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Cogeco Q4 2025 earnings summary

Complete event summary combining all related documents: earnings call transcript, report, and slide presentation.
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Q4 2025 earnings summary30 Oct, 2025

Executive summary

  • Completed year one of a three-year transformation program, delivering targeted OpEx and CapEx synergies, network upgrades, and meeting cost reduction targets.

  • Achieved best Canadian internet subscriber growth in 13 years, adding 16,988 new subscribers in Q4 2025, driven by market share gains and constructive competition.

  • U.S. operations saw improved subscriber trends, with Ohio recording its first customer growth since acquisition, despite ongoing ARPU pressures and prior customer losses.

  • Launched Canadian wireless service ahead of plan, now deployed across most of the footprint, with strong early sales.

  • Unified management structure for Canadian and U.S. operations to drive synergies and accelerate growth.

Financial highlights

  • Fiscal 2025 revenue was $2.91B; Adjusted EBITDA $1.44B; free cash flow $517M; Q4 2025 revenue declined 4.9% year-over-year to $731.4M, and adjusted EBITDA fell 3.8% to $357.1M.

  • Adjusted EBITDA margin consistently above 47% over the past five years.

  • Dividend increased by 7% to $0.987 per share, with a yield of 6.1%.

  • Net debt to Adjusted EBITDA ratio at 3.1x; available liquidity of $944M.

  • Free cash flow in constant currency decreased 27.4% in Q4 but rose 7.9% for the full year; Q4 free cash flow was $101.6M, down 29.0% year-over-year.

Outlook and guidance

  • Fiscal 2026 guidance: consolidated revenue expected to decrease 1–3% and Adjusted EBITDA to decrease 0–2% year-on-year, reflecting U.S. competition and investments in sales, marketing, and Canadian wireless.

  • Capital expenditures projected at $560–600M, with $100–140M for network expansions; capital intensity expected at 19–21%.

  • Free cash flow (excluding network expansions) expected to increase 0–10% versus fiscal 2025.

  • Q1 2026: consolidated revenue and Adjusted EBITDA expected to decline mid-single digits year-on-year, with sequential improvement from Q2 onward.

  • Targeting $600M free cash flow in fiscal 2027, supporting further dividend growth and deleveraging.

Explain FY26 revenue decline despite transformation focus?
How will US telecom improve beyond Ohio's gains?
What are the FY26 Canadian wireless growth targets?
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Cogeco Inc. operates through two segments: Communications and Media. The Communications segment, through Cogeco Communications Inc., provides to its residential and small business customers analog and digital video services, high-speed Internet services, telephony services, and wireless services through the Corporation s interest in Videotron Ltd; and business information technology services. The company was incorporated in 1957 and is headquartered in Montreal, Canada.

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