Full Year 2025 Coats Group PLC Earnings Call Transcript
Key Points
- Coats Group PLC (CGGGF) delivered a record level of free cash flow of $160 million in 2025, more than the past ten years combined.
- The company successfully acquired OrthoLite, enhancing its portfolio with a high-growth, high-margin business.
- Coats Group PLC (CGGGF) outperformed its core apparel and footwear end markets, which were down low- to mid-single-digit for the year.
- The group achieved an 80 basis points increase in operating margin to 19.8%, showcasing resilience in challenging markets.
- The company announced renewed and more ambitious medium-term targets, reflecting confidence in its strategic direction and growth initiatives.
- Revenue was flat on an organic constant exchange rate basis, indicating challenges in achieving top-line growth.
- The footwear division experienced a 2% decline in revenue on an organic CER basis, reflecting cautious customer ordering and inventory management.
- Year-end leverage increased to 2.2 times following the OrthoLite acquisition, with expectations to reduce it below 2 times by the end of 2026.
- Higher pension-related interest charges and the timing of the share placing in July 2025 offset higher EBIT, impacting earnings per share.
- The company faces potential demand and supply chain impacts due to geopolitical tensions in the Middle East, adding uncertainty to future performance.
Okay, good morning, everybody.
I'm delighted to welcome you to today's presentation covering our financial year 2025.
Let's move to the first slide.
This is today's agenda. First I'm going to take you through the highlights of the year. Hannah will then present our financial performance, and after that I will give a strategic update including our new divisional structure, our growth drivers, and our updated medium-term targets.
After the summary and outlook, we'll take your questions.
So let's start with the highlights of the year.
2025 has been my first full year as chief executive of the group, and it has been a year of significant evolution for the business with two significant M&A transactions, resilient trading in a challenging market, and great progress in our growth initiatives. As a result, today we announced renewed and more ambitious medium-term targets.
In 2025, we have acquired OrthoLite and divested our US yarns business. We have demonstrated
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