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Eastman Kodak Company (KODK)

Q4 2025 Earnings Call· Thu, Mar 12, 2026

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Operator

Operator

Good day, and thank you for standing by. Welcome to the Eastman Kodak Fourth Quarter and Full Year 2025 Earnings Conference Call. [Operator Instructions] Today's call is being recorded. I would now like to hand the conference over to your speaker host, Anthony Redding. Please go ahead.

Anthony Redding

Analyst

Thank you, and good afternoon, everyone. Welcome to Kodak's Fourth Quarter and Full Year 2025 Earnings Call. At 4:15 p.m. this afternoon, Kodak filed its annual Form 10-K and issued its release on financial results for the fourth quarter and full year of 2025. You may access the presentation and webcast for today's call on our Investor Center at investor.kodak.com. During today's conference call, we will be making certain forward-looking statements as defined by the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. We intend for these forward-looking statements to be covered by the safe harbor provisions for forward-looking statements contained in Section 27A of the Securities Act of 1933 and Section 21E of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934. Investors are cautioned not to unduly rely on forward-looking statements and such statements should not be read or understood as a guarantee of future performance or results. All forward-looking statements are based upon Kodak's expectations and various assumptions. Future events or results may differ from those anticipated or those expressed in the forward-looking statements. Important factors that could cause actual events or results to differ materially from these forward-looking statements include, among others, the risks, uncertainties and other factors described in more detail in Kodak's filings with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission from time to time. All forward-looking statements attributable to Kodak or persons acting on its behalf only apply as of the date of the presentation and are expressly qualified in their entirety by the cautionary statements included or referenced in this presentation. Kodak undertakes no obligation to update or revise forward-looking statements to reflect events or circumstances that may arise after the date made or to reflect the occurrence of unanticipated events. In addition, the release just issued and the presentation provided contain certain measures that are deemed non-GAAP measures. Reconciliations to the most directly comparable GAAP measures have been provided with the release and within the presentation on our website in our Investor Center at investor.kodak.com. Speakers on today's call are Jim Continenza, Kodak's Executive Chairman and Chief Executive Officer; and David Bullwinkle, Kodak's Chief Financial Officer and Senior Vice President. We will not be holding a formal Q&A during today's call. However, as always, the Investor Relations team is available for follow-up. I will now turn the call over to Jim. Thank you, and have a great day.

James Continenza

Analyst

Welcome, everyone, and thank you for joining the Fourth Quarter and Full Year 2025 Investor Call for Eastman Kodak. I'm proud to say our long-term plan continues to be on track. We finished the quarter and the year very strong. It's almost a tale of 2 halves. If you look at the first and second quarter and look at the results of the third and fourth and the closet of the year, and we're going to cover that through the presentation, you'll see the difference. And the difference really comes from the long-term investments that we've made are really starting to pay off. One piece you'll notice going forward is the pension fund and the reversion. As you look at the reversion in the 2025 numbers, right, it really took place in late November, early December. So the numbers you're seeing, the interest expense and the reversion had very little impact. These are true operating numbers within the business. By completing that, we're able to focus more clearly on our financial reporting and operations. It simplifies the company and easier for everyone to understand the true impact of the operations. And I'm proud to say our balance sheet hasn't been this strong in many years. We have continued to reduce debt over the last several years. We've reduced over $40 million of interest expense, and that all falls to the bottom line. So where does Kodak go from here, right? We stabilized the business. We put the investments in place. We fixed the balance sheet over several years. We've lowered our interest. We're poised for growth. And that is where we're going. When you look at the company going forward, heavily delevered, streamlined operations and investments in new products. We have continued to rationalize the business, focused on smart revenue,…

David Bullwinkle

Analyst

Thanks, Jim, and welcome, everyone. Thank you for joining us today. This afternoon, we filed the annual Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2025, with the SEC. As always, I encourage you to read this filing in its entirety. Before we review the details for the quarter and full year, I want to address a few significant developments that occurred after the filing of our Form 10-Q for the third quarter 2025. In November 2025, following the full settlement of all Kodak retirement income plan obligations, we successfully completed the pension reversion process. This transaction generated approximately $1.023 billion in pension reversion proceeds, a combination of cash and investment assets that strengthens our balance sheet, establishes an overfunding of the new Kodak cash balance pension plan, reduces our ongoing interest expense and supports future growth. Here is a brief overview of the pension reversion proceeds which totaled $870 million of net benefit to the company after excise tax payments of $153 million on the reversion surplus. Number one, debt reduction. Under the November 2025 term loan credit agreement amendment, we paid $312 million of cash proceeds to reduce the term loan principal to $200 million and to satisfy accrued interest and prepayment premiums, significantly lowering our ongoing interest expense by approximately $40 million annually and further strengthening our capital structure. Number two, funding the new pension plan. We contributed $251 million in investment assets and $5 million in cash to fund the new Kodak cash balance plan. The establishment of this replacement plan provides the same level of benefit for active Kodak employees that was available under the KRIP plan, which is very rare in pension terminations. Number three, net proceeds to Kodak. After the pay down of debt, replacement plan funding and excise tax payments, Kodak received…

James Continenza

Analyst

If you can leave here with anything that you've heard or seen today, I want to make sure you leave with this message. Kodak is focused on growth following a very strong 2025. We continue to be one Kodak. Customer-first has not changed. Today, we are a diversified industrial manufacturer with one goal, winning. We put our customers first because we only win when they win. We had a very strong finish to 2025. Year-over-year, fourth quarter 2025 revenue increased by $24 million or 9%. Gross profit increased by $16 million or 31%. Operational EBITDA increased by $13 million or 144%. Growth in key businesses, plates and in film. Kodak today is on a very solid foundation for growth. We have a strong balance sheet with more cash than debt. In many years, that has not been the case. Back in second quarter, we had approximately $700 million of debt. Today, we're sitting at $300 million with $300 million plus of cash. We're on the way of taking out another $100 million of long-term debt, which will leave us with over $200 million of cash and $200 million of debt. We'll continue to strengthen that balance sheet, which allows us to execute on growth in our long-term plan. All 3 businesses, Print, AM&C and Brand Licensing are contributing. And inside of that, we have promising new investments in our pharma division, in our battery coating. We continue to invest in the business for a long-term plan. We are pleased with the direction we're in. We have a long way to go. But I can tell you, this is a good start, especially having the balance sheet out of the way. We're really truly focused on growth in our business. I would be remiss if I didn't again thank the leadership team. Over the last several years, we made over a 50% change in the leadership and a melding of the best of what Kodak had and the best of the skills that we knew we needed to bring in to help drive the fundamentals of this company to bring Kodak where it is today. We look forward to the future, and thank you for your support.

Operator

Operator

Ladies and gentlemen, this concludes today's conference call. Thank you for your participation, and you may now disconnect.