Eastman Kodak Company Common New
Eastman Kodak Co. is a Rochester-based industrial technology company that has evolved from its photography roots into commercial print, advanced materials, and chemicals. Today it sells printing systems, consumables, software, and specialty materials, while also monetizing its patent portfolio and analytical capabilities.
Fiscal year 2025 · change from previous year
Development 2020–2025
Business
Share of revenueCommercial print hardware, consumables, software, and services sold to print-intensive industries.
Specialty materials, industrial film, chemicals, functional printing, and related services.
Brand-related activities and licensing tied to the Kodak name and intellectual property.
Residual operations primarily tied to Eastman Business Park and non-reportable activities.
Products
Reported · share of revenue- Products85.5 %
- Services14.2 %
- Growth Products0.3 %
Source: 10-K FY2025, revenue the company reports per product line (SEC XBRL). Shares are of the lines shown and add up to 100 %.
Customers
Kodak mainly serves commercial printers and print-adjacent businesses that need presses, plates, inks, software, and service support. Its end markets include direct mail, book publishing, newspapers, magazines, and packaging/labels, with some demand also coming from industrial and materials customers. The company also sells licensing and analytical services to external clients that value its patent estate and technical know-how.
Buy digital offset plates, CTP systems, presses, inks, and software to run high-volume print operations.
Use Kodak print systems and consumables for variable, high-quality production runs.
Buy printing and imaging solutions for packaging and label production workflows.
Purchase advanced materials, chemicals, and functional printing solutions for specialized applications.
License Kodak patents or use analytical services for development and commercialization support.
Strategy
Kodak is trying to defend and grow its print franchise while expanding into adjacent materials, chemicals, and functional printing markets. It also seeks to monetize its patent portfolio and analytical capabilities, which can diversify revenue beyond traditional print equipment and consumables. Operationally, the company is focused on managing supply-chain cost pressure, tariffs, and manufacturing reliability while preserving customer relationships.
Diversifies Kodak beyond mature print markets and creates new revenue pools.
Print remains the core business and supports installed-base consumables and service revenue.
Patent licensing can generate incremental revenue with limited manufacturing intensity.
Aging plants, supply disruptions, and tariffs can directly affect delivery and margins.
Geography
Kodak is headquartered in Rochester, New York and operates as a global business with sales and supply-chain exposure across many foreign countries. The company’s international footprint matters because it sells into multiple regions, sources materials globally, and faces currency, tariff, and trade-policy risk. Its manufacturing base includes aging facilities, which makes location-specific operational reliability and capital investment especially important.
Risks
Kodak faces a mix of structural print-market pressure and execution risk in its newer materials businesses. The company is also exposed to supply-chain disruption, tariffs, customer financing risk, and aging manufacturing assets, all of which can impair margins, delivery performance, and cash flow. Because it operates globally and relies on patents and regulated data handling, trade, IP, compliance, and cybersecurity issues are also material.
- Aging manufacturing facilities and equipmentImpact: HighLikelihood: Medium
Older plants may fail without timely upgrades, causing delays, repair costs, and lost sales.
Exposure: Manufacturing operations and customer delivery reliability
- Supplier and logistics dependenceImpact: HighLikelihood: Medium
Kodak relies on third parties for critical materials, components, and operational support.
Exposure - Competitive pricing pressureImpact: HighLikelihood: Medium
Well-funded competitors can undercut pricing or offer broader portfolios, pressuring share and margins.
Exposure: Commercial print and consumables
- Tariffs and trade restrictionsImpact: MediumLikelihood: Medium
Global sourcing and sales expose Kodak to policy changes that can raise costs and disrupt supply chains.
Exposure: International operations and gross margin
- Customer financing and credit riskImpact: MediumLikelihood: Medium
Large print equipment purchases may require financing, and weaker credit can reduce order conversion.
Exposure: Capital equipment sales
- IP and regulatory complianceImpact: MediumLikelihood: Medium
Kodak depends on patent protection and must comply with privacy, sanctions, export, and data laws.
Exposure
Accounting
Judgemental itemsEquipment, consumables, software, services, and licensing may recognize revenue at different times and under different contract terms.
Impact: Can create quarter-to-quarter volatility and affect comparability.
Discount rates, asset returns, mortality, and funding assumptions drive expense and liability estimates.
Impact: Can materially affect operating expense, OCI, and cash contributions.
Kodak operates in multiple jurisdictions and faces evolving tax rules and audits.
Impact: Can change effective tax rate and create period-specific charges.
Aging manufacturing assets and acquired or developed intangibles may lose value if cash flows weaken.
Impact: Could trigger non-cash charges and reduce reported equity.
Customer financing and global credit conditions affect collectability assumptions.
Impact: Can increase provisions and reduce operating profit.
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Last updated: 24/09/2026