted free cash flow and adjusted operating margin, is not available without unreasonable effort due to high variability, complexity and uncertainty with respect to forecasting and quantifying certain amounts that are necessary for such reconciliations. For those reasons, we are unable to compute the probable significance of the unavailable information, which could have a potentially unpredictable, and potentially significant, impact on our future GAAP financial results.

See "Reconciliation of GAAP and Non-GAAP Financial Measures" in this release for Vertiv's reconciliations of non-GAAP financial measures to the most directly comparable GAAP financial measures.

Cautionary Note Concerning Forward-Looking Statements

This news release, and other statements that Vertiv may make in connection therewith, may contain forward-looking statements within the meaning of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995 with respect to Vertiv's future financial or business performance, strategies or expectations, and as such are not historical facts. This includes, without limitation, statements regarding Vertiv's financial position, capital structure, indebtedness, business strategy and plans and objectives of Vertiv management for future operations, as well as statements regarding growth, anticipated demand for our products and services and our business prospects during 2026, as well as expected impacts from our pricing actions, and our guidance for second quarter and full year 2026 and statements regarding tariffs, global trade conflict and any actions we may take in response thereto. These statements constitute projections, forecasts and forward-looking statements, and are not guarantees of performance. Vertiv cautions that forward-looking statements are subject to numerous assumptions, risks and uncertainties, which change over time. Such statements can be identified by the fact that they do not relate strictly to historical or current facts. When used in this news release, words such as "anticipate," "believe," "continue," "could," "estimate," "expect," "intend," "may," "might," "plan," "possible," "potential," "predict," "project," "should," "strive," "would" and similar expressions may identify forward-looking statements, but the absence of these words does not mean that a statement is not forward-looking.

The forward-looking statements contained in this release are based on current expectations and beliefs concerning future developments and their potential effects on Vertiv. There can be no assurance that future developments affecting Vertiv will be those that Vertiv has anticipated. Vertiv undertakes no obligation to update or revise any forward-looking statements, whether as a result of new information, future events or otherwise, except as may be required under applicable securities laws. These forward-looking statements involve a number of risks, uncertainties (some of which are beyond Vertiv's control) or other assumptions that may cause actual results or performance to be materially different from those expressed or implied by these forward-looking statements. Should one or more of these risks or uncertainties materialize, or should any of the assumptions prove incorrect, actual results may vary in material respects from those projected in these forward-looking statements. Vertiv has previously disclosed risk factors in its Securities and Exchange Commission ("SEC") reports, including those set forth in the Vertiv 2025 Annual Report on Form 10-K filed with the SEC on February 13, 2026. These risk factors and those identified elsewhere in this release, among others, could cause actual results to differ materially from historical performance and include, but are not limited to: risks relating to the continued growth of our customers' markets; long sales cycles for certain Vertiv products and solutions as well as unpredictable placing or cancelling of customer orders; failure to realize sales expected from our backlog of orders and contracts; disruption of or consolidation in our customer's markets or categorical shifts in customer technology spending; less leverage with large customer contract terms; failure to mitigate risks associated with long-term fixed price contracts; competition in the industry in which we operate; failure to obtain performance and other guarantees from financial institutions; risks associated with governmental contracts; failure to properly manage production cost changes and supply; failure to anticipate market change and competition in the infrastructure technologies; risks associated with information technology disruption or cyber-security incidents; risks associated with the implementation and enhancement of information systems; failure to realize the expected benefit from any rationalization, restructuring and improvement efforts; disruption of, or changes in, Vertiv's independent sales representatives, distributors and original equipment manufacturers; increase of variability in our effective tax rate costs or liabilities associated with product liability due to global operations subjecting us to income and other taxes in the U.S. and numerous foreign entities; costs or liabilities associated with product liability and damage to our reputation and brands; the global scope of Vertiv's operations, especially in emerging markets; failure to benefit from future significant corporate transactions; risks associated with Vertiv's sales and operations and expanding global production facilities; risks associated with future legislation and regulation of Vertiv's customers' markets; our ability to comply with various laws and regulations including but not limited to, laws and regulations relating to data protection and data privacy; failure to properly address legal compliance issues, particularly those related to imports/exports, anti-corruption laws, and foreign operations; risks associated with foreign trade policy, including tariffs and global trade conflict risks associated with litigation or claims against the Company, including the risk of adverse outcomes to any legal claims and proceedings; our ability to protect or enforce our proprietary rights on which our business depends; third party intellectual property infringement claims; liabilities associated with environmental, health and safety matters; failure to achieve environmental, social and governance goals; failure to realize the value of goodwill and intangible assets; exposure to fluctuations in foreign currency exchange rates; failure to remediate material weaknesses in our internal controls over financial reporting; our level of indebtedness and our ability to comply with the covenants and restrictions contained in our credit agreements; our ability to access funding through capital markets; resales of Vertiv securities may cause volatility in the market price of our securities; our organizational documents contain provisions that may discourage unsolicited takeover proposals; our certificate of incorporation includes a forum selection clause, which could discourage or limit stockholders' ability to make a claim against it; the ability of our subsidiaries to pay dividends; factors relating to the business, operations and financial performance of Vertiv and its subsidiaries, including: global economic weakness and uncertainty; our ability to attract, train and retain key members of our leadership team and other qualified personnel; the adequacy of our insurance coverage; fluctuations in interest rates materially affecting our financial results and increasing the risk our counterparties default in our interest rate hedges; our incurrence of significant costs and devotion of substantial management time as a result of operating as a public company; expected expenses related to integration of our acquisitions; the possible diversion of management time on issues related to integration of our acquired businesses; the ability of Vertiv to maintain relationships with customers and suppliers of our acquired businesses; and the ability of Vertiv to retain management and key employees of our acquired businesses; and other risks and uncertainties indicated in Vertiv's SEC reports or documents filed or to be filed with the SEC by Vertiv. Forward-looking statements included in this news release speak only as of the date of this news release or any earlier date specified for such statements. All subsequent written or oral forward-looking statements attributable to Vertiv or persons acting on Vertiv's behalf may be qualified in their entirety by this Cautionary Note Concerning Forward-Looking Statements.

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Reconciliation of GAAP and non-GAAP Financial Measures

To supplement this news release, we have included certain non-GAAP financial measures in the format of performance metrics. Management believes these non-GAAP financial measures provide investors with additional meaningful financial information that should be considered when assessing our underlying business performance and trends. Further, management believes these non-GAAP financial measures also enhance investors' ability to compare period-to-period financial results. Non-GAAP financial measures should be viewed in addition to, and not as an alternative for, the company's reported results prepared in accordance with GAAP. Our non-GAAP financial measures do not represent a comprehensive basis of accounting. Therefore, our non-GAAP financial measures may not be comparable to similarly titled measures reported by other companies. Reconciliations of each of these non-GAAP financial measures to GAAP information are also included. Management uses these non-GAAP financial measures in making financial, operating, compensation and planning decisions and in evaluating the company's performance. Disclosing these non-GAAP financial measures allows investors and management to view our operating results excluding the impact of items that are not reflective of the underlying operating performance.

Vertiv's non-GAAP financial measures include:

• Adjusted operating profit (loss), which represents operating profit (loss), adjusted to exclude amortization of intangibles, and contingent consideration;
• Adjusted operating margin, which represents adjusted operating profit (loss) divided by net sales;
• Organic net sales growth, which represents the change in net sales adjusted to exclude the impacts of foreign currency exchange rate and acquisitions;
• Adjusted free cash flow, which represents net cash provided by (used for) operating activities adjusted to exclude capital expenditures and investments in capitalized software; and
• Adjusted diluted EPS, which represents diluted earnings per share adjusted to exclude amortization of intangibles, contingent consideration, and the costs related to the March 3, 2026 repayment of the Term Loan Credit Agreement and the associated interest rate swaps being settled.

Regional Segment Results

Sales by product and service offering

Organic growth by product and service offering

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Reconciliation of net cash provided by (used for) operating activities to adjusted free cash flow

Reconciliation from operating profit (loss) to adjusted operating profit (loss)

Reconciliation from operating margin to adjusted operating margin

Reconciliation of Diluted EPS to Adjusted Diluted EPS

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