Fortune Brands Innovations, Inc.: Takeaways from the Road

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Fortune Brands Innovations, Inc.: Takeaways from the Road

Equity Research

U.S. Homebuilding & Building Products

21 May 2026

Fortune Brands Innovations, Inc.

Takeaways from the Road

We hosted two days of investor meetings with interim CEO

Dave Barry, interim CFO Ashley George, and IR Curt

Worthington and Scott Einberger. Incremental transparency FBIN EQUAL WEIGHT U.S. Homebuilding &

Building Productsis a strong first step, as the greatest investor focus was POSITIVE

Price Target USD 41.00

around operational revival. Guidance looks more realistic. Price (20-May-26) USD 35.02

Potential Upside/Downside +17.1%

Source: Bloomberg, Barclays Research

We hosted investor meetings in New York and Boston this week with the FBIN U.S. Homebuilding & Building

management team, including interim CEO Dave Barry, interim CFO Ashley George, and IR Products

Curt Worthington and Scott Einberger. We come away with a deeper appreciation of Matthew Bouley

management’s efforts around addressing recent challenges, including 1) the strongest +1 212 526 9029

management transparency around strategic challenges that we can recall having covered matthew.bouley@barclays.com

FBIN for a dozen years, which in our opinion is the right approach; and 2) actionable steps BCI, US

on rightsizing the business including streamlining resources across business units, Elizabeth Langan

addressing product line gaps, reducing costs, and identifying cross-selling opportunities. +1 212 526 5960

On the near term, FBIN seems to have a realistic path to improving margins in 4Q, in the elizabeth.langan@barclays.com

context of investor concerns around an unusually 4Q-weighted guide. For the stock, a 4Q BCI, US

weighting + uncertainty around permanent strategic direction (pending new Anika Dholakia