CLAIM #40784 · Medtronic PLC (MDT) · 2026Q2 earnings call · Nov 18, 2025 · due Apr 24, 2026
“So for the rest of the year, it's still gonna be, pretty significant headwind as CAS and diabetes continue to accelerate.”
Thierry Pieton · CFO
In context
“From a sequence perspective, look, you know, I would say third quarter, we made a pretty deliberate strong investment because we saw the coming. You know, you'll see a bit less of that already in the second half. So as I said, you know, you should see leverage on the SG&A line in the 40 basis points of pricing and about 30 basis points or 40 basis points of cost out. That's been sort of a recurring performance over the last quarters. And we expect that to continue. Over time. Right? So we're generating between those two lines 70 to 80 basis points of gross margin improvement. Right? And this quarter, you had about 80 basis points of negative mix. And 20 basis point of tariffs. And that was offset with FX. Going forward, we expect that negative mix to start getting better towards the '27. So for the rest of the year, it's still gonna be, pretty significant headwind as CAS and diabetes continue to accelerate. And in the second half of, of twenty-seven, diabetes will be deconsolidated, and then on the CAS side, we'll start seeing the shift between the capital equipment and the catheters, which will make that an accretive business as opposed to being dilutive. So what's what you're gonna see there is the 70 to 80 basis points of gross margin improvement operationally start to show up more as the mix becomes a gradually smaller and a positive effect over time. And then outside of that, we've got some external factors, so we have to contend with the tariffs. So for the second half, we've got, you know, about 90% of that $185 million of tariffs that's gonna show up. In the income statement. The bigger portion is in Q3. Then we'll have a carryover of tariffs going into '27. And we expect foreign exc”
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