UL Solutions Inc. Class A (ULS) Q3 2026 Earnings Report

The call was strongly positive overall. Highlights significantly outweighed the lowlights, with record quarterly revenue growth, profitability, cash flow, segment margins, strengthened full-year guidance, resilient demand, and strategic investments in AI data centers and testing capabilities. The main challenges were the decline in Risk & Compliance Software results, Advisory headwinds, planned business-exit impacts, and higher transaction and integration costs.

For full year 2026, UL Solutions expects constant currency organic revenue growth of approximately 6.5%, inclusive of approximately 70 basis points of revenue reduction from business exits associated with its restructuring plan, and adjusted EBITDA margin to improve to approximately 27.0%, driven by approximately 200 basis points of underlying margin expansion and partially offset by approximately 90 basis points of incremental transaction costs versus 2025. E&E is expected to contribute approximately $50 million of fourth quarter revenue, with margin performance in line with expectations; transaction and integration costs are expected to total approximately $37 million to $40 million for the full year of 2026, representing approximately 120 basis points, compared with approximately 30 basis points impact in 2025. The company expects its full year effective tax rate to be approximately 26% and full year capital expenditures of approximately 8.5% of revenue, expects to complete back-office integration by the end of 2027, and expects go-to-market and lab utilization synergies to be largely realized by the end of 2028; it also expects some integration costs in 2027, some margin improvement in the fourth quarter for Risk & Compliance Software, and a reversion toward a more normal growth and EBITDA range beyond the fourth quarter.