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Earnings call · FY2025 Q4

Zevia PBC Q4 FY2025 Earnings Call

Zevia PBC Q4 FY2025 Earnings Call

Concluded Feb 25, 2026 Audio replay Verified speakers
Feb 25, 2026 38:07 40 turns
Period
FY2025 Q4
Runtime
38:07
Sources
4 artifacts

Executive readout · one minute

What matters this quarter

Zevia returned to full-year net sales growth of 4% to $161.3 million with adjusted EBITDA improving to a $4.7 million loss, but Q4 net sales declined 4% to $37.9 million as it lapped Walmart pipeline fill and faced higher tariff and channel-mix headwinds.

Distribution expansion and modern soda set 59 Pricing actions and elasticity 21 Gross margin and tariff mitigation 12 Product innovation and flavor launches 11 Financial performance and EBITDA improvement 10 Long-term growth opportunities in new channels 10

Management tone

Confident

Net tone +62 · low hedging

Grounding quotes
  • “We are proud of the transformation progress we delivered in 2025.”
  • “We are bullish on this robust innovation pipeline overall and specifically as a complement to the legacy soda portfolio”
  • “The fundamental changes and increased investments that we're making in the business set us up for the long term.”
  • “For the fourth quarter, net sales decreased 4% to $37.9 million as we lapped the pipeline fill to Walmart from last November and December.”

Forward guidance

4 guided metrics

Management's latest ranges and targets are included below.

Research coverage

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Revenue · derived Q4 $37.87M -4% YoY
Gross margin · derived Q4 47.7% -1.5 pp YoY
Net income · derived Q4 -$1.31M

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Key takeaways

What improved, and what deserves a closer read.

Constructive signals

  • Full-year net sales grew 4% to $161.3 million and adjusted EBITDA improved threefold to a $4.7 million loss
  • Full-year gross profit margin expanded 1.6 percentage points to 48.0% and net loss improved $12.6 million to $11.2 million
  • Distribution reached historical peak levels, with nationwide Walmart presence as anchor brand and expanded shelf/eye-level placement at Albertsons
  • Innovation wins including Orange Creamsicle (top 6-pack at Sprouts) and a new Walmart fruity variety pack rolling out nationally in spring
  • Q4 adjusted EBITDA of approximately $50 thousand, an improvement of $3.9 million year over year, came in ahead of expectations
  • CFO expects margins to return to upper-40s range from Q2 as price increase and aluminum tariff mitigation flow through

Risks & pressure points

  • Q4 net sales declined 4.0% to $37.9 million due to lapping Walmart expansion and a shift of Costco rotation into January
  • Q4 gross profit margin fell 1.5 percentage points to 47.7% from channel mix and higher tariff costs
  • Q1 gross margin expected to dip from Q4 due to the national Costco rotation before pricing and tariff mitigation benefits in Q2
  • Price increase beginning in Q2 introduces elasticity risk, with assumed elasticity of ~1.1 baked into guidance
  • Full-year net loss of $11.2 million, including $3.8 million of non-cash equity-based compensation
  • Lapping pipeline fill at Walmart remains a headwind as the company sets up against the prior-year expanded distribution

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Forward guidance

From the 8-K filed Feb 25, 2026.

Metric Guided
Net sales
full year 2026
$169M – $173M
Adjusted EBITDA
full year 2026
$-1M – $500,000
Net sales
first quarter of 2026
$40M – $42M

Guidance from the call

Stated verbally and extracted from the transcript.

Metric Guided
Adjusted EBITDA
first quarter of 2026
$-1.9M – $-1.6M
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