Costamare - Q4 2025
February 18, 2026
Transcript
Operator (participant)
Thank you for standing by, ladies and gentlemen, and welcome to the Costamare Inc. conference call on the fourth quarter 2025 financial results. We have with us Mr. Gregory Zikos, Chief Financial Officer of the company. At this time, all participants are in a listen-only mode. There will be a presentation followed by a question and answer session, at which time, if you would like to ask a question, please press star one on your telephone keypad and wait for your name to be announced. I must advise you that this conference is being recorded today, Wednesday, February 18th, 2026. I would like to remind you that this conference contains forward-looking statements. Please take a moment to read slide number two of the presentation, which contains the forward-looking statements. I will now pass the floor to your speaker. Mr.
Zikos, please go ahead, sir.
Gregory Zikos (CFO)
Thank you, and good morning, ladies and gentlemen. During the fourth quarter of the year, the company generated net income of about $73 million. The income for the whole year was about $370 million, with liquidity of $590 million. Executing on our strategy of securing long-term cash flows from high-quality counterparties in a healthy market environment, we have forward-chartered 12 vessels from 4,000 to 14,000 TEUs, all commencing over the next 3 years with a TEU weighted average duration of six years. Incremental contracted revenues from the new charters amount to approximately $940 million. As a consequence, the fleet deployment now stands at 96% and 92% for 2026 and 2027, respectively. Total contracted revenues have reached $3.4 billion, with a remaining time charter duration of 4.5 years.
With an idle fleet of less than 1%, the charter market remains strong, with continued high demand for tonnage, a limited supply of vessels available for charter due to the ongoing shortage of new ships. With respect to Neptune Maritime Leasing, in which we hold the controlling interest, 54 shipping assets have been funded or are on a commitment status basis, with total investments and commitments exceeding $665 million. Moving now to the slides presentation. On slide three, you can see our annual results. Adjusted net income for 2025 was about $376 million or $3.12 per share. Adjusted net income for the quarter was about $72 million, or $0.60 per share. Our liquidity stands at $590 million. Slide four.
We have fixed on a forward basis 12 ships, securing incremental cash flows of $940 million. The average duration of the new charters on a TEU basis is six years. Following the above fixtures, our revenue days are fixed 96% and 96% for 2026 and 92% for 2027, while our contracted revenues are $3.4 billion, with a TEU weighted remaining duration of 4.5 years. Slide five. Regarding our financing arrangements, we have agreed to the pre- and post-delivery financing of all six newbuild vessels. In addition, we have agreed to refinance two container ships at a substantially lower funding cost. We have no significant maturities till 2027. Slide six.
On our leasing platform, we increased our investment commitment to about $250 million, out of which close to $280 million have been invested to date. NML has funded or committed to fund 54 assets for a total amount of more than $665 million. Finally, we continue to have a long, uninterrupted dividend track record. Moving to the last slide. Charter rates in the container market remain at robust levels. The added fleet remains at very low levels of 0.5%, indicating a fully employed market. With that, we can conclude our presentation, and we can now take questions. Thank you. Operator, we can take questions now.
Operator (participant)
Thank you. As a reminder, if you would like to ask a question, please press star on your telephone keypad and wait for your name to be announced. If you would like to cancel your request, please press star then two. That's star one to ask a question. And again, if you have a question, please press star, then one. The first question comes from Climent Molins from Value Investors. Please go ahead.
Climent Molins (Head of Shipping Research)
Hi, good afternoon, and thank you for taking my questions.
Gregory Zikos (CFO)
Good morning.
Climent Molins (Head of Shipping Research)
I wanted to start by asking about your debt. You're currently generating very solid free cash flow, and I was wondering, to what extent do you expect to conduct debt repayments on top of regular scheduled debt amortization? And obviously, this stays back to your investment expectations over the coming year.
Gregory Zikos (CFO)
Yeah, we could. Thank you for that. On a net debt basis, our debt is up. The company has a relatively low leverage. Also considering the contracted cash flows, we have always been repaying our debt quite prudently without having any backloaded debt payments. So I think the way it stands now, we have no reason to prepay debt earlier than the original maturity. We may be doing some refinancing here and there, but I don't think that it makes sense now based on the company's low leverage to prepay today any additional debt.
Climent Molins (Head of Shipping Research)
That's helpful. Thank you. And I also wanted to ask about how should we expect the amortization of deferred revenues to move going forward? Because there was kind of like a substantial increase QoQ. Could you talk a bit about what drove that and whether we should expect this to continue?
Gregory Zikos (CFO)
No, the deferred revenues, it's mainly an accounting treatment that sort of has to do with in case where there is an increase of or like a decrease of the charter hire for a long-term time charter. So it's mainly an accounting treatment, and I don't think... I think that we should be focusing on the cash revenue basis. And we do provide an adjustment in order to arrive on a cash basis figure for the revenue. So I don't think that this is something that we have to worry about, and this is something that it is dictated under US GAAP.
Climent Molins (Head of Shipping Research)
Yeah, makes sense. It was simply to help us model it a bit better, but we obviously focus on the cash. That's everything from me.
Gregory Zikos (CFO)
Yeah.
Climent Molins (Head of Shipping Research)
Thank you for taking my questions.
Gregory Zikos (CFO)
It is mainly to streamline, in case you have a decreasing or increasing charter hire during the tenure of the charter party, in order to have a smoother payment. But this comes from accounting. We make an adjustment, so for revenues on a cash basis. So I think it's clear.
Climent Molins (Head of Shipping Research)
Yeah, it is. Thank you.
Operator (participant)
Again, if you have a question, please press star one. Seeing that there are no further questions in the queue, I would like to turn it back to Mr. Zikos for closing remarks.
Gregory Zikos (CFO)
Thank you for dialing in today, and, thank you for your interest in Costamare. We're looking forward to speaking with you again during the next quarterly results call. Thank you. Operator, we can conclude the call now. Thank you.
Operator (participant)
Thank you. That does conclude our conference for today. Thank you all for participating. You may now disconnect.