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STOCK-BASED COMPENSATION (Tables) | 12 Months Ended
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Dec. 31, 2025
Share-Based Payment Arrangement [Abstract] |
Schedule of Restricted Stock Compensation Expense | Restricted stock compensation expense from continuing operations recorded in the Consolidated Statements of Operations is as follows:
| Year Ended December 31,
(in millions, except per share data) | 2025 |  | 2024 |  | 2023
Restricted stock compensation expense | $ | 37 |  |  | $ | 36 |  |  | $ | 37 |
Restricted stock compensation expense, net of tax | $ | 28 |  |  | $ | 27 |  |  | $ | 28 |
Schedule of Share-Based Payment Arrangement, Restricted Stock and Restricted Stock Unit, Activity | A summary of the status of the Company’s nonvested restricted stock for employees and non-employee directors is as follows:
| Shares subject to restriction (thousands) |  | Weighted average grant date fair value
Nonvested at January 1, 2023 | 2,373 |  |  | $ | 42.47 |
Granted | 1,099 |  |  | $ | 48.19 |
Vested | (917) |  |  | $ | 39.80 |
Forfeited | (111) |  |  | $ | 44.63 |
PHINIA Spin-Off awards transferred 1 | (389) |  |  | $ | 45.80 |
PHINIA Spin-Off adjustment 2 | 274 |  |  | $ | — |
Nonvested at December 31, 2023 | 2,329 |  |  | $ | 40.57 |
Granted | 1,317 |  |  | $ | 33.75 |
Vested | (923) |  |  | $ | 44.21 |
Forfeited | (198) |  |  | $ | 43.04 |
Nonvested at December 31, 2024 | 2,525 |  |  | $ | 35.49 |
Granted | 1,039 |  |  | $ | 31.21 |
Vested | (1,068) |  |  | $ | 44.11 |
Forfeited | (222) |  |  | $ | 35.89 |
Nonvested at December 31, 2025 | 2,274 |  |  | $ | 29.45 |
________________ 1 Represents the cancellation of awards outstanding as of Distribution Date held by PHINIA employees. PHINIA employees were granted PHINIA restricted stock after the Spin-Off replacing the cancelled awards. 2 Represents the adjustment of unvested awards using a conversion ratio of 1.13 to 1 to preserve the intrinsic value of the awards prior to Spin-Off as authorized by the 2023 Plan and 2018 Plan.
Schedule of Share-Based Payment Arrangement, Performance Shares, Activity | The amounts expensed and common stock issued from continuing operations for performance stock units for the years ended December 31, 2025, 2024 and 2023 were as follows:
| Year Ended December 31,
| 2025 |  | 2024 |  | 2023
| Expense (in millions) |  | Number of shares issued (in thousands) |  | Expense (in millions) |  | Number of shares issued (in thousands) |  | Expense (in millions) |  | Number of shares issued (in thousands)
Total Stockholder Return | $ | 15 |  |  | 232 |  |  | $ | 8 |  |  | 257 |  |  | $ | 8 |  |  | 107 |
Other Performance-Based | 14 |  |  | 400 |  |  | 18 |  |  | 558 |  |  | 13 |  |  | 313 |
Total | $ | 29 |  |  | 632 |  |  | $ | 26 |  |  | 815 |  |  | $ | 21 |  |  | 420 |
A summary of the status of the Company’s nonvested performance stock units for the years ended December 31, 2025, 2024 and 2023 was as follows:
| Total Stockholder Return |  | Other Performance-Based
| Number of shares (in thousands) |  | Weighted average grant date fair value |  | Number of shares (in thousands) |  | Weighted average grant date fair value
Nonvested at January 1, 2023 | 250 |  |  | $ | 76.68 |  |  | 765 |  |  | $ | 45.51 |
Granted | 135 |  |  | $ | 79.39 |  |  | 405 |  |  | $ | 48.06 |
Vested | (114) |  |  | $ | 70.39 |  |  | (341) |  |  | $ | 45.14 |
Forfeited | (11) |  |  | $ | 68.66 |  |  | (34) |  |  | $ | 44.96 |
PHINIA Spin-Off awards transferred 1 | (22) |  |  | $ | 72.33 |  |  | (67) |  |  | $ | 46.03 |
PHINIA Spin-Off adjustment 2 | 35 |  |  | $ | — |  |  | 106 |  |  | $ | — |
Nonvested at December 31, 2023 | 273 |  |  | $ | 71.37 |  |  | 834 |  |  | $ | 41.08 |
Granted | 205 |  |  | $ | 46.54 |  |  | 616 |  |  | $ | 33.91 |
Vested | (104) |  |  | $ | 66.89 |  |  | (315) |  |  | $ | 44.23 |
Forfeited | (37) |  |  | $ | 70.32 |  |  | (111) |  |  | $ | 45.07 |
Nonvested at December 31, 2024 | 337 |  |  | $ | 57.72 |  |  | 1,024 |  |  | $ | 35.36 |
Granted | 553 |  |  | $ | 40.92 |  |  | 583 |  |  | $ | 31.23 |
Vested | (144) |  |  | $ | 62.25 |  |  | (431) |  |  | $ | 37.04 |
Forfeited | (25) |  |  | $ | 44.70 |  |  | (40) |  |  | $ | 32.42 |
Nonvested at December 31, 2025 | 721 |  |  | $ | 44.38 |  |  | 1,136 |  |  | $ | 32.71 |
________________ 1 Represents the cancellation of awards outstanding as of Distribution Date held by PHINIA employees. PHINIA employees were granted PHINIA restricted stock after the Spin-Off replacing the cancelled awards. 2 Represents the adjustment of unvested awards using a conversion ratio of 1.13 to 1 to preserve the intrinsic value of the awards prior to Spin-Off as authorized by the 2023 Plan and 2018 Plan.

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