STMicroelectronics Reports Q4 and FY 2025 Financial Results

PR No: C3383C

STMicroelectronics Reports Q4 and FY 2025 Financial Results

• Q425 net revenues $3.33 billion; gross margin 35.2%; operating income of $125 million, including $141 million related to impairment, restructuring charges and other related phase-out costs
• FY25 net revenues $11.80 billion; gross margin 33.9%; operating income of $175 million, including $376 million related to impairment, restructuring charges and other related phase-out costs
• Business outlook at mid-point: Q126 net revenues of $3.04 billion and gross margin of 33.7%

Geneva, January 29, 2026 – STMicroelectronics N.V. (“ST”) (NYSE: STM), a global semiconductor leader serving customers across the spectrum of electronics applications, reported U.S. GAAP financial results for the fourth quarter ended December 31, 2025. This press release also contains non-U.S. GAAP measures (see Appendix for additional information).

ST reported fourth quarter net revenues of $3.33 billion, gross margin of 35.2%, operating income of $125 million, and net loss of $30 million or -$0.03 diluted earnings per share (non-U.S. GAAP¹ operating income of $266 million, and non-U.S. GAAP¹ net income of $100 million or $0.11 diluted earnings per share, including certain negative one-time tax expenses impact of $0.18 per share).

Jean-Marc Chery, ST President & CEO, commented:

• “Q4 net revenues came above the mid-point of our business outlook range, driven by higher revenues in Personal Electronics and, to a lesser extent, in CECP and Industrial, while Automotive was below expectations. Gross margin was above the mid-point of our business outlook range mainly due to better product mix. Q4 revenues marked the return to year-over-year growth.”
• “FY25 revenues decreased 11.1% to $11.80 billion. Operating margin was 1.5% and net income was $166 million. Non-U.S. GAAP¹ operating margin was 4.7% and non-U.S. GAAP¹ net income was $486 million. We invested $1.79 billion in Net Capex (non-U.S. GAAP¹) while delivering free cash flow (non-U.S. GAAP¹) of $265 million.”
• “Our first quarter business outlook, at the mid-point, is for net revenues of $3.04 billion, decreasing sequentially by 8.7%, better than average past seasonality, and accelerating the year-over-year growth dynamic that started in Q4. Gross margin is expected to be about 33.7%; including about 220 basis points of unused capacity charges.”
• “For 2026, we plan to invest between $2.0 to $2.2 billion in Net Capex (non-U.S. GAAP¹).”
• “Our strategic priorities remain to accelerate innovation; execute our company-wide program to reshape our manufacturing footprint and resize our global cost base and strengthen free cash flow generation.”
   

Quarterly Financial Summary

Fourth Quarter 2025 Summary Review
Reminder: on January 1, 2025, we made some adjustments to our segment reporting. Prior year comparative periods have been adjusted accordingly. See Appendix for more detail.

Net revenues totaled $3.33 billion, representing a year-over-year increase of 0.2%. Year-over-year net sales to OEMs and Distribution increased 0.6% and decreased 0.7%, respectively. On a sequential basis, net revenues increased 4.5%, 160 basis points better than the mid-point of ST’s guidance. 

Gross profit totaled $1.17 billion, representing a year-over-year decrease of 6.5%. Gross margin of 35.2%, 20 basis points better than the mid-point of ST’s guidance, decreased 250 basis points year-over-year, mainly due to lower manufacturing efficiencies and, to a lesser extent, negative currency effect, and lower level of capacity reservation fees.

Operating income decreased from $369 million in the year-ago quarter to $125 million. ST’s operating margin decreased 730 basis points on a year-over-year basis to 3.8% of net revenues, compared to 11.1% in the fourth quarter of 2024. Operating income included $141 million impairment, restructuring charges and other related phase-out costs for the quarter, mainly reflecting charges related to the execution of the previously announced company-wide program to reshape our manufacturing footprint and resize our global cost base. Excluding these items, non-U.S. GAAP¹ Operating income stood at $266 million in the fourth quarter.

By reportable segment, compared with the year-ago quarter:

In Analog, Power & Discrete, MEMS and Sensors (APMS) Product Group:

Analog products, MEMS and Sensors (AM&S) segment:

• Revenue increased 7.5% mainly due to Imaging.   
• Operating profit increased by 6.6% to $235 million. Operating margin was 16.2% compared to 16.3%.

Power and Discrete products (P&D) segment:

• Revenue decreased 31.6%.
• Operating result decreased from a profit of $45 million to a loss of $124 million. Operating margin was -30.2% compared to 7.5%.

In Microcontrollers, Digital ICs and RF products (MDRF) Product Group:

Embedded Processing (EMP) segment:

• Revenue increased 1.2% due to an increase in General Purpose MCU, partially offset by a decrease in Connected Security and Custom Processing.
• Operating profit increased by 7.5% to $195 million. Operating margin was 19.2% compared to 18.1%.

RF & Optical Communications (RF&OC) segment:

• Revenue increased 22.9%.
• Operating profit increased by 11.0% to $105 million. Operating margin was 23.4% compared to 25.9%.

Net Earnings and diluted Earnings Per Share decreased to a negative $30 million and a negative $0.03 respectively, including certain one-time non-cash income tax expenses of $163 million, compared to a positive $341 million and $0.37 respectively in the year-ago quarter. In the fourth quarter of 2025 non-U.S. GAAP¹ Net income stood at $100 million and non-U.S. GAAP¹ diluted Earnings Per Share stood at $0.11, including certain negative one-time tax expenses impact of $0.18 per share.

Cash Flow and Balance Sheet Highlights

Net cash from operating activities was $674 million in the fourth quarter compared to $681 million in the year-ago quarter. For the full year 2025, net cash from operating activities decreased 27.4% to $2.15 billion, which represents 18.2% of total revenues.

Net Capex (non-U.S. GAAP¹), were $395 million in the fourth quarter and $1.79 billion for the full year 2025. In the respective year-ago periods, net Capex were $470 million and $2.53 billion.

Free cash flow (non-U.S. GAAP¹) was $257 million and $265 million in the fourth quarter and full year 2025, respectively, compared to $128 million and $288 million in the year-ago respective periods.

Inventory at the end of the fourth quarter was $3.14 billion, compared to $3.17 billion in the previous quarter and $2.79 billion in the year-ago quarter. Days sales of inventory at quarter-end was 130 days, compared to 135 days for the previous quarter and 122 days for the year-ago quarter.

In the fourth quarter, ST paid cash dividends to its stockholders totaling $87 million and executed a $92 million share buy-back, as part of its current share repurchase program.

ST’s net financial position (non-U.S. GAAP¹) remained strong at $2.79 billion as of December 31, 2025, compared to $2.61 billion as of September 27, 2025, and reflected total liquidity of $4.92 billion and total financial debt of $2.13 billion. Adjusted net financial position (non-U.S. GAAP¹), taking into consideration the effect on total liquidity of advances from capital grants for which capital expenditures have not been incurred yet, stood at $2.46 billion as of December 31, 2025.

Corporate developments

On December 18, 2025, STMicroelectronics held an Extraordinary General Meeting of Shareholders in Amsterdam, the Netherlands. Shareholders approved the appointment of Armando Varricchio and Orio Bellezza as members of the Supervisory Board for a term expiring at the end of the 2028 AGM.

Business Outlook

ST’s guidance, at the mid-point, for the 2026 first quarter is:

• Net revenues are expected to be $3.04 billion, a decrease of 8.7% sequentially, plus or minus 350 basis points.
• Gross margin of 33.7%, plus or minus 200 basis points.
• This outlook is based on an assumed effective currency exchange rate of approximately $1.16 = €1.00 for the 2026 first quarter and includes the impact of existing hedging contracts.
• The first quarter will close on March 28, 2026.

This business outlook does not include any impact of potential further changes to global trade tariffs compared to the current situation.

Conference Call and Webcast Information

ST will conduct a conference call with analysts, investors and reporters to discuss its fourth quarter 2025 financial results and current business outlook today at 9:30 a.m. Central European Time (CET) / 3:30 a.m. U.S. Eastern Time (ET). A live webcast (listen-only mode) of the conference call will be accessible at ST’s website, https://investors.st.com, and will be available for replay until February 13, 2026.
 
Use of Supplemental Non-U.S. GAAP Financial Information

This press release contains supplemental non-U.S. GAAP financial information.
 
Readers are cautioned that these measures are unaudited and not prepared in accordance with U.S. GAAP and should not be considered as a substitute for U.S. GAAP financial measures. In addition, such non-U.S. GAAP financial measures may not be comparable to similarly titled information from other companies. To compensate for these limitations, the supplemental non-U.S. GAAP financial information should not be read in isolation, but only in conjunction with ST’s consolidated financial statements prepared in accordance with U.S. GAAP.
 
See the Appendix of this press release for a reconciliation of ST’s non-U.S. GAAP financial measures to their corresponding U.S. GAAP financial measures.
 
Forward-looking Information
 
Some of the statements contained in this release that are not historical facts are statements of future expectations and other forward-looking statements (within the meaning of Section 27A of the Securities Act of 1933 or Section 21E of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, each as amended) that are based on management’s current views and assumptions, and are conditioned upon and also involve known and unknown risks and uncertainties that could cause actual results, performance or events to differ materially from those anticipated by such statements due to, among other factors: 

• changes in global trade policies, including the continuation, adoption and expansion of tariffs and trade barriers and sanctions, that are affecting and could further affect the macro-economic environment and are adversely impacting and could further adversely impact the demand for our products;
• uncertain macro-economic and industry trends (such as inflation and fluctuations in supply chains), which are impacting and may further impact production capacity and end-market demand for our products;
• customer demand that differs from projections which may require us to undertake transformation measures that may not be successful in realizing the expected benefits in full or at all;
• the ability to design, manufacture and sell innovative products in a rapidly changing technological environment;
• changes in economic, social, public health, labor, political, or infrastructure conditions in the locations where we, our customers, or our suppliers operate, including as a result of macro-economic or regional events, geopolitical and military conflicts, social unrest, labor actions, or terrorist activities;
• unanticipated events or circumstances, which may impact our ability to execute our plans and/or meet the objectives of our R&D and manufacturing programs, which benefit from public funding;
• financial difficulties with any of our major distributors or significant curtailment of purchases by key customers;
• the loading, product mix, and manufacturing performance of our production facilities and/or our required volume to fulfill capacity reserved with suppliers or third-party manufacturing providers;
• availability and costs of equipment, raw materials, utilities, third-party manufacturing services and technology, or other supplies required by our operations (including increasing costs resulting from inflation);
• the functionalities and performance of our IT systems, which are subject to cybersecurity threats and which support our critical operational activities including manufacturing, finance and sales, and any breaches of our IT systems or those of our customers, suppliers, partners and providers of third-party licensed technology;
• theft, loss, or misuse of personal data about our employees, customers, or other third parties, and breaches of data privacy legislation;
• the impact of IP claims by our competitors or other third parties, and our ability to obtain required licenses on reasonable terms and conditions;
• changes in our overall tax position as a result of changes in tax rules, new or revised legislation, the outcome of tax audits or changes in international tax treaties which may impact our results of operations as well as our ability to accurately estimate tax credits, benefits, deductions and provisions and to realize deferred tax assets;
• variations in the foreign exchange markets and, more particularly, the U.S. dollar exchange rate as compared to the Euro and the other major currencies we use for our operations;
• the outcome of ongoing litigation as well as the impact of any new litigation to which we may become a defendant;
• product liability or warranty claims, claims based on epidemic or delivery failure, or other claims relating to our products, or recalls by our customers for products containing our parts;
• natural events such as severe weather, earthquakes, tsunamis, volcano eruptions or other acts of nature, the effects of climate change, health risks and epidemics or pandemics in locations where we, our customers or our suppliers operate;
• increased regulation and initiatives in our industry, including those concerning climate change and sustainability matters and our goal to become carbon neutral in all direct and indirect emissions (scopes 1 and 2), product transportation, business travel, and employee commuting emissions (our scope 3 focus), and to achieve our 100% renewable electricity sourcing goal by the end of 2027;
• epidemics or pandemics, which may negatively impact the global economy in a significant manner for an extended period of time, and could also materially adversely affect our business and operating results;
• industry changes resulting from vertical and horizontal consolidation among our suppliers, competitors, and customers;
• the ability to successfully ramp up new programs that could be impacted by factors beyond our control, including the availability of critical third-party components and performance of subcontractors in line with our expectations; and
• individual customer use of certain products, which may differ from the anticipated uses of such products and result in differences in performance, including energy consumption, may lead to a failure to achieve our disclosed emission-reduction goals, adverse legal action or additional research costs.

Such forward-looking statements are subject to various risks and uncertainties, which may cause actual results and performance of our business to differ materially and adversely from the forward-looking statements. Certain forward-looking statements can be identified by the use of forward-looking terminology, such as “believes”, “expects”, “may”, “are expected to”, “should”, “would be”, “seeks” or “anticipates” or similar expressions or the negative thereof or other variations thereof or comparable terminology, or by discussions of strategy, plans or intentions.
 
Some of these risk factors are set forth and are discussed in more detail in “Item 3. Key Information — Risk Factors” included in our Annual Report on Form 20-F for the year ended December 31, 2024 as filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission (“SEC”) on February 27, 2025. Should one or more of these risks or uncertainties materialize, or should underlying assumptions prove incorrect, actual results may vary materially from those described in this press release as anticipated, believed or expected. We do not intend, and do not assume any obligation, to update any industry information or forward-looking statements set forth in this release to reflect subsequent events or circumstances.
 
Unfavorable changes in the above or other factors listed under “Item 3. Key Information — Risk Factors” from time to time in our SEC filings, could have a material adverse effect on our business and/or financial condition.
 
About STMicroelectronics
 
At ST, we are 48,000 creators and makers of semiconductor technologies mastering the semiconductor supply chain with state-of-the-art manufacturing facilities. An integrated device manufacturer, we work with more than 200,000 customers and thousands of partners to design and build products, solutions, and ecosystems that address their challenges and opportunities, and the need to support a more sustainable world. Our technologies enable smarter mobility, more efficient power and energy management, and the wide-scale deployment of cloud-connected autonomous things. We are on track to be carbon neutral in all direct and indirect emissions (scopes 1 and 2), product transportation, business travel, and employee commuting emissions (our scope 3 focus), and to achieve our 100% renewable electricity sourcing goal by the end of 2027. Further information can be found at http://www.st.com.

For further information, please contact:

INVESTOR RELATIONS:
Jérôme Ramel
EVP Corporate Development & Integrated External Communication
Tel: +41 22 929 59 20
jerome.ramel@st.com

MEDIA RELATIONS:
Alexis Breton
Corporate External Communications
Tel: + 33 6 59 16 79 08
alexis.breton@st.com

Appendix
ST
Changes to reportable segments

Following ST’s reorganization announced in January 2024 into two Product Groups and four reportable segments, we have made further progress in analyzing our global product portfolio, resulting in the following adjustments to our segments, effective starting January 1, 2025, without modifying subtotals at Product Group level: 

• In Analog, Power & Discrete, MEMS and Sensors (APMS) Product Group:
  • The transfer of VIPower products from Power and Discrete products (P&D) reportable segment to Analog products, MEMS and Sensors (AM&S) reportable segment.    
• In Microcontrollers, Digital ICs and RF products (MDRF) Product Group:
  • the newly created ‘Embedded Processing’ (EMP) reportable segment includes the former ‘MCU’ segment (excluding the RF ASICs mentioned below) as well as Custom Processing products (Automotive ADAS products).
  • the newly created ‘RF & Optical Communications’ (RF&OC) reportable segment includes the former ‘D&RF’ segment (excluding Automotive ADAS products) as well as some RF ASICs which were previously part of the former ‘MCU’ segment.

We believe these adjustments are critical for implementing synergies and optimizing resources, which are necessary to fully deliver the benefits expected from our new organization.

Our four reportable segments – within each Product Group – are now as follows: 

• In Analog, Power & Discrete, MEMS and Sensors (APMS) Product Group:
  • Analog products, MEMS and Sensors (AM&S) reportable segment, comprised of ST analog products (now including VIPower products), MEMS sensors and actuators, and optical sensing solutions.
  • Power and Discrete products (P&D) reportable segment, comprised of discrete and power transistor products (now excluding VIPower products).

In this Press Release, “Analog” refers to analog products, “MEMS” to MEMS sensors and actuators and “Imaging” to optical sensing solutions. 

• In Microcontrollers, Digital ICs and RF products (MDRF) Product Group:
  • Embedded Processing (EMP) reportable segment, comprised of general-purpose and automotive microcontrollers, connected security products and Custom Processing Products (Automotive ADAS)
  • RF & Optical Communications (RF&OC) reportable segment, comprised of Space, Ranging & Connectivity products, Digital Audio & Signaling Solutions and Optical & RF COT.

In this Press release, “GPAM” refers to General purpose & automotive microcontrollers, “Connected Security” to connected security products, “Custom Processing” to automotive ADAS products.

Prior year comparative periods have been adjusted accordingly.

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ST Supplemental Financial Information

(a)   Net revenues of Others include revenues from sales assembly services and other revenues. Operating income (loss) of Others include items such as unused capacity charges, including incidents leading to power outage, impairment, restructuring charges and other related phase-out costs, management reorganization costs, start-up costs, and other unallocated income (expenses) such as: strategic or special research and development programs, certain corporate-level operating expenses, patent claims and litigations, and other costs that are not allocated to reportable segments, as well as operating earnings of other products. Others includes:

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ST
Supplemental Non-U.S. GAAP Financial Information
U.S. GAAP – Non-U.S. GAAP Reconciliation

The supplemental non-U.S. GAAP information presented in this press release is unaudited and subject to inherent limitations. Such non-U.S. GAAP information is not based on any comprehensive set of accounting rules or principles and should not be considered as a substitute for U.S. GAAP measurements. Also, our supplemental non-U.S. GAAP financial information may not be comparable to similarly titled non-U.S. GAAP measures used by other companies. Further, specific limitations for individual non-U.S. GAAP measures, and the reasons for presenting non-U.S. GAAP financial information, are set forth in the paragraphs below. To compensate for these limitations, the supplemental non-U.S. GAAP financial information should not be read in isolation, but only in conjunction with our consolidated financial statements prepared in accordance with U.S. GAAP.
 
ST believes that these non-U.S. GAAP financial measures provide useful information for investors and management because they offer, when read in conjunction with ST’s U.S. GAAP financials, (i) the ability to make more meaningful period-to-period comparisons of ST’s on-going operating results, (ii) the ability to better identify trends in ST’s business and perform related trend analysis, and (iii) to facilitate a comparison of ST’s results of operations against investor and analyst financial models and valuations, which may exclude these items.
 
Non-U.S. GAAP Operating Income, Non-U.S. GAAP Net Income and Non-U.S. GAAP Earnings Per Share (non-U.S. GAAP measures)
 
Operating income before impairment, restructuring charges and other related phase-out costs, and one-time items is used by management to help enhance an understanding of ongoing operations and to communicate the impact of the excluded items, such as impairment, restructuring charges and other related phase-out costs. Adjusted net earnings and earnings per share (EPS) are used by management to help enhance an understanding of ongoing operations and to communicate the impact of the excluded items like impairment, restructuring charges and other related phase-out costs attributable to ST and other one-time items, net of the relevant tax impact.
 

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Net Financial Position and Adjusted Net Financial Position (non-U.S. GAAP measures)
 
Net Financial Position, a non-U.S. GAAP measure, represents the difference between our total liquidity and our total financial debt. Our total liquidity includes cash and cash equivalents, restricted cash, if any, short-term deposits, and marketable securities, and our total financial debt includes short-term debt and long-term debt, as reported in our Consolidated Balance Sheets. ST also presents adjusted net financial position as a non-U.S. GAAP measure, to take into consideration the effect on total liquidity of advances received on capital grants for which capital expenditures have not been incurred yet.
 
ST believes its Net Financial Position and Adjusted Net Financial Position provide useful information for investors and management because they give evidence of our global position either in terms of net indebtedness or net cash by measuring our capital resources based on cash and cash equivalents, restricted cash, if any, short-term deposits and marketable securities and the total level of our financial debt. Our definitions of Net Financial Position and Adjusted Net Financial Position may differ from definitions used by other companies, and therefore, comparability may be limited.
 

^(a)  Total liquidity decreased from $5.63 billion in the second quarter of 2025 to $4.78 billion in the third quarter of 2025, the decrease includes $750 million related to the repayment of the first tranche of our convertible bond.
^(b)  Long-term debt contains standard conditions but does not impose minimum financial ratios. Committed credit facilities for $640 million equivalent, are currently undrawn.

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Net Capex and Free Cash Flow (non-U.S. GAAP measures)
 
ST presents Net Capex as a non-U.S. GAAP measure, which is reported as part of our Free Cash Flow (non-U.S. GAAP measure), to take into consideration the effect of advances from capital grants received on prior periods allocated to property, plant and equipment in the reporting period. 

Net Capex, a non-U.S. GAAP measure, is defined as (i) Payment for purchase of tangible assets, as reported plus (ii) Proceeds from sale of tangible assets, as reported plus (iii) Proceeds from capital grants and other contributions, as reported plus (iv) Advances from capital grants allocated to property, plant and equipment in the reporting period. 

ST believes Net Capex provides useful information for investors and management because annual capital expenditures budget includes the effect of capital grants. Our definition of Net Capex may differ from definitions used by other companies.
 

Free Cash Flow, which is a non-U.S. GAAP measure, is defined as (i) net cash from operating activities plus (ii) Net Capex plus (iii) payment for purchase (and proceeds from sale) of intangible and financial assets and (iv) net cash paid for business acquisitions, if any.

ST believes Free Cash Flow provides useful information for investors and management because it measures our capacity to generate cash from our operating and investing activities to sustain our operations.
 
Free Cash Flow reconciles with the total cash flow and the net cash increase (decrease) by including the payment for purchases of (and proceeds from matured) marketable securities and net investment in (and proceeds from) short-term deposits, the net cash from (used in) financing activities and the effect of changes in exchange rates, and by excluding the advances from capital grants received on prior periods allocated to property, plant and equipment in the reporting period. Our definition of Free Cash Flow may differ from definitions used by other companies.
  

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¹ Non-U.S. GAAP. See Appendix for reconciliation to U.S. GAAP and information explaining why the Company believes these measures are important.
¹ Non-U.S. GAAP. See Appendix for reconciliation to U.S. GAAP and information explaining why the Company believes these measures are important.
² See Appendix for the definition of reportable segments.
¹ Non-U.S. GAAP. See Appendix for reconciliation to U.S. GAAP and information explaining why the Company believes these measures are important.

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