“Upon separation, we continue to expect approximately 50 basis points of gross margin improvement and 100 basis points of operating margin improvement.”

In context

“children as young as 2 and during pregnancy. Looking ahead, in addition to launching the 2 new sensors that Geoff mentioned, we're expecting type 2 approval in the U.S. in the coming months. And we also continue to make progress with our new insulin pump systems. We intend to submit our next-generation durable pump, the MiniMed Flex, to the U.S. FDA by the end of the fiscal year. Flex is much smaller than 780G as the screen on your phone, allowing for more discreet placement while still using the same reservoirs and infusion sets. And Flex will work with both Simplera Sync and Instinct sensors. Finally, as mentioned, our planned separation of MiniMed is on track. Our preferred path continues to be a 2 step, IPO and split, which we expect to have fully completed within 15 months from now. Upon separation, we continue to expect approximately 50 basis points of gross margin improvement and 100 basis points of operating margin improvement. Now turning to the financials. Q1 revenue of $8.6 billion grew 8.4% reported and 4.8% organic, in line with our guidance. Our adjusted gross margin was 65.1%, down 80 basis points year-over-year. This was expected and stable when compared to Q4. I'll walk you through the 4 main components that drove the gross margin this quarter. First, we continued to benefit from pricing as we launched new products and maintained pricing discipline on contracting, and this had a 30 basis points benefit. Second, business mix, as I noted last quarter, continues to be a near-term headwind, approximately 70 basis points this quarter split roughly equally between CAS and Diabetes. CAS today is impacted by the mix of lower-margin capital to higher-margin catheters and Diabetes is early in its manufacturing ra”