Levi Strauss & Co. Reports Fourth-Quarter Results

Reported Net Revenues Grew 1%, Organic Net Revenues up 5%

Broad-Based Strength Including High-Single Digit Comps in DTC

Continuing Operations Diluted EPS of $0.40, Adj Diluted EPS of $0.41

Strong FY 2025 Financial Results With Accelerated Revenue Growth and Margin Expansion

FY 2026 Guidance Includes Mid-Single Digit Topline Growth and Adjusted EBIT Margin Expansion

SAN FRANCISCO–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Levi Strauss & Co. (NYSE: LEVI) today announced financial results for the fourth quarter and fiscal year ended November 30, 2025.

“Over the past few years, we’ve taken bold steps toward becoming a DTC-first, head-to-toe denim lifestyle brand,” said Michelle Gass, President and CEO of Levi Strauss & Co. “We have narrowed our focus, improved operational execution and built greater agility across the organization. As a result, we’ve elevated the Levi’s® brand and delivered faster growth and higher profitability, as reflected by our Q4 and full year 2025 results. While we still have important work ahead, the company is at an inflection point—emerging as a stronger, more resilient global business ready to define the next chapter of LS&Co.”

“We are sustaining our momentum, delivering 5% organic growth in the fourth quarter on top of an 8% increase in the prior year. Our success in denim lifestyle has enabled us to expand our addressable market, positioning us for mid-single digit growth in 2026 and beyond,” said Harmit Singh, Chief Financial and Growth Officer of Levi Strauss & Co. “Our disciplined approach to converting growth into profitability has improved adjusted EBIT margin in 2025 for the third year in a row, and we are on track to expand margins further as we strive toward 15%. Our confidence in this trajectory is reflected in a new $200 million ASR program.”

Financial Highlights for the Fourth Quarter

• Net Revenues of $1.8 billion increased 1% on a reported basis and 5% on an organic basis versus Q4 2024. Organic Net Revenues exclude the impacts of foreign exchange rates, divested or wound down businesses, acquisitions, and any 53rd week from the change in reported net revenues.
  • In the Americas, net revenues decreased 4% on a reported basis and increased 2% on an organic basis. Within the Americas, the U.S. decreased 7% on a reported basis and was flat on an organic basis.
  • In Europe, net revenues increased 8% on a reported basis and 10% on an organic basis.
  • In Asia, net revenues increased 2% on a reported basis and 4% on an organic basis.
  • Beyond Yoga® increased 37% on a reported basis and 45% on an organic basis.
  • DTC (Direct-to-Consumer) net revenues increased 8% on a reported basis and 10% on an organic basis. DTC growth on a reported basis reflected a 3% increase in the U.S., a 9% increase in Europe and an 11% increase in Asia. DTC growth on an organic basis reflected a 10% increase in the U.S., an 8% increase in Europe and a 12% increase in Asia. Net revenues from e-commerce grew 19% on a reported basis and 22% on an organic basis. DTC comprised 49% of total net revenues in the fourth quarter.
  • Wholesale net revenues decreased 5% on a reported basis and were flat on an organic basis.

• Operating margin was 11.9% in both Q4 2025 and Q4 2024. Adjusted EBIT margin was 12.1% compared to 13.9% last year primarily due to the impact of lapping the 53^rd week and tariffs.
  • Gross margin was 60.8% compared to 61.8% in Q4 2024 primarily due to the impact of tariffs, partially offset by initial price increases.
  • Selling, general and administrative (SG&A) expenses were $860 million compared to $859 million in Q4 2024. Adjusted SG&A expenses were up 2.6% to $859 million compared to $838 million last year due to the higher-than-expected net revenues driving higher selling and incentive expenses, higher costs associated with the transition of our U.S. distribution network and unfavorable foreign exchange.
• Interest and other income (expense), net, which includes foreign exchange gains and losses, were expenses of $12 million in the aggregate in both Q4 2025 and Q4 2024.
• The effective income tax rate was 19.4%, compared to 8.1% in Q4 2024.
• Net income from continuing operations was $160 million compared to $180 million in Q4 2024. Adjusted net income was $163 million compared to $200 million in Q4 2024.
• Diluted earnings per share from continuing operations was $0.40 compared to $0.45 in Q4 2024. Adjusted diluted earnings per share was $0.41 compared to $0.49 in Q4 2024.

Fiscal year 2025 results are included in the company’s Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended November 30, 2025.

Financial Highlights for the Full Year

• Reported net revenues of $6.3 billion were up 4% versus FY 2024, and up 7% on an organic basis.
• Gross margin was 61.7%, 110 basis points above FY 2024.
• Operating margin was 10.8% compared to 4.4% in FY 2024; Adjusted EBIT margin was 11.4% compared to 10.7% in FY 2024.
• Net income from continuing operations was $502 million, up from $210 million in FY 2024; Adjusted net income was $537 million, up from $499 million in FY 2024.
• Diluted EPS from continuing operations was $1.26, up from $0.52 in FY 2024; Adjusted diluted EPS was $1.34, up from $1.24 in FY 2024.
• Net cash from operating cash flows of $530 million; Adjusted Free Cash Flow generation of $308 million.
• The company returned $363 million in capital to shareholders, up 26% to prior year.

Highlights include:

Additional information regarding Adjusted SG&A, Adjusted EBIT, Adjusted EBIT margin, Adjusted net income, Adjusted diluted earnings per share, Adjusted free cash flow as well as amounts presented on an organic net revenues basis and constant currency basis, all of which are non-GAAP financial measures, is provided at the end of this press release.

Balance Sheet Review as of November 30, 2025

• Cash and cash equivalents were $758 million, while total liquidity was approximately $1.7 billion.
• Total inventories increased 9% on a dollar basis compared to Q4 2024.

Dockers® Sale

On July 31, 2025, the company sold the Dockers® intellectual property and operations in the U.S. and Canada. The sale of the remaining Dockers® operations is expected to occur over the course of Q1 and be completed on or around February 27, 2026.

Shareholder Returns

In the fourth quarter, the company returned $55 million to shareholders in the form of dividends representing a dividend of $0.14 per share, up 6% from prior year, and took delivery of and retired approximately 0.6 million shares for a total of 5.6 million shares over the entirety of the accelerated share repurchase program.

For the full year, the company returned $363 million to shareholders, a 26% increase over prior year, including:

• Dividends of $213 million, representing an annual dividend of $0.54 per share, up 7% from prior year;
• Share repurchases of $150 million reflecting 7.2 million shares retired, up 67% from prior year.

In line with the company’s capital allocation strategy, the company intends to enter into an accelerated share repurchase agreement (ASR) to repurchase $200 million of its Class A common stock.

As of November 30, 2025, the company had $440 million remaining under its current share repurchase authorization, which has no expiration date.

The company declared a dividend of $0.14 per share totaling approximately $55 million, payable in cash on February 25, 2026 to the holders of record of Class A common stock and Class B common stock at the close of business on February 10, 2026.

Fiscal 2026 Guidance

Guidance for 2026 is based on continuing operations, reflecting the Dockers^® business being reported in discontinued operations. Guidance assumes U.S. tariffs on imports from China remain at 30% and Rest-of-World at 20%.

The following guidance is provided for the year ending November 29, 2026:

• Reported net revenues growth: 5% to 6%
• Organic net revenues growth: 4% to 5%
• Gross margin: flat to prior year
• Adjusted EBIT margin: expanding to 11.8% to 12%
• Tax rate: approximately 23%, 2 points higher than prior year
• Adjusted diluted EPS: $1.40 to $1.46. This includes an approximate $0.04 headwind from a higher tax rate.

This outlook also assumes no significant worsening of macro-economic pressures on the consumer, inflationary pressures, supply chain disruptions, potential tariffs or currency fluctuations. A reconciliation of non-GAAP forward looking information to the corresponding GAAP measures cannot be provided without unreasonable efforts due to the challenge in quantifying various items including but not limited to, the effects of foreign currency fluctuations, taxes, potential tariffs, and any future restructuring, restructuring-related, severance and other charges.

Investor Conference Call

To access the conference call, please pre-register on https://register-conf.media-server.com/register/BIcf88cb3739da4c42a728e9ba5eb15ff0 and you will receive confirmation with dial-in details. A live webcast of the event can be accessed on https://edge.media-server.com/mmc/p/2vvyobak.

A replay of the webcast will be available on http://investors.levistrauss.com starting approximately two hours after the event and archived on the site for one quarter.

About Levi Strauss & Co.

Levi Strauss & Co. (LS&Co.) is one of the world’s largest brand-name apparel companies and a global leader in jeanswear. The company designs and markets jeans, casual wear and related accessories for men, women and children under the Levi’s®, Levi Strauss Signature™, and Beyond Yoga® brands. Its products are sold in approximately 120 countries worldwide through a combination of chain retailers, department stores, online sites, and a global footprint of approximately 3,300 retail stores and shop-in-shops. Levi Strauss & Co.’s reported 2025 net revenues were $6.3 billion. For more information, go to http://levistrauss.com, and for financial news and announcements go to http://investors.levistrauss.com.

Forward-Looking Statements

This press release and related conference call contains, in addition to historical information, forward-looking statements, including statements related to: future financial results, including the company’s expectations for the full fiscal year 2026 net revenues (both reported and on an organic net revenues basis), gross margin, adjusted EBIT margins, adjusted SG&A, adjusted diluted earnings per share and effective tax rate; business and market outlook; consumer preferences; progress against strategic priorities; the ongoing restructuring of our operations and our ability to achieve any anticipated cost savings associated with such restructuring; trajectory of direct-to-consumer business; macroeconomic conditions, including impacts of newly imposed or threatened U.S. tariffs and any additional retaliatory measures by impacted exporting countries; impacts of foreign currency exchange; capital expenditures; pricing initiatives; inventory growth; new store openings; investments in high growth initiatives; future dividend payments and share repurchases; the pending sale of our global Dockers® business; and efforts to diversify product categories and distribution channels, and the related revenue projections. The company has based these forward-looking statements on its current reasonable assumptions, expectations and projections about future events. Words such as, but not limited to, “believe,” “will,” “may,” “so we can,” “when,” “anticipate,” “intend,” “estimate,” “expect,” “project,” “could” and similar expressions are used to identify forward-looking statements, although not all forward-looking statements contain these words. These forward-looking statements are necessary estimates reflecting the best judgment of our senior management and involve a number of risks and uncertainties, some of which are beyond our control, that could cause actual results to differ materially from those suggested by the forward-looking statements. Investors should consider the information contained in the company’s filings with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), including its Annual Report on Form 10-K for fiscal 2025, especially in the “Management’s Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations”, “Summary of Risk Factors” and “Risk Factors” sections. Other unknown or unpredictable factors also could have material adverse effects on future results, performance or achievements. In light of these risks, uncertainties, assumptions and factors, the forward-looking events discussed in this press release and related conference call may not occur. You are cautioned not to place undue reliance on these forward-looking statements, which speak only as of the date stated or, if no date is stated, as of the date of this press release and related conference call. The company is not under any obligation and does not intend to update or revise any of the forward-looking statements contained in this press release and related conference call to reflect circumstances existing after the date of this press release and related conference call or to reflect the occurrence of future events, even if such circumstances or future events make it clear that any expected results expressed or implied by those forward-looking statements will not be realized.

Non-GAAP Financial Measures

The company reports its financial results in accordance with generally accepted accounting principles in the United States (GAAP) and the rules of the SEC. To supplement its financial statements prepared and presented in accordance with GAAP, the company uses certain non-GAAP financial measures, such as Adjusted SG&A, Adjusted SG&A margin, Adjusted EBIT (both reported and on a constant-currency basis), Adjusted EBIT margin (both reported and on a constant-currency basis), Adjusted EBITDA, Adjusted net income (both reported and on a constant-currency basis), Adjusted diluted earnings per share (both reported and on a constant-currency basis), organic net revenues, Adjusted free cash flow, and return on invested capital to provide investors with additional useful information about its financial performance, to enhance the overall understanding of its past performance and future prospects and to allow for greater transparency with respect to important metrics used by management for financial and operating decision-making. The company presents these non-GAAP financial measures to assist investors in seeing its financial performance from management’s view and because it believes they provide an additional tool for investors to use in computing the company’s core financial performance over multiple periods with other companies in its industry. The tables found below present Adjusted SG&A, Adjusted SG&A margin, Adjusted EBIT (both reported and on a constant-currency basis), Adjusted EBIT margin (both reported and on a constant-currency basis), Adjusted EBITDA, Adjusted net income (both reported and on a constant-currency basis), Adjusted diluted earnings per share (both reported and on a constant-currency basis), organic net revenues, Adjusted free cash flow, and return on invested capital and corresponding reconciliations of these non-GAAP financial measures to the most directly comparable financial measures calculated in accordance with GAAP. Non-GAAP financial measures have limitations in their usefulness to investors because they have no standardized meaning prescribed by GAAP and are not prepared under any comprehensive set of accounting rules or principles. Certain items that may be excluded or included in non-GAAP financial measures may be significant items that could impact the company’s financial position, results of operations and cash flows and should therefore be considered in assessing the company’s actual financial condition and performance. Non-GAAP financial measures are subject to inherent limitations as they reflect the exercise of judgment by management in determining how they are formulated. Some specific limitations include but are not limited to, the fact that such non-GAAP financial measures: (a) do not reflect cash outlays for capital expenditures, contractual commitments or liabilities including pension obligations, post-retirement health benefit obligations and income tax liabilities; (b) do not reflect changes in, or cash requirements for, working capital requirements; and (c) do not reflect the interest expense, or the cash requirements necessary to service interest or principal payments, on indebtedness. In addition, non-GAAP financial measures may be calculated differently from, and therefore may not be directly comparable to, similarly titled measures used by other companies. As a result, non-GAAP financial measures should be viewed as supplementing, and not as an alternative or substitute for, the company’s financial results prepared in accordance with GAAP. The company urges investors to review the reconciliation of these non-GAAP financial measures to the most directly comparable GAAP financial measures included in this press release, and not to rely on any single financial measure to evaluate its business. See “RECONCILIATION OF GAAP TO NON-GAAP FINANCIAL MEASURES” below for reconciliation to the most comparable GAAP financial measures. A reconciliation of non-GAAP forward looking information to the corresponding GAAP measures cannot be provided without unreasonable efforts due to the challenge in quantifying various items including but not limited to, the effects of foreign currency fluctuations, taxes, and any future restructuring, restructuring-related, severance and other charges.

Organic Net Revenues and Constant-Currency

The company reports net revenues in accordance with GAAP, as well as on an organic net revenues basis in order to facilitate period-to-period comparisons of our revenues which excludes the impact of fluctuating foreign currency exchange rates from the change in reported net revenues, net revenues derived from business acquisitions, divestitures or wind downs impacting the comparable reporting date and the estimated impact of any 53^rd week. The company reports certain operating results in accordance with GAAP, as well as on a constant-currency basis in order to facilitate period-to-period comparisons of its results without regard to the impact of fluctuating foreign currency exchange rates. These measures exclude the results of our Dockers® business, which is classified as discontinued operations.

The term foreign currency exchange rates refers to the exchange rates used to translate the company’s operating results for all countries where the functional currency is not the U.S. Dollar into U.S. Dollars. Because the company is a global company, foreign currency exchange rates used for translation may have a significant effect on its reported results. In general, the company’s financial results are affected positively by a weaker U.S. Dollar and are affected negatively by a stronger U.S. Dollar as compared to the foreign currencies in which it conducts its business. References to operating results on a constant-currency basis mean operating results without the impact of foreign currency translation fluctuations.

The company calculates constant-currency amounts by translating local currency amounts in the prior-year period at actual foreign currency exchange rates for the current period. Constant-currency results do not eliminate the transaction currency impact, which primarily includes the realized and unrealized gains and losses recognized from the measurement and remeasurement of purchases and sales of products in a currency other than the functional currency and of forward foreign exchange contracts.

The company believes disclosure of organic net revenues and Adjusted EBIT constant-currency, Adjusted EBIT Margin constant-currency and Adjusted Net Income constant-currency results is helpful to investors because it facilitates period-to-period comparisons of its results by increasing the transparency of the underlying performance by excluding the impact of fluctuating foreign currency exchange rates. However, organic net revenues and constant-currency results are non-GAAP financial measures and are not meant to be considered in isolation or as a substitute for comparable measures prepared in accordance with GAAP. Organic net revenues and constant-currency results have no standardized meaning prescribed by GAAP, are not prepared under any comprehensive set of accounting rules or principles and should be read in conjunction with the company’s consolidated financial statements prepared in accordance with GAAP. Organic net revenues and constant-currency results have limitations in their usefulness to investors and may be calculated differently from, and therefore may not be directly comparable to, similarly titled measures used by other companies.

Source: Levi Strauss & Co. Investor Relations

Contacts

Investor Contact:

Aida Orphan

Levi Strauss & Co.

(415) 501-6194

[email protected]

Media Contact:

Mark Cazares

Levi Strauss & Co.

(415) 501-7777

[email protected]

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