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# Garmin: Business Model & Revenue Engine

## Direct Answer

Garmin reports revenue across 5 business segments in its fiscal 2025 Form 10-K. Fitness is the largest, with $2.4 billion of revenue (33% of the total), followed by Outdoor at $2.1 billion (28%).

## How Does Garmin Make Money?

No single line supplies a majority of revenue: the largest, Fitness, is 33%, which spreads Garmin's exposure across several demand drivers. Between fiscal 2024 and 2025, Fitness grew fastest (+32.8%) and Outdoor slowest (+4.7%), so the revenue mix tilts toward Fitness while that gap lasts.

| Segment | FY2025 revenue | FY2024 revenue | Share of revenue | Change |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Fitness | $2.4 billion | $1.8 billion | 32.5% | 32.8% |
| Outdoor | $2.1 billion | $2.0 billion | 28.3% | 4.7% |
| Marine | $1.2 billion | $1.1 billion | 16.3% | 10.2% |
| Aviation | $987 million | $877 million | 13.6% | 12.6% |
| Auto Oem | $665 million | $611 million | 9.2% | 8.9% |

![Bar chart of Garmin revenue by segment for fiscal 2025: Fitness 32.5%, Outdoor 28.3%, Marine 16.3%, Aviation 13.6%, Auto Oem 9.2%.](https://www.getswoopr.com/images/charts/garmin-business-model-segment-mix.webp)
*Garmin revenue by segment as a share of total revenue, from the table above. The largest is highlighted. Select the chart to open it full size.*

## Which Garmin Segments Earn the Most?

| Segment | FY2025 segment operating income | Segment margin |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Fitness | $726 million | 30.8% |
| Outdoor | $690 million | 33.6% |
| Marine | $251 million | 21.2% |
| Aviation | $257 million | 26.1% |
| Auto Oem | -$49 million | -7.3% |

Segment operating income is the profit measure Garmin reports to its chief operating decision maker for each segment. It usually leaves out corporate costs that are not allocated to a segment, so the segments usually add up to more than consolidated operating income, and margins are comparable within Garmin more safely than against another company.

## What the Segment Figures Do Not Show

The rows above add up to 100% of Garmin's reported revenue for fiscal 2025; the difference is intersegment eliminations, corporate revenue or items the company reports outside its segments. Segment definitions are management's choice and change when a company reorganizes, in which case it restates prior years in the next filing, so a multi-year comparison should use the figures from a single filing. Revenue shows where sales come from, not where profit or cash is earned: a small segment can carry most of the margin.

## Where These Numbers Come From

Every figure on this page is a value Garmin reported in the segment note and revenue disclosures of its Form 10-K filed February 18, 2026 (accession 0001193125-26-056028), read from the SEC's Financial Statement Data Sets. The prior-year column is the comparative figure from that same filing, so it reflects any restatement for a change in segments. Category names are the company's own XBRL labels, lightly reformatted for reading.

Rows that only total other rows (for example a "Products" line beside the individual products) are left out so nothing is counted twice. This page is educational and describes reported history for fiscal 2025; it is not a forecast or a recommendation.

## Frequently Asked Questions

### What are Garmin's business segments?

In its fiscal 2025 Form 10-K, Garmin reports revenue for Fitness, Outdoor, Marine, Aviation and Auto Oem.

### Which part of Garmin brings in the most revenue?

Fitness, with $2.4 billion of revenue in fiscal 2025, or 33% of the total.

### Where does Garmin report its segment results?

In the segment note to the financial statements in its Form 10-K, most recently filed February 18, 2026, alongside management's discussion of each segment's results.

## References

- [SEC EDGAR: GARMIN LTD Form 10-K filed February 18, 2026](https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1121788/000119312526056028/grmn-20251227.htm)
- [SEC EDGAR: GARMIN LTD annual and quarterly filings](https://www.sec.gov/cgi-bin/browse-edgar?action=getcompany&CIK=1121788&type=10-K)
- [SEC: EDGAR application programming interfaces (XBRL frames and submissions data)](https://www.sec.gov/search-filings/edgar-application-programming-interfaces)
- [SEC: Financial Statement Data Sets](https://www.sec.gov/data-research/sec-markets-data/financial-statement-data-sets)

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