Q3 FY26 · Ended Oct 3, 2026 · View SEC filing
Cost discipline outran the memory squeeze
Operating costs grew about half as fast as sales, so operating margin rose while each sale earned less gross profit.
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Printing, scanning and machine vision bring 41.2% of sales but keep more of each dollar than mobile computing.
Pretax income rose 24.5%; the rest of the jump came from an effective tax rate that fell to 17.2%.
Devices grew 26.7% but services and software barely moved, so the service share of sales fell to 15.1%.
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