No. 1
Invest to drive long-term growth and returns
 

  • Capital expenditure management process
  • Acquisition process and metrics
  • Portfolio optimization process
  • Drives shareholder value through:
    • Deploying capital toward most attractive opportunities
    • Linking capital allocation decisions to operating performance
    • Exiting underperforming and/or non-strategic businesses

No. 2
Focus on free cash flow
 
 

  • Disciplined capital spending
  • Working capital management
  • Performance improvement included in management incentives
  • Drives shareholder value through:
    • Attractive and growing return of capital to shareholders (dividends and stock buybacks) balanced with re-investment in the business (capital expenditures and acquisitions)
    • Alignment of management and shareholder incentives

No. 3
Support business objectives with a robust capital strategy

  • Target net debt/EBITDA ratio
    of 2.0x
  • Access to capital markets
  • Focus on balancing investments and returns
  • Drives shareholder value through:
    • Optimal financial flexibility to support business/strategic objectives
    • Ability to stretch if/when required for the right opportunities
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