Corning Incorporated Q1 FY2025 Earnings Call

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Corning Incorporated (GLW) Q1 2025 Earnings Summary

Key Highlights (vs. Q1 2024):

  • Sales: $3.7 billion (+13% YoY)
  • EPS (core): $0.54 (+42% YoY; grew >3x faster than sales)
  • Operating margin: 18% (+250 basis points YoY)
  • ROIC: 11.6% (+300 basis points YoY)
  • Free cash flow: Breakeven in seasonally weak Q1 (improved trajectory expected for full year)

Q2 2025 Guidance

  • Sales: ~$3.85 billion (continued strong YoY growth)
  • EPS (core): $0.55–$0.59 (+21% YoY expected)
  • Includes: $0.01–$0.02 direct tariff impact + ~$0.03 temporary ramp costs for new optical/solar products
  • Operating margin expansion expected toward 20% target by end of 2026

Springboard Plan Update (Reiterated High-Confidence Targets)

  • Target: +$4 billion annualized sales run rate by end-2026 (to ~$17B); 20% operating margin
  • Internal plan: +$6 billion (to $19B run rate); corporate risk adjustment of $2B covers macro slowdowns, policy changes, etc.
  • Macro downside already factored in: Even worst-case 25-year downturn scenario stays within $2B buffer
  • Drivers: Secular trends in GenAI data centers, solar (U.S. manufacturing), automotive glass, premium mobile glass; more Corning content per customer product

Tariff Impact

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Operator: Thank you for standing by, and welcome to the Corning Incorporated First Quarter 2025 Earnings Call. At this time, all participants are in a listen-only mode. After the speakers' presentation, there will be a question-and-answer session. [Operator Instructions] Please be advised that today's conference is being recorded. It is my pleasure to introduce to you Ann Nicholson, Vice President of Investor Relations. Ann Nicholson : Thank you, Carmen, and good morning. Welcome to Corning's first quarter 2025 earnings call. With me today are Wendell Weeks, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer; and Ed Schlesinger, Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer. I'd like to remind you that today's remarks contain forward-looking statements that fall within the meaning of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. These statements involve risks, uncertainties and other factors that could cause actual results to differ materially. These factors are detailed in the company's financial reports. You should also note that we'll be discussing our consolidated results using core performance measures, unless we specifically indicate our comments related to GAAP data. Our core performance measures are non-GAAP measures used by management to analyze the business. For the first quarter, the difference between GAAP and core EPS primarily reflected non-cash, mark-to-market losses associated with the company's translated earnings contracts in Japanese yen denominated debt,

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