Welcome to Senior PLC's 2025 full year results presentation. Thank you for making the effort to get here, and thanks also go to Deutsche Numis for hosting us here at their facility. A warm welcome to you for those of you joining remotely. Before we present our results, can I just address the elephant in the room? I'm sure that everyone saw our announcement last Friday regarding discussions with potential offerors. As you will appreciate, it is not appropriate to comment further here other than to remind everyone that there can be no certainty that any offer will be made, nor as to the terms on which any firm offer might be made. Please refer to the full statement issued on Friday and restrain yourselves when we get to the Q&A from asking questions that you know we will not be able to answer.
In terms of our agenda this morning, I will briefly cover the highlights. Alpna will run through and comment on the results. I will give an update on markets, investment proposition, and outlook. 2025 was a pivotal year for Senior. We successfully completed the sale of our Aerostructures business to Sullivan Street Partners on the 31st of December 2025. A crucial element in delivering on our strategy to be a market-leading fluid conveyance and thermal management company, supplying highly engineered products and systems. As Alpna will show in a few minutes, we had a strong financial performance with both divisions contributing well. Our balance sheet is in great shape. That has allowed us to increase our total dividend to 3 pence per share, an increase of 25% compared to 2024.
Trading in the first two months of 2026 has started well. The board's expectations are unchanged for 2026. Looking ahead, we are on track to achieve the medium-term targets we set out last year, which again, Alpna will demonstrate. Before I talk about markets and outlook, I'll hand over to Alpna to take us through the financial results.
Thank you, David. Good morning, everyone. I'm pleased to take you through Senior's financial results for the 2025 financial year. It has been a year of strong financial performance across the group, with continued momentum in both divisions and meaningful progress towards our medium-term financial targets. With that, turning to some of the key financial highlights. Revenue increased to GBP 738 million, up 6% at constant currency. Adjusted Operating Profit rose 22% at constant FX to GBP 63.6 million, and Adjusted Operating Profit margin expanded by 110 basis points to 8.6%, reflecting pricing, volume, increased commercial activity, and operational improvements. Adjusted Profit before tax was GBP 51.2 million, up 24% at constant currency. Adjusted EPS grew 9% to 9.65 pence, demonstrating strong underlying earnings momentum.
I'm pleased to say Return on Capital Employed increased 140 basis points to 13.1%, reflecting higher earnings. We also achieved cash conversion of 90%, up 400 basis points on the prior year. We have proposed a total dividend of 3 pence per share for 2025, an increase of 25% year-over-year. This slide covers the revenue bridge. On a reported basis, revenue grew 4% to GBP 738 million, with currency headwinds of roughly GBP 10 million. On a constant currency basis, revenue was up 6%. Looking at divisional performance at constant FX, Aerospace revenue increased 10% to GBP 426 million. Civil Aerospace revenue increased 9% year-over-year, largely driven by positive pricing and volume.
Defense also had strong growth, up 12%, as we continue to see increased volumes for the F-35, the C-130, and other military programs, and higher pricing. Revenue from adjusted markets increased 14%, largely driven by demand from the semiconductor equipment market. In Flexonics, revenue was broadly flat at constant FX. 2025 saw a softening in the North American and European heavy-duty truck market. Despite this, our land vehicle revenue increased 1.6% with a ramp-up of new programs. David will expand on this later. Revenue from power and energy markets decreased by 2%. Higher demand in our downstream oil and gas and nuclear business was offset by lower revenue in upstream oil and gas and other industrial sectors. Moving to the Adjusted Operating Profit bridge. Adjusted Operating Profit increased 20% despite a modest GBP 1 million FX headwind.
Starting with 2024 on the left-hand side of GBP 53 million. Aerospace delivered the largest uplift of GBP 12 million, benefiting from increased pricing, volume drop through, mix and commercial settlements, as well as strong operational execution. Flexonics also contributed positively, supported by strong aftermarket sales in our downstream oil and gas and nuclear business, as well as restructuring initiatives. The contribution from our China joint venture was significantly higher year-over-year. Performance-related incentives associated with the group's improved results were charged through central costs, largely driving the increase there. We ended 2025 with Adjusted Operating Profit of GBP 63.6 million, an increase of 22% on a constant FX basis. Turning to divisional performance, Aerospace had an excellent year. Book-to-bill increased from 1.17 to 1.21, driven by increasing demand and build rates.
At constant FX, revenue was up 10.4%. Adjusted Operating Profit increased 32.5%, resulting in margin expansion of 190 basis points, reaching 11.4%. The aerospace division delivered on a number of fronts, including positive price increases, closing out a number of commercial settlements, as well as achieving operational efficiencies. Demand was strong across civil defense and adjacent markets with Spencer, our U.S. hydraulic fluid fittings business, delivering outstanding growth of 32% year-over-year, further demonstrating our ability to integrate value-enhancing bolt-on acquisitions. During the year, the aerospace division was awarded new contracts as well as extensions of existing contracts.
For example, we secured a multi-year contract for highly engineered aerospace standard parts from Airbus to be manufactured in Europe, and we were also awarded a three-year contract from an industry-leading distributor for high pressure hydraulic fittings. Now on to Flexonics, where we delivered a resilient result in softer end market conditions. Book-to-bill went from 1.01 to 0.93, given softer conditions in the heavy-duty truck market, but also due to higher prior comparative, where we had a large project for expansion joints related to a new CATOFIN plant in India. In addition, our aftermarket business in downstream oil and gas tends to have relatively short lead times and therefore order flow can be lumpy.
At constant FX, revenue increased marginally and adjusted operating margins rose to 11.2% and to 12.1% when including the contribution from our China JV. We benefited from favorable aftermarket mix, particularly in our Pathway business, as well as successful execution of restructuring in selected operations across North America and Europe. The China JV performed especially well with our share of profit rising to GBP 3 million from GBP 1.2 million last year. The Flexonics division was awarded a number of important contracts this year. We were awarded the supply fluid conveyance assemblies for multiple light vehicles across diesel, gasoline and hybrid platforms by a global supplier. In addition, Flexonics was awarded exhaust gas recirculation coolers on a new engine type to be used on multiple platforms by a leading global manufacturer of heavy-duty trucks.
Slide 10 shows the reconciliation of Adjusted Operating Profit to the statutory reported profit for the period for the continuing business. It also highlights our interest in tax charges. Net finance costs increased by GBP 1.3 million due to higher interest rates on variable rate debt and higher average net debt in comparison to the prior year. IFRS 16 interest charge and lease liabilities increased by GBP 0.4 million, and we had net finance income from our pension plans of GBP 2.1 million. A tax charge of GBP 11.3 million was recognized on our adjusted profit before tax. We expect the effective tax rate of 22% for the full year 2025. In terms of reconciling adjusted profit to statutory profit, we had just under GBP 1.6 million of amortization, which was non-cash, related to acquisitions.
Site relocation costs of GBP 2.4 million for the transfer of manufacturing from our U.S. to our cost-competitive facility in Mexico, as well as costs related to the relocation of our U.K. innovation center in Wales. We had GBP 7.3 million of pension benefit clarifications. These relate to the U.K. defined benefit pension scheme buy-in, which took place in September 2025. As part of the due diligence work undertaken for the buy-in, some historical benefit clarifications were identified. Most of these have already been funded through the pension buy-in process. The remainder will be funded from the GBP 23 million actuarial surplus. We had GBP 5 million of restructuring initiatives, largely related to headcount reductions in Flexonics across North America and Europe, as well as a result of softer end market conditions in the heavy duty truck market.
We had GBP 0.8 million related to the fair value change on contingent consideration and other related costs for the Spencer acquisition, and a 4.5 million GBP tax benefit on adjusting items. After these adjustments, reported profit for the year was 27.3 million GBP. Moving to cash flow generation. Free cash flow increased 37% year-over-year to 36 million GBP. We can see the key drivers here of Adjusted Operating Profit to free cash flow. Starting from the left, we have our Adjusted Operating Profit of 64 million GBP. Add back of depreciation and amortization of 29 million GBP and just over 6 million GBP of other items. Working capital outflow was 8 million GBP, of which 5 million GBP related to inventory build to support customer demand, and the balance being a movement in receivables of 14 million GBP and payables of 10 million GBP.
Working capital was circa 14% of sales in 2025, partly driven by the timing of customer collections at the year-end. For 2026, we currently expect it to be 18% of sales to support customer demand, predominantly in aerospace. CapEx of GBP 32 million equates to 1.5 x depreciation, excluding the impact of IFRS 16 depreciation. For 2026, CapEx is expected to be lower at 1.3 x as we continue to support growth in both divisions. Operating cash flow amounted to GBP 57 million. We paid interest of GBP 14 million and tax of GBP 7.5 million, giving us GBP 36 million of free cash flow. Our 2025 performance reflects higher profits, strong working capital discipline, and CapEx investment to support growth. We remain focused on maintaining excellent cash generation as a core enabler of investment, shareholder returns and balance sheet strength.
What does that mean in terms of net debt? Net debt, including IFRS 16 leases, reduced significantly to GBP 117 million at the year-end, a reduction of over GBP 110 million. Strong free cash flow, proceeds from the Aerostructures disposal, and disciplined capital allocation contributed to this outcome. You see the opening net debt balance of GBP 230 million on the left-hand side. The free cash flow I talked about of GBP 36 million.
We see GBP 3 million of free cash outflow for discontinued operations, dividends paid of GBP 10 million, share purchases for the employee benefit trust of GBP 7.4 million, joint venture dividends received of GBP 1 million, proceeds from the disposal of Aerostructures and Spencer Aerospace contingent consideration of GBP 108 million, as well as other items of GBP 12 million, predominantly leases, and finally, FX giving us our closing position of GBP 117 million. Leverage ended the year at 0.9 x, placing us in a strong financial position as we moved into 2026. Moving on to our financing position, which remains strong. We had GBP 294 million of committed facilities diversified across U.S. private placement notes and bank credit facilities during the year. We issued a new private placement note of $40 million.
We repaid U.S. private placement maturities totaling $60 million and GBP 27 million. In January 2026, we repaid the GBP 30 million term loan used as a bridge to the Aerostructures disposal. Our balance sheet is strong, liquid and well-structured, with ample headroom to support growth and disciplined capital deployment. Our 2025 performance demonstrates clear progress towards our medium-term financial targets across margin, cash conversion, and Return on Capital Employed. Group operating profit margin of 8.6% continues to trend upwards. Aerospace margin reached 11.4%, progressing towards our mid-teens target. Flexonics margin of 11.2%, excluding the JV, sits well within our expected 10%-12% range.
We said we would achieve at least 10% even in a down year, 2025 was a test for this given the softer conditions in the heavy-duty truck market. If we include the JV, the margin was 12.1%, which exceeds the range. Return on Capital Employed of 13.1%, steadily advancing towards the 15%-20%, 20%. Cash conversion exceeded the 85% target, delivering 90% in 2025. As you can see, we remain firmly on track to deliver against these targets. We underpin the targets with a strong balance sheet. We were comfortably within our target leverage of 0.5x to 1.5x. Our leverage was at 0.9x at the year-end of 2025.
Revenue growth of 6% at constant FX in 2025 was in line with our expectation of mid-single-digit organic revenue growth through the cycle. Turning to slide 15, capital allocation. Our capital allocation framework remains unchanged, disciplined, returns-focused and aligned with shareholder value creation. In 2025, we invested GBP 32.6 million in CapEx to support business growth. This equated to 1.5x . We expect this to trend down to 1.3 x in 2026. Our medium-term expectation continues to be 1.1x . We invested 2.1% of revenue in research and development in 2025, consistent with our 2%-3% of revenue target. Dividends of GBP 12.3 million reflects our progressive dividend policy.
We are proposing a total dividend of 3 pence per share in 2025, which is a 25% increase on the prior year and equates to an earnings cover of 3.2 x. As stated previously, leverage remains comfortably within our target range. We continue to explore value-accretive bolt-on M&A aligned with our core capabilities. In view of the Rule 2.4 announcement last week, we have postponed the start of the GBP 40 million share buyback program, which had been due to commence following publication of the full year results. This will be kept under review. We will make a further announcement as necessary. With that, I will hand back to David, who will take us through the markets and strategy section.
Thank you, Alpna. Let's turn our attention to markets. In 2025, aerospace represented 58% of the group's revenues, and Flexonics was 42%. As Alpna has mentioned, aerospace division sales grew 10% on a constant currency basis, and Flexonics grew marginally despite softer land vehicle markets. Aerospace and defense is now 48% of the group, with civil aerospace being around 2/3 of that and defense one-third, which represents a good growth opportunity. Sales to adjacent markets from our aerospace business was 10% in the full year, with revenues from semiconductor equipment customers increasing. Our businesses facing into land vehicle, at 25% of group revenues, and power and energy, 17%, continued to perform well against a mixed market backdrop. Civil aerospace was 32% of group's revenue in 2025.
This includes both large commercial, regional and business jet sectors. Growth in the end market, measured in Revenue Passenger Kilometers or RPKs, was healthy at around 5%. We expect long-term civil aerospace market growth of 3%-4%, driven by the growing middle classes in Asia, as well as fleet modernization and aircraft replacement. We have very good positions on all single-aisle and wide-body platforms, as well as most regional and large business jet programs. In 2025, civil aerospace sales grew 10% at constant FX, driven by improved pricing and higher build rates. Both Airbus and Boeing have record order books, with single-aisle and wide-body rates set to increase further this year and beyond, which will drive further growth for Senior. You'll be aware that many countries are committing to higher defense spending.
Senior has good content on key U.S. and European military aircraft platforms. In 2025, our defense sales grew strongly, 12% year-over-year. That was driven by higher sales to C-130, F-35 and strong military aftermarket demand. Turning now to Flexonics. We had a strong performance in 2025 relative to end markets. In land vehicles, the new contracts we have won over the last couple of years reached peak production, which is why our passenger vehicle sales growth is 31% year-over-year, compared to market growth of just 1%. While truck markets were slower in 2025 compared to 2024, particularly in the second half of the year, we did outperform the market in North America, with our sales down 18% while the market declined 25%.
Our European truck sales reduced by 1% in line with the market. ACT Research are expecting truck markets to continue to be weak in the first half of 2026 before starting to recover in the second half of the year. In power and energy, a really strong performance at our Pathway business in Texas led to strong downstream oil and gas and nuclear sales. Upstream oil and gas sales continued to be subdued as we continue to reduce our exposure to commoditized products. At last year's capital markets event in March and at our half-year results presentation in August, we went through our fluid conveyance and thermal management strategy in detail. I won't repeat everything we discussed then, we have included relevant material in the appendices to enable more detailed discussions on a one-to-one basis. We believe we have a compelling investment proposition.
With a century of relevant experience, we can genuinely claim to be experts in fluid conveyance and thermal management. We have truly differentiated products with rich background and foreground intellectual property, coupled with expert design and manufacturing know-how. We operate in attractive and structurally resilient end markets, are well-positioned to take advantage of that over the medium term. We have long-lasting relationships with our customers and are trusted by them to deliver excellent products and to respond with agility when they need our support. Our Senior Operating System is driving operational excellence and efficiency across the group. Our global footprint, with a strong presence in our home markets and world-class facilities in cost-competitive countries, is a real advantage. Finally, as these 2025 results have demonstrated, our financial strength with improved performance, strong cash flow generation, and low leverage supports investment and shareholder returns.
Let me finish by talking about the outlook for Senior. Trading in the first two months of 2026 has started well, and the board's expectations are unchanged for 2026. In Aerospace, growth in civil aircraft build rates and increased demand across its other markets is expected to drive further good progress in 2026 and beyond. Flexonics expectations for 2026 are unchanged, with robust double-digit margins being maintained when including the JV, notwithstanding the softer conditions in certain end markets. Looking ahead, we're confident of delivering enhanced shareholder value as we execute on our strategy and continue to strengthen our financial performance in line with our medium-term financial targets. With that, we'll open the floor for any questions, which Alpna and I will be delighted to answer. Any questions? Yes, Tom.
Thank you. Good, good morning, everyone.
Yeah.
Thomas Rands from Berenberg. Just two questions, if I may. First one on the Flexonics headcount reductions. I think you said that was relating to mainly the Class 8 heavy truck activities. As and when that activity picks up again, how much of that headcount do you think will come back in? How much is temporary versus permanent kind of takeout? The second one is just on M&A pipeline. How active, what sort of valuations are you seeing? Anything interesting in the?
Do you want to take that?
Shall I take the first one? Thanks for that, Tom. In terms of Flexonics headcounts, what we've said is, look, we took GBP 5 million of cost out in 2025. It predominantly related to Flexonics. In terms of savings, we have about GBP 4 million of savings in 2026, it really depends on if and when that market comes back is in terms of timing, as to how much of that cost comes back. Some of it was structural costs that was taken out and some of it was temporary costs that was taken out, so it was a bit of both.
Yeah. I think on the, on the M&A side, look, I got Nigel Major, our VP of Strategy here with us today. Sorry, Nigel. Nigel, you know, maintains a really good and healthy pipeline. We've been quite focused on that for some time. When you know, went through our capital allocation policy, which looks at both returning cash to shareholders when it's sensible to do so, but also looking at bolt-on accretive M&A. I think in the appendix, you'll see our acquisition heat map, where we lay out those areas that we're most interested in. You know, I think, the Spencer acquisition's been a great success.
There's a lot of growth yet to come from that acquisition and everything else it sort of encouraged within the business, such as working with our colleagues in Ermeto in France to develop their range of products with help from Spencer Aerospace. You know, that's a, that's a kind of a typical type of acquisition we do, really looking at products in the aerospace or industrial markets that are bespoke, that have got high design content and have decent margins, good returns on capital, and really facing into sort of the attractive markets we're currently facing into. Think of it as bolt-on accretive M&A that we'd be most interested in. Not rushing out to do anything, but certainly we maintain an active pipeline. Hi, Rich.
Morning. It's Richard Paige from Deutsche Bank. Sorry, stolen the mic.
Okay.
Just three from me, please. Just on aerospace, obviously really strong margin performance in 2025. I think back to the capital markets day, you spoke about pricing, being obviously half of that and 80% covered with long-term agreements at that point. Has that progressed at all and, that side? On the second one, strong performance in the joint venture in China. Is there anything exceptional in that we should be aware of? Then just on the third point, semicon, obviously, very strong outlook and strong performance you've had this year. Could you just remind us of the lead times in that business for you, please?
On, on the pricing side, well remembered, Richard. There's three elements to the margin progression up to the mid-teens where roughly half it come from pricing, a quarter from operational efficiency, and a quarter from volume. We made good price, good progress on pricing last year. Some of the pricing, we'd already done cut in last year, some of it cuts in next year as well. We've got, you know, one big negotiation left to do that we're in the midst of, and we would anticipate that concluding this year, and that's the bulk of the long-term agreements. You know, we've got a lot of purchase order to purchase order business, spot business, that gets priced as it goes along. You know, on an ongoing basis, we'll have contracts coming up for renewal.
you know, we've got a very good approach to pricing now. Look, it's fair. We always look for win-win solutions with our customers, we're absolutely on track to achieve our objectives from a pricing perspective, that gives us half of that margin improvement. It's in a good place. On the JV in China, yeah, it's a good fun business. you know, our joint venture partner, PPM, works very closely with us. They're primarily focused on the land vehicle business. A lot of it is passenger vehicle, they also do truck business. Cummins were in China almost before any other Western company, they asked us to set up this facility long before I joined the company.
It's kinda been bubbling under, but it's really now holding its own. Some fantastic products. One of the products they made last year that helped, I didn't know, but in the steering column, you have a little bellow. If you hit the steering wheel in a crash, the bellows absorbs the impact and allows it to fold. We won all of that business because the previous supplier for our customer wasn't performing very well. Our team in China developed prototypes, qualified it in record time, and that led to all of the business being awarded to us. That was one of the reasons why we did really well last year and will continue to do so, but that's just one example.
In fact, this particular customer now wants us to build the same product in a joint venture facility in Mexico for all the North American business. A really good example of how we've been able to progress our business there. They're good cost competitive location, but really great at engineering as well. Will I keep going? Semiconductor-
Semiconductor.
Yeah, semiconductor, strong demand. Our main customer is Lam Research. Out of our Metal Bellows facility, Lam have been doing well. We've been doing well. From a standing start, it's probably, you know, four to six months, but because we've got ongoing forecast orders, you know, the actual cycle time through the factory is nearer six weeks. You know, we get pretty good forecasts from Lam. You know, and we monitor what's happening in the industry more generally. We can respond quite quickly, if the demand goes up, if that was where your question was going. Yeah. Andrew, there's a mic here that's coming.
Thanks very much. It's Andrew Humphrey at Peel Hunt. Just a couple, if I may. One to follow up on Richard's question on the aerospace. You've obviously highlighted, you know, pricing, volume, mix, commercial settlements all being pretty strong positive drivers in 2025 contributing to that result. Pricing, you've obviously talked about, you know, the agreements continuing to come through there this year and next. Volume it feels like is in a pretty good place given the reporting that we're seeing everywhere. I wanted to ask Commercial settlements, I guess, you know, can't model those, but wanted to ask about mix in the light of your comment on spot business rather than contract business. It does feel like kind of volumes have picked up maybe a little bit ahead of what we were expecting.
Does that mean sort of more spot business for you, and does that tend to be positive for margin? Yeah, let me pause there. I've got a couple more.
I think from a volume perspective, so, worth reminding what I said in the presentation there. If you look at our aerospace business now that we have sold structures, you know, we're about a third large commercial aircraft, a third regional and biz jet, and a third defense. Slightly different growth characteristics in those three sectors, but they were all strong last year, in fact. And we did see, you know, good military aftermarket business last year, and we see that sort of continuing at the moment. That's one of the things that helps. Otherwise, I think, our growth was where we thought it would be, coming through on the civil side. With those rate increases, we'd expect that to continue.
So far, the demand signals we're seeing from Boeing and Airbus are what we would expect.
Great. Thanks. Maybe on Flexonics then as well. Couple things there. Obviously, you know, we had the ACT numbers back around Q3 indicating, like challenges ahead for 2026. I think you talked a lot about that. I wonder we are now sort of nearly six months down the road from there. I wonder how the early signs that you are seeing with customers compare to that view from back in October, November time. You know, also on Flexonics on the oil and gas side, yeah, clearly it is kind of early days given events over the weekend, but it also feels like a few parts of the market have been positioning for disruption in the Middle East for a few weeks now. I wonder what early indications you are seeing from customers there.
On the heavy duty truck side, first of all, ACT are currently predicting a 3% growth in 2026, but that's really a game of two halves, you know, there. You know, if you look at year-on-year, it's significantly down in the first half of the year with the recovery starting in the second half of the year. We'd like to be a bit further into the year before we called what we really think is going to happen. That would be great, you know, if we do get that strong recovery coming in the second half of the year. It's off a pretty low compare to remember. So far our expectations are unchanged, but we're monitoring that very carefully for anything that might change.
First half down, and we're expecting the second half to be up a bit. Let's hope it improves. It might improve. We'll see. Then oil and gas, gosh, it really is a bit early to be answering that one about the disruption by current events. I think, for us, what's important is more downstream oil and gas. We've really moved away from We had one business that supplied parts that used to sit on top of drill bits for down hole drilling, and we've really moved away from that because the product was quite commoditized. A lot of it had been offshored. It's not that important to us now. What is important is, you know, industrial process control, downstream oil and gas, the huge expansion joints that go into refineries and so on. That's predominantly all aftermarket business.
As long as people are running CATOFIN plants, refining, running nuclear plants, and then power and energy, then we'll continue to get good aftermarket from that. What we don't have this year is the big anchor project we had end of 2024, start of 2025 for the GAIL (India) Limited, which was a new CATOFIN plant. This year it's really all that, repairs, spares, emergency call outs, et cetera. It's quite short cycle business. So far so good on that front.
Thanks. Maybe, maybe finally on FX, I think 1.31 for FY 2025. Clearly kind of more of a headwind this year. Any additional actions that we're taking to accommodate that?
In terms of FX, I mean, if I look at where our earnings are at, 2/3 of our business is in the U.S. Yeah, there, you know, there would potentially be an FX headwind in 2026. Yeah, so I mean, we are looking to make sure that's baked into our pricing, that we are taking the right actions locally to do that. It's mainly a translation risk in terms of, you know, how we transact with our businesses. It tends to be local for local.
Yep. Thank you.
Okay. Any more questions? Okay. Alex, no questions today?
Can I ask a couple?
Yeah. I can see them on the tip of your tongue.
Good to put me on the spot.
Sorry.
Alex O'Hanlon, Panmure Liberum. If I ask a couple of quick questions. Firstly, on the working capital absorption out note, you showed that there was good progress there to 13.5%, and indicated we should see that going back up to 18% in FY 2026. How should we think about the range for the medium term? Where should that sit?
I mean, it'll probably be somewhere in between, Alex. In terms of 25, the working capital was impacted by some, you know, by collectibles that happened at the year-end in terms of customer receipts. At the moment, you know, we think it'll be about 18% for FY 2026. We hope we'll come in better than that, but that's where it's standing today. In terms of the medium term, you know, we hope to get that down over the next three years. We're making good progress against that, but at the same time, you know, we are seeing that demand come through in aerospace, we will need to support that ramp up.
Perfect.
Alpna drives the business very hard on their inventory as you can imagine.
Yeah. No, definitely. Just one other question. In terms of aerospace, we've kind of picked apart the margin and the benefits there already in a lot of detail, but is there any further information you can give us on how much the benefit from contract settlements was in FY 2025, when we're thinking FY 2026 it could be a headwind if there's a non-repeat?
Yeah, there was a few million there. I think what we talked about was insurance settlement in the first half year. That was GBP 3 million.
Mm-hmm.
I think we said that. I will say there's always one-offs.
Yeah.
So-
Yeah. I mean, we do push the businesses, you know, at the year-end in terms of closing out any customer negotiations and getting things settled, as does any business. The team did a great job in 2025 of doing that. As David said, there's always... That you have that every year in any business. We don't disclose the exact amount, but it was... Yeah, it was a good number.
Yeah.
Perfect.
that's baked into our guidance as well, aren't those.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Yeah, that's baked in.
Perfect. Thank you.
Okay. Any last questions? Yes, Tom.
Thank you. Thomas Rands again from Berenberg. Just one follow-up on your comment around military aftermarket being strong, we always think of Senior as an OE, kind of not an aftermarket kind of play. What was driving that within military? Are there any other opportunities elsewhere? I was always thinking no, these things live...
Yeah.
pop up now and again. Thank you.
As a percentage now it's slightly higher because the aftermarket we do have is within our fluid conveyance businesses. Businesses like SSP in California, Metal Bellows in Boston, you know, have decent military aftermarket. C-130, for example. Think how many C-130s are flying there. We do get aftermarket associated with that for our international customers as well as our sort of U.S. domestic customers. you know, that. There's always an ongoing level. At the moment, you know, that was increasing last year, and we see that continuing to be strong.
Are there opportunities elsewhere?
Yes. I think we're always pursuing more opportunities to increase that aftermarket as part of our growth strategy, for sure. Okay. Thank you very much, everybody. I really appreciate you taking the time to come this morning. Look forward to following up with you.