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FY 2025 cash flow from operations was $23.6 million;

Q4 2025 stock buyback plan repurchased 765,201 shares or 5.8% of shares outstanding

SCOTTSDALE, Ariz.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Mar. 12, 2026-- Universal Electronics Inc. (UEI), (Nasdaq: UEIC) reported financial results for the three and twelve months ended December 31, 2025.

"Q4 and 2025 overall was defined by decisive action, operational discipline, and measurable progress toward putting UEI back on the path toward profitability – delivering the company’s first profitable year since 2022 on a non-GAAP basis. Looking ahead, Home Entertainment is a mature business where the legacy revenue trends are well understood while the Connected Home revenue inflection is taking longer than expected. Given this set of market conditions, we are restructuring and refocusing the company to improve efficiency in operations, improve profitability and generate increased. levels of cash flow. In FY 2026 we will be manically focused on improving profits and cash flow. We believe this is the right path forward to provide us with a better foundation for durable growth over time," said Richard Carnifax, UEI Interim CEO and COO.

Board of Directors approves increase to stock buyback program by up to 1 million shares

On March 11, 2026 UEI’s Board of Directors unanimously approved an amendment to UEI’s share repurchase program authorizing the repurchase, from time to time, of up to 1 million additional shares. Under UEI's previous share repurchase program, the company purchased a total of $3.1 million of UEIC stock during the year ended December 31, 2025.

Financial Results for the Three Months Ended December 31, 2025 Compared to 2024

• Our operational focus on efficiency and savings plus positive mix helped yield improved gross margins up 1.3 points.
• In Q4 2025, we significantly reduced our operational costs improving our ability to generate profits going forward. GAAP operating expenses decreased by $10.5 million, and Adjusted non-GAAP operating expenses were down $4.4 million.
• The company share repurchase program repurchased $2.3 million, or 5.8% of our total shares outstanding.
• GAAP net sales were $87.7 million, compared to $110.5 million.
  • GAAP net sales in connected home were $29.7 million, compared to $34.4 million.
  • GAAP net sales in home entertainment were $58.0 million, compared to $76.1 million.
• GAAP gross margin was 29.7%, compared to 28.4%; Adjusted non-GAAP gross margin was 29.7%, compared to 28.4%.
• GAAP operating income was $0.9 million, compared to an operating loss of $4.4 million; Adjusted non-GAAP operating income was $3.3 million, compared to $4.2 million.
• GAAP net loss was $1.1 million, or $0.08 loss per share, compared to a net loss of $4.5 million, or $0.35 per share; Adjusted non-GAAP net income was $2.3 million, or $0.17 per diluted share, compared to Adjusted non-GAAP net income of $2.6 million, or $0.20 per share.
• At December 31, 2025, cash and cash equivalents were $32.3 million.

Financial Results for the Twelve Months Ended December 31, 2025 Compared to 2024

• GAAP net sales were $368.3 million, compared to $394.9 million.
  • GAAP net sales in connected home were $125.4 million, compared to $108.3 million.
  • GAAP net sales in home entertainment were $242.9 million, compared to $286.6 million.
• GAAP gross margin was 28.9%, compared to 28.9% in the prior year; Adjusted non-GAAP gross margin was 29.2%, compared to 28.9%.
• Continued focus on cost saving activities resulted in GAAP operating expenses decreasing by $16.4 million, and yielding a reduction of $10.5 million in Adjusted non-GAAP operating expenses.
• GAAP operating loss was $6.4 million, compared to $15.3 million in the prior year. Adjusted non-GAAP operating income was $6.3 million, compared to $2.2 million.
• GAAP net loss was $18.6 million, or $1.41 loss per share, compared to $24.0 million, or $1.85 loss per share, Adjusted non-GAAP net income was $4.2 million, or $0.31 per share, compared to an Adjusted non-GAAP net loss of $0.6 million, or $0.05 per share.

For a more detailed explanation of non-GAAP measures, please see the Use of Non-GAAP Financial Metrics discussion, the Reconciliation of Adjusted Non-GAAP Financial Results located elsewhere in this press release.

Financial Outlook

For fiscal year 2026, our revenue expectations are tempered as home entertainment has secular market headwinds and the connected home products have yet to reach an inflection point. Our expectation for revenue is a decline year over year.

We expect to rapidly reduce operational costs to increase profits given the revenue uncertainty. We plan to align our cost structure to market realities to generate improved profits over last year. Strategic actions are expected to structurally reduce working capital and free up more cash from operations. Adjusted non-GAAP dilutive earnings per share is expected to range from $0.45 to $0.65 compared to Adjusted non-GAAP earnings of $0.31 per share in fiscal year 2025.

Conference Call Information

UEI’s management team will hold a conference call today, Thursday, March 12, 2026 at 4:30 p.m. ET / 1:30 p.m. PT, to discuss its fourth quarter and full year 2025 earnings results, review recent activity and answer questions. To attend the call please register at https://register-conf.media-server.com/register/BI5afc09c9bace4df5b9fcf0fcbb0b7220 to receive a computer-generated dial-in number and a unique pin number. The conference call will also be broadcast live on the investor section of the UEI website where it will be available for replay for 90 days.

Use of Non-GAAP Financial Metrics

In addition to reporting financial results in accordance with generally accepted accounting principles, or GAAP, UEI provides Adjusted non-GAAP information as additional information for its operating results. References to Adjusted non-GAAP information are to non-GAAP financial measures. These measures are not required by, in accordance with, or an alternative for, GAAP and may be different from non-GAAP financial measures used by other companies. UEI’s management uses these measures for reviewing the financial results of UEI for budget planning purposes and for making operational and financial decisions. Management believes that providing these non-GAAP financial measures to investors, as a supplement to GAAP financial measures, help investors evaluate UEI’s core operating and financial performance and business trends consistent with how management evaluates such performance and trends. Additionally, management believes these measures facilitate comparisons with the core operating and financial results and business trends of competitors and other companies.

Adjusted non-GAAP gross profit is defined as gross profit excluding impairment of long-lived assets and stock-based compensation expense. Adjusted non-GAAP operating expenses are defined as operating expenses excluding impairment of long-lived assets, stock-based compensation expense, amortization of intangibles acquired, costs associated with certain litigation efforts, factory restructuring costs, legal judgment, severance, lease termination costs and goodwill impairment. Adjusted non-GAAP net income (loss) is defined as net loss excluding the aforementioned items, foreign currency gains and losses, the related tax effects of all adjustments, as well as valuation allowances on certain deferred tax assets and certain net deferred tax adjustments. Adjusted non-GAAP earnings (loss) per diluted share is calculated using Adjusted non-GAAP net income (loss). A reconciliation of these financial measures to the most directly comparable GAAP financial measures is included at the end of this press release. We do not provide a reconciliation for forward-looking non-GAAP financial metrics because reconciliation information is not available without unreasonable effort, such as attempting to make assumptions that cannot reasonably be made on a forward-looking basis to determine the corresponding GAAP metric.

The company will no longer exclude excess manufacturing overhead costs resulting from the continued transition of its global manufacturing footprint, specifically in Mexico and Vietnam, and depreciation related to the mark-up from cost to fair value of fixed assets acquired in business combinations from its Adjusted non-GAAP figures. This impacts Adjusted non-GAAP gross profit, Adjusted non-GAAP gross margin, Adjusted non-GAAP operating income (loss), Adjusted non-GAAP income (loss) before provision (benefit) from income taxes and net income (loss) in the quarterly results for 2024 and 2025. There is no impact to GAAP results. A reconciliation of these measures is posted on the website in the Q4 2025 Quarterly Results section. Historical period non-GAAP results have been adjusted to reflect this change and for consistent period-to-period comparisons.

About Universal Electronics

Universal Electronics Inc. (Nasdaq: UEIC) is the global leader in wireless universal control solutions for the home. The company brings to life millions of innovative control products each year that focus on a user-centric approach to building control products and applications that simplify user interaction with highly complex technologies in the home, removing interoperability challenges as a roadblock for user adoption, with privacy first and a secure by design approach to today's smart devices. Our products are offered by the world's leading brands in home entertainment and the connected home markets, including Fortune 500 customers Daikin, Carrier, Comcast, Vivint Smart Home, Samsung, Sony, Hunter Douglas and Somfy. The company's pioneering breakthrough innovations include its award-winning voice control entertainment remote controls and QuickSet Cloud, the world's leading platform for automated device and service discovery, set-up and control, and user experience personalization for the home. For more information, visit www.uei.com.

Forward-looking Statements

This press release contains "forward-looking statements" within the meaning of federal securities laws, including statements about our future financial results, anticipated trends in our business and market conditions; our expectations about new product introductions; our expectation that strategic actions can structurally reduce working capital and free up more cash from operations; our plans to align our cost structure to market realities to materially generate improved profits over last year; our focus, strategy and business plans; and similar statements concerning anticipated future events and expectations that are not historical facts. We caution you that these statements are not guarantees of future performance and are subject to numerous risks and uncertainties, including those we identify below and other risk factors that we identify in our annual report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2024 and the periodic reports filed and furnished since then.

Risks that could affect forward-looking statements in this press release include: our continued ability to timely develop and deliver innovative control solutions and technologies that are accepted by our customers, both near- and long-term; our ability to attract new customers and to successfully capture sales in all markets we serve, including in the climate control and connected home markets as anticipated by management; our ability to continue optimizing our manufacturing footprint and realize the lower concentration risks as expected by management; our ability to maintain our market share in the traditional subscription broadcast market; our ability to manage through the worldwide inflationary pressures and macroeconomic conditions; our ability to successfully execute our strategic actions and plans; our ability to continue to manage our business, inventories and cash flows to achieve our net sales, margins and earnings through financial discipline, operational efficiency, product line management, liquidity requirements, capital expenditures and other investment spending expectations; our continued ability to successfully enforce our patented technology, including with respect to our litigation against Roku; our continued ability to strategically enhance, expand, and monetize our IP portfolios; the continued fluctuation in our market capitalization; the use of artificial intelligence applications which could result in cybersecurity incidents that implicate the personal data of end users or other unintended ethical, reputational, competitive harm or legal liability; the direct and indirect impact we may experience with respect to our business and financial results and management’s ability to anticipate and mitigate the impact stemming from the continued economic uncertainty affecting consumers’ confidence and spending, natural disasters or other events beyond our control, public health crises (including an outbreak of infectious disease), governmental actions, including the changes in or enhanced use of laws, regulations and policies may have on our business including the impact of decreased governmental incentive programs worldwide or of enhanced or expanded trade regulations, including the expanded use of tariffs, pertaining to importation of our products, the effects of political unrest, war, terrorist activities, or other hostilities; the effects and uncertainties and other factors more fully described in our reports filed with the SEC.

Since it is not possible to predict or identify all of the risks, uncertainties and other factors that may affect future results, the above list should not be considered a complete list. Further, any of these factors could cause actual results to differ materially from the expectations we express or imply in this press release. We make these forward-looking statements as of the date hereof, and we undertake no obligation to publicly update or revise any forward-looking statement, whether as a result of new information, future events or otherwise, except as required by law or regulation.

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UEI: Wade Jenke, CFO, UEI, investors@uei.com 480-530-3000

Source: Universal Electronics Inc.