Why Goodyear Tire & Rubber Stock Crashed Today

The Motley FoolFeb 10, 2026 5:56 PM

Key Points

Goodyear beat on sales but missed on earnings last night.
For all of 2025, Goodyear still suffered a nearly $6 per share loss.
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Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company (NASDAQ: GT) stock tumbled 15% through noon ET Tuesday after beating on sales but missing on earnings in its Q4 2025 report last night.

Heading into the report, analysts forecast Goodyear would earn $0.49 per share (adjusted for one-time items) on sales of $4.8 billion. Goodyear actually earned only $0.39 per share, adjusted, but its sales were a healthy $4.9 billion.

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Goodyear Q4 earnings

As Goodyear pointed out, its Q4 sales were only "flat from 2024" but up 4% organically after netting out sales lost with the disposal of its Off-the-Road (OTR) tire and Chemical businesses.

Earnings may have missed expectations -- and earnings under generally accepted accounting principles (GAAP) lower than non-GAAP earnings, which don't count those disposed-of divisions. Nevertheless, Goodyear earned $0.36 per share, GAAP, up 44% year over year -- a superb result for Q4, at least.

As for the year as a whole, the numbers looked less good. Goodyear's full-year 2025 sales declined 2% to $10.8 billion, and operating profit margins fell 170 basis points to 6.8%. The company flipped from a $0.16 per share profit in 2024 to a $5.99 per share loss in 2025.

Is Goodyear stock a buy?

Now, where does this leave Goodyear stock standing today?

Obviously, the big net loss for 2025 isn't a great starting point. Granted, Goodyear generated $170 million in positive free cash flow for the year. On a $3 billion market capitalization, that doesn't make Goodyear look too expensive... until you notice that the company is carrying about $6.5 billion in net debt -- more than twice its own market capitalization!

At an enterprise value-to-free cash flow ratio of 55x, Goodyear stock looks like a sell to me.

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