2/25/2026

speaker
Cameron
Moderator

Good afternoon. Thank you for attending the TKO fourth quarter and full year 2025 earnings call. My name is Cameron, and I'll be your moderator for today. All lines will be muted during the presentation portion of the call with an opportunity for questions and answers at the end. If you would like to ask a question, please press star followed by one on your telephone keypad. And I would now like to pass the conference over to your host, Steph Zaslow, head of investor relations. Please proceed.

speaker
Steph Zaslow
Head of Investor Relations

Good afternoon. and welcome to TKO's fourth quarter and full year 2025 earnings call. A short while ago, we issued a press release, which you can view on our investor relations website. A recording of this call will also be available via our website for at least 30 days. After prepared remarks from Ari Emanuel, TKO's executive chair and chief executive officer, Mark Shapiro, TKO's president and chief operating officer, and Andrew Schleimer, TKO's chief financial officer, we'll open the call for questions. Mark and Andrew will be handling the Q&A. The purpose of this call is to provide you with information regarding our fourth quarter and full year 2025 performance. I want to remind everyone that the information discussed will include forward-looking statements and or projections that involve risks, uncertainties, and assumptions. Please see our filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission for further detail. If these risks or uncertainties were to materialize or any assumptions prove incorrect, our results may differ materially from those expressed or implied on this call. Forward-looking statements speak only as of the date they are made, and we undertake no obligation to update them in light of new information or future events, except as legally required. Our commentary today will also include non-GAAP financial measures. which we believe provide an additional tool for investors to use in evaluating ongoing operating results and trends. These measures should not be considered in isolation from or as a substitute for financial information prepared in accordance with GAAP. Reconciliations between GAAP and non-GAAP metrics can be found in our press release issued today, as well as the information posted on our IR website. With that, I'll now turn the call over to Ari.

speaker
Ari Emanuel
Executive Chair and Chief Executive Officer

Thanks, Seth. 2025 was a catalytic year for TKO as we established meaningful momentum across both UFC and WWE in particular. TKO sits squarely at the center of a robust sports and entertainment ecosystem. Our properties command attention with must-see content and no off-season, capturing a coveted young diverse audience and reaching more than a billion households globally. In 2025, we signed two historic U.S. media rights deals for our marquee assets, UFC's $7.7 billion deal with Paramount, where it joins the NFL, NCAA Final Four, UEFA Champions League, and the Masters, and WWE's $1.6 billion deal with ESPN to become the exclusive home of all premium live events, including WrestleMania. While still early innings, we're thrilled to partner with Paramount and ESPN to expand our fan bases and drive growth for our premium IP. While delivering these transformational deals, we launched a capital return program, first initiating and then doubling our quarterly cash dividend. We have also nearly completed $1 billion of share repurchases and today announced our intent to repurchase up to $1 billion of additional shares. Our accomplishments in 2025 validate the industrial logic of TKO and ensure we are well positioned for 2026 and beyond. We remain extremely optimistic about our position in the content marketplace, and our conviction in TKO has never been stronger. In closing, I know that our M&A intentions are always a topic of interest, so I thought I would address that formally. While we will always be opportunistic, I want to reiterate past commentary that 2026 is a year of execution for us. We are an execution story. With that, I will have Mark get into the detail.

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