Eduardo Bezerra
Analyst · Jefferies
Thank you, Patrick. I appreciate everyone joining us today. Before getting to the details of our financials, I want to note that our 2025 GAAP results include noncash accounting impacts, including a goodwill impairment charge of $1.3 billion. Impairment is a nuanced issue, which merits both historic acquisition costs of businesses purchased over time with the realities of the current stock price. Certain historically acquired business have not performed as initially expected when acquired. Management must now address these realities and plan for the future. This impairment does not impact our strategy, cash flows or ability to execute. In addition, looking ahead to the first quarter, we need to reallocate goodwill from our existing to our new reporting units, which Patrick highlighted. While the aggregate fair and carrying values are unchanged from December 31, 2025, the redistribution of goodwill across our new reporting units may present a different outcome with surpluses in many and shortages in a few. As a result, the company may record additional noncash goodwill impairment charges of up to $350 million in the first quarter of 2026. In contrast to impairment, which reflects historical business performance, our decision to place business under strategic review is a reaction to external events informed by growth options and priorities for Perrigo in the future. Now to our results. As highlighted, we're introducing a new concept of CORE Perrigo results or just CORE, which excludes different formula and announced divestitures, primarily the Dermacosmetics business. From this point on, my comments will focus on adjusted non-GAAP results unless otherwise noted. Turning to results to our business units, starting with CSCI. Full year CORE organic net sales decreased 0.2% as growth from new products, share gains across most of our key brands and increased supply of Pain & Sleep Aids products were more than offset by lower consumption. Fourth quarter CORE organic net sales decreased 1.4% compared to the prior year due to continued consumer softness in the OTC category, combined with a softer cough and cold season compared to last year. Full year CORE operating income grew 11.6% as savings from Project Energize and lower variable expenses more than offset unfavorable impacts from gross profit flow-through. Fourth quarter core operating income increased 10.3% due to favorable foreign currency. All-In net sales and operating income growth for both fourth quarter and full year included the impact of divestiture. Turning to CSCI. Full year CORE organic net sales decreased 3% due to lower contract manufacturing revenue, soft category consumption and the prior year Opill launch stocking benefit, partially offset by share gains. CORE organic net sales for the quarter decreased 2.4%, also driven by contract manufacturing and OTC category consumption, partially offset by share gains. All-In net sales for the quarter and full year include the declines in Infant Formula net sales of roughly 25% and 10%, respectively, as growth in store brands was more than offset by lower contract manufacturing and lower distribution of the Good Start brand. CORE operating income for the full year and fourth quarter decreased 2.4% and 6.2%, respectively, both driven by the impact from lower net sales volumes and price investments, partially offset by benefits from Project Energize savings and lower variable operating expenses. Fourth quarter All-In operating income declined $29 million, including a negative impact of $21 million from Infant Formula. Moving now to cash. Exiting 2025, we had $532 million of cash on the balance sheet and fourth quarter operating cash flow was $175 million, bringing our total for the year to $239 million. We ended 2025 with a net leverage ratio of 4x, slightly above our updated projection due to currency translation on gross debt and lower cash balances at year-end. Our capital allocation priorities remain unchanged. Business growth, reducing total debt and net leverage and returning value to shareholders through our dividend. As a reminder, we expect proceeds from Dermacosmetics to contribute to debt reduction in the second quarter. As highlighted, we start with our first quarter 2026 earnings report, we will align our segment reporting to our commercial operating model. To aid comparability, we will recast selected historical financial results based on the new reporting segment, which we expect to furnish on an 8-K in April. This reporting segment change will have no impact on the company's historical consolidated financial position, results of operations or cash flows. Given the external dynamics we project in 2026, we will remain disciplined in managing our costs. We're implementing a new 2-year operational enhancement program to further improve productivity, streamline operations and enhance competitiveness. We're focused on evolving our structure to improve agility, accelerate decision-making and better leverage technology. As part of these efforts, we expect a global workforce reduction of approximately 7%, and we will also target operational cost reductions, mainly in our supply chain and distribution network. These efforts are expected to deliver annualized pretax savings of $80 million to $100 million with approximately 80% of the savings expected in 2026. Total cost to achieve these savings are expected to be approximately $80 million to $90 million. Now a bit more color on our 2026 outlook. We expect CORE Perrigo organic net sales growth of minus 3.5% to plus 0.5% year-over-year. CORE gross margin is expected between 39% and 40%, with CORE operating margin expected between 15% and 16%. Still within CORE, we expect higher costs from temporary OTC plans under absorption to dissipate over the next 12 months with the pace of returning to normalized levels depending on timing and levels of sales and production volumes. These cost pressures in addition to higher advertising promotion and the reset of variable incentive plans will be mostly offset through 2 levers: first, the benefits from our new operational enhancement program and in addition, targeted savings primarily procurement efficiencies driven in part by lower expected production volumes, along with the deferral of certain projects that are nonessential to our 2026 strategic objectives. Turning to our All-In outlook, which includes Infant Formula and assumes we divest the Dermacosmetics business during the second quarter of the year, we expect All-In net sales growth of minus 5.5% to minus 1.5%. Gross margin of 36.5% to 37.5%, operating margin between 12.5% and 13.5% and EPS in the range of $2 to $2.30. Finally, on operating cash flow. As we advance our Three-S Plan, we're taking on temporary cash costs to drive productivity, streamline operations and improve our risk profile, balanced with our commitment to reducing net leverage. For 2026, we expect operating cash flow conversion to remain in the mid-60 percentage range and net leverage to end the year roughly in line with or slightly better than 2025. As we are providing outlooks for All-In and CORE Perrigo for ease of comparison, we've included 2025 actuals for both in the appendix of this presentation. Let me quickly walk through our 2026 EPS bridge. Removing Infant Formula in divestitures yields a 2025 CORE baseline of $2.52. From there, other absorption, investments in advertising promotion and incentives normalization are largely offset by base business performance and cost savings actions. These, combined with the year-over-year net effect from interest, taxes and share count and FX result in our CORE EPS range of $2.25 to $2.55. The All-In EPS range of $2 to $2.30 reflects the expected impact from Infant Formula and divestiture. CORE EPS phasing is approximately 30% to 35% in the first half and 65% to 70% in the second half, which is modestly above our typical pattern. This reflects the expected timing of net sales, including impact from the current soft cough and cold season versus the prior year, the evolution of our savings program and impact from underabsorption. In closing, we remain disciplined, realistic and focused on the elements we control. The strategic actions underway as part of our Three-S Plan are strengthening our foundation for long-term value creation, and we're confident that CORE Perrigo can deliver steady growth, resilient margins and consistent cash generation. The steps we're talking now will continue strengthening our Consumer Health business to deliver for our consumers, customers and shareholders. Now I will turn the call back to Brad. Brad?