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About Henry Schein, Inc.
Henry Schein, Inc. (Nasdaq: HSIC) is a solutions company for health care
professionals powered by a network of
people and technology. With approximately 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 33 countries and territories. The Company's sales reached
$12.7 billion in 2024, and
have grown at a compound annual rate of approximately 11.2 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.
Cautionary Note Regarding Forward-Looking Statements and Use
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
and are generally identified by the use of such
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; risks related to the recently signed Strategic Partnership Agreement;
our ability to develop or acquire and maintain and protect
new products (particularly technology products) and services and utilize new
technologies that achieve market acceptance with acceptable
margins; transitional challenges associated with acquisitions,
dispositions 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; changes
in 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, ongoing wars, fluctuations in energy
pricing and the value of
