Wolverine (WWW) Q4 2025 Earnings Call Transcript

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Thu, February 26, 2026 astatine 10:32 AM CST 53 min read

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Thursday, February 26, 2026 astatine 8:30 a.m. ET

• President and Chief Executive Officer — Chris Hufnagel

• Chief Financial Officer — Taryn Miller

• Vice President, Investor Relations — Jared Filippone

Jared Filippone: Good morning, invited to our 4th fourth fiscal 2025 league call. On the telephone contiguous are Chris Hufnagel, President and Chief Executive Officer, and Taryn Miller, Chief Financial Officer. Earlier this morning, we issued a property merchandise announcing our fiscal results for the 4th fourth and afloat twelvemonth 2025, and guidance for fiscal twelvemonth 2026. The property merchandise is disposable connected galore quality sites and tin beryllium viewed connected our firm website astatine wolverineworldwide.com. This morning's property merchandise and comments made during today's net telephone see non-GAAP fiscal measures.

These non-GAAP fiscal measures, including references to the ongoing concern and changeless currency gross maturation rates, were reconciled to the astir comparable GAAP fiscal measures successful attached tables wrong the assemblage of the merchandise oregon connected our capitalist relations leafage connected our website, wolverineworldwide.com. I would besides similar to punctual you that statements describing the company's expectations, plans, predictions, and projections, specified arsenic those regarding the company's outlook for fiscal twelvemonth 2026, maturation opportunities, and trends expected to impact the company's aboriginal show made during today's league telephone are forward-looking statements nether U.S. securities laws.

As a result, we indispensable caution you that determination are a fig of factors that could origin existent results to disagree materially from those described successful the forward-looking statements. These important hazard factors are identified successful the company's SEC filings and successful our property releases. All gross maturation rates volition beryllium cited connected a changeless currency basis, unless different stated. With that, I volition present crook the telephone implicit to Chris Hufnagel.

Chris Hufnagel: Thanks, Jared. Good morning, everyone, and convey you for joining america connected today's call. The 4th fourth marked the decision of a bully twelvemonth for Wolverine World Wide, Inc. We made important advancement successful advancing our strategy and further transforming the institution portion delivering coagulated fiscal results successful the process. We delivered high-quality gross maturation successful enactment with our worth instauration model, led by Merrell and Saucony, our 2 biggest brands. Merrell drove precocious single-digit maturation for the year, portion Saucony posted a grounds twelvemonth with a 30% summation compared to 2024.