Greif (NYSE: GEF) recasts 2025 quarters, segments and discontinued ops
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Greif, Inc. is updating how it presents past financial results to align with a new fiscal year ending September 30 and a revised segment structure. The company recast its 2025 quarters to end on December 31, March 31, June 30 and September 30.
Greif sold its containerboard business effective August 31, 2025, and now shows this Containerboard Business as discontinued operations for all recast 2025 quarters. For the quarter ended September 30, 2025, total net sales were
The filing also renames the Integrated Solutions segment to Innovative Closure Solutions and moves certain recycled fiber, adhesives, and complementary packaging products into Sustainable Fiber Solutions and Durable Metal Solutions. The updated tables are furnished for comparability and do not revise previously filed financial statements.
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SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION
Washington, D.C. 20549
FORM 8-K
CURRENT REPORT
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Section 7 – Regulation FD
Item 7.01. Regulation FD Disclosure.
The information in this Item 7.01 of this Current Report on Form 8-K (this “Form 8-K”) of Greif, Inc. (the “Company”) is being furnished in order to provide certain historical financial information of the Company in a revised presentation aligned with the Company’s new fiscal quarters and product line movements across reportable segments, as well as the presentation of discontinued operations that began in the third quarter of fiscal year 2025, as described below.
Effective October 1, 2025, the Company’s fiscal year was changed to begin on October 1 (rather than November 1), and end on September 30 (rather than October 31) of the following year, and each fiscal quarter end was changed to align with the fiscal year end change with the first fiscal quarter ended December 31, 2025. This fiscal quarter re-alignment has resulted in prior period quarterly information being recast for the 2025 fiscal year. The recast fiscal quarters for the 2025 fiscal year ended on December 31, 2024, March 31, 2025, June 30, 2025, and September 30, 2025 (the “Recast Fiscal Quarters”).
Effective October 1, 2025, the Company changed the name of its Integrated Solutions reportable segment to Innovative Closure Solutions. The Company is involved in the purchase and sale of recycled fiber and the production and sale of adhesives used in the Company’s paperboard products. Both of these products were previously reported under the Integrated Solutions reportable segment (now the Innovative Closure Solutions reportable segment), and effective October 1, 2025, these products are reported under the Sustainable Fiber Solutions reportable segment. The Company is also involved in the production and sale of complimentary packaging products and services such as paints, linings and filling that are related to the Company’s steel products. Both of these products and services were previously reported under the Integrated Solutions reportable segment (now the Innovative Closure Solutions reportable segment), and effective October 1, 2025, these products and services are reported under the Durable Metal Solutions reportable segment. These adjustments position each business within its respective place in the integrated value chain and reinforce a clear emphasis on closure systems within the Innovative Closure Solutions reportable segment. This internal re-alignment has resulted in prior period segment information being recast for the 2025 fiscal year.
On June 30, 2025, the Company entered into a definitive agreement to sell its containerboard business, including the CorrChoice sheet feeder system (the “Containerboard Business”), and the equity interests in the Company’s subsidiaries that directly owned the Containerboard Business on the date of closing. The transaction was completed effective as of August 31, 2025 (the “Containerboard Divestiture”). The Containerboard Business was previously reported under the Sustainable Fiber Solutions segment. The Containerboard Divestiture qualifies as discontinued operations because it represents a strategic shift that will have a major impact on the Company’s operations and financial results. As a result, the Containerboard Business is presented as discontinued operations beginning in the third quarter of 2025 as follows (i) the Company reclassified the financial results of the Containerboard Business to discontinued operations, net of tax, in the Condensed Consolidated Statements of Income for all periods presented, and (ii) Cash flows from the Company’s discontinued operations are not presented separately in the Condensed Consolidated Statements of Cash Flows for all periods presented. In addition, in the Company’s Annual Report on Form 10-KT for the fiscal year ended, the Company reclassified the financial results of the Containerboard Business to discontinued operations, net of tax, in the Consolidated Statements of Income for all periods presented and reclassified the related assets and liabilities as assets and liabilities held for sale on the Consolidated Balance Sheets as of October 31, 2024. The information in this Form 8-K reflects this reclassification of the Containerboard Business to discontinued operations for all of the Recast Fiscal Quarters, recast to align with the new fiscal quarter end.
On each of March 3, 2025, June 9, 2025, August 29, 2025 and November 10, 2025, the Company filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission (“SEC”) a Current Report on Form 8-K providing under Item 2.02 and Exhibit 99.1 thereto an earnings release of its financial results for the quarterly period just ended (collectively, the “2025 Earnings Releases”).
Exhibit 99.1 to this Form 8-K is being furnished under Item 7.01 and presents certain historical financial information of the Company in respect of the 2025 Earnings Releases. As discussed above, beginning with the first fiscal quarter of 2026, the Company is reporting its financial results under the new fiscal quarter end with product lines moved between the four reportable segments, and the additional historical information being furnished with this Form 8-K for each Recast Fiscal Quarter presents such information in a manner that is (i) aligned with the new fiscal quarter end, (ii) recast to reflect the segment changes, and (iii) reflect the reclassification of the financial results of the Containerboard Business to discontinued operations. Certain information included in Exhibit 99.1 for the recast comparable quarter ended December 31, 2024 was previously included in the Company’s Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q for the fiscal quarter ended December 31, 2025, which was filed with the SEC on January 30, 2026, and the Company’s Current Report on Form 8-K and the earnings release of its financial results for the quarterly period ended December 31, 2025, furnished as Exhibit 99.1 thereto, which was furnished with the SEC on February 2, 2026 (the “Q1 2026 Earnings Release”).
The information furnished in this Form 8-K and Exhibit 99.1 thereto does not otherwise reflect activities or events occurring after the Company filed the 2025 Earnings Releases and does not modify or update the disclosures therein in any way other
than to present certain historical financial information for the previous reportable segments as if the new fiscal quarter end, new reportable segments and reclassification to discontinued operations existed during the Company's full 2025 fiscal year. The information furnished in this Item 7.01 in no way revises or restates previously filed financial information. Therefore, this Form 8-K and Exhibit 99.1 furnished hereunder should be read in conjunction with the 2025 Earnings Releases, the Q1 2026 Earnings Release, the Company's Quarterly Reports on Form 10-Q for the fiscal quarters ended January 31, 2025, April 30, 2025, July 31, 2025 and December 31, 2025, and the Company's Annual Report on Form 10-KT for the fiscal year ended September 30, 2025, all as filed with the SEC.
Section 9 – Financial Statements and Exhibits
Item 9.01. Financial Statements and Exhibits.
(d)Exhibits.
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99.1 | Certain historical financial information presented under new fiscal quarter end. | ||||
SIGNATURES
Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, the registrant has duly caused this report to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned hereunto duly authorized.
| GREIF, INC. | ||||||||
| Date: February 25, 2026 | By | /s/ Lawrence A. Hilsheimer | ||||||
| Lawrence A. Hilsheimer, Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer | ||||||||
Exhibit 99.1
CERTAIN HISTORICAL FINANCIAL INFORMATION
PRESENTED UNDER NEW FISCAL QUARTER END
This Exhibit 99.1 presents certain historical financial information of Greif, Inc. (the “Company”) for each of the reporting periods presented below in order to present such information aligned with the Company’s new fiscal quarters and reportable segment structure, as well as the presentation of the Containerboard Business as discontinued operations for all such quarters, as described in Item 7.01 of the Current Report on Form 8-K under which this Exhibit 99.1 is furnished (the “Form 8-K”). The information set forth in Item 7.01 of the Form 8-K is incorporated herein by reference. Capitalized terms used in this Exhibit 99.1 but not otherwise defined herein shall have the meaning ascribed to such terms in Item 7.01 of the Form 8-K.
The following table presents net sales, gross profit and operating profit by reportable segments, along with the non-GAAP financial measures of Adjusted EBITDA by reportable segments, for each of the 2025 quarterly periods indicated, which align with the new fiscal quarter end dates and reportable segments of the Company beginning in fiscal year 2026, as well as the presentation of the Containerboard Business as discontinued operations for all such quarters, as updated (as applicable) from the original presentation in the 2025 Earnings Releases. See below for the GAAP to non-GAAP reconciliation of the reportable segment EBITDA and Adjusted EBITDA to reportable segment operating profit.
GREIF, INC. AND SUBSIDIARY COMPANIES
FINANCIAL HIGHLIGHTS BY REPORTABLE SEGMENT
UNAUDITED
| Three Months Ended September 30, | Three Months Ended June 30, | Three Months Ended March 31, | Three Months Ended December 31, | ||||||||||||||||||||
| (in millions) | 2025 | 2025 | 2025 | 2024 | |||||||||||||||||||
| Net sales: | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Customized Polymer Solutions | $ | 322.7 | $ | 337.9 | $ | 322.5 | $ | 294.4 | |||||||||||||||
| Durable Metal Solutions | 391.9 | 392.3 | 372.9 | 355.9 | |||||||||||||||||||
| Sustainable Fiber Solutions | 355.2 | 370.7 | 360.7 | 344.0 | |||||||||||||||||||
| Innovative Closure Solutions | 24.5 | 25.0 | 22.3 | 22.4 | |||||||||||||||||||
| Total net sales | $ | 1,094.3 | $ | 1,125.9 | $ | 1,078.4 | $ | 1,016.7 | |||||||||||||||
| Gross profit: | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Customized Polymer Solutions | $ | 70.2 | $ | 70.9 | $ | 76.8 | $ | 58.6 | |||||||||||||||
| Durable Metal Solutions | 83.6 | 88.1 | 83.8 | 69.0 | |||||||||||||||||||
| Sustainable Fiber Solutions | 85.1 | 85.1 | 78.1 | 64.3 | |||||||||||||||||||
| Innovative Closure Solutions | 10.3 | 11.9 | 9.8 | 7.5 | |||||||||||||||||||
| Total gross profit | $ | 249.2 | $ | 256.0 | $ | 248.5 | $ | 199.4 | |||||||||||||||
| Operating profit (loss): | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Customized Polymer Solutions | $ | 1.5 | $ | 8.4 | $ | 17.8 | $ | 1.1 | |||||||||||||||
| Durable Metal Solutions | 36.5 | 45.8 | 41.1 | 30.5 | |||||||||||||||||||
| Sustainable Fiber Solutions | (5.6) | 5.0 | (2.2) | 1.1 | |||||||||||||||||||
| Innovative Closure Solutions | 2.6 | 4.5 | 4.0 | 1.4 | |||||||||||||||||||
| Total operating profit | $ | 35.0 | $ | 63.7 | $ | 60.7 | $ | 34.1 | |||||||||||||||
Adjusted EBITDA(1): | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Customized Polymer Solutions | $ | 44.5 | $ | 37.1 | $ | 43.4 | $ | 28.5 | |||||||||||||||
| Durable Metal Solutions | 57.0 | 53.6 | 50.0 | 36.8 | |||||||||||||||||||
| Sustainable Fiber Solutions | 61.5 | 48.8 | 46.3 | 29.5 | |||||||||||||||||||
| Innovative Closure Solutions | 5.2 | 7.6 | 6.2 | 4.0 | |||||||||||||||||||
| Total Adjusted EBITDA | $ | 168.2 | $ | 147.1 | $ | 145.9 | $ | 98.8 | |||||||||||||||
(1) Adjusted EBITDA is defined as net income, plus interest expense, net, plus income tax (benefit) expense, plus other (income) expense, net, plus depreciation, depletion and amortization expense, plus acquisition and integration related costs, plus restructuring and other charges, plus non-cash asset impairment charges, plus (gain) loss on disposal of properties, plants and equipment, (gain) loss on disposal of businesses, net, plus other costs.
The following table presents a reconciliation of reportable segment net income to reportable Adjusted EBITDA for each of the 2025 quarterly periods indicated, which align with the new fiscal quarter end dates and reportable segments of the Company beginning in fiscal year 2026, as well as the presentation of the Containerboard Business as discontinued operations for all such quarters, as updated (as applicable) from the original presentation in the 2025 Earnings Releases.
GREIF, INC. AND SUBSIDIARY COMPANIES
GAAP TO NON-GAAP RECONCILIATION
CONSOLIDATED ADJUSTED EBITDA
UNAUDITED
| Three Months Ended September 30, | Three Months Ended June 30, | Three Months Ended March 31, | Three Months Ended December 31, | ||||||||||||||||||||
| (in millions) | 2025 | 2025 | 2025 | 2024 | |||||||||||||||||||
| Net (loss) income | $ | (17.6) | $ | 36.9 | $ | 25.1 | $ | 11.3 | |||||||||||||||
| Plus: Interest expense, net | 14.2 | 15.8 | 15.5 | 15.9 | |||||||||||||||||||
| Plus: Income tax expense | 31.3 | 10.0 | 20.0 | 6.8 | |||||||||||||||||||
| Plus: Other expense, net | 5.5 | 1.4 | 0.2 | 0.9 | |||||||||||||||||||
| Plus: Equity earnings of unconsolidated affiliates, net of tax | 1.6 | (0.4) | (0.1) | (0.8) | |||||||||||||||||||
| Operating profit | $ | 35.0 | $ | 63.7 | $ | 60.7 | $ | 34.1 | |||||||||||||||
| Less: Equity earnings of unconsolidated affiliates, net of tax | 1.6 | (0.4) | (0.1) | (0.8) | |||||||||||||||||||
| Plus: Depreciation, depletion and amortization expense | 59.2 | 58.0 | 57.1 | 58.5 | |||||||||||||||||||
| Plus: Acquisition and integration related costs | 2.1 | 2.0 | 1.3 | 2.8 | |||||||||||||||||||
| Plus: Restructuring and other charges | 34.9 | 18.0 | 9.1 | 3.3 | |||||||||||||||||||
| Plus: Non-cash asset impairment charges | 13.5 | 7.2 | 17.2 | 0.3 | |||||||||||||||||||
| Plus: (Gain) loss on disposal of properties, plants and equipment, net | (3.7) | (3.5) | 0.1 | (2.4) | |||||||||||||||||||
| Plus: Loss on disposal of businesses, net | 0.5 | 0.3 | 0.2 | 1.1 | |||||||||||||||||||
| Plus: Other costs* | 28.3 | 1.0 | 0.1 | 0.3 | |||||||||||||||||||
| Adjusted EBITDA | $ | 168.2 | $ | 147.1 | $ | 145.9 | $ | 98.8 | |||||||||||||||
| *includes fiscal year-end change costs and share-based compensation impact of disposals of businesses | |||||||||||||||||||||||
The following table presents a reconciliation of reportable segment operating profit to reportable Adjusted EBITDA for each of the 2025 periods indicated, which align with the new fiscal quarter end dates and reportable segments of the Company beginning in fiscal year 2026, as well as the presentation of the Containerboard Business as discontinued operations for all such quarters, as updated (as applicable) from the original presentation in the 2025 Earnings Releases.
GREIF, INC. AND SUBSIDIARY COMPANIES
GAAP TO NON-GAAP RECONCILIATION
REPORTABLE SEGMENT ADJUSTED EBITDA(2)
UNAUDITED
| Three Months Ended September 30, | Three Months Ended June 30, | Three Months Ended March 31, | Three Months Ended December 31, | ||||||||||||||||||||
| (in millions) | 2025 | 2025 | 2025 | 2024 | |||||||||||||||||||
| Customized Polymer Solutions | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Operating profit | $ | 1.5 | $ | 8.4 | $ | 17.8 | $ | 1.1 | |||||||||||||||
| Plus: Depreciation and amortization expense | 24.1 | 24.0 | 22.9 | 23.0 | |||||||||||||||||||
| Plus: Acquisition and integration related costs | 2.1 | 2.0 | 1.3 | 2.8 | |||||||||||||||||||
| Plus: Restructuring and other charges | 6.3 | 2.6 | 0.6 | 1.1 | |||||||||||||||||||
| Plus: Non-cash asset impairment charges | 2.5 | — | 0.7 | 0.3 | |||||||||||||||||||
| Plus: (Gain) loss on disposal of properties, plants and equipment, net | — | (0.2) | 0.1 | 0.1 | |||||||||||||||||||
| Plus: Other costs* | 8.0 | 0.3 | — | 0.1 | |||||||||||||||||||
| Adjusted EBITDA | $ | 44.5 | $ | 37.1 | $ | 43.4 | $ | 28.5 | |||||||||||||||
| Durable Metal Solutions | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Operating profit | $ | 36.5 | $ | 45.8 | $ | 41.1 | $ | 30.5 | |||||||||||||||
| Plus: Depreciation and amortization expense | 7.0 | 7.3 | 7.0 | 7.2 | |||||||||||||||||||
| Plus: Restructuring and other charges | 9.1 | 2.6 | 0.7 | 0.7 | |||||||||||||||||||
| Plus: Non-cash asset impairment charges | — | 0.1 | 2.1 | — | |||||||||||||||||||
Plus: Gain on disposal of properties, plants and equipment, net | (3.8) | (2.7) | (1.1) | (2.8) | |||||||||||||||||||
| Plus: Loss on disposal of businesses, net | — | 0.3 | 0.2 | 1.1 | |||||||||||||||||||
| Plus: Other costs* | 8.2 | 0.2 | — | 0.1 | |||||||||||||||||||
| Adjusted EBITDA | $ | 57.0 | $ | 53.6 | $ | 50.0 | $ | 36.8 | |||||||||||||||
| Sustainable Fiber Solutions | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Operating (loss) profit | $ | (5.6) | $ | 5.0 | $ | (2.2) | $ | 1.1 | |||||||||||||||
| Plus: Depreciation, depletion and amortization expense | 27.0 | 25.0 | 25.7 | 26.6 | |||||||||||||||||||
| Plus: Restructuring and other charges | 17.6 | 11.9 | 7.6 | 1.4 | |||||||||||||||||||
| Plus: Non-cash asset impairment charges | 11.0 | 7.1 | 14.0 | — | |||||||||||||||||||
| Plus: (Gain) loss on disposal of properties, plants and equipment, net | — | (0.6) | 1.1 | 0.3 | |||||||||||||||||||
| Plus: Loss on disposal of businesses, net | 0.5 | — | — | — | |||||||||||||||||||
| Plus: Other costs* | 11.0 | 0.4 | 0.1 | 0.1 | |||||||||||||||||||
| Adjusted EBITDA | $ | 61.5 | $ | 48.8 | $ | 46.3 | $ | 29.5 | |||||||||||||||
| Innovative Closure Solutions | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Operating profit | $ | 2.6 | $ | 4.5 | $ | 4.0 | $ | 1.4 | |||||||||||||||
| Less: Equity earnings of unconsolidated affiliates, net of tax | 1.6 | (0.4) | (0.1) | (0.8) | |||||||||||||||||||
| Plus: Depreciation and amortization expense | 1.1 | 1.7 | 1.5 | 1.7 | |||||||||||||||||||
| Plus: Restructuring and other charges | 1.9 | 0.9 | 0.2 | 0.1 | |||||||||||||||||||
| Plus: Non-cash asset impairment charges | — | — | 0.4 | — | |||||||||||||||||||
| Plus: Loss on disposal of properties, plants and equipment, net | 0.1 | — | — | — | |||||||||||||||||||
| Plus: Other costs* | 1.1 | 0.1 | — | — | |||||||||||||||||||
| Adjusted EBITDA | $ | 5.2 | $ | 7.6 | $ | 6.2 | $ | 4.0 | |||||||||||||||
| *includes fiscal year-end change costs and share-based compensation impact of disposals of businesses | |||||||||||||||||||||||
(2) Adjusted EBITDA is defined as net income, plus interest expense, net, plus income tax (benefit) expense, plus other (income) expense, net, plus depreciation, depletion and amortization expense, plus acquisition and integration related costs, plus restructuring and other charges, plus non-cash asset impairment charges, plus (gain) loss on disposal of properties, plants and equipment, plus (gain) loss on disposal of businesses, net, plus other costs. However, because the Company does not calculate net income by segment, this table calculates adjusted EBITDA by segment with reference to operating profit by segment, which, as demonstrated in the table of consolidated adjusted EBITDA, is another method to achieve the same result.
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