This morning, we issued our earnings press release and posted our presentation slides on our website. I will begin the call today with an overview of the quarter, including end market commentary, followed by a spotlight on one of our growth focus areas, power generation. From there, Pat will cover the quarterly financial results as well as the fiscal year 2026 outlook. In the quarter, the infrastructure team secured significant mining orders in earthworks from key distributors in Asia-Pacific and EMEA.
In Metal Cutting, we won projects that continued to advance our growth focus on Aerospace and Defense. As you know, we have and will continue to prioritize above-market growth. Now, let's move to our quarterly results, which again exceeded the sales and EPS outlook we provided last quarter. Compared to the outlook, sales were better than expected on higher sales volume, which included the stronger than anticipated effect of customers buying ahead of price increases and modest improvement in certain end markets.
EPS benefited from the volume and a lower than anticipated tax rate. That's our second consecutive quarter of organic growth and reflects price realization, buy-ahead, and continued modest relief from the broad market weakness. In terms of profitability, Adjusted EBITDA margin was 17.1%, compared to 13.9% in the prior year quarter. Adjusted EPS increased to $0.47, compared to $0.25 in the prior year quarter.