Perma-Fix Reports 2025 Results as Expanded Capacity and Growing Backlog Support Hanford Cleanup Mission
Rhea-AI Summary
Perma-Fix Environmental Services (NASDAQ: PESI) reported 2025 results highlighting expanded treatment capacity and backlog growth tied to the Hanford cleanup mission. Key operational drivers include a renewed PFNW permit increasing liquid mixed waste capacity to ~1.2 million gallons annually and year-end treatment backlog of ~$11.9 million (up ~51% YoY).
2025 revenue was $61.7 million with Treatment revenue of $45.1 million (up ~29% YoY); net loss was ~$13.8 million. International revenue rose to ~$6.4 million (up ~163% YoY). The company expects continued investments and initial Q1 operating losses as throughput ramps in 2026.
Positive
- PFNW permit expands capacity to 1.2 million gallons annually
- Year-end treatment backlog increased ~51% to $11.9 million
- International revenue rose ~163% to approximately $6.4 million
- Treatment segment revenue +29% to $45.1 million in 2025
- Gross profit improved to $6.0 million in 2025 from $2,000
Negative
- Net loss of $13.8 million in 2025
- Operating loss of $11.7 million in 2025
- Services revenue fell 31.4% to $16.6 million
- Environmental remediation reserve increased by $2.7 million
Market Reaction – PESI
Following this news, PESI has declined 11.29%, reflecting a significant negative market reaction. Our momentum scanner has triggered 13 alerts so far, indicating notable trading interest and price volatility. The stock is currently trading at $10.69. This price movement has removed approximately $25M from the company's valuation. Trading volume is above average at 1.6x the average, suggesting increased trading activity.
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PESI gained 2.16% with slightly above-average volume, while close peers were mixed: QRHC up 13.51%, NVRI up 1.1%, and others like ABAT and ESGL down. Momentum scanner only flagged DXST and QRHC, indicating today’s move in PESI appears more company-specific than sector-driven.
Historical Context
| Date | Event | Sentiment | Move | Catalyst |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 20 | Conference call notice | Neutral | -3.6% | Scheduled Q4 and 2025 business update call for Mar 24, 2026. |
| Jan 09 | Permit expansion | Positive | +0.8% | PFNW permit renewal tripling liquid mixed waste capacity and macroencapsulation tonnage. |
| Dec 04 | PFAS partnership | Positive | +3.8% | Joint distribution deal to pair Perma-FAS PFAS destruction with Enforcer One foam systems. |
| Nov 10 | Earnings update | Positive | +16.2% | Q3 2025 results with higher Treatment revenue, improved margins, and narrower net loss. |
| Oct 31 | Conference call notice | Neutral | -2.3% | Announcement of Q3 2025 business update conference call details. |
Recent fundamentally positive updates (permit expansion, Q3 results, PFAS partnership) generally saw positive price reactions, while routine conference-call notices had small negative moves. The market has tended to reward concrete operational progress more than scheduling announcements.
Over the past few months, Perma-Fix has highlighted multiple growth drivers. A Nov 10, 2025 Q3 update showed revenue of $17.5M, stronger Treatment margins, and a net loss narrowing to $1.8M, which drew a 16.24% gain. A Jan 9, 2026 permit expansion roughly tripled PFNW’s capacity and saw a modest positive reaction. The PFAS-focused partnership on Dec 4, 2025 and today’s 2025 results both build on those themes of capacity, technology, and Hanford-linked demand.
Market Pulse Summary
The stock is dropping -11.3% following this news. A negative reaction despite operational progress would fit a pattern where the market focuses on ongoing losses rather than backlog and capacity gains. 2025 still showed a net loss of about $13.8M and Q4 loss per share of $0.31, alongside a $2.7M remediation reserve increase. If selling intensified, it could reflect concern over the pace of DOE and Services recovery versus the company’s fixed cost base and investment needs.
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PFNW permit renewal triples liquid processing capacity to 1.2 million gallons annually while backlog growth and international activity strengthen the Company’s growth platform
ATLANTA, March 24, 2026 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Perma-Fix Environmental Services, Inc. (NASDAQ: PESI) (the “Company”) today announced financial results and provided a business update for the fourth quarter and full year ended December 31, 2025.
Mark Duff, President and Chief Executive Officer of the Company, commented, “During 2025, we focused on strengthening Perma-Fix’s operational foundation and positioning the Company for the next phase of growth tied to the U.S. Department of Energy’s (“DOE”) Hanford cleanup mission. While the timing of certain government programs affected activity levels during the year, we continued to progress in preparing our facilities, workforce, and infrastructure to support the increased waste volumes expected as the Direct-Feed Low-Activity Waste, or DFLAW, program transitions into its operational phase.
A key milestone supporting this strategy was the renewal of the permit for our Perma-Fix Northwest facility, which significantly expands our permitted processing capacity to approximately 1.2 million gallons of liquid mixed waste annually and authorizes treatment of up to 175,000 tons of waste through macroencapsulation. With the increase in permitted processing capacity, combined with our investments in automation, workforce expansion, and facility upgrades, we believe Perma-Fix Northwest is positioned to play an increasingly important role in supporting multiple Hanford-related waste streams and other DOE mission objectives as activity is expected to ramp up in the coming quarters. Importantly, the DFLAW program began hot commissioning activities in Q4 and the operational phase is expected to begin in the coming months, which we believe will result in additional waste streams being generated for treatment at our Perma-Fix Northwest facility in 2026 and beyond.
At the same time, we strengthened our long-term growth platform across multiple fronts. Our Treatment Segment delivered meaningful operational improvement, supported by higher waste volumes and improved plant throughput, while our year-end treatment backlog increased by approximately
We also continued advancing the development and commercialization of our patent-pending destruction technology for PFAS (Per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances). Over the past year we have successfully executed additional PFAS treatment work utilizing our proprietary Perma-FAS system, further validating the real-world application of the technology, and expanded engagement with both government and commercial customers seeking permanent destruction solutions. We are currently advancing a number of more significant project opportunities across both government and commercial markets that could expand the deployment of our PFAS destruction technology.
Looking ahead to 2026, we believe that Perma-Fix is entering a period of increasing operational momentum. Our results of operations are expected to continue to reflect operating losses in the first quarter as we incur fixed operating costs and make investments in anticipation of waste treatment volumes and program activities. However, with expanded treatment capacity, a growing backlog, increasing international demand, and anticipated waste receipts tied to the Hanford mission and other government and commercial programs, we believe we are well positioned to deliver improved financial performance as treatment throughput increases and our expanded infrastructure supports the next phase of long-duration environmental remediation programs.”
Financial Results
Fourth-Quarter 2025 Results
Revenue for the fourth quarter of 2025 was
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2025 Financial Results
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The Company reported EBITDA of (
| Quarter Ended | Twelve Months Ended | |||||||||||||||
| December 31, | December 31, | |||||||||||||||
| (Unaudited) | (Unaudited) | |||||||||||||||
| (In thousands) | 2025 | 2024 | 2025 | 2024 | ||||||||||||
| Loss from continuing operations, net of taxes | $ | (2,820 | ) | $ | (3,521 | ) | $ | (10,665 | ) | $ | (19,569 | ) | ||||
| Adjustments: | ||||||||||||||||
| Depreciation & amortization | 460 | 468 | 1,759 | 1,763 | ||||||||||||
| Interest income | (222 | ) | (242 | ) | (1,123 | ) | (921 | ) | ||||||||
| Interest expense | (121 | ) | 127 | 230 | 473 | |||||||||||
| Interest expense - financing fees | 21 | 19 | 84 | 66 | ||||||||||||
| Income tax expense | — | 135 | — | 4,435 | ||||||||||||
| EBITDA | (2,682 | ) | (3,014 | ) | (9,715 | ) | (13,753 | ) | ||||||||
The tables below present certain financial information for the reporting segments, which exclude corporate expenses.
| Three Months Ended | Twelve Months Ended | ||||||||||||||||
| December 31, 2025 | December 31, 2025 | ||||||||||||||||
| (Unaudited) | (Unaudited) | ||||||||||||||||
| (In thousands) | Treatment | Services | Treatment | Services | |||||||||||||
| Net revenues | $ | 11,401 | $ | 4,314 | $ | 45,097 | $ | 16,577 | |||||||||
| Gross profit | 712 | 500 | 4,794 | 1,179 | |||||||||||||
| Loss from operations | (709 | ) | (412 | ) | (1,449 | ) | (2,062 | ) | |||||||||
| Three Months Ended | Twelve Months Ended | ||||||||||||||||
| December 31, 2024 | December 31, 2024 | ||||||||||||||||
| (Unaudited) | (Unaudited) | ||||||||||||||||
| (In thousands) | Treatment | Services | Treatment | Services | |||||||||||||
| Net revenues | $ | 8,837 | $ | 5,865 | $ | 34,953 | $ | 24,164 | |||||||||
| Gross (loss) profit | (271 | ) | 865 | (1,110 | ) | 1,112 | |||||||||||
| Loss from operations | (1,588 | ) | (194 | ) | (6,260 | ) | (2,307 | ) | |||||||||
Conference Call
Perma-Fix will host a conference call at 10:00 AM Eastern Time on Tuesday, March 24, 2026. The call will be available in the investors’ section of the Company’s website at https://ir.perma-fix.com/conference-calls, or by calling toll free 888-506-0062 for U.S. callers or +1 973-528-0011 for international callers, and by entering access code: 568987.. The conference call will be led by Mark J. Duff, Chief Executive Officer, Dr. Louis F. Centofanti, Executive Vice President of Strategic Initiatives, and Ben Naccarato, Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer of Perma-Fix Environmental Services, Inc.
A webcast will also be archived on the Company’s website and a telephone replay of the call will be available approximately one hour following the call, through Tuesday, April 7, 2026, and can be accessed by dialing 877-481-4010 for U.S. callers or +1 919-882-2331 for international callers and entering access code: 53791.
About Perma-Fix Environmental Services
Perma-Fix Environmental Services, Inc. is a nuclear services company and leading provider of nuclear and mixed waste management services. The Company's nuclear waste services include management and treatment of radioactive and mixed waste for hospitals, research labs and institutions, federal agencies, including the DOE, the U.S. Department of War (“DOW”), and the commercial nuclear industry. The Company’s nuclear services group provides project management, waste management, environmental restoration, decontamination and decommissioning, new build construction, and radiological protection, safety and industrial hygiene capability to our clients. The Company operates four nuclear waste treatment facilities and provides nuclear services at DOE, DOW, and commercial facilities, nationwide.
Please visit us at http://www.perma-fix.com.
This press release contains “forward-looking statements” which are based largely on the Company's expectations and are subject to various business risks and uncertainties, certain of which are beyond the Company's control. Forward-looking statements generally are identifiable by use of the words such as “believe”, “expects”, “intends”, “anticipate”, “plans to”, “estimates”, “projects”, and similar expressions. Forward-looking statements include, but are not limited to, statements relating to: increased waste volumes from DFLAW operational phase; improvements that position Perma-Fix Northwest in supporting multiple Hanford-related waste streams and other DOE mission objectives in the coming quarters; advancing more significant project opportunities related to our PFAS-destruction technology; and expectations regarding improved financial performance. These forward-looking statements are intended to qualify for the safe harbors from liability established by the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. While the Company believes the expectations reflected in this news release are reasonable, it can give no assurance such expectations will prove to be correct. There are a variety of factors which could cause future outcomes to differ materially from those described in this release, including, without limitation, future economic conditions; industry conditions; competitive pressures; our ability to apply and market our new technologies; the government or other counterparty to a contract to which we are a party failing to abide by or comply with the contract or to deliver waste as anticipated under the contract or terminating existing contracts; inability to win bid projects; Congress failing to provide continuing funding for the DOD’s and DOW’s remediation projects; inability to obtain new foreign and domestic remediation contracts; inability to meet financial covenants in our credit agreements with our primary lender; market acceptance of our PFAS-destruction technology; and the “Risk Factors” discussed in, and the additional factors referred to under "Special Note Regarding Forward-Looking Statements" of, our 2025 Form 10-K. The Company makes no commitment to disclose any revisions to forward-looking statements, or any facts, events or circumstances after the date hereof that bear upon such forward-looking statements.
FINANCIAL TABLES FOLLOW
Contacts:
David K. Waldman-US Investor Relations
Crescendo Communications, LLC
(212) 671-1021
Herbert Strauss-European Investor Relations
herbert@eu-ir.com
+43 316 296 316
| PERMA-FIX ENVIRONMENTAL SERVICES, INC. CONSOLIDATED STATEMENTS OF OPERATIONS | |||||||||||||||
| Three Months Ended | Twelve Months Ended | ||||||||||||||
| December 31, | December 31, | ||||||||||||||
| 2025 | 2024 | 2025 | 2024 | ||||||||||||
| (Amounts in Thousands, Except for Per Share Amounts) | (Unaudited) | (Unaudited) | (Unaudited) | (Unaudited) | |||||||||||
| Net revenues | $ | 15,715 | $ | 14,702 | $ | 61,674 | $ | 59,117 | |||||||
| Cost of goods sold | 14,503 | 14,108 | 55,701 | 59,115 | |||||||||||
| Gross profit | 1,212 | 594 | 5,973 | 2 | |||||||||||
| Selling, general and administrative expenses | 4,188 | 3,861 | 16,416 | 14,491 | |||||||||||
| Research and development | 254 | 300 | 1,291 | 1,172 | |||||||||||
| Loss on disposal of property and equipment | 3 | 20 | 1 | 21 | |||||||||||
| Loss from operations | (3,233 | ) | (3,587 | ) | (11,735 | ) | (15,682 | ) | |||||||
| Other income (expense): | |||||||||||||||
| Interest income | 222 | 242 | 1,123 | 921 | |||||||||||
| Interest expense | 121 | (127 | ) | (230 | ) | (473 | ) | ||||||||
| Interest expense-financing fees | (21 | ) | (19 | ) | (84 | ) | (66 | ) | |||||||
| Other | 91 | 105 | 261 | 166 | |||||||||||
| Loss from continuing operations before taxes | (2,820 | ) | (3,386 | ) | (10,665 | ) | (15,134 | ) | |||||||
| Income tax expense | — | 135 | — | 4,435 | |||||||||||
| Loss from continuing operations, net of taxes | (2,820 | ) | (3,521 | ) | (10,665 | ) | (19,569 | ) | |||||||
| (Loss) income from discontinued operations, net of taxes | (2,840 | ) | 31 | (3,119 | ) | (410 | ) | ||||||||
| Net loss | $ | (5,660 | ) | $ | (3,490 | ) | $ | (13,784 | ) | $ | (19,979 | ) | |||
| Net loss per common share - basic and diluted: | |||||||||||||||
| Continuing operations | $ | (.15) | $ | (.22) | $ | (.58) | $ | (1.30 | ) | ||||||
| Discontinued operations | (.16) | — | (.17) | (.03) | |||||||||||
| Net loss per common share | $ | (.31) | $ | (.22) | $ | (.75) | $ | (1.33 | ) | ||||||
| Weighted average number of common shares used in computing net loss per share: | |||||||||||||||
| Basic | 18,511 | 16,194 | 18,464 | 15,072 | |||||||||||
| Diluted | 18,511 | 16,194 | 18,464 | 15,072 | |||||||||||
| PERMA-FIX ENVIRONMENTAL SERVICES, INC. CONDENSED CONSOLIDATED BALANCE SHEETS | ||||||||
| December 31, | December 31, | |||||||
| 2025 | 2024 | |||||||
| (Amounts in Thousands, Except for Share and Per Share Amounts) | (Unaudited) | (Unaudited) | ||||||
| ASSETS | ||||||||
| Current assets: | ||||||||
| Cash | $ | 11,768 | $ | 28,975 | ||||
| Account receivable, net of allowance for credit losses of | ||||||||
| 11,228 | 11,579 | |||||||
| Unbilled receivables | 8,781 | 4,990 | ||||||
| Other current assets | 4,534 | 4,659 | ||||||
| Assets of discontinued operations included in current assets | 60 | 20 | ||||||
| Total current assets | 36,371 | 50,223 | ||||||
| Net property and equipment | 24,600 | 21,133 | ||||||
| Property and equipment of discontinued operations | 146 | 130 | ||||||
| Operating lease right-of-use assets | 1,445 | 1,697 | ||||||
| Intangibles and other assets | 25,472 | 24,065 | ||||||
| Total assets | $ | 88,034 | $ | 97,248 | ||||
| LIABILITIES AND STOCKHOLDERS’ EQUITY | ||||||||
| Current liabilities | $ | 22,298 | $ | 21,696 | ||||
| Current liabilities related to discontinued operations | 270 | 244 | ||||||
| Total current liabilities | 22,568 | 21,940 | ||||||
| Long-term liabilities | 11,729 | 11,973 | ||||||
| Long-term liabilities related to discontinued operations | 3,598 | 945 | ||||||
| Total liabilities | 37,895 | 34,858 | ||||||
| Commitments and Contingencies | ||||||||
| Stockholders’ equity: | ||||||||
| Preferred Stock, $.001 par value; 2,000,000 shares authorized, | ||||||||
| no shares issued and outstanding | — | — | ||||||
| Common Stock, $.001 par value; 30,000,000 shares authorized, | ||||||||
| 18,525,823 and 18,384,879 shares issued, respectively; | ||||||||
| 18,518,181 and 18,377,237 shares outstanding, respectively | 18 | 18 | ||||||
| Additional paid-in capital | 161,057 | 159,590 | ||||||
| Accumulated deficit | (110,714 | ) | (96,930 | ) | ||||
| Accumulated other comprehensive loss | (134 | ) | (200 | ) | ||||
| Less Common Stock held in treasury, at cost: 7,642 shares | (88 | ) | (88 | ) | ||||
| Total stockholders' equity | 50,139 | 62,390 | ||||||
| Total liabilities and stockholders' equity | $ | 88,034 | $ | 97,248 | ||||
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