TE Connectivity Q3 FY26: sales up 13.8%, adjusted EPS up 22% to $2.94
TE Connectivity's fiscal third quarter beat guidance on both sales and profit, and record orders point to demand that is still building — on the numbers, the quarter reads Bullish. Revenue of $5.16 billion rose 13.8%, and adjusted EPS of $2.94 topped the $2.87 analyst consensus. Read it as a growth story with two caveats: gross margin slipped versus the prior two quarters, and $0.39 of every adjusted share comes from charges excluded from GAAP earnings.
1 · Expected vs. Actual
Free preview belowGAAP diluted EPS was $2.55, up 19% from $2.14, and adjusted EPS was a record $2.94, up 22% from $2.41. That adjusted figure beat the $2.87 consensus estimate by $0.07, a modest beat rather than a blowout. The $0.39 gap between the two numbers is mostly $0.21 of restructuring and other charges and $0.15 of amortization of acquired intangibles, so GAAP earnings sit 13.3% below adjusted.
Revenue of $5.16 billion was a record, up 13.8% from $4.53 billion a year earlier and 12.2% excluding currency swings. Industrial Solutions did the heavy lifting, with sales up 21.9% to $2.58 billion, while Transportation Solutions grew 6.7% to $2.58 billion. The two segments are now exactly the same size, so TE's growth increasingly depends on the industrial side.
Management guided fourth-quarter sales to roughly $5.25 billion, up 11%, and adjusted EPS to about $3.05, up 18%. That implies only 1.7% sequential revenue growth from this quarter's $5.16 billion, so the plan is steady rather than accelerating. Last quarter the company guided to $5.00 billion and delivered $5.16 billion, a $160 million beat.
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Figures on this page come from the company's original SEC filings. The analysis is generated automatically and checked against validation rules, but may still contain errors or omissions. Not investment advice. · Generated 2026-09-17
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