Is Otis’s Montréal REM Win Reshaping the Investment Case for Otis Worldwide (OTIS)?

• Otis Worldwide has completed its landmark installation for Montréal’s Réseau Express Métropolitain light metro, supplying 22 escalators and 57 custom elevators with energy‑saving ReGen drives and real‑time monitoring tied into the network’s centralized control system.
• The project not only enhances accessibility and sustainability for up to 150,000 daily passengers but also adds a 5‑year service contract that deepens Otis’s recurring maintenance and monitoring role in one of Québec’s largest infrastructure undertakings in the last 50 years.
• We’ll now examine how winning this high‑profile REM installation and long‑term service contract fits into Otis’s modernization and IoT‑focused investment narrative.

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Otis Worldwide Investment Narrative Recap

To own Otis Worldwide, you need to believe that its large installed base and ongoing shift toward modernization and connected services can offset sluggish new equipment demand and recent earnings pressure. The REM win reinforces the modernization and IoT catalyst, but on its own does not significantly change the near term picture, where soft organic growth and declining free cash flow margins remain key concerns.

Among recent announcements, the launch of Otis Integrated Dispatch, which links elevators with autonomous mobile robots via a cloud platform, is particularly relevant to the REM project’s real time monitoring capabilities. Both highlight Otis’s push into connected, software enabled services that can support the modernization backlog and deepen high margin service relationships, an important counterbalance to weaker new equipment markets.

Yet despite these connected wins, investors still need to watch the risk that building owners adopt competing IoT maintenance solutions and...

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Otis Worldwide's narrative projects $16.4 billion revenue and $1.9 billion earnings by 2028. This requires 5.0% yearly revenue growth and about a $0.4 billion earnings increase from $1.5 billion today.

Uncover how Otis Worldwide's forecasts yield a $103.96 fair value, a 18% upside to its current price.

Exploring Other Perspectives

Five members of the Simply Wall St Community value Otis between US$81.56 and US$109.62, reflecting a wide spread of expectations. As you weigh those views, remember that weaker organic growth and declining free cash flow margins could limit how much benefit Otis ultimately captures from modernization and IoT focused projects like REM.

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