WEX Inc. Reports Third Quarter 2025 Financial Results

Revenue of $692 million increased 3.9% compared to the prior year

GAAP net income of $2.30 per diluted share and adjusted net income of $4.59 per diluted share

GAAP operating income margin of 26.5% and adjusted operating income margin of 39.5%

Raises full year 2025 revenue guidance to $2.63 billion to $2.65 billion and adjusted net income guidance to $15.76 to $15.96 per diluted share

Separately, announced the appointment of David Foss to Board of Directors effective November 3, 2025

PORTLAND, Maine–(BUSINESS WIRE)–WEX (NYSE: WEX), the global commerce platform that simplifies the business of running a business, today reported financial results for the three months ended September 30, 2025.

“Our strategy to return to revenue growth was demonstrated in the third quarter with both revenue and earnings exceeding the high end of our guidance ranges,” said Melissa Smith, WEX’s Chair, Chief Executive Officer, and President. “We are focused on driving continued momentum by executing on our three strategic pillars: amplifying our core business, expanding our reach, and accelerating innovation. The third quarter marked a turning point with acceleration in revenue growth, and we are confident in our ability to deliver sustainable growth, attractive margins, and robust cash flow for our shareholders. Thank you to our more than 6,500 WEXers for their continued innovation, execution, and passion in support of our valued customers’ success around the world.”

Third Quarter 2025 Financial Results

(Results are compared to the prior year period unless otherwise noted)

Total revenue for the third quarter of 2025 of $691.8 million increased 3.9%, driven by strength across the Benefits and Corporate Payments segments. The revenue increase in the quarter includes a $6.0 million unfavorable impact from fuel prices and spreads and a $2.7 million favorable impact from foreign exchange rates.

Net income was $80.3 million, or $2.30 per diluted share, a decrease of 8.7%. Adjusted net income was $159.7 million, or $4.59 per diluted share, up 5.5%. Operating income margin was 26.5% compared to 29.5%. Total adjusted operating income margin was 39.5% compared to 44.0%¹.

Third Quarter 2025 Performance Metrics and Segment Results

(Results are compared to the prior year period unless otherwise noted)

Consolidated

• Total volume across all segments was $66.2 billion, an increase of 6.3%.

Mobility Segment

Delivers fleet payment solutions, transaction processing, and data-driven insights to more than 600,000 fleet customers globally.

• Revenue of $360.8 million increased 1.0%.
• Operating income margin of 30.9% and adjusted operating income margin of 40.7%.
• Payment processing transactions of 140.0 million decreased 4.5%.

Benefits Segment

Simplifies the complex world of employee benefits administration and offers a comprehensive platform that spans HSAs, FSAs, HRAs, COBRA, and Benefit Enrollment and administration.

• Revenue of $198.1 million increased 9.2%.
• Operating income margin of 28.7% and adjusted operating income margin of 43.8%.
• Average number of Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) accounts of 21.5 million grew 6.0%.
• Average HSA custodial cash assets were $4.8 billion, an increase of 11.4%.

Corporate Payments Segment

Provides automated payment solutions for businesses and government agencies through simplifying the business-to-business (B2B) payments process by digitizing accounts payable (AP) and enabling more efficient and secure transactions.

• Revenue of $132.8 million increased 4.7%.
• Operating income margin of 39.1% and adjusted operating income margin of 48.0%.
• Purchase volume of $23.2 billion decreased 0.9%.
• Total volume processed, including where WEX does not earn interchange revenue, was $43.3 billion, an increase of 10.8%.

Balance Sheet and Cash Flow

(Results are compared to the prior year period unless otherwise noted)

• Cash flow from operating activities in the third quarter of 2025 totaled $376.6 million compared to $3.3 million.
• Adjusted free cash flow totaled $166.2 million compared to $189.5 million².
• The Company’s leverage ratio, as defined in its Credit Agreement, was 3.25x as of September 30, 2025, down from 3.4x as of June 30, 2025, and down from 3.5x at the end of Q1 2025.

“Our third-quarter results highlight the resiliency of our business,” said Jagtar Narula, WEX’s Chief Financial Officer. “Even amid a challenged macro environment, we’re executing effectively, with sequential improvements and new business wins driving momentum. We remain focused on disciplined investment in our core and maintaining financial flexibility, positioning WEX to capture growth and operating leverage as market conditions improve.”

Financial Guidance and Assumptions

The Company provides revenue guidance on a GAAP basis and earnings guidance on a non-GAAP basis, due to the uncertainty and the indeterminate amount of certain elements that are included in reported GAAP earnings.

• For the fourth quarter of 2025, the Company expects revenue in the range of $646 million to $666 million and adjusted net income in the range of $3.76 to $3.96 per diluted share.
• For the full year 2025, the Company now expects revenue in the range of $2.63 billion to $2.65 billion compared with the prior guidance of $2.61 billion to $2.65 billion issued in connection with our second quarter 2025 financial results. Adjusted net income is now expected to be in the range of $15.76 to $15.96 per diluted share, up from the prior range of $15.37 to $15.77.

The company’s guidance is based on the following assumptions:

• U.S. retail fuel prices of $3.09 and $3.27 per gallon, respectively, for the fourth quarter and full year 2025 based on the applicable NYMEX futures price from the week of October 20, 2025.
• Adjusted net income tax rate of 25.0% for both the fourth quarter and full year.
• Mobility credit losses will range from 14 to 19 basis points for the fourth quarter and 13 to 14 basis points for the full year.
• Weighted average diluted shares outstanding of 34.9 million and 35.9 million for the fourth quarter and the full year, respectively.

The Company’s adjusted net income guidance, which is a non-GAAP measure, excludes unrealized gains and losses on financial instruments, net foreign currency gains and losses, acquisition-related intangible amortization, other acquisition and divestiture related items, stock-based compensation, other costs, debt restructuring costs and debt issuance cost amortization, tax related items and certain other non-operating items and non-recurring or non-cash operating charges that are not core to our operations, as applicable depending on the period presented. We are unable to reconcile our adjusted net income guidance to the comparable GAAP measure without unreasonable effort because of the difficulty in predicting the amounts to be adjusted, including, but not limited to, foreign currency exchange rates, unrealized gains and losses on financial instruments, and acquisition and divestiture-related items, which may have a significant impact on our financial results.

Additional Information

Management uses the non-GAAP measures presented within this earnings release to evaluate the Company’s performance on a comparable basis. Management believes that investors may find these measures useful for the same purposes, but cautions that they should not be considered a substitute for, or superior to, disclosure in accordance with GAAP.

Beginning in fiscal year 2024, the Company began utilizing a fixed annual projected long-term non-GAAP tax rate in order to provide better consistency across reporting periods. The fixed annual projected long-term non-GAAP tax rate could be subject to change for a variety of reasons, including the rapidly evolving global tax environment, significant changes in our geographic earnings mix including due to acquisition activity, or other changes to our strategy or business operations. The Company will re-evaluate our long-term rate as appropriate.

To provide investors with additional insight into its operational performance, WEX has included in this earnings release in Exhibit 1, reconciliations of non-GAAP measures referenced in this earnings release; in Exhibit 2, tables illustrating the impact of foreign currency rates and fuel prices for each of our reportable segments for the three and nine months ended September 30, 2025; and in Exhibit 3, a table of selected other metrics for the quarter ended September 30, 2025 and the four preceding quarters. See segment revenue for the three and nine months ended September 30, 2025 and 2024 in Exhibit 4, and information regarding segment adjusted operating income margin and adjusted operating income margin in Exhibit 5.

Conference Call Details and Availability of Supplemental Materials

In conjunction with this announcement, WEX will host a conference call tomorrow, October 30, 2025, at 10:00 a.m. (ET). As previously announced, the conference call will be webcast live on the Internet, and can be accessed at the Investor Relations section of the WEX website, www.wexinc.com. The live conference call may also be accessed by dialing +1 (888) 596-4144 or +1 (646) 968-2525. The conference ID number is 2902800. The live webcast will be accompanied by presentation slides, which will be made available through the investor relations section of the WEX website on the morning of October 30 prior to the beginning of the webcast.

A replay of the live webcast and the accompanying slides will be available on the Company’s website through at least Thursday, November 6, 2025. Concurrent with this release, WEX has posted supplemental materials to the Investor Relations section of its website to assist investors with understanding our results and performance.

About WEX

WEX (NYSE: WEX) is the global commerce platform that simplifies the business of running a business. WEX has created a powerful ecosystem that offers seamlessly embedded, personalized solutions for its customers around the world. Through its rich data and specialized expertise in simplifying benefits, reimagining mobility, and paying and getting paid, WEX aims to make it easy for companies to overcome complexity and reach their full potential. For more information, please visit www.wexinc.com.

Forward-Looking Statements

This earnings release contains forward-looking statements including, but not limited to, statements about management’s plans, goals, expectations, and guidance and assumptions with respect to future financial performance of the Company. Any statements in this earnings release that are not statements of historical facts are forward-looking statements. When used in this earnings release, the words “anticipate,” “believe,” “continue,” “could,” “estimate,” “expect,” “intend,” “may,” “plan,” “project,” “will,” “positions,” “confidence,” and similar expressions are intended to identify forward-looking statements, although not all forward-looking statements contain such words. Forward-looking statements relate to our future plans, objectives, expectations, and intentions and are not historical facts and accordingly involve known and unknown risks and uncertainties and other factors that may cause the actual results or performance to be materially different from future results or performance expressed or implied by these forward-looking statements. The following factors, among others, could cause actual results to differ materially from those contained in forward-looking statements made in this earnings release and in oral statements made by our authorized officers:

• the impact of fluctuations in the amount of fuel purchased and sold by our customers and retail partners, respectively, fuel price volatility, and the actual price of fuel, including fuel spreads in the Company’s international markets, and the resulting impact on the Company’s results, including margins, revenues, and net income;
• the effects of general economic conditions and the amount of business activity in the economies in which we operate, particularly in the U.S., Europe, and the United Kingdom, including, but not limited to, conditions resulting from market volatility, an economic recession, the impact of tariffs or international trade wars, increasing unemployment, and declining consumer confidence, which may lead to, among other things, a decline or stagnation in demand for fuel, corporate payment services, travel-related services, or employee benefits-related products and services;
• the failure to comply with the applicable requirements of Mastercard or Visa contracts and rules;
• the extent to which unpredictable events in the locations in which the Company or the Company’s customers operate or elsewhere may adversely affect the Company’s employees, ability to conduct business, results of operations, and financial condition;
• the impact and size of credit losses, including fraud losses, and other adverse effects if the Company fails to adequately assess and monitor credit risk or fraudulent use of our payment cards or systems;
• the impact of changes to the Company’s credit standards;
• limitations on, or compression of, interchange fees;
• the effect of adverse financial conditions affecting the banking system;
• the impact of the U.S. federal government shutdown;
• the impact of increasing scrutiny with respect to our environmental, social, and governance practices;
• failure to implement new technologies and products;
• the failure to realize or sustain the expected benefits from our cost and organizational operational efficiencies initiatives;
• the failure to compete effectively in order to maintain or renew key customer and partner agreements and relationships, or to maintain volumes under such agreements;
• the ability to attract and retain employees;
• the ability to execute the Company’s business expansion and acquisition efforts and realize the benefits of acquisitions we have completed;
• the failure to achieve commercial and financial benefits as a result of our strategic minority equity investments;
• the impact of foreign currency exchange rates on the Company’s operations, revenue, and income and other risks associated with our operations outside the United States;
• the failure to adequately safeguard custodial HSA assets;
• the incurrence of impairment charges if the Company’s assessment of the fair value of certain of its reporting units changes;
• the uncertainties of investigations and litigation;
• the ability of the Company to protect its intellectual property and other proprietary rights;
• the impact of regulatory capital requirements and other regulatory requirements on the operations of WEX Bank or its ability to make payments to WEX Inc.;
• the impact of the Company’s debt instruments on the Company’s operations;
• the impact of increased leverage on the Company’s operations, results, or borrowing capacity generally;
• our ability to achieve our capital allocation priorities;
• changes in interest rates, including those which we must pay for our deposits, those which we earn on our investment securities, and the resultant potential impacts to our debt securities subject to early call provisions;
• the ability to refinance certain indebtedness or obtain additional financing;
• the actions of regulatory bodies, including tax, banking, and securities regulators, or possible changes in tax, banking, or financial regulations impacting the Company’s industrial bank, the Company as the corporate parent, or other subsidiaries or affiliates;
• the failure to comply with the Treasury Regulations applicable to non-bank custodians;
• the impact from breaches of, or other issues with, the Company’s technology systems or those of its third-party service providers and any resulting negative impact on the Company’s reputation, liabilities, or relationships with customers or merchants;
• the impact of regulatory developments with respect to privacy and data protection;
• the impact of any disruption to the technology and electronic communications networks we rely on;
• the ability to adopt, implement, and use artificial intelligence technologies across our business successfully and ethically;
• the ability to maintain effective systems of internal controls;
• the failure to repurchase shares at favorable prices, if at all;
• the impact of provisions in our charter documents, Delaware law, and applicable banking laws that may delay or prevent our acquisition by a third party; as well as
• other risks and uncertainties identified in Item 1A of our Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2024, filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on February 20, 2025, and Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q for the quarter ended March 31, 2025, filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on May 1, 2025 and subsequent filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission.

The forward-looking statements speak only as of the date of the initial filing of this earnings release and undue reliance should not be placed on these statements. The Company disclaims any obligation to update any forward-looking statements as a result of new information, future events, or otherwise.

Contacts

News Media Contact:
WEX

Megan Zaroda, 610-379-6211

[email protected]

Investor Contact:
WEX

Steve Elder, 207-523-7769

[email protected]

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