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Description of the Company and Summary of Significant Accounting Policies | 6 Months Ended
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Jun. 28, 2026
Organization, Consolidation and Presentation of Financial Statements [Abstract] |
Description of the Company and Summary of Significant Accounting Policies | Description of the Company and Summary of Significant Accounting Policies Description of the Company and Business Segments Kenvue Inc. (“Kenvue” or the “Company”) is a pure-play consumer health company with iconic brands including Aveeno®, BAND-AID® Brand, Johnson’s®, Listerine®, Neutrogena®, Nicorette®, Tylenol®, and Zyrtec®. The Company is organized into three reportable business segments: Self Care, Skin Health and Beauty, and Essential Health. The Self Care segment includes a broad product range such as cough, cold, and allergy; pain care; digestive health; smoking cessation; eye care; and other products. The Skin Health and Beauty segment is focused on face and body care, as well as hair, sun, and other products. The Essential Health segment includes oral care, baby care, women’s health, wound care, and other products. Kenvue was initially formed as a wholly owned subsidiary of Johnson & Johnson (“J&J”). In November 2021, J&J announced its intention to separate its Consumer Health segment (the “Consumer Health Business”) into a new, publicly traded company (the “Separation”). In August 2023, J&J completed the Separation and Kenvue’s transition to being a fully independent company. Pending Transaction with Kimberly-Clark On November 2, 2025, the Company entered into an Agreement and Plan of Merger (the “Merger Agreement”) with Kimberly-Clark Corporation, a Delaware corporation (“K-C” or, with reference to the post-closing period, the “combined company”), Vesta Sub I, Inc., a Delaware corporation and a direct wholly owned subsidiary of K-C, and Vesta Sub II, LLC, a Delaware limited liability company and a direct wholly owned subsidiary of K-C, pursuant to which K-C will acquire all of the outstanding shares of the Company in a series of transactions (the “Pending Transaction”). Pursuant to the terms and subject to the conditions of the Merger Agreement, Company shareholders will receive 1) 0.14625 shares of K-C common stock, par value $1.25 per share (the “K-C Common Stock”), plus 2) $3.50 in cash. Upon completion of the Pending Transaction, current Company shareholders are expected to own approximately 46% and current K-C shareholders are expected to own approximately 54% of the combined company on a fully diluted basis. On January 29, 2026, Company shareholders approved the adoption of the Merger Agreement and K-C’s shareholders approved the issuance of K-C Common Stock in connection with the Pending Transaction, in each case at a special meeting of shareholders held for that purpose. Additionally, the waiting period applicable to the Pending Transaction under the Hart-Scott-Rodino Antitrust Improvements Act of 1976, as amended, expired on February 4, 2026. The Pending Transaction remains subject to the satisfaction or waiver of other customary closing conditions, including the receipt of a number of foreign regulatory approvals. Basis of Presentation The accompanying unaudited Condensed Consolidated Financial Statements have been prepared in accordance with accounting principles generally accepted in the United States of America (“U.S. GAAP”) pursuant to the rules and regulations of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (the “SEC”) for interim financial information. Accordingly, they do not include all of the information and footnotes required by U.S. GAAP for complete financial statements. In the opinion of management, the Condensed Consolidated Financial Statements reflect all adjustments, consisting of normal and recurring adjustments, necessary for a fair statement of the financial condition, results of operations, and cash flows for the periods indicated. These financial statements should be read in conjunction with the audited consolidated financial statements and related disclosures included in the Company’s Annual Report on Form 10-K for the fiscal twelve months ended December 28, 2025, filed on February 20, 2026 with the SEC. Intercompany balances and transactions have been eliminated. The Condensed Consolidated Financial Statements include the accounts of the Company and its affiliates and entities consolidated under the variable interest and voting models. Reclassifications Certain prior period amounts have been reclassified to conform to current fiscal year presentation. Use of Estimates The preparation of the Condensed Consolidated Financial Statements in conformity with U.S. GAAP requires management to make estimates and assumptions that affect the reported amounts of assets and liabilities, the disclosure of contingent assets and liabilities at the date of the financial statements, and revenue and expenses during the periods reported. Estimates are used when accounting for, among other things, sales discounts, trade promotions, rebates, allowances and incentives, product liabilities, income taxes and related valuation allowances, withholding taxes, pensions, postretirement benefits, fair value of financial instruments, stock-based compensation assumptions, depreciation, amortization, employee benefits, contingencies, and the valuation of goodwill, intangible assets, and liabilities. Actual results may or may not differ from those estimates. Global and North America Headquarters On April 20, 2023, the Company entered into a long-term lease for a newly renovated global and North America corporate headquarters building and a newly constructed research and development building in Summit, New Jersey. In March 2025, the Company began operating out of the new global and North America corporate headquarters. The relocation to this new campus from multiple U.S.-based locations was substantially complete as of June 28, 2026. Separation-Related Costs The Company is incurring certain non-recurring separation-related costs in connection with the establishment of Kenvue as a standalone public company (“Separation-related costs”), which are included in Cost of sales and Selling, general, and administrative expenses in the Condensed Consolidated Statements of Operations. Separation-related costs associated with information technology and other activities, primarily related to the disentanglement of systems and the discontinuance of certain information technology assets, are substantially completed. Costs related to legal entity name changes, as well as minimal costs related to other activities, are expected to continue for a longer period than originally anticipated. Separation-related costs for the fiscal three and six months ended June 28, 2026 and June 29, 2025 consisted of:
|  | Fiscal Three Months Ended |  | Fiscal Six Months Ended
(Dollars in Millions) |  | June 28, 2026 |  | June 29, 2025 |  | June 28, 2026 |  | June 29, 2025 |  |
Information technology and other(1) |  | $ | 2 |  |  | $ | 18 |  |  | $ | 2 |  |  | $ | 51 |  |  |
Legal entity name change |  | 5 |  |  | 6 |  |  | 8 |  |  | 11 |  |  |
Total Separation-related costs |  | $ | 7 |  |  | $ | 24 |  |  | $ | 10 |  |  | $ | 62 |  |  |
(1) Primarily related to the disentanglement of systems and the costs associated with the discontinuation of certain information technology assets. Research and Development Research and development expenses are expensed as incurred and included in Selling, general, and administrative expenses in the Condensed Consolidated Statements of Operations. Research and development expenses were $94 million and $91 million for the fiscal three months ended June 28, 2026 and June 29, 2025, respectively, and $178 million and $190 million for the fiscal six months ended June 28, 2026 and June 29, 2025, respectively. Supplier Finance Program As of June 28, 2026 and December 28, 2025, the Company’s Accounts payable balances included $384 million and $314 million, respectively, related to invoices from suppliers participating in the supplier finance program. Net Economic Benefit Arrangements In connection with the Separation, J&J and Kenvue entered into a separation agreement (the “Separation Agreement”) on May 3, 2023. Under the Separation Agreement, transfer of certain assets and liabilities of the Consumer Health Business in certain jurisdictions (each, a “Deferred Local Business”) was not completed prior to the date on which Kenvue completed its initial public offering (the “Kenvue IPO”) on May 8, 2023 and was deferred due to certain precedent conditions, which include ensuring compliance with applicable law and obtaining necessary governmental approvals and other consents, and for other business reasons. At the Kenvue IPO and until the Deferred Local Business transfers to the Company, J&J 1) holds and operates the Deferred Local Businesses on behalf of and for the benefit of the Company and 2) will use reasonable best efforts to treat and operate, insofar as reasonably practicable and to the extent permitted by applicable law, each such Deferred Local Business in the ordinary course of business in all material respects consistent with past practice. The benefits and costs related to these Deferred Local Businesses will be assumed by the Company. In addition, the Company and J&J will use reasonable best efforts to take all actions to transfer each Deferred Local Business as promptly as reasonably practicable. When the precedent conditions are met, the Deferred Local Businesses will be transferred as per the terms of the arrangement with J&J. With respect to certain Deferred Local Businesses that are legal entities and the Deferred Local Businesses that are not legal entities (“Deferred Markets”), the Company and J&J entered into net economic benefit arrangements effective on April 4, 2023, pursuant to which, among other things, J&J will transfer to the Company the net profits from the operations of each of the Deferred Markets (or, in the event the operations of any such Deferred Markets result in net losses to J&J, the Company will reimburse J&J for the amount of such net losses). The Company had a net liability to J&J of $45 million and $44 million as of June 28, 2026 and December 28, 2025, respectively, in relation to the net economic benefit arrangements on the Condensed Consolidated Balance Sheets. The Company recognized Net income of $13 million and $14 million for the fiscal three months ended June 28, 2026 and June 29, 2025, respectively, and $18 million and $22 million for the fiscal six months ended June 28, 2026 and June 29, 2025, respectively, in relation to the net economic benefit arrangements in the Condensed Consolidated Statements of Operations. Recent Accounting Standards Not Yet Adopted Accounting Standards Update (“ASU”) 2024-03—Income Statement—Reporting Comprehensive Income—Expense Disaggregation Disclosures (Subtopic 220-40): Disaggregation of Income Statement Expenses In November 2024, the Financial Accounting Standards Board (the “FASB”) issued ASU 2024-03—Income Statement—Reporting Comprehensive Income—Expense Disaggregation Disclosures (Subtopic 220-40): Disaggregation of Income Statement Expenses (“ASU 2024-03”). Among other various new disclosures, ASU 2024-03 requires public business entities to disaggregate operating expenses included in certain expense captions presented on the face of the income statement into specific categories (including purchases of inventory, employee compensation, depreciation, and intangible asset amortization) to provide enhanced transparency into the nature of expenses. This guidance is effective for public business entities for fiscal years beginning after December 15, 2026, and for interim periods within fiscal years beginning after December 15, 2027. Companies are required to apply the amendments either 1) prospectively to financial statements issued for reporting periods after the effective date of this ASU or 2) retrospectively to all periods presented in the financial statements. Early adoption is permitted. The Company is currently evaluating this guidance and the impact on its disclosures. ASU 2025-06—Intangibles—Goodwill and Other—Internal-Use Software (Subtopic 350-40): Targeted Improvements to the Accounting for Internal-Use Software In September 2025, the FASB issued ASU 2025-06—Intangibles—Goodwill and Other—Internal-Use Software (Subtopic 350-40): Targeted Improvements to the Accounting for Internal-Use Software (“ASU 2025-06”). ASU 2025-06 simplifies capitalization guidance by removing all references to software development project stages so that the guidance is neutral to different software development methods. The amendment requires entities to start capitalizing software costs when both of the following occur: 1) management has authorized and committed to funding the software project and 2) it is probable that the project will be completed and the software will be used to perform the function intended. This guidance is effective for all entities for fiscal years beginning after December 15, 2027, and for interim periods within those fiscal years. Companies are permitted to apply the amendments using a prospective, retrospective, or modified transition approach. Early adoption is permitted. The Company is currently evaluating this guidance and the impact on its financial statements and related disclosures. ASU 2025-09—Derivatives and Hedging (Topic 815): Hedge Accounting Improvements In November 2025, the FASB issued ASU 2025-09—Derivatives and Hedging (Topic 815): Hedge Accounting Improvements (“ASU 2025-09”). The amendments included in the five issues addressed in ASU 2025-09 are intended to more closely align hedge accounting with the economics of an entity’s risk management activities and to simplify the application of certain existing hedge accounting guidance. This guidance is effective for all public business entities for fiscal years beginning after December 15, 2026, and for interim periods within those fiscal years. Companies are required to apply the amendments prospectively and may elect to adopt the amendments for hedging relationships that exist as of the date of adoption. Early adoption is permitted. The Company is currently evaluating this guidance and the impact on its financial statements and related disclosures. No other new accounting standards that were issued or became effective during the fiscal six months ended June 28, 2026 had, or are expected to have, a significant impact on the Condensed Consolidated Financial Statements.

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