Q3 2025 Logitech International SA Earnings Call
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Good afternoon and good evening. Welcome to Logitech's video call.
to discuss our financial results for the third quarter of fiscal year 2025. Joining us today are Hanukkah Faber, our CEO, and Matteo Anversa, our CFO.
During this call, we will make forward-looking statements, including with respect to future operating results under the safe harbor of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995.
We're making these statements based on our views only as of today. Our actual sales results could differ materially. We undertake no obligation to update or revise any of these statements.
We will also discuss non-GAAP financial results.
and you can find a reconciliation between GAAP and non-GAAP results and information about our use of non-GAAP measures and factors that could impact our financial results and forward-looking statements in our press release and in our filings with the SEC.
These materials, as well as the shareholder letter and a webcast of this call are all available at the Investor Relations page of our website. We encourage you to review these materials carefully.
Unless noted otherwise, comparisons between periods are year-over-year and in constant currency and net sales. This call is being recorded and will be available for a replay on our website. I will now turn the call over to Hanneke. Hanneke?
Hanneke: Thank you, Nate, and welcome everyone to our third quarter earnings call.
Hanneke: As you all know, the holiday quarter is a very important quarter for us at Logitech, seasonally our biggest.
Hanneke: And I'm thrilled to share that we performed very well this holiday, delivering strong, profitable growth for the fourth consecutive quarter.
Hanneke: Net sales grew 6% versus last year. Demand or sellout growth accelerated to 8% and the growth was broad-based across categories and regions.
As a result, we're raising our outlook for the year.
Hanneke: Importantly, our growth was driven by the strategic priorities that I shared with you last spring.
Hanneke: First superior design-led innovation. It's in our DNA and we went into the holiday quarter with a fantastic lineup of new products which customers and consumers loved and which translated into strong demand around the world.
Hanneke: In gaming, with 16 new products launched in advance of the holidays, sales reached near pandemic highs, growing double digits at plus 13% versus last year.
Hanneke: Our ProLine, developed in collaboration with professional eSports athletes, was a standout and achieved record sales.
Hanneke: And looking ahead, we just announced an AI streaming assistant, developed in collaboration with NVIDIA, at CES.
Hanneke: This agentic AI innovation is designed for gaming streamers, giving them an instant producer, a co-host, and a sidekick to better content create and reach their fans.
Hanneke: Superior innovation like this has fueled success across our portfolio, particularly in the high end.
Hanneke: For example, our premium MX line of mice, keyboards, and webcams, including the new MX Creative Console that was developed for digital designers, reached near-record sales levels this quarter.
Hanneke: Our innovation increasingly leverages AI to make our products smarter, driving new features that were not possible even six months ago.
Hanneke: In addition to the AI streaming agents for gamers I just mentioned, our newest headsets offer a truly unique two-way noise cancelling experience, powered by AI on the edge.
Hanneke: There's more to come. Just last week, we announced a RallyBoard 65, a mobile touchscreen display with video conferencing capabilities that you can easily roll into any room.
Hanneke: This portable solution creates a digital cocoon for meetings and a more immersive meeting experience in any space.
Hanneke: In a short amount of time, we have successfully integrated AI into the work and play flows of nearly all our key categories. And there is much more to come.
Hanneke: The developments in AI of just this last week position us even better as they provide more opportunities for edge AI applications into our product development.
Hanneke: The second strategic driver of our strong results was Logitech for Business.
Hanneke: Doubling down on growth in the B2B channel is an important strategic focus for us.
Hanneke: This quarter, engagement with customers at LogiWork events created strong momentum, resulting in growth in video collaboration and headsets, as well as in the personal workspace products that we sell to B2B customers.
Hanneke: Services bookings, an important driver of customer satisfaction, more than doubled. And our continued expansion into the new vertical of education yielded growth of more than 20%.
Hanneke: The Logitech for Business team continues to meet the evolving needs of modern workplaces.
Hanneke: Just this month, they launched a range of innovative smart office tools, including the RallyBoard 65 I just mentioned, the Rally Camera Streamline Kit for higher education, and the Logitech Spot Sensor.
Hanneke: These new solutions, combined with commercial go-to-market initiatives from our new dedicated global sales forces, are resonating very well with B2B customers.
Hanneke: Next, when you look at our growth this quarter, it was broad-based across geographies.
Hanneke: This underscores our strategic approach, tailoring our execution to meet local demands and opportunities, and rapidly reapplying best practices across countries.
Hanneke: For Q3, I want to congratulate our teams around the world for delivering very effective marketing campaigns and truly excellent in-store and online holiday retail execution.
Notably, we're making progress in China.
Hanneke: Our end markets there saw robust growth, helping to drive a double-digit increase in Logitech's net sales year-over-year.
Hanneke: Our teams are doing admirable work, quickly introducing new products in China that reposition us in the market at both the premium and the lower end, and refreshing our use of social media and online sales channels in exciting new ways.
Hanneke: It's still early innings in our China execution, but I love the momentum that we're regaining in China.
Hanneke: Last and certainly not least, our continued delivery of profitable growth is underpinned by the exceptional execution of our operations team. Once again, cost reductions drove our growth margin above 43%.
Hanneke: And with tariffs on everyone's mind, we continue to prepare for a range of possible outcomes and for an ever more resilient global supply chain.
Hanneke: I'm pleased to report that we remain on track to further diversify our manufacturing footprint with well over half of units shipped to North America coming from locations outside of China by the end of our fiscal year.
Hanneke: In summary, a quarter with very strong results, driven by real progress against our strategic priorities.
Hanneke: And finally, as a reminder, we have our Analyst and Investor Day scheduled for March 5th, when we will discuss our mission to extend human potential in work and play and our longer-term strategy, as well as showcase our industry-leading innovation.
Hanneke: We'd be thrilled to host you at our Silicon Valley office or online.
Matteo, over to you. All right, thank you, Annika.
Hanneke: Thank you all for joining the call today. The team delivered another exceptional quarter with strong profitable growth.
Hanneke: The detailed financial results can be found in the press release and shareholder letter, but let me briefly share with you the key financial highlights for the quarter.
Hanneke: Net sales were up 6% year-over-year driven by demand in both our business and consumer channels which came in ahead of our outlook.
Hanneke: Demand was broad-based, with all regions and key product categories growing year-over-year.
Hanneke: I would like to call out two particular high points for a quarter.
Hanneke: Gaming grew double digits, approaching net sales levels last seen during the pandemic.
Hanneke: Regionally, Asia grew high single digits in year-over-year net sales, and Europe and the Americas grew mid-single digits.
Hanneke: We entered the third quarter with a healthy and balanced channel inventory, which supported a successful holiday season.
Hanneke: And as we exit the core, both owned and channel inventory levels ended well within our operating targets.
Hanneke: As we indicated in the prior earnings call, in the third quarter sell-through outpaced sell-in and we expect this trend to continue also in the fourth quarter.
Most importantly, our growth continues to be highly profitable.
Hanneke: The non-GAAP gross margin rate was 43.2% in the third quarter, up 90 basis points year over year, driven by reductions in product costs.
Hanneke: and this marks the fifth consecutive quarter of year-over-year gross margin rate expansion, a real testament to the durability of our cost reduction initiatives and commitment to operational excellence.
Hanneke: As a result, we expect the gross margin rate for this fiscal year to be on the higher end of our previously provided range of 42 to 43 percent.
Hanneke: Moving to operating expenses, Q3 OPEX was impacted by a $14 million charge for bad debt reserve due to the inability of one of our e-commerce payment providers to pay us.
Hanneke: We have since transitioned to a new provider, and excluding the impact of this charge, operating expenses would have been 22.3% of net sales, slightly lower than the previous year.
Hanneke: Sales and marketing would have been up 6% year over year and additionally we continue to invest in R&D while maintaining G&A flat year over year.
Hanneke: Non-GAAP operating income increased by 7% compared to the prior year and excluding the charge that I mentioned earlier, it would have been 20.9% of net sales up 110 basis points compared to the third quarter of last year.
Hanneke: Our cash generation remains robust. In the quarter, we generated $370 million of cash from operations, contributing to a healthy cash position of $1.5 billion.
Hanneke: In addition, we announced a five-year, $750 million credit facility, which we believe will enhance our financial flexibility and further strengthen our financial position.
Hanneke: In the third quarter, we returned $200 million to shareholders through share repurchases as part of our ongoing $1 billion buyback program.
Hanneke: And since the beginning of fiscal year 25, we have returned over $650 million to shareholders through dividends and share repurchases.
Hanneke: Now, looking ahead, we have increased our fiscal year 2025 outlook, our underlining business is performing extremely well, and we are confident that we will close out this year in a strong position.
Hanneke: There are two items that I would like to call out since our update last quarter. Now first, as I mentioned earlier, in this quarter we faced an isolated 14 million dollar headwind related to a bad debt expense.
Hanneke: And second, we believe that it is likely that our results in the fourth quarter will be negatively impacted by the recent strengthening of the U.S. dollar.
Hanneke: Taken together, bad debt and foreign exchange represent an approximate 40 million headwind and these items are not related to our core business and ultimately are transitory.
Hanneke: Despite this pressure, the tremendous performance of our underlining business gives us the confidence to raise our fiscal year 2025 outlook for both net sales and operating income.
Hanneke: Absorbing an unforeseen 40 million headwind near the end of our fiscal year and raising our full year outlook is a testament to the resiliency and flexibility of our teams.
Hanneke: You know, we speak often about the dynamic environment in which we operate, inflation, possible tariffs and currency fluctuations. But in the end, our business is executing at a high level and adjusting to these external uncertainties.
Hanneke: We delivered another strong quarter. In our position to end the year, we continued strong momentum.
So now we are ready for the Q&A.
Speaker Change: Thank you so much, Matteo. We will now move to the Q&A session. If you have a question, please use the raise hand icon located on your Zoom toolbar. When we call your name, please turn on your video and unmute your line. And our first question comes from Asia Merchant with Citi.
Asia Merchant: Oh, great. Thank you. Was having a few issues here. I'm muting myself. Um,
Asia Merchant: Very strong results here, just on gross margins. You guys continue to obviously deliver towards the high end of that. You've talked about these costs.
Asia Merchant: controls that are delivering. And I take it there was no impact from inventory reserves unwinding in this quarter.
Asia Merchant: So, just as we look ahead, you know, if you look into the trajectory of momentum that you're exiting December with and entering March, and as we look into fiscal 26,
Asia Merchant: So what are some drivers, the puts and takes that you see for gross margins into fiscal 26 to continue to deliver here towards the higher end of your range and if we could continue to see further margin momentum? Thank you.
Asia Merchant: Sure, thanks for the question. So you are absolutely right. The quarter was very clean.
Asia Merchant: very operational, there was no impact coming from the inventory, exactly as you mentioned. Really a fantastic job.
Speaker Change: done by the operating team, by Sri and his team, in keep driving the product cost reductions. And it's primarily activities such as value engineering. So taking cost out of the bill of material.
Now, value engineering is an ongoing process. You're never done.
Speaker Change: and every year you have to start basically a new set of programs and we have a pretty good pipeline also entering into next year and this is going to be a continued effort that will continue for years to come. As I said it's continuous improvement, you're never done.
Speaker Change: I will right now refrain from giving you a little bit, you know, more details on the financials as it pertains to 26 and the longer term. We look forward to obviously to updating all of you at the Investor Day in March 5th.
Speaker Change: But we are super thrilled by the continuous work the team has been doing.
Speaker Change: Okay, our next question comes from Alex Duval with Goldman Sachs. Alex.
Alex Duval: Yes, hi everyone. Thank you so much for the question. Just a quick couple if I may.
Alex Duval: Firstly, we saw another quarter of growth on the VC side and clearly you'd seen some stabilisation and talking about further attach of services, so wondered if you could expand on that.
Alex Duval: And then I guess the other question just on the PC side, showing growth there, clearly there's been talk of Windows Refresh and also upgrades to devices purchased early in COVID. So wondered if you could give your latest perspectives on those, many thanks.
Alex Duval: Yeah, happy to do that. And hi, VC. Yes, we're seeing, you know, from the many customers, customer discussions that we're having, we're seeing the market improving a little bit. IT budgets overall still slavish, but I think the AI spending is getting a little smarter.
Alex Duval: And, of course, there's return to office and customers making choices of how they want to work going forward, how many days in office, and that then, in turn, leads to office remodelings, which are always a good thing for us.
Alex Duval: So the market is becoming a little better and then within that we think we're executing really really well. Both VC demand and the overall B2B channel sales are quite a bit higher maybe even than the VC sales you saw here in the quarter.
Alex Duval: and that's driven by superior products and innovation. I touched on some of those in the remarks.
Alex Duval: strengthening our go-to-market capabilities with increased sales coverage, better talent, which we're excited about.
Speaker Change: And indeed, as you said, our services attach doubled, which is great because that drives customer satisfaction. It's also very profitable.
Speaker Change: And then some of the verticals, especially education, are really starting to get to some scale with 20% growth. So we're bullish on Logitech for Business.
Speaker Change: In terms of PC and PC refresh cycles and super PCs.
Speaker Change: That cycle is definitely underway, and as I've said before, there's no direct correlation with PC refreshes in our business, but certainly, you know, people buying or receiving a new PC at work is a good time to also think about adding one of our products.
Speaker Change: So, it is underway, and those new super PCs need super mice and keyboards.
Speaker Change: Okay, our next question comes from Eric Woodring with Morgan Stanley.
Cut.
Eric Woodring: Great. Thanks so much for taking my question, guys. I have two, if I may. Hanukkah, I was wondering if you could kind of double-click on your comments on China. It's been a very challenging market overall. You've called out specifically for Logitech over the last handful of quarters. But, you know, I guess maybe my question, do you feel like things have turned, kind of turned around this quarter?
Eric Woodring: and specifically, maybe what I'm trying to get at is, is there a market dynamic that's inflecting that you see? Is there something that you're doing specifically in China that's also inflecting? I'd love if you could just double click, kind of market and then Logitech positioning within China and what's changing, and then I have a follow up. Thank you.
Yeah.
Speaker Change: Absolutely and Eric it's both of the above. So I'm really pleased with the improving momentum that we're seeing in our business in China. As you know we don't break it out but you've seen the double-digit net sales growth for APEC and within that China did even a little better than the average so that's good.
Speaker Change: And what's driving that, it's both of the things you mentioned. So first of all, the market in gaming continues to grow at a really fast clip.
in China. And what's driving that, that market?
Speaker Change: I came from beauty in the past, and we called it the lipstick effect. When consumers are a little cash-strapped, that actually is true for gaming as well. This is a cheaper form of entertainment than going out to eat, going to the movies.
Speaker Change: So the gaming market is doing well. Another driver of this is the increasing popularity of first-person shooters in China.
Speaker Change: And of course, the competitive environment continues to be really dynamic, which means there's a lot of innovation in gaming. So that market is very robust, and that is one driver of our gaming growth and our overall growth in China.
Speaker Change: Second piece though is our teams are doing really great work and they're quickly introducing new products in China, for China, both at the premium end and the lower end.
Speaker Change: and they're really doing some exciting new stuff when it comes to marketing and social selling, both on Douyin, which is TikTok, and on Pinduoduo. And so we're seeing encouraging share progress, especially at the premium end, especially on those channels I just mentioned as well.
and I'm really liking the momentum we're regaining in China.
Speaker Change: but just wondering what you're hearing from your channel partners and whether there is a bit of a pull forward of demand just to make sure they can kind of get products at the right price before the potential of tariffs arise. That's it for me. Thanks so much.
Sure, Eric. Not really.
Speaker Change: at least not yet, for what we could see. Things have been...
progressing pretty normally.
Speaker Change: What I can tell you, to Anika's point earlier, we feel we are very prepared. We have been working on this diversification of our own supply chain for quite some time. We have multiple partners.
Speaker Change: manufacturing sites in multiple countries, so we think we are ready. It's really about supply chain resilience. More related, even more to your question,
Speaker Change: when you look at the inventory, for example, you saw the inventory, sequentially we went down third quarter versus the second, but we did actually pull in a few inventory on the high runners.
Speaker Change: in order to, you know, protect ourselves and customers, you know, upon, in case there is then a final determination on tariffs.
Thanks so much.
Goodbye.
Okay, our next question comes from Jorn Eifert with UBS.
All right.
Thank you for taking my questions.
Speaker Change: The first one is a pretty basic one on your Q4 implied outlook, which means sales is more or less flattish year-over-year and cross-profit margin, I think, going back to the 41 or 42% range.
Speaker Change: and also non-GAP EBIT being down around, what is it, 10-20% here, if I'm not totally wrong on the back of the envelope calculation. Can you clarify if you're really seeing it or it's a concept of prudence? This would be the first question, please.
Speaker Change: OK, I will take that one. So let me peel the onion for you, Jorn. So starting from the top.
Speaker Change: We continue to see strong demand on the back of the very successful holiday quarter that we just had. Demand in constant currency is expected to be in the mid-single digit.
Speaker Change: And this translates in depending on which side of the range you are, but in our net sales, when you factor in
Speaker Change: The effects impact that I mentioned in my prepared remarks let's say has to be up low to a single digit, okay?
As far as the gross margin...
Speaker Change: point on your question, that is correct. So we are expecting gross margin rate
to be around 41.5% in the fourth quarter.
So.
There are fundamentally two things happening year over year.
Speaker Change: One is the effects impact that I mentioned in my prepared remarks is
Speaker Change: As you have seen in recent weeks, the US dollar has strengthened quite substantially compared to the other major currencies, and for us it's primarily the euro. So that's about, year over year, it's about 150 basis points pressure on the gross margin rate.
Speaker Change: And then last year, we were still enjoying a little bit of tailwind coming from release of inventory reserves as the channel was coming down. That's not going to repeat in the fourth quarter. So that's why the gross margin rate is about call it.
roughly 200 basis points down year-over-year.
Speaker Change: So, however, if you exclude the impact of the effects and if you exclude the impact of this inventory dynamic, your premium income would be pretty much flat.
Speaker Change: So now we stand in all these pressures that I just mentioned. I think we are really a testament to the great work that the team has done by really allowing us to raise further the guidance for the year. And if you take a step back a little bit, rewind a little bit what we said in the last earnings call.
Speaker Change: Basically our outlook is improving by about 100 million in revenue and about 20 million dollar in margin. It's a pretty nice flow through considering some of the challenges that you know I mentioned in my prepared remarks.
Thank you. Bye. Yeah.
Speaker Change: Oh, no, I was just going to add urine, I mean, because we've been talking about this all year. So, again, in the fourth quarter, we do expect in constant currency that the sellout, the demand, will continue to be robust mid-single digits. But as we've said many times before, towards the end of the year, the sell-in will be lowered and the sell-out. So that's the dynamic you're seeing, but we do expect it to be positive.
Speaker Change: Thank you. And this brings me to the second question, if I may. When I look into the first half, 26, and just mechanically, your sell-in was much higher versus sell-out.
Speaker Change: Is this something we should prepare ourselves for? That maybe ZL in against a tight comp is more flattish than the first half 26 and ZL out will maintain the pace we are seeing around mid-single digit? Or is it not a big deviation you would expect for the first half 26?
Speaker Change: If we rewind the tape a little bit, if you remember at the beginning of the year, fiscal year 25.
We mentioned that...
the channel exiting fiscal year 24 was a bit light.
We were surprised to the positive.
Speaker Change: on some of the growth that we saw in the revenue in the last couple of months of the fourth quarter of 24 and this created
Speaker Change: a bit of an imbalance in the channel inventory and we spent basically the first half of fiscal year 25
in fixing this, and that's why we said...
first staff of 25.
sell-in will outpace sell-out, but then this dynamic reverses itself.
Speaker Change: in the second half of 2025, which is exactly what has been happening in the third quarter and what Annika mentioned for the fourth. Our plan is to continue to maintain a healthy...
Speaker Change: Channel Inventory. This is really what enabled us, in a way, to have such a strong holiday quarter. So we want to continue to do that.
Speaker Change: And if we are successful, then you should not see the same dynamic happening next year. So you will see next year, sell in and sell through mirror closer to each other throughout the year.
Speaker Change: Thank you very much. The very last question I made, the technical one, to be sure, because I could not go through all the details, but this SGNA one off you were highlighting, this is...
Speaker Change: included in your non-GET eBit, right? So the adjusted non-GET eBit for this one would be even higher, just to double-check this quickly. So that is correct. So first of all, the $14 million was booked not in G&A but in sales and marketing, and it is included in our numbers.
Thank you very much.
Good.
Okay, our next question comes from Ananda with Loop Capital.
Ananda: Yeah, thanks guys. Good afternoon and thanks for taking the questions. I guess just starting real quick on gaming, what's a good way to think about...
Ananda: the durability of these results as you go through the year. There's some important new gaming refreshes coming out.
Ananda: later in the year. Typically, there's good pull through ahead of those. There's also tough comp compares, tougher compares coming up as you go through the year. And then you are at record levels of gaming revenues. So just starting there. I'd love to get your take on that. Thanks.
Ananda: Yeah, I'm not going to give you an outlook for the year ahead, but we're bullish on gaming. We're super excited about what we did in the holiday quarter. We're gaining share in the U.S. and in EMEA in really robust markets.
I talked about the momentum we're regaining in China.
Ananda: We're gaining share and we're growing faster on the premium end of our gaming business. So I mentioned Pro, which is back to records. I didn't mention Sim, but that was a fourth quarter of double-digit growth on Sim. So those are really high ASP products.
Ananda: And then I think AI and innovation, you know, that fun AI streaming agent we just launched. There's a lot more to come there. So, bullish on gaming and we can talk more about it at AID.
Speaker Change: I appreciate the context and I guess quick follow-up you had mentioned back to office DC obviously is doing well again are you getting I guess
Speaker Change: We'd love any context, whether it's anecdotal in your conversations with larger customers or, you know, any of the data you're picking up about
Speaker Change: you know sort of bodies coming back to office that sort of connecting into Increased activity, you know any any context there would be great. Thanks
Yeah.
Speaker Change: Yeah, we're definitely seeing increased activity in people moving into new offices, changing their office setups, etc. Because, you know, many companies will continue to be hybrids, so a few days in the office, a few days at home. Some have decided to go all in and go all back to the office. All of that requires
Speaker Change: a new way of thinking about the office, which is really perfect for us. We've got very clear points of view on what great offices look like and what great technology in those offices look like.
and our teams are being pretty damn effective at...
Speaker Change: sharing those perspectives and sharing our products. So again, another place that we're bullish on and we can support companies that decide to go back five days a week, but we also support companies really well that decide on fewer days.
Thanks a lot. Thanks guys. Appreciate it. Thank you.
George Wang: Okay, our next question comes from George Wang with Barclays. George?
George Wang: Thank you for taking my questions and congrats on the quarter. I have two quick questions. Firstly, can you maybe give a more refreshed
George Wang: thoughts in terms of operating expense, you know, nice to see strong op-amp control, just curious.
if there's a tendency to reinvest some of the savings.
George Wang: to kind of an R&D and the S&M just to, you know, increase more sales. You know, previously you guys talked about 24 to 26% in terms of the sales ratio. Just curious, you know, if that's a kind of move away to the low end versus kind of reinvesting to the business.
George Wang: We continue to invest in R&D and in sales and marketing. So if you forget, one second, the bad debt reserve that we had to book this quarter, sales and marketing was up about 6% year-over-year.
The team did a very great job.
in be very meticulous on how to spend the money.
George Wang: They selectively spent some marketing dollars with some of our key e-tailers and retailers.
George Wang: to drive profitable growth. And you saw the results in the numbers that we just posted. So really a great job for the team. You spend the dollars wisely.
and the same applies to R&D.
George Wang: We continue to see R&D going up. That's part of what we always do. And you saw the impact of that. We launched, just in gaming, 16 new MPIs right before the holidays. And you look at what gaming did with it.
George Wang: They achieved almost record net sales. So that philosophy is not changing.
George Wang: As far as the range, we confirmed the range of 24 to 26%.
excluding the bad debts that we recorded in the quarter.
George Wang: and we'll probably be on the higher end of that range, but the philosophy really is not changing. We continue to invest in R&D, in sales and marketing cautiously, and we continue to be, to drive inefficiency in GNA.
Speaker Change: Great, just a quick follow-up if I can, just, you know, since you guys are cash-rich, 1.5 billion cash on the balance sheet increased a bit sequentially, just in terms of bolt-on
Speaker Change: talking deals, you know, so they, you know, do you think you are going to addressing a bit more cross-sell, you know, opportunities like, you know, adjacencies versus kind of a, you know, maybe a new category, you know, such as kind of B2B, you guys are doubling down, just curious if there's any refresh thoughts there.
Speaker Change: Yeah, so we'll definitely touch on that at the investor day. For now, though, our priorities when you look at CAP, we have a pristine balance sheet, our cash situation is great.
Speaker Change: and the priorities on how we spend that don't change. So first of all, we invested in the business. R&D is especially critical for us. Second, we
Prioritize the dividends.
Speaker Change: Nice increases in the dividend every year. The third priority, though, is M&A. So I'm glad you're bringing it up, but we have to be extremely thoughtful and deliberate and strategic about M&A. It's easy to do a deal. It's much harder to do a really great deal. But if I were a betting woman, I would say that you're right. Any M&A would be in the places of work and play.
Speaker Change: and with Synergies, especially in B2B or in our B2C go-to-market. So we are looking.
Speaker Change: And if and when we pull the trigger, I also want to tell you that we'll be ready to really integrate it well.
Speaker Change: So it's another thing that we're working on. And when we have something to share, you'll obviously be the first to know. But in the meantime, while we're not announcing any new M&A, our fourth priority for capital allocation is share buybacks, really important. We usually buy back around 130 million in a quarter. You've seen us buy back 200 million in the last quarter, again, because of that cash situation, but also because
Speaker Change: We believe it's a really good share to invest in, so it was a little higher than usual.
Great, thank you.
Speaker Change: Okay, at this time we do not have any more hands raised.
Great Hanukkah. That's our last question for today.
Speaker Change: Excellent. Well, thank you guys. It's great to see you. Appreciate you joining. Maybe the last thing I'll say is, you know, I am just so proud of our team's performance in this last quarter.
Speaker Change: You've seen us invest strategically and sensibly in product innovation, in our B2B capabilities, and around our global markets, and you've seen us do that over the last several quarters.
Speaker Change: and hopefully what you've seen is that the return on that investment is on full display this holiday quarter.
Speaker Change: The business regained top-line momentum across products, across geographies, and across channels. And it's generating, as we just said, really healthy invested capital and cash returns.