---
schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001185185-25-000515"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "EDUC"
cik: "0000031667"
company_name: "EDUCATIONAL DEVELOPMENT CORP"
filed_at: "2025-05-19T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-05-21T02:18:29.635954+00:00"
event_type: "other_material"
sentiment: "positive"
materiality_score: 0.8
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.8
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Educational Development Corp signs $35.15M sale-leaseback for HQ; reports FY2025 net loss of $5.3M

## Summary
- Executed Purchase and Sale Agreement with TG OTC, LLC for Hilti Complex at $35.15M; proceeds to fully pay down all bank debts. Expected close by early September 2025.
- Fiscal 2025 net revenues $34.2M (down 33% YoY), net loss $5.3M (vs $0.5M profit in FY2024), diluted EPS ($0.63) vs $0.07.
- Fiscal Q4 net revenues $6.6M (down 26% YoY), net loss $1.3M (improved from $1.6M loss), diluted EPS ($0.16) vs ($0.19).
- Board adds Steven Hooser (Class I) and Dr. Amy Emerson (Class III); Hooser will no longer serve as Investor Relations advisor.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001185185-25-000515
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: EDUC
- cik: 0000031667
- company_name: EDUCATIONAL DEVELOPMENT CORP
- filed_at: 2025-05-19T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: other_material
- sentiment: positive
- materiality_score: 0.8
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.8
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 1.01, 2.02, 5.02, 7.01, 9.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/31667/000118518525000515/0001185185-25-000515-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/31667/000118518525000515/educ8k051925.htm

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- Plain text: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001185185-25-000515.txt

## Key facts
- Executive change
  Dr. Amy Emerson was appointed as Director at EDUCATIONAL DEVELOPMENT CORP.
  - Action: appointed
  - Role: Director
  source text: the Board approved Dr. Amy Emerson as a Class III Director
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/31667/000118518525000515/0001185185-25-000515-index.htm
- Executive change
  Steven Hooser was appointed as Director at EDUCATIONAL DEVELOPMENT CORP.
  - Action: appointed
  - Role: Director
  source text: On May 14, 2025 the Board of Directors of the Company unanimously approved adding Steven Hooser to the Company’s Board of Directors.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/31667/000118518525000515/0001185185-25-000515-index.htm

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