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CLAIM #60598 · United Parcel Service Inc (UPS) · 2026Q1 earnings call · Apr 28, 2026 · due Dec 31, 2026

Taken together, these actions set us up for operating margin expansion and greater operational agility.

Brian Dykes · CFO

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graded after results covering Dec 31, 2026 are reported

How to check this claim

Look at: Consolidated operating margin, full fiscal year 2026

It came true if: Full-year 2026 operating margin higher than full-year 2025 reported operating margin

Where: Company income statement / annual report (10-K) or Q4 2026 earnings release

In context

venue in SES to be up low single digits year-over-year and operating margin between 9.5% and 10.5%. Now let's turn to our expectations for cash and the balance sheet. Capital expenditures are still expected to be about $3 billion, and we plan to make our annual pension contribution of $1.3 billion. We expect free cash flow to be approximately $5.5 billion, including onetime payments for the Driver Choice program. Lastly, we are still planning to pay out around $5.4 billion in dividends in 2026, subject to Board approval. As we near completion of our Amazon glidedown and network reconfiguration initiative, we will enter the second half of this year with a more agile and more automated network. Our focus is on premium volume and revenue quality and will grow in the best parts of the market. Taken together, these actions set us up for operating margin expansion and greater operational agility. With that, operator, please open the lines for questions. Operator: [Operator Instructions] Our first question comes from the line of Tom Wadewitz from UBS. Thomas Wadewitz: So I wanted to ask you a question about the kind of ramp from 1Q to 2Q. You were a bit -- I think in early March, you pointed to kind of 4% to 5% 1Q margin. You were at the lower end of that. I know you identified, I think, kind of $350 million total transitional costs. How do you think about that like the key pieces of that ramp and just visibility to that versus what you might have had in terms of visibility to that ramp a month ago or 2 months ago? So I don't know if that kind of a little lower 1Q margin reduces visibility or if you say, hey, that was just kind of transitional. And then how does fuel factor into th

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SEC filings for UPS · Claim quote is verbatim from the 2026Q1 earnings call.