Henry Schein Reports First Quarter 2025 Financial Results

• First-quarter 2025 GAAP diluted EPS of $0.88, growth of 22% compared to the first quarter of 2024
• First-quarter 2025 non-GAAP diluted EPS of $1.15, growth of 4.5% compared to the first quarter of 2024
• Maintains guidance for 2025 non-GAAP diluted EPS of $4.80 to $4.94, mid-single digit 2025 Adjusted EBITDA growth, and sales growth of 2% to 4%
• Repurchased $161 million of common stock, or approximately 2.3 million shares
  
  

MELVILLE, N.Y.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Henry Schein, Inc. (Nasdaq: HSIC), the world’s largest provider of health care solutions to office-based dental and medical practitioners, today reported financial results for the first quarter ended March 29, 2025.

“We are pleased with our first quarter financial results as well as the momentum we are seeing heading into the second quarter and remain confident in the fundamentals of our business,” said Stanley M. Bergman, Chairman of the Board and Chief Executive Officer of Henry Schein.

“We are advancing our BOLD+1 Strategic Plan, which has been refreshed for 2025 to 2027, with our team focused on growing the distribution business through increasing operational efficiency and enhancing customer experience, growing our dental and medical specialty businesses and corporate brand products, and further developing our digital footprint and digital solutions. We remain committed to our long-term financial goal of high-single-digit to low-double-digit earnings growth by continuing to successfully execute against this strategy,” Mr. Bergman added.

First Quarter 2025 Financial Results

• Total net sales for the quarter were $3.2 billion:
  • Constant currency total net sales increased 1.4% compared with the first quarter of 2024. Excluding the impact of personal protective equipment (PPE) and COVID test kits, constant currency sales growth was 2.0%.
  • As-reported total net sales decreased 0.1% due to a stronger U.S. dollar versus the first quarter of last year.
• Global Distribution and Value-Added Services sales for the quarter increased 0.8% in constant currencies compared with the first quarter of 2024, and increased 1.5% excluding the impact of PPE and COVID test kits. As-reported sales decreased 0.7%. The main components include:
  • Global Dental Distribution merchandise sales for the quarter increased 0.4% in constant currencies compared with the first quarter of 2024, and increased 0.9% excluding the impact of PPE and COVID test kits. Monthly sales growth accelerated throughout the quarter after a slow start in January primarily as a result of weather-related events in the U.S. As-reported sales decreased 2.1%.
  • Global Dental Distribution equipment sales for the quarter decreased 2.4% in constant currencies compared with the first quarter of 2024. Sales growth was impacted by a deferral of sales from the fourth quarter of 2023 to the first quarter of 2024, resulting in a more difficult year-over-year comparison. Adjusting for this, global dental equipment sales growth in constant currencies was approximately flat to prior year. As-reported sales decreased 4.5%.
  • Global Medical Distribution sales for the quarter increased 3.0% in constant currencies compared with the first quarter of 2024, and increased 4.4% excluding the impact of PPE and COVID test kits, reflecting increased patient traffic to physician offices, strong growth in our home solutions business and growth from acquisitions. As-reported sales increased 2.9%.
• Global Specialty Products sales for the quarter increased 4.3% in constant currencies compared with the first quarter of 2024, reflecting continued growth in implant and biomaterial sales and acquisition growth. As-reported sales increased 2.0%.
• Global Technology sales for the quarter increased 3.4% in constant currencies compared with the first quarter of 2024. Strong sales growth in practice management systems, including Dentrix Ascend and Dentally cloud-based solutions, as well as in revenue cycle management products, was partially offset by lower sales of certain legacy products that are being sunset. As-reported sales increased 2.9%.

First-quarter sales growth is detailed in Exhibit A¹.

• GAAP net income² for the quarter was $110 million, or $0.88 per diluted share⁴, and compares with first-quarter 2024 GAAP net income of $93 million, or $0.72 per diluted share.
• Non-GAAP net income² for the quarter was $143 million, or $1.15 per diluted share⁴, and compares with first-quarter 2024 non-GAAP net income of $143 million, or $1.10 per diluted share.
• Adjusted EBITDA³ for the quarter was $259 million and compares with first-quarter 2024 Adjusted EBITDA of $255 million.
  

Restructuring Plan

During the first quarter of 2025, the Company recorded $25 million in restructuring costs and expects to achieve annual run-rate savings at the high end of its $75 million to $100 million goal by the end of 2025.

Share Repurchases

During the first quarter of 2025, the Company repurchased approximately 2.3 million shares of its common stock at an average price of $71.58 per share, for a total of $161 million. The impact of these share repurchases on first-quarter diluted EPS was immaterial.

At the end of the quarter, Henry Schein had $718 million authorized and available for future stock repurchases.

2025 Financial Guidance

Henry Schein today maintained its financial guidance for 2025. Guidance is for current continuing operations as well as acquisitions that have closed and does not include the impact of restructuring and integration expenses, amortization expense of acquired intangible assets, the insurance claim recovery associated with the cybersecurity incident and costs associated with shareholder advisory matters. This guidance also assumes that foreign currency exchange rates remain generally consistent with current levels and that additional tariffs will not be introduced.

• 2025 non-GAAP diluted EPS attributable to Henry Schein, Inc. is unchanged and is expected to be $4.80 to $4.94, reflecting growth of 1% to 4% compared with 2024 non-GAAP diluted EPS of $4.74.
• 2025 total sales growth is unchanged and is expected to be approximately 2% to 4% over 2024.
• 2025 Adjusted EBITDA³ growth is unchanged and is expected to increase mid-single digits compared with 2024.

Adjustments to 2025 GAAP Net Income and Diluted EPS

The Company is providing guidance for 2025 diluted EPS on a non-GAAP basis and for 2025 Adjusted EBITDA, as noted above. The Company is not providing a reconciliation of its 2025 non-GAAP diluted EPS guidance to its projected 2025 diluted EPS prepared on a GAAP basis, or its 2025 Adjusted EBITDA guidance to net income prepared on a GAAP basis. This is because the Company is unable to provide without unreasonable effort an estimate of restructuring costs related to an ongoing initiative to drive operating efficiencies, including the corresponding tax effect, which will be included in the Company’s 2025 diluted EPS and net income, prepared on a GAAP basis. The inability to provide this reconciliation is due to the uncertainty and inherent difficulty of predicting the occurrence, magnitude, financial impact and timing of related costs.

Management does not believe these items are representative of the Company’s underlying business performance. For the same reasons, the Company is unable to address the probable significance of the unavailable information, which could be material to future results.

First-Quarter 2025 Conference Call Webcast

The Company will hold a conference call to discuss first-quarter 2025 financial results today, beginning at 8:00 a.m. Eastern time. Individual investors are invited to listen to the conference call through Henry Schein’s website by visiting https://investor.henryschein.com/webcasts. In addition, a replay will be available beginning shortly after the call has ended for a period of one week.

The Company will be posting slides that provide a summary of its first-quarter 2025 financial results on its website at https://www.henryschein.com/us-en/Corporate/investor-presentations.aspx.

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 Strategic Partnership Agreement with KKR Hawaii Aggregator L.P. entered into in January 2025; 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 the U.S. dollar as compared to foreign currencies, changes to other economic indicators and international trade agreements; the threat or outbreak of war, terrorism or public unrest (including, without limitation, the war in Ukraine, the Israel-Gaza war and other unrest and threats in the Middle East and the possibility of a wider European or global conflict); changes to laws and policies governing foreign trade, tariffs and sanctions, including the current imposition of additional new tariffs by the U.S. on numerous countries, retaliatory tariffs and potential for additional retaliatory tariffs; greater restrictions on imports and exports; supply chain disruption; geopolitical wars; 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 and regulations; failure to comply with laws and regulations relating to the collection, storage and processing of sensitive personal information or standards in electronic health records or transmissions; changes in tax legislation, changes in tax rates and availability of certain tax deductions; risks related to product liability, intellectual property and other claims; risks associated with customs policies or legislative import restrictions; risks associated with disease outbreaks, epidemics, pandemics (such as the COVID-19 pandemic), or similar wide-spread public health concerns and other natural or man-made disasters; risks associated with our global operations; litigation risks; new or unanticipated litigation developments and the status of litigation matters; our dependence on our senior management, employee hiring and retention, increases in labor costs or health care costs, and our relationships with customers, suppliers and manufacturers; and disruptions in financial markets. The order in which these factors appear should not be construed to indicate their relative importance or priority.

We caution that these factors may not be exhaustive and that many of these factors are beyond our ability to control or predict. Accordingly, any forward-looking statements contained herein should not be relied upon as a prediction of actual results. We undertake no duty and have no obligation to update forward-looking statements except as required by law.

Included within the press release are non-GAAP financial measures that supplement the Company’s Consolidated Statements of Income prepared under generally accepted accounting principles (GAAP). These non-GAAP financial measures adjust the Company’s actual results prepared under GAAP to exclude certain items. In the schedule attached to the press release, the non-GAAP measures have been reconciled to and should be considered together with the Consolidated Statements of Income. Management believes that non-GAAP financial measures provide investors with useful supplemental information about the financial performance of our business, enable comparison of financial results between periods where certain items may vary independent of business performance and allow for greater transparency with respect to key metrics used by management in operating our business. The impact of certain items that are excluded include integration and restructuring costs, and amortization of acquisition-related assets, because the amount and timing of such charges are significantly impacted by the timing, size, number and nature of the acquisitions we consummate and occur on an unpredictable basis. These non-GAAP financial measures are presented solely for informational and comparative purposes and should not be regarded as a replacement for corresponding, similarly captioned, GAAP measures.

¹ See Exhibit A for details of sales growth. Internal sales growth is calculated from total net sales using constant foreign currency exchange rates and excludes sales from acquisitions.

² See Exhibit B for a reconciliation of GAAP net income and diluted EPS to non-GAAP net income and diluted EPS.

³ See Exhibit C for a reconciliation of GAAP net income to Adjusted EBITDA.

⁴ References to diluted EPS refer to diluted EPS attributable to Henry Schein, Inc.

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Contacts

Investors
Ronald N. South

Senior Vice President and Chief Financial Officer

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(631) 843-5500

Graham Stanley

Vice President, Investor Relations and Strategic Financial Project Officer

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(631) 843-5500

Media

Tim Vassilakos

Executive Director, Global Corporate Communications

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(516)-510-0926

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