“And for this year, we continue to expect about 3% for the year.”

In context

“y remains exactly the same. We've been doing acquisitions to scale and expand our capabilities now for over a decade. And what's really important is the discipline that we use, right? So as you think about this year, we've not seen the level of acquisitions given the tough market and you've seen that we can flex up. We can flex down based upon the opportunities. But what you do -- what you should note is that what remains the same is our acquisition strategy is core, and it's a continuing part of our growth strategy that we'll continue to target about 2% year in and year out an inorganic contribution, but of course, that could ebb and flow. And you saw that last year with the volume of acquisitions that we did last year and this year, it's a little wider based upon based upon what we see. And for this year, we continue to expect about 3% for the year. Julie T. Sweet: Yes. And let me just add a little bit. Obviously, we're not going to guide for next year, but if our target is roughly 2% and goes up and down, the thing that's very important is that we don't buy acquisitions if they don't have good economics, right? So it's we have an economic focus and then they help us either scale, bring new capabilities or build our industry and functional capabilities. And the industry has been tough this year, and we just haven't seen the kinds of economics that we think makes sense to bring in and we see that as being more of a market sort of a market condition right now not something that changes our view of acquisitions over the long term. And we'll give you a view of what we see at the beginning of the year -- next year change over time. And s”