“As we lap tariff pressure in the second half, the continued momentum on productivity and volume acceleration gives us confidence in our expectation of approximately 100 basis points margin expansion for business groups this year.”

In context

“, with India in the high teens as we drove higher sales coverage across the country. EMEA was down about 1% due to market weakness in auto. Moving to Slide 8. Though the macro remains uncertain, given our good performance in the first quarter, we are reiterating our guidance for the year. Organic sales growth of approximately 3%, earnings per share ranging from $8.50 to $8.70 and free cash flow conversion of greater than 100%. For sales, the strong backlog combined with continued strength in orders in the first 3 weeks of April gives us confidence that all 3 business groups will accelerate growth in the second quarter and through the balance of the year. On margins, we had a solid start with the 3 business groups growing 60 basis points despite 100 basis points year-on-year tariff impact. As we lap tariff pressure in the second half, the continued momentum on productivity and volume acceleration gives us confidence in our expectation of approximately 100 basis points margin expansion for business groups this year. On nonoperational, we expect positive trends driven by a $2 billion share repurchase in the first quarter and lower net interest expense. Overall, we are maintaining our EPS guidance, which includes a contingency, and we will go through the components of the earnings bridge on the next slide. Given the strong earnings growth and good progress on working capital, particularly inventory and continued CapEx efficiency, we believe our free cash flow will be more than $4.5 billion for the year and greater than 100% conversion. Slide 9 shows the trend of key earning elements and the current guidance. We are trending $0.05 to $0.15 higher on earnings from momentum on productivity and lower share count and interest expense. We are facing higher input costs due to the recent increase in oil price,”