still a fishy company
Yes—“fishy” is fair as a judgment about credibility, though not the same as proving fraud.
The pattern is what creates the distrust: Honeywell repeatedly highlights orders, backlog, AI, automation, productivity, and future conversion, while employees see layoffs, offshoring, weak current revenue, and constant restructuring. Management may be technically accurate sentence by sentence while still presenting an incomplete picture.
The most suspicious part is the lack of clean reconciliation:
How much growth came from real volume, pricing, acquisitions, backlog conversion, AI-enabled products, and ordinary labor-cost reduction?
Until Honeywell separates those drivers and shows that strong orders consistently become revenue and cash flow, I would treat the narrative skeptically. Real company, real technology, but heavily polished storytelling.