- Successfully Completed Initial Public Offering, Listing on NYSE -

- Delivered $2.4 Billion in Gross Merchandise Sales, Up 11% Year-Over-Year -

- Strengthened Balance Sheet with $750 Million Debt Reduction -

StubHub Holdings, Inc. (NYSE: STUB) ("StubHub" or the “Company”), a leading global ticketing marketplace for live events, today reported financial results for the third quarter ended September 30, 2025.

Third Quarter 2025 Highlights

• Gross Merchandise Sales (“GMS”)¹ of $2.4 billion, up 11% year-over-year. Excluding the impact of the Taylor Swift “Eras” Tour, GMS grew 24% year-over-year
• Revenue of $468 million, up 8% year-over-year and equal to 19% of GMS
• Net Loss of $1.3 billion, reflecting a one-time stock-based compensation charge of $1.4 billion related to the Company’s initial public offering (“IPO”), representing the GAAP required recognition of multiple years of equity awards to employees
• Adjusted EBITDA¹ of $67 million, up 21% year-over-year and representing a 14% margin
• Successfully completed IPO, listing on the New York Stock Exchange in September 2025, which together with the Series O preferred equity, raised approximately $1 billion in gross proceeds
• Strengthened the balance sheet by using net IPO proceeds to repay approximately $750 million of debt, reducing Net Leverage¹ to 3.9x trailing twelve months Adjusted EBITDA
• Secured and announced a multi-year partnership with Major League Baseball to distribute primary ticket inventory through our Direct Issuance technology, expanding fan access to MLB games beginning with the 2026 season

Eric Baker, Founder, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of StubHub, commented, “Our debut quarter as a public company underscores the strength and resilience of our global marketplace. We delivered double-digit GMS growth, expanded market share, and significantly strengthened our balance sheet — all while advancing our long-term strategy to make live entertainment more accessible for fans everywhere.”

Baker continued, “StubHub’s mission has always started with the fan — creating more access and transparency around the live event experience. We are building a truly differentiated consumer product that improves the experience for fans while unlocking better economics for venues, teams, and artists through open distribution. We’re early in that journey, but our progress so far gives us great confidence in our strategy and the long-term value we’re creating.”

Conference Call and Webcast Information

StubHub will host a conference call and audio webcast today at 5:00 PM Eastern Time, during which management will discuss third quarter results and provide commentary on business performance.

A live audio webcast of the earnings conference call may be accessed on StubHub’s website at investors.stubhub.com, along with a copy of the earnings call presentation and this press release. The audio webcast will be available on the Company’s investor relations website for up to 12 months following the conclusion of the call.

About StubHub

StubHub is a leading global ticketing marketplace for live events. Through StubHub in North America and viagogo internationally, StubHub services customers in over 200 countries and territories, supporting over 30 languages and accepting payments in over 45 currencies – from sports to music, comedy to dance, festivals to theater. StubHub offers a safe and convenient way to buy or sell tickets to live events across the world for memorable live experiences.

Forward-Looking Statements

This press release contains forward-looking statements within the meaning of the safe harbor provisions of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. The Company’s actual results may differ materially from expectations, and reported results should not be considered as an indication of future performance. Forward-looking statements include all statements that are not historical facts and can be identified by terms such as “anticipate,” “believe,” “contemplate,” “continue,” “could,” “estimate,” “expect,” “hope,” “intend,” “may,” “might,” “objective,” “ongoing,” “plan,” “potential,” “predict,” “project,” “should,” “target,” “will,” or “would” or similar expressions. Forward-looking statements are subject to risks and uncertainties that could cause actual results to differ materially from those expressed or implied, and you should not rely on these as predictions of future events. Factors that may cause differences include, without limitation: our ability to compete in the ticketing industry against current or future competitors; our ability to maintain relationships with buyers and sellers, including individual sellers, professional sellers and content rights holders; the demand for tickets on our platform or for live events in general; our ability to continue to improve our platform and maintain and enhance our brands; the impact of extraordinary events or adverse economic conditions on discretionary consumer and corporate spending or on the supply and demand of live events; our ability to rely on third-party platforms to distribute our applications or host our ticketing platform; our ability to expand the adoption of our platform for direct issuance and disrupt the legacy primary ticketing model; our ability to expand into adjacent market opportunities across live entertainment and into additional live event and experience categories; our expectations regarding the size, addressability and expected growth or contraction of our target market, as well as our beliefs as to the drivers of those changes; our ability to comply with domestic regulatory regimes; our ability to successfully defend against litigation; the effects of seasonal trends on our results of operations; our ability to maintain the integrity of our information systems and infrastructure, and to mitigate possible cybersecurity risks; our ability to generate sufficient cash flows or raise additional capital necessary to fund our operations or service our debt, contractual commitments or obligations; our ability to remediate material weaknesses in our internal control over financial reporting; our ability to effectively manage our exposure to fluctuations in foreign currency exchange rates and rising inflation rates; the increased expenses associated with being a public company; and our ability to attract and retain a qualified management team and other team members while controlling our labor costs. For additional information on other potential risks and uncertainties that could cause actual results to differ from expected results, please refer to our filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission. All forward-looking statements are based on information available to us as of the date of this press release and are made only as of such date. The Company undertakes no obligation to update these statements to reflect subsequent events or circumstances, except as required by law.

Key Business Metric and Non-GAAP Financial Measures

StubHub regularly reviews the key business metric, GMS, and the non-GAAP financial measures, Adjusted EBITDA, Free Cash Flow, Net Leverage, Adjusted Gross Margin, Adjusted Sales and Marketing Expenses, Adjusted Operations and Support Expenses, and Adjusted General and Administrative Expenses to evaluate our business, measure our performance, identify trends, prepare financial projections and make business decisions. The measures set forth below should be considered in addition to, not as a substitute for or in isolation from, our financial results prepared in accordance with GAAP. Other companies, including companies in our industry, may calculate these measures differently or not at all, which reduces their usefulness as comparative measures. A reconciliation of the non-GAAP financial measures, Adjusted EBITDA and Free Cash Flow, to the most directly comparable financial measures calculated in accordance with GAAP is set forth below under “Reconciliations of GAAP to Non-GAAP Financial Measures.”

Gross Merchandise Sales represents the total dollar value paid by buyers for ticket transactions and fulfillment. GMS includes fees we charge buyers and sellers that can vary by transaction, as well as the net proceeds we remit to sellers. Our definition of GMS does not include applicable sales, value-added and other indirect taxes, shipping costs and the impact of discounts and coupons as well as event cancellations or expected cancellations after the initial transaction on our platform. We believe it is useful to exclude these items, primarily refunds due to event cancellations, as GMS is a key metric used by management to measure business performance.

Adjusted EBITDA is calculated as net (loss) income excluding results from non-operating sources including interest income and expense, benefit (provision) for income taxes, other (expense) income, net, foreign currency losses, gains (losses) on derivatives, depreciation and amortization, acquisition-related costs, stock-based compensation expense, employee relocation costs, debt refinancing costs and loss on extinguishment of debt, indirect tax contingency costs, litigation reserves and other costs and expenses. Adjusted EBITDA is a key performance measure that our management team uses to assess our operating performance. We present Adjusted EBITDA because management believes it is helpful in highlighting trends in our operating results as it excludes certain items, such as stock-based compensation expense, which are non-cash or whose fluctuations from period-to-period do not necessarily correspond to changes in the operating results of our business. Moreover, it is frequently used by analysts, investors and other interested parties to evaluate companies in our industry.

Adjusted EBITDA has limitations as an analytical measure and you should not consider it in isolation or as a substitute for analysis of our results as reported under GAAP. In addition, other companies, including companies in our industry, may calculate Adjusted EBITDA differently, which reduces its usefulness as a comparative measure. Because of these limitations, you should consider Adjusted EBITDA alongside other financial performance measures, including various cash flow metrics, net (loss) income and other GAAP results.

Free Cash Flow is defined as net cash provided by (used in) operating activities less capital expenditures, which includes purchases of property and equipment, purchases of intangible assets and capitalized software development costs. We believe that Free Cash Flow is a meaningful indicator of liquidity for management and investors and, in particular, the amount of cash generated from operations that, after capital expenditures, can be used for strategic initiatives, including continuous investment in our business and strengthening our balance sheet. A limitation of the use of Free Cash Flow is that it does not represent the total increase or decrease in our cash balance for the period. Free Cash Flow should not be considered in isolation or as an alternative to cash flows from operations and should be considered alongside our other financial liquidity measures, such as net cash provided by (used in) operating activities and our other GAAP results.

Net Leverage is defined as (a) total debt, less cash and cash equivalents plus payments due to sellers divided by (b) trailing twelve months Adjusted EBITDA. We believe that Net Leverage provides investors a more complete understanding of our leverage position and borrowing capacity after factoring in cash and cash equivalents that eventually could be used to repay outstanding debt.

Adjusted Gross Margin is defined as (a) revenue less Adjusted Cost of Revenue (which is cost of revenue excluding stock-based compensation expense) divided by (b) revenue. We present Adjusted Gross Margin because management believes it is helpful in highlighting trends in our operating results as it excludes stock-based compensation expense, which is a non-cash expense.

Adjusted Sales and Marketing Expenses is defined as sales and marketing expense excluding stock-based compensation expense. We present Adjusted Sales and Marketing Expenses because management believes it is helpful in highlighting trends in our expense management as it excludes stock-based compensation expense, which is a non-cash expense.

Adjusted Operations and Support Expenses is defined as operations and support expenses excluding stock-based compensation expense. We present Adjusted Operations and Support Expenses because management believes it is helpful in highlighting trends in our expense management as it excludes stock-based compensation expense, which is a non-cash expense.

Adjusted General and Administrative Expenses is defined as general and administrative expense excluding stock-based compensation expense, acquisition related costs, debt refinancing costs, indirect tax contingency costs, litigation reserves and other costs and expenses that we do not consider to be representative of the ongoing financial performance of our core business. We present Adjusted Sales and Marketing Expense because management believes it is helpful in highlighting trends in our expense management as it excludes certain items, such as stock-based compensation expense, which are non-cash or whose fluctuations from period-to-period do not necessarily correspond to changes in the operating results of our business.

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