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schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0000097134-25-000024"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "TNC"
cik: "0000097134"
company_name: "TENNANT CO"
filed_at: "2025-08-06T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-05-17T20:20:15.590685+00:00"
event_type: "earnings"
sentiment: "negative"
materiality_score: 0.8
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.8
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Tennant Q2 net sales $319M (-3.7% YoY), EPS $1.08 adj $1.49, reaffirms 2025 guidance

## Summary
- Net sales $318.6M, down 3.7% YoY; diluted EPS $1.08 (adj $1.49); net income $20.2M (-27.6%).
- Adjusted EBITDA $51M (16% margin), down 13% YoY from $58.6M.
- Order rates grew 4.0% YoY; company cites prior-year backlog benefit as headwind.
- Reaffirmed full-year 2025 guidance; tariffs mitigation via supply-chain optimization and pricing.
- Returned $19M to shareholders ($5.4M dividends, $13.4M buybacks); launched Z50 Citadel outdoor sweeper.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0000097134-25-000024
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: TNC
- cik: 0000097134
- company_name: TENNANT CO
- filed_at: 2025-08-06T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: earnings
- sentiment: negative
- materiality_score: 0.8
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.8
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 2.02, 9.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/97134/000009713425000024/0000097134-25-000024-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/97134/000009713425000024/tnc-20250806.htm

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