UNITED PARCEL SERVICE INC
For the period ended Sep 30, 2025. Filed Nov 5, 2025.
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Sep 30, 2025 · Filed Nov 5, 2025
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Overview
We continue to execute our Customer First, People Led and Innovation Driven strategy to grow in the most attractive parts of the market including healthcare, small and medium-sized businesses ("SMBs") and International.
During the third quarter and first nine months ( the "year-to-date") periods of 2025, we took several steps in furtherance of this strategy, including continuing our deliberate shift in our business to increase our focus on higher yielding volume. As previously disclosed, we intend to reduce volume from our largest customer by more than 50% by June 2026 from 2024 levels.
In the first half of 2025, we insourced our former SurePost product, using the UPS network for final mile delivery, and have since replaced it with Ground Saver, a new domestic economy service meant to complement our array of products used by our customers. The insourcing of this product pressured our operating results in both the third quarter and year-to-date periods as pickup and delivery costs were higher than last year. During the nine month period of 2025, we took pricing actions to manage Ground Saver volume and we are working to continue to reduce our costs related to this product.
In the first quarter of 2025, we completed the acquisition of Frigo-Trans and Biotech & Pharma Logistics ("Frigo-Trans"), an industry-leading, complex healthcare logistics provider based in Germany. The acquisition has increased our complex cold-chain logistics capabilities. In November 2025, we completed the previously announced acquisition of Andlauer Healthcare Group ("AHG"), a leading North American supply chain management company that offers customized third-party logistics and specialized cold chain transportation solutions for the healthcare sector. This acquisition will further extend our global portfolio of end-to-end cold chain capabilities with temperature-controlled and pharmaceutical logistics solutions.
Our Network of the Future initiative is intended to enhance the efficiency of our network through automation and operational sort consolidation in our U.S. Domestic network. In connection with our strategic execution of planned volume declines from our largest customer, we began our Network Reconfiguration initiative, which is an expansion of Network of the Future and has led and could lead to a reduction in the number of our facilities, vehicles and aircraft and workforce as well as an end-to-end process redesign. We launchedour Efficiency Reimagined initiatives to undertake the end-to-end process redesign effort which will align our organizational processes to the network reconfiguration. See Supplemental Information - Items Affecting Comparability for additional discussion of this initiative.
We have two reportable segments: U.S. Domestic Package and International Package, which are together referred to as our global small package operations. Our remaining businesses are reported as Supply Chain Solutions. Our financial results for both the third quarter and year-to-date periods of 2025 reflect the impact of a complex macro environment, driven by evolving trade policies, as well as the significant strategic actions we are taking.
Global trade policy changes including pending and enacted tariffs and the de minimis exclusions continued during the third quarter of 2025 and resulted in shifting trade lane volumes, particularly reducing volumes on our China to U.S. lane, pressuring our International segment margins during the third quarter and year-to-date periods.
Supply Chain Solutions revenue decreased in both the third quarter and year-to-date periods, driven by the impact of the third quarter 2024 divestiture of Coyote, decreases in Air and Ocean Forwarding revenue primarily related to volatility in global trade and declines within Mail Innovations. These decreases were partially offset by growth in certain of our healthcare and digital businesses.
During the nine months ended September 30, 2025, we returned cash to shareholders by completing our previously announced $1.0 billion of share repurchase program and paying dividends of $4.0 billion.
The macro environment remains uncertain. As a global carrier, the eventual outcomes of trade policy and tariff uncertainty could result in pressure in some parts of our business, while creating opportunities in others, such as our global brokerage capabilities.
Highlights of our consolidated results, which are discussed in more detail below, include:
| Three Months Ended September 30, · Change · Nine Months Ended September 30, · Change | |||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 · 2024 · $ · % · 2025 · 2024 · $ · % | |||||||||||||
| Revenue (in millions) | $21,415 | $22,245 | $(830) | (3.7)% | $64,182 | $65,769 | $(1,587) | (2.4)% | |||||
| Operating Expenses (in millions) | 19,611 | 20,260 | (649) | (3.2)% | 58,890 | 60,227 | (1,337) | (2.2)% | |||||
| Operating Profit (in millions) | $1,804 | $1,985 | $(181) | (9.1)% | $5,292 | $5,542 | $(250) | (4.5)% | |||||
| Operating Margin | 8.4% | 8.9% | 8.2% | 8.4% | |||||||||
| Net Income (in millions) | $1,311 | $1,539 | $(228) | (14.8)% | $3,781 | $4,061 | $(280) | (6.9)% | |||||
| Basic Earnings Per Share | $1.55 | $1.80 | $(0.25) | (13.9)% | $4.46 | $4.74 | $(0.28) | (5.9)% | |||||
| Diluted Earnings Per Share | $1.55 | $1.80 | $(0.25) | (13.9)% | $4.46 | $4.74 | $(0.28) | (5.9)% | |||||
| Operating Days | 64 | 64 | 190 | 191 | |||||||||
| Average Daily Package Volume (in thousands) | 19,419 | 21,527 | (9.8)% | 19,974 | 21,220 | (5.9)% | |||||||
| Average Revenue Per Piece | $14.82 | $13.58 | $1.24 | 9.1% | $14.46 | $13.66 | $0.80 | 5.9% | |||||
Average daily package volume in our global small package operations decreased in both the quarter and year-to-date periods driven primarily by our strategic execution of planned volume declines from our largest customer and pricing actions taken on certain e-commerce customers, offset in part by growth in the International Package segment.
Revenue declined in both the quarter and year-to-date periods, driven by the impact of the third quarter 2024 divestiture of Coyote, which contributed $465 million of revenue in the third quarter of 2024 ($1.6 billion year to date in 2024), average daily volume declines described above and decreases in our Mail Innovations business.
The revenue impact of the overall declines in package volume in both periods was offset in part by growth in revenue per piece. Revenue in our global small package operations during the third quarter and year-to-date periods of 2025 also benefited from growth in air cargo revenue as we fully onboarded volume under our contract with USPS during the fourth quarter of 2024.
Operating expenses decreased in both the third quarter and year-to-date periods, driven by decreases in purchased transportation, primarily attributable to the impact of the 2024 divestiture of Coyote, the insourcing of our Ground Saver product, a gain from sale-leaseback transactions involving real estate properties within Supply Chain Solution businesses and reduced costs in our Mail Innovations business. These decreases were partially offset by increases in compensation and benefits and other costs associated with pick up and delivery expenses driven by the insourcing of our Ground Saver product and the implementation of weekend delivery within Europe.
Operating profit and operating margin decreased in both periods primarily due to the lower volumes in the U.S. Domestic Package segment, the increased pickup and delivery expenses and shifting international trade lanes related to trade policy challenges, partially offset by the impact of revenue quality efforts.
We reported third quarter 2025 net income of $1.3 billion and diluted earnings per share of $1.55 ($3.8 billion and $4.46 per diluted share, year to date), including $0.30 per diluted share attributable to sale-leaseback transactions described in Supply Chain Solutions within Results of Operations - Segment Review. Non-GAAP adjusted diluted earnings per share for the third quarter of 2025 were $1.74 ($4.78 per diluted share, year to date) after adjusting for the after-tax impacts of:
transformation strategy costs of $250 million, or $0.29 per diluted share, in the third quarter ($351 million, or $0.41 per diluted share, year to date);
the reversal of an income tax valuation allowance of $86 million, or ($0.10) per diluted share, in the third quarter ($109 million, or ($0.13) per diluted share, year to date);
a gain on divestiture of $15 million, or ($0.02) per diluted share, in the year to date period; and
goodwill and asset impairment charges of $49 million, or $0.06 per diluted share, in the year-to-date period.
For additional operational results for the quarter specific to our segments, refer to Results of Operations - Segment Review below.
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