Syngenta Group's Q3 2025 sees important increase in operating profitability while sales dip

Agtech company Syngenta Group’s third-quarter 2025 financial report shows a decrease in company sales and an increase in operating profitability (EBITDA).

According to the financial report, Q3 sales totaled $6.4 billion, representing a six percent decline year-over-year, or seven percent at constant exchange rates (CER). In the first nine months, the company generated a total of $20.9 billion in sales, representing a two percent year-over-year decrease (one percent at constant exchange rates, or CER).

The company attributes both the quarter and year-to-date sales drop to "a managed reduction of the grain trading business in China."

On the other hand, earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation, and amortization (EBITDA) improved.

Operating profitability in the third quarter increased 28 percent to $0.9 billion (+35 percent CER). This, Syngenta said, was thanks to “the group’s strategic emphasis on investments in R&D and innovation, combined with disciplined cost management, enhanced productivity, and operational efficiency.”

Syngenta's crop protection sales 

According to the report, EBITDA profitability during the first nine months of the year was driven in part by profitability improvements in most businesses, especially in crop protection. 

Sales for Syngenta Crop Protection were three percent higher at $9.8 billion (+5 percent CER) during the first nine months of this year.

The company reported that crop protection sales in North America increased by three percent year over year, supported “by strong customer support and new high-performing herbicides and fungicides,” the company states.

During this period, crop protection sales also increased by six percent in Europe and Asia, as well as the Middle East & Africa (excluding China). 

China's sales increased seven percent year-on-year in the first nine months, despite a "challenging market environment with farmers’ profitability under pressure," the report says.

Brazil crop protection sales increased by two percent, thanks to the positive performance of the insect control PLINAZOLIN^® technology.

Latin America sales decreased a total of seven percent due to "drought conditions in Mexico and a continued overall price pressure, particularly in the commoditized segments of the crop protection portfolio, notably in Argentina."

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