Full Year 2025 Financial Results Summary
- - US Tariffs wreaked havoc on industry in 2025;
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- 2025 Revenues: $200.2 million down 10.2% while proactively managing
down business from 2 largest clients in 2024; 2025 revenue on balance of
business would have grown 2.7% when excluding these 2 clients;
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- Record-high 7.9% net profit margin despite 10.2% reduction in revenue;
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- Debt free with record-high US$41.5 million cash balance;
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- Acquisition of activewear maker AAG's business positions us for growth in 2026;
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- Early success of digitalization and platformization helping competitiveness and profitability going forward;
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- Final dividend to remain at HK$7.0 cents despite the 7.4 % reduction in net profit.
HONG KONG SAR -
Media OutReach Newswire
- 12 February 2026 - Lever Style Corporation (HKEX: 1346, "Lever
Style"), the world's premier apparel production platform, today reported
financial results for the full year ended December 31, 2025.
For the full year 2025, Lever Style reported revenues of US$200.2
million (a decrease of 10.2% from the prior year) and a net profit of
US$ 15.9 million (down 7.4% from 2024). The group also reported a
record-high 7.9% net profit margin and maintained gross profit margin of
28.5%. Further, the group was debt-free once again and had a record net
cash position of US$41.5 million at the end of the full year 2025.
"In a year when Trump's Liberation Day tariffs wreaked havoc on the
industry, we managed down our business to safeguard our current and
future financial health. Revenues retreated 10.2% from the prior year to
US$200.2 million for the 2025 reporting period, which was a result of
applying stringent credit risk control on our former top two clients
from 2024 rather than an across-the-board weakening of demand." said
Stanley Szeto, Executive Chairman of Lever Style.
"Against the tariff backdrop, we did well to have achieved record-high
net profit margin and registered growth for the rest of our customer
portfolio outside of the former two top clients from 2024. This is a
testament to the strength of our versatile, asset-light business model"
Mr. Szeto added.
Commenting on Lever Style's inorganic growth strategy in 2025, Szeto
said, "We put more focus on pursuing inorganic growth through
acquisitions. In December 2025, we announced our largest acquisition to
date, the acquisition of certain assets and businesses of Active Apparel
Group ("
AAG"), an Australia-based supplier of activewear such as
golf shirts, running shorts and yoga leggings. This acquisition is our
seventh since our 2019 IPO and will continue to strengthen our
activewear capability in a segment important to our growth. As is
customary from our past 6 acquisitions, we acquired AAG's business but
not its factory to safeguard our asset-light business model ... By
concluding the AAG acquisition in late 2025, we put ourselves back on
the growth path for 2026 in spite of the challenging economic
environment.
Future Prospects
On future prospects,
Szeto commented
"Even though US tariffs on most garment-producing countries have come
down to the 20% range, the US economy remains on edge ... There is a
growing trend of retail bankruptcies, which have knock-on effects on
brands and the supply chain."
"Despite such headwinds, we feel confident that we'll once again
out-perform the industry due to the sustainable competitive advantage
provided by our asset-light business model...We are continuing to
explore other strategic merger and acquisition opportunities to further
strengthen our product category portfolio, expand our production base,
and gain scale that creates synergies and operating leverage...With
little relief in sight from a US-tariff impacted world, we expect there
will be more merger and acquisition opportunities at reasonable
valuations."
Digitalization and Platformization
Executive Chairman Stanley Szeto said Lever Style has "embarked on a new
phase of digitalization," using automation and AI for "fully automated
factory invoice handling" and "reading purchase orders and translating
tech packs," "saving processing time on some mundane tasks by up to
90%."
On platformization, he said, "Transforming into a digital two-way
marketplace platform which automatically computes costing and digitally
matches the optimal factory for each order is a long journey." and noted
"We are enjoying early success with more than 35 factories having
joined this platform ..."
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