Company: GGG
Filing Date: 2025-07-23
Form Type: 10-Q
Source: 0000042888-25-000025
Chunk: 44

Company: GRACO INC
Filing Date: 2025-07-23
Form: 10-Q
Item: Item 8
Chunk 44
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-based incentive payouts. Significant uses of cash in the first half of 2025 included share repurchases of $361 million (partially offset by $25 million of net proceeds from shares issued), dividend payments of $92 million and plant and equipment additions of $30 million.

For the first half of 2024, significant uses of cash included plant and equipment additions of $73 million and dividend payments of $86 million. Net proceeds from shares issued totaled $42 million, which were partially offset by share repurchases of $18 million.

As of June 27, 2025, the Company had available liquidity of $1,322 million, including cash and cash equivalents of $535 million, of which $223 million was held outside of the U.S., and available credit under existing committed credit facilities of $787 million.

Cash balances and unused financing sources are expected to provide the Company with the flexibility to meet its liquidity needs for the next 12 months and beyond, including its capital expenditure plan, planned dividends, share repurchases, announced and potential future acquisitions and operating requirements. Capital expenditures for 2025 are expected to be approximately $60 to $70 million. The Company may make opportunistic share repurchases going forward.

Outlook

Pricing actions combined with upcoming new product launches and steady incoming order rates reaffirms the Company's 2025 revenue outlook of low single-digit sales growth on an organic constant-currency basis.

Cautionary Statement Regarding Forward-Looking Statements

The Company desires to take advantage of the “safe harbor” provisions regarding forward-looking statements of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995 and is filing this Cautionary Statement in order to do so. From time to time various forms filed by our Company with the Securities and Exchange Commission, including our Form 10-K, Form 10-Qs and Form 8-Ks, and other disclosures, including our 2024 Overview report, press releases, earnings releases, analyst briefings, conference calls and other written documents or oral statements released by our Company, may contain forward-looking statements. Forward-looking statements generally use words such as “expect,” “foresee,” “anticipate,” “believe,” “project,” “should,” “estimate,” “will,” and similar expressions, and reflect our Company’s expectations concerning the future. All forecasts and projections are forward-looking statements. Forward-looking statements are based upon currently available information, but various risks and uncertainties may cause our Company’s actual results to differ materially from those expressed in these statements.