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Henry Schein, Inc. (Nasdaq: HSIC) is a solutions company for health care
professionals powered by a network of
people and technology. With more than 25,000 Team
Schein Members worldwide, the Company's network of trusted
advisors provides more than 1 million customers globally with more
than 300 valued solutions that help improve operational
success and clinical outcomes. Our Business, Clinical, Technology and Supply Chain solutions help office-based dental and
medical practitioners work more efficiently so they can provide quality care more
effectively. These solutions also support
dental laboratories, government and institutional health care clinics, as well
as other alternate care sites.
Henry Schein operates through a centralized and automated distribution
network, with a selection of more than
300,000 branded products and Henry Schein corporate brand products
in our main distribution centers.
A FORTUNE 500 Company and a member of the S&P 500® index, Henry Schein is headquartered in Melville,
N.Y.,
and has operations or affiliates in 34 countries and territories. The Company's sales reached
$13.2 billion in 2025, and
have grown at a compound annual rate of approximately 11.0 percent since Henry Schein became a public
company in 1995.
For more information, visit Henry Schein at www.henryschein.com, Facebook.com/HenrySchein,
Instagram.com/HenrySchein,
and @HenrySchein on X.
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of Non-GAAP Financial Information
In accordance with the “Safe Harbor” provisions of the Private Securities Litigation
Reform Act of 1995, we provide the
following cautionary remarks regarding important factors that, among others,
could cause future results to differ materially from the
forward-looking statements, expectations and assumptions expressed or implied herein.
All forward-looking statements made by us are
subject to risks and uncertainties and are not guarantees of future performance.
These forward-looking statements involve known and
unknown risks, uncertainties and other factors that may cause our actual
results, performance and achievements or industry results to be
materially different from any future results, performance or achievements
expressed or implied by such forward-looking statements.
These statements include total sales growth, EPS and Adjusted EBITDA guidance
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terms as “may,” “could,”
“expect,” “intend,” “believe,” “plan,” “estimate,” “forecast,” “project,” “anticipate,”
“to be,” “to make” or other
comparable terms. A fuller discussion of our operations, financial condition
and status of litigation matters, including factors that may
affect our business and future prospects, is contained
in documents we have filed with the United States Securities and Exchange
Commission, or SEC, including our Annual Report on Form 10-K,
and will be contained in all subsequent periodic filings we make with
the SEC. These documents identify in detail important risk factors that could
cause our actual performance to differ materially from
current expectations.
Risk factors and uncertainties that could cause actual results to differ
materially from current and historical results include, but
are not limited to: our dependence on third parties for the manufacture and
supply of our products and where we manufacture products,
our dependence on third parties for raw materials or purchased components;
risks relating to the achievement of our strategic growth
objectives, including anticipated results of restructuring and value creation
initiatives; risks related to the Strategic Partnership Agreement
with KKR Hawaii Aggregator L.P.
entered into in January 2025; transitions in senior company leadership; our ability
to develop or
acquire and maintain and protect new products (particularly technology
and specialty products) and services and utilize new technologies
that achieve market acceptance with acceptable margins; transitional
challenges associated with acquisitions and joint ventures, including
the failure to achieve anticipated synergies/benefits, as well as significant
demands on our operations, information systems, legal,
regulatory, compliance,
financial and human resources functions in connection with acquisitions, dispositions
and joint ventures; certain
provisions in our governing documents that may discourage third-party
acquisitions of us; adverse changes in supplier rebates or other
purchasing incentives; risks related to the sale of corporate brand products; risks related
to activist investors; security risks associated with
our information systems and technology products and services, such as cyberattacks
or other privacy or data security breaches (including
the October 2023 incident); effects of a highly competitive (including,
without limitation, competition from third-party online commerce
sites) and consolidating market; political, economic, and regulatory
influences on the health care industry; risks from expansion of
customer purchasing power and multi-tiered costing structures; increases in
shipping costs for our products or other service issues with
our third-party shippers, and increases in fuel and energy
costs; changes in laws and policies governing manufacturing, development and
investment in territories and countries where we do business; general global and domestic
macro-economic and political conditions,
including inflation, deflation, recession, unemployment (and
corresponding increase in under-insured populations),
consumer confidence,
sovereign debt levels, fluctuations in energy pricing and
the value of the U.S. dollar as compared to foreign currencies and changes to
other economic indicators;
failure to comply with existing and future regulatory requirements, including
relating to health care; risks
associated with the EU Medical Device Regulation; failure to comply with
laws and regulations relating to health care fraud or other laws