ITEM 7. MANAGEMENT’S DISCUSSION AND ANALYSIS OF FINANCIAL CONDITION AND RESULTS OF OPERATIONS
(For a discussion of 2024 compared with 2023, refer to Part II, Item 7 contained in the company’s Form 10-K for the fiscal year ended December 31, 2024.)
Overview
In 2025, the company recorded a net loss attributable to Unisys Corporation of $339.8 million, or $4.79 per diluted share, compared with a net loss of $193.4 million, or $2.79 per diluted share, in 2024. The net loss in 2025 and 2024 included $228.2 million and $130.6 million, respectively, of defined benefit pension plan settlement losses and goodwill impairment charges of $55.0 million and $39.1 million, respectively, related to the Digital Workplace Solutions (DWS) reportable segment.
During 2025, the company purchased a group annuity contract, with plan assets, for approximately $316 million to transfer projected benefit obligations related to one of the company’s U.S. defined benefit pension plans. This action resulted in a pre-tax settlement loss of $227.7 million for the year ended December 31, 2025.
During 2024, the company purchased a group annuity contract, with plan assets, for approximately $192 million to transfer projected benefit obligations related to one of the company’s U.S. defined benefit pension plans. This action resulted in a pre-tax settlement loss of $130.1 million in 2025.
Results of operations
Company results
Revenue for 2025 was $1,950.1 million compared with $2,008.4 million for 2024, a decrease of 2.9%. The decrease was primarily due to lower volume with clients in the Digital Workplace Solutions (DWS) and Cloud, Applications & Infrastructure Solutions (CA&I) reportable segments. Foreign currency fluctuations had a negligible impact on revenue in 2025 compared with 2024.
License and Support (L&S) represents software license and related support services, primarily ClearPath® Forward, within the company's Enterprise Computing Solutions (ECS) reportable segment. Software license renewals tend to be significant and impactful to revenue and gross profit based on timing, which can fluctuate considerably from quarter to quarter. L&S revenue for 2025 was $428.1 million compared to $431.5 million for 2024, a decrease of 0.8%.
Excluding License and Support (Ex-L&S) measures exclude revenue, gross profit and gross profit margin in connection with software license and related support services within the ECS reportable segment. Ex-L&S revenue for 2025 was $1,522.0 million compared with $1,576.9 million for 2024, a decrease of 3.5%. The decrease was primarily driven by lower volume with clients in the DWS and CA&I reportable segments.
During 2025, the company recognized net cost-reduction charges and other costs of $30.5 million. The net charges related to workforce reductions were $23.0 million and were comprised of: (a) a charge of $27.6 million for severance costs and (b) a credit of $4.6 million for changes in estimates. In addition, the company recorded net charges of $7.5 million comprised of $4.3 million of lease abandonment costs and an asset write-off charge of $3.2 million.
During 2024, the company recognized net cost-reduction charges and other costs of $18.0 million. The net charges related to workforce reductions were $13.5 million and were comprised of: (a) a charge of $23.7 million for severance costs and (b) a credit of $10.2 million for changes in estimates. In addition, the company recorded net charges of $4.5 million comprised of an asset write-off charge of $4.4 million and a net charge of $0.1 million for other expenses related to other cost-reduction efforts.
The cost reduction charges (credits) were recorded in the following statement of income (loss) classifications:
Selling, general and administrative 9.4 6.0
Research and development 3.1 (0.1)
Gross profit and gross profit margin were $549.3 million and 28.2% in 2025, respectively, and $585.9 million and 29.2% in 2024, respectively. The decreases in gross profit and gross profit margin in 2025 were primarily driven by a higher proportion of hardware revenue within the ECS reportable segment.
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Ex-L&S gross profit and gross profit margin were $255.4 million and 16.8% in 2025, respectively, compared with $277.6 million and 17.6% in 2024, respectively. The decreases in Ex-L&S gross profit and gross profit margin in 2025 were primarily driven by lower volume with clients in the DWS and CA&I reportable segments.
Selling, general and administrative expenses were $391.2 million in 2025 (20.1% of revenue) and $424.2 million in 2024 (21.1% of revenue). The decrease in 2025 was primarily attributable to a reduction in variable compensation expense of $17.2 million and lower professional services expense of $7.4 million, in addition to cost savings achieved through prior cost reduction actions.
Research and development (R&D) expenses in 2025 were $24.6 million compared with $25.2 million in 2024.
In 2025, the company reported an operating profit of $78.5 million compared with an operating profit of $97.4 million in 2024. The decrease in 2025 was primarily due to a higher goodwill impairment charge of $55.0 million in 2025, compared to $39.1 million in 2024, both related to the DWS reportable segment. See Note 1, “Description of business and significant accounting policies” of the Notes to Consolidated Financial Statements for details on the goodwill impairments.
Interest expense was $53.4 million in 2025 compared with $31.9 million in 2024. The increase in 2025 was primarily due to increased long-term debt balance and higher interest rate following the issuance of $700 million aggregate principal amount of the 10.625% Senior Secured Notes due 2031 (the 2031 Notes) in June 2025.
Other (expense), net was expense of $297.3 million in 2025, which included pension plan settlement losses of $228.2 million, compared with expense of $140.8 million in 2024, which included pension plan settlement losses of $130.6 million. In 2025, other (expense), net also included a loss on debt extinguishment of $7.0 million related to the repurchase, satisfaction and discharge of the 6.875% Senior Secured Notes due 2027 (the 2027 Notes). In 2024, other (expense), net included a $40.0 million gain related to a favorable settlement of a litigation matter and a net gain of $14.9 million related to a favorable judgment received in a Brazilian services tax matter. See Note 5, “Other (expense), net,” of the Notes to Consolidated Financial Statements for details of other (expense), net.
The loss before income taxes in 2025 was $272.2 million compared with a loss of $75.3 million in 2024. The loss in 2025 and 2024 included pension plan settlement losses of $228.2 million and $130.6 million, respectively, and goodwill impairment charges of $55.0 million and $39.1 million, respectively, related to the DWS reportable segment.
The provision for income taxes in 2025 was $67.8 million compared with a provision of $117.9 million in 2024. The change in the tax provision was driven by a the geographic distribution of income, the prior year provision of $27.7 million established for certain foreign subsidiaries for which the company is no longer asserting indefinite reinvestment of earnings and net changes in the valuation allowance. The net change in the valuation allowance impacting the effective tax rate was a tax benefit of $5.3 million in 2025, primarily related to the company’s German operations, compared to a tax expense of $7.9 million in 2024, primarily related to the company’s United Kingdom’s operations. The effective tax rate in 2025 and 2024 was (24.9)% and (156.6)%, respectively, primarily driven by U.S. operating losses with no tax benefit as the deferred tax assets are subject to a full valuation allowance, non-creditable withholding taxes in the U.S., jurisdictions with no valuation allowance that are subject to tax and the prior year change in the company’s indefinite reinvestment assertion of the earnings in certain foreign subsidiaries. See Note 6, “Income taxes,” of the Notes to Consolidated Financial Statements for details on the effective income tax rate reconciliation.
The company evaluates quarterly the realizability of its deferred tax assets by assessing its valuation allowance and by adjusting such amount, if necessary. The company records a tax provision or benefit for those international subsidiaries that do not have a full valuation allowance against their deferred tax assets. Any profit or loss recorded for the company’s U.S. operations will have no provision or benefit associated with it due to the company’s valuation allowance, except with respect to refundable tax credits and withholding taxes not creditable against future taxable income. As a result, the company’s provision or benefit for taxes may vary significantly period to period depending on the geographic distribution of income.
The realization of the company’s net deferred tax assets is primarily dependent on its ability to generate sustained taxable income in various jurisdictions. Judgment is required to estimate forecasted future taxable income, which may be impacted by future business developments, actual operating results, strategic operational and tax initiatives, legislative, and other economic factors and developments.
The Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) and participating countries continue to work toward the enactment of a 15% global minimum corporate tax rate. Many countries where the company operates have enacted or are in the process of enacting laws based on the OECD’s proposals. These tax changes did not have a material impact to the company’s effective income tax rate in 2025.
Net loss attributable to Unisys Corporation for 2025 was $339.8 million, or $4.79 per diluted share, compared with a net loss of $193.4 million, or $2.79 per diluted share in 2024. In 2025 and 2024, the net loss included pension plan settlement losses, net of tax, of $228.2 million and $130.6 million, respectively, and goodwill impairment charges of $55.0 million and $39.1 million,
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respectively, related to the DWS reportable segment. Additionally in 2024, the net loss included a tax provision of $27.7 million established for certain foreign subsidiaries for which the company is no longer asserting indefinite reinvestment of earnings.
The following table represents Ex-L&S and L&S financial measures:
(In millions, except for numbers presented as percentages)
L&S gross profit percent 68.7 % 71.4 %
Ex-L&S gross profit percent 16.8 % 17.6 %
Gross profit percent 28.2 % 29.2 %
Segment results
The company’s reportable segments are as follows:
•Digital Workplace Solutions (DWS), which provides workplace solutions featuring intelligent workplace services, proactive experience management and collaboration tools to support business growth;
•Cloud, Applications & Infrastructure Solutions (CA&I), which provides digital transformation in the areas of cloud migration and management, applications and infrastructure transformation and modernization solutions; and
•Enterprise Computing Solutions (ECS), which provides solutions that harness secure, high-intensity enterprise computing and enable digital services through software-defined operating environments.
The company evaluates the performance of the segments based on segment revenue and segment gross profit. Segment revenue and segment gross profit are exclusive of certain activities and expenses that are not allocated to specific segments including the business activities related to the company’s United Kingdom business process outsourcing consolidated joint venture and certain expenses such as cost reduction charges, amortization of purchased intangibles and unusual and nonrecurring items that are not allocated to specific segments. These amounts are combined within other revenue and other gross profit (loss) to arrive at consolidated revenue and consolidated gross profit (loss). See Note 18, “Segment information,” of the Notes to Consolidated Financial Statements for the reconciliations of segment revenue to total consolidated revenue and segment gross profit to total consolidated loss before income taxes.
A summary of the company’s operations by segment is presented below:
DWS revenue was $508.4 million in 2025 and $523.5 million in 2024, a decrease of 2.9%. Foreign currency fluctuations had a negligible impact on DWS revenue in 2025 compared with 2024. Gross profit percent was 14.5% in 2025 and 15.7% in 2024. The decreases in revenue and gross profit percent were primarily driven by lower volume with clients.
CA&I revenue was $732.8 million in 2025 and $764.4 million in 2024, a decrease of 4.1%. The decrease in revenue was primarily driven by lower volume with clients in the public sector. Foreign currency fluctuations had a negligible impact on
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CA&I revenue in 2025 compared with 2024. Gross profit percent was 20.2% in 2025 and 19.6% in 2024. The increase in gross profit percent was primarily driven by labor cost savings initiatives.
ECS revenue was $628.9 million in 2025, which remained relatively flat compared to revenue in 2024 of $627.5 million. Foreign currency fluctuations had a negligible impact on ECS revenue in 2025 compared with 2024. Gross profit percent was 55.5% in 2025 and 58.0% in 2024. The decrease in gross profit percent was primarily driven by a higher proportion of hardware revenue, which has a lower gross margin profile relative to license renewals.
Total Contract Value and Backlog
Total Contract Value (TCV) represents the initial estimated revenue related to contracts signed in the period without regard for early termination or revenue recognition rules. Changes to contracts and scope are treated as TCV only to the extent of the incremental new value. New Business TCV represents TCV attributable to expansion and new scope for existing clients and new logo contracts. L&S TCV is driven by software license renewals, and as such, changes in timing or terms of renewals can lead to fluctuations from period to period. Measuring TCV involves the use of estimates and judgments and the extent and timing of conversion of TCV to revenue may be impacted by, among other factors, the types of services and solutions sold, contract duration, the pace of client spending, actual volumes of services delivered as compared to the volumes anticipated at the time of contract signing, and contract modifications, including, without limitation, contract nullification and termination, over the lifetime of a contract.
Backlog represents the estimated amount of future revenue to be recognized under contracted work, which has not yet been delivered or performed. The timing of conversion of backlog to revenue may be impacted by, among other factors, the timing of execution, the extension, nullification or early termination of existing contracts with or without penalty, adjustments to estimates in pricing or volumes for previously included contracts, seasonality and foreign currency exchange rates.
The following table summarizes the company’s TCV metrics.
(In millions, except numbers presented as percentages)
(i) New Business relates to expansion and new scope for existing clients and new logo contracts.
(ii) In 2025, New Business TCV includes a mutually agreed-upon client termination adjustment of $228 million that was previously recorded in the first quarter of 2025. Accordingly, adjusted prior periods amounts for New Business TCV are $109 million for the three months ended March 31, 2025, $231 million for six months ended June 30, 2025, and $355 million for the nine months ended September 30, 2025.
In 2025, total TCV was $2,207 million and $1,946.0 million in 2024, an increase of 13%. The increase was primarily driven by a higher concentration of Ex-L&S renewals, partially offset by a decrease in New Business. The decrease in New Business reflects elongated sales cycles with prospective clients.
Backlog was $3.16 billion as of December 31, 2025 compared to $2.84 billion as of December 31, 2024. The increase was primarily due to Ex-L&S renewal signings.
The company believes that actual revenue reflects the most relevant measure necessary to understand the company’s results of operations, but TCV can be a useful leading indicator of the company’s ability to generate future revenue over time and backlog can be a useful metric and indicator of the company’s estimate of contracted revenue to be realized in the future, in each case subject to certain inherent limitations as explained above. TCV and backlog should not be relied upon as substitutes for, or considered in isolation from, measures in accordance with generally accepted accounting principles in the United States of America.
New accounting pronouncements
See Note 2, “Recent accounting pronouncements and accounting changes,” of the Notes to Consolidated Financial Statements for a full description of recent accounting pronouncements, including the expected dates of adoption and estimated effects on the company’s consolidated financial statements.
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Financial condition
The company’s principal sources of liquidity are cash on hand, cash from operations and its revolving credit facility, discussed below. The company and certain international subsidiaries have access to uncommitted lines of credit from various banks. The company believes that it will have adequate sources of liquidity to meet its expected cash requirements through at least the next twelve months.
Cash and cash equivalents at December 31, 2025 were $413.9 million compared with $376.5 million at December 31, 2024.
As of December 31, 2025, $234.1 million of cash and cash equivalents were held by the company’s foreign subsidiaries and branches operating outside of the U.S. The company may not be able to readily transfer approximately one-third of these funds out of the country in which they are located as a result of local restrictions, contractual or other legal arrangements or commercial considerations. At December 31, 2025, the deferred tax liability on undistributed earnings was $31.3 million. Transfers of international cash and cash equivalents to the U.S. will require the company to pay withholding or other taxes on a portion of the amount transferred. At December 31, 2025, the company maintained cash balances in various operating accounts in excess of federally insured limits. The company monitors this risk by evaluating the creditworthiness of the financial institutions.
During 2025, cash used for operating activities was $140.0 million compared with cash provided by operations of $135.1 million during 2024. The decline in operating cash in 2025 was primarily driven by cash contributions to the company's defined benefit pension plans, including a discretionary cash contribution of $250 million to its U.S. defined benefit pension plans, partially offset by changes in working capital.
During 2025, cash used for investing activities was $31.8 million compared with cash used for investing activities of $97.4 million during 2024. Net proceeds of foreign exchange forward contracts were $37.0 million in 2025 compared with net purchases of $17.3 million in 2024. Proceeds from foreign exchange forward contracts and purchases of foreign exchange forward contracts represent derivative financial instruments used to manage the company’s currency exposure to market risks from changes in foreign currency exchange rates. During 2025, the company ceased its use of foreign currency forward contracts. In the current period, the investment in marketable software was $47.6 million in 2025 compared with $47.5 million in 2024 and capital additions of properties and other assets were $30.0 million in 2025 compared with $32.3 million in 2024.
During 2025, cash provided by financing activities was $186.0 million compared with cash used for financing activities of $18.1 million during 2024, primarily driven by the net proceeds received from the issuance of the 2031 Notes, partially offset by the repurchase, satisfaction and discharge of the 2027 Notes, both of which are described below.
At December 31, 2025, total debt was $741.7 million compared with $493.2 million at December 31, 2024. See Note 13, “Debt,”of the Notes to Consolidated Financial Statements for more detailed discussion of the company’s debt financing agreements including maturities by fiscal year.
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Senior Secured Notes due 2031
In June 2025, the company completed a private placement offering of $700.0 million aggregate principal amount of the 2031 Notes. The 2031 Notes will pay interest semiannually on January 15 and July 15, commencing on January 15, 2026. The 2031 Notes are fully and unconditionally guaranteed on a senior secured basis by Unisys Holding Corporation, Unisys AP Investment Company I and Unisys NPL, Inc., each a Delaware corporation that is directly or indirectly wholly owned by the company (the Subsidiary Guarantors). The net proceeds from the issuance of the 2031 Notes, together with cash on hand, were used to finance the company’s tender offer to purchase for cash any and all of its outstanding 2027 Notes and solicitation of consents from holders of the 2027 Notes to amendments to the indenture governing the 2027 Notes (the Tender Offer) and the payment of related premiums, fees and expenses. The company also used the net proceeds from the issuance of the 2031 Notes to redeem, on or about November 1, 2025, any 2027 Notes that remained outstanding following the Tender Offer, as explained under the Senior Secured Notes due 2027 section below, and to fund, together with cash on hand a portion of the company’s U.S. defined benefit pension plans deficit and postretirement liabilities.
The 2031 Notes and the guarantees by the Subsidiary Guarantors rank equally in right of payment with all of the existing and future senior debt of the company and the Subsidiary Guarantors and senior in right of payment to any future subordinated debt of the company and the Subsidiary Guarantors. The 2031 Notes and the guarantees are structurally subordinated to all existing and future liabilities (including preferred stock, trade payables and pension liabilities) of the subsidiaries of the company that are not Subsidiary Guarantors. The 2031 Notes and the guarantees are secured by liens on substantially all assets of the company and the Subsidiary Guarantors, other than certain excluded assets (the collateral). The liens securing the 2031 Notes on certain Asset Based Lending (ABL) collateral are subordinated to the liens on ABL collateral in favor of the ABL secured parties, subject to certain limitations and permitted liens.
The company may, at its option, redeem some or all of the 2031 Notes at any time on or after January 15, 2028, at a redemption price determined in accordance with the redemption schedule, plus accrued and unpaid interest, if any.
Prior to January 15, 2028, the company may, at its option, redeem some or all of the 2031 Notes at any time, at a price equal to 100% of the principal amount of the 2031 Notes redeemed plus a “make-whole” premium, plus accrued and unpaid interest, if any. The company may also redeem, at its option, up to 40% of the 2031 Notes at any time prior to January 15, 2028, using the proceeds of certain equity offerings at a redemption price of 110.625% of the principal amount thereof, plus accrued and unpaid interest, if any. On or after January 15, 2028, the company may, on any one or more occasions, redeem all or part of the 2031 Notes at specified redemption premiums, declining to par for any redemptions on or after January 15, 2030. Prior to January 15, 2028, the company may redeem up to 10% of the aggregate principal amount of the 2031 Notes during each calendar year, commencing in 2025, at a purchase price equal to 103% of the principal amount of the 2031 Notes, plus accrued and unpaid interest, if any.
The indenture relating to the 2031 Notes contains covenants that limit the ability of the company and its restricted subsidiaries (as defined therein) to, among other things: (i) incur additional indebtedness and guarantee indebtedness; (ii) pay dividends or make other distributions or repurchase or redeem its capital stock; (iii) prepay, redeem or repurchase certain debt; (iv) make loans and investments (including investments by the company and the Subsidiary Guarantors in subsidiaries that are not guarantors); (v) sell assets; (vi) create or incur liens; (vii) enter into transactions with affiliates; (viii) enter into agreements restricting its subsidiaries’ ability to pay dividends; and (ix) consolidate, merge or sell all or substantially all of its assets. These covenants are subject to several important limitations and exceptions.
If the company experiences certain kinds of changes of control (as defined in the indenture), it must offer to purchase the 2031 Notes at 101% of the principal amount of the 2031 Notes, plus accrued and unpaid interest, if any. In addition, if the company sells assets under certain circumstances, it must apply the proceeds of such asset sales towards an offer to repurchase the 2031 Notes at a price equal to par plus accrued and unpaid interest, if any.
The indenture also provides for events of default, which, if any of them occur, would permit or require the principal, premium, if any, interest and any other monetary obligations on all the then outstanding 2031 Notes to be due and payable immediately.
Senior Secured Notes due 2027
On June 11, 2025, the company commenced the Tender Offer. The purchase price offered per $1,000 principal amount of 2027 Notes pursuant to the Tender Offer was $1,006.25, which included an early tender premium of $30.00 per $1,000 principal amount of 2027 Notes. Concurrent with the closing of the issuance of the 2031 Notes, the company paid an aggregate amount of $488.6 million, including $3.0 million of early tender premium and $5.5 million of accrued interest and other expenses through June 27, 2025, to purchase $480.1 million of aggregate principal amount outstanding of the 2027 Notes tender in the Tender Offer.
On June 27, 2025, the company satisfied and discharged the indenture relating to the 2027 Notes, issued a notice of redemption for its remaining outstanding principal amount, and deposited U.S. government securities with the trustee of the 2027 Notes to
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cover the remaining outstanding aggregate principal amount of $4.9 million, plus accrued but unpaid interest on the 2027 Notes to be redeemed to, but not including, the redemption date.
As a result of the satisfaction and discharge, the indenture relating to the 2027 Notes ceased to be of further effect except as to rights of registration of transfer or exchange of 2027 Notes, which survive until all 2027 Notes have been canceled and the rights, protections and immunities of the trustee, as expressly provided for in the indenture relating to the 2027 Notes.
The satisfaction and discharge of the 2027 Notes resulted in a loss on debt extinguishment of $7.0 million in 2025, reported in other (expense), net in the company’s consolidated statements of income (loss), which included $4.0 million in unamortized debt issuance costs write-off and other expenses and an early tender premium of $3.0 million paid to repurchase a portion of the 2027 Notes.
Asset Based Lending (ABL) Credit Facility
Concurrently with the issuance of the 2031 Notes, the company entered into an amendment of the company’s Amended and Restated ABL Credit Facility that extended the maturity date from October 2027 to June 2030 and modified certain other terms and covenants. The secured revolving credit facility continues to provide for revolving loans and letters of credit up to an aggregate amount of $125.0 million (with a limit on letters of credit of $40.0 million), with an uncommitted accordion feature allowing for the aggregate amount available to be increased up to $155.0 million upon the satisfaction of certain specified conditions.
Availability under the credit facility is subject to a borrowing base calculated by reference to the company’s receivables. At December 31, 2025, the company had no borrowings and $13.5 million of letters of credit outstanding. Availability under the credit facility was $92.2 million, net of letters of credit issued. Any borrowings under the credit facility will be subject to variable interest rates.
The Amended and Restated ABL Credit Facility is subject to a springing maturity, under which the Amended and Restated ABL Credit Facility will immediately mature 91 days prior to any date on which contributions to pension funds in the United States in an amount in excess of $100.0 million are required to be paid unless the company is able to meet certain conditions, including that the company has the liquidity (as defined in the Amended and Restated ABL Credit Facility) to cash settle the amount of such pension payments, as applicable, no default or event of default has occurred under the Amended and Restated ABL Credit Facility, the company’s liquidity is above $130.0 million and the company is in compliance with the then applicable fixed charge coverage ratio on a pro forma basis.
The Amended and Restated ABL Credit Facility is guaranteed by Unisys Holding Corporation, Unisys NPL, Inc. and Unisys AP Investment Company I, each of which is a U.S. corporation that is directly or indirectly owned by the company (the subsidiary guarantors) and any future material domestic subsidiaries. The facility is secured by the assets of the company and the subsidiary guarantors, other than certain excluded assets, under a security agreement entered into by the company and the subsidiary guarantors in favor of Bank of America, N.A., as agent for the lenders under the credit facility.
The company is required to maintain a minimum fixed charge coverage ratio if the availability under the Amended and Restated ABL Credit Facility falls below the greater of 10% of the lenders’ commitments under the facility and $12.5 million.
The Amended and Restated ABL Credit Facility contains customary representations and warranties, including, but not limited to, that there has been no material adverse change in the company’s business, properties, operations or financial condition. The Amended and Restated ABL Credit Facility includes restrictions on the ability of the company and its subsidiaries to, among other things, incur other debt or liens, dispose of assets and make acquisitions, loans and investments, repurchase its equity, and prepay other debt. These restrictions are subject to several important limitations and exceptions. Events of default include non-payment, failure to comply with covenants, materially incorrect representations and warranties, change of control and default under other debt aggregating at least $50.0 million, subject to relevant cure periods, as applicable.
At December 31, 2025, the company had met all covenants and conditions under its various lending and funding agreements. The company expects to continue to meet these covenants and conditions through at least the next twelve months.
Pension and Postretirement Benefits
In September 2025, the company purchased a group annuity contract, with plan assets, for approximately $316 million to transfer projected benefit obligations related to approximately 3,150 retirees of one of the company’s U.S. defined benefit pension plans. This action resulted in a pre-tax settlement loss of $227.7 million for the year ended December 31, 2025. This annuity contract purchase transaction was the first step in the company's plan to reduce approximately $600 million of U.S. qualified defined benefit pension plan liabilities through the end of 2026.
In 2025, the company made cash pension plan contributions totaling $343.7 million, which included a discretionary contribution of $250 million to its U.S. defined benefit pension plans. The discretionary contribution was funded with approximately $200 million from the net proceeds of issuance of the 2031 Notes and $50 million from cash on hand. As a
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result, the company’s pension and postretirement liabilities and projected future required cash contributions were reduced. The company also made strategic changes to its underlying investments in its U.S. qualified defined benefit pension plans, leading to a future expected return on plan assets in 2026 of 4.85%.
At the end of each year, the company estimates its future cash contributions to its global defined benefit pension plans based on year-end pension data, assumptions and agreements.
Based on current legislation, global regulations, recent interest rates and expected returns, the company estimates future total cash contributions to its global defined benefit pension plans of approximately $87 million in 2026, including approximately $47 million to the company’s U.S. defined benefit pension plans and approximately $40 million primarily to the company’s international defined benefit pension plans. The company estimates totaled cash contributions to its global defined benefit pension plans of approximately $105 million in 2027 and approximately $241 million in the aggregate from 2028 through 2030.
If the company is not able to generate sufficient cash flows from operations, it may need to obtain additional funding in order to make these contributions. Any material deterioration in the value of the company’s global defined benefit pension plan assets, as well as changes in pension legislation, market volatility, discount rate changes, asset return changes, or changes in economic or demographic trends, could require the company to make cash contributions in different amounts and on a different schedule than previously estimated.
The company will continue to evaluate opportunities for additional reduction of its global defined benefit pension obligations in future periods depending on overall market conditions. As a result of the company’s significant accumulated other comprehensive losses associated with its pension and postretirement plans, any future group annuity contract purchase could result in material non-cash settlement losses, if executed.
Other Commitments
The company has commitments under operating leases for certain facilities and equipment used in its operations. As of December 31, 2025, the company’s operating lease liabilities were $46.6 million. The company also has a number of finance leases for equipment, with lease liabilities totaling $41.2 million as of December 31, 2025. See Note 4, “Leases and commitments,” of the Notes to Consolidated Financial Statements for more information pertaining to future minimum lease payments relating to the company’s operating and finance lease obligations.
Additionally, as described in Note 3, “Cost-reduction actions,” of the Notes to Consolidated Financial Statements, the company expects to make payments of approximately $24.8 million in 2026 related to the company’s workforce reduction actions.
At December 31, 2025, the company had outstanding standby letters of credit and surety bonds totaling approximately $234 million related to performance and payment guarantees. On the basis of experience with these arrangements, the company believes that any obligations that may arise will not be material.
From time to time the company may explore a variety of additional debt and equity sources to fund its liquidity and capital needs.
The company may, from time to time, redeem, tender for, or repurchase its securities in the open market or in privately negotiated transactions depending upon availability, market conditions and other factors.
The company does not have any off-balance sheet arrangements that are material or reasonably likely to become material to its financial condition or results of operations.
Critical accounting policies and estimates
The preparation of financial statements in conformity with U.S. generally accepted accounting principles requires management to make estimates, judgments and assumptions that affect the amounts reported in the financial statements and accompanying notes. Certain accounting policies, methods and estimates are particularly important because of their significance to the financial statements and because of the possibility that future events affecting them may differ from management’s current judgments. The company bases its estimates and judgments on historical experience and on other assumptions that it believes are reasonable under the circumstances; however, to the extent there are material differences between these estimates, judgments and assumptions and actual results, the financial statements will be affected. Although there are a number of accounting policies, methods and estimates affecting the company’s financial statements as described in Note 1, “Description of business and significant accounting policies,” of the Notes to Consolidated Financial Statements, the following critical accounting policies reflect the significant estimates, judgments and assumptions. The development and selection of these critical accounting policies have been determined by management of the company and the related disclosures have been reviewed with the Audit and Finance Committee of the Board of Directors.
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Revenue recognition
Many of the company’s sales agreements contain standard business terms and conditions; however, some agreements contain multiple performance obligations or non-standard terms and conditions. As discussed in Note 1, “Description of business and significant accounting policies,” of the Notes to Consolidated Financial Statements, the company enters into arrangements that may include any combination of hardware, software or services. As a result, significant contract interpretation is sometimes required to determine the appropriate accounting, including how many performance obligations are present in an arrangement, whether they should be treated as separate performance obligations and when to recognize revenue and under what method for each performance obligation.
Income Taxes
Accounting rules governing income taxes require that deferred tax assets and liabilities be recognized using enacted tax rates for the effect of temporary differences between the book and tax bases of recorded assets and liabilities. These rules also require that deferred tax assets be reduced by a valuation allowance if it is more likely than not that some portion or the entire deferred tax asset will not be realized.
At December 31, 2025 and 2024, the company had deferred tax assets in excess of deferred tax liabilities of $1,237.5 million and $1,236.5 million, respectively. For the reasons cited below, at December 31, 2025 and 2024, management determined that it is more likely than not that $65.5 million and $67.9 million, respectively, of such assets will be realized, resulting in a valuation allowance of $1,172.0 million and $1,168.6 million, respectively.
The company evaluates the realizability of its deferred tax assets by assessing its valuation allowance and by adjusting such amount, if necessary. The realization of the company’s deferred tax assets is primarily dependent on the ability to generate sustained taxable income in various jurisdictions. Judgment is required to estimate forecasted future taxable income, which may be impacted by future business developments, actual operating results, strategic operational and tax initiatives, legislative, and other economic factors and developments. See “Risk Factors” (Part I, Item 1A of this Form 10-K). The company records a tax provision or benefit for those international subsidiaries that do not have a full valuation allowance against their deferred tax assets. Any profit or loss recorded for the company’s U.S. operations will have no provision or benefit associated with it due to the company’s valuation allowance, except with respect to refundable tax credits and withholding taxes not creditable against future taxable income. As a result, the company’s provision or benefit for taxes may vary significantly from period to period depending on the geographic distribution of income.
Internal Revenue Code Sections 382 and 383 provide annual limitations with respect to the ability of a corporation to utilize its net operating loss (as well as certain built-in losses) and tax credit carryforwards, respectively (Tax Attributes), against future U.S. taxable income, if the corporation experiences an “ownership change.” In general terms, an ownership change may result from transactions increasing the ownership of certain stockholders in the stock of a corporation by more than 50 percentage points over a three-year period. The company regularly monitors ownership changes (as calculated for purposes of Section 382). The company determined that, for purposes of the rules of Section 382 described above, an ownership change occurred in 2011. Any future transaction or transactions and the timing of such transaction or transactions could trigger additional ownership changes under Section 382.
As a result of the ownership change in 2011, utilization for certain of the company’s Tax Attributes, U.S. net operating losses and tax credits, is subject to an overall annual limitation of $70.6 million. The cumulative limitation as of December 31, 2025 is approximately $456 million. This limitation will be applied to any net operating losses and then to any other Tax Attributes. Any unused limitation may be carried over to later years. Based on presently available information and the existence of tax planning strategies, the company does not expect to incur a U.S. federal cash tax liability in the near term. The company maintains a full valuation allowance against the realization of all U.S. deferred tax assets as well as certain foreign deferred tax assets in excess of deferred tax liabilities. See Note 6, “Income taxes,” of the Notes to Consolidated Financial Statements.
The company’s provision for income taxes and the determination of the resulting deferred tax assets and liabilities involve a significant amount of management judgment and are based on the best information available at the time. The company operates within federal, state and international taxing jurisdictions and is subject to audit in these jurisdictions. These audits can involve complex issues, which may require an extended period of time to resolve. As a result, the actual income tax liabilities in the jurisdictions with respect to any fiscal year are ultimately determined long after the financial statements have been published.
Pensions
Accounting rules governing defined benefit pension plans require that amounts recognized in financial statements be determined on an actuarial basis. The measurement of the company’s pension obligations, costs and liabilities is dependent on a variety of assumptions selected by the company and used by the company’s actuaries. These assumptions include estimates of the present value of projected future pension payments to plan participants, taking into consideration the likelihood of potential future events such as demographic experience. The assumptions used in developing the required estimates include the following key factors: discount rates, retirement rates, inflation, expected return on plan assets and mortality rates.
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As permitted for purposes of computing pension expense, the company uses a calculated value of plan assets (which is further described below). This allows the effects of the performance of the pension plan’s assets on the company’s computation of pension income or expense to be amortized over future periods. A substantial portion of the company’s pension plan assets relates to its qualified defined benefit plans in the U.S.
Funding requirements for its U.S. qualified pension plans are calculated by the plan’s actuaries based on certain assumptions as permitted under current regulations. Changes to the benefit obligation caused by a 25 basis point change noted below are related to the balance sheet obligation and are not necessarily indicative of the impact on the funding liability.
At the end of each year, the company determines the discount rate to be used to calculate the present value of plan liabilities. Inherent in deriving the discount rate are significant assumptions with respect to the timing and magnitude of expected benefit payment obligations. The discount rate is an estimate of the current interest rate at which the pension liabilities could be effectively settled at the end of the year. In estimating this rate, the company looks to rates of return on high-quality, fixed-income investments that (a) receive one of the two highest ratings given by a recognized ratings agency and (b) are currently available and expected to be available during the period to maturity of the pension benefits. At December 31, 2025, the company determined this rate to be 5.73% for its U.S. defined benefit pension plans, a decrease of 36 basis points from the rate used at December 31, 2024, and 5.08% for the company’s non-U.S. defined benefit pension plans, a decrease of 2 basis points from the rate used at December 31, 2024. A change of 25 basis points in the U.S. and non-U.S. discount rates causes a change in 2026 pension expense of approximately $400 thousand and $500 thousand, respectively, and a change of approximately $28 million and $39 million, respectively, in the benefit obligation. These estimates are intended to be illustrative based on a single 25 basis point change. The sensitivity to rate changes is not linear and additional changes in rates may result in a different impact on the pension liability. The net effect of changes in the discount rate, as well as the net effect of other changes in actuarial assumptions and experience, has been deferred, as permitted.
A significant element in determining the company’s pension income or expense is the expected long-term rate of return on plan assets. The company sets the expected long-term rate of return based on the expected long-term return of the various asset categories in which it invests. The company considers the current expectations for future returns and the actual historical returns of each asset class. For 2026, the company has assumed that the expected long-term rate of return on U.S. plan assets will be 4.85%, and on the company’s non-U.S. plan assets will be 5.62%. A change of 25 basis points in the expected long-term rate of return for the company’s U.S. and non-U.S. pension plans causes a change of approximately $3 million and $4 million, respectively, in 2026 pension expense. The assumed long-term rate of return on assets is applied to a calculated value of plan assets, which recognizes changes in the fair value of plan assets in a systematic manner over four years. This produces the expected return on plan assets that is included in pension income or expense. The difference between this expected return and the actual return on plan assets is deferred. The net deferral of past asset gains or losses affects the calculated value of plan assets and, ultimately, future pension income or expense. At December 31, 2025, for the company’s U.S. qualified defined benefit pension plans, the calculated value of plan assets was $1,351 million and the fair value was $1,301 million.
Gains and losses are defined as changes in the amount of either the projected benefit obligation or plan assets resulting from experience different from that assumed and from changes in assumptions. Because gains and losses may reflect refinements in estimates as well as real changes in economic values and because some gains in one period may be offset by losses in another and vice versa, the accounting rules do not require recognition of gains and losses as components of net pension expense of the period in which they arise.
At a minimum, amortization of an unrecognized net gain or loss must be included as a component of net pension expense for a year if, as of the beginning of the year, that unrecognized net gain or loss exceeds 10 percent of the greater of the projected benefit obligation or the calculated value of plan assets. If amortization is required, the minimum amortization is that excess above the 10 percent divided by the average remaining life expectancy of the plan participants. For the company’s U.S. qualified defined benefit pension plans and the company’s non-U.S. pension plans, that period is approximately 14 and 22 years, respectively. At December 31, 2025, the estimated unrecognized loss for the company’s U.S. qualified defined benefit pension plans and the company’s non-U.S. pension plans was approximately $950 million and $770 million, respectively.
For the year ended December 31, 2025, the company recognized pension expense of $308.3 million, which included $228.2 million of settlement losses, compared with $182.8 million for the year ended December 31, 2024, which included $130.6 million of settlement losses. For 2026, the company expects to recognize pension expense of approximately $120 million. See Note 15, “Employee plans,” of the Notes to Consolidated Financial Statements.
Goodwill
The company reviews goodwill for impairment annually in the fourth quarter using data as of September 30 of that year, as well as whenever there are events or changes in circumstances (triggering events), which indicate that the carrying amount may not be recoverable.
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The company initially assesses qualitative factors to determine whether it is more likely than not that the fair value of a reporting unit is less than its carrying amount. This qualitative assessment considers all relevant factors specific to the reporting units, including macroeconomic conditions, industry and market considerations, overall financial performance, changes in share price and relevant entity-specific events.
If, after completing the qualitative assessment, the company determines it is more likely than not that the fair value of a reporting unit is less than its carrying amount, then the company proceeds to perform a subsequent quantitative goodwill impairment test. Alternatively, the company may elect to bypass the qualitative assessment and perform the quantitative impairment test. The quantitative goodwill impairment test compares each reporting unit’s fair value to its carrying value. If the reporting unit’s fair value exceeds its carrying value, no further procedures are required. However, if a reporting unit’s fair value is less than its carrying value, then an impairment charge is recorded in the amount of the excess.
When the company performs the quantitative goodwill impairment test for a reporting unit, it estimates the fair value of the reporting unit using both the income approach and the market approach. The methodology used to determine the fair values using the income and market approaches, as described below, are weighted to determine the fair value for each reporting unit.
The income approach is a forward-looking approach to estimating fair value and relies primarily on internal forecasts. Within the income approach, the method used is the discounted cash flow method. The company starts with a forecast of all expected net cash flows associated with the reporting unit, which includes the application of a terminal value, and then a reporting unit-specific discount rate is applied to arrive at a net present value amount. Some of the more significant estimates and assumptions inherent in this approach include the amount and timing of projected net cash flows, long-term growth rate and the discount rate. Cash flow projections are based on management’s estimates of economic and market conditions, which drive key assumptions of revenue growth rates and operating margins. The discount rate, in turn, is based on various market factors and specific risk characteristics of each reporting unit.
The market approach relies primarily on external information for estimating the fair value. Some of the more significant estimates and assumptions inherent in this approach include the selection of appropriate guideline companies and the selected performance metric used in this approach.
Estimating the fair value of reporting units requires the use of estimates and significant judgments about key assumptions. There are a number of factors, including potential events and changes in circumstances that could change in future periods, including: projected operating results; valuation multiples exhibited by the company and by companies considered comparable to the reporting units; and other macro-economic factors that could impact the discount rate. It is reasonably possible that the judgments and estimates described above could change in future periods, which could have a significant impact on the fair value of the related reporting units.
During the third quarter of 2025, the company reviewed its estimated long-term expected future cash flows for its DWS reporting unit as operating results were below estimated forecast due to the impact of the slower pace of client signings driven by the current economic environment and industry dynamics. Based on this, the company concluded that a triggering event existed and conducted a quantitative goodwill assessment for the DWS reporting unit as of September 30, 2025. The fair value of the DWS reporting unit was estimated using a combination of discounted cash flows and market-based valuation methodologies as noted above. The discount rate and the expected gross profit margin rate applied in determining the DWS reporting unit’s fair value were 15.5% and 16.0%, respectively, with gross profit margin expected to trend up through 2028. Based on the goodwill impairment analysis performed during the third quarter of 2025, the carrying value of the DWS reporting unit exceeded its respective fair value, resulting in the recognition of a goodwill impairment charge of $55.0 million. A hypothetical 1% increase in the discount rate used in the determination of the DWS reporting unit’s fair value could have resulted in an increase in the goodwill impairment recorded of approximately $11 million. A hypothetical 1% decrease in gross profit margin through all periods used in the determination of the DWS reporting unit’s fair value could have resulted in an increase in the goodwill impairment recorded of approximately $32 million.
During the fourth quarter of 2025, the company performed a qualitative assessment for its DWS and ECS reporting units and a quantitative goodwill impairment test for its CA&I reporting unit. The assessments indicated that the DWS reporting unit had a fair value that equaled its carrying value and all the other reporting units’ fair values exceeded their carrying values, as such no additional impairment charge was recognized as of as of December 31, 2025. The CA&I reporting unit had a fair value in excess of book value, including goodwill, of 20%.
The company continuously monitors and evaluates relevant events and circumstances that could unfavorably impact the significant assumptions noted above, including changes to U.S. treasury rates and equity risk premiums, tax rates, recent market valuations from transactions by comparable companies, volatility in the company’s market capitalization, and general industry, market and macro-economic conditions. It is possible that future changes in such circumstances or in the inputs and assumptions used in estimating the fair value of the reporting units, could require the company to record an additional non-cash impairment charge.
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Goodwill by reporting unit at December 31, 2025, was as follows:
Reporting unit Carrying Amount
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ITEM 7A. QUANTITATIVE AND QUALITATIVE DISCLOSURES ABOUT MARKET RISK
Interest rate risk
The company has exposure to interest rate risk from its debt. In an effort to manage interest rate exposures, the company strives to achieve an acceptable balance between fixed and variable debt positions. As of December 31, 2025, substantially all of the company’s total long-term debt is at a fixed rate and therefore does not expose the company to risk related to rising interest rates. See Note 13, “Debt,” of the Notes to Consolidated Financial Statements. Although at December 31, 2025 the company had no outstanding borrowings under the Amended and Restated ABL Credit Facility, future borrowings, if any, will be subject to variable interest rates.
As of December 31, 2025, the company had outstanding $687.2 million ($700 million face value) of 10.625% Senior Secured Notes due 2031 (the 2031 Notes). As the 2031 Notes have a fixed interest rate, the company does not have financial and economic exposure related to rising interest rates with respect to the 2031 Notes. However, the fair value of fixed rate instruments fluctuates when interest rates change. As of December 31, 2025, the fair value of the 2031 Notes was $717.5 million.
Foreign currency exchange rate risk
The company is also exposed to foreign currency exchange rate risks. The company is a net receiver of currencies other than the U.S. dollar and, as such, can benefit from a weaker dollar, and can be adversely affected by a stronger dollar relative to currencies worldwide, primarily the Australian dollar, Brazilian real, British pound sterling, Mexican pesos and euro. Accordingly, changes in exchange rates, and in particular a strengthening of the U.S. dollar, may adversely affect consolidated revenue and operating margins as expressed in U.S. dollars. Currency exposure gains and losses are mitigated by purchasing components and incurring expenses in local currencies.
In connection with the company's global cash management operations, the company maintains various intercompany lending arrangements, some of which are denominated in currencies other than the applicable entities’ functional currencies. As a result, the remeasurement of these balances exposes the company to foreign currency exchange risk. During 2025, the company ceased its use of foreign currency forward contracts, which had previously mitigated the impact of exchange rate fluctuations in these intercompany balances. The company expects increased volatility in its consolidated statement of income (loss) related to the remeasurement of these foreign currency denominated intercompany balances.
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ITEM 8. FINANCIAL STATEMENTS AND SUPPLEMENTARY DATA
Index Page Number
Report of Management 47
Reports of Independent Registered Public Accounting Firm 48
Consolidated Statements of Income (Loss) 51
Consolidated Statements of Comprehensive Income (Loss) 52
Consolidated Balance Sheets 53
Consolidated Statements of Cash Flows 54
Consolidated Statements of Equity (Deficit) 55
Notes to Consolidated Financial Statements 56
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Report of Management
Management’s Report on the Financial Statements
The management of the company is responsible for the integrity of its financial statements. These statements have been prepared in conformity with U.S. generally accepted accounting principles and include amounts based on the best estimates and judgments of management. Financial information included elsewhere in this report is consistent with that in the financial statements.
Grant Thornton LLP, an independent registered public accounting firm, has audited the company’s 2025 consolidated financial statements. Its accompanying report is based on an audit conducted in accordance with the standards of the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board (United States).
The Board of Directors, through its Audit and Finance Committee, which is composed entirely of independent directors, oversees management’s responsibilities in the preparation of the financial statements and selects the independent registered public accounting firm, subject to stockholder ratification. The Audit and Finance Committee meets regularly with the independent registered public accounting firm, representatives of management, and the internal auditors to review the activities of each and to assure that each is properly discharging its responsibilities. To ensure complete independence, the internal auditors and representatives of Grant Thornton LLP have full access to meet with the Audit and Finance Committee, with or without management representatives present, to discuss the results of their audits and their observations on the adequacy of internal controls and the quality of financial reporting.
Management’s Report on Internal Control Over Financial Reporting
The management of the company is responsible for establishing and maintaining adequate internal control over financial reporting, as defined in Rules 13a-15(f) and 15d-15(f) under the Exchange Act. The company’s internal control over financial reporting is a process designed to provide reasonable assurance regarding the reliability of financial reporting and the preparation of financial statements for external purposes in accordance with U.S. generally accepted accounting principles. Internal control over financial reporting includes those policies and procedures that (1) pertain to the maintenance of records that in reasonable detail accurately and fairly reflect the transactions and dispositions of the assets of the company; (2) provide reasonable assurance that transactions are recorded as necessary to permit preparation of the financial statements in accordance with U.S. generally accepted accounting principles, and that receipts and expenditures of the company are being made only in accordance with authorizations of management and directors of company; and (3) provide reasonable assurance regarding prevention or timely detection of unauthorized acquisition, use or disposition of the company’s assets that could have a material effect on the financial statements.
Because of its inherent limitations, internal control over financial reporting may not prevent or detect misstatements. Also, projections of any evaluation of effectiveness to future periods are subject to the risk that controls may become inadequate because of changes in conditions, or that the degree of compliance with the policies and procedures may deteriorate.
Management assessed the effectiveness of the company’s internal control over financial reporting as of December 31, 2025, based on criteria established in Internal Control - Integrated Framework (2013) issued by the Committee of Sponsoring Organizations of the Treadway Commission. Based on this assessment, we concluded that the company maintained effective internal control over financial reporting as of December 31, 2025, based on the specified criteria.
The effectiveness of our internal control over financial reporting as of December 31, 2025, has been audited by Grant Thornton LLP, our independent registered public accounting firm, as stated in their report, which is included herein.
/s/ Michael M. Thomson /s/ Debra McCann
Michael M. Thomson Debra McCann
(Principal Executive Officer) (Principal Financial Officer)
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REPORT OF INDEPENDENT REGISTERED PUBLIC ACCOUNTING FIRM
Board of Directors and Stockholders
Unisys Corporation
Opinion on the financial statements
We have audited the accompanying consolidated balance sheets of Unisys Corporation (a Delaware corporation) and subsidiaries (the “Company”) as of December 31, 2025 and 2024, the related consolidated statements of income (loss), comprehensive income (loss), equity (deficit), and cash flows for each of the three years in the period ended December 31, 2025, and the related notes and financial statement schedule included under Item 15(a) (collectively referred to as the “consolidated financial statements”). In our opinion, the consolidated financial statements present fairly, in all material respects, the financial position of the Company as of December 31, 2025 and 2024, and the results of its operations and its cash flows for each of the three years in the period ended December 31, 2025, in conformity with accounting principles generally accepted in the United States of America.
We also have audited, in accordance with the standards of the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board (United States) (“PCAOB”), the Company’s internal control over financial reporting as of December 31, 2025, based on criteria established in the 2013 Internal Control—Integrated Framework issued by the Committee of Sponsoring Organizations of the Treadway Commission (“COSO”), and our report dated February 25, 2026, expressed an unqualified opinion.
Basis for opinion
These consolidated financial statements are the responsibility of the Company’s management. Our responsibility is to express an opinion on the Company’s consolidated financial statements based on our audits. We are a public accounting firm registered with the PCAOB and are required to be independent with respect to the Company in accordance with the U.S. federal securities laws and the applicable rules and regulations of the Securities and Exchange Commission and the PCAOB.
We conducted our audits in accordance with the standards of the PCAOB. Those standards require that we plan and perform the audit to obtain reasonable assurance about whether the financial statements are free of material misstatement, whether due to error or fraud. Our audits included performing procedures to assess the risks of material misstatement of the financial statements, whether due to error or fraud, and performing procedures that respond to those risks. Such procedures included examining, on a test basis, evidence regarding the amounts and disclosures in the financial statements. Our audits also included evaluating the accounting principles used and significant estimates made by management, as well as evaluating the overall presentation of the financial statements. We believe that our audits provide a reasonable basis for our opinion.
Critical audit matter
The critical audit matter communicated below is a matter arising from the current period audit of the financial statements that was communicated or required to be communicated to the audit committee and that: (1) relates to accounts or disclosures that are material to the financial statements and (2) involved our especially challenging, subjective, or complex judgments. The communication of critical audit matters does not alter in any way our opinion on the financial statements, taken as a whole, and we are not, by communicating the critical audit matter below, providing a separate opinion on the critical audit matter or on the accounts or disclosures to which it relates.
Goodwill impairment assessment for Digital Workplace Solutions
As described further in Note 12 to the consolidated financial statements, the Company’s goodwill balance related to the Digital Workplace Solutions (“DWS”) reporting unit was $47.2 million as of December 31, 2025. Management evaluates goodwill for impairment annually on October 1st of each year or whenever events or changes in circumstances indicate potential impairment has occurred. We identified the Company’s estimation of the fair value of the DWS reporting unit as a critical audit matter.
The principal considerations for our determination that the estimation of the fair value of the DWS reporting unit is a critical audit matter are that there are significant judgments required by management when estimating the fair value of the reporting unit using the income approach. In particular, the fair value estimate was sensitive to assumptions used to estimate future revenues and cash flows, including revenue growth rates, gross margin, and the discount rate, applied by the Company.
Our audit procedures related to the estimation of the fair value of the DWS reporting unit included the following, among others:
•We tested the effectiveness of controls relating to management’s review of the assumptions used to develop the future cash flows, the discount rate used, and valuation methodologies applied.
•We evaluated the reasonableness of management’s forecasted financial results by:
◦Assessing the reasonableness of management’s long term growth rates by comparing the rates to industry projections and conditions found in industry reports and
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◦Testing forecasted revenues and expected future cash flows by comparing forecasted amounts to actual historical results to identify significant changes, and corroborating the basis for such changes, as applicable.
•We utilized an internal valuation specialist to evaluate:
◦The methodologies used and whether they were acceptable for the underlying assets or operations and whether such methodologies were being applied correctly, and
◦The appropriateness of the discount rate by developing an independent range of acceptable discount rates and comparing those ranges to the amounts selected and applied by management.
/s/ GRANT THORNTON LLP
We have served as the Company’s auditor since 2023.
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
February 25, 2026
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REPORT OF INDEPENDENT REGISTERED PUBLIC ACCOUNTING FIRM
Board of Directors and Stockholders
Unisys Corporation
Opinion on internal control over financial reporting
We have audited the internal control over financial reporting of Unisys Corporation (a Delaware corporation) and subsidiaries (the “Company”) as of December 31, 2025, based on criteria established in the 2013 Internal Control—Integrated Framework issued by the Committee of Sponsoring Organizations of the Treadway Commission (“COSO”). In our opinion, the Company maintained, in all material respects, effective internal control over financial reporting as of December 31, 2025, based on criteria established in the 2013 Internal Control—Integrated Framework issued by COSO.
We also have audited, in accordance with the standards of the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board (United States) (“PCAOB”), the consolidated financial statements of the Company as of and for the year ended December 31, 2025, and our report dated February 25, 2026, expressed an unqualified opinion.
Basis for opinion
The Company’s management is responsible for maintaining effective internal control over financial reporting and for its assessment of the effectiveness of internal control over financial reporting, included in the accompanying Management’s Report on Internal Control Over Financial Reporting. Our responsibility is to express an opinion on the Company’s internal control over financial reporting based on our audit. We are a public accounting firm registered with the PCAOB and are required to be independent with respect to the Company in accordance with the U.S. federal securities laws and the applicable rules and regulations of the Securities and Exchange Commission and the PCAOB.
We conducted our audit in accordance with the standards of the PCAOB. Those standards require that we plan and perform the audit to obtain reasonable assurance about whether effective internal control over financial reporting was maintained in all material respects. Our audit included obtaining an understanding of internal control over financial reporting, assessing the risk that a material weakness exists, testing and evaluating the design and operating effectiveness of internal control based on the assessed risk, and performing such other procedures as we considered necessary in the circumstances. We believe that our audit provides a reasonable basis for our opinion.
Definition and limitations of internal control over financial reporting
A company’s internal control over financial reporting is a process designed to provide reasonable assurance regarding the reliability of financial reporting and the preparation of financial statements for external purposes in accordance with generally accepted accounting principles. A company’s internal control over financial reporting includes those policies and procedures that (1) pertain to the maintenance of records that, in reasonable detail, accurately and fairly reflect the transactions and dispositions of the assets of the company; (2) provide reasonable assurance that transactions are recorded as necessary to permit preparation of financial statements in accordance with generally accepted accounting principles, and that receipts and expenditures of the company are being made only in accordance with authorizations of management and directors of the company; and (3) provide reasonable assurance regarding prevention or timely detection of unauthorized acquisition, use, or disposition of the company’s assets that could have a material effect on the financial statements.
Because of its inherent limitations, internal control over financial reporting may not prevent or detect misstatements. Also, projections of any evaluation of effectiveness to future periods are subject to the risk that controls may become inadequate because of changes in conditions, or that the degree of compliance with the policies or procedures may deteriorate.
/s/ GRANT THORNTON LLP
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
February 25, 2026
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UNISYS CORPORATION
CONSOLIDATED STATEMENTS OF INCOME (LOSS)
(Millions, except per share data)
Costs and expenses
Goodwill impairment 55.0 39.1 —
Net (loss) income attributable to noncontrolling interests (0.2) 0.2 3.6
Net loss attributable to Unisys Corporation $ (339.8) $ (193.4) $ (430.7)
Loss per share attributable to Unisys Corporation
See notes to consolidated financial statements.
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CONSOLIDATED STATEMENTS OF COMPREHENSIVE INCOME (LOSS)
(Millions)
Other comprehensive income
See notes to consolidated financial statements.
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CONSOLIDATED BALANCE SHEETS
(Millions, except par value per share information)
Assets
Current assets:
Cash and cash equivalents $ 413.9 $ 376.5
Prepaid expenses and other current assets 127.7 103.2
Capitalized contract costs, net 73.6 31.2
Operating lease right-of-use assets 38.4 38.4
Prepaid pension and postretirement assets 21.3 25.6
Deferred income taxes 96.9 96.6
Intangible assets, net 31.2 35.5
Total liabilities and deficit
Current liabilities:
Current maturities of long-term debt $ 12.7 $ 5.0
Long-term pension and postretirement liabilities 517.7 816.4
Long-term operating lease liabilities 30.6 28.9
Other long-term liabilities 80.6 71.3
Commitments and contingencies (see Note 16)
Deficit:
Accumulated other comprehensive loss (2,427.9) (2,757.2)
Total Unisys Corporation stockholders' deficit (282.6) (283.4)
Noncontrolling interests 14.3 14.1
See notes to consolidated financial statements.
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CONSOLIDATED STATEMENTS OF CASH FLOWS
(Millions)
Cash flows from operating activities
Foreign currency losses 5.8 14.5 0.2
Loss on debt extinguishment 7.0 — —
Depreciation and amortization of properties 23.5 24.3 29.1
Depreciation and amortization of capitalized contract costs 17.1 22.6 50.3
Amortization of marketable software 50.3 52.3 49.7
Amortization of intangible assets 4.3 7.2 9.7
Goodwill impairment 55.0 39.1 —
Other non-cash operating activities 4.6 0.2 7.0
Gain on sale of properties (4.3) — —
Pension and postretirement contributions (345.3) (27.1) (48.0)
Changes in operating assets and liabilities:
Receivables, net and contract assets 79.8 (24.5) 4.2
Inventories 3.0 (1.7) —
Accounts payable and current liabilities (28.8) (20.7) (20.9)
Net cash (used for) provided by operating activities (140.0) 135.1 74.2
Cash flows from investing activities
Purchases of foreign exchange forward contracts (2,305.1) (3,094.4) (2,740.4)
Investment in marketable software (47.6) (47.5) (46.0)
Capital additions of properties and other assets (30.0) (32.3) (32.7)
Net proceeds from sale of properties 8.9 — —
Net cash used for investing activities (31.8) (97.4) (69.6)
Cash flows from financing activities
Proceeds from issuance of long-term debt 700.0 — —
Issuance costs relating to long-term debt (14.1) — —
Cash paid for debt extinguishment (4.2) — —
Net cash provided by (used for) financing activities 186.0 (18.1) (17.3)
Cash, cash equivalents and restricted cash, beginning of year 390.6 396.7 402.7
Cash, cash equivalents and restricted cash, end of year $ 421.7 $ 390.6 $ 396.7
See notes to consolidated financial statements.
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CONSOLIDATED STATEMENTS OF EQUITY (DEFICIT)
(Millions)
Unisys Corporation
See notes to consolidated financial statements.
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NOTES TO CONSOLIDATED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS
(Dollars in millions, except share and per share amounts)
Note 1 — Description of business and significant accounting policies
Description of business Unisys Corporation, a Delaware corporation (Unisys, we, our, or the company), is a global information technology solutions company. The company delivers strategic guidance and essential capabilities to its worldwide clients, enabling them to architect, develop, modernize, implement and integrate the technologies that support their organizations. With a long history, Unisys solutions and services are provided through global capabilities, which allows us to execute large-scale, rapid technology migration, and modernization projects to create breakthroughs and outcomes that matter for the company’s clients.
Principles of consolidation The consolidated financial statements include the accounts of all majority-owned subsidiaries.
Use of estimates The preparation of financial statements in conformity with generally accepted accounting principles in the United States of America (GAAP) requires management to make estimates and assumptions about future events. These estimates and assumptions affect the amounts of assets and liabilities reported, disclosures about contingent assets and liabilities and the reported amounts of revenue and expenses. Such estimates include the valuation of estimated credit losses, contract assets, operating lease right-of-use assets, capitalized contract costs assets, marketable software, goodwill, purchased intangibles and other long-lived assets, legal and environmental contingencies, assumptions used in the calculation for systems integration projects, income taxes, and retirement and other post-employment benefits, among others. These estimates and assumptions are based on management’s best estimates and judgment. Management evaluates its estimates and assumptions on an ongoing basis using historical experience and other factors, including the current economic environment, which management believes to be reasonable under the circumstances. Management adjusts such estimates and assumptions when facts and circumstances dictate. As future events and their effects cannot be determined with precision, actual results could differ materially from these estimates. Any changes in those estimates resulting from changes in the economic environment such as inflation, tariffs, trade policy, fluctuation in interest rates and foreign exchange rates and conflicts, wars and other events of geopolitical significance, will be reflected in the financial statements in future periods.
Cash and Cash equivalents Cash and cash equivalents consist of cash on hand, short-term investments purchased with an original maturity of three months or less and certificates of deposit which may be withdrawn at any time at the discretion of the company without penalty. Cash and cash equivalents subject to contractual restrictions and not readily available are classified as restricted cash.
The following table provides a reconciliation of cash and cash equivalents and restricted cash reported within the company’s consolidated balance sheets to the total of the amounts shown in the consolidated statements of cash flows.
Cash and cash equivalents $ 413.9 $ 376.5
The company maintains cash balances in various operating accounts in excess of federally insured limits. The company monitors this risk by evaluating the creditworthiness of the financial institutions.
Inventories Inventories are valued at the lower of cost and net realizable value. Cost is determined on the first-in, first-out method.
Properties Properties are carried at cost and are depreciated over the estimated lives of such assets using the straight-line method. The estimated lives used, in years, are as follows: buildings, 20 – 50; machinery and office equipment, 4 – 7; rental equipment, 4; and internal-use software, 3 – 10.
Capitalized contract costs Capitalized contract costs include deferred commissions, costs to fulfill a contract and other capitalized assets.
Deferred commissions, net represent incremental direct costs of obtaining a contract, which are deferred and amortized ratably over the initial contract life. These costs are reported in selling and administrative expense in the company’s consolidated statements of income (loss).
Client contract costs are generally expensed as incurred. However, certain costs incurred upon initiation of a client contract (costs to fulfill a contract), principally initial client setup, are capitalized and expensed over the initial contract life. These costs
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are amortized over the initial contract life and reported in cost of revenue in the company’s consolidated statements of income (loss).
The remaining balance of capitalized contract costs, net is comprised of fixed assets and software used in connection with certain client contracts. These costs are capitalized and depreciated over the shorter of the initial contract life or in accordance with the company’s fixed asset policy described above. The gross amount of these assets totaled $357.4 million and $365.9 million as of December 31, 2025 and 2024, respectively, and related accumulated amortization totaled $309.2 million and $354.8 million as of December 31, 2025 and 2024, respectively.
Recoverability of these costs is subject to various business risks. Quarterly, the company compares the carrying value of these assets with the undiscounted future cash flows expected to be generated by them to determine if there is impairment. If impaired, these assets are reduced to an estimated fair value on a discounted cash flow basis. The company prepares its cash flow estimates based on assumptions that it believes to be reasonable but are also inherently uncertain. Actual future cash flows could differ from these estimates.
Marketable software The cost of development of computer software to be sold or leased, incurred subsequent to establishment of technological feasibility, is capitalized and amortized to cost of sales over the estimated revenue-producing lives of the products. For the company’s proprietary enterprise software products, the amortization period is five years following product release, and for the remaining products, the amortization period is three years following product release. In assessing the estimated revenue-producing lives and recoverability of the products, the company considers operating strategies, underlying technologies utilized, estimated economic life and external market factors, such as expected levels of competition, barriers to entry by potential competitors, stability in the market and governmental regulation. The company continually reassesses the estimated revenue-producing lives of the products and any change in the company’s estimate could result in the remaining amortization expense being accelerated or spread out over a longer period. As of December 31, 2025, the company believes that all unamortized costs are fully recoverable. The gross amount of marketable software totaled $2,298.5 million and $2,256.2 million as of December 31, 2025 and 2024, respectively, and related accumulated amortization totaled $2,132.4 million and $2,091.2 million as of December 31, 2025 and 2024, respectively.
Internal-use software The company capitalizes certain internal and external costs incurred to acquire or create internal-use software, principally related to software coding, designing system interfaces, and installation and testing of the software. These costs are amortized in accordance with the company’s fixed asset policy described above.
Cloud Computing Arrangements For cloud computing arrangements that meet the definition of a service contract, the company capitalizes implementation costs incurred during the application development stage and until the software is ready for its intended use and then amortizes the costs on a straight-line basis over the related cloud computing arrangement. At December 31, 2025 and 2024, the amounts capitalized for cloud computing arrangements related primarily to the company’s deferred implementation costs for its new enterprise resource planning system and totaled $30.6 million and $24.1 million, respectively, of which $15.6 million and $7.6 million, respectively, were included within prepaid expenses and other current assets, and $15.0 million and $16.5 million, respectively, were included within other long-term assets on the company’s consolidated balance sheets.
Goodwill and Purchased Intangible Assets Goodwill arising from the acquisition of an entity represents the excess of the purchase price consideration over the fair value of the underlying identifiable intangible assets and net assets or liabilities assumed. Goodwill is initially recognized as an asset and is subsequently measured at cost less any accumulated impairment losses.
The company reviews goodwill for impairment annually in the fourth quarter using data as of September 30 of that year, as well as whenever there are events or changes in circumstances (triggering events) that would more likely than not reduce the fair value of one or more reporting units below its respective carrying amount. The company initially assesses qualitative factors to determine whether it is more likely than not that the fair value of a reporting unit is less than its carrying amount. This qualitative assessment considers all relevant factors specific to the reporting units, including macroeconomic conditions, industry and market considerations, overall financial performance, changes in share price and relevant entity-specific events.
If the company determines that it is not more likely that the carrying amount for a reporting unit is less than its fair value, then subsequent quantitative goodwill impairment testing is not required. If the company determines that it is more likely than not that the carrying amount for a reporting unit is greater than its fair value, then it proceeds with a subsequent quantitative goodwill impairment test. Under the quantitative test, the company compares the fair value of each of its reporting units to their respective carrying value. If the carrying value exceeds fair value, an impairment charge is recognized for the difference. Impaired goodwill is written down to its fair value through a charge to the consolidated statement of income (loss) in the period the impairment is identified.
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In January 2025, the company changed its organizational structure to better align its portfolio of solutions to more effectively address evolving client needs and take further advantage of the synergies across the company’s reportable segments. See Note 18, “Segment information” for additional information on the changes to the company’s operating and reportable segments. These changes did not change the company’s reporting units but were deemed a triggering event, resulting in an interim goodwill analysis in the first quarter of 2025 on the reporting units impacted as of immediately before and immediately after the change. There were no impairment charges resulting from this analysis.
During the third quarter of both 2025 and 2024, the company reviewed its estimated long-term expected future cash flows for its Digital Workplace Solutions (DWS) reporting unit as operating results were below estimated forecast due to the impact of the slower pace of client signings driven by industry and macro-economic dynamics. As such, the company concluded that a triggering event existed as of both September 30, 2025 and 2024 and conducted quantitative goodwill assessments for the DWS reporting unit. The fair value of the DWS reporting unit was estimated using both the income approach and the market approach using a weighted methodology to determine its fair value. Based on the goodwill impairment analyses, the carrying value of the DWS reporting unit exceeded its respective fair value, resulting in the recognition of goodwill impairment charges of $55.0 million and $39.1 million in the third quarter of 2025 and 2024, respectively.
During the fourth quarter of 2025, the company performed a quantitative goodwill impairment testing for its Cloud, Applications & Infrastructure Solutions (CA&I) reporting unit and a qualitative goodwill impairment testing for its DWS and Enterprise Computing Solutions (ECS) reporting units.
The company uses both the income approach and the market approach to estimate the fair value of the reporting units for its quantitative goodwill impairment testing.
The income approach incorporates the use of a discounted cash flow method in which the estimated future cash flows and terminal values for each reporting unit are discounted to present value. Cash flow projections are based on management’s estimates of economic and market conditions, which drive key assumptions of revenue growth rates, operating margins, capital expenditures and working capital requirements. The discount rate in turn is based on various market factors and specific risk characteristics of each reporting unit.
The market approach estimates fair value by applying performance metric multiples to the reporting unit’s prior and expected operating performance. The multiples are derived from comparable publicly traded companies with similar operating and investment characteristics as the reporting unit.
If the fair value of the reporting unit derived using the income approach is significantly different from the fair value estimate using the market approach, the company reevaluates its assumptions used in the two models. When considering the weighting between the market approach and income approach, the company gives more weighting to the income approach. The higher weighting assigned to the income approach takes into consideration that the guideline companies used in the market approach generally represent larger diversified companies relative to the reporting units and may have different long-term growth prospects, among other factors.
In order to assess the reasonableness of the calculated reporting unit fair values, the company also compares the sum of the reporting units’ fair values to its market capitalization (per share stock price multiplied by shares outstanding) and calculates an implied control premium (the excess of the sum of the reporting units’ fair values over the market capitalization).
The company completed the goodwill assessments in the fourth quarter of 2025 and no additional impairment charge was recognized as of December 31, 2025.
Estimating the fair value of reporting units requires the use of estimates and significant judgments that are based on a number of factors including actual operating results. It is reasonably possible that the judgments and estimates described above could change in future periods, which could have a significant impact on the fair value of the related reporting units.
The company continuously monitors and evaluates relevant events and circumstances that could unfavorably impact the significant assumptions noted above, including changes to U.S. treasury rates and equity risk premiums, tax rates, recent market valuations from transactions by comparable companies, volatility in the company’s market capitalization, and general industry, market and macro-economic conditions. It is possible that future changes in such circumstances or in the inputs and assumptions used in estimating the fair value of the reporting units, could require the company to record an additional non-cash impairment charge.
Finite-lived intangible assets purchased in a business combination are recorded at fair value and amortized to cost of revenue - technology and selling, general and administrative expense over their estimated useful lives. Finite-lived intangible assets are tested for impairment whenever events or changes in circumstances would indicate that the carrying value may not be recoverable. An impairment charge would be recognized if the carrying value exceeds fair value in the consolidated statement of income (loss) in the period the impairment is identified.
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Leases The company determines if an arrangement is a lease at inception. This determination generally depends on whether the arrangement conveys to the company the right to control the use of an explicitly or implicitly identified asset for a period of time in exchange for consideration. Control of an underlying asset is conveyed to the company if the company obtains the rights to direct the use of and to obtain substantially all of the economic benefits from using the underlying asset. The company is the lessee in lease agreements that include lease and non-lease components, which the company accounts for as a single lease component for all personal property leases. The company also has lease agreements in which it is the lessor that include lease and non-lease components. For these agreements, the company accounts for these components as a single lease component. Lease expense for variable leases and short-term leases is recognized when the expense is incurred.
Operating leases are included in operating lease right-of-use (ROU) assets, other accrued liabilities and long-term operating lease liabilities on the company’s consolidated balance sheets. Operating lease ROU assets and lease liabilities are recognized at the commencement date of the lease based on the present value of lease payments over the lease term. Operating lease payments are recognized as lease expense on a straight-line basis over the lease term.
Finance leases are included in capitalized contract costs, net and long-term debt on the company’s consolidated balance sheets. Finance lease ROU assets and lease liabilities are initially measured in the same manner as operating leases. Finance lease ROU assets are amortized using the straight-line method. Finance lease liabilities are measured at amortized cost using the effective interest method.
The company has not capitalized leases with terms of twelve months or less.
As most of the company’s leases do not provide an implicit rate, the company uses its incremental borrowing rate, based on the information available at the lease commencement date, in determining the present value of lease payments. The company determines the incremental borrowing rate using the portfolio approach considering lease term and lease currency.
The lease term for all of the company’s leases includes the non-cancelable period of the lease plus any additional periods covered by either a company option to extend (or not to terminate) the lease that the company is reasonably certain to exercise, or an option to extend (or not to terminate) the lease controlled by the lessor.
Lease payments included in the measurement of the lease liability are comprised of fixed payments, variable payments that depend on index or rate, amounts expected to be payable under a residual value guarantee and the exercise of the company option to purchase the underlying asset, if reasonably certain.
Variable lease payments associated with the company’s leases are recognized when the event, activity, or circumstance in the lease agreement on which those payments are assessed occurs. Variable lease payments are presented as an operating expense in the company’s consolidated results of operations in the same line item as expense arising from fixed lease payments (operating leases) or amortization of the ROU asset (finance leases).
Operating and finance leases ROU assets are subject to evaluation for impairment or disposal consistent with other long-lived assets.
The company monitors for events or changes in circumstances that require a reassessment of its leases. When a reassessment results in the remeasurement of a lease liability, a corresponding adjustment is made to the carrying amount of the corresponding ROU asset unless doing so would reduce the carrying amount of the ROU asset to an amount less than zero. In that case, the amount of the adjustment that would result in a negative ROU asset balance is recorded in the consolidated statement of income (loss).
The company has commitments under operating leases for certain facilities and equipment used in its operations. The company also has finance leases for equipment. The company’s leases generally have initial lease terms ranging from 1 year to 8 years, most of which include options to extend or renew the leases for up to 5 years, and some of which may include options to terminate the leases within 1 year. Certain lease agreements contain provisions for future rent increases.
Retirement benefits Accounting rules covering defined benefit pension plans and other postretirement benefits require that amounts recognized in financial statements be determined on an actuarial basis. Management develops the actuarial assumptions used by its U.S. and international defined benefit pension plan obligations based upon the circumstances of each particular plan. The determination of the defined benefit pension plan obligations requires the use of estimates. A significant element in determining the company’s retirement benefits expense or income is the expected long-term rate of return on plan assets. This expected return is an assumption as to the average rate of earnings expected on the funds invested or to be invested to provide for the benefits included in the projected pension benefit obligation. The company applies this assumed long-term rate of return to a calculated value of plan assets, which recognizes changes in the fair value of plan assets in a systematic manner over four years. This produces the expected return on plan assets that is included in retirement benefits expense or income. The difference between this expected return and the actual return on plan assets is deferred. The net deferral of past asset losses or gains affects the calculated value of plan assets and, ultimately, future retirement benefits expense or income.
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At December 31 of each year, the company determines the fair value of its retirement benefits plan assets as well as the discount rate to be used to calculate the present value of plan liabilities. Management’s significant assumption used in the determination of the defined benefit pension plan obligations with respect to the U.S. pension plans, is the discount rate. Inherent in deriving the discount rate are significant assumptions with respect to the timing and magnitude of expected benefit payment obligations. The discount rate is an estimate of the interest rate at which the retirement benefits could be effectively settled. In estimating the discount rate, the company looks to rates of return on high-quality, fixed-income investments currently available and expected to be available during the period to maturity of the retirement benefits. The company uses a portfolio of fixed-income securities, which receive at least the second-highest rating given by a recognized ratings agency.
Environmental matters The company is responsible for certain environmental matters including environmental investigations and remedial activities related to various facilities formerly owned or operated by the company or its predecessors.
The company records an estimated environmental liability when it is probable that a liability has been incurred and the amount is reasonably estimable based primarily on the expected costs of pending investigations, current remediation activities, environmental studies and other estimated costs within the identified sites. The company records a claim for recovery from third parties when its realization is probable. Both the liability and claim for recovery are recorded on a non-discounted basis.
Provisions for these matters are difficult to estimate due to unknown environmental conditions, including early stages of investigation in some cases, and changes in governmental laws, regulations and in cleanup technologies. As the company continues to perform investigation activities and if events and circumstances change, the company may incur future additional costs, which could have a material impact on the company’s results of operations, financial condition and cash flows.
Noncontrolling interest The company owns a fifty-one percent interest in Intelligent Processing Solutions Ltd. (iPSL), a U.K. business process outsourcing joint venture. The remaining interests, which are reflected as a noncontrolling interest in the company’s consolidated financial statements, are owned by three financial institutions for which iPSL performs services.
Revenue recognition Revenue is recognized at an amount that reflects the consideration to which the company expects to be entitled in exchange for transferring goods and services to a customer. The company determines revenue recognition using the following five steps: (1) identify the contract(s) with a customer, (2) identify the performance obligations in the contract, (3) determine the transaction price, (4) allocate the transaction price to the performance obligations in the contract, and (5) recognize revenue when (or as) the company satisfies a performance obligation.
At contract inception, the company assesses the goods and services promised in a contract with a customer and identifies as a performance obligation each promise to transfer to the customer either: (1) a good or service (or a bundle of goods or services) that is distinct or (2) a series of distinct goods or services that are substantially the same and that have the same pattern of transfer to the customer. The company recognizes revenue only when it satisfies a performance obligation by transferring a promised good or service to a customer.
The company must apply its judgment to determine the timing of the satisfaction of performance obligations as well as the transaction price and the amounts allocated to performance obligations including estimating variable consideration, adjusting the consideration for the effects of the time value of money and assessing whether an estimate of variable consideration is constrained.
Revenue from hardware sales is recognized upon the transfer of control to a customer, which is defined as an entity’s ability to direct the use of and obtain substantially all of the remaining benefits of an asset.
Revenue from software licenses is recognized at the inception of either the initial license term or the inception of an extension or renewal to the license term.
Revenue for operating leases is recognized on a monthly basis over the term of the lease and for sales-type leases at the inception of the lease term. Such revenue is not material to the company’s consolidated results of operations.
Revenue from equipment and software maintenance and post-contract support is recognized on a straight-line basis as earned over the terms of the respective contracts. Cost related to such contracts is recognized as incurred.
Revenue and profit under systems integration contracts are recognized over time as the company transfers control of goods or services. The company measures its progress toward satisfaction of its performance obligations using the cost-to-cost method, or when services have been performed, depending on the nature of the project. For contracts accounted for using the cost-to-cost method, revenue and profit recognized in any given accounting period are based on estimates of total projected contract costs. The estimates are continually reevaluated and revised, when necessary, throughout the life of a contract. Any adjustments to revenue and profit resulting from changes in estimates are accounted for in the period of the change in estimate. When estimates indicate that a loss will be incurred on a contract upon completion, a provision for the expected loss is recorded in the period in which the loss becomes evident. Revenue from such contracts is not material to the company’s consolidated results of operations.
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In services arrangements, the company typically satisfies the performance obligation and recognizes revenue over time, because the client simultaneously receives and consumes the benefits provided as the company performs the services. The company’s services are provided on a time-and-materials basis, as a fixed-price contract or as a fixed-price per measure of output contract.
Revenue from time-and-material contracts is recognized on an output basis as labor hours are delivered.
In managed services, application management, business process outsourcing and other cloud-based services arrangements, the arrangement generally consists of a single performance obligation comprised of a series of distinct services that are substantially the same and that have the same pattern of transfer. The company applies a measure of progress (typically time-based) to any fixed consideration and allocates variable consideration to the periods of service, which are typically monthly or quarterly, based on usage. As a result, revenue is recognized over the period the services are provided either on a straight-line basis or on a usage basis, depending on the terms of the arrangement (such as whether the company is standing ready to perform or whether the contract has usage-based metrics). This results in revenue recognition that corresponds with the value to the client of the services transferred to date relative to the remaining services promised.
The company also enters into arrangements that may include any combination of hardware, software or services. For example, a client may purchase an enterprise server that includes operating system software. In addition, the arrangement may include post-contract support for the software and a contract for post-warranty maintenance for service of the hardware. These arrangements consist of multiple performance obligations, with control over hardware and software transferred in one reporting period and the software support and hardware maintenance services performed across multiple reporting periods. In another example, the company may provide desktop managed services to a client on a long-term multiple-year basis and periodically sell hardware and license software products to the client. The services are provided on a continuous basis across multiple reporting periods and control over the hardware and software products occurs in one reporting period.
The company allocates the total transaction price to be earned under an arrangement among the various performance obligations in proportion to their relative standalone selling prices. The standalone selling price for a performance obligation is the price at which the company would sell a promised good or service separately to a customer.
A performance obligation is a promise in a contract to transfer a distinct good or service to the customer. A contract’s transaction price is allocated to each distinct performance obligation and recognized as revenue when, or as, the performance obligation is satisfied. For contracts with multiple performance obligations, the company allocates the contract’s transaction price to each performance obligation using its best estimate of the standalone selling price of each distinct good or service in the contract. The primary methods used to estimate standalone selling price are as follows: (1) the expected cost plus margin approach, under which the company forecasts its expected costs of satisfying a performance obligation and then adds an appropriate margin for that distinct good or service and (2) the percent discount off of list price approach.
In the DWS and the CA&I segments, substantially all of the company’s performance obligations are satisfied over time as work progresses and therefore substantially all of the revenue in these segments is recognized over time. The company generally receives payment for these contracts over time as the performance obligations are satisfied.
In the ECS segment, substantially all of the company’s sales of software and hardware are transferred to customers at a single point in time. Revenue on these contracts is recognized when control over the product is transferred to the customer or a software license term begins. The company generally receives payment for these contracts upon signature or within 30 to 60 days.
The company discloses disaggregation of its customer revenue by services and technology (see Note 9, “Revenue”) and by geographic areas (see Note 18, “Segment information”).
The timing of revenue recognition, billings and cash collections results in billed accounts receivable, unbilled receivables, contract assets and deferred revenue (contract liabilities).
Revenue excludes taxes assessed by a governmental authority that are both imposed on and concurrent with a specific revenue producing transaction and collected by the company from a customer (e.g., sales, use and value-added taxes). Revenue includes payments for shipping and handling activities.
Advertising costs All advertising costs are expensed as incurred and reported in selling, general and administrative expenses in the company’s consolidated statements of income (loss). The amount charged to the expense during 2025, 2024 and 2023 was $13.6 million, $10.8 million and $10.7 million, respectively.
Shipping and handling Costs related to shipping and handling are included in cost of revenue.
Stock-based compensation plans Stock-based compensation represents the cost related to stock-based awards granted to employees and directors. Compensation expense for performance-based restricted stock and restricted stock unit awards is recognized as expense ratably for each installment from the date of the grant until the date the restrictions lapse and is based on the fair market value at the date of grant and the probability of achievement of the specific performance-related goals.
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Compensation expense for market-based awards is recognized as expense ratably over the measurement period, regardless of the actual level of achievement, provided the service requirement is met. The fair value of restricted stock and restricted stock units (RSUs) with time and performance conditions is determined based on the trading price of the company’s common shares on the date of grant. The fair value of awards with market conditions is estimated using a Monte Carlo simulation. The expense is recorded in selling, general and administrative expenses.
Cost reduction actions The company from time to time initiates cost reduction actions designed to improve operating efficiency, reduce costs and align the company’s workforce and facility structures to its overall business plan. These actions may include workforce reductions, consolidating or closing facilities, exiting foreign countries, and other related actions to support strategic objectives and enhance future performance.
Severance charges related to workforce reductions are recognized in accordance with the company’s employee termination benefit plans and applicable statutory requirements. The company records a liability for employee termination benefits either when it is probable that an employee is entitled to it and the amount of benefits can be reasonably estimated or when management has communicated the termination plan to employees within other accrued liabilities on the company’s consolidated balance sheets. Other liabilities for costs associated with an exit or disposal activity are recognized when the liability is incurred. Any changes in estimates related to these charges are recorded in the period when such changes are identified.
Income taxes Income taxes are based on income before taxes for financial reporting purposes and reflect a current tax liability for the estimated taxes payable in the current-year tax returns and changes in deferred taxes. Deferred tax assets or liabilities are determined based on differences between financial reporting and tax bases of assets and liabilities and are measured using enacted tax laws and rates. A valuation allowance is provided on deferred tax assets if it is determined that it is more likely than not that the asset will not be realized. The company releases the income tax effects of deferred tax balances that have a valuation allowance from accumulated other comprehensive income (loss) once the reason the tax effects were established ceases to exist (e.g., a postretirement plan is liquidated). The company recognizes penalties and interest accrued related to income tax liabilities in provision for income taxes in its consolidated statements of income (loss).
The company treats the Global Intangible Low-Tax Income (GILTI) tax as a period cost when included in U.S. taxable income, and the Base Erosion and Anti-Abuse (BEAT) tax, as a period cost when incurred.
Translation of foreign currency The local currency is the functional currency for most of the company’s international subsidiaries, and as such, assets and liabilities are translated into U.S. dollars at year-end exchange rates. Income and expense items are translated at average exchange rates during the year. Translation adjustments resulting from changes in exchange rates are reported in other comprehensive income (loss). Exchange gains and losses are reported in other (expense), net.
For those international subsidiaries operating in highly inflationary economies, the U.S. dollar is the functional currency, and as such, nonmonetary assets and liabilities are translated at historical exchange rates, and monetary assets and liabilities are translated at current exchange rates. Exchange gains and losses arising from remeasurement are included in other (expense), net.
Fair value measurements Fair value is defined as the price that would be received to sell an asset or paid to transfer a liability in an orderly transaction between market participants at the measurement date. When determining fair value measurements for assets and liabilities required to be recorded at fair value, the company assumes that the transaction is an orderly transaction that assumes exposure to the market for a period before the measurement date to allow for marketing activities that are usual and customary for transactions involving such assets or liabilities; it is not a forced transaction (for example, a forced liquidation or distress sale). The fair value hierarchy has three levels of inputs that may be used to measure fair value: Level 1 – Quoted prices (unadjusted) in active markets for identical assets or liabilities that the company can access at the measurement date; Level 2 – Inputs other than quoted prices within Level 1 that are observable for the asset or liability, either directly or indirectly; and Level 3 – Unobservable inputs for the asset or liability. The company has applied fair value measurements to its derivatives (see Note 10, “Financial instruments and concentration of credit risks”), long-term debt (see Note 13, “Debt”), and to its pension and postretirement plan assets (see Note 15, “Employee plans”).
Reclassification Certain prior period amounts in the consolidated financial statements and accompanying notes have been reclassified to conform to the current period presentation.
Note 2 — Recent accounting pronouncements and accounting changes
Accounting Pronouncements Adopted
Effective for the company’s fiscal year ended December 31, 2025, the company adopted Accounting Standards Update (ASU) No. 2023-09, Income Taxes (Topic 740) - Improvements to Income Tax Disclosures (ASU 2023-09), issued by the Financial Accounting Standards Board (FASB), which enhances annual disclosures relating to the rate reconciliation and requires income
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taxes paid disclosures disaggregated by jurisdiction among other amendments. The adoption of ASU 2023-09 did not have a material impact to the company’s consolidated financial statements and the required disclosures on income taxes were applied on a prospective basis, see Note 6, “Income taxes.”
Accounting Pronouncements Not Yet Adopted
In November 2024, the FASB issued ASU No. 2024-03, Income Statement - Reporting Comprehensive Income - Expense Disaggregation Disclosures, requiring additional disclosures about certain costs and expenses in the notes to the financial statements on an annual interim basis. The update is effective for fiscal years beginning after December 15, 2026, and interim periods within fiscal years beginning after December 15, 2027, with early adoption permitted on either a prospective or retrospective basis. ASU 2024-03 is not expected to have a material effect on the company’s consolidated financial statements.
In September 2025, the FASB issued ASU No. 2025-06, Intangibles - Goodwill and Other - Internal-Use Software (Subtopic 350-40): Targeted Improvements to the Accounting for Internal-Use Software (ASU 2025-06), which simplifies the capitalization guidance for internal-use software costs by removing all references to software development project stages. ASU 2025-06 is effective for annual periods beginning after December 15, 2027, and interim periods within those annual reporting periods, with early adoption permitted on either a prospective, or retrospective or a modified transition approach. The company is currently evaluating the impact of the standard on its consolidated financial statements.
Note 3 — Cost-reduction actions
Cost-reduction charges and other costs recognized were as follows:
Workforce reductions:
Severance and other employee costs $ 27.6 $ 23.7 $ 15.2
Changes in estimates (4.6) (10.2) (6.9)
Lease abandonment costs 4.3 — —
Asset impairment charges and write-offs (i) 3.2 4.4 1.1
Other cost reduction efforts, net (ii) — 0.1 3.6
(i) Asset impairment charges and write-offs relate to assets associated with exited operations and facilities.
(ii) Other cost reduction efforts, net primarily include consulting fees and changes in estimates related to other cost-reduction efforts.
The charges (credits) included in the table above were recorded in the following statement of income (loss) classifications:
Selling, general and administrative 9.4 6.0 6.9
Research and development 3.1 (0.1) 0.5
Liabilities and expected future payments related to the company’s workforce reduction actions are as follows:
Cost reduction liabilities, at beginning of year $ 13.0 $ 9.4 $ 11.7
Changes in estimates (4.6) (10.2) (6.9)
Translation adjustments 0.8 (0.3) 0.2
Cost reduction liabilities, at end of year $ 24.8 13.0 9.4
Expected future payments on balance at December 31, 2025:
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Note 4 — Leases and commitments
The components of lease expense are as follows:
Finance lease cost
Amortization of right-of-use assets 1.3 0.1 0.2
Interest on lease liabilities 1.6 — —
Total finance lease cost 2.9 0.1 0.2
Short-term lease costs 2.8 0.5 0.7
Sublease income (0.2) (0.5) (1.1)
Supplemental balance sheet information related to leases is as follows:
Operating Leases
Operating lease right-of-use assets $ 38.4 $ 38.4
Other accrued liabilities 16.0 15.0
Long-term operating lease liabilities 30.6 28.9
Total operating lease liabilities $ 46.6 $ 43.9
Finance Leases
Capitalized contract costs, net $ 36.7 $ —
Current maturities of long-term debt 7.2 0.5
Total finance lease liabilities $ 41.2 $ 2.8
Weighted-Average Remaining Lease Term (in years)
Operating leases 3.8 3.9
Finance leases 4.7 4.6
Weighted-Average Discount Rate
Operating leases 9.2 % 9.1 %
Finance leases 9.0 % 6.1 %
Supplemental cash flow information related to leases is as follows:
Cash paid for amounts included in the measurement of lease liabilities:
Cash payments for finance leases included in financing activities 1.7 0.1 0.2
ROU assets obtained in exchange for lease obligations are as follows:
Finance leases 39.2 —
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Maturities of lease liabilities as of December 31, 2025 are as follows:
Year Finance Leases Operating Leases
Thereafter — 3.5
Less imputed interest 9.9 8.2
For transactions where the company is considered the lessor, revenue for operating leases is recognized on a monthly basis over the term of the lease and for sales-type leases at the inception of the lease term. As of December 31, 2025, receivables under sales-type leases before the allowance for unearned income were collectible as follows:
Year
Thereafter —
Other Commitments
At December 31, 2025, the company had outstanding standby letters of credit and surety bonds totaling approximately $234 million related to performance and payment guarantees. On the basis of experience with these arrangements, the company believes that any obligations that may arise will not be material. In addition, at December 31, 2025, the company had deposits and collateral of approximately $5 million in other long-term assets, principally related to tax contingencies in Brazil.
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Note 5 — Other (expense), net
Other (expense), net is comprised of the following:
Pension and postretirement expense(i) $ (307.4) $ (180.8) $ (387.1)
Loss on debt extinguishment (7.0) — —
Foreign exchange losses(ii) (5.8) (14.5) (0.2)
(i) Pension and postretirement expense includes $228.2 million, $130.6 million and $348.9 million of settlement losses, respectively, in 2025, 2024 and 2023 related to the company’s defined benefit pension plans. See Note 15, “Employee plans.”
(ii) Foreign exchange losses include gains (losses) from remeasuring cash, receivables, payables and intercompany balances denominated in foreign currencies, as well as gains (losses) on foreign exchange forward contracts. In 2025, the company ceased its use of foreign currency forward contracts. See Note 10, “Financial instruments and concentration of credit risks” for details on the company’s foreign exchange forward contracts. Additionally, these amounts include gains (losses) related to the substantial completion of liquidation of certain foreign subsidiaries of $(2.7) million, $2.6 million and $(3.7) million, respectively, in 2025, 2024 and 2023.
(iii) Interest income relates primarily to interest earned from cash and short-term investments.
(iv) Other, net generally consists of environmental costs related to previously disposed businesses and other miscellaneous items. In 2025, other, net includes a $4.3 million gain on the sale of a property. See Note 11, “Properties” for additional details on the property sale. In 2024, other, net included a $40.0 million gain related to a favorable settlement of a litigation matter and a net gain of $14.9 million related to a favorable judgment received in a Brazilian services tax matter.
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Note 6 — Income taxes
The components of the loss before income taxes and the provision for income taxes for the year ended December 31, 2025 in accordance with the disclosure requirements of ASU 2023-09 are as follows:
Income (loss) before income taxes
United States $ (451.0)
Total loss before income taxes $ (272.2)
Provision for income taxes
Current
Federal $ —
Total current 60.1
Deferred
Federal $ —
State —
Foreign 7.7
Total provision for income taxes $ 67.8
The components of the loss before income taxes and the provision for income taxes for the years ended December 31, 2024 and 2023 as previously disclosed prior to the adoption of ASU 2023-09 are as follows:
Income (loss) before income taxes
Total loss before income taxes $ (75.3) $ (347.8)
Provision for income taxes
Current
United States $ 21.1 $ 8.8
Deferred
United States 18.7 —
Total provision for income taxes $ 117.9 $ 79.3
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The following table is a reconciliation of the benefit for income taxes at the United States (U.S.) statutory tax rate to the company’s effective tax rate for the year ended December 31, 2025 in accordance with the disclosure requirements of ASU 2023-09:
Amount Percent
U.S. statutory income tax benefit $ (57.2) 21.0 %
State and local income taxes, net of federal benefit (i) 1.0 (0.4) %
Effect of cross-border tax laws
Income from branches 3.2 (1.2) %
Change in valuation allowances 66.1 (24.3) %
Nontaxable and nondeductible items:
Goodwill impairment 11.6 (4.3) %
Limitation on deduction for executive compensation 3.1 (1.1) %
Other adjustments (0.4) 0.1 %
Foreign tax effects
Brazil
Effect of rates different than statutory 7.2 (2.6) %
Income tax withholding 3.2 (1.2) %
Costa Rica
Income tax withholding 3.7 (1.4) %
Germany
Changes in valuation allowances (4.3) 1.6 %
India
Income tax withholding 3.3 (1.2) %
Philippines
Changes in valuation allowances 3.6 (1.3) %
United Kingdom
Effect of rates different than statutory 4.1 (1.5) %
Changes in valuation allowances (6.2) 2.3 %
Other foreign jurisdictions 13.4 (4.9) %
Changes in unrecognized tax benefits 0.3 (0.1) %
Provision for income taxes $ 67.8 (24.9) %
(i) State and local income taxes in California, Connecticut and Pennsylvania comprise the majority of the state taxes, net of federal benefit in this category.
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The following table is a reconciliation of the benefit for income taxes at the U.S statutory tax rate to the provision for income taxes as reported for the years ended December 31, 2024 and 2023 as previously disclosed prior to the adoption of ASU 2023-09:
U.S. statutory income tax benefit $ (15.8) $ (73.0)
Foreign rate differential and other foreign tax expense 8.9 12.7
Income tax withholdings 23.0 14.0
Additional tax expense on undistributed foreign earnings 27.3 —
Permanent items 1.2 (3.0)
Change in uncertain tax positions 1.3 3.8
Change in valuation allowances 7.9 2.1
United States income tax benefit — (0.6)
Provision for income taxes $ 117.9 $ 79.3
The tax effects of temporary differences and carryforwards that give rise to significant portions of deferred tax assets and liabilities were as follows:
Deferred tax assets
Pension and postretirement benefits 123.9 196.5
Foreign tax credit carryforwards 41.8 61.9
Other tax credit carryforwards 30.0 29.5
Employee benefits and compensation 25.0 31.2
Purchased capitalized software 16.2 18.4
Capitalized costs 28.8 9.3
Capitalized research and development 19.6 6.7
Warranty, bad debts and other reserves 5.5 2.9
Total deferred tax assets $ 121.3 $ 128.2
Deferred tax liabilities
Undistributed earnings of foreign subsidiaries $ 31.3 $ 27.7
Total deferred tax liabilities $ 55.8 $ 60.3
Net deferred tax assets $ 65.5 $ 67.9
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Changes in the valuation allowance were as follows:
Valuation allowance, at beginning of year $ (1,168.6) $ (1,150.1) $ (1,110.5)
Expired net operating losses/tax credits 46.3 35.2 42.9
Recognition of income tax benefit (expense)(i) (80.1) (56.0) (125.9)
(i) Includes U.S. pension activity of $3.8 million, ($44.8) million and ($95.9) million in 2025, 2024 and 2023, respectively.
The company has tax effected tax loss carryforwards as follows:
State and local 201.1
Total tax loss carryforwards $ 841.4
These carryforwards will expire as follows:
Year
The company also has available tax credit carryforwards, which will expire as follows:
Year
A full valuation allowance is currently maintained for all U.S. and certain foreign deferred tax assets in excess of deferred tax liabilities. The company will record a tax provision or benefit for those international subsidiaries that do not have a full valuation allowance against their net deferred tax assets. Any profit or loss recorded for the company’s U.S. operations will have no provision or benefit associated with it due to such valuation allowance, except with respect to withholding taxes not creditable against future taxable income. As a result, the company’s provision or benefit for taxes may vary significantly depending on the geographic distribution of income.
The realization of the company’s net deferred tax assets as of December 31, 2025, is primarily dependent on the ability to generate sustained taxable income in various jurisdictions. Judgment is required to estimate forecasted future taxable income, which may be impacted by future business developments, actual operating results, strategic operational and tax initiatives, legislative, and other economic factors and developments. During 2025, the company determined that a portion of its non-U.S.
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net deferred tax assets no longer required a valuation allowance. The net change in the valuation allowances impacting the effective tax rate in 2025 was approximately $5.3 million tax benefit, primarily in Germany. During 2024, the company determined that a portion of its non-U.S. net deferred tax assets required an additional valuation allowance. The net change in the valuation allowances impacting the effective tax rate in 2024 was approximately $7.9 million tax expense, primarily in the United Kingdom.
Under U.S. tax law, distributions from foreign subsidiaries to U.S. shareholders are generally exempt from taxation, except for certain federal and states taxes. Consequently, the deferred income tax liability on undistributed earnings is generally limited to any foreign withholding or other foreign taxes that will be imposed on such distributions. The company is no longer asserting indefinite reinvestment of earnings of certain foreign subsidiaries. At December 31, 2025 and 2024, the related deferred tax liability was $31.3 million and $27.7 million, respectively, which is included within other long-term liabilities on the company’s consolidated balance sheets. At December 31, 2025, the unrecognized deferred income tax liability was approximately $7.7 million for those foreign subsidiaries for which the company currently intends to indefinitely reinvest the earnings and for which no provision has been made for income taxes that may become payable upon distribution of the earnings of such subsidiaries .
Cash paid for income taxes, net of refunds in accordance with the disclosure requirements of ASU 2023-09 was as follow for the year ended December 31, 2025:
Federal $ —
Foreign:
United Kingdom 6.8
Total cash paid for income taxes, net of refunds $ 74.8
Cash paid for income taxes as reported for the years ended December 31, 2024 and 2023 as previously disclosed prior to the adoption of ASU 2023-09 was as follows:
Cash paid for income taxes, net of refunds $ 56.4 $ 63.4
A reconciliation of the beginning and ending amount of unrecognized tax benefits is as follows:
Additions based on tax positions related to the current year 2.0 2.5 4.6
Changes for tax positions of prior years 0.5 (3.4) 2.6
Settlements (0.3) (0.5) —
Changes due to foreign currency 0.4 (0.2) 0.5
The company recognizes penalties and interest accrued related to income tax liabilities in the provision for income taxes in its consolidated statements of income (loss). At December 31, 2025 and 2024, the company had an accrual of $5.5 million and $5.0 million, respectively, for the payment of penalties and interest. For the years ended December 31, 2025, 2024 and 2023, the company recognized tax expense related to interest of $0.5 million, $0.4 million and $0.8 million, respectively.
At December 31, 2025, all of the company’s liability for unrecognized tax benefits, if recognized, would affect the company’s effective tax rate.
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The company and its subsidiaries file income tax returns in the U.S. federal jurisdiction, and various states and foreign jurisdictions. The company is currently undergoing audits in several of its foreign jurisdictions. Ongoing income tax audits throughout the world are not expected to have a material impact on the company’s financial position.
Internal Revenue Code Sections 382 and 383 provide annual limitations with respect to the ability of a corporation to utilize its net operating loss (as well as certain built-in losses) and tax credit carryforwards, respectively (Tax Attributes), against future U.S. taxable income, if the corporation experiences an “ownership change.” In general terms, an ownership change may result from transactions increasing the ownership of certain stockholders in the stock of a corporation by more than 50 percentage points over a three-year period. The company regularly monitors ownership changes (as calculated for purposes of Section 382). The company has determined that, for purposes of the rules of Section 382 described above, an ownership change occurred in 2011. Any future transaction or transactions and the timing of such transaction or transactions could trigger additional ownership changes under Section 382.
As a result of the ownership change in 2011, utilization for certain of the company’s Tax Attributes, U.S. net operating losses and tax credits, is subject to an overall annual limitation of $70.6 million. The cumulative limitation as of December 31, 2025, is approximately $456 million. This limitation will be applied to any net operating losses and then to any other Tax Attributes. Any unused limitation may be carried over to later years. Based on presently available information and the existence of tax planning strategies, the company does not expect to incur a U.S. federal cash tax liability in the near term.
On July 4, 2025, the One Big Beautiful Bill Act (OBBBA) was signed into law in the U.S. The OBBBA includes significant provisions, such as the permanent extension of certain expiring provisions of the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act of 2017, modifications to the international tax framework and the restoration of favorable tax treatment for certain business provisions. The legislation has multiple effective dates, with certain provisions effective in 2025 and others implemented through 2027. The company does not anticipate any material impact to our financial statements, due to the valuation allowance in the U.S., and no material permanent tax differences are expected. The company continues to assess the impact of these new provisions on the company’s consolidated financial statements for future reporting periods.
Note 7 — Earnings (loss) per common share
The following table provides the calculations for the company’s earnings (loss) per common share attributable to Unisys Corporation (shares in thousands):
Basic loss per common share computation:
Net loss attributable to Unisys Corporation $ (339.8) $ (193.4) $ (430.7)
Basic loss per common share $ (4.79) $ (2.79) $ (6.31)
Diluted loss per common share computation:
Net loss attributable to Unisys Corporation $ (339.8) $ (193.4) $ (430.7)
Plus incremental shares from assumed conversions of employee stock plans — — —