HII Reports Fourth Quarter and Full Year 2025 Results
NEWPORT NEWS, Va., Feb. 05, 2026 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- HII (NYSE:HII) reported fourth quarter 2025 revenues of $3.5 billion compared to $3.0 billion in the fourth quarter of 2024. The increase was driven by growth across all business segments.
Fourth quarter 2025 operating income of $172 million and operating margin of 4.9%, compared to $110 million and 3.7%, respectively, in the fourth quarter of 2024.
Segment operating income 1 in the fourth quarter of 2025 was $195 million and segment operating margin 1 was 5.6%, compared to $103 million and 3.4%, respectively, in the fourth quarter of 2024. The increases were driven by improved operating results across all business segments.
Diluted earnings per share in the quarter was $4.04, compared to $3.15 in the fourth quarter of 2024.
For the full year, revenues of $12.5 billion increased 8.2% over 2024, due to growth across all business segments.
Operating income in 2025 was $657 million and operating margin was 5.3%, compared to $535 million and 4.6%, respectively, in 2024.
Segment operating income 1 in 2025 was $717 million and segment operating margin 1 was 5.7%, compared to $573 million and 5.0%, respectively, in 2024, the increase was driven by improved operating results across all business segments.
Diluted earnings per share for the full year was $15.39, compared to $13.96 in 2024.
Net cash provided by operating activities in 2025 was $1,196 million and free cash flow 1 was $800 million, compared to $393 million and $40 million, respectively, in 2024.
Chris Kastner, HII’s president and CEO, said, “We made solid progress on our operational initiatives in 2025 and enter 2026 with strong momentum. With more than 40 ships at Ingalls and Newport News in active construction or modernization, our focus in 2026 is clear: We must build on this momentum, and continue to increase our shipbuilding throughput. The U.S. Navy and all of our defense customers need our ships and technologies now more than ever and we are committed to delivering for our customer and the nation.”
1Non-GAAP measures. See Exhibit B for definitions and reconciliations.
Results of Operations
Segment Operating Results
Ingalls Shipbuilding
Ingalls Shipbuilding revenues for the fourth quarter of 2025 were $889 million, an increase of $153 million, or 20.8%, from the same period in 2024, driven by higher volumes in amphibious assault ships and surface combatants.
Ingalls Shipbuilding segment operating income for the fourth quarter of 2025 was $68 million and segment operating margin was 7.6%, compared to $46 million and 6.3% in the same period in the prior year, respectively. These increases were primarily due to higher volumes and lower unfavorable cumulative catch-up adjustments for amphibious assault ships and surface combatants compared to the prior year period.
Ingalls Shipbuilding 2025 revenues were $3.1 billion, an increase of $311 million, or 11.2%, compared to 2024, primarily driven by higher volumes in surface combatants and amphibious assault ships.
Ingalls Shipbuilding segment operating income in 2025 was $233 million and segment operating margin was 7.6%, compared to $211 million and 7.6% in 2024, respectively. The increase in operating income was primarily due to higher volumes and contract adjustments in surface combatants, partially offset by lower performance in amphibious assault ships.
Key 2025 Ingalls Shipbuilding milestones:
Newport News Shipbuilding
Newport News Shipbuilding revenues for the fourth quarter of 2025 were $1.9 billion, an increase of $303 million, or 19.1%, from the same period in 2024, primarily driven by higher volumes in submarines and aircraft carriers.
Newport News Shipbuilding segment operating income for the fourth quarter of 2025 was $84 million and segment operating margin was 4.4%, compared to $38 million and 2.4% in the same period in the prior year, respectively. These increases were primarily due to lower unfavorable cumulative catch-up adjustments for Virginia-class submarine construction compared to the prior year period, as well as favorable contract adjustments on the Virginia-class submarine program in the current period, partially offset by contract incentives on the Columbia-class program received in the fourth quarter of 2024.
Newport News Shipbuilding 2025 revenues were $6.5 billion, an increase of $538 million, or 9.0%, compared to 2024, primarily driven by higher volumes in submarines and aircraft carriers.
Newport News Shipbuilding segment operating income for 2025 was $331 million and segment operating margin was 5.1%, compared to $246 million and 4.1% in 2024, respectively. The increases were primarily driven by contract adjustments in the Virginia-class submarine program, partially offset by contract adjustments and incentives in 2024 in the aircraft carrier refueling and complex overhaul program.
Key 2025 Newport News Shipbuilding milestones:
Mission Technologies
Mission Technologies revenues for the fourth quarter of 2025 were $731 million, an increase of $18 million, or 2.5%, from the same period in 2024. The increase was primarily due to higher volumes in Warfare Systems, Global Security, and Unmanned Systems, partially offset by lower volumes in All-Domain Operations.
Mission Technologies segment operating income in the fourth quarter of 2025 was $43 million and segment operating margin was 5.9%, compared to $19 million and 2.7% in the same period in the prior year, respectively. The increases were primarily due to higher performance in Warfare Systems, Global Security and Unmanned Systems, as well as the higher volumes noted above.
Mission Technologies 2025 revenues were $3.0 billion, an increase of $107 million, or 3.6%, compared to 2024, primarily due to higher volumes in Warfare Systems, Global Security, and Unmanned Systems, partially offset by lower volumes in All-Domain Operations.
Mission Technologies segment operating income in 2025 was $153 million and segment operating margin was 5.0%, compared to $116 million and 3.9% in 2024, respectively. The increases were primarily due to lower purchased intangible amortization, higher performance in Warfare Systems, as well as the higher volumes described above.
Mission Technologies results included approximately $89 million of amortization of purchased intangible assets in 2025, compared to approximately $99 million in 2024.
Mission Technologies EBITDA margin 1 for full year 2025 was 8.6%, compared to 7.9% in 2024.
Key 2025 Mission Technologies highlights:
1Non-GAAP measures. See Exhibit B for definitions and reconciliations.
HII’s Financial Outlook 1 includes the following expectations:
1The financial outlook, expectations and other forward-looking statements provided by the company for 2026 and beyond reflect the company's judgment based on the information available at the time of this release. Please see the "Forward-looking Statements" section in this release and our Form 10-K for factors that may impact the company's ability to meet expectations.
2Medium term growth represents our expected compound annual growth rate over the next three to five years.
3Non-GAAP measures. See Exhibit B for definitions. In reliance upon Item 10(e)(1)(i)(B) of Regulation S-K, reconciliations of forward-looking GAAP and non–GAAP measures are not provided because of the unreasonable effort associated with providing such reconciliations due to the variability in the occurrence and the amounts of certain components of GAAP and non-GAAP measures. For the same reasons, we are unable to address the significance of the unavailable information, which could be material to future results.
4Outlook is based on current tax law. Variability exists based on how and when individual states conform to recent federal tax law changes.
About Huntington Ingalls Industries
HII is America’s largest shipbuilder, delivering the world’s most powerful ships and all-domain mission technologies, including unmanned systems, to U.S. and allied defense customers. HII is the largest producer of unmanned underwater vehicles for the U.S. Navy and the world.
With a more than 140-year history of advancing U.S. national security, HII builds and integrates defense capabilities extending from the core fleet to C6ISR, AI/ML, EW and synthetic training. Headquartered in Virginia, HII’s workforce is 44,000 strong. For more information, visit HII.com.
Conference Call Information
HII will webcast its earnings conference call at 9 a.m. Eastern time today. A live audio broadcast of the conference call and supplemental presentation will be available on the investor relations page of the company’s website: HII.com. A telephone replay of the conference call will be available from noon today through Thursday, February 19th by calling (866) 813-9403 or (929) 458-6194 and using access code 952060.
Cautionary Statement Regarding Forward-Looking Statements
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There may be other risks and uncertainties that we are unable to predict at this time or that we currently do not expect to have a material adverse effect on our business, and we undertake no obligation to update or revise any forward-looking statements. You should not place undue reliance on any forward-looking statements that we may make.
This release also contains non-GAAP financial measures and includes a GAAP reconciliation of these financial measures. Non-GAAP financial measures should not be construed as being more important than comparable GAAP measures.
Exhibit A: Financial Statements
HUNTINGTON INGALLS INDUSTRIES, INC.
CONSOLIDATED STATEMENTS OF OPERATIONS AND COMPREHENSIVE INCOME
HUNTINGTON INGALLS INDUSTRIES, INC.
CONSOLIDATED STATEMENTS OF FINANCIAL POSITION
HUNTINGTON INGALLS INDUSTRIES, INC.
CONSOLIDATED STATEMENTS OF CASH FLOWS
Exhibit B: Non-GAAP Measures Definitions & Reconciliations
This earnings release contains non-GAAP (accounting principles generally accepted in the United States of America) financial measures as defined by SEC Regulation G and indicated by a footnote in the text of this release. Definitions for the non-GAAP measures, and related reconciliations, are provided below. Because not all companies use identical definitions or calculations, our presentation of these measures may not be comparable to similarly titled measures of other companies.
Segment Operating Income and Segment Operating Margin. We internally manage our operations by reference to segment operating income and segment operating margin and use these measures to evaluate our core operating performance. We believe that segment operating income and segment operating margin reflect additional ways of viewing aspects of our operations that, when viewed with our GAAP results, provide a more complete understanding of factors and trends affecting our business. These measures should be considered in addition to, and not as alternatives for, operating income and operating margin or any other performance measure presented in accordance with GAAP.
Segment operating income is defined as operating income for the relevant segment(s) before the Operating FAS/CAS Adjustment and non-current state income taxes.
Segment operating margin is defined as segment operating income as a percentage of sales and service revenues.
Shipbuilding operating margin, Mission Technologies EBITDA and Mission Technologies EBITDA margin. We use shipbuilding operating margin, Mission Technologies EBITDA and Mission Technologies EBITDA margin to evaluate our core operating performance. We believe these measures reflect additional ways of viewing aspects of our operations that, when viewed with our GAAP results, provide a more complete understanding of factors and
trends affecting our business. These measures should be considered in addition to, and not as alternatives for, operating income and operating margin or any other performance measure presented in accordance with GAAP.
Shipbuilding operating margin is defined as the combined segment operating income of our Newport News Shipbuilding segment and Ingalls Shipbuilding segment as a percentage of shipbuilding revenue. Shipbuilding revenue is the sum of revenues of our Newport News Shipbuilding segment and Ingalls Shipbuilding segment.
Mission Technologies EBITDA is defined as Mission Technologies segment operating income before interest expense, income taxes, depreciation, and amortization.
Mission Technologies EBITDA margin is defined as Mission Technologies EBITDA as a percentage of Mission Technologies revenues.
Free cash flow. We use free cash flow as a key operating metric in assessing the performance of our business and as a key performance measure in evaluating management performance and determining incentive compensation. We believe free cash flow is an important measure that may be useful to investors and other users of our financial statements because it provides insight into our current and period-to-period performance and our ability to generate cash from continuing operations. Free cash flow has limitations as an analytical tool and should not be considered in isolation from, or as a substitute for, net income as a measure of our performance or net cash provided by operating activities as a measure of our liquidity.
Free cash flow is defined as net cash provided by (used in) operating activities less capital expenditures net of related grant proceeds.
In reliance upon Item 10(e)(1)(i)(B) of Regulation S-K, reconciliations of forward-looking GAAP and non-GAAP measures are not provided because of the unreasonable effort associated with providing such reconciliations due to the variability in the occurrence and the amounts of certain components of GAAP and non-GAAP measures. For the same reasons, we are unable to address the significance of the unavailable information, which could be material to future results
Reconciliations of Segment Operating Income and Segment Operating Margin
Reconciliation of Free Cash Flow
Reconciliation of Mission Technologies EBITDA and EBITDA Margin
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