Another Year of Strong Performance
Guidance Achievement

BELO HORIZONTE, Brazil--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Mar. 12, 2026-- Afya Limited (Nasdaq: AFYA; B3: A2FY34) (“Afya” or the “Company”), the leading medical education group and medical practice solutions provider in Brazil, reported today its financial and operating results for the fourth quarter and full-year period ended December 31, 2025. Financial results are expressed in Brazilian Reais and are presented in accordance with International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS).

Fourth Quarter 2025 Highlights

• 4Q25 Revenue increased 7.5% YoY to R$913.0 million. Revenue excluding acquisitions increased 7.3%, reaching R$910.8 million.
• 4Q25 Adjusted EBITDA increased 6.1% YoY, reaching R$388.5 million, with an Adjusted EBITDA Margin of 42.6%. Adjusted EBITDA Margin decreased 50 bps YoY. Adjusted EBITDA excluding acquisitions grew 6.0%, reaching R$388.0 million, with an Adjusted EBITDA Margin of 42.6%.
• 4Q25 Net Income increased 13.7% YoY, reaching R$175.4 million, and Adjusted Net Income increased 6.3% YoY, reaching R$205.7 million. Basic EPS growth was 14.9% in the same period.

Full Year 2025 Highlights

• FY25 Revenue increased 11.9% YoY to R$3,697.3 million. Revenue excluding acquisitions grew 9.2%, reaching R$3,607.5 million.
• FY25 Adjusted EBITDA increased 15.4% YoY reaching R$1,680.3 million, with an Adjusted EBITDA Margin of 45.4%. Adjusted EBITDA Margin increased 130 bps YoY. Adjusted EBITDA excluding acquisitions grew 11.8%, reaching R$1,628.0 million, with an Adjusted EBITDA Margin of 45.1%.
• FY25 Net Income increased 18.4% YoY, reaching R$768.4 million, and Adjusted Net Income increased 9.9 % YoY, reaching R$901.7 million. Basic EPS growth was 18.7% in the same period.
• Operating Cash Conversion ratio of 93.7% and a Free Cash Flow record of R$1,056 million, with a solid cash position of R$ 1,125.4 million.
• ~301 thousand users in Afya’s ecosystem.

Message from Management

We are pleased to present another year of strong operational and financial performance. In 2025, we once again met our revenue and Adjusted EBITDA guidance, achieving our seventh consecutive year of meeting or exceeding guidance since 2H19. This track record reinforces the strength of our business model, the quality of our execution, and the commitment of our teams. In addition, we delivered our second-highest Adjusted EBITDA margin, reaching 45.4% and an EPS growth of 18.7% in the same period, further supporting our ability to invest in growth and create long-term value for our shareholders.

This consistent performance gives us a solid foundation as we move into the next phase of our journey and look ahead to our 2026 guidance. We remain focused on combining sustainable growth with financial discipline while staying close to the needs of physicians and the Brazilian healthcare ecosystem.

In our Undergraduate segment, 2025 was marked by strong and sustainable revenue growth across Medical Schools, and other health related programs. This result reflects the maturity of our medical seats and the strength of Afya’s academic offering and brand. As we enter 2026, we start the year with 3,705 operating medical school seats, including 100 additional seats authorized at Afya Bragança. Our unified intake process across all medical schools is a key enabler, helping us attract and retain top candidates nationwide. This integrated approach brings consistency to admissions, reinforces Afya’s position as a leading medical education group, and supports greater operational efficiency across our campuses.

In Continuing Education and Medical Practice Solutions, 2025 was a year of higher efficiency and stronger synergies between the segments, which boosted gross margin expansion. We increased the total number of Continuing Education students by 8.9%, and for Medical Practice Solutions, we highlight the 9.4% growth in B2P revenue, demonstrating the value of our solutions and the segment's scalability.

Looking ahead to 2026, we are entering a new phase for Afya. Our ambition is to be recognized as the go-to brand for every physician in Brazil, in every stage of their medical career. In this new investment cycle, we will focus on expanding our audience and strengthening our digital products. Our goal is to increase adoption, deepen engagement, and continue growing our physician base. By making our ecosystem stronger and more integrated, we are able to sustain a structurally low customer acquisition cost for Undergraduate students, maintaining our competitive advantage and preserving efficient growth even in a more challenging environment. In this way, we are consolidating Afya as the long-term partner that supports physicians throughout their careers and building a solid platform for future B2B revenue opportunities.

On the solid basis of our guidance achievement for 2025, we are now presenting our guidance for 2026. We expect Revenue to range between R$3,950 million and R$ 4,100 million, and Adjusted EBITDA to be between R$1,700 million and R$1,800 million, excluding any acquisition that may be concluded after the issuance of this guidance.

From a capital allocation perspective, our strong cash generation and solid balance sheet allow us to support our organic and inorganic growth strategy while also returning value to shareholders. In 2025, our Board of Directors approved a new share repurchase program authorizing the buyback of up to 4,000,000 Class A common shares through December 31, 2026. On March 12, 2026, our Board of Directors declared a cash dividend of R$307.4 million, corresponding to 40% of Afya’s 2025 consolidated net income, supported by our 2025 Free Cash Flow of R$1,056 million reinforcing our commitment to shareholder remuneration, the strength of our financial position and our disciplined capital allocation strategy.

Looking ahead, we will keep strengthening our ecosystem, supporting physicians at every stage of their careers and pursuing sustainable growth in the years to come. We are proud of how far we have come and excited about the opportunities ahead as we continue to shape the future of the medical journey in Brazil.

1. Key Events in the Quarter

• On October 15, 2025, Afya Brazil issued commercial notes for private placement ("Commercial Notes”), sold to Opea Securitizadora S.A. ("Opea”), a Brazilian securitization corporation pursuant to Section 45 of Brazilian Law No. 14,195/2021, as amended. Opea issued a debenture backed by the Commercial Notes on the same terms and conditions.
  
  The aggregate principal amount of the Commercial Notes is R$1,500,000, divided into two series, the first in the aggregate amount of R$500,000 ("First Series”) and the second in the aggregate amount of R$1,000,000 ("Second Series”). The First Series will mature on October 15, 2028 and the Second Series will mature on October 15, 2030. The interest rate applicable to the First Series and Second Series will be equal to the CDI rate plus a spread of 0.70% and 0.85% per year, respectively, based on 252 business days.
  
  Afya Brazil is subject to certain obligations including financial covenants, and the Company shall maintain Net Debt (excluding lease liabilities) to adjusted EBITDA ratio below or equal to 3.0x, at the end of each fiscal year, until the maturity date, applicable from December 31, 2025 and thereafter. Adjusted EBITDA for covenant purposes considers net income plus (i) income taxes expenses, (ii) net financial result (excluding interest expenses on lease liabilities), (iii) depreciation and amortization expenses (excluding right-of-use assets depreciation expenses), (iv) share-based compensation expenses, (v) share of income of associate, (vi) interest received and (vii) non-recurring expenses. As of December 31, 2025, the Company is compliant with all obligations set forth in this Commercial Notes.
  
  The Commercial Notes have sureties provided by the following subsidiaries of the Company: Unigranrio, IESP and DelRey.

• On October 22, 2025, Afya Brazil fully repaid the aggregate outstanding amount related to the first issuance of debentures originally issued on December 16, 2022. The debentures were issued with a final maturity date of January 15, 2028, with the principal to be amortized in two equal installments payable on January 15, 2027, and January 15, 2028.
• On November 3, 2025, the Company repurchased all 150,000 Series A perpetual convertible preferred shares of a nominal or par value of US$0.00005 each in the capital of the Company for an aggregate purchase price of R$831,600, following the Share Repurchase Agreement with SBLA Holdco LLC, an affiliate of Softbank. All repurchased Series A Preferred Shares were cancelled by the Company.
• On November 7, 2025, MEC authorized the increase of 100 medical school seats of ITPAC Porto located in the city of Bragança, State of Pará. With this authorization, Afya reaches 150 medical school seats on this campus, and 3,753 total approved medical school seats.
• On December 18, 2025, MEC authorized the approval of two additional medical school seats at Afya Pato Branco, increasing Afya’s total approved medical school seats to 3,755.

2. Subsequent Events

• On February 6, 2026, MEC authorized an increase of 63 medical seats for ITPAC – Instituto Tocantinense Presidente Antonio Carlos Porto S.A. (“Afya Abaetetuba”), located in the city of Abaetetuba, in the state of Pará. With this authorization, Afya’s Abaetetuba campus will offer a total of 113 medical seats.
  
  As Afya Cametá—an approved but, non-operating medical school—and Afya Abaetetuba are located within the same health region, Afya Cametá will not become operational, thereby creating the capacity that enabled the approval of 63 additional medical seats at Afya Abaetetuba. With this addition, Afya now has a total of 3,768 approved medical seats across its portfolio.

• On March 12, 2026, the Company’s Board of Directors approved dividend distribution in the amount of R$307.4 million, representing 40% of the Company’s consolidated net income for the year ended December 31, 2025 and a dividend per share of R$3.446838, payable in U.S. dollars on April 6, 2026, to the shareholders on record as of the close of business on March 25, 2025. The payment will be made at the exchange rate (PTAX) to be published by the Brazilian Central Bank on March 13, 2026.

3. Full Year 2025 Guidance Achievement

The Company’s financial results reaffirmed the resiliency and profitability of Afya’s business model:

4. 2026 Guidance

The guidance for FY2026 is defined in the following table:

5. 4Q25 and 2025 Overview

Segment Information

The Company has three reportable segments as follows:

Undergraduate, which provides educational services through undergraduate courses related to medical school, undergraduate health science and other ex-health undergraduate programs.

Continuing education, which provides medical education (including residency preparation programs, specialization test preparation and other medical capabilities), specialization and graduate courses in medicine, delivered through digital and in-person content; and

Medical Practice Solutions, which provides clinical decision, clinical management and doctor-patient relationships for physicians and provides access, demand and efficiency for the healthcare players.

Key Revenue Drivers – Undergraduate Programs

Key Revenue Drivers – Continuing Education

Key Revenue – Medical Practice Solutions

Key Operational Drivers – Users Positively Impacted by Afya

The Users Positively Impacted by Afya represents the total number of medical students from the Undergraduate segment, students from Continuing Education and users from Medical Practice Solutions. For the fourth quarter of 2025, Afya’s ecosystem reached 300,646 users.

Seasonality of Operations

Undergraduate tuition revenues are related to the intake process, and monthly tuition fees charged to students, and do not significantly fluctuate during each semester.

Continuing education revenues are mostly related to: (i) monthly intakes and tuition fees on medical education, which do not have a considerable concentration in any period; (ii) Residency journey product revenues, derived from e-books transferred at a point of time, which are concentrated in the first and last quarter of the year due to the enrollments.

Medical Practice Solutions are comprised mainly of Afya Whitebook and Afya iClinic revenues, which do not have significant fluctuations regarding seasonality.

Revenue

Revenue for the fourth quarter of 2025 was R$913.0 million, an increase of 7.5% over the same period in the prior year. For the twelve-month period ended December 31, 2025, Revenue was R$3,697.3 million, reflecting an 11.9% increase over the same period of last year. Excluding acquisitions, Revenue in the fourth quarter increased by 7.3% YoY to R$910.8 million. For the twelve-month period ended December 31, 2025, excluding acquisitions, Revenue was R$3,607.5 million, reflecting a 9.2% increase over the same period of last year.

The yearly revenue increase was mainly driven by (a) Undergraduate, higher tickets in medicine courses, the maturation of medical school seats, the increase in non-medical students, the acquisition of FUNIC and the full year results consolidation of UNIDOM (Acquired July of 2024); (b) Continuing Education, expansion in Graduate Journey campuses and students, increasing the average ticket per student across the segment, and (c) Medical Practice Solutions, which delivered growth primarily due to an expansion in Clinical Management active payers and a more favorable product mix compensating the decrease in the B2B.

Adjusted EBITDA

Adjusted EBITDA for the fourth quarter of 2025 increased by 6.1% to R$388.5 million, up from R$366.0 million in the same period of the prior year, with the Adjusted EBITDA Margin reducing by 50 basis points to 42.6%, due mainly to lower performance of Medical Practice Solutions and an increase in corporate expenses.

For the twelve-month period ended December 31, 2025, Adjusted EBITDA was R$1,680.3 million, an increase of 15.4% over the same period of the prior year, accompanied by an Adjusted EBITDA Margin increase of 130 basis points in the same period. The increase in Adjusted EBITDA Margin was mainly driven by: (a) higher gross margin in the Undergraduate and Continuing Education segments; (b) restructuring initiatives within Continuing Education and Medical Practice Solutions; and (c) improved efficiency in Selling, General, and Administrative expenses.

Net Income

Net Income for the fourth quarter of 2025 totaled R$175.4 million, representing a 13.7% YoY increase. Adjusted Net Income reached R$205.7 million, an increase of 6.3% over the same period in the prior year. For the three-month period ended December 31, 2025, Net Income benefited from proactive liability management actions, primarily driven by the repurchase and cancellation of the perpetual convertible preferred shares held by SoftBank, which resulted in a gain of R$18 million.

For the twelve-month period, Afya achieved a Net Income of R$768.4 million, 18.4% higher than the same period of 2024, and an Adjusted Net Income of R$901.7 million, which was 9.9% higher than the previous period. For the year, growth reflects stronger operational performance, combined with the recognition of deferred tax assets, partially offset by the additional CSLL provision related to the OECD’s Pillar Two global minimum tax effects.

Basic EPS for the twelve-month period ended December 31, 2025, reached R$8.32. An increase of 18.7% YoY, reflecting the higher Net Income and our capital allocation with the execution of the Repurchase Program approved in August of 2025.

Cash and Debt Position

As of December 31, 2025, Cash and Cash Equivalents totaled R$1,125.4 million, representing a 23.5% increase from December 31, 2024. Afya reduced its Net Debt, excluding the effect of IFRS 16, to R$1,369.5 million, a decrease of R$445.4 million compared to December 31, 2024. This reduction was achieved through solid Cash Flow from Operating Activities, despite the business combination with FUNIC, dividend payments, and Afya’s share repurchase program.

For the twelve-month period ended December 31, 2025, Afya generated R$1,547.6 million in Cash Flow from Operating Activities, up from R$1,453.2 million in the same period of the previous year, an increase of 6.5% YoY, boosted by operational results. The Operating Cash Conversion Ratio reached 93.7%.

The following table shows more information regarding the cost of debt for 2025, considering loans and financing and accounts payable to selling shareholders. Afya’s capital structure remains solid, with a conservative leveraging position and a low cost of debt. Afya’s Net Debt (excluding the effect of IFRS16) divided by Adjusted EBITDA is 0.8x, marking an impressive reduction from 1.2x in the same period of the prior year, reinforcing Afya’s accelerated deleveraging trend.

The issuance of R$1,500 million in debentures on October 15, 2025, together with the repurchase and cancellation of the perpetual convertible held by SoftBank, the first issuance of debentures by Afya Participações S.A., and other Loans and Financing, demonstrates Afya’s disciplined approach to capital allocation and liability management, resulting in an extended average debt duration to 3.6 years.

CAPEX

Capital expenditure consists of the purchase of property and equipment and intangible assets, including expenditure mainly related to the expansion and maintenance of Afya’s campuses and headquarters, leasehold improvements, and the development of new solutions in Medical Practice Solutions and content in Continuing Education.

For the twelve-month period ended December 31, 2025, CAPEX totaled R$404.0 million, including an acceleration in intangible investments in the fourth quarter. Excluding the license payment related to the FUNIC acquisition, CAPEX was R$ 304.4 million, representing 8.2% of Afya’s revenue.

ESG Metrics

ESG commitment is a crucial part of Afya’s strategy and is deeply ingrained in the Company’s core values. Afya has been advancing year after year on its core pillars and, since 2021, ESG metrics have been disclosed in the Company’s quarterly financial results in three key metrics, Governance and Employee Management, Environmental and Social.

The 2024 Sustainability Report can be found at: https://ir.afya.com.br/annual-report/

1. Conference Call and Webcast Information

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Webinar ID: 982 7161 8661

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2. About Afya Limited (Nasdaq: AFYA; B3: A2FY34)

Afya is a leading medical education group in Brazil based on the number of medical school seats, delivering an end-to-end physician-centric ecosystem that serves and empowers students and physicians to transform their ambitions into rewarding lifelong experiences from the moment they join us as medical students through their medical residency preparation, graduation program, continuing medical education activities and offering medical practice solutions to help doctors enhance their healthcare services through their whole career. For more information, please visit www.afya.com.br.

3. Forward – Looking Statements

This press release contains forward-looking statements within the meaning of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995, which statements involve substantial risks and uncertainties. All statements other than statements of historical fact could be deemed forward-looking, including risks and uncertainties related to statements about our competition; our ability to attract, upsell and retain students; our capacity to increase tuition prices; our ability to anticipate and meet the evolving needs of students and teachers; our capacity to source and successfully integrate acquisitions; as well as general market, political, economic, and business conditions. Additionally, these statements include financial targets such as revenue, share count and IFRS and non-IFRS financial measures including gross margin, operating margin, net income (loss) per diluted share, and free cash flow. These statements are not guarantees of future performance and undue reliance should not be placed on them.

The Company assumes no obligation to update any forward-looking statements made in this press release to reflect events or circumstances occurring after its publication, nor to incorporate new information or the occurrence of unanticipated events, except as required by law. The achievement or success of the matters covered by such forward-looking statements involves known and unknown risks, uncertainties and assumptions. If any of these risks or uncertainties materialize or if any of the assumptions prove incorrect, our results could differ materially from those expressed or implied by the forward-looking statements we make.

Readers should not rely upon forward-looking statements as predictions of future events. Forward-looking statements represent management’s beliefs and assumptions only as of the date they are made. Further information on these and other factors that could affect the Company’s financial results is included in filings made with the United States Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) from time to time, including the section titled “Risk Factors” in the most recent annual report on Form 20-F. These documents are available in the SEC Filings section of the investor relations section of our website at: https://ir.afya.com.br/.

4. Non-GAAP Financial Measures

To supplement the Company's consolidated financial statements, which are prepared and presented in accordance with IFRS accounting standards as issued by the International Accounting Standards Board—IASB, Afya presents Adjusted EBITDA, Operating Cash Conversion Ratio, Adjusted Net Income and Adjusted EPS, which are non-GAAP financial measures, for the convenience of investors. A non-GAAP financial measure is generally defined as one that intends to measure financial performance but excludes or includes amounts that would not be equally adjusted in the most comparable GAAP measure.

Afya calculates Adjusted EBITDA as net income plus/minus net financial result, plus income taxes expense, plus depreciation and amortization, plus interest received on late payments of monthly tuition fees, plus share-based compensation, plus/minus income share associate, plus/minus non-recurring expenses/income. Operating Cash Conversion Ratio is calculated as the Cash flow from Operating Activities plus income taxes paid, minus/plus non-recurring expenses/income divided by Adjusted EBITDA. The calculation of Adjusted Net Income is the Net Income plus amortization of customer relationships and trademark, plus share-based compensation, plus/minus non-recurring expenses/income. The calculation of Adjusted EPS is the Adjusted Net Income minus the non-controlling interests divided by the Weighted average number of outstanding shares.

The non-GAAP supplemental financial measures are provided with the intend to help investors in assessing the overall performance of Afya’s business regarding its core operations, cash generation and profitability. The non-GAAP financial measures described in this release are not substitutes for the IFRS measures. In addition, the calculations of Adjusted EBITDA, Operating Cash Conversion Ratio, Adjusted Net Income and Adjusted EPS are not standardized financial measures and may differ from the calculations used by other companies, including competitors in the education services industry, and therefore, Afya’s measures may not be comparable to those of other companies.

5. Investor Relations Contact

E-mail: ir@afya.com.br

6. Financial Tables

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