FedEx 10-Q 2025-08-31

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SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION

Washington, D.C. 20549

(Mark One)

FOR THE QUARTERLY PERIOD ENDED August 31, 2025

OR

FOR THE TRANSITION PERIOD FROM __________ TO__________

Commission File Number: 1-15829

Registrant’s telephone number, including area code: (901) 818-7500

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Indicate the number of shares outstanding of each of the issuer’s classes of common stock, as of the latest practicable date.

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FEDEX CORPORATION

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GENERAL

The following Management’s Discussion and Analysis of Results of Operations and Financial Condition (“MD&A”) describes the principal factors affecting the results of operations, liquidity, capital resources, and critical accounting estimates of FedEx Corporation (“FedEx”). This discussion should be read in conjunction with the accompanying quarterly unaudited condensed consolidated financial statements and our Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended May 31, 2025 (“Annual Report”). Our Annual Report includes additional information about our significant accounting policies, practices, and the transactions that underlie our financial results, as well as a detailed discussion of the most significant risks and uncertainties associated with our financial condition and operating results.

We provide a broad portfolio of transportation, e-commerce, and business services, offering integrated business solutions utilizing our flexible, efficient, and intelligent global network. Our primary operating companies are Federal Express Corporation (“Federal Express”), the world’s largest express transportation company and a leading North American provider of small-package ground delivery services, and FedEx Freight, Inc. (“FedEx Freight”), a leading North American provider of less-than-truckload (“LTL”) freight transportation services. See “Reportable Segments” for further discussion. Additional information on our businesses can be found in our Annual Report.

Following our one FedEx consolidation, Federal Express operates a unified, fully integrated air-ground express network under the respected FedEx brand. FedEx Freight provides LTL freight transportation services as a separate subsidiary. Federal Express and FedEx Freight represent our major service lines and constitute our reportable segments.

In December 2024, we announced that FedEx’s Board of Directors decided to pursue a full separation of FedEx Freight through the capital markets, creating a new publicly traded company. The transaction, which will be implemented through the spin-off of shares of the new company to FedEx stockholders, is expected to be tax-free for U.S. federal income tax purposes for FedEx stockholders and be completed by June 2026.

In January 2025, the Board of Directors approved a change in FedEx’s fiscal year end from May 31 to December 31. The planned fiscal year change is expected to be effective June 1, 2026.

Except as otherwise specified, references to years indicate our fiscal year ending May 31, 2026 or ended May 31 of the year referenced, and comparisons are to the corresponding period of the prior year. References to our transportation segments include, collectively, the Federal Express segment and the FedEx Freight segment.

The key indicators necessary to understand our operating results include:

• the overall customer demand for our various services based on macroeconomic factors and the global economy;

• the volumes of transportation services provided through our networks, primarily measured by our average daily volume and shipment weight and size;

• the mix of services purchased by our customers;

• the prices we obtain for our services, primarily measured by yield (revenue per package or pound, revenue per shipment, or hundredweight for LTL freight shipments);

• our ability to manage our cost structure (capital expenditures and operating expenses) to match shifting volume levels; and

• the timing and amount of fluctuations in fuel prices and our ability to recover incremental fuel costs through our fuel surcharges.

Trends Affecting Our Business

The following trends significantly affect the indicators discussed above, as well as our business and operating results. See the risk factors identified under Part I, Item 1A. “Risk Factors” in our Annual Report, as updated by our quarterly reports on Form 10-Q, for more information. Additionally, see “Results of Operations – Consolidated Results – Business Optimization Costs and – Outlook” and “Financial Condition – Liquidity Outlook” below for additional information on efforts we are taking to mitigate adverse trends.

Macroeconomic Conditions

While macroeconomic risks apply to most companies, we are particularly vulnerable. The transportation industry is highly cyclical and especially susceptible to trends in economic activity. Our primary business is to transport goods, so our business levels are directly tied to the purchase and production of goods and the rate of global trade growth. The decline in U.S. imports of consumer goods that

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started in late 2022, along with slowed global industrial production, has contributed to weakened business conditions for the transportation industry. Consequently, this environment has led to lower shipments at FedEx Freight, negatively affecting our results in the first quarter of 2026.

Additionally, since the third quarter of 2025 there have been significant changes within the global trade environment, such as the August 2025 removal of the de minimis exemption for goods imported into the U.S. from countries other than China. The uncertain and evolving global trade environment has contributed to lower international export package volumes, negatively affecting our results in the first quarter of 2026. Continued uncertainty and volatility in the global trade environment could lead to further weakened business conditions for the transportation industry.

Inflation and Interest Rates

During the first quarter of 2026, global inflation moderated year-over-year but continued to be elevated. Additionally, global interest rates remained steady in an effort to curb inflation. We are experiencing pressure on demand for our transportation services, particularly our priority services, as stagnant inflation and interest rates continue to negatively affect consumer and business spending. We expect inflation and elevated interest rates to continue to negatively affect our results of operations for the remainder of 2026. The changes in trade policy discussed above under “Macroeconomic Conditions” could also exacerbate global inflation.

Fuel

We must purchase large quantities of fuel to operate our aircraft and vehicles, and the price and availability of fuel is beyond our control and can be highly volatile. The timing and amount of fluctuations in fuel prices and our ability to recover incremental fuel costs through our fuel surcharges can significantly affect our operating results either positively or negatively in the short-term. During the first quarter of 2026, lower fuel prices negatively affected yields due to lower fuel surcharges and led to reduced fuel expense at both of our transportation segments.

Geopolitical Conflicts

Given the nature of our business and global operations, geopolitical conflicts may adversely affect our business and results of operations. While we do not expect ongoing geopolitical conflicts between Russia and Ukraine and in the Middle East, or escalations thereof, to have a direct material effect on our business or results of operations, the broader consequences are adversely affecting the global economy and may also have the effect of heightening other risks disclosed under Part I, Item 1A. “Risk Factors.”

RESULTS OF OPERATIONS

Many of our operating expenses are directly affected by revenue and volume levels, and we expect these operating expenses to fluctuate on a year-over-year basis consistent with changes in revenue and volumes. Therefore, the discussion of operating expense captions focuses on the key drivers and trends affecting expenses other than those factors strictly related to changes in revenue and volumes. The line item “Other” includes costs associated with outside service contracts (such as information technology services, temporary labor, security, and facilities

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As of August 31, 2025, there were no material changes in our market risk sensitive instruments and positions since our disclosures in our Annual Report.

The principal foreign currency exchange rate risks to which we are exposed relate to the euro, Chinese yuan, British pound, Canadian dollar, Australian dollar, Mexican peso, Hong Kong dollar, and Japanese yen. Historically, our exposure to foreign currency fluctuations is more significant with respect to our revenue than our expenses, as a significant portion of our expenses are denominated in U.S. dollars, such as aircraft and fuel expenses. During the first quarter of 2026, the U.S. dollar was weaker relative to the currencies of the foreign countries in which we operate, and the weaker dollar had a slightly negative effect on our results.

While we have market risk for changes in the price of vehicle and jet fuel, this risk is largely mitigated by our indexed fuel surcharges. For additional discussion of our indexed fuel surcharges, see the “Results of Operations and Outlook — Consolidated Results —Fuel” section of “Item 7. Management’s Discussion and Analysis of Results of Operations and Financial Condition” included in our Annual Report.

The management of FedEx, with the participation of our principal executive and financial officers, has evaluated the effectiveness of our disclosure controls and procedures in ensuring that the information required to be disclosed in our filings under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended, is recorded, processed, summarized, and reported within the time periods specified in the SEC’s rules and forms, including ensuring that such information is accumulated and communicated to FedEx management as appropriate to allow timely decisions regarding required disclosure. Based on such evaluation, our principal executive and financial officers have concluded that such disclosure controls and procedures were effective as of August 31, 2025 (the end of the period covered by this Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q).

During our fiscal quarter ended August 31, 2025, no change occurred in our internal control over financial reporting that has materially affected, or is reasonably likely to materially affect, our internal control over financial reporting.

PART II. OTHER INFORMATION

For a description of all material pending legal proceedings, see Note 9 of the accompanying unaudited condensed consolidated financial statements, which is incorporated by reference herein.

There have been no material changes from the risk factors disclosed in our Annual Report in response to Part I, Item 1A of Form 10-K. Additional risks not currently known to us or that we currently deem to be immaterial also may materially affect our business, results of operations, financial condition, and the price of our common stock.

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ITEM 2. UNREGISTERED SALES OF EQUITY SECURITIES AND USE OF PROCEEDS

Unregistered Sales of Equity Securities

In February 2025, we acquired RouteSmart Technologies, Inc. (“RouteSmart”), a global leader in route planning and optimization solutions, and the consideration paid to certain former stockholders of RouteSmart consisted in part of 359,052 unregistered shares of our common stock valued at approximately $90 million as of the acquisition date. In August 2025, in connection with final post-closing adjustments, we issued another 296 unregistered shares of our common stock valued at less than $100,000 to the former RouteSmart stockholders pursuant to the terms of the acquisition agreement.

The foregoing transaction did not involve any underwriters or underwriting discounts or commissions. The shares of our common stock were issued in reliance upon the exemption from registration provided by Section 4(a)(2) of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, in a privately negotiated transaction not involving any public offerings or solicitations. See Note 4 of the audited condensed consolidated financial statements in our Annual Report for additional information regarding the RouteSmart acquisition.

Issuer Purchase of Equity Securities

The following table provides information on FedEx’s repurchases of our common stock during the first quarter of 2026:

ISSUER PURCHASES OF EQUITY SECURITIES

In March 2024, our Board of Directors authorized a stock repurchase program for repurchases of up to $5.0 billion of FedEx common stock. As part of the 2024 repurchase program, we repurchased 2.2 million shares for $500 million in the open market during the first quarter of 2026.

As of September 18, 2025, approximately $1.6 billion remained available to be used for repurchases under the 2024 stock repurchase program. Shares under the program may be repurchased from time to time in the open market or in privately negotiated transactions. No time limits were set for completion of the program; however, we may decide to suspend or discontinue the program.

See Note 1 of the accompanying unaudited condensed consolidated financial statements for additional information and “Item 2. Management’s Discussion and Analysis of Results of Operations and Financial Condition – Financial Condition – Liquidity Outlook” for information regarding planned stock repurchases during the remainder of 2026.

During the quarter ended August 31, 2025, no director or officer of FedEx adopted, modified, or terminated any Rule 10b5-1 trading arrangement or non-Rule 10b5-1 trading arrangement, as such terms are defined in Item 408(a) of Regulation S-K.

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• Filed herewith.

† Management contract/compensatory plan or arrangement.

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SIGNATURE

Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended, the Registrant has duly caused this report to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned thereunto duly authorized.

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