---
schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0000068505-21-000025"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "MSI"
cik: "0000068505"
company_name: "Motorola Solutions, Inc."
filed_at: "2021-11-04T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-06-28T13:25:30.256758+00:00"
event_type: "earnings"
sentiment: "positive"
materiality_score: 0.8
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.8
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Motorola Solutions Q3 sales $2.1B (+13%), Non-GAAP EPS $2.35 (+21%); raises FY guidance

## Summary
- Total sales of $2.1B, up 13% YoY; Products & Systems Integration +14%, Software & Services +11%.
- GAAP EPS $1.76; Non-GAAP EPS $2.35, up 21% YoY; record Q3 ending backlog $11.4B (+7%).
- Company raised full-year revenue and EPS guidance for the third time this year.
- Acquired Envysion, a video security analytics provider, for $124M after quarter end.
- Operating cash flow $376M in Q3.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0000068505-21-000025
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: MSI
- cik: 0000068505
- company_name: Motorola Solutions, Inc.
- filed_at: 2021-11-04T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: earnings
- sentiment: positive
- materiality_score: 0.8
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.8
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 2.02, 9.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/68505/000006850521000025/0000068505-21-000025-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/68505/000006850521000025/msi-20211104.htm

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