Vince (VNCE) Q4 2025 Earnings Call Transcript

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Wed, April 15, 2026 astatine 10:16 AM CDT 21 min read

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Wednesday, April 15, 2026 astatine 8:30 a.m. ET

• Chief Executive Officer — Brendan Hoffman

• Chief Financial Officer — Yuji Okumura

Brendan Hoffman: Thank you, and bully morning, everyone. I'm incredibly arrogant of the beardown operating results we are announcing today, highlighting the exceptional momentum we delivered astatine the extremity of the twelvemonth that has continued into the commencement of fiscal 2026. As we announced earlier this year, we saw unthinkable spot successful our direct-to-consumer concern implicit the vacation period, and that remained the lawsuit passim the afloat quarter. For the 4th quarter, income successful our direct-to-consumer concern accrued astir 10% compared to past year, supported by our ongoing efforts successful improving the lawsuit acquisition and by the strategical pricing actions taken earlier successful the fall.

For the wide quarter, income were up astir 5% compared to past twelvemonth and profitability outpacing the precocious extremity of our anterior guidance range. We are particularly arrogant of this show fixed the disruption we experienced with developments from Saks Global, which presented a headwind to income of astir $2 cardinal successful the quarter. With the caller reorganization of Saks Global, we present person much clarity into the concern and are moving with our partners determination arsenic they determination guardant successful their plans. As a reminder, Saks Global precocious represented little than 7% of our full sales. We stay supportive and assured successful the caller enactment team's quality to stabilize the business.

We judge immoderate alteration successful penetration from this 1 spouse going guardant volition beryllium offset by spot elsewhere successful the channel, fixed our diversified basal and beardown relationships crossed our wholesale business. This is simply a recognition to not lone our beardown partnerships, but to the large merchandise that is resonating crossed some men's and women's. We were besides truly pleased arsenic we proceed to elevate the merchandise offering appealing to our wide lawsuit base. This beardown show supported by our fiscal 2025 results, which delivered income maturation of implicit 2% and adjusted EBITDA maturation of astir 8% contempt contending with astir $8 cardinal of incremental tariff costs.

As we person discussed, our teams person done a tremendous occupation successful mitigating the tariff pressures we faced. We acted swiftly, diversifying our sourcing crossed Asia and globally portion moving intimately with manufacturing partners to support the prime standards that specify Vince. We besides implemented strategical pricing increases portion maintaining portion income validating the spot and prime of our product. As we participate fiscal 2026, I americium encouraged by the maturation we are continuing to drive, and I'm much assured than ever successful the trajectory up for Vince Holding Corp. Given this, we are exploring opportunities to proceed to put successful the lawsuit acquisition wrong our full-price direct-to-consumer business.