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EASTMAN KODAK CO

For the period ended Dec 31, 2025. Filed Mar 12, 2026.

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FY2025 · Filed Mar 12, 2026

KODK$8.47+2.2%Stored close · as of Nov 10, 2026

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Liquidity and Capital Resources

Management’s Assessment of Liquidity

Kodak ended the year with a cash balance of $337 million, an increase of $136 million from December 31, 2024, primarily driven by the cash received from the settlement and reversion of assets from the Kodak Retirement Income Plan ("KRIP").

During the fourth quarter of 2025, Kodak received $144 million in net cash from the reversion of assets from KRIP to the Company, after required debt payments and payment of excise taxes, and $158 million of investment assets, of which $9 million of cash proceeds was received from these investment assets subsequent to the reversion to the Company. In January 2026, Kodak received $44 million of additional cash proceeds from the redemption of a portion of these investments and expects to receive an additional $55 million in cash proceeds by December 31, 2026. The remaining value of the investment assets is expected to be converted to cash primarily in 2027 and 2028. See the “Kodak Retirement Income Plan” section below for additional details.

Available liquidity includes existing cash and cash equivalent balances. The amount of available liquidity is subject to fluctuations and includes cash balances held by various entities worldwide. At December 31, 2025 and 2024, approximately $231 million and $118 million, respectively, of cash and cash equivalents were held within the U.S. and approximately $106 million and $83 million, respectively, of cash and cash equivalents were held outside the U.S. Cash balances held outside the U.S. are generally required to support local country operations and may have high tax costs or other limitations that delay the ability to repatriate, and therefore may not be readily available for transfer to other jurisdictions. Kodak utilizes cash balances outside the U.S. to fund needs in the U.S. through the use of intercompany loans.

As of December 31, 2025 and 2024, outstanding intercompany loans to the U.S. were $509 million and $483 million, respectively, which included short-term intercompany loans from Kodak’s international finance center of $235 million and $208 million, respectively. In China, where approximately $35 million and $29 million of cash and cash equivalents was held as of December 31, 2025 and 2024, respectively, there are limitations related to net asset balances that may impact the ability to make cash available to other jurisdictions in the world. Under the terms of the Amended and Restated Term Loan Credit Agreement, the Company is permitted to invest up to $60 million (or $75 million after the Deleveraging Milestone Date) in Restricted Subsidiaries that are not Loan Parties and in joint ventures or Unrestricted Subsidiaries that are not party to the Amended and Restated Term Loan Credit Agreement.

The Company’s Hong Kong subsidiary has an intercompany loan from one of the Company’s Chinese subsidiaries with a maturity date of November 16, 2024, the proceeds of which were in turn loaned to the Company. The terms of the intercompany loan were modified during the fourth quarter of 2024 to extend the maturity date to November 16, 2026 and for the Company to make efforts to repay the outstanding loan balance prior to maturity. The prior intercompany loan agreement provided for it to be repaid over two years in four equal $20 million installments, the first of which was due by November 16, 2023 with the remaining installments due in 2024. The Company paid $2 million in the first quarter of 2024 and $10 million in the second quarter of 2024 towards the first $20 million installment. The outstanding amount of the intercompany loan as of December 31, 2025 was $68 million. The Company is evaluating repayment alternatives for the current loan agreement which would allow Kodak and its subsidiaries to perform their obligations to each other while minimizing the impact on U.S. liquidity taking into account requirements imposed by Chinese regulators. Any amounts repaid to the Chinese subsidiary may not be able to be loaned, repatriated or otherwise moved back to the U.S., in which case the Company’s U.S. liquidity would be reduced.

Kodak's cash flows continue to be negatively impacted by volume declines, higher manufacturing costs and increased labor, material and distribution costs, supply chain disruptions and shortages in materials and labor. The impacts from price increases, savings relating to rationalization, cost reductions and operational efficiencies and supply chain-related cost improvements continue to positively impact Kodak’s operations.

On March 11, 2026 (the “Amendment Date”), the Company filed with the Department of Treasury of the State of New Jersey a Certificate of Amendment to the Second Amended and Restated Certificate of Incorporation of the Company which amended certain terms of the Series B Certificate of Designations (the “2026 Series B Amendment”). The 2026 Series B Amendment provides (i) if any shares of Series B Preferred Stock have not been converted prior to June 11, 2029, the Company is required to redeem such shares at $100 per share plus the amount of accrued and unpaid dividends, (ii) holders of Series B Preferred Stock are entitled to cumulative dividends payable quarterly in cash at a rate of 6.0% per annum, (iii) each share of Series B Preferred Stock is convertible, at the option of each holder at any time, into shares of Common Stock at a conversion price of $10.00 per share (subject to certain customary anti-dilution adjustments) and (iv) the Company has the right to cause the mandatory conversion of the Series B Preferred Stock into shares of Common Stock in three tranches of the Series B Preferred Stock if the closing price of the Common Stock has for 45 trading days within a period of 60 consecutive trading days a) equaled or exceeded $14.50 after eighteen months from the Amendment Date, b) equaled or exceeded $15.50 after twenty four months from the Amendment Date and c) equaled or exceeded $16.50 after thirty months from the Amendment Date (in each case, the amounts per share is subject to adjustment in the same manner as the conversion price).

On May 21, 2025, the Company entered into an ATM Equity Offering Sales Agreement (the “Sales Agreement”) with BofA Securities, Inc. (“BofA”), pursuant to which the Company may offer and sell up to $100 million of shares of the Company’s common stock (the “shares”), from time to time, in “at-the-market” offerings through BofA, as sales agent or as principal. During 2025, the Company sold 200,000 shares pursuant to the Sales Agreement for net proceeds of approximately $1 million. The Company used the net proceeds from the sale of the shares for general corporate purposes.

On November 4, 2025, the Company and the Subsidiary Guarantors entered into the Third Amendment to the Amended and Restated Credit Agreement (the “November 2025 Term Loan Credit Agreement Amendment”) with the Term Loan Lenders and the Term Loan Agent. The November 2025 Term Loan Credit Agreement Amendment (i) removed the mandatory redemption of Series B Preferred Stock as a basis for accelerating the August 15, 2028 maturity date of the Term Loans, (ii) eliminated the mandatory prepayment obligation requiring Kodak to use 50% of the net cash proceeds from certain transactions to prepay Term Loans below $200 million, (iii) provided the Company the option to prepay the Term Loans after May 15, 2026 with cash proceeds from certain transactions plus a 4% prepayment fee, (iv) removed limitations on restricted payments on the repurchase or redemption of the Series B Preferred Stock subject to certain restrictions and (v) removed the requirement to include reversion proceeds not used to prepay Term Loans in the calculation of Excess Cash Flow as defined in the Amended and Restated Term Loan Credit Agreement.

On November 4, 2025, the Company and the Subsidiary Guarantors entered into Amendment No. 4 to the Letter of Credit Facility Agreement (the “November 2025 L/C Facility Amendment”) with the L/C Lenders and Bank of America, N.A. The November 2025 L/C Facility Amendment (i) removed the mandatory redemption of Series B Preferred Stock as a basis for accelerating the maturity date of the facility, resulting in the maturity date of the facility being May 17, 2028, the date that is 90 days prior to the maturity date of the Term Loans, and (ii) removed limitations on restricted payments on the repurchase or redemption of the Series B Preferred Stock subject to certain restrictions.

On March 11, 2026, the Company and the Subsidiary Guarantors entered into the Fourth Amendment to the Amended and Restated Credit Agreement (the “March 2026 Term Loan Credit Agreement Amendment”) with the Term Loan Lenders and the Term Loan Agent. The March 2026 Term Loan Credit Agreement Amendment requires the Company to pay $50 million of the Term Loans on or before March 18, 2026 and $50 million on or before June 1, 2026, in each case plus a 1% prepayment fee.

The economic uncertainties surrounding the current inflationary environment and other global events represent additional elements of complexity in Kodak’s plans to return to sustainable positive cash flow. The Company cannot predict the duration and scope of such events, including the impact of rising costs of labor, commodity and distribution costs and increased product costs from tariffs, the wars in Ukraine and Iran and the other conflicts involving Israel, and other factors such as the ability to continue to secure raw materials and components, the ability to increase prices to offset rising product costs or how quickly and to what extent normal economic and operating conditions can resume.

The cash proceeds from the KRIP reversion and additional cash proceeds expected from the redemption or other monetization of investment assets provides additional liquidity to the Company to adequately fund on‐going operations and to invest in growth opportunities in Kodak’s businesses of print and advanced materials and chemicals and for corporate infrastructure investments expected to contribute to improvements in cash flow.

Kodak's plans to return to sustainable positive cash flow include generating profitable revenues through continued pricing actions and customer-focused initiatives, invest in new product innovation to drive growth, implementing effective working capital utilization, reducing operating expenses, continuing to simplify the organizational structure, investing in IT systems to drive operational efficiencies, effectively managing world-wide cash through intercompany loans, distributions or other mechanisms, generating cash from selling and leasing underutilized assets or through new licensing opportunities and implementing ways to reduce cash collateral needs.

Kodak believes its liquidity position is adequate to fund operations, meet its obligations and provide the flexibility to respond as necessary to ordinary changes in the business and economic environment within twelve months as of the filing of this Form 10-K.

KODAK RETIREMENT INCOME PLAN

On January 21, 2025, the Board of Directors of Kodak approved the termination of KRIP effective March 31, 2025, at which time all benefits under KRIP were frozen. In addition, the Board of Directors approved a defined benefit retirement plan (the “Kodak Cash Balance Plan”) as a replacement for KRIP which became effective on March 1, 2025 for new hires and April 1, 2025 for current employees. The benefits under the Kodak Cash Balance Plan are substantially the same as those under the cash balance feature of KRIP.

On October 21, 2025, the annuity obligations with respect to all KRIP annuitants (approximately 27,000 participants and beneficiaries) representing approximately $1.8 billion of pension obligation was transferred to Metropolitan Tower Life Insurance Company through the purchase of a group annuity contract, the premium for which was funded directly and solely by the assets of KRIP. In addition, on October 1, 2025, KRIP settled approximately $76 million of pension obligations through lump-sum payments to deferred vested participants and on October 31, 2025, KRIP settled approximately $157 million of pension obligations through lump-sum payments to active participants. On November 26, 2025, KRIP transferred its sole remaining liabilities and associated cash of approximately $13 million for missing participants to the Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation missing program. As a result, all pension obligations under KRIP had been fully settled and the excess pension assets of $1.023 billion (the “Reversion Assets”) as of November 26, 2025 (the “Reversion Date”) reverted to the Company.

The Reversion Assets were comprised of cash of $614 million and investment assets valued at $409 million. The Company directed 25% of the Reversion Assets, consisting of $5 million of cash and $251 million of investment assets, to the Kodak Cash Balance Plan that will provide benefits to the Company’s employees for the foreseeable future without additional cash cost to the Company. The remaining cash of $609 million and investments valued at $158 million were distributed to the Company.

On November 28, 2025, the Company used $312 million of cash proceeds received from the Reversion Assets to repay outstanding term loans, which represented the principal amount of the Term Loans required to reduce the outstanding balance to $200 million plus accrued interest and prepayment premium, in accordance with the terms of the November 2025 Term Loan Credit Agreement Amendment.

On December 30, 2025, Kodak paid $153 million from the cash proceeds received from the Reversion Assets to satisfy the 20% excise tax on the remaining surplus from the reversion of assets from KRIP to the Company after capitalization of the Kodak Cash Balance Plan.

The $158 million of investment assets received by the Company from the Reversion Assets are primarily hedge fund investments which are in redemption. Subsequent to the Reversion Date, Kodak received $9 million of cash proceeds from these investments in December 2025. The total fair value of these investments as of December 31, 2025 approximated $152 million. In January 2026, Kodak received $44 million of additional cash proceeds from the redemption of a portion of these investments and expects to receive an additional $55 million in cash proceeds by December 31, 2026. The remaining value of the investment assets is expected to be converted to cash primarily in 2027 and 2028. The actual amount and timing of cash received from the investment assets will fluctuate based on the investment performance of the investments during the redemption period and could be adversely impacted by other events that could affect the value of those investments.

Amended and Restated Letter of Credit Facility Agreement

Approximately $24 million and $27 million of letters of credit were issued under the Amended and Restated L/C Facility Agreement as of December 31, 2025 and 2024, respectively. The letters of credit under the Amended and Restated L/C Facility Agreement are collateralized by cash collateral (the “L/C Cash Collateral”). The L/C Cash Collateral was $25 million and $29 million at December 31, 2025 and 2024, respectively, which was classified as Restricted Cash.

Cash Flow:

Cash, cash equivalents and restricted cash balances were as follows:

As of December 31,
(in millions)20252024
Cash, cash equivalents and restricted cash$442$301

Cash Flow Activity

Year Ended December 31, · Year-Over-
(in millions)20252024Year Change
Cash flows from operating activities:
Net cash provided by (used in) operating activities$480$(7)$487
Cash flows from investing activities:
Net cash used in investing activities(29)(39)10
Cash flows from financing activities:
Net cash used in financing activities(314)(23)(291)
Effect of exchange rate changes on cash, cash equivalents and restricted cash4(7)11
Net increase (decrease) in cash, cash equivalents and restricted cash$141$(76)$217

Operating Activities

Net cash from operating activities increased $487 million for the year ended December 31, 2025 as compared with the prior year primarily due to cash proceeds received from Reversion Assets from KRIP of $618 million and a decrease in inventory and improved earnings from operations, which were partially offset by a $153 million payment of excise tax on KRIP reversion asset surplus and a decrease in cash proceeds related to brand licensing of $35 million.

Investing Activities

Net cash used in investing activities decreased $10 million for the year ended December 31, 2025 as compared to the prior year due to a decrease in capital expenditures ($22 million) partially offset by a decline in proceeds from the sale of assets ($12 million).

Financing Activities

Net cash used in financing activities increased $291 million in the year ended December 31, 2025 compared to the prior year, primarily due the repayment of the Term Loans ($306 million) with cash proceeds from Reversion Assets.

Other Collateral Requirements

The NYS WCB requires security deposits related to self-insured workers’ compensation obligations, which security deposits are recalculated annually. Due to changes in 2019 to the manner in which the required security deposit is determined, the Company has been required to post additional collateral over the last several years. At December 31, 2022, the Company posted $75 million of collateral, representing 107% of the Company’s undiscounted actuarial workers’ compensation obligations. Effective May 1, 2023, the Company added New York to its existing workers compensation liability insurance policy and is no longer self-insured for future claims. As a result, the NYS WCB confirmed the Company will no longer be obligated to post any additional collateral. On July 1, 2025, the Company submitted a current actuarial report to the NYS WCB and requested a review of the collateral requirements. The NYS WCB confirmed no change in the collateral was required at this time.

Based on the legacy nature of the Company’s workers’ compensation obligations, the undiscounted actuarial obligation has been declining and the Company expects this trend to continue. While it may not be indicative of the rate of future declines, the undiscounted actuarial liability declined by an average of $5 million per year between 2014 and 2025. Accordingly, subject to the possibility of other changes to the calculation of required security deposits by the NYS WCB, the Company expects the amount of the required security deposits to decline over time and the gradual return of the security deposits that have been made or the capital used to support such security deposits.

In the third quarter of 2023, the Company deposited $68 million directly with the NYS WCB and cancelled the corresponding letter of credit supporting the associated liability. As of December 31, 2025, the Company had $45 million of surety bonds and $30 million deposited directly with the NYS WCB supporting the associated liability. The surety bonds are collateralized with $32 million of cash and the Company could be required to provide up to $13 million of additional cash or letters of credit to the issuers of certain surety bonds in the future to fully collateralize the bonds.

Other Uses of Cash Related to Financing Transactions

The holders of the Term Loans are entitled to quarterly cash interest payments at a rate of 7.5% per annum and 5.0% per annum PIK or in cash at the Company’s option. The May 2025 Term Loan Credit Agreement Amendment provides the Company the option to pay the Cash Interest Payment entirely in PIK for the next six quarterly interest payments. The Company elected to pay the Cash Interest Payment for the second and third quarters of 2025 entirely in PIK and the fourth quarter Cash Interest Payment entirely in cash. In addition, the holders of the Series B Preferred Stock are entitled to cumulative dividends payable quarterly in cash at a rate of 4.0% per annum. Until the second quarter of 2025, all dividends owed on the Series B Preferred Stock were declared and paid when due. No quarterly cash dividend was declared in the second, third and fourth quarters of 2025. The dividends for these quarters were paid in February 2026.

Series C Preferred Stock Exchange

On August 8, 2025, the Company issued 15,103,163 shares of common stock in exchange for all outstanding shares of Series C Preferred Stock, including accrued and unpaid dividends thereon, pursuant to a Series C Preferred Stock Exchange Agreement entered into with the Investor on August 8, 2025. Following the completion of the exchange, the Company had no outstanding shares of Series C Preferred Stock and the Company’s obligations with respect to the Series C Preferred Stock were fully discharged.

Defined Benefit Pension and Postretirement Plans

Kodak made contributions (funded plans) or paid net benefits (unfunded plans) totaling approximately $14 million relating to its non-U.S. defined benefit pension and postretirement benefit plans in 2025. For 2026, the forecasted contribution (funded plans) and benefit payment (unfunded plans) requirements for its non-U.S. defined benefit pension and postretirement plans are approximately $10 million. Kodak expects benefit payments (unfunded plans) related to its non-major U.S. plans to be less than $1 million.

Capital Expenditures

Cash flows from investing activities included $34 million for capital expenditures for the year ended December 31, 2025. Kodak expects approximately $45 million to $55 million of cash flows for investing activities from capital expenditures for the year ending December 31, 2026.

BEPS Pillar 2

In December 2021, the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (“OECD”) introduced Base Erosion and Profit Shifting (“BEPS”) Pillar 2 rules that imposed a global minimum tax rate of 15%. Numerous countries, including European Union member states, enacted legislation that took effect on January 1, 2024. To mitigate the administrative burden in complying with the OECD Global BEPS rules during the initial years of implementation, the OECD developed the temporary “Transitional Country-by-Country Safe Harbor” ("Safe Harbor"). This transitional Safe Harbor applies for fiscal years beginning on or before December 31, 2026. Under the Safe Harbor, the top-up tax for such jurisdiction is deemed to be zero, provided that at least one of the Safe Harbor tests is met for the jurisdiction.

Kodak was able to avail itself of the Pillar 2 transitional safe harbor rules in most of the jurisdictions in which it operates. As of December 31, 2025, the impact of Pillar 2 legislation was immaterial to Kodak.

General implementation of the Global minimum tax (by non-US taxing authorities) became effective January 1, 2025. Kodak’s policy is to recognize the impact related to Pillar 2 transitional safe harbor as period costs. The Company believes that it will continue to benefit from the Safe Harbor provisions and that there will not be a material impact to the financial statements.

Kodak will continue to monitor the legislative developments of Pillar 2 framework in the jurisdictions in which the Company operates.

Contractual Obligations

The impact that contractual obligations are expected to have on Kodak's cash flow in future periods is as follows:

(in millions)Total202620272028202920302031+
Long-term debt (1)$212$2$2$201$1$1$5
Interest payments on debt (2)79272623111
Operating lease obligations60161487510
Purchase obligations (3)26869111
Convertible Series B preferred stock cash dividends (4)55—————
Total (5) (6) (7)$382$58$48$241$10$8$17

(1)

Represents the maturity values of Kodak's long-term debt obligations as of December 31, 2025. The contractual obligations do not reflect any contingent mandatory annual principal prepayments that may be required to be made upon achieving certain excess cash flow targets or from the Net Proceeds from the sale of Target Non-Core Assets, as such terms are defined in the Amended and Restated Term Loan Credit Agreement. Refer to Note 9, "Debt and Credit Facilities."

(2)

Includes cash interest payments on the Amended and Restated Term Loan Credit Agreement, the RED-Rochester LLC debt and commitment fees for the Amended and Restated L/C Facility Agreement.

(3)

Purchase obligations include agreements related to raw materials, supplies, production and administrative services, as well as marketing and advertising, that are enforceable and legally binding on Kodak and that specify all significant terms, including: fixed or minimum quantities to be purchased; fixed, minimum or variable price provisions; and the approximate timing of the transaction. Purchase obligations exclude agreements that are cancelable without penalty.

(4)

On February 26, 2021, the Company issued 1,000,000 shares of Series B Preferred Stock with a liquidation preference of $100 per share. The holders of Series B Preferred Stock are entitled to cumulative dividends payable quarterly in cash at a rate of 4% per annum. If holders of the Series B Preferred stock convert their shares into common stock, dividends will decrease. The Company is required to redeem all shares not converted prior to May 28, 2026 at $100 per share plus the amount of any accrued and unpaid dividends. Due to uncertainty regarding the number of shares that will be redeemed, the redemption amount has not been included in the above table. Refer to Note 10, "Redeemable, Convertible Preferred Stock."

(5)

Due to uncertainty regarding the completion of tax audits and possible outcomes, an estimate of the timing of payments related to uncertain tax positions and interest cannot be made. See Note 18, “Income Taxes,” for additional information regarding Kodak's uncertain tax positions.

(6)

For 2026, the Company currently forecasts $10 million in contributions and net benefit payments for its Non-U.S. major defined benefit retirement plans and other postretirement benefit plans. Expected contributions are excluded from the contractual obligations table because they do not represent contractual cash outflows, as they are dependent on numerous factors which may result in a wide range of outcomes.

(7)

Because timing of their future cash outflows is uncertain, the other long-term liabilities presented in Note 8, “Other Long-Term Liabilities,” are excluded from this table.

CRITICAL ACCOUNTING POLICIES AND ESTIMATES

Preparation of the Company’s Consolidated Financial Statements in conformity with accounting principles generally accepted in the United States (U.S. GAAP) requires management to make estimates and assumptions that affect the reported amounts of assets, liabilities, revenues and expenses. Significant accounting policies used in the preparation of the Consolidated Financial Statements are more fully described in Note 1, “Basis of Presentation and Summary of Significant Accounting Policies.” The accounting policies most critical to the preparation of the consolidated financial statements and requiring the most difficult, subjective or complex judgments are described below.

Taxes

Kodak accounts for income taxes using the asset and liability method. This approach requires the recognition of deferred tax assets and liabilities for the expected future tax consequences of operating losses, credit carryforwards and temporary differences between the carrying amounts and tax basis of Kodak’s assets and liabilities.

Kodak records a valuation allowance to reduce its net deferred tax assets to the amount that is more likely than not to be realized. Management is required to exercise judgment in assessing the realizability of Kodak’s deferred tax assets, considering all available positive and negative evidence. Inherent in this process is the requirement to estimate forecasted earnings, future taxable income, and prudent and feasible tax planning strategies on a jurisdiction-by-jurisdiction basis. It is possible that actual results will differ from assumptions and require adjustments to allowances. Future periods may also provide positive evidence sufficient to conclude that all or part of the valuation allowance recorded in each jurisdiction can be reversed. However, when an accumulation of recent losses or other negative evidence exists, it can be challenging to use forecasted earnings as a source of income when determining whether deferred tax assets can be realized.

Kodak’s ability to utilize its U.S. net operating losses (“NOLs”) and tax credits may be subject to limitations imposed by Section 382 of the Internal Revenue Code. Section 382 limits the utilization of NOLs in the event of significant changes in the stock ownership of the Company. An ownership change occurs if, among other things, the aggregate ownership of stockholders owning five percent of Kodak’s stock increases by more than 50 percentage points over a three-year rolling period. An ownership change can also occur with other items, such as the sale of Kodak shares that are owned by its 5% shareholders. Future transactions, when combined with reported transactions within the testing period, could aggregate an ownership change during the testing period in excess of 50 percentage points.

A Section 382 ownership change would significantly impair Kodak’s ability to utilize NOLs and tax credits in the U.S. As of December 31, 2025, Kodak had available U.S. NOL carry-forwards for income tax purposes of approximately $1,906 million and unused foreign tax credits of $37 million. Any impairment of these tax attributes would be fully offset by a corresponding decrease in Kodak’s U.S. valuation allowance, which would result in no net tax provision.

Kodak intends to repatriate its offshore earnings when prudent. Accordingly, it recorded deferred tax liabilities of $15 million for potential taxes on undistributed earnings as of both December 31, 2025 and 2024. These taxes are primarily attributable to foreign withholding taxes.

Kodak operates within multiple taxing jurisdictions worldwide and is subject to audits in these jurisdictions. These audits can involve complex issues, which may require many years to resolve. Management believes that adequate provisions have been made for such issues, however, there is the possibility that the ultimate resolution of such issues could have an adverse effect on the earnings of Kodak. Conversely, if these issues are resolved favorably, the related provisions would be reduced, thus having a positive impact on earnings. Management’s ongoing assessments of the outcomes of these issues and related tax positions requires judgment.

Pension and Other Postretirement Benefits

Kodak’s defined benefit pension and other postretirement benefit costs and obligations are estimated using several key assumptions. Actual results that differ from Kodak’s assumptions are recorded as unrecognized gains and losses as a component of accumulated other comprehensive (loss) income in shareholders’ equity and are amortized to earnings over the estimated future service period of the active participants in the plan or, if the plan is almost entirely inactive, the average remaining lifetime expectancy of inactive participants, to the extent such total net unrecognized gains and losses exceed 10% of the greater of the plan's projected benefit obligation ("PBO") or the calculated value of plan assets. Significant differences in actual experience or significant changes in future assumptions would affect Kodak’s pension and other postretirement benefit costs and obligations.

During the fourth quarter of 2025, the Kodak Retirement Income Plan (“KRIP”) settled approximately $2 billion of pension obligations through a combination of lump sum payments to participants, the purchase of a group annuity contract and payment to the Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation. As of the Reversion Date, KRIP reverted excess pension assets of $1.023 billion to the Company, of which $256 million was transferred to the Kodak Cash Balance Plan which is the replacement plan for KRIP.

Kodak concluded that it was probable that the criteria for settlement accounting for KRIP would be met in 2025 as the projected cost of all settlements would exceed the sum of the service cost and interest cost components of net periodic pension cost for the year. As a result, Kodak applied settlement accounting and remeasured KRIP for each of the first three quarterly periods in 2025 and as of the Reversion Date. The significant assumptions used in the quarterly remeasurements related to measuring KRIP on a termination basis specifically related to the assumed premiums for purchasing annuities to settle obligations, changes in discount rates and return on plan assets during the termination process. As KRIP’s pension obligations were fully settled as of November 26, 2025, Kodak recorded a settlement gain of $66 million in the fourth quarter of 2025 which represented the recognition of the remaining unrealized amounts for KRIP that were included as a component of accumulated other comprehensive loss in shareholders’ equity.

Historically, KRIP accounted for substantially all of Kodak’s net pension income and represented approximately 86% and 80%, respectively, of the total fair value of plan assets and PBO of the major defined benefit plans as of December 31, 2024. Total pension income from continuing operations before special termination benefits, curtailments and settlements for the major defined benefit plans was $45 million for 2025 and is expected to be approximately $2 million in 2026. The decrease relates to the settlement of

KRIP. Changes in discount rates or expected rates of return on plan assets for Kodak’s remaining defined benefit plans would not have a material impact on pension income or the PBO of the Company.

Inventories

Inventories are stated at the lower of average cost or net realizable value. Judgment is required to assess the ultimate demand for and realizable value of inventory. The analysis of inventory carrying values considers several factors including length of time inventory is on hand, historical sales, product shelf life, product life cycle, product category and product obsolescence. The Company also relies, in certain instances, on demand forecasts from its distributors, and adverse changes in such demand forecasts, when they become known, are taken into consideration when analyzing the carrying values of inventories.

New Accounting Pronouncements

A description of new accounting pronouncements is contained in Note 1, “Basis of Presentation and Summary of Significant Accounting Policies.”

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