STMicroelectronics Reports Q1 2026 Financial Results
PR No: C3392C
STMicroelectronics Reports Q1 2026 Financial Results
Geneva, April 23, 2026 – STMicroelectronics N.V. (“ST”) (NYSE: STM), a global semiconductor leader serving customers across the spectrum of electronics applications, reported U.S. GAAP financial results for the first quarter ended March 28, 2026. This press release also contains non-U.S. GAAP measures (see Appendix for additional information).
ST reported first quarter net revenues of $3.10 billion, gross margin of 33.8%, operating income of $70 million, and net income of $37 million or $0.04 diluted earnings per share (non-U.S. GAAP 1 gross margin of 34.1%, non-U.S. GAAP 1 operating income of $171 million, and non-U.S. GAAP 1 net income of $122 million or $0.13 diluted earnings per share).
Jean-Marc Chery, ST President & CEO, commented:
Quarterly Financial Summary
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1 Non-U.S. GAAP. See Appendix for reconciliation to U.S. GAAP and information explaining why the Company believes these measures are important.
First Quarter 2026 Summary Review
Net revenues totaled $3.10 billion, representing a year-over-year increase of 23.0%. Net revenues included about $40 million revenues associated with NXP’s MEMS sensor business; excluding this contribution net revenues increased 21.4% on a year-over-year basis. Year-over-year net sales to OEMs and Distribution increased 24.5% and 19.2%, respectively. On a sequential basis, net revenues decreased 7.0% and 8.2% excluding NXP’s MEMS sensor business contribution, 50 basis points better than the mid-point of ST’s guidance.
Gross profit totaled $1.05 billion, representing a year-over-year increase of 24.3%. Gross margin of 33.8%, increased 40 basis points year-over-year, mainly due to lower unused capacity charges and better product mix. Gross profit included $11 million Purchase Price Allocation (PPA) effects from the acquisition of NXP’s MEMS sensor business. Non-U.S. GAAP 1 Gross Margin, excluding this item, was 34.1%. Excluding the impact from NXP’s MEMS sensor business and related PPA effects, gross margin stood at 33.9%, 20 basis points better than the mid-point of ST’s guidance.
Operating income increased from $3 million in the year-ago quarter to $70 million. ST’s operating margin increased on a year-over-year basis to 2.3% of net revenues, compared to 0.1% in the first quarter of 2025. Operating income included $71 million impairment, restructuring charges and other related phase-out costs for the quarter, mainly reflecting charges related to the execution of the previously announced company-wide program to reshape our manufacturing footprint and resize our global cost base and $30 million Purchase Price Allocation (PPA) effects from the acquisition of NXP’s MEMS sensor business. Excluding these items, non-U.S. GAAP 1 Operating income stood at $171 million in the first quarter (or 5.5% non-U.S. GAAP 1 operating margin).
By reportable segment, compared with the year-ago quarter:
In Analog, Power & Discrete, MEMS and Sensors (APMS) Product Group:
Analog products, MEMS and Sensors (AM&S) 2 segment:
Power and Discrete products (P&D) segment:
In Microcontrollers, Digital ICs and RF products (MDRF) Product Group:
Embedded Processing (EMP) segment:
RF & Optical Communications (RFOC) segment:
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1 Non-U.S. GAAP. See Appendix for reconciliation to U.S. GAAP and information explaining why the Company believes these measures are important.
2 Q126 revenues associated with NXP’s MEMS sensor business were allocated to Analog products, MEMS and Sensors (AM&S) segment.
Net income and diluted Earnings Per Share decreased to $37 million and $0.04 respectively, compared to $56 million and $0.06 respectively in the year-ago quarter. In the first quarter of 2026 non-U.S. GAAP 1 Net income stood at $122 million and non-U.S. GAAP 1 diluted Earnings Per Share stood at $0.13.
Cash Flow and Balance Sheet Highlights
Net cash from operating activities was $534 million in the first quarter, including about $45 million outflow related to restructuring, compared to $574 million in the year-ago quarter, which benefitted from a positive $147 million inflow from net working capital.
Net Capex (non-U.S. GAAP 1), was $362 million in the first quarter compared to $530 million in the year-ago quarter.
Free cash flow (non-U.S. GAAP 1) was negative at $723 million in the first quarter compared to positive $30 million in the year-ago quarter. Free cash flow included $895 million cash-out related to the payment for the acquisition of NXP’s MEMS sensor business.
Inventory at the end of the first quarter was $3.17 billion, compared to $3.14 billion in the previous quarter and $3.01 billion in the year-ago quarter. Days sales of inventory at quarter-end was 140 days, compared to 130 days for the previous quarter and 167 days for the year-ago quarter.
In the first quarter, ST paid cash dividends to its stockholders totaling $71 million.
ST’s net financial position (non-U.S. GAAP 1) remained strong at $2.00 billion as of March 28, 2026, compared to $2.79 billion as of December 31, 2025, and reflected total liquidity of $4.57 billion and total financial debt of $2.57 billion. Adjusted net financial position (non-U.S. GAAP 1), taking into consideration the effect on total liquidity of advances from capital grants for which capital expenditures have not been incurred yet, stood at $1.69 billion as of March 28, 2026.
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1 Non-U.S. GAAP. See Appendix for reconciliation to U.S. GAAP and information explaining why the Company believes these measures are important.
2 Q126 Free cash flow includes $895 million cash-out related to the acquisition of NXP MEMS sensor business.
Corporate developments
On February 2, 2026, ST completed the acquisition of NXP’s MEMS sensor business. Announced in July 2025, this transaction focused on automotive safety and non-safety products and sensors for industrial applications, expands ST’s global sensors capabilities.
On February 9, 2026, ST announced an expanded strategic collaboration with Amazon Web Services (AWS) through a multi-year, multi-billion USD commercial engagement to enable new high performance compute infrastructure for cloud and AI data centers. This engagement covers a broad range of semiconductor solutions leveraging ST’s portfolio of proprietary technologies. ST has issued warrants to AWS for up to 24.8 million ordinary shares of ST. The warrants will vest in tranches over the term of the agreement, with vesting substantially tied to payments for ST products and services by AWS and its affiliates.
Business Outlook
ST’s guidance, at the mid-point, for the 2026 second quarter is:
This business outlook does not include any impact of potential further changes to global trade tariffs compared to the current situation.
Conference Call and Webcast Information
ST will conduct a conference call with analysts, investors and reporters to discuss its first quarter 2026 financial results and current business outlook today at 9:30 a.m. Central European Time (CET) / 3:30 a.m. U.S. Eastern Time (ET). A live webcast (listen-only mode) of the conference call will be accessible at ST’s website, https://investors.st.com, and will be available for replay until May 8, 2026.
Use of Supplemental Non-U.S. GAAP Financial Information
This press release contains supplemental non-U.S. GAAP financial information.
Readers are cautioned that these measures are unaudited and not prepared in accordance with U.S. GAAP and should not be considered as a substitute for U.S. GAAP financial measures. In addition, such non-U.S. GAAP financial measures may not be comparable to similarly titled information from other companies. To compensate for these limitations, the supplemental non-U.S. GAAP financial information should not be read in isolation, but only in conjunction with ST’s consolidated financial statements prepared in accordance with U.S. GAAP.
See the Appendix of this press release for a reconciliation of ST’s non-U.S. GAAP financial measures to their corresponding U.S. GAAP financial measures.
Forward-looking Information
Some of the statements contained in this release that are not historical facts are statements of future expectations and other forward-looking statements (within the meaning of Section 27A of the Securities Act of 1933 or Section 21E of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, each as amended) that are based on management’s current views and assumptions, and are conditioned upon and also involve known and unknown risks and uncertainties that could cause actual results, performance or events to differ materially from those anticipated by such statements due to, among other factors:
Such forward-looking statements are subject to various risks and uncertainties, which may cause actual results and performance of our business to differ materially and adversely from the forward-looking statements. Certain forward-looking statements can be identified by the use of forward-looking terminology, such as “believes”, “expects”, “may”, “are expected to”, “should”, “would be”, “seeks” or “anticipates” or similar expressions or the negative thereof or other variations thereof or comparable terminology, or by discussions of strategy, plans or intentions.
Some of these risk factors are set forth and are discussed in more detail in “Item 3. Key Information — Risk Factors” included in our Annual Report on Form 20-F for the year ended December 31, 2025 as filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission (“SEC”) on February 26, 2026. Should one or more of these risks or uncertainties materialize, or should underlying assumptions prove incorrect, actual results may vary materially from those described in this press release as anticipated, believed or expected. We do not intend, and do not assume any obligation, to update any industry information or forward-looking statements set forth in this release to reflect subsequent events or circumstances.
Unfavorable changes in the above or other factors listed under “Item 3. Key Information — Risk Factors” from time to time in our SEC filings, could have a material adverse effect on our business and/or financial condition.
About STMicroelectronics
At ST, we are 48,000 creators and makers of semiconductor technologies mastering the semiconductor supply chain with state-of-the-art manufacturing facilities. An integrated device manufacturer, we work with more than 200,000 customers and thousands of partners to design and build products, solutions, and ecosystems that address their challenges and opportunities, and the need to support a more sustainable world. Our technologies enable smarter mobility, more efficient power and energy management, and the wide-scale deployment of cloud-connected autonomous things. We are on track to be carbon neutral in all direct and indirect emissions (scopes 1 and 2), product transportation, business travel, and employee commuting emissions (our scope 3 focus), and to achieve our 100% renewable electricity sourcing goal by the end of 2027. Further information can be found at www.st.com.
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Appendix
ST Supplemental Financial Information
(a) Net revenues of Others include revenues from sales assembly services and other revenues. Operating income (loss) of Others include items such as unused capacity charges, including incidents leading to power outage, impairment, restructuring charges and other related phase-out costs, management reorganization costs, start-up costs, and other unallocated income (expenses) such as: strategic or special research and development programs, certain corporate-level operating expenses, patent claims and litigations, and other costs that are not allocated to reportable segments, operating earnings of other products as well as Purchase Price Allocation (PPA) effects from the acquisition of NXP’s MEMS sensor business. With additional cost elements included in the table below:
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ST Supplemental Non-U.S. GAAP Financial Information
U.S. GAAP – Non-U.S. GAAP Reconciliation
The supplemental non-U.S. GAAP information presented in this press release is unaudited and subject to inherent limitations. Such non-U.S. GAAP information is not based on any comprehensive set of accounting rules or principles and should not be considered as a substitute for U.S. GAAP measures. Also, our supplemental non-U.S. GAAP financial information may not be comparable to similarly titled non-U.S. GAAP measures used by other companies. Further, specific limitations for individual non-U.S. GAAP measures, and the reasons for presenting non-U.S. GAAP financial information, are set forth in the paragraphs below. To compensate for these limitations, the supplemental non-U.S. GAAP financial information should not be read in isolation, but only in conjunction with our consolidated financial statements prepared in accordance with U.S. GAAP.
ST believes that these non-U.S. GAAP financial measures provide useful information for investors and management because they offer, when read in conjunction with ST’s U.S. GAAP financials, (i) the ability to make more meaningful period-to-period comparisons of ST’s on-going operating results, (ii) the ability to better identify trends in ST’s business and perform related trend analysis, and (iii) to facilitate a comparison of ST’s results of operations against investor and analyst financial models and valuations, which may exclude these items.
Non-U.S. GAAP Gross Profit, Non-U.S. GAAP Operating Income, Non-U.S. GAAP Net Income and Non-U.S. GAAP Diluted Earnings Per Share (non-U.S. GAAP measures)
Operating income before impairment, restructuring charges and other related phase-out costs, and other certain items, is used by management to help enhance an understanding of ongoing operations and to communicate the impact of the excluded items, such as impairment, restructuring charges and other related phase-out costs, and Purchase Price Allocation (PPA) effects. Adjusted net earnings and earnings per share (EPS) are used by management to help enhance an understanding of ongoing operations and to communicate the impact of the excluded items like impairment, restructuring charges and other related phase-out costs and other certain items, such as Purchase Price Allocation (PPA) effects, net of the relevant tax impact.
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Net Financial Position and Adjusted Net Financial Position (non-U.S. GAAP measures)
Net Financial Position, a non-U.S. GAAP measure, represents the difference between our total liquidity and our total financial debt. Our total liquidity includes cash and cash equivalents, restricted cash, if any, short-term deposits, and marketable securities, and our total financial debt includes short-term debt and long-term debt, as reported in our Consolidated Balance Sheets. ST also presents adjusted net financial position as a non-U.S. GAAP measure, to take into consideration the effect on total liquidity of advances received on capital grants for which capital expenditures have not been incurred yet.
ST believes its Net Financial Position and Adjusted Net Financial Position provide useful information for investors and management because they give evidence of our global position either in terms of net indebtedness or net cash by measuring our capital resources based on cash and cash equivalents, restricted cash, if any, short-term deposits and marketable securities and the total level of our financial debt. Our definitions of Net Financial Position and Adjusted Net Financial Position may differ from definitions used by other companies, and therefore, comparability may be limited.
(a) Total liquidity decreased from $4.92 billion in the fourth quarter of 2025 to $4.57 billion in the first quarter of 2026, after the cash-out of $895 million related to the acquisition of NXP MEMS sensor business. Total liquidity decreased from $5.63 billion in the second quarter of 2025 to $4.78 billion in the third quarter of 2025, the decrease includes $750 million related to the repayment of the first tranche of our convertible bond.
(b) Long-term debt contains standard conditions but does not impose minimum financial ratios. Committed credit facilities for $1,210 million equivalent are currently undrawn. As of March 28, 2026, total financial debt included $590 million long-term debt following the withdrawal of the €500 million first tranche of the new EIB credit line.
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Net Capex and Free Cash Flow (non-U.S. GAAP measures)
ST presents Net Capex as a non-U.S. GAAP measure, which is reported as part of our Free Cash Flow (non-U.S. GAAP measure), to take into consideration the effect of advances from capital grants received on prior periods allocated to property, plant and equipment in the reporting period.
Net Capex, a non-U.S. GAAP measure, is defined as (i) Payment for purchase of tangible assets, as reported plus (ii) Proceeds from sale of tangible assets, as reported plus (iii) Proceeds from capital grants and other contributions, as reported plus (iv) Advances from capital grants allocated to property, plant and equipment in the reporting period.
ST believes Net Capex provides useful information for investors and management because annual capital expenditures budget includes the effect of capital grants. Our definition of Net Capex may differ from definitions used by other companies.
Free Cash Flow, which is a non-U.S. GAAP measure, is defined as (i) net cash from operating activities plus (ii) Net Capex plus (iii) payment for purchase (and proceeds from sale) of intangible and financial assets and (iv) net cash paid for business acquisitions, if any.
ST believes Free Cash Flow provides useful information for investors and management because it measures our capacity to generate cash from our operating and investing activities to sustain our operations.
Free Cash Flow reconciles with the total cash flow and the net cash increase (decrease) by including the payment for purchases of (and proceeds from matured) marketable securities and net investment in (and proceeds from) short-term deposits, the net cash from (used in) financing activities and the effect of changes in exchange rates, and by excluding the advances from capital grants received on prior periods allocated to property, plant and equipment in the reporting period. Our definition of Free Cash Flow may differ from definitions used by other companies.
(a) Q126 Free cash flow includes $895 million cash-out related to the acquisition of NXP MEMS sensor business.
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