UNITED STATES
SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION
Washington, D.C. 20549
FORM 10-Q
(Mark One)
☒
QUARTERLY REPORT PURSUANT TO SECTION 13 OR 15(d) OF THE SECURITIES EXCHANGE ACT OF 1934
For the quarterly period ended September 30, 2025
OR
☐
TRANSITION REPORT PURSUANT TO SECTION 13 OR 15(d) OF THE SECURITIES EXCHANGE ACT OF 1934
FOR THE TRANSITION PERIOD FROM TO
Commission File Number: 001-33045
ICF International, Inc.
(Exact name of Registrant as Specified in its Charter)
Delaware
22-3661438
(State or Other Jurisdiction of
Incorporation or Organization)
(I.R.S. Employer
Identification No.)
1902 Reston Metro Plaza, Reston, VA
20190
(Address of Principal Executive Offices)
(Zip Code)
Registrant’s telephone number, including area code: (703) 934-3000
Not Applicable
(Former name, former address and former fiscal year, if changed since last report)
Securities registered pursuant to Section 12(b) of the Act.
Title of each class
Trading Symbols(s)
Name of each exchange on which registered
Common Stock
ICFI
The Nasdaq Global Select Market
Indicate by check mark whether the registrant (1) has filed all reports required to be filed by Section 13 or 15(d) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 during the preceding 12 months (or for such shorter period that the registrant was required to file such reports), and (2) has been subject to such filing requirements for the past 90 days. ☒ Yes ☐ No
Indicate by check mark whether the registrant has submitted electronically every Interactive Data File required to be submitted pursuant to Rule 405 of Regulation S-T (§ 232.405 of this chapter) during the preceding 12 months (or for such shorter period that the registrant was required to submit such files). ☒ Yes ☐ No
Indicate by check mark whether the registrant is a large accelerated filer, an accelerated filer, a non-accelerated filer, smaller reporting company, or an emerging growth company. See the definitions of ‘‘large accelerated filer,’’ ‘‘accelerated filer,’’ ‘‘smaller reporting company,’’ and ‘‘emerging growth company’’ in Rule 12b–2 of the Exchange Act.
Large accelerated filer
Accelerated filer
Non-accelerated filer
Smaller reporting company
Emerging growth company
If an emerging growth company, indicate by check mark if the registrant has elected not to use the extended transition period for complying with any new or revised financial accounting standards provided pursuant to Section 13(a) of the Exchange Act. ☐
Indicate by check mark whether the registrant is a shell company (as defined in Rule 12b-2 of the Exchange Act). ☐ Yes ☒ No
As of October 24, 2025, there were 18,435,932 shares outstanding of the registrant’s common stock.
ICF INTERNATIONAL, INC. AND SUBSIDIARIES
QUARTERLY REPORT ON FORM 10-Q FOR THE
PERIOD ENDED SEPTEMBER 30, 2025
TABLE OF CONTENTS
PART I. FINANCIAL INFORMATION
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Item 1.
Financial Statements
Consolidated Balance Sheets at September 30, 2025 (Unaudited) and December 31, 2024
Consolidated Statements of Comprehensive Income (Unaudited) for the Three Months and Nine Months Ended September 30, 2025 and 2024
5
Consolidated Statements of Stockholders’ Equity (Unaudited) including the Three Months and Nine Months Ended September 30, 2025 and 2024
6
Consolidated Statements of Cash Flows (Unaudited) for the Nine Months Ended September 30, 2025 and 2024
8
Notes to Consolidated Financial Statements
9
Note 1 - Basis of Presentation
Note 2 - Restricted Cash
11
Note 3 - Contract Receivables, Net
Note 4 - Leases
12
Note 5 - Debt
13
Note 6 - Revenue Recognition
Note 7 - Derivative Instruments and Hedging Activities
14
Note 8 - Income Taxes
15
Note 9 - Stockholders' Equity
16
Note 10 - Stock-Based Compensation
18
Note 11 - Acquisitions
Note 12 - Earnings Per Share
19
Note 13 - Fair Value
Note 14 - Commitments and Contingencies
20
Note 15 - Segment Information
Item 2.
Management’s Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations
21
Item 3.
Quantitative and Qualitative Disclosures About Market Risk
30
Item 4.
Controls and Procedures
PART II. OTHER INFORMATION
31
Legal Proceedings
Item 1A.
Risk Factors
Unregistered Sales of Equity Securities, Use of Proceeds, and Issuer Purchases of Equity Securities
Defaults Upon Senior Securities
Mine Safety Disclosures
Item 5.
Other Information
Item 6.
Exhibits
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Item 1. Financial Statements
ICF International, Inc. and Subsidiaries
CONSOLIDATED BALANCE SHEETS
(in thousands, except share and per share amounts)
September 30, 2025
December 31, 2024
(Unaudited)
ASSETS
Current Assets:
Cash and cash equivalents
$
3,988
4,960
Restricted cash
46,965
13,857
Contract receivables, net
233,014
256,923
Contract assets
225,946
188,941
Prepaid expenses and other assets
22,115
21,133
Income tax receivable
36,952
6,260
Total Current Assets
568,980
492,074
Property and Equipment, net
58,807
66,503
Other Assets:
Goodwill
1,252,136
1,248,855
Other intangible assets, net
88,824
111,701
Operating lease - right-of-use assets
108,602
115,531
Deferred tax assets
—
1,603
Other assets
36,221
30,086
Total Assets
2,113,570
2,066,353
LIABILITIES AND STOCKHOLDERS’ EQUITY
Current Liabilities:
Accounts payable
139,235
159,522
Contract liabilities
34,680
24,580
Operating lease liabilities
18,544
20,721
Finance lease liabilities
2,681
2,612
Accrued salaries and benefits
84,262
105,773
Accrued subcontractors and other direct costs
50,791
49,271
Accrued expenses and other current liabilities
73,182
86,701
Total Current Liabilities
403,375
449,180
Long-term Liabilities:
Long-term debt
449,404
411,743
Operating lease liabilities - non-current
144,077
155,935
Finance lease liabilities - non-current
9,242
11,261
Deferred income taxes
22,795
Other long-term liabilities
60,556
55,775
Total Liabilities
1,089,449
1,083,894
Commitments and Contingencies (Note 14)
Stockholders’ Equity:
Preferred stock, par value $.001; 5,000,000 shares authorized; none issued
Common stock, par value $.001; 70,000,000 shares authorized; 24,345,942 and 24,186,962 shares issued at September 30, 2025 and December 31, 2024, respectively; 18,435,932 and 18,666,290 shares outstanding at September 30, 2025 and December 31, 2024, respectively
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Additional paid-in capital
458,902
443,463
Retained earnings
941,319
874,772
Treasury stock, 5,910,010 and 5,520,672 shares at September 30, 2025 and December 31, 2024, respectively
(362,090
)
(320,054
Accumulated other comprehensive loss
(14,034
(15,746
Total Stockholders’ Equity
1,024,121
982,459
Total Liabilities and Stockholders’ Equity
The accompanying notes are an integral part of these consolidated financial statements.
CONSOLIDATED STATEMENTS OF COMPREHENSIVE INCOME
(UNAUDITED)
Three Months Ended
Nine Months Ended
September 30,
(in thousands, except per share amounts)
2025
2024
Revenue
465,405
516,998
1,429,178
1,523,463
Direct Costs
290,545
325,047
891,512
964,911
Operating costs and expenses:
Indirect and selling expenses
122,261
132,816
377,169
389,001
Depreciation and amortization
14,168
13,111
43,665
40,176
Total operating costs and expenses
136,429
145,927
420,834
429,177
Operating income
38,431
46,024
116,832
129,375
Interest, net
(7,861
(7,195
(23,620
(23,136
Other income (expense)
176
(899
(2,515
767
Income before income taxes
30,746
37,930
90,697
107,006
Provision for income taxes
6,980
5,251
16,419
21,399
Net income
23,766
32,679
74,278
85,607
Earnings per Share:
Basic
1.29
1.74
4.03
4.57
Diluted
1.28
1.73
4.01
4.53
Weighted-average Shares:
18,432
18,760
18,447
18,752
18,526
18,910
18,542
18,915
Cash dividends declared per common share
0.14
0.42
Other comprehensive (loss) income, net of tax
(1,733
(951
1,712
(610
Comprehensive income, net of tax
22,033
31,728
75,990
84,997
CONSOLIDATED STATEMENTS OF STOCKHOLDERS’ EQUITY
AdditionalPaid-in
Retained
Treasury Stock
AccumulatedOtherComprehensive
(in thousands)
Shares
Amount
Capital
Earnings
Loss
Total
Balance at December 31, 2024
18,666
5,520
26,851
Other comprehensive loss
(2,713
Equity compensation
4,186
Issuance of shares pursuant to vesting of restricted stock units
116
Payments for share repurchases
(356
356
(39,343
Dividends declared
(2,572
Balance at March 31, 2025
18,426
447,649
899,051
5,876
(359,397
(18,459
968,868
23,661
Other comprehensive income
6,158
4,252
Issuance of shares pursuant to employee stock purchase plan and vesting of restricted stock units
34
2,524
(31
(2,494
(2,577
Balance at June 30, 2025
18,429
454,425
920,135
5,907
(361,891
(12,301
1,000,392
4,477
10
(3
3
(199
(2,582
Balance at September 30, 2025
18,436
5,910
Balance at December 31, 2023
18,846
421,502
775,099
5,136
(267,155
(11,885
917,585
27,317
684
3,551
Exercise of stock options
2
107
125
(218
218
(30,475
(2,620
Balance at March 31, 2024
18,755
425,160
799,796
5,354
(297,630
(11,201
916,149
25,611
(343
4,674
2,568
(19
(2,711
(2,623
Balance at June 30, 2024
18,757
432,402
822,784
5,373
(300,341
(11,544
943,325
4,269
(377
(2,628
Balance at September 30, 2024
18,762
436,671
852,835
5,376
(300,718
(12,495
976,317
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CONSOLIDATED STATEMENTS OF CASH FLOWS
Cash Flows from Operating Activities
Adjustments to reconcile net income to net cash provided by operating activities:
Provision for credit losses
(305
3,176
Deferred income taxes and unrecognized income tax benefits
20,186
(16,957
Non-cash equity compensation
12,915
12,494
Gain on divestiture of a business
(2,009
Other operating adjustments, net
3,837
2,206
Changes in operating assets and liabilities, net of the effects of acquisitions:
Net contract assets and liabilities
(22,676
(40,155
Contract receivables
26,829
(9,634
(2,470
(434
Operating lease assets and liabilities, net
(6,774
(3,065
(21,099
(13,402
(22,143
2,889
(25
9,660
(9,804
16,979
Income tax receivable and payable
(30,566
(9,574
Other liabilities
396
(1,773
Net Cash Provided by Operating Activities
66,244
76,184
Cash Flows from Investing Activities
Payments for purchase of property and equipment and capitalized software
(14,745
(15,559
Proceeds from divestiture of a business
1,985
Other investing, net
403
Net Cash Used in Investing Activities
(14,342
(13,574
Cash Flows from Financing Activities
Advances from working capital facilities
1,048,671
917,953
Payments on working capital facilities
(1,011,838
(930,043
Proceeds from other short-term borrowings
10,798
43,735
Repayments of other short-term borrowings
(16,620
(53,280
Receipt of restricted contract funds
1,275
Payment of restricted contract funds
(3,586
Dividends paid
(7,775
(7,880
Net payments for stock issuances and share repurchases
(39,512
(30,995
Other financing, net
(1,950
(1,777
Net Cash Used in Financing Activities
(18,226
(64,598
Effect of Exchange Rate Changes on Cash, Cash Equivalents, and Restricted Cash
1,433
174
Net Change in Cash, Cash Equivalents, and Restricted Cash
35,109
(1,814
Cash, Cash Equivalents, and Restricted Cash, Beginning of Period
18,817
9,449
Cash, Cash Equivalents, and Restricted Cash, End of Period
53,926
7,635
Supplemental Disclosure of Cash Flow Information
Cash paid during the period for:
Interest
20,045
24,388
Income taxes
27,431
50,382
(dollar amounts in tables in thousands, except share and per share data)
NOTE 1 – BASIS OF PRESENTATION
Basis of Presentation
The accompanying consolidated financial statements are of ICF International, Inc. (“ICFI”) and its principal subsidiary, ICF Consulting Group, Inc. (“Consulting,” and together with ICFI, the “Company”), and have been prepared in accordance with United States (“U.S.”) generally accepted accounting principles (“U.S. GAAP”). Consulting is a wholly owned subsidiary of ICFI. ICFI is a holding company with no operations or assets other than its investment in the common stock of Consulting. All other subsidiaries of the Company are wholly owned by Consulting. Intercompany transactions and balances have been eliminated. The terms “federal” or “federal government” refer to the U.S. federal government, and “state and local” or “state and local government” refer to U.S. state (including territories) and local governments, unless otherwise indicated.
Software assets, which were previously included within “Property and equipment, net” and “Other assets” on the Company’s consolidated balance sheets, have been reclassified and consolidated under “Other intangible assets, net”. To conform to the current year’s presentation, $1.6 million and $21.8 million, as of December 31, 2024, have been reclassified from “Property and equipment, net” and “Other assets” to “Other intangible assets, net,” respectively.
Previously separate financial statement line items “Depreciation and amortization” and “Amortization of intangible assets” on the Company’s consolidated statements of comprehensive income have been combined under “Depreciation and amortization”.
Use of Estimates
The preparation of consolidated financial statements in conformity with U.S. GAAP requires management to make estimates and assumptions that affect the reported amounts of assets and liabilities, and the reported amounts of revenue and expenses. Key estimates include those that are related to variable consideration on contracts with customers, costs to complete fixed-price contracts accounted for using cost-to-cost method, accrual of incentive compensation, reserves for tax benefits and valuation allowances on deferred tax assets, collectability of receivables, valuation and useful lives of acquired tangible and intangible assets, impairment of goodwill and long-lived assets, and contingencies. Actual results experienced by the Company may differ from management’s estimates.
During the three and nine months ended September 30, 2025, the Company recognized $0.9 million and $11.7 million, respectively, in net income as a result of changes in estimates related to fixed-price contracts accounted for under the percentage-of-completion method.
Interim Results
The unaudited consolidated financial statements included in this Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q have been prepared pursuant to the rules and regulations of the Securities and Exchange Commission (the “SEC”). These rules and regulations permit some of the information and footnote disclosures normally included in annual financial statements, prepared in accordance with U.S. GAAP, to be condensed or omitted. In management’s opinion, the unaudited consolidated financial statements contain all adjustments that are of a normal recurring nature, necessary for a fair presentation of the results of operations and financial position of the Company for the interim periods presented. The Company reports operating results and financial data in one operating segment and reporting unit. Operating results for the three-month and the nine-month periods ended September 30, 2025 and 2024 are not necessarily indicative of the results that may be expected for the full year. These unaudited consolidated financial statements should be read in conjunction with the audited consolidated financial statements for the fiscal year ended December 31, 2024 and the notes thereto included in the Company’s Annual Report on Form 10-K.
Recent Accounting Pronouncements
Accounting Pronouncements Adopted
Financial Instruments—Credit Losses
In July 2025, the Financial Accounting Standards Board (the “FASB”) issued Accounting Standards Update (“ASU”) 2025-05: Measurement of Credit Losses for Accounts Receivable and Contract Assets (“ASU 2025-05”). Under ASU 2025-05, entities may elect a practical expedient method for estimating the allowance for expected credit losses which assumes that the conditions as of the balance sheet date do not change for the remaining life of the asset when developing reasonable and supportable forecasts as part of estimating expected credit losses on current accounts receivable and contract assets. This ASU is effective for annual reporting periods beginning after December 15, 2025, and interim reporting periods within those annual reporting periods, with early adoption permitted. The Company early adopted the provisions of ASU 2025-05 during the third quarter of 2025 and the adoption did not have any impact on the consolidated financial statements.
Accounting Pronouncements Not Yet Adopted
Income Taxes
In December 2023, the FASB issued ASU 2023-09: Income Taxes: Improvements to Income Tax Disclosures (“ASU 2023-09”), which requires greater disaggregation of income tax rates and amounts paid by entities. ASU 2023-09 specifically requires all entities to disclose, on an annual basis, disaggregated domestic and foreign pre-tax income or loss from continuing operations and the disaggregated income tax expense or benefit by federal, state, and foreign components, and a tabular rate reconciliation, using both percentages and reporting currency amounts, of eight specific categories as well as any individual reconciling items that are equal to or greater than 5% of a threshold computed by multiplying pretax income or loss from continuing operations by the applicable federal rate. Additionally, the amendments also require disclosure of income taxes paid disaggregated by federal, state, and foreign jurisdictions as well as any individual jurisdictions over 5% of the total income taxes paid. ASU 2023-09 will be effective for the Company for the fiscal year ending December 31, 2025. The amendments may be adopted on a prospective or retrospective basis. The adoption of the provisions of ASU 2023-09 for the fiscal year ending December 31, 2025 will result in expanded footnote disclosures.
Income Statement—Reporting Comprehensive Income—Expense Disaggregation Disclosures
In November 2024, the FASB issued ASU 2024-03: Disaggregation of Income Statement Expenses (“ASU 2024-03”), which requires additional disaggregation of certain costs and expenses. ASU 2024-03 specifically requires all public entities to disclose within a tabular format the amounts of (a) purchases of inventory, (b) employee compensation, (c) depreciation, (d) intangible asset amortization, and (e) depreciation, depletion, and amortization recognized as part of oil- and gas-producing activities in each relevant expense caption as well as certain amounts that are already required to be disclosed under current U.S. GAAP. ASU 2024-03 also requires public entities to disclose a qualitative description of the composition of any amounts in relevant expense captions that are not separately disaggregated and the amount and definition of the entity’s selling expenses. ASU 2024-03 will be effective for the Company for the 2027 fiscal year and interim periods within the 2028 fiscal year, with early adoption permitted. The amendments may be adopted on a prospective or retrospective basis. The Company is currently evaluating the impact of the adoption of ASU 2024-03.
Intangibles—Goodwill and Other—Internal-Use Software
In September 2025, the FASB issued ASU 2025-06: Targeted Improvements to the Accounting for Internal-Use Software (“ASU 2025-06”), which modernizes the accounting for internal-use software costs by removing all references to software development project stages so that the guidance is neutral to different software development methods. ASU 2025-06 will be effective for the Company for annual reporting periods beginning after December 15, 2027, and interim reporting periods within those annual reporting periods, with early adoption permitted. The amendments may be adopted on a prospective, retrospective, or modified basis. The Company is currently evaluating the impact of the adoption of ASU 2025-06.
NOTE 2 – RESTRICTED CASH
The following table provides a reconciliation of cash, cash equivalents, and restricted cash as of September 30, 2025 and 2024 to cash, cash equivalents, and restricted cash shown in the consolidated statements of cash flows for the nine months ended September 30, 2025 and 2024:
September 30, 2024
6,911
Restricted cash (1)
49,938
724
Total of cash, cash equivalents, and restricted cash shown in the consolidated statements of cash flows
Restricted cash is primarily related to the Company’s energy incentive business with public utility clients and restricted cash advances on certain programs. The restricted cash balance at September 30, 2025 includes restricted cash from the December 31, 2024 acquisition of Applied Energy Group, Inc. (“AEG”).
NOTE 3 – CONTRACT RECEIVABLES, NET
Contract receivables, net consisted of the following:
Billed and billable
236,800
263,624
Allowance for expected credit losses
(3,786
(6,701
The Company sells certain billed contract receivables in accordance with its Amended Master Receivables Purchase Agreement with MUFG Bank, Ltd. (“MUFG”). The following is a reconciliation of billed contract receivables sold to MUFG that were eligible and accounted for as sales under Accounting Standards Codification 860, Transfers and Servicing (“ASC 860”), including billed contract receivables sold to MUFG and collected from customers on behalf of MUFG during the nine months ended September 30, 2025 and 2024, and the balance of billed contract receivables not collected from customers as of September 30, 2025 and 2024, respectively:
As of and for the Nine Months Ended
Beginning balance, billed contract receivables sold and not yet collected (1)
25,966
21,302
Billed contract receivables sold during the period (2)
362,563
482,469
Collections from customers during the period (2)
(349,981
(473,037
Ending balance, billed contract receivables sold and not yet collected (3)
38,549
30,735
The following is a reconciliation of cash collections from customers of billed contract receivables previously sold to MUFG that were eligible and accounted for as sales under ASC 860, including collections from customers on behalf of MUFG of previously sold billed contract receivables and remittances of cash collections to MUFG during the nine months ended September 30, 2025 and 2024, and the balance of cash collected but not remitted to MUFG as of September 30, 2025 and 2024, respectively:
Beginning balance, cash collected but not yet remitted to MUFG (1)
23,339
21,796
349,981
473,037
Remittances to MUFG during the period (2)
(361,462
(463,558
Ending balance, cash collected but not yet remitted to MUFG (3)
11,857
31,275
The aggregate impact of the sale of billed contract receivables on the Company’s operating cash flows was net inflows of $1.1 million and $18.9 million for the nine months ended September 30, 2025 and 2024, respectively.
At September 30, 2025 and December 31, 2024, the amounts due to MUFG for cash collected and not yet remitted for billed contract receivables sold that did not qualify as sales under ASC 860 totaled $2.1 million and $7.9 million, respectively. These amounts are included as part of “Accrued expenses and other current liabilities” on the Company’s consolidated balance sheets, and included within cash flows from financing activities on the Company’s consolidated statements of cash flows.
NOTE 4 – LEASES
At September 30, 2025, the Company had operating and finance leases for facilities and equipment with remaining terms ranging from 1 to 13 years. Future minimum lease payments under non-cancellable operating and finance leases as of September 30, 2025 were as follows:
Operating
Finance
September 30, 2026
23,656
3,041
September 30, 2027
20,564
September 29, 2028
16,770
3,004
September 29, 2029
14,101
2,967
September 30, 2030
13,352
741
Thereafter
108,400
Total future minimum lease payments
196,843
12,794
Less: Interest
(34,222
(871
Total lease liabilities
162,621
11,923
Lease liabilities - current
Lease liabilities - non-current
NOTE 5 – DEBT
At September 30, 2025 and December 31, 2024, debt consisted of:
AverageInterest Rate
OutstandingBalance
Term Loan
200,250
Delayed-Draw Term Loan
154,000
156,750
Revolving Credit
96,809
57,225
Total before debt issuance costs
5.7%
451,059
6.6%
414,225
Unamortized debt issuance costs
(1,655
(2,482
Current portion of long-term debt
Long-term debt - non-current
As of September 30, 2025, the Company had $501.6 million of unused borrowing capacity under the $600.0 million revolving line of credit under a credit agreement with a group of lenders (the “Credit Facility”). The unused borrowing capacity is inclusive of outstanding letters of credit totaling $1.6 million. The average interest rate on borrowings under the Credit Facility was 5.7% for both the three months and the nine months ended September 30, 2025, respectively, and 6.6% for the twelve months ended December 31, 2024. Inclusive of the impact of floating-to-fixed interest rate swaps (see “Note 7 – Derivative Instruments and Hedging Activities”), the average interest rate was 5.5% for the three months ended September 30, 2025, 5.4% for the nine months ended September 30, 2025, and 5.3% for the twelve months ended December 31, 2024, respectively.
Future scheduled repayments of debt principal are as follows:
Payments due by
May 6, 2027 (Maturity)
NOTE 6 – REVENUE RECOGNITION
Disaggregation of Revenue
The Company disaggregates revenue from clients into categories that depict how the nature, amount, and uncertainty of revenue and cash flows are affected by economic and business factors. Those categories are client market, client type, and contract mix.
Three Months Ended September 30,
Nine Months Ended September 30,
Dollars
Percent
Client Market:
Energy, environment, infrastructure, and disaster recovery
246,239
53
%
237,056
46
732,182
51
694,940
Health and social programs
151,976
33
196,772
38
480,489
583,415
Security and other civilian & commercial
67,190
83,170
216,507
245,108
100
Client Type:
U.S. federal government
198,042
43
281,970
55
641,240
45
830,070
U.S. state and local government
81,698
17
78,686
244,491
240,801
International government
29,021
26,817
85,369
80,760
Total Government
308,761
66
387,473
75
971,100
68
1,151,631
76
Commercial
156,644
129,525
25
458,078
371,832
Contract Mix:
Time-and-materials
205,683
44
220,332
621,422
644,125
42
Fixed-price
226,781
49
236,770
703,321
696,910
Cost-based
32,941
59,896
104,435
182,428
Contract Assets and Liabilities
Contract assets consist of unbilled receivables on contracts where revenue recognized exceeds the amount billed. Contract liabilities result from advance payments received on a contract or from billings in excess of revenue recognized.
The following table summarizes the contract assets and liabilities as of September 30, 2025 and December 31, 2024:
Contract liabilities (1)
(37,653
(24,580
Net contract assets (liabilities)
188,293
164,361
The increase in net contract assets (liabilities) is primarily due to the timing difference between the performance of services and billings to customers. During the nine months ended September 30, 2025 and 2024, the Company recognized $19.4 million and $17.1 million in revenue related to the contract liabilities balance at December 31, 2024 and 2023, respectively.
Unfulfilled Performance Obligations
Unfulfilled performance obligations (“UPO”) were $0.9 billion and $1.3 billion as of September 30, 2025 and December 31, 2024, respectively. During the nine months ended September 30, 2025, the Company received notices for termination-for-convenience pursuant to the executive orders issued by the Trump Administration or actions taken based on recommendations of the Department of Government Efficiency. The termination notices were received primarily in the first and second quarters of the 2025 fiscal year. As a result, the UPO as of September 30, 2025 reflects the impact of such actions totaling approximately $0.3 billion of UPO previously reported as of December 31, 2024.
The Company expects to recognize the remaining UPO as revenue of approximately 14% by December 31, 2025, 79% by December 31, 2026, and the remainder thereafter.
NOTE 7 – DERIVATIVE INSTRUMENTS AND HEDGING ACTIVITIES
At September 30, 2025, the Company had floating-to-fixed interest rate swap agreements (the “Swaps”) for an aggregate notional amount of $175.0 million.
During the second and third quarters of the 2025 fiscal year, the Company executed a strategy that extended the term of the existing Swaps at a lower interest rate while maintaining the same overall notional value of each Swap. After the modifications, $50.0 million will mature on February 28, 2030, $25.0 million will mature on June 26, 2030, and $100.0 million will mature on July 31,
2030. The Company has designated the modified Swap agreements as cash flow hedges. See “Note 5 – Debt” for details on the impact of the swap agreements on the Company’s interest rates. See “Note 13 – Fair Value” for the fair value of these Swaps.
NOTE 8 – INCOME TAXES
A reconciliation of the Company’s statutory rate to the effective tax rate (the “ETR”) for the three and nine months ended September 30, 2025 and 2024 is as follows:
Statutory tax rate
21.0
State taxes, net of federal benefit
6.1
6.0
Return to provision adjustments
4.4
(11.0
%)
1.1
(3.7
IRC 987 regulations
(4.9
Equity-based compensation
(0.3
0.3
(1.7
Uncertain tax position
1.7
4.2
3.0
Tax credits
(11.7
(8.5
Other
1.5
2.4
3.2
2.5
Effective tax rate
22.7
13.8
18.1
20.0
The return to provision adjustments and uncertain tax position recognized during the three and nine months ended September 30, 2025 and 2024 were primarily related to the Research & Experimentation (“R&E”) tax credits that were previously estimated prior to the 2024 and 2023 tax returns.
The ETR for the nine months ended September 30, 2025 includes income tax benefit recognized in the first quarter of 2025 from tax planning implemented in connection with the “transitional rules” governing unrealized foreign exchange gains and losses derived from translation of the operations, assets and liabilities of non-U.S. qualified subsidiaries provided by recently finalized U.S. federal tax regulations under Section 987 (“IRC 987”) of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as amended (the “Internal Revenue Code”). The regulations under IRC 987 are effective for the Company for tax years beginning after December 31, 2024, and require computation of a pre-transition foreign currency gain or loss to be included in the determination of future taxable income or loss and an analysis of the various elections available to taxpayers. Based on the Company’s current analysis of the regulations and the available election to amortize its pre-2025 cumulative unrealized foreign exchange gains and losses impacting U.S. taxation of foreign earnings under Subpart F of the Internal Revenue Code, the Company recognized a non-cash deferred income tax benefit of $4.5 million related to its election to amortize its pre-transition foreign currency losses against taxable income over ten years.
On July 4, 2025, President Trump signed into law the One Big Beautiful Bill Act (the “OB3 Act”). The OB3 Act made permanent changes to certain key elements of the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act of 2017 (the “TCJA”), including 100% bonus depreciation, domestic research cost expensing, the business interest expense limitation, and the repeal of various clean energy tax credits. As a result, the OB3 Act impacted the Company’s income tax payables and deferred tax assets as of July 4, 2025, the date of enactment, via the reversal of approximately $32.0 million of deferred tax assets resulting from capitalized research expenses incurred through June 30, 2025. The reversal is reflected on the Company’s interim financial statements as of and for the quarter ended September 30, 2025 and the annual financial statements as of and for the year ended December 31, 2025. These capitalized research expenses are being electively recovered ratably over the 2025 and 2026 tax years as outlined in IRC 174A enacted via the OB3 Act.
NOTE 9 – STOCKHOLDERS’ EQUITY
Accumulated Other Comprehensive Loss
Accumulated other comprehensive loss as of September 30, 2025 and 2024 included the following:
Three Months Ended September 30, 2025
ForeignCurrencyTranslationAdjustments
Change inFair Value ofInterest RateHedgeAgreements
Accumulated other comprehensive (loss) income at June 30, 2025
(10,386
(1,915
Current period other comprehensive (loss) income:
Other comprehensive (loss) income before reclassifications
(1,414
(178
(1,592
Amounts reclassified from accumulated other comprehensive (loss) income (1)
(131
Effect of taxes
(10
Total current period other comprehensive (loss) income
(319
Accumulated other comprehensive (loss) income at September 30, 2025
(11,800
(2,234
(1) The Company expects to reclassify approximately $0.3 million of unrealized losses related to the Change in Fair Value of Interest Rate Hedge Agreements from accumulated other comprehensive (loss) income into earnings during the next 12 months.
Three Months Ended September 30, 2024
Change inFair Value ofInterest RateHedgeAgreement and Other Adjustments
Accumulated other comprehensive (loss) income at June 30, 2024
(14,463
2,919
4,745
(5,099
(354
Amounts reclassified from accumulated other comprehensive (loss) income
(1,670
(758
1,831
1,073
3,987
(4,938
Accumulated other comprehensive (loss) income at September 30, 2024
(10,476
(2,019
Nine Months Ended September 30, 2025
Accumulated other comprehensive (loss) income at December 31, 2024
(16,383
637
8,677
(2,868
5,809
(4,094
(1,011
(5,105
1,008
4,583
(2,871
(1) During the first quarter of 2025, the Company reclassified $4.1 million of effect of taxes related to Foreign Currency Translation Adjustments from accumulated other comprehensive (loss) income into earnings in connection with IRC 987. See “Note 8 – Income Taxes”.
Nine Months Ended September 30, 2024
Accumulated other comprehensive (loss) income at December 31, 2023
(12,695
810
2,877
1,161
4,038
(5,002
(658
1,012
354
2,219
(2,829
Share Repurchases
The Company repurchases shares under the $300.0 million share repurchase program authorized by the Company’s board of directors. In addition, the Company repurchases shares in connection with the vesting of restricted stock units (“RSUs”) and performance share awards (“PSAs”) granted to employees. Repurchases for the three and nine months ended September 30, 2025 and 2024 are as follows:
Amount Paid
Vesting of RSUs
2,107
199
2,383
377
Share Repurchase Program
344,387
37,543
191,000
26,519
Vesting of RSUs and PSAs
44,951
4,493
48,414
7,044
389,338
42,036
239,414
33,563
NOTE 10 – STOCK-BASED COMPENSATION
The Company’s 2018 Amended and Restated Omnibus Incentive Plan (the “2018 A&R Omnibus Plan”) allows the Company to grant up to 2,050,000 total shares of common stock to officers, key employees, and non-employee directors. As of September 30, 2025, the Company had 786,096 shares available for grant under the 2018 A&R Omnibus Plan.
The following awards were granted during the three and nine months ended September 30, 2025 and 2024:
Awards Granted
Average Grant Date Fair Value
Employee Stock Awards - RSUs
4,354
672
90.39
153.50
147,209
83,467
84.99
152.59
Employee Stock Awards - PSAs
75,313
28,088
76.42
166.78
Cash-Settled RSUs
1,740
3,012
75,161
37,570
84.96
152.64
Non-Employee Director Stock Awards - RSUs
12,040
6,618
87.16
135.91
12,484
87.06
18,134
10,302
310,167
155,743
The total stock-based compensation expense was $6.3 million and $16.1 million for the three and nine months ended September 30, 2025, respectively, and $6.6 million and $19.3 million for the three and nine months ended September 30, 2024 respectively. The unrecognized compensation expense at September 30, 2025 was $32.1 million, which is expected to vest over the next 1.7 years.
NOTE 11 – ACQUISITIONS
On December 31, 2024, the Company completed the acquisition of AEG, an energy technology and advisory services company, for $59.9 million in cash consideration. AEG provides a suite of integrated technology and advisory solutions to electric and gas utilities, state and local governments, and state energy offices nationwide which enhances the Company’s service offering and client footprint.
As part of the allocation of the purchase consideration, the Company recorded the following:
Net working capital
3,842
Property and equipment
Customer-related intangibles
20,000
Developed technology
5,000
Trade names and trademarks
350
Other, net
48
30,574
Purchase consideration
59,869
Net working capital includes restricted cash of $5.4 million, accounts receivable of $4.4 million, contract assets of $2.6 million, accrued expenses of $6.6 million, accounts payable of $1.3 million, and other assets and liabilities of $0.7 million.
The allocation of the purchase consideration was finalized during the third quarter of fiscal year 2025.
The estimated useful lives of acquired intangible assets are as follows:
6.0 years
4.0 years
3.5 months
The Company revised customer-related intangibles from an initial estimate of $21.0 million to $20.0 million and estimated useful life from 9.0 years to 6.0 years as a result of new information received during the quarter ended March 31, 2025. The Company also revised goodwill from an initial estimate of $30.2 million to $30.6 million, primarily as a result of the net working capital adjustments recorded during the quarter ended June 30, 2025.
The goodwill is attributable to the workforce of AEG and expected synergies with the Company. Goodwill has an indefinite life and is deductible for income tax purposes. The pro-forma impact of the acquisition is not material to the Company’s results of operations.
NOTE 12 – EARNINGS PER SHARE
Earnings per share (“EPS”), including the dilutive effect of stock awards for each period reported is summarized below:
(in thousands, except per share data)
Net Income
Weighted-average number of basic shares outstanding during the period
Dilutive effect of stock awards
94
150
95
163
Weighted-average number of diluted shares outstanding during the period
Basic EPS
Diluted EPS
There were 60,168 and 4,193 of potentially dilutive shares of restricted stock awards that were excluded from the calculation of weighted-average diluted share computations for the three and nine months ended September 30, 2025, respectively, because they were anti-dilutive. There were 324 and 190 potentially dilutive shares of restricted stock awards excluded for the three and nine months ended September 30, 2024, respectively, because they were anti-dilutive.
NOTE 13 – FAIR VALUE
Financial instruments measured at fair value on a recurring basis and their location within the accompanying consolidated balance sheets are as follows:
Level 1
Level 2
Level 3
Location on Balance Sheet
Assets:
Interest rate swaps - current portion
105
Company-owned life insurance policies
25,943
Liabilities:
366
Interest rate swaps - long-term portion
2,890
825
129
23,174
153
NOTE 14 – COMMITMENTS AND CONTINGENCIES
Letters of Credit and Guarantees
The Company had open standby letters of credit totaling $1.6 million at both September 30, 2025 and December 31, 2024. Open standby letters of credit reduce the Company’s borrowing capacity under the Credit Facility.
At September 30, 2025 and December 31, 2024, the Company had $7.0 million and $8.2 million, respectively, of bank guarantees for facility leases and contract performance obligations.
Litigation and Claims
The Company is involved in various legal matters and proceedings arising in the ordinary course of business. While these matters and proceedings cause it to incur costs, including, but not limited to, attorneys’ fees, the Company currently believes that any ultimate liability arising out of these matters and proceedings will not have a material adverse effect on its financial position, results of operations, or cash flows.
NOTE 15 – SEGMENT INFORMATION
The Company provides a broad array of professional services to its clients across several markets, primarily within the U.S. The Company operates as a single reportable and operating segment because the chief operating decision maker (the “CODM”), which is the Chief Executive Officer, manages the business activities on a consolidated basis. Although the Company disaggregates revenue by client market and client type, it does not manage its business or allocate resources based on client market or client type.
The CODM assesses segment performance based on consolidated net income as reported on the Company’s consolidated statements of comprehensive income. The CODM uses consolidated net income to evaluate the Company’s performance against budgets and decide whether to use the profits to invest in the business, pay down debt, repurchase stock, pay dividends, or fund acquisitions. Asset information provided to the CODM is not used for the purpose of making decisions and assessing performance of the Company.
The segment revenue, significant segment expenses, and segment profit are as follows:
Significant segment expenses:
Direct labor and related fringe costs
178,002
197,473
556,072
584,017
Subcontractors and other direct costs
112,543
127,574
335,440
380,894
5,004
4,820
15,797
15,303
Amortization of intangible assets acquired in business combinations
9,164
8,291
27,868
24,873
Interest expense
7,924
7,242
23,844
23,326
Other segment (income) expense (1)
(239
852
2,291
(957
(1) Other segment (income) expense includes interest income, foreign currency expense, and gains/losses on disposition of assets.
Item 2. Management’s Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations
FORWARD-LOOKING STATEMENTS
Some of the statements in this Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q (this “Quarterly Report”) constitute forward-looking statements as defined in the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995, as amended. These statements involve known and unknown risks, uncertainties, and other factors that may cause our actual results, levels of activity, performance, or achievements to be materially different from any future results, levels of activity, performance, or achievements expressed or implied by such forward-looking statements. In some cases, you can identify these statements by forward-looking words such as “anticipate,” “believe,” “could,” “estimate,” “expect,” “intend,” “may,” “plan,” “potential,” “should,” “will,” “would,” or similar words. You should read statements that contain these words carefully. The risk factors described in our filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission (the “SEC”), as well as any cautionary language in this Quarterly Report, provide examples of risks, uncertainties, and events that may cause actual results to differ materially from the expectations described in the forward-looking statements, including, but not limited to:
Our forward-looking statements are based on the beliefs and assumptions of our management and the information available to our management at the time these disclosures were prepared. Although we believe the expectations reflected in these statements are reasonable, we cannot guarantee future results, levels of activity, performance, or achievements. You should not place undue reliance on these forward-looking statements, which apply only as of the date of this Quarterly Report. We undertake no obligation to update these forward-looking statements, even if our situation changes in the future.
The terms “we,” “our,” “us,” and “the Company,” as used throughout this Quarterly Report, refer to ICF International, Inc. and its subsidiaries, unless otherwise indicated. The terms “federal” or “federal government” refer to the U.S. federal government, and “state and local” or “state and local government” refer to U.S. state and local governments and the governments of U.S. territories. The following discussion and analysis is intended to help the reader understand our business, financial condition, results of operations, and liquidity and capital resources. You should read this discussion in conjunction with our consolidated financial statements and the related notes contained elsewhere in this Quarterly Report and our Annual Report on Form 10-K for the fiscal year ended December 31, 2024, filed with the SEC on February 28, 2025 (our “Annual Report”).
OVERVIEW AND OUTLOOK
We provide professional services and technology-based solutions, including management, technology, and policy consulting and implementation services. We help our clients conceive, develop, implement, and improve solutions that address complex business, natural resource, social, technological, and public safety issues. Our services primarily support clients that operate in three key markets:
We provide services to our diverse client base that deliver value throughout the entire life cycle of a policy, program, project, or initiative. Our primary services include:
We believe that, in the long-term, demand for our services will continue to grow as government, industry, and other stakeholders seek to address critical long-term societal and natural resource issues due to heightened concerns about the environment and use of clean energy and energy efficiency; health promotion, treatment, and cost control; the means by which healthcare can be delivered effectively on a cross-jurisdiction basis; natural disaster relief and rebuild efforts; and ongoing homeland security threats. In the wake of the major hurricanes that devastated communities in Texas, Florida, North Carolina, Louisiana, the U.S. Virgin Islands, and Puerto Rico, and the impact of wildfires in Hawaii, Oregon, and southern California, the affected areas remain in various stages of evacuation, relief, and recovery efforts. We believe our prior and current experience with disaster relief and rebuild efforts, including after hurricanes Katrina and Rita and Superstorm Sandy, and the wildfires in Oregon, put us in a favorable position to continue to provide recovery and housing assistance, and environmental and infrastructure solutions, including disaster mitigation, on behalf of federal departments and agencies, state, territorial, and local jurisdictions, and regional agencies.
As the federal government sharpens its focus on efficiency, transparency, consolidation, and accountability, we see growth opportunities for ICF’s fit-for-purpose technology solutions. Our offerings are innovative, agile, scalable, and aligned with commercial best practices, delivering clear and measurable outcomes. By combining deep institutional knowledge of our clients’ markets and data with our proven expertise in AI, open source, cloud-native, and commercially available off the shelf low-code and no-code platforms, we are able to deliver highly functional, cost-effective solutions that meet the evolving demands of our customers while driving greater value and impact for taxpayers.
Our future results will depend on the success of our strategy to enhance our client relationships and seek larger engagements that span the entire program life cycle, and to complete and successfully integrate additional strategic acquisitions. We will continue to focus on building scale in our vertical and horizontal domain expertise, developing business with our existing clients as well as new customers, and replicating our business model in selective geographies. In doing so, we will continue to evaluate strategic acquisition opportunities that enhance our subject matter knowledge, broaden our service offerings, gain access to or expand customer relationships, and/or provide scale in specific geographies.
Although we continue to see favorable long-term market opportunities, there are certain business challenges facing all government service providers. The very nature of opportunities arising out of disaster recovery means they can involve unusual challenges. Factors such as the overall stress on communities and people affected by disaster recovery situations, political complexities, challenges among involved government agencies, and a higher-than-normal risk of audits and investigations may result in a reduction to our revenue and profit and adversely affect cash flow; however, we believe we are well positioned to provide a broad range of services in support of initiatives that will continue to be priorities to the federal government, as well as to state and local and international governments and commercial clients.
As discussed in Part II, Item 7 of our Annual Report, during the nine months ended September 30, 2025 we received notices for termination-for-convenience pursuant to the executive orders issued by the Administration or actions by DOGE which resulted in a reduction of $418.2 million of our backlog. The termination notices were received primarily in the first and second quarters of the 2025 fiscal year. The revenue recognized in fiscal year 2024 from the contracts subject to these terminations represented approximately 6.4% of the total 2024 fiscal year revenue.
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Our portfolio includes client work with the U.S. federal government. As a result of the federal government shutdown, which began on October 1, 2025, we have been impacted, to a degree, by a number of temporary stop work orders as the federal government paused non-essential functions. We estimate a reduction of $7.6 million in revenue for the month of October as a result of the federal government shutdown. We continue to take active measures to minimize the impact of the shutdown on our performance and our people, and expect to resume the support services to the federal government under the contracts once the shutdown ends and the stop work orders are lifted.
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RESULTS OF OPERATIONS
Three Months Ended September 30, 2025 Compared to Three Months Ended September 30, 2024
The table below sets forth select line items of our unaudited consolidated statements of comprehensive income, the percentage of revenue for these select items, and the period-over-period rate of change and percentage of revenue for the periods indicated.
Percentages of Revenue
Year-to-Year Change
(dollars in thousands)
100.0
(51,593
(10.0
Direct Costs:
Direct labor and related fringe benefit costs
38.2
(19,471
(9.9
Subcontractor and other direct costs
24.2
24.7
(15,031
(11.8
Total Direct Costs
62.4
62.9
(34,502
(10.6
Operating Costs and Expenses:
26.3
25.7
(10,555
(7.9
Depreciation and Amortization:
0.9
184
3.8
2.0
1.6
873
10.5
Total Depreciation and Amortization
3.1
1,057
8.1
Total Operating Costs and Expenses
29.4
28.2
(9,498
(6.5
Operating Income
8.2
8.9
(7,593
(16.5
(1.4
(666
9.3
(0.2
1,075
nm
Income before Income Taxes
6.5
7.3
(7,184
(18.9
Provision for Income Taxes
1.0
1,729
32.9
5.0
6.3
(8,913
(27.3
nm - not meaningful
Revenue. The decrease in revenue was driven by a reduction of $83.9 million from our U.S. federal government clients primarily as a result of terminated contracts during 2025 due to the Administration’s changing priorities and the actions recommended by DOGE, as well as the disruption in the typical U.S. federal government procurement cycle. This decline was offset by increases of $27.1 million, $3.0 million, and $2.2 million from our commercial, U.S. state and local government, and international government clients, respectively. The following were changes in revenue from our various client markets:
Revenue for the three months ended September 30, 2025 includes subcontractor and other direct costs, which decreased $15.0 million, or 11.8%, from the third quarter of 2024 and totaled $112.5 million and $127.6 million for the three months ended September 30, 2025 and 2024, respectively, and the margin on such costs.
Direct Costs. The decrease of $34.5 million in direct costs was primarily a result of terminated U.S. federal government contracts during 2025. For the three months ended September 30, 2025 and 2024, direct labor and related fringe benefit costs as a percentage of direct costs were 61.3% and 60.8%, respectively, and subcontractor and other direct costs as a percentage of direct costs were 38.7% and 39.2%, respectively. As a percentage of revenue, direct labor and related fringe benefit costs were 38.2% and 38.2%, respectively, and subcontractor and other direct costs were 24.2% and 24.7%, respectively, for the three months ended September 30, 2025 and 2024. Total direct costs as a percentage of revenue were 62.4% for the three months ended September 30, 2025, compared to 62.9% for the three months ended September 30, 2024.
Indirect and selling expenses. For the three months ended September 30, 2025, indirect and selling expenses decreased by $10.6 million, or 7.9%, compared to the prior year, primarily as a result of a decrease of $6.6 million in general and administrative costs. Our indirect and selling expenses as a percentage of revenue were 26.3% for the three months ended September 30, 2025, compared to 25.7% for the three months ended September 30, 2024.
Depreciation and amortization. Depreciation and amortization for the three months ended September 30, 2025 was $5.0 million which was comparable to $4.8 million for the three months ended September 30, 2024.
The increase of $0.9 million in amortization of intangible assets acquired in business combinations from $8.3 million for the three months ended September 30, 2024 to $9.2 million for the three months ended September 30, 2025 was primarily due to the amortization of intangible assets acquired in our acquisition of Applied Energy Group (“AEG”) in the fourth quarter of 2024.
Interest, net. The increase of $0.7 million in interest, net, was primarily due to higher average debt balance of $508.4 million for the three months ended September 30, 2025 compared to $462.9 million for the same period in 2024. Interest from debt facilities was $7.4 million for the three months ended September 30, 2025, compared to $7.9 million for the three months ended September 30, 2024. Use of floating-to-fixed interest rate swap agreements to hedge the variable interest portion of debt facilities reduced interest by $0.2 million for the three months ended September 30, 2025 compared to a reduction of $1.7 million for the same period in 2024. The average interest rate for our debt facilities was 5.7% for the three months ended September 30, 2025 compared to 6.7% for 2024. Inclusive of the impact of the swap agreements, our interest rate was 5.5% for the three months ended September 30, 2025 compared to 5.3% for 2024.
Other income (expense). The change in other income (expense) was primarily due to $1.3 million in unrealized foreign currency losses in 2024 due to the depreciation of the U.S. dollar against the British pound and the Euro.
Provision for Income Taxes. Our effective income tax rate for the three months ended September 30, 2025 and 2024 was 22.7% and 13.8%, respectively. The difference was primarily due to unfavorable return to provision adjustments partially offset by adjustments to uncertain tax position related to research and experimentation tax credits.
Nine Months Ended September 30, 2025 Compared to Nine Months Ended September 30, 2024
(94,285
(6.2
38.9
38.3
(27,945
(4.8
23.5
25.0
(45,454
(11.9
63.3
(73,399
(7.6
26.4
25.5
(11,832
(3.0
494
1.9
2,995
12.0
2.6
3,489
8.7
28.1
(8,343
(1.9
8.6
(12,543
(9.7
(1.6
(1.5
(484
2.1
Other (expense) income
0.1
(3,282
6.4
7.2
(16,309
(15.2
1.4
(4,980
(23.3
5.3
5.8
(11,329
(13.2
Revenue. The decrease in revenue of $94.3 million was driven by a reduction of $188.8 million from our U.S. federal government clients primarily as a result of terminated contracts in the first nine months of 2025 due to the Administration’s changing priorities and the actions recommended by DOGE, as well as the disruption in the typical U.S. federal government procurement cycle. This decline was offset by increases of $86.2 million, $4.6 million, and $3.7 million from our commercial, international government, and U.S. state and local government clients, respectively. The following were changes in revenue from our various client markets:
Revenue for the nine months ended September 30, 2025 includes subcontractor and other direct costs, which decreased $45.5 million, or 11.9%, and totaled $335.4 million and $380.9 million for the nine months ended September 30, 2025 and 2024, respectively, and the margin on such costs.
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Direct Costs. The decrease of $73.4 million in direct costs was primarily a result of terminated U.S. federal government contracts during 2025. For the nine months ended September 30, 2025 and 2024, direct labor and related fringe benefit costs as a percentage of direct costs were 62.4% and 60.5%, respectively, and subcontractor and other direct costs as a percentage of direct costs were 37.6% and 39.5%, respectively. As a percentage of revenue, direct labor and related fringe benefit costs were 38.9% and 38.3%, respectively, and subcontractor and other direct costs were 23.5% and 25.0%, respectively, for the nine months ended September 30, 2025 and 2024. Total direct costs as a percentage of revenue were 62.4% for the nine months ended September 30, 2025, compared to 63.3% for the nine months ended September 30, 2024.
Indirect and selling expenses. For the nine months ended September 30, 2025, our indirect and selling expenses decreased by $11.8 million, or 3.0%, compared to the prior year, primarily as a result of a decrease of $11.1 million in general and administrative costs. The decrease in general and administrative costs was due, in part, to lower facilities expense as a result of facility consolidations in the fourth quarter of 2024. Our indirect and selling expenses as a percentage of revenue were 26.4% for the nine months ended September 30, 2025, compared to 25.5% for the nine months ended September 30, 2024.
Depreciation and amortization. Depreciation and amortization for the nine months ended September 30, 2025 was $15.8 million which is comparable to depreciation and amortization of $15.3 million for the nine months ended September 30, 2024.
The increase of $3.0 million in amortization of intangible assets acquired in business combinations was primarily due to the amortization of intangible assets acquired in our acquisition of AEG in the fourth quarter of 2024.
Interest, net. Interest, net, for the nine months ended September 30, 2025 was $23.6 million which is comparable to interest, net, of $23.1 million for the nine months ended September 30, 2024. Interest from debt facilities was $22.5 million for the nine months ended September 30, 2025, compared to $25.1 million for the nine months ended September 30, 2024. Use of floating-to-fixed interest rate swap agreements to hedge the variable interest portion of debt facilities decreased interest by $1.1 million for the nine months ended September 30, 2025 compared to a reduction of $5.0 million for the same period in 2024. Inclusive of the impact of the swap agreements, our interest rate was 5.4% for both the nine months ended September 30, 2025 and 2024.
Other (expense) income. The change in other (expense) income of $3.3 million year-over-year was primarily due to $2.0 million of gains from divestiture of our commercial marketing business recognized during the nine months ended September 30, 2024, and $2.6 million in unrealized foreign currency loss for the nine months ended September 30, 2025 compared to $1.2 million for the same period in 2024, resulting from depreciation of the U.S. dollar against the Euro and British pound, the principal currencies in which we transact. If the U.S. dollar experiences additional depreciation in 2025, we may incur additional foreign currency losses.
Provision for Income Taxes. Our effective income tax rate for the nine months ended September 30, 2025 and 2024 was 18.1%, compared to 20.0% for the nine months ended September 30, 2024. The difference was primarily due to unfavorable return to provision adjustments partially offset by adjustments to uncertain tax position related to research and experimentation tax credits.
NON-GAAP MEASURES
The following tables provide reconciliations of financial measures that are not calculated in accordance with generally accepted accounting principles in the U.S. (“non-GAAP”) to their most comparable U.S. GAAP measures. While we believe that these non-GAAP financial measures provide additional information to investors and may be useful in evaluating our financial information and assessing ongoing trends to better understand our operations, they should be considered supplemental in nature and not as a substitute for financial information prepared in accordance with U.S. GAAP. Other companies may define similarly titled non-GAAP measures differently, thus limiting their use for comparability.
EBITDA and Adjusted EBITDA
Earnings before interest, tax, and depreciation and amortization (“EBITDA”) is a measure we use to evaluate operating performance. Adjusted EBITDA is EBITDA further adjusted to eliminate the impact of certain items that we do not consider to be indicative of the performance of our ongoing operations (“Adjusted EBITDA”). We evaluate these adjustments on an individual basis based on both the quantitative and qualitative aspects of the item, including their size and nature, as well as whether we expect them to recur as part of our normal business on a regular basis.
EBITDA and Adjusted EBITDA are not intended to be measures of free cash flow as these measures do not include certain cash requirements such as interest payments, tax payments, capital expenditures, and debt service.
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The following table presents a reconciliation of net income to EBITDA and Adjusted EBITDA for the periods indicated.
7,861
7,195
23,620
23,136
EBITDA
52,775
58,236
157,982
170,318
Acquisition and divestiture-related expenses (1)
139
479
205
Severance and other costs related to staff realignment (2)
359
449
2,909
1,184
Charges and adjustments related to facility consolidations and office closures (3)
(138
Pre-tax gain from divestiture of a business (4)
(298
(2,013
Total Adjustments
384
290
3,250
(624
Adjusted EBITDA
53,159
58,526
161,232
169,694
Non-GAAP Diluted Earnings per Share
Non-GAAP diluted earnings per share (“Non-GAAP Diluted EPS”) represents diluted U.S. GAAP earnings per share (“U.S. GAAP Diluted EPS”) excluding the impact of certain items noted above, amortization of acquired intangible assets, and the related income tax effects. While these adjustments may be recurring and not infrequent or unusual, we do not consider these adjustments to be indicative of the performance of our ongoing operations. We believe that the supplemental adjustments provide additional useful information to investors.
The following table presents a reconciliation of U.S. GAAP Diluted EPS to Non-GAAP Diluted EPS for the periods indicated.
U.S. GAAP Diluted EPS
Acquisition and divestiture-related expenses
0.01
0.02
Severance and other costs related to staff realignment
0.16
0.06
Charges and adjustments related to facility consolidations and office closures (1)
(0.01
0.04
Pre-tax gain from divestiture of a business
(0.02
(0.11
Amortization of intangible assets acquired in business combinations (2)
0.49
0.44
1.50
1.31
Income tax effects of the adjustments (3)
(0.12
(0.05
(0.38
(0.26
Non-GAAP Diluted EPS
1.67
2.13
5.30
5.58
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LIQUIDITY AND CAPITAL RESOURCES
Liquidity and Borrowing Capacity. In addition to cash and cash equivalents on hand and cash generated from operations, our primary source of liquidity is from our Credit Facility with a syndicate of multiple commercial banks, as described in “Note 5 – Debt” in the “Notes to Consolidated Financial Statements” in this Quarterly Report. The Credit Facility requires that we remain in compliance with certain financial and non-financial covenants (as defined by the Credit Agreement, see “Note 10 – Long-Term Debt” in the “Notes to Consolidated Financial Statements” in our Annual Report for additional details). As of September 30, 2025, we were in compliance with these covenants, and we had $501.6 million available under the Credit Facility to fund our ongoing operations, future acquisitions, dividend payments, and share repurchase program.
We have entered into floating-to-fixed interest rate swap agreements for a total notional value of $175.0 million to hedge a portion of our floating-rate Credit Facility. The interest rate swaps will expire in 2030, but we may consider entering into additional swap agreements prior to the expiration of these existing hedges. As of September 30, 2025, the percentage of our fixed-rate debt to total debt from our Credit Facility was 39%.
We provide support services to the U.S. federal government and a prolonged federal government shutdown of non-essential functions, which started October 1, 2025, may affect our abilities to generate cash from that business to certain degrees. There are other conditions, such as the ongoing wars in Ukraine, instabilities in the Middle East, and volatility in global trade (including the imposition of tariffs), that create uncertainty in the global economy, which in turn may impact, among other things, our ability to generate positive cash flows from operations and our ability to successfully execute and fund key initiatives. However, our current belief is that the combination of internally generated funds, available bank borrowing capacity, and cash and cash equivalents on hand will provide the required liquidity and capital resources necessary to fund ongoing operations, customary capital expenditures, quarterly cash dividends, share repurchases, and organic growth. Additionally, we continuously analyze our capital structure to ensure we have capital to fund future strategic acquisitions.
We continuously monitor the state of the financial markets to assess the availability of borrowing capacity under the Credit Facility and the cost of additional capital from both debt and equity markets. At present, we believe we will be able to continue to access these markets on commercially reasonable terms and conditions if we need additional capital in the near term.
Dividends. We have historically paid quarterly cash dividends to our stockholders of record at $0.14 per share. Total dividend payments during the nine months ended September 30, 2025 were $7.8 million.
Cash dividends declared thus far in 2025 are as follows:
Dividend Declaration Date
Dividend Per Share
Record Date
Payment Date
February 27, 2025
March 28, 2025
April 14, 2025
May 1, 2025
June 6, 2025
July 11, 2025
July 31, 2025
September 5, 2025
October 10, 2025
October 30, 2025
December 5, 2025
January 9, 2026
Cash Flow. The following table sets forth our sources and uses of cash for the nine months ended September 30, 2025 and 2024:
Net cash provided by operating activities for the nine months ended September 30, 2025 decreased by $9.9 million compared to 2024, primarily due to the timing of invoicing our customers, subsequent collection of cash, paying our vendors, and by the profitability of our contracts.
The change in cash used in financing activities of $46.4 million was primarily due to increased net borrowings from our Credit Facility and short-term financing, partially offset by an increase in share repurchases during the nine months ended September 30, 2025.
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Item 3. Quantitative and Qualitative Disclosures About Market Risk
There have been no material changes in the disclosures discussed in the section entitled “Quantitative and Qualitative Disclosures About Market Risk” in Part II, Item 7A of our Annual Report.
Item 4. Controls and Procedures
Disclosure Controls and Procedures and Internal Controls Over Financial Reporting. Our management, with the participation of our Chief Executive Officer and our Chief Financial Officer, have evaluated the effectiveness of the Company’s disclosure controls and procedures (as defined in Rules 13a-15(e) and 15d-15(e) of the Exchange Act of 1934, as amended) and have concluded that as of September 30, 2025, our disclosure controls and procedures were effective. There have been no significant changes in our internal controls over financial reporting during the quarterly period covered by this report that materially affected, or are reasonably likely to materially affect, our internal control over financial reporting.
Item 1. Legal Proceedings
We are involved in various legal matters and proceedings arising in the ordinary course of business. While these matters and proceedings cause us to incur costs, including, but not limited to, attorneys’ fees, we currently believe that any ultimate liability arising out of these matters and proceedings will not have a material adverse effect on our financial position, results of operations, or cash flows.
Item 1A. Risk Factors
There have been no material changes in the risk factors discussed in the section entitled “Risk Factors” disclosed in Part I, Item 1A of our Annual Report.
Item 2. Unregistered Sales of Equity Securities, Use of Proceeds, and Issuer Purchases of Equity Securities
Share Repurchase Program. One of the objectives of our share repurchase program has been to offset dilution resulting from our employee incentive plan. The timing and extent to which we repurchase our shares will depend upon the approval by our board of directors, market conditions, and other corporate considerations, as may be considered in our sole discretion. Repurchases are funded from our existing cash balances and/or borrowings, and repurchased shares are held as treasury stock.
During the three months ended September 30, 2025, we did not repurchase shares under our share repurchase program. As of September 30, 2025, $111.7 million of repurchase authority remained available for future approved share repurchases.
Repurchases of Equity Securities. The following table summarizes the share repurchase activity for the three months ended September 30, 2025 for our share repurchase program and shares purchased in satisfaction of employee tax withholding obligations related to the settlement of restricted stock units.
Period
Total Numberof SharesPurchased (1)
Average PricePaid perShare
Total Number ofShares Purchased asPart of PubliclyAnnounced Plans orPrograms
ApproximateDollar Value ofShares that MayYet Be PurchasedUnder the Plansor Programs (2)
July 1 - July 31
111,742,998
August 1 - August 31
2,100
94.81
September 1 - September 30
96.61
Item 3. Defaults Upon Senior Securities
None.
Item 4. Mine Safety Disclosures
Not applicable.
Item 5. Other Information
Item 6. Exhibits
Exhibit
Number
31.1
Certificate of the Principal Executive Officer Pursuant to Exchange Act Rule 13a-14(a) and 15d-14(a). *
31.2
Certificate of the Principal Financial Officer Pursuant to Exchange Act Rule 13a-14(a) and 15d-14(a). *
32.1
Certification of the Chief Executive Officer pursuant to 18 U.S.C. Section 1350, as adopted pursuant to Section 906 of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002. *
32.2
Certification of the Chief Financial Officer pursuant to 18 U.S.C. Section 1350, as adopted pursuant to Section 906 of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002. *
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The following materials from the ICF International, Inc. Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q for the quarter ended September 30, 2025 formatted in Inline eXtensible Business Reporting Language (iXBRL): (i) Consolidated Balance Sheets, (ii) Consolidated Statements of Comprehensive Income, (iii) Consolidated Statements of Cash Flows and (iv) Notes to Consolidated Financial Statements.*
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Cover Page Interactive Data File (formatted as inline XBRL and contained in Exhibit 101).
* Submitted electronically herewith.
SIGNATURES
Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, the registrant has duly caused this report to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned, thereunto duly authorized.
ICF INTERNATIONAL, INC.
By:
/s/ John Wasson
John Wasson
President and Chief Executive Officer
(Principal Executive Officer)
/s/ Barry Broadus
Barry Broadus
Executive Vice President & Chief Financial Officer
(Principal Financial Officer)