LLegrandExecutive Cockpit
Daily Briefing● Live · governed data

Monday, July 27, 2026

Today's focus: Collectionsunlock trapped working capital first. The day's plan leads; the rest of the week follows.

Cash target
€232.7 M
Profit target
+€304.7 M
Live market
Pulling live datacenter demand, copper & input signals…

Your daily value-creation plan, cash-first — every goal sized and owned. Check goals off to feed the bridge; open ▸ play & evidence on any card for the steps and the numbers.

Revenue
€9.5 bn
▲ 7.7% organic
Gross margin
51%
gross margin
Adj op margin
20.7%
€2.0 bn profit
Open AR
€1.6 bn
62d to collect
Stuck proposals
2
€470 M deciding
M&A pipeline
€500 M
+ €2.1 bn cross-family

The week ahead · CEO's value-creation plan

Themed cash-first · grounded in Legrand's governed data · enterprise value at 10× profit (assumption)

Cash to unlock · collections
€181.8 M
+€18.2 M/yr carry saved
Profit · mix & integration
+€304.7 M
≈ €3.0 bn enterprise value
Cash out · supplier terms
€50.9 M
modeled, paying to terms
Growth · cross-family at stake
€2.1 bn
€525 M weighted (25% won)
Value-creation bridge · this week
€0 M captured of €537.4 M target · 0%

Target this week: €232.7 M cash + +€304.7 M profit (≈ €3.0 bn enterprise value). Captured rises as goals are checked off below.

Monday scorecard · today
0/1 achieved · 0%

The week, day by day

Collect the €150 M now over 60 days late and pull collection time from 62 to 55 days
€1.6 bn owed across the customer book (distributors, datacenter operators, panel builders & installers) · €150 M is more than 60 days late · long datacenter-project and panel-builder accounts (datacenter 68d, panel builders 60d) collect the slowest.
Cash+€181.8 MCarry/yr+€18.2 M
🎯 Target: Balances over 60 days worked to zero; collection time 62d → 55d.
⏱ Why now: Every collection day is about €26.0 M of cash — the 7-day gap to target is real, fundable money that also delevers.
👤 Owner: Group CFO · Regional Controllers

Signals to watch

Leading indicators · one number, the action it implies

🖥 Datacenter concentration
Datacenter = 25.3% of revenue

Datacenter power is €2.4 bn of the €9.5 bn book and the growth engine (+40% organic, US >50%). The watch-item is executing the AI build-out while holding the ~20.7% adjusted operating margin.

🔁 Software & Services Mix
15% S&S vs 18% target

The historic hardware core still dominates. Attach connected products, monitoring & services and aftermarket — the less-cyclical, higher-value book — to lift the mix toward target.

Sales Velocity
Proposals are the slowest stage

€320 M (US hyperscaler datacenter) and €150 M (Eliot connected-building) are sitting in Proposal. Enforce dated next steps before they age out.

🏭 Plant Capacity
85% capacity utilization

5 points of idle capacity against the 90% target across the plants. Fill it before adding lines — every utilized hour drops to margin.