Ginkgo provides an update on its fourth quarter financial results
BOSTON, Feb. 26, 2026 /PRNewswire/ -- Ginkgo Bioworks Holdings, Inc. (NYSE: DNA, "Ginkgo") today announced its results for the fourth quarter and full year ended December 31, 2025. The update, including a webcast slide presentation with additional details on the third quarter, as well as supplemental financial information will be available at investors.ginkgobioworks.com.
Fourth Quarter 2025 Financial Results
-- Fourth quarter 2025 Total revenue of $33 million compared to $44 million
in the comparable prior year period, Total revenue in the fourth quarter
of 2025 decreased 24% from the comparable prior year period.
-- Fourth quarter 2025 Cell Engineering revenue of $26 million
compared to $35 million in the comparable prior year period, a
decrease of 26%
-- Fourth quarter 2025 Biosecurity revenue of $7 million compared to
$9 million in the comparable prior year period
-- Fourth quarter 2025 GAAP net loss of $(81) million, compared to $(108)
million in the comparable prior year period
-- Fourth quarter 2025 Adjusted EBITDA of $(36) million, up from $(57)
million in the comparable prior year period, primarily attributable to
the decrease in operating expenses in the prior year period
-- Cash, cash equivalents and marketable securities balance as of December
31, 2025 of $423 million
"This year, we are going to focus on investing to win in the category of autonomous labs," said Jason Kelly, co-founder and CEO of Ginkgo Bioworks. "There is an emerging wave of interest in robotics and AI, and our work with the Department of Energy and OpenAI this year shows that Ginkgo is in the best position to bring robotics to an extraordinarily high value area: laboratory research."
Full Year 2025 Financial Results
-- Full year 2025 Total revenue of $170 million, down from $227 million in
the prior year, a decrease of 25% driven by the shift from early stage
customers to large/enterprise customers along with commercial changes
related to the restructuring. Full year 2025 and 2024 also benefited from
$8 million and $45 million of non-cash revenue from previously announced
releases of deferred revenue relating to the mutual terminations of
customer agreements.
-- Full year 2025 Cell Engineering revenue of $133 million, down from
$174 million in the prior year, a decrease of 24%. Excluding the
non-cash deferred revenue releases discussed above, full year 2025
and 2024 Cell Engineering revenue of $125 million and $129 million,
respectively, with 2025 Cell Engineering revenue decreasing 3%,
primarily attributed to ongoing program rationalization as part of
our restructuring activities. Full year 2025 Biosecurity revenue
of $37 million, down from $53 million in the prior year, a
decrease of 30%, with full year 2025 Biosecurity gross profit
margin of 23%
-- Full year 2025 GAAP net loss of $(313) million, compared to $(547)
million in the prior year
-- Full year 2025 Adjusted EBITDA of $(167) million, improved from $(293)
million in the prior year
Biosecurity Business Divestiture
Ginkgo today announced it has reached an agreement to sell the Company's biosecurity business to a consortium of investors ("Investors") in exchange for a minority equity position in the business alongside the Investors. Upon completion, the biosecurity business will operate as a standalone private entity focused on building a scaled, biosecurity infrastructure platform for the United States and its global partners. The transaction provides the biosecurity business with greater flexibility and additional resources to pursue near- and long-term growth opportunities.
Per Ginkgo CEO Jason Kelly, "There is rising interest in defense tech in private capital markets and spinning off our biosecurity business into a private entity with new investors allows it to grow faster with more investment than it would inside Ginkgo. This serves Ginkgo in two ways: we are able to participate in the upside of the new entity as a shareholder but importantly we also focus Ginkgo's cash investment on our autonomous labs business."
Ginkgo expects to complete the transaction in the first half of 2026, subject to the satisfaction of customary closing conditions.
Recent Business Highlights & Strategic Positioning
-- We are making 2026 a year of investment in our autonomous lab
-- This year, we will focus Ginkgo's efforts on autonomous labs as
the common platform for biotechnology research and invest to
extend our current lead in technology. We are currently expanding
our frontier autonomous lab in Boston to include over 50 RACs,
with 50 more expected by the end of the year
-- We will demonstrate the capabilities of autonomous labs by
decommissioning the majority of Ginkgo's lab benches, walk-up
automation, and workcells and moving our three R&D services
businesses onto a single, large autonomous lab
-- We are commercializing our autonomous lab through two distinct pathways:
through our cloud lab services and by building autonomous labs for
customers
-- We just released the results of a collaboration with OpenAI where
they used GPT-5 to design experiments using Ginkgo's cloud lab.
This resulted in achieving a 40% improvement over the
state-of-the-art in Cell-Free Protein Synthesis
-- After a pilot, we build and install customized autonomous systems
directly at customer sites, allowing them to run workflows in a
matter of weeks. We did this for the Pacific Northwest National
Laboratory, where we recently dedicated an 18-instrument
autonomous anaerobic system and won a $47M contract for a
97-instrument autonomous lab
-- Ginkgo continues to hold a strong cash position while winning new deals
across Agriculture, Pharma, and the U.S. Government, providing a strong
revenue base to position for future growth
-- We ended 2025 with $423 million in cash, cash equivalents and
marketable securities
-- Datapoints defined the category of Bio-AI Data Provider, worked
with 10 top pharma customers in its first full year.
-- In the fourth quarter of 2025, Solutions announced partnerships
with ARPA-H, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, Carnegie
Mellon, Agricen, Deep Origin and more
Full Year 2026 Outlook
-- Ginkgo expects total cash burn of $(150)-$(125) million in 2026.
Conference Call Details
Ginkgo will host a videoconference today, Thursday, February 26, beginning at 4:30 p.m. ET. The presentation will include an overview of the fourth quarter and full year 2025, recent business updates, a discussion on Ginkgo's outlook, as well as a moderated question and answer session.
To ask a question ahead of the presentation, please submit your questions to @Ginkgo on X (hashtag #GinkgoResults) or by sending an e-mail to investors@ginkgobioworks.com.
A webcast link is available on Ginkgo's Investor Relations website and a replay will be made available following the presentation.
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About Ginkgo Bioworks
Ginkgo Bioworks builds the tools that make biology easier to engineer for everyone. The company offers autonomous laboratories that replace manual laboratory work with robotics in the lab, greatly improving the productivity of scientists. Ginkgo's in-house autonomous lab is also available as a "cloud lab" through our Datapoints and Solutions contract research services. For more information, visit ginkgobioworks.com, read our blog, or follow us on social media channels such as X (@Ginkgo), Instagram (@GinkgoBioworks), Threads (@GinkgoBioworks), or LinkedIn.
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This press release, the presentation, and the conference call and webcast contain certain forward-looking statements within the meaning of the federal securities laws, including statements regarding our plans, including with respect to technology adaptations to meet our customers' needs, strategies, including with respect to our current expectations, operations and anticipated results of operations, both business and financial, including the timing for attaining Adjusted EBITDA breakeven, potential customer success, including successful application of our offerings by our customers, expected benefits from our strategic partnerships, and expectations with regard to revenue, including our ability to meet all milestones and achieve the maximum revenue available under certain of our customer arrangements, expenses, our full year 2026 outlook, and the market environment, all of which are subject to known and unknown risks, uncertainties and other factors that may cause our actual results, performance or achievements, market trends, or industry results to differ materially from
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Use of Non-GAAP Financial Measures
Certain of the financial measures included in this release, including Adjusted EBITDA, cash flow and cash burn, have not been prepared in accordance with generally accepted accounting principles ("GAAP"), and constitute "non-GAAP financial measures" as defined by the SEC. Ginkgo has included these non-GAAP financial measures because it believes they provide an additional tool for investors to use in evaluating Ginkgo's financial performance and prospects. Due to the nature and/or size of the items being excluded, such items do not reflect future gains, losses, expenses or benefits and are not indicative of our future operating performance. These non-GAAP financial measures are supplemental to, and should not be considered in isolation from, or as an alternative to, financial measures determined in accordance with GAAP. In addition, these non-GAAP financial measures may differ from non-GAAP financial measures with comparable names used by other companies. See the reconciliation below for additional information regarding certain of the non-GAAP financial measures included in this release, including a description of these non-GAAP financial measures and a reconciliation of the historic measures to Ginkgo's most comparable GAAP financial measures.
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Ginkgo Bioworks Holdings, Inc.
Consolidated Balance Sheets
(in thousands, except share data)
As of December 31,
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2025 2024
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Assets
Current assets:
Cash and cash equivalents $ 167,202 $ 561,572
Marketable securities 255,418 --
Accounts receivable, net 24,026 21,857
Accounts receivable - related parties 229 586
Prepaid expenses and other current assets 24,963 18,729
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Total current assets 471,838 602,744
Property, plant and equipment, net 167,783 203,720
Operating lease right-of-use assets 360,918 394,435
Investments 15,066 48,704
Intangible assets, net 56,924 72,510
Other non-current assets 47,167 55,336
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Total assets $ 1,119,696 $ 1,377,449
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Liabilities and Stockholders' Equity
Current liabilities:
Accounts payable $ 10,566 $ 14,169
Deferred revenue (includes $98 and $795 from
related parties) 18,946 27,710
Accrued expenses and other current
liabilities 66,458 65,387
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Total current liabilities 95,970 107,266
Non-current liabilities:
Deferred revenue, net of current portion
(includes $64,787 and $72,260 from related
parties) 75,182 98,783
Operating lease liabilities, non-current 417,078 438,766
Other non-current liabilities 22,876 16,576
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Total liabilities 611,106 661,391
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Commitments and contingencies (Note 12)
Stockholders' equity:
Preferred stock, $0.0001 par value;
200,000,000 shares authorized; none issued -- --
Common stock, $0.0001 par value (Note 13) 6 5
Additional paid-in capital 6,657,053 6,555,416
Accumulated deficit (6,150,320) (5,837,557)
Accumulated other comprehensive income
(loss) 1,851 (1,806)
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Total stockholders' equity 508,590 716,058
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Total liabilities and stockholders' equity $ 1,119,696 $ 1,377,449
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The accompanying notes are an integral part of these consolidated financial statements.
Ginkgo Bioworks Holdings, Inc.
Consolidated Statements of Operations and Comprehensive Loss
(in thousands, except share data)
Year Ended December 31,
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2025 2024 2023
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Cell Engineering
revenue (1) $ 132,746 $ 173,972 $ 143,531
Biosecurity
revenue:
Service 37,409 53,071 78,975
Product -- -- 28,949
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Total revenue 170,155 227,043 251,455
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Costs and operating
expenses:
Cost of
Biosecurity
service revenue 31,521 38,549 46,524
Cost of
Biosecurity
product revenue -- -- 7,481
Cost of other
revenue 15,451 5,999 --
Research and
development 243,773 424,061 580,621
General and
administrative 183,290 246,161 385,025
Impairment of
lease assets -- -- 96,210
Goodwill
impairment -- 47,858 --
Restructuring
charges 11,398 24,172 --
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Total operating
expenses 485,433 786,800 1,115,861
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Loss from
operations (315,278) (559,757) (864,406)
Other income
(expense):
Interest income 22,616 38,612 57,217
Interest expense -- (94) (93)
Loss on equity
method
investments -- -- (2,635)
Loss on
investments (16,411) (28,827) (54,827)
Loss on
deconsolidation
of subsidiaries -- (7,013) (42,502)
Change in fair
value of warrant
liabilities -- 5,701 5,168
Other (expense)
income, net (4,527) 3,870 9,138
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Total other income
(expense) 1,678 12,249 (28,534)
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Loss before income
taxes (313,600) (547,508) (892,940)
Income tax benefit (837) (479) (71)
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Net loss $ (312,763) $ (547,029) $ (892,869)
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Net loss per share $ (5.64) $ (10.54) $ (18.37)
Weighted average
common shares
outstanding: 55,457,676 51,894,639 48,610,507
Comprehensive loss:
Net loss $ (312,763) $ (547,029) $ (892,869)
Other comprehensive
income (loss):
Foreign currency
translation
adjustment 3,531 (4,782) 4,116
Reclassification of
foreign currency
translation
adjustment realized
upon sale of
foreign subsidiary -- 1,492 --
Unrealized gain on
available-for-sale
securities 126 -- --
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Total other
comprehensive
income (loss) 3,657 (3,290) 4,116
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Comprehensive loss $ (309,106) $ (550,319) $ (888,753)
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(1) Includes related party revenue of $8,784, $53,041, and $22,222 for the
years ended December 31, 2025, 2024, and 2023, respectively.
The accompanying notes are an integral part of these consolidated financial statements.
Ginkgo Bioworks Holdings, Inc.
Consolidated Statements of Cash Flows
(in thousands)
Year Ended December 31,
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2025 2024 2023
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Cash flows from
operating activities:
Net loss $ (312,763) $ (547,029) $ (892,869)
Adjustments to
reconcile net loss to
net cash used in
operating activities:
Depreciation and
amortization 58,990 63,020 70,507
Stock-based
compensation 81,546 112,344 229,884
Goodwill impairment -- 47,858 --
Restructuring related
impairment charges -- 4,823 --
Non-cash customer
consideration -- (1,117) (1,373)
Loss on equity method
investments -- -- 2,635
Loss on investments 16,411 28,827 54,827
Change in fair value
of notes receivable 5,685 2,014 2,416
Change in fair value
of warrant
liabilities -- (5,701) (5,168)
Change in fair value
of contingent
consideration
liability (4,232) 3,214 9,168
Loss on
deconsolidation of
subsidiaries -- 7,013 42,502
Impairment of
long-lived assets -- 5,796 121,404
Deferred income tax
benefit (1,364) (936) (801)
Loss on disposal of
equipment -- 844 842
Non-cash lease expense 30,082 28,095 28,313
Non-cash in-process
research and
development -- 19,796 9,182
Accretion of discount
on marketable
securities (3,390) -- --
Other non-cash
activity 2,064 1,224 3,194
Changes in operating
assets and
liabilities:
Accounts receivable
($357, $156 and $816
from related
parties) (1,473) (4,725) 50,068
Prepaid expenses and
other current assets (5,247) 10,085 10,473
Operating lease
right-of-use assets 3,814 23,463 9,275
Other non-current
assets 296 (1,394) 2,570
Accounts payable (2,992) 4,771 (1,183)
Accrued expenses and
other current
liabilities 10,376 (40,438) 16,899
Deferred revenue,
current and
non-current
($(8,147), $(51,422)
and $(17,018) from
related parties) (32,393) (68,645) (35,917)
Operating lease
liabilities, current
and non-current (27,932) (14,881) (22,800)
Other non-current
liabilities 11,463 2,094 452
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Net cash used in
operating activities (171,059) (319,585) (295,500)
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Cash flows from
investing activities:
Purchases of marketable
debt securities (418,630) -- --
Maturities of
marketable debt
securities 159,483 -- --
Proceeds from sale of
marketable debt
securities 25,899 -- --
Purchases of property
and equipment (7,665) (62,541) (40,801)
Deconsolidation of
subsidiaries - cash -- -- (42,980)
Business acquisitions,
net of cash acquired -- (5,400) --
Purchases of notes
receivable -- -- (350)
Proceeds from sales of
marketable equity
securities -- 4,519 --
Proceeds from sale of
equipment 574 648 4,428
Other 50 538 (990)
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Net cash used in
investing activities (240,289) (62,236) (80,693)
Cash flows from
financing activities:
Proceeds from ATM
offering 19,469 -- --
Payment of issuance
costs related to ATM
offering (1,340) -- --
Proceeds from exercise
of stock options -- 84 93
Taxes paid related to
net share settlement
of equity awards -- -- (23)
Principal payments on
finance leases (354) (897) (1,295)
Contingent
consideration payment -- (922) (1,411)
Payment of equity
issuance costs and
other -- (4) (580)
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Net cash provided by
(used in) financing
activities 17,775 (1,739) (3,216)
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Effect of foreign
exchange rates on cash
and cash equivalents 201 (281) (588)
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Net decrease in cash,
cash equivalents and
restricted cash (393,372) (383,841) (379,997)
Cash and cash
equivalents, beginning
of year 561,572 944,073 1,315,792
Restricted cash,
beginning of year 44,171 45,511 53,789
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Cash, cash equivalents
and restricted cash,
beginning of year 605,743 989,584 1,369,581
Cash and cash
equivalents, end of
year 167,202 561,572 944,073
Restricted cash, end of
year 45,169 44,171 45,511
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Cash, cash equivalents
and restricted cash,
end of year $ 212,371 $ 605,743 $ 989,584
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The accompanying notes are an integral part of these consolidated financial statements.
16. Segment Information
The Company operates in two operating and reportable segments: Cell Engineering and Biosecurity. This structure reflects the Company's internal management framework and the approach its CODM uses to evaluate operating results and allocate resources. The Company's reportable segments are described as follows:
-- Cell Engineering consists of end-to-end cell engineering solutions and
cell engineering tools offerings for biological R&D. The Company's cell
engineering platform includes R&D services (solutions) where Ginkgo
performs technical activities. Our Autonomous Lab is a flexible wet lab
built from our Reconfigurable Automation Cart ("RAC") systems capable of
large scale data generation; it powers generative AI and machine learning
("ML") tools that enable more successful biological R&D. We now offer
services providing such data generation, AI and automation tools directly
to Ginkgo customers. Cell Engineering revenue is generated primarily
through R&D service fees for our solutions and Datapoints services; and
design, build, installation and ongoing support fees for our automation
solutions $(RAC)$ systems. Historically our solutions deals also included
downstream value share in the form of milestone payments, royalties or
equity interests.
-- Biosecurity consists of the Company's biomonitoring and bioinformatics
support services, offered to both government and non-government customers
through the Company's two core offerings: Canopy and Horizon. Biosecurity
revenue is generated from fees for data, analytics, and services. Prior
to 2024, Biosecurity revenue also included sales of COVID-19 diagnostic
and sample collection test kits.
The Company's reportable segments are those for which discrete financial information is available and whose results are regularly provided to the Company's CODM, consisting of the Chief Executive Officer and the Chief Operating Officer, for the purpose of allocating resources and assessing financial performance. The CODM evaluates the financial performance of the Company's segments based on segment operating income (loss). The CODM is primarily provided with the segment operating income (loss) on a quarterly basis, as well as during the annual budgeting and forecasting process, and uses this information to monitor the Company's performance, including budget-to-actual results, and to make decisions about the allocation of operating and capital resources to each segment. For management reporting purposes, the Company's measure of segment operating income (loss) excludes the impact of stock-based compensation expense, depreciation and amortization, asset impairment charges, restructuring charges, costs associated with excess space, transaction and integration costs associated with planned, completed or terminated mergers and acquisitions, and acquired in-process research and development expenses. The Company has determined its significant segment expenses are cost of revenue for Biosecurity, research and development expenses for Cell Engineering, and general and administrative expenses for both segments, which are regularly provided to the CODM.
The CODM is not provided with asset information by segment; therefore, such information is not presented. The accounting policies used to prepare the reportable segments financial information are the same as those used to prepare the Company's consolidated financial statements.
The following table presents summary results of the Company's reportable segments and a reconciliation of total segment operating loss to consolidated loss before income taxes (in thousands):
Year Ended December 31,
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2025 2024 2023
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Cell Engineering
Revenue $ 132,746 $ 173,972 $ 143,531
Costs and operating
expenses:
Cost of other revenue 13,203 5,999 --
Research and development 158,541 271,512 335,943
General and
administrative 56,532 115,028 171,210
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Cell Engineering operating
loss (95,530) (218,567) (363,622)
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Biosecurity
Service revenue 37,409 53,071 78,975
Product revenue -- -- 28,949
Costs and operating
expense:
Cost of Biosecurity
service revenue 28,897 38,549 46,524
Cost of Biosecurity
product revenue -- -- 7,481
Research and development -- 771 1,599
General and
administrative 27,443 44,370 55,514
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Biosecurity operating
(loss) income (18,931) (30,619) (3,194)
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Total segment operating
loss (114,461) (249,186) (366,816)
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Reconciling items to reconcile total segment operating loss to loss before
income taxes:
Stock-based compensation
(1) 82,704 115,299 234,908
Impairment expense (2) -- 53,654 121,404
Depreciation and
amortization 58,990 63,020 70,507
Restructuring charges (3) 11,398 24,172 --
Carrying cost of excess
space (net of sublease
income) (4) 53,723 25,986 --
Merger and acquisition
related expenses (5) (5,998) 4,417 61,188
Acquired in-process
research and development -- 19,849 9,582
Other (income) expense,
net (6) (1,678) (8,075) 28,535
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Loss before income taxes $ (313,600) $ (547,508) $ (892,940)
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(1) Includes $1.2 million, $3.0 million, and $5.0 million in related employer
payroll taxes for the years ended December 31, 2025, 2024, and 2023,
respectively.
(2) For 2024, includes $47.9 million related to goodwill impairment and $5.8
million related to lab equipment. For 2023, includes a $25.2 million
impairment loss on lab equipment and a $96.2 million impairment loss on
lease assets associated with an exited Zymergen leased facility.
(3) See Note 3, Restructuring, for composition of costs.
(4) The carrying cost of excess space includes base rent, common area
maintenance charges, and real estate taxes associated with facilities the
Company is not occupying, net of any sublease income from these spaces.
(5) Represents transaction and integration costs directly related to mergers
and acquisitions, including: (i) due diligence, legal, consulting and
accounting fees associated with acquisitions, (ii) post-acquisition
employee retention bonuses and severance payments, (iii) the fair value
adjustments to contingent consideration liabilities resulting from
acquisitions, and (iv) costs associated with the Zymergen Bankruptcy, as
well as securities litigation costs, net of insurance recovery.
(6) Includes interest income, interest expense, loss on investments,
losses/gains on deconsolidation of subsidiaries, changes in fair value of
certain assets and liabilities, and other gains or losses.
Non-GAAP Information
In addition to our results determined in accordance with GAAP, we use earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortization ("EBITDA") and Adjusted EBITDA internally to evaluate our performance and make financial and operational decisions. We believe these non-GAAP measures, when viewed with our GAAP results, may be helpful to investors in assessing our operating performance.
We define EBITDA as net loss attributable to Ginkgo Bioworks Holdings, Inc. stockholders before the impact of interest income, interest expense, provision for income taxes and depreciation and amortization.
We define Adjusted EBITDA as EBITDA adjusted for stock-based compensation expense, gain or loss on equity method investments, gain or loss on investments, change in fair value of warrant liabilities, gain or loss on deconsolidation of subsidiaries, transaction and integration costs associated with planned, completed or terminated mergers and acquisitions, including related litigation costs, restructuring and impairment charges (inclusive of impairments of goodwill and long-lived assets), costs associated with the bankruptcy filing of our former subsidiary, Zymergen (the "Zymergen Bankruptcy"), and certain other income and expenses. We believe that the use of EBITDA and Adjusted EBITDA provides an additional tool for investors to use in evaluating ongoing operating results and trends because it eliminates the effect of financing activities, investing activities, and certain non-cash charges and other items that are not related to our core operating performance or affect comparability period over period.
Our non-GAAP financial measures have limitations as analytical tools and should not be considered in isolation or as a substitute for GAAP performance measures. These measures exclude significant expenses and income required by GAAP, which impacts their alignment with consolidated financial statements. They also rely on management's judgment to determine which items are included or excluded, making them inherently subjective. Additionally, non-GAAP measures lack uniform definitions and may differ from those used by other companies, limiting comparability. A reconciliation of EBITDA and Adjusted EBITDA to net loss, the most directly comparable GAAP financial measure, is presented below:
Year Ended December 31,
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(in thousands) 2025 2024
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Net loss (1) $ (312,763) $ (547,029)
Interest income (22,616) (38,612)
Interest expense -- 94
Income tax benefit (837) (479)
Depreciation and amortization 58,990 63,020
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EBITDA (277,226) (523,006)
Stock-based compensation (2) 82,704 115,299
Impairment expense (3) -- 53,654
Restructuring charges (4) 11,398 24,172
Merger and acquisition related expenses
(5) (5,998) 4,417
Loss on investments 16,411 28,827
Loss on deconsolidation of subsidiaries -- 7,013
Change in fair value of warrant
liabilities -- (5,701)
Change in fair value of convertible
notes 5,685 2,014
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Adjusted EBITDA $ (167,026) $ (293,311)
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(1) All periods include non-cash revenue when earned. For the year ended
December 31, 2025 this included $7.5 million in non-cash revenue from the
release of a deferred revenue balance associated with the terminated
BiomEdit, Inc. ("BiomEdit") contract. For the year ended December 31,
2024 this included $45.4 million recognized pursuant to the termination
of revenue contracts with Motif and $4.5 million in non-cash revenue from
the release of a deferred revenue balance associated with the termination
of contract with a related party.
(2) For the years ended December 31, 2025 and 2024, includes $1.2 million and
$3.0 million, respectively, in related employer payroll taxes.
(3) For 2024, includes $47.9 million related to goodwill impairment and $5.8
million related to lab equipment.
(4) Restructuring charges consist of employee termination costs from the
reduction in force commenced in June 2024, as well as the impairment of a
right-of-use asset relating to facilities consolidation.
(5) Represents transaction and integration costs directly related to mergers
and acquisitions, including: (i) due diligence, legal, consulting and
accounting fees associated with acquisitions, (ii) post-acquisition
employee retention bonuses and severance payments, (iii) the fair value
adjustments to contingent consideration liabilities resulting from
acquisitions, and (iv) costs associated with the Zymergen Bankruptcy, as
well as securities litigation costs, net of insurance recovery. Not
included in this adjustment are acquired in-process research and
development expenses, which totaled zero and $19.8 million for the years
ended December 31, 2025 and 2024, respectively.
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February 26, 2026 16:26 ET (21:26 GMT)
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