Ryder Reports Fourth Quarter 2025 Results and Provides 2026 Outlook

Transformed Business Model Continues to Outperform Prior Cycles;

Upsized Strategic Initiatives Expected to Drive 2026 Earnings Growth

Fourth Quarter 2025 Highlights

• GAAP EPS from continuing operations of $3.25, up 5% from prior year
• Comparable EPS (non-GAAP) from continuing operations of $3.59, up 4% from prior year, reflecting share repurchases
• Total revenue of $3.2 billion, consistent with prior year
• Operating revenue (non-GAAP) of $2.6 billion, consistent with prior year

Full-Year 2025 Highlights

• GAAP EPS from continuing operations of $11.99, up 8% from prior year
• Comparable EPS (non-GAAP) from continuing operations of $12.92, up 8% from prior year, reflecting higher contractual earnings across all business segments and share repurchases, partially offset by lower used vehicle sales and rental results
• Adjusted return on equity (ROE) (non-GAAP) of 17%, compared to 16% in prior year
• Total revenue of $12.7 billion, consistent with prior
• Operating revenue (non-GAAP) of $10.4 billion, up 1%, primarily reflecting contractual revenue growth in Supply Chain Solutions (SCS) and Fleet Management Solutions (FMS)
• Net cash provided by operating activities from continuing operations of $2.6 billion and free cash flow (non-GAAP) of $946 million

Full Year 2026 Outlook

• ROE (non-GAAP) of 17% – 18%
• Comparable EPS (non-GAAP) of $13.45 – $14.45
• Operating revenue (non-GAAP) increase of 3%, primarily driven by SCS
• Net cash provided by operating activities from continuing operations of $2.7 billion and free cash flow (non-GAAP) of $700 million – $800 million

MIAMI–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Ryder System, Inc. (NYSE: R) reported results for the three months ended December 31 as follows:

Total and operating revenue for the three months ended December 31 were as follows:

CEO Comment

“Ryder delivered earnings growth and another year of solid returns in 2025, reflecting the strength and resiliency of our transformed business model as well as consistent execution on strategic initiatives,” says Ryder Chairman and CEO Robert Sanchez. “We achieved an annual benefit of $100 million from our multi-year strategic initiatives, with incremental benefits expected in 2026.

“Fourth quarter results represented our fifth consecutive quarter of earnings-per-share growth and were in line with our expectations. SCS and DTS continued to generate pre-tax earnings as a percent of operating revenue at their high single-digit target. In FMS, momentum from our lease pricing and maintenance cost savings initiatives continued to deliver solid quality of earnings despite used vehicle sales and rental market conditions.

“Solid ROE of 17% reflects the structural changes embedded in our transformed model and is in line with expectations given where we are in the freight cycle. The earnings power of our contractual lease, dedicated, and supply chain businesses continues to generate higher operating cash flow and increased capital deployment capacity, enabling us to fund profitable growth while returning capital to shareholders. During 2025, we returned $664 million to shareholders through buybacks and dividends and generated free cash flow of $946 million. Our balance sheet remains strong with leverage at the low end of our target debt-to-equity range.

“Secular growth trends and the value our solutions bring to our customers remain strong. In SCS, we achieved record sales in 2025, positioning us well for growth in 2026. In FMS and DTS, we expect contractual sales trends to improve as freight market conditions normalize. We remain focused on executing on our strategic initiatives and driving further cost and operating efficiencies. We are confident that continued execution on our balanced growth strategy provides a solid foundation for ongoing contractual earnings growth while also positioning us to benefit from a cycle upturn.”

Fourth Quarter 2025 Segment Review

Fleet Management Solutions: Solid Earnings Despite Rental and Used Vehicle Sales Market Conditions

• FMS total revenue and operating revenue decreased 1%
  • Total revenue reflects lower operating and fuel revenue
  • Operating revenue reflects impact of weaker rental demand
• FMS EBT of $136 million
  • Strategic initiatives continue to benefit ChoiceLease performance
  • Rental and used vehicle sales results reflect weaker freight market conditions
  • Used tractor pricing increased 1% and truck pricing decreased 9% from prior year; sequentially from third quarter of 2025, used tractor and truck pricing increased 6% and 4%, respectively, reflecting a higher retail sales mix
  • Rental power-fleet utilization was 72% compared to 73% in the prior year, on a 8% smaller average fleet

Supply Chain Solutions: Earnings from Revenue Growth More Than Offset by Automotive Results

• SCS total revenue and operating revenue increased 3%
  • Total revenue reflects increased operating revenue and subcontracted transportation costs passed through to customers
  • Increase in operating revenue primarily driven by new business and volumes in omnichannel retail
• SCS EBT of $83 million
  • Benefits from operating revenue growth more than offset by lost business and extended customer production shutdowns in automotive

Dedicated Transportation Solutions: Earnings Reflect Lower Bad Debt and Benefits from Acquisition Synergies, Partially Offset by Lower Fleet Count

• DTS total revenue and operating revenue decreased 8% and 4%, respectively
  • Total revenue reflects lower subcontracted transportation costs and operating revenue
  • Operating revenue decreased due to lower fleet count reflecting prolonged freight market downturn
• DTS EBT of $40 million
  • Lower bad debt and benefits from acquisition synergies were partially offset by lower operating revenue

Corporate Financial Information

Capital Expenditures, Cash Flow, and Leverage

Capital expenditures decreased to $2.1 billion in 2025 compared to $2.7 billion in 2024, primarily reflecting reduced investments in ChoiceLease and rental fleets.

Net cash provided by operating activities from continuing operations was $2.6 billion compared to $2.3 billion in 2024, primarily reflecting lower income tax payments and working capital needs. Free cash flow (non-GAAP) of $946 million compared to $133 million in 2024, reflects reduced cash capital expenditures and higher cash provided by operating activities.

Debt-to-equity as of December 31, 2025 was 250%, unchanged from year-end 2024, and is at the low end of the company’s long-term target of 250% to 300%.

Outlook

“We expect another year of earnings growth in 2026, driven by $70M in incremental benefits from upsized strategic initiatives,” says Ryder Chief Financial Officer Cristina Gallo-Aquino. “The high-end of our EPS forecast range assumes no meaningful improvement in freight market conditions. Historically, the first quarter has been our lowest earnings quarter and we expect it will represent the most difficult year-over-year comparisons, primarily due to used vehicle sales and rental market conditions. Free cash flow is expected to remain strong in 2026, and we expect our capital deployment capacity to continue to enable us to support profitable growth while returning capital to shareholders through buybacks and dividends.”

Supplemental Company Information

Business Description

Ryder System, Inc. is a leading supply chain, dedicated transportation, and fleet management solutions company. Ryder’s stock (NYSE: R) is a component of the Dow Jones Transportation Average and the S&P MidCap 400^® index. The company’s financial performance is reported in the following three, inter-related business segments:

• Supply Chain Solutions – Ryder’s SCS business segment optimizes logistics networks to make them more responsive and able to be leveraged as a competitive advantage. Globally-recognized brands in the automotive, consumer goods, food and beverage, healthcare, industrial, oil and gas, technology, and retail industries rely on Ryder’s leading-edge technologies and world-class logistics engineers to help them deliver the goods that consumers use every day.
• Dedicated Transportation Solutions – Ryder’s DTS business segment combines the best of Ryder’s leasing and maintenance capabilities with the safest and most professional drivers in the industry. With a dedicated transportation solution, Ryder helps customers increase their competitive position, reduce risk, and integrate their transportation needs with their overall supply chain.
• Fleet Management Solutions – Ryder’s FMS business segment provides a broad range of services to help businesses of all sizes, across virtually every industry, deliver for their customers. From leasing, maintenance, and fueling, to rental and used vehicle sales, customers rely on Ryder’s expertise to help them lower their costs, redirect capital to other parts of their business, and focus on what they do best – so they can grow.

For more information on Ryder System, Inc., visit investors.ryder.com and ryder.com.

Note: Regarding Forward-Looking Statements

Certain statements and information included in this news release are “forward-looking statements” under the Federal Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995, including our expectations regarding: our forecast; our outlook; market conditions, such as expectations regarding macroeconomic uncertainty, rental demand and utilization, and used vehicle sales volume and pricing; the freight cycle, including the impact of the prolonged downturn and cycle timing and recovery on our businesses; total and operating revenue, EPS, comparable EPS, Adjusted ROE, earnings before income tax, net cash provided by operating activities from continuing operations, free cash flow, debt-to-equity, capital expenditures, and the causes of change; our ability to continue executing on our transformed business model; our ability to outperform prior cycles; pricing and maintenance cost savings initiatives; long-term growth opportunities and secular growth trends; used vehicle inventory and fleet size; our ability to profitably grow business; our ability to support organic growth; growth and continued strong earnings performance in our contractual businesses; strategic investments and acquisitions, including acquisition synergies; the omnichannel retail network; our capital deployment capacity; our actions to increase returns and create long-term value; and our ability to return capital to shareholders, including through share repurchases and dividends. Our forward-looking statements also include our estimates of the impact of residual value estimates on earnings and depreciation expense that is based in part on our current assessment of the residual values and useful lives of revenue-earning equipment based on multi-year trends and our outlook for the expected near- and long-term used vehicle market. A variety of factors, many of which are outside of our control, could cause residual value estimates to differ from actual used vehicle sales pricing, such as changes in supply and demand of used vehicles; volatility in market conditions; changes in vehicle technology; competitor pricing; regulatory requirements, including changes to taxes or tariffs; driver shortages; customer requirements and preferences; and changes in underlying assumption factors.

All of our forward-looking statements should be evaluated by considering the many risks and uncertainties inherent in our business that could cause actual results and events to differ materially from those in the forward-looking statements. Important factors that could cause such differences include: changes and uncertainty regarding financial, economic and market conditions in the U.S. and worldwide; supply chain and labor challenges and vehicle production constraints, including original equipment manufacturer (OEM) delays; the effect of geopolitical events; our ability to adapt to changing market conditions, including lower than expected contractual sales, decreases in rental demand or utilization, poor acceptance of rental pricing, declining market demand for or excess supply of used vehicles impacting current or estimated pricing, and our anticipated proportion of retail versus wholesale sales; declining customer demand for our services; higher than expected maintenance costs; lower than expected benefits from our cost-savings initiatives; our ability to effectively and efficiently integrate acquisitions into our business; lower than expected benefits from our sales, marketing and new product initiatives; setbacks in the economic market or in our ability to retain profitable customer accounts; impact of changing laws and regulations, such as taxes, tariffs, trade restrictions or trade agreements, including the impact to our customers and partners; difficulty in obtaining adequate profit margins for our services; inability to maintain current pricing levels due to, for example, economic conditions, business interruptions, expenditures, labor disputes and extreme weather or other natural occurrences; competition from other service providers; changes in technology and new entrants; professional driver and technician shortages resulting in higher procurement costs and turnover rates; impact of supply chain disruptions; higher than expected bad debt reserves or write-offs; decrease in credit ratings; increased debt costs; adequacy of accounting estimates; higher than expected reserves and accruals particularly with respect to pension, taxes, insurance and revenue; impact of changes in our residual value estimates and accounting policies, including our depreciation policy; unanticipated changes in fuel and alternative energy prices; unanticipated currency exchange rate fluctuations; fluctuations in inflation or interest rates; our ability to manage our cost structure; the inability of our information technology systems to provide timely and accurate access to data or of our information security program to safeguard our or our stakeholders’ data; and the risks described in our filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC). The risks included here are not exhaustive. New risks emerge from time to time, and it is not possible for management to predict all such risk factors or to assess the impact of such risks on our business. Accordingly, we undertake no obligation to publicly update or revise any forward-looking statements, whether as a result of new information, future events or otherwise.

Note: Regarding Non-GAAP Financial Measures

This news release includes certain non-GAAP financial measures as defined under SEC rules. Refer to Appendix – Non-GAAP Financial Measure Reconciliations at the end of the tables following this press release for reconciliations to the most comparable GAAP measure. Additional information regarding non-GAAP financial measures as required by Regulation G and Item 10(e) of Regulation S-K can be found in our most recent Form 10-K, Form 10-Q and Form 8-K filed with the SEC as of the date of this release, which are available at investors.ryder.com.

CONFERENCE CALL AND WEBCAST INFORMATION

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