---
schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0000098362-25-000009"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "TKR"
cik: "0000098362"
company_name: "TIMKEN CO"
filed_at: "2025-02-05T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-05-27T03:14:03.893579+00:00"
event_type: "earnings"
sentiment: "negative"
materiality_score: 0.75
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.75
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Timken Q4 net income up to $1.01 EPS; adj EPS $1.16; EVP Coughlin to retire Dec 2025

## Summary
- Q4 sales $1.07B (-1.6% YoY); diluted EPS $1.01 (up from $0.83); adj EPS $1.16 (down from $1.37).
- FY2024 sales $4.57B (-4.1%); diluted EPS $4.99; adj EPS $5.79; free cash flow $306M.
- FY2025 EPS guidance $4.30-$4.80; adj EPS $5.30-$5.80; cost actions target $75M gross savings.
- EVP Christopher A. Coughlin (President, Industrial Motion) will retire by end Dec 2025 after 41 years.
- Net debt to adjusted EBITDA at 2.0x; reduced total debt by $333M in 2024.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0000098362-25-000009
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: TKR
- cik: 0000098362
- company_name: TIMKEN CO
- filed_at: 2025-02-05T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: earnings
- sentiment: negative
- materiality_score: 0.75
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.75
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 2.02, 5.02, 9.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/98362/000009836225000009/0000098362-25-000009-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/98362/000009836225000009/tkr-20250203.htm

## Machine-readable alternates
- HTML: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0000098362-25-000009
- JSON: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0000098362-25-000009.json
- Plain text: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0000098362-25-000009.txt

## Key facts
- Executive change
  Christopher A. Coughlin departed as Executive Vice President, President of Industrial Motion at TIMKEN CO.
  - Action: notified intention to retire
  - Role: Executive Vice President, President of Industrial Motion
  source text: On February 3, 2025, Christopher A. Coughlin, Executive Vice President, President of Industrial Motion, of the Company notified the Company of his intention to retire by the end of December 2025.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/98362/000009836225000009/0000098362-25-000009-index.htm

This AI-assisted summary is a reading aid. Review the linked SEC EDGAR filing before relying on any specific claim.