“For the fourth quarter, we expect sales down low-single-digits with modest growth in projects and aftermarket services offset primarily by softness and sensing and safety technologies and smart energy.”

In context

“ommercial aviation and defense and space. In the fourth quarter, we expect sales growth of mid to high-single-digits, with particular strength in commercial aftermarket. As previously noted, segment margin in the third quarter outperformed our expectations on better-than-anticipated mix, but we still see modest year-over-year segment margin contraction as discrete supply chain disruptions from the third quarter are resolved and we see a corresponding recovery and commercial original equipment volumes. Moving to Industrial Automation, we're lowering our 2024 outlook for year-over-year organic sales to a decline in the high-single-digit range, as slower-than-expected short-cycle demand recovery alongside project pushouts and process solutions dampen our outlook for full-year organic growth. For the fourth quarter, we expect sales down low-single-digits with modest growth in projects and aftermarket services offset primarily by softness and sensing and safety technologies and smart energy. Margins will be down overall this year for industrial automation, but up when excluding the impact of the license and settlement payments that ended in the first quarter. In Building Automation, we still expect full-year organic growth in the low-single-digit range, led by continued strength in Building Solutions and high growth regions, particularly in India and Saudi Arabia. Fourth quarter sales will be up year-over-year and flat to up sequentially as we see volume improvement led by fire products. Margins should hit their high point for the year in the fourth quarter as improvement in fire and the impact of access solutions support positive mix. For energy and sustainability solutions, the organic growth outlook for the year is still low-single-digits with typical strong sequential imp”