Stellantis Posts $26.3 Billion Loss for 2025 Due to Product Realignment Charge

by Michael Strong

Published: February 26th, 2026

stellantis posts 26 3 billion loss for 2025 due to product realignment charge

Stellantis N.V. accomplished a first since its creation in 2021: it posted a loss. And much like its newly reborn Hemi engines, it was big and showy.

The company lost $26.3 billion in 2025, much of it due to a massive $29.9 billion charge it took as part of a strategic “reset” it began in the second half of 2025. Overall, the company saw its full-year revenue drop 2 percent to $181 billion and adjusted operating loss of $993 million.

"Our 2025 full year results reflect the cost of over-estimating the pace of the energy transition and of the need to reset our business around our customers' freedom to choose from the full range of electric, hybrid and internal combustion technologies," said Stellantis CEO Antonio Filosa in a release.

Filosa’s moves are already having an impact. In H2 2025, Stellantis’ revenue rose 10 percent, although the special charge resulted in a more than $22 billion loss. The company also saw global vehicle shipments rise 277,000 vehicles to 2.8 million units — an 11 percent increase — in the second half of 2025. The impact was more pronounced in North America, where it jumped 239,000 units, good for a 39 percent jump during the period.

“In the second half of the year we began to see initial, positive signs of progress with the early results of our drive to improve quality, strong execution of the launches of our new product wave and a return to top line growth,” Filosa noted, adding, “In 2026 our focus will be on continuing to close the execution gaps of the past, adding further momentum to our return to profitable growth.”

Stellantis offered optimistic guidance for 2026, saying mid-single-digit percent increase in net revenues, a low-single-digit AOI margin, and improved Industrial free cash flow generation year over year. Sequential improvement is also expected from the first half to the second half of the year.

Filosa offered investors some insight about this possibility early in the month, including possibility of positive impact from the changes, revealing the company examined every aspect of the business, looking for ways to improve and before implementing changes.

The moves include cutting its U.S. portfolio of plug-in hybrids, or 4xe models, which included the Jeep Wrangler 4xe, Jeep Grand Cherokee 4xe, and Chrysler Pacifica PHEV. Additionally, it eliminated the expected Ram 1500 BEV, following Ford’s announcement late last year it was doing away with the Ford F-150 Lightning, which come back as an extended-range electric vehicle, or EREV, in 2027.

Additionally, Stellantis brought back some old favorites to its U.S. product portfolio, including the Hemi V8 for the Ram 1500, the gas-powered Dodge Charger SixPack two-door, and the Jeep Cherokee and Compass.

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Michael Strong

Michael Strong has spent more than 25 years writing about the automotive industry. A Detroit-area native, he’s written about everything from local car shows to product reviews to financial news. Currently he writes and edits for a variety of national and local publications. He’s also a longtime member of the Automotive Press Association and the International Motor Press Association, and a graduate of Georgia Southern University. Hail Southern! Despite a love for ’70s land yachts and BMWs from the late ’80s and early ’90s, his personal vehicle is neither of those.

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Blueice on Feb 26, 2026

Shareholders took a massive bath. Time to dunk their COE into a tube
and ship him to Red China.

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- Slavuta on Feb 27, 2026
  
  Meanwhile, in the Red China.... CEO piled up the money, 180 million yuan - $26M. And just gave to 700 employees as New Year bonus. This is not even outrageous by US standards, $37K per face... But the form it took!!!
  
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- EBFlexing on ur mom on Feb 27, 2026
  
  Amazing what kind of poor financial decisions you can make when an oppressive communist government is your safety net
  
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Lorenzo on Feb 27, 2026

When the government changes the rules, the automakers, or any other industry, writes off a huge number of invested dollars, then uses the loss carried forward accounting trick to build up future profits.

The losses will be partially carried forward as tax credits over several years, so that when their balance sheet is in the black, people can claim they don’t pay taxes on their obscene profits.

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