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Earnings call · FY2025 Q4

Sabre Corp Q4 FY2025 Earnings Call

Sabre Corp Q4 FY2025 Earnings Call

Concluded Feb 18, 2026
Feb 18, 2026 34 turns
Period
FY2025 Q4
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Executive readout · one minute

What matters this quarter

Sabre met Q4 guidance for revenue and Pro Forma Adjusted EBITDA, reported full-year positive Pro Forma Free Cash Flow, paid off over $1B of debt, and advanced its agentic AI strategy through new partnerships and NDC expansion despite a challenging 2025.

AI disintermediation risk 35 AI/Agentic AI strategy 18 Air distribution and bookings 17 Free cash flow guidance 11 Leadership/executive changes 9 Debt reduction and balance sheet 7

Management tone

Positive

Net tone +38 · low hedging

Grounding quotes
  • “we remained focused on execution and met or exceeded our financial guidance in the fourth quarter and ended the year with positive momentum”
  • “I believe we are well positioned for strong, sustained performance”
  • “we are extremely optimistic and excited for the year and the years ahead”
  • “While we are in the early stages of sizing the AI opportunity and have not included any of the potential significant upside in our forward outlook”

Forward guidance

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Research coverage

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Revenue · derived Q4 $666.52M +15.8% YoY
Net income · derived Q4 -$102.88M

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Key takeaways

What improved, and what deserves a closer read.

Constructive signals

  • Full-year normalized adjusted EBITDA grew 10% with margin up over 160 basis points to 19%
  • Repaid over $1,000,000,000 of debt and cut pro forma net leverage by approximately 25% versus year-end 2024
  • Air distribution bookings grew 4% in Q4 and 7% in December, with full-year growth of 1%
  • Hotel distribution bookings rose 5% to 42,000,000 with attachment rate up 130+ bps; gross hotel booking value exceeds $20,000,000,000 annually
  • Sabre Payments gross spend grew more than 35% year-on-year
  • Launched industry-first Agentic APIs and a proprietary MCP server, with partnerships announced with PayPal/Mindtrip, BizTrip, and Virgin Australia

Risks & pressure points

  • Q4 net loss attributable to common stockholders of $103,000,000
  • Operating income declined to $21,000,000 in Q4 from $46,000,000 in Q4 2024 due to restructuring charges and higher incentive expenses
  • IT Solutions revenue declined 4% ($5,000,000) in Q4 due to non-repeating prior-year revenue
  • Free cash flow guidance reflects approximately a $130,000,000 year-on-year headwind from PIK-to-cash interest transition and a $60,000,000 restructuring cash impact
  • 2026 guidance implies a decline in Adjusted EBITDA versus 2025 (approximately $500,000,000 in 2025 to a $455,000,000–$495,000,000 range, or ~5–9% lower at the midpoint) on a reported basis, partly reflecting the loss of Hospitality Solutions EBITDA
  • Exposure of 20–25% of intermediary trading volumes if OTAs are adversely impacted by AI disintermediation

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“Fourth quarter 2025 normalized adjusted EBITDA of $119,000,000 increased 10% year-on-year, with normalized adjusted EBITDA margin expanding by 107 basis points to 18%. Normalized adjusted EBITDA growth was driven by higher revenue and continued expense management.” Michael O. Randolfi, CFO

Forward guidance

From the 8-K filed Feb 18, 2026.

Metric Guided
Pro Forma Adjusted EBITDA table
Q1 2026
$130M
Pro Forma Adjusted EBITDA table
FY 2026
$585M
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