Corning Incorporated Q4 FY2025 Earnings Call

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Corning Incorporated Q4 & Full Year 2025 Earnings Summary

  • Overall Performance: Delivered record results with strong SpringBoard execution. Q4 2025 sales grew 14% YoY to $4.41 billion; EPS grew 26% YoY to $0.72. Operating margin expanded 170 bps YoY to 20.2% (achieved 20% target one year early). ROIC rose 150 bps YoY to 14.2%. Free cash flow reached $732 million in Q4.
  • Full Year 2025 vs 2024: Sales +13% to record $16.4 billion. EPS +29% (more than twice sales growth) to $2.52. Operating margin +180 bps to 19.3%. Full-year FCF nearly doubled to $1.72 billion vs $818 million in 2023.
  • SpringBoard Progress (vs Q4 2023 launch): Operating margin +390 bps to 20.2%. EPS +85% to $0.72. ROIC +540 bps to 14.2%. Sales +35% to $4.4 billion in Q4. Achieved high-confidence sales target ($4B incremental) one year early with $4.6B added since launch.

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  • Upgraded internal plan to $11 billion incremental annualized sales by 2028 (from original $8B). High-confidence plan raised to $5.75B by 2026 (from $4B). Internal 2026 target now $6.5B (from $6B).
  • Meta multiyear agreement (up to $6B) for optical fiber/cable/connectivity to support AI data centers; similar deals with other hyperscalers underway. Focus on U.S. manufacturing with customer prepayments and long-term commitments to share risk (similar to prior Gen 10.5 and Apple deals).

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Operator: Ladies and gentlemen, thank you for standing by. Welcome to Corning Incorporated Fourth Quarter 2025 Earnings Conference Call. At this time, all participants are in a listen-only mode. After the speakers' presentation, there will be a question and answer session. To ask a question during the session, you would need to press star 11 on your telephone. You would then hear an automated message advising your hand is raised. To withdraw your question, please press star 11 again. 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. Please go ahead. Ann Nicholson: Thank you, and good morning, everybody. Welcome to Corning Incorporated Fourth 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 relate to GAAP data. Our core performance measures are non-GAAP measures used by

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