Highlights:

• Q2 2024 sales were $1.2 billion, an increase of 7 percent versus Q2 2023. Organic sales were $1.1 billion, a decrease of 3 percent versus Q2 2023
• Q2 2024 earnings per share (EPS) were $1.06, an increase of 33 percent versus a year ago; EPS before charges / gains were $1.16, an increase of 8 percent versus Q2 2023
• Company announced a number of key milestones in its digital products strategy
• Company updates full-year 2024 guidance, reflecting a revised macro-economic outlook and strength in key businesses while maintaining prior mid-point of EPS before charges / gains range

Fortune Brands Innovations, Inc. (NYSE: FBIN or “Fortune Brands” or the “Company”), an industry-leading innovation company focused on creating smarter, safer and more beautiful homes and improving lives, today announced second quarter 2024 results.

“Our teams continued to execute at a high level in a dynamic market. We delivered solid second quarter sales as our core U.S. products outperformed the market and we saw acceleration in our digital products,” said Fortune Brands Chief Executive Officer Nicholas Fink. “We also delivered strong operating margins, which are a tangible result of our organizational realignment and the other transformational actions we have taken over the past few years.”

Fink continued, “Finally, we announced several significant accelerants to our digital strategy, including with major insurance providers, municipalities and technology partners. I am proud of the continued investments and progress we have made, particularly in an uneven and dynamic external environment.”

Second Quarter 2024 Results

($ in millions, except per share amounts)

Unaudited

Total Company Results

Segment Results

Balance Sheet and Cash Flow

The Company exited the quarter with a strong balance sheet, and generated $262 million of operating cash flow and $223 million of free cash flow in the quarter. In accordance with its opportunistic, returns-based share repurchase program, the Company repurchased $55 million of shares in the quarter, and as of July 25, 2024, has repurchased $190 million of shares year to date.

As of the end of the second quarter 2024:

Updated 2024 Market and Financial Guidance

“Amidst a dynamic market, we are now updating our full-year guidance to reflect our expectations for continued out-performance driven by our core businesses, with particular strength in our Outdoors segment and our Moen North America business, and our accelerating digital sales, which are offset by weaker China sales. Importantly, we are narrowing the range around our prior EPS before charges / gains mid-point due to expected growth in our core and digital businesses and strong margin performance,” said Fortune Brands Chief Financial Officer David Barry. “As we position Fortune Brands for long-term shareholder value creation, we will continue to prioritize above-market sales growth opportunities, margin expansion and cash generation, while continuing to effectively manage costs and invest in a strategic set of key priorities.”

Updated 2024 Full-Year Guidance

For certain forward-looking non-GAAP measures (as used in this press release, operating margin before charges / gains on a full Company and segment basis, EPS before charges / gains and cash conversion), the Company is unable to provide a reconciliation to the most comparable GAAP financial measure because the information needed to reconcile these measures is unavailable due to the inherent difficulty of forecasting the timing and / or amount of various items that have not yet occurred, including the high variability and low visibility with respect to gains and losses associated with our defined benefit plans, which are excluded from EPS before charges / gains and cash conversion, and restructuring and other charges, which are excluded from operating margin before charges / gains, EPS before charges / gains and cash conversion. Additionally, estimating such GAAP measures and providing a meaningful reconciliation consistent with the Company’s accounting policies for future periods requires a level of precision that is unavailable for these future periods and cannot be accomplished without unreasonable effort. Forward-looking non-GAAP measures are estimated consistent with the relevant definitions and assumptions.

Conference Call Details

Today at 5:00 p.m. ET, Fortune Brands will host an investor conference call to discuss results. A live internet audio webcast of the conference call will be available on the Fortune Brands website at ir.fbin.com/upcoming-events. It is recommended that listeners log on at least 10 minutes prior to the start of the call. A recorded replay of the call will be made available on the Company’s website shortly after the call has ended.

About Fortune Brands Innovations

Fortune Brands Innovations, Inc. (NYSE: FBIN), headquartered in Deerfield, Ill., is a brand, innovation and channel leader focused on exciting, supercharged categories in the home products, security and commercial building markets. The Company’s growing portfolio of brands includes Moen, Flo, House of Rohl, Aqualisa, Emtek, Therma-Tru, Larson, Fiberon, Master Lock, SentrySafe, Yale residential and August. To learn more about FBIN, its brands and environmental, social and governance (ESG) commitments, visit www.FBIN.com.

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Use of Non-GAAP Financial Information

This press release includes measures not derived in accordance with generally accepted accounting principles (“GAAP”), such as diluted earnings per share before charges / gains, operating income before charges / gains, operating margin before charges / gains, net debt, net debt to EBITDA before charges / gains, sales excluding the impact of acquisitions (organic sales), free cash flow and cash conversion. These non-GAAP measures should not be considered in isolation or as a substitute for any measure derived in accordance with GAAP and may also be inconsistent with similar measures presented by other companies. Reconciliations of these measures to the applicable most closely comparable GAAP measures, and reasons for the Company’s use of these measures, are presented in the attached pages.