---
schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0000355811-25-000006"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "GNTX"
cik: "0000355811"
company_name: "GENTEX CORP"
filed_at: "2025-01-31T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-05-27T04:58:04.133678+00:00"
event_type: "earnings"
sentiment: "negative"
materiality_score: 0.75
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.75
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Gentex Q4 sales down 8% YoY, EPS $0.39 vs $0.50; FY 2024 record sales $2.31B

## Summary
- Q4 2024 net sales $541.6M (-8% YoY); gross margin 32.5% vs 34.5%; EPS $0.39 vs $0.50.
- FY 2024 net sales $2.31B (+1% YoY, new record); gross margin 33.3% vs 33.2%; EPS $1.76 vs $1.84.
- Full Display Mirror shipments up 21% to 2.96M units in 2024.
- 2025 guidance: revenue $2.40-2.45B, gross margin 33.5%-34.5%, operating expenses $310-320M.
- 2026 revenue expected $2.55-2.65B; guidance excludes pending VOXX acquisition.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0000355811-25-000006
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: GNTX
- cik: 0000355811
- company_name: GENTEX CORP
- filed_at: 2025-01-31T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: earnings
- sentiment: negative
- materiality_score: 0.75
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.75
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 2.02, 9.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/355811/000035581125000006/0000355811-25-000006-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/355811/000035581125000006/gntx-20250131.htm

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- Plain text: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0000355811-25-000006.txt

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