Goodyear (NASDAQ: GT) Q4 profit contrasts with $1.7B 2025 net loss
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The Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company reported fourth quarter 2025 net sales of $4.9 billion, essentially flat year over year, with tire volumes of 42.3 million. Goodyear net income was $105 million, or $0.36 per diluted share, and adjusted net income was $113 million, or $0.39 per share.
Fourth quarter segment operating income rose to $416 million, an 8.5% margin, helped by $192 million of Goodyear Forward benefits and favorable price/mix versus raw materials. For full-year 2025, net sales were $18.3 billion and Goodyear recorded a net loss of $1.7 billion, or ($5.99) per share, driven largely by a $1.5 billion non-cash deferred tax asset valuation allowance and a $674 million goodwill impairment. Full-year adjusted net income was $136 million, or $0.47 per share, with total segment operating income of $1.1 billion.
Positive
- Record-like Q4 segment performance: Fourth quarter 2025 segment operating income reached $416 million with an 8.5% margin, which management described as the highest segment operating income and margin achieved in more than seven years.
- Debt reduction and cash generation: Goodyear generated $796 million of operating cash flow in 2025 and $2.3 billion of divestiture and asset-sale proceeds, which were primarily used to reduce debt, contributing to a decline in long term debt from $6.4 billion to $5.3 billion.
Negative
- Large full-year GAAP loss and write-downs: 2025 results included a Goodyear net loss of $1.7 billion, or ($5.99) per share, driven primarily by a $1.5 billion non-cash deferred tax asset valuation allowance and a $674 million goodwill impairment.
- Weaker full-year adjusted earnings and segment income: Adjusted net income declined to $136 million in 2025 from $278 million in 2024, while total segment operating income fell to $1.1 billion from $1.3 billion amid lower volumes and tariff-related pressures.
Insights
Goodyear’s Q4 was strong operationally, but 2025 GAAP results were heavily hit by large non-cash charges.
Goodyear generated solid fourth quarter 2025 results: net income of
Full-year 2025 tells a different story. Net sales of
On an adjusted basis, 2025 net income was
Despite a large accounting loss, Goodyear improved leverage using $2.3 billion of asset sale proceeds and solid cash generation.
Goodyear generated cash flows from operating activities of
The balance sheet reflects this de‑leveraging: long term debt and finance leases fell to
Segment results were mixed, with EMEA improving sharply while Americas and Asia Pacific faced volume and business-sale headwinds.
In the Americas, fourth quarter 2025 net sales of
EMEA’s performance improved: fourth quarter net sales rose 4.9% to