---
schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001718512-25-000009"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "GTES"
cik: "0001718512"
company_name: "Gates Industrial Corp plc"
filed_at: "2025-02-06T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-05-27T01:43:39.113896+00:00"
event_type: "earnings"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.7
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.7
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Gates Industrial Q4 net sales $829.4M (-3.9% YoY); adj. EBITDA margin 21.8%; introduces 2025 guidance

## Summary
- Q4 diluted EPS $0.14 (GAAP), adjusted EPS $0.36; prior year $0.24 and $0.37 respectively.
- Full-year net sales $3,408.2M (-4.5% YoY); adj. EBITDA $761.1M, margin 22.3% (+140 bps). 
- FY2025 guidance: core sales growth -0.5% to +3.5%; adj. EBITDA $735-795M; adj. EPS $1.36-1.52.
- Power Transmission Q4 sales -2.4% (core -0.9%), EBITDA $112.9M; Fluid Power Q4 sales -6.4% (core -5.3%), EBITDA $67.9M.
- Generated $379.6M operating cash flow in FY24; repurchased $175M stock; total debt $2.4B, cash $682M.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001718512-25-000009
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: GTES
- cik: 0001718512
- company_name: Gates Industrial Corp plc
- filed_at: 2025-02-06T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: earnings
- sentiment: neutral
- materiality_score: 0.7
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.7
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 2.02, 9.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1718512/000171851225000009/0001718512-25-000009-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1718512/000171851225000009/gtes-20250206.htm

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