Research Frontiers Reports Fourth Quarter and Year-End 2025 Financial Results and Will Host a Conference Call at 4:30p.m. Today
WOODBURY, N.Y., March 05, 2026 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Research Frontiers Inc. (Nasdaq: REFR) announced its financial results for its fourth quarter and full year 2025. Management will host a conference call today at 4:30 p.m. Eastern Time to discuss its financial and operating results as well as recent developments.
Key Highlights for 2025:
1. First North American OEM Serial Production – Cadillac Celestiq
SPD-SmartGlass entered serial production and customer deliveries on General Motors’ Cadillac Celestiq, marking the first North American OEM production program for SPD-SmartGlass technology. The Cadillac Celestiq program represents a significant validation milestone and establishes a platform for potential expansion into additional, higher-volume vehicle models.
2. Ferrari Program Transition and Royalty Recognition
During 2025, the Ferrari Purosangue SPD-SmartGlass program transitioned from one European licensed supplier to another. Production levels resulted in minimum annual royalty thresholds exceeded during the third and fourth quarters of 2025.
3. Architectural Retrofit Market Entry
At GlassBuild America 2025, the Company and its partners introduced a new SPD-SmartGlass retrofit system for the architectural market enabling conversion of existing glazing without full window replacement in homes, apartment buildings, and commercial office and government spaces. This development expands the addressable architectural market beyond new construction into retrofit projects and represents the first scalable pathway for installation into the large installed base of existing buildings.
4. SPD Film Advancements
The Company and its licensees made significant progress on new types of SPD film designed to enhance optical uniformity, aesthetic integration and manufacturing efficiency. These advancements strengthen SPD’s competitive positioning, especially in the premium automotive and architectural applications.
5. Expanded Automotive Surface-Area Integration
SPD-SmartGlass continued to be incorporated into concept and evaluation vehicles by global OEMs demonstrating broader glazing applications beyond traditional sunroof installations. The Mercedes Vision V concept integrated SPD across approximately 75% of vehicle glazing, highlighting the potential for materially larger surface-area adoption in future vehicle platforms.
6. Aerospace Production and Certification Strength
SPD electronically dimmable windows continued flying across more than 40 aircraft models spanning commercial, business and specialty aviation segments, including HondaJet, Textron Beechcraft King Air, Daher TBM 960, Epic E1000, Airbus ACJ TwoTwenty and select Boeing 737 configurations. SPD remains the only commercially available light-control smart window technology known to the Company to have received FAA Supplemental Type Certification (STC) for retrofit programs, reinforcing its differentiated regulatory position and long-standing aviation track record and making SPD-Smart Electronically DimmableWindows (EDWs) uniquely suited for the aftermarket.
7. Increased Industry Visibility and Leadership
The Company expanded its presence at major global automotive, aerospace and architectural forums. At the Automotive Glazing Summit in Detroit, the Company’s CEO served as Chairman and keynote speaker, reinforcing SPD’s growing recognition within OEM engineering and glazing leadership communities.
8. Financial Results, Liquidity and Capital Resources
For the year ended December 31, 2025, revenue was approximately $1.12 million and net loss was approximately $2.05 million. During the year, revenue recognition was negatively impacted by the restructuring or bankruptcy of two licensees, which affected timing of royalty flows. The Company ended the year debt-free with approximately $0.7 million in cash and approximately $0.9 million in working capital. Subsequent to year-end, the Company bolstered its balance sheet by raising $1.1 million in a private placement to accredited investors, including members of a director’s family and the Company’s licensee responsible for the architectural retrofit application, further strengthening liquidity entering 2026.
Joseph M. Harary, President and CEO of Research Frontiers noted: “2025 marked a meaningful inflection point for SPD-SmartGlass. We achieved our first North American OEM serial production program with Cadillac Celestiq, successfully transitioned and normalized Ferrari royalty recognition, introduced a scalable architectural retrofit solution, and advanced next-generation black SPD film technology.
Since our last conference call, we have also begun work with several new automotive OEMs in Europe, expanded programs with existing OEMs into higher-volume vehicle models, and initiated specialty automotive and other applications beyond traditional sunroof configurations. While commercialization timing remains dependent on our licensees and their customers, we believe the breadth of ongoing evaluations, expanding surface-area integration, and entry into new application categories position SPD-SmartGlass for broader production deployment and long-term royalty growth.
We believe the foundation now in place across automotive, aerospace and architectural markets creates increasing strategic opportunities and operating leverage as programs mature and move toward higher-volume implementation.”
For more details, please see the Company’s Quarterly Report on Form 10-K which was filed today with the SEC, the contents of which are incorporated by reference herein.
About Research Frontiers
Research Frontiers (Nasdaq: REFR) is a publicly traded technology company and the developer of patented SPD-Smart light-control film technology which allows users to instantly, precisely and uniformly control the shading of glass or plastic products, either manually or automatically. Research Frontiers has licensed its smart glass technology to numerous companies that include well known chemical, material science and glass companies. Products using Research Frontiers’ smart glass technology are being used in tens of thousands of cars, aircraft, yachts, trains, homes, offices, museums and other buildings. For more information, please visit our website at www.SmartGlass.com, and on Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn and YouTube.
Note: From time to time Research Frontiers may issue forward-looking statements which involve risks and uncertainties. This press release contains forward-looking statements. Actual results, especially those reliant on activities by third parties, could differ and are not guaranteed. Any forward-looking statements should be considered accordingly. “SPD-Smart” and “SPD-SmartGlass” are trademarks of Research Frontiers Inc.
CONTACT:
Joseph M. Harary
President and CEO
Research Frontiers Inc.
+1-516-364-1902
Info@SmartGlass.com
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Consolidated Balance Sheets
December 31, 2025 and 2024
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Consolidated Statements of Operations
Years ended December 31, 2025 and 2024
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Consolidated Statements of Shareholders’ Equity
Years ended December 31, 2025 and 2024
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Consolidated Statements of Cash Flows
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