Lenovo Group: Q4 and Full Year Financial Results 2025/26
Lenovo delivers exceptional fourth quarter results – maintaining growth and concluding strongest year in the Group’s history
For the full year, the Group delivered record revenue of
The fourth quarter and full-year results demonstrate the Group’s ability to sustain growth and strengthen its competitive position while navigating a complex external environment marked by supply shortages and rising component costs. Its operational excellence - underpinned by a balanced global business and manufacturing footprint, and global-local operating model - has delivered strong structural resilience in a volatile environment. The Group also continued to increase investment in innovation, with R&D expenses rising 16% year-on-year in the fourth quarter to 3.5% of Group revenue and increasing 9% year-on-year to 3% of full year Group revenue. At the same time, continued progress in delivering its Hybrid AI vision is positioning Lenovo at the forefront of the AI inferencing and democratization era.
Lenovo’s Board of Directors declared a final dividend of 33.70 HK cents per share for the fiscal year ended
Chairman and CEO quote –
“Lenovo concluded its best year ever with an exceptional fourth quarter, where we delivered on our promises. We returned our
Financial Highlights:
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Q4 FY25/26
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Q4 FY24/25
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Change |
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FY25/26
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FY24/25
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Change |
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Group Revenue |
21,588 |
16,984 |
27% |
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83,075 |
69,077 |
20% |
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Net Income (profit attributable to equity holders) |
521 |
90 |
479% |
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1,912 |
1,384 |
38% |
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Adjusted Net Income (profit attributable to equity holders – non-HKFRS) [1] |
559 |
278 |
101% |
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2,049 |
1,441 |
42% |
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Basic earnings per share (US cents) |
4.32 |
0.73 |
3.59 |
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15.63 |
11.30 |
4.33 |
Q4 results:
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Revenue for IDG increased 24% year-on-year to
US$14.6 billion , with PC and Smart devices revenue up 26% year-on-year, the highest growth rate in five years. Operating margin was well maintained at 6.9%. - In PCs Lenovo maintained its significant profit lead against the competition, shipment growth outpacing the market by nearly six percentage points. In addition, it was the only company among the top five global vendors to deliver consecutive positive year-on-year shipment growth during the past 10 quarters.
- Global PC market share reached a fourth quarter high at 24.4%, retaining the #1 position, with the gap between the #1 and #2 players in the industry widening to the largest in 15 years.
- Premium PC shipment mix reached 50% in the fourth quarter, with shipments up 29% year-on-year, reflecting strong execution in higher-value segments.
- For the mobile business, Motorola smartphones achieved record fourth-quarter shipments, delivering double-digit revenue growth year-on-year.
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ISG’s turnaround delivered the highest ever operating profits and margins since entering the business, with record quarterly revenue of
US$5.6 billion , up 37% year-on-year, and operating profit ofUS$202 million . -
The business is seeing robust momentum across the board, with an AI server business pipeline of
US$21 billion and more than 5,800 customer AI deployments. - Rack-scale execution advanced, with first GB300 NVL72 racks shipped last quarter and Rubin-based platforms on track for targeted time-to-market in the second half, supporting faster time to first token and scaled customer delivery.
- Annual server manufacturing capacity surpassed 70,000 racks across AI, compute, and storage systems, including more than 11,000 Direct Liquid-Cooled racks purpose-built for AI workloads.
- The acquisition of Infinidat was completed in early April, strengthening ISG’s high-end enterprise storage capabilities and unlocking long-term potential for margin expansion and broader market opportunities.
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SSG sustained its double-digit year-on-year revenue growth and high profitability of more than 20%, with revenue growing to
US$2.6 billion , up 19% year-on-year, and extending five consecutive years of double-digit year-on-year revenue growth. -
A record 62% of revenue came from
Managed Services and Project and Solutions, accelerating the shift to higher‑value, recurring services delivered through a scalable, tech‑led, labor‑light model, underpinned by deep domain and industry expertise. -
Lenovo Hybrid AI Advantage™ continued to gain traction, helping customers reduce time to first token with
AI Factory and increase value per token through more than 60 AI use cases in theAI Library , scaling across manufacturing, retail, and sports. - TruScale emerged as a key growth driver, helping enterprises and cloud providers scale AI in production through a flexible, consumption-based model that accelerated deployment, improved utilization, and enabled AI scaling with greater cost predictability and supply assurance.
Full fiscal year summary
Group revenue surpassed
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IDG – full year revenue of
US$58.9 billion , up 17% year-on-year, with strengthened market leadership across PC segments and adjacencies. -
ISG - record full-year revenue of
US$19.2 billion , up 32% year-on-year, reaching full-year profitability with operating profit improving toUS$73 million . -
SSG – revenue surpassed the
US$10 billion revenue mark for the first time, up 19% year-on-year, with operating profits more than doubling over the past five fiscal years.
Corporate and ESG highlights
Achievements, announcements, and notable commitments over the past quarter include:
- Lenovo earned the EcoVadis Platinum Medal, reaffirming its position among the top 1% of companies assessed globally, and was recognized as a SERI Champion for its leadership in electronics sustainability.
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Lenovo was recognized by
Corporate Knights as one of the World’s Most Sustainable Companies, and named by Forbes among the World's Best Employers 2025 and World's Top Companies for Women 2025. - Lenovo was also included for the eighth consecutive year in the Human Rights Campaign Foundation’s Corporate Equality Index, earning a score of 95%.
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[1] Note on adjusted net income: Adjusted measure was defined as financial metric by excluding net fair value changes on financial assets at fair value through profit or loss, amortization of intangible assets resulting from mergers and acquisitions, impairment and write-off of intangible assets , property, plant and equipment and construction-in-progress, fair value change on derivative financial liabilities relating to warrants, one-time income tax credit, restructuring charges, dilution gain on interests in associates and a joint venture, impairment of interests in associates, gain on deemed disposal of a subsidiary, and notional interest on convertible bonds; and the corresponding income tax effects, if any. |
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[2] Note on AI-related revenue: AI Devices: PCs and Smartphones equipped with NPU; AI Servers: GPU Servers; AI Services: Services that enable customer to build, scale & manage AI. |
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FINANCIAL SUMMARY
For the quarter and year ended (in US$ millions, except per share data) |
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Q4
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Q4
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Y/Y CH |
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FY25/26 |
FY24/25 |
Y/Y CH |
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Revenue
|
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21,588 |
16,984 |
27% |
|
83,075 |
69,077 |
20% |
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Gross profit |
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3,539
|
2,783
|
27% |
|
12,809 |
11,098 |
15% |
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Gross profit margin
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16.4%
|
16.4%
|
0 pts |
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15.4% |
16.1% |
(0.7) pts |
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Operating expenses
|
|
(2,653)
|
(2,452)
|
8% |
|
(9,547) |
(8,934) |
7% |
|
R&D expenses
|
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(748)
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(644)
|
16% |
|
(2,490) |
(2,288) |
9% |
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Expenses-to-revenue ratio
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12.3%
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14.4%
|
(2.1) pts |
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11.5% |
12.9% |
(1.4) pts |
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Operating profit
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|
886
|
331
|
167% |
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3,262 |
2,164 |
51% |
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Other non-operating income/(expenses) – net |
|
(151) |
(153)
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(2%) |
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(592) |
(683) |
(13%) |
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Profit before taxation
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|
735
|
178
|
314% |
|
2,670 |
1,481 |
80% |
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Taxation
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(141)
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(54)
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165% |
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(510) |
(19) |
2596% |
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Profit for the period/year
|
|
594
|
124
|
378% |
|
2,160 |
1,462 |
48% |
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Non-controlling interests
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|
(73)
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(34)
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112% |
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(248) |
(78) |
220% |
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Net Income (Profit attributable to equity holders) |
|
521 |
90 |
479% |
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1,912 |
1,384 |
38% |
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Adjusted Net Income (Profit attributable to equity holders – non-HKFRS)[1] |
|
559 |
278 |
101% |
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2,049 |
1,441 |
42% |
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Earnings per share (US cents)
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4.32 3.80 |
0.73 0.71 |
3.59 3.09 |
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15.63 13.91 |
11.30 10.62 |
4.33 3.29 |
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