Trinseo Reports Fourth Quarter and Full-Year 2025 Financial Results

Trinseo (NYSE: TSE):

Trinseo (NYSE: TSE), a specialty material solutions provider, today reported its fourth quarter and full-year 2025 financial results. Net sales of $663 million in the fourth quarter decreased 19% versus prior year due to lower sales volume across all business segments and competitive pricing pressure in Polymer Solutions and Latex Binders particularly in Europe and Asia.

Fourth quarter net loss of $251 million was $133 million weaker than prior year. The current year quarter included $127 million of pre-tax restructuring and other charges related to the Company’s restructuring initiatives. Adjusted EBITDA of $26 million was in line with prior year. The higher net loss and flat Adjusted EBITDA were attributable to lower volumes and margins, partially offset by savings from restructuring initiatives.

Net sales in the full year decreased 15% versus prior year. Lower sales volumes across all segments led to a 10% decrease and lower prices in Polymer Solutions and Latex Binders resulted in a 6% decrease, partially offset by favorable foreign currency of 1%. Full-year net loss of $546 million was $197 million unfavorable versus prior year. The current year included $140 million of pre-tax restructuring and other charges related to the Company’s various restructuring initiatives. Full year Adjusted EBITDA of $163 million was $41 million below prior year as the benefits realized from restructuring actions and $27 million of polycarbonate license income were more than offset by lower sales volume across all business segments, lower margins in Polymer Solutions and Latex Binders, and lower equity affiliate income from Americas Styrenics. Cash used in operations of $102 million and capital expenditures of $51 million led to Free Cash Flow* of negative $153 million.

Fourth Quarter Results and Commentary by Business Segment

• Engineered Materials net sales of $240 million for the quarter decreased 13% versus prior year primarily due to lower sales volumes in MMA related to the closure of our virgin production facilities in Italy. Adjusted EBITDA of $27 million was essentially flat versus prior year, as restructuring savings were largely offset by lower volumes.
• Latex Binders net sales of $176 million for the quarter decreased 19% versus prior year from lower sales in textile, paper and board globally. Adjusted EBITDA of $9 million was $10 million below prior year from lower volumes and margins, primarily in paper and board and textile applications in Europe. Net sales to CASE and battery binders applications accounted for 17% of total segment net sales, with volume increasing 1% over prior year despite subdued end market demand.
• Polymer Solutions net sales of $246 million for the quarter decreased 25% versus prior year and Adjusted EBITDA of $15 million was $2 million below prior year, both driven by unfavorable mix and lower volumes.
• Americas Styrenics Adjusted EBITDA of negative $7 million for the quarter improved $3 million above prior year from higher polystyrene volumes and an outsized unfavorable timing impact in 2024.

Commenting on 2025, Bozich said, “While we continued to face numerous market and macroeconomic headwinds throughout 2025, our team remained resilient and delivered exceptional safety performance that exceeded our environmental, health, and safety goals for the year. We continued to invest in new technology and innovation in strategic businesses like battery binders, CASE, and recycled content containing platforms to deliver growth. I am grateful for the strong contribution of team members throughout the organization. We remain focused on delivering best-in-class materials and services for our customers.”

About Trinseo

Trinseo (NYSE: TSE), a specialty material solutions provider, partners with companies to bring ideas to life in an imaginative, smart and sustainably focused manner by combining its premier expertise, forward-looking innovations and best-in-class materials to unlock value for companies and consumers.

From design to manufacturing, Trinseo taps into decades of experience in diverse material solutions to address customers’ unique challenges in a wide range of industries, including building and construction, consumer goods, medical and mobility.

Trinseo’s employees bring endless creativity to reimagining the possibilities with clients all over the world from the company’s locations in North America, Europe and Asia Pacific. Trinseo reported net sales of approximately $3.0 billion in 2025. Discover more by visiting www.trinseo.com and connecting with Trinseo on LinkedIn, Twitter, Facebook and WeChat.

Use of non-GAAP measures

In addition to using standard measures of performance and liquidity that are recognized in accordance with accounting principles generally accepted in the United States of America (“GAAP”), we use additional measures of income excluding certain GAAP items (“non-GAAP measures”), such as Adjusted Net Income (Loss), EBITDA, Adjusted EBITDA and Adjusted EPS and measures of liquidity excluding certain GAAP items, such as Free Cash Flow. We believe these measures are useful for investors and management in evaluating business trends and performance each period. These measures are also used to manage our business and assess current period profitability, as well as to provide an appropriate basis to evaluate the effectiveness of our pricing strategies. Such measures are not recognized in accordance with GAAP and should not be viewed as an alternative to GAAP measures of performance or liquidity, as applicable. The definitions of each of these measures, further discussion of usefulness, and reconciliations of non-GAAP measures to GAAP measures are provided in the Notes to Condensed Consolidated Financial Information presented herein.

Cautionary Note on Forward-Looking Statements

This press release may contain forward-looking statements including, without limitation, statements concerning plans, objectives, goals, projections, forecasts, strategies, future events or performance, and underlying assumptions and other statements, which are not statements of historical facts. Forward-looking statements may be identified by the use of words like “expect,” “anticipate,” “believe,” “intend,” “forecast,” ”estimate,” “see,” “outlook,” “will,” “may,” “might,” “potential,” “likely,” “target,” “plan,” “contemplate,” “seek,” “attempt,” “should,” “could,” “would,” or expressions of similar meaning. Forward-looking statements reflect management’s evaluation of information currently available and are based on our current expectations and assumptions regarding our business, the economy, our current indebtedness, and other future conditions. Because forward-looking statements relate to the future, they are subject to inherent uncertainties, risks and changes in circumstances that are difficult to predict. Factors that might cause future results to differ from those expressed by the forward-looking statements include, but are not limited to, our ability to continue as a going concern; our ongoing discussions with our financial stakeholders; our significant levels of indebtedness and our ability to service, repay or refinance our indebtedness; our ability to meet the covenants under our existing indebtedness; deterioration of our credit profile limiting our access to commercial credit; delisting of our ordinary shares from the New York Stock Exchange; conditions in the global economy and capital markets, including persistent decreased customer demand and the impact of tariffs on global trade relations; our ability to successfully generate cost savings through restructuring and cost reduction initiatives; our ability to successfully execute our business and transformation strategy; increased costs or disruption in the supply of raw materials; increased energy costs; the timing of, and our ability to complete, a sale of our interest in Americas Styrenics; compliance with laws and regulations impacting our business; any disruptions in production at our chemical manufacturing facilities, including those resulting from accidental spills or discharges; our ability to generate cash flows from operations and achieve our forecasted cash flows; and those discussed in our Annual Report on Form 10-K, under Part I, Item 1A —"Risk Factors" and elsewhere in our other reports, filings and furnishings made with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission from time to time. As a result of these or other factors, our actual results, performance or achievements may differ materially from those contemplated by the forward-looking statements. Therefore, we caution you against relying on any of these forward-looking statements. The forward-looking statements included in this press release are made only as of the date hereof. We undertake no obligation to publicly update or revise any forward-looking statement as a result of new information, future events or otherwise, except as otherwise required by law.

Note 2: Reconciliation of Non-GAAP Performance Measures to Net Income

EBITDA is a non-GAAP financial performance measure, which is defined as income from continuing operations before interest expense, net; income tax provision; depreciation and amortization expense. We refer to EBITDA in making operating decisions because we believe it provides our management as well as our investors with meaningful information regarding the Company’s operational performance. We believe the use of EBITDA as a metric assists our board of directors, management and investors in comparing our operating performance on a consistent basis.

We also present Adjusted EBITDA as a non-GAAP financial performance measure, which we define as income from continuing operations before interest expense, net; income tax provision; depreciation and amortization expense; loss on extinguishment of long-term debt; asset impairment charges; gains or losses on the dispositions of businesses and assets; restructuring charges; acquisition related costs and benefits, and other items. In doing so, we are providing management, investors, and credit rating agencies with an indicator of our ongoing performance and business trends, removing the impact of transactions and events that we would not consider a part of our core operations.

Lastly, we present Adjusted Net Income (Loss) and Adjusted EPS as additional performance measures. Adjusted Net Income (Loss) is calculated as Adjusted EBITDA (defined beginning with net income from continuing operations, above), less interest expense, less the provision for income taxes and depreciation and amortization, tax affected for various discrete items, as appropriate. Adjusted EPS is calculated as Adjusted Net Income (Loss) per weighted average diluted shares outstanding for a given period. We believe that Adjusted Net Income (Loss) and Adjusted EPS provide transparent and useful information to management, investors, analysts and other stakeholders in evaluating and assessing our operating results from period-to-period after removing the impact of certain transactions and activities that affect comparability and that are not considered part of our core operations.

There are limitations to using the financial performance measures noted above. These performance measures are not intended to represent net income or other measures of financial performance. As such, they should not be used as alternatives to net income as indicators of operating performance. Other companies in our industry may define these performance measures differently than we do. As a result, it may be difficult to use these or similarly named financial measures that other companies may use, to compare the performance of those companies to our performance. We compensate for these limitations by providing reconciliations of these performance measures to our net income, which is determined in accordance with GAAP.