528 material Form 8-K filings that 462 companies we cover made with the SEC in January 2025, each read and summarized by AI: what happened, the key figures, whether it reads positive or negative for shareholders, and how big a deal it is (impact 1-5). All of them were written later, when past filings were added: a selection, not every 8-K of the month (see the note below).
J.B. Hunt Transport Services reported fourth-quarter and full-year 2024 results on January 16, 2025. Fourth-quarter revenue fell 5% to $3.15 billion, but diluted EPS rose 4% to $1.53, and full-year revenue fell 6% to $12.09 billion while full-year diluted EPS dropped 20% to $5.56. For shareholders, the year's earnings declined sharply even though the fourth quarter showed EPS growth.
Q4 2024 revenue was $3.15 billion, down 5% from $3.30 billion; diluted EPS was $1.53 versus $1.47, up 4%.
Full-year 2024 revenue was $12.09 billion, down 6%; diluted EPS was $5.56 versus $6.97, down 20%.
Q4 2024 operating income included $16.0 million in intangible asset impairment charges in Integrated Capacity Solutions; the company expects a 2025 tax rate of 24.0% to 25.0%.
At December 31, 2024, cash was $47 million and total debt was $1.48 billion; in Q4 the company repurchased about 489,000 shares for about $86 million.
H.B. Fuller reported a fourth-quarter 2024 net loss of $7 million, or $0.13 per diluted share, compared with net income of $45 million a year earlier, after a $38 million after-tax non-cash charge tied to the Flooring divestiture. For fiscal 2025 it expects net revenue to fall 2% to 4% but adjusted EBITDA of $600 million to $625 million and adjusted EPS of $3.90 to $4.20, and it is finalizing a plan to cut manufacturing facilities and warehouses for about $75 million in annualized savings by fiscal 2030.
Q4 2024 net revenue rose 2.3% to $923 million, but adjusted EBITDA fell 14% to $148 million and adjusted diluted EPS was $0.92, versus $1.32 a year earlier.
Fiscal 2024 net revenue was $3.57 billion, up 1.6%, while net income was $130 million, versus $145 million in fiscal 2023.
Fiscal 2025 guidance calls for net revenue down 2% to 4% and adjusted EPS of $3.90 to $4.20, up 2% to 9% from $3.84.
The manufacturing footprint plan would reduce facilities from 82 to 55 and North American warehouses from 55 to about 10 by the end of 2027, with about $150 million in incremental capital over five years.
First Horizon reported fourth quarter 2024 net income available to common shareholders of $158 million, or $0.29 per share, down from $213 million, or $0.40, in the third quarter. Excluding notable items, adjusted earnings were $228 million, or $0.43 per share, up 2% from the prior quarter, after a $91 million after-tax loss from an opportunistic securities portfolio restructuring. For full year 2024, GAAP net income available to common shareholders was $738 million, or $1.36 per share, down from $1.54 in 2023, while adjusted results rose 5% to $843 million, or $1.55 per share.
Q4 2024 GAAP net income available to common shareholders: $158 million, or $0.29 per share, versus $213 million, or $0.40, in Q3 2024
Q4 2024 adjusted net income available to common shareholders: $228 million, or $0.43 per share, versus $224 million, or $0.42, in Q3 2024
Q4 2024 notable items included a $91 million loss on an AFS portfolio restructuring, reducing after-tax earnings by $71 million
Full year 2024 GAAP EPS was $1.36 versus $1.54 in 2023; adjusted EPS was $1.55 versus $1.43
M&T Bank Corporation reported fourth-quarter 2024 net income of $681 million, or $3.86 per diluted share, up from $482 million and $2.74 in the fourth quarter of 2023 but down from $721 million and $4.02 in the third quarter of 2024. For full-year 2024, net income was $2.59 billion, or $14.64 per diluted share, compared with $2.74 billion and $15.79 in 2023. The filing includes no financial guidance for 2025.
Q4 2024 net income $681 million and diluted EPS $3.86, versus $721 million and $4.02 in Q3 2024.
Full-year 2024 net income $2.59 billion and diluted EPS $14.64, versus $2.74 billion and $15.79 in 2023.
Estimated CET1 capital ratio rose to 11.67% at December 31, 2024, from 11.54% at September 30, 2024; M&T repurchased $200 million of common stock in Q4.
Nonaccrual loans fell to 1.25% of total loans at December 31, 2024, from 1.42% at September 30, 2024.
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Briefs marked “Written later” were written in November 2026 for filings that were by then more than three weeks old, so months before mid-October 2026 hold a selection: every material 8-K of the past year for the 100 largest companies we cover and the last 15 important 8-Ks of every other one. Briefs the number check holds back are not shown or counted. Also: the last 45 days, briefs by company, A–Z and the live SEC filings wire.