secwatch.observer — SEC 8-K summary
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Issuer:     GENTEX CORP (GNTX)
CIK:        0000355811
Form:       8-K
Filed at:   2025-04-25T23:59:59+00:00
Accession:  0000355811-25-000026
Event type: earnings
Sentiment:  negative
Materiality: 0.80
Item codes: 2.02, 9.01
LLM model:  deepseek-v4-flash:cloud@v2

Gentex Q1 EPS $0.42 (-11%), revenue $576.8M, cuts FY25 primary market outlook to $2.1-2.2B
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- Net sales $576.8M (-2% YoY); EPS $0.42 vs $0.47; operating income $113.0M vs $129.3M.
- Gross margin 33.2% (down 110bps YoY, up 70bps QoQ); $0.65M tariff cost in quarter.
- FY25 guidance: primary market revenue cut to $2.1-2.2B (from $2.40-2.45B); China rev $50-120M; 2026 withdrawn.
- VOXX merger closed Apr 1; expected annualized revenue $325-375M subject to tariff impact.
- Halted China production; 3.1M shares repurchased at $24.52 avg.

Source:
  EDGAR index:    https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/355811/000035581125000026/0000355811-25-000026-index.htm
  Primary doc:    https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/355811/000035581125000026/gntx-20250425.htm
  HTML page:      https://secwatch.observer/filing/0000355811-25-000026

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