As previously disclosed, in the fourth quarter of 2025, TransMedics released a $103.3 million U.S. tax valuation allowance, which drove recognition of a net income tax benefit of $83.8 million in the fourth quarter. The Company released the U.S. tax valuation allowance because it determined that it had become more likely than not that future income would result in use of deferred tax assets.
TransMedics' annual effective tax rate in 2025 was (77.0)%. TransMedics' annual effective tax rate in 2025, without the impact of the tax valuation allowance release, was 19.1%, a difference of 96.1 percentage points.
An annual effective tax rate of 19.1% applied to fourth quarter income before income taxes of $21.6 million results in adjusted quarterly tax expense of $4.1 million. Fourth quarter net income was $105.4 million and net income per diluted share was $2.62. If the company applies an annual effective tax rate of 19.1%, fourth quarter adjusted net income is $17.5 million and net income per diluted share is $0.47.
In future periods, TransMedics expects to recognize a quarterly income tax provision more in line with U.S. statutory corporate income tax rates.
About TransMedics Group, Inc.TransMedics is the world's leader in portable extracorporeal warm perfusion and assessment of donor organs for transplantation. Headquartered in Andover, Massachusetts, the company was founded to address the unmet need for more and better organs for transplantation and has developed technologies to preserve organ quality, assess organ viability prior to transplant, and potentially increase the utilization of donor organs for the treatment of end-stage heart, lung, and liver failure.
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