Company: NEOG
Filing Date: 2025-10-09
Form Type: 10-Q
Source: 0001193125-25-235720
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Company: NEOGEN CORP
Filing Date: 2025-10-09
Form: 10-Q
Item: Item 2
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 upon as representing management’s views as of any subsequent date. Except to the extent legally required to do so, we specifically disclaims any obligation to update forward-looking statements, even if our views change. 

Trends and Uncertainties

In recent years, input cost inflation, including increases in certain raw materials, negatively impacted operating results. Although the rate of inflation has eased, we continued to face economic headwinds, including softening consumer demand, elevated interest rates, and ongoing geopolitical tensions in certain regions.

Elevated interest rates have led to higher borrowing costs and an increased overall cost of capital. In response to the historically high inflationary environment, we took pricing actions to mitigate the impacts on the business in prior fiscal years. Although the federal funds rate was reduced in recent fiscal years and we have refinanced our Term Loan and revolving line of credit, the overall interest rate we pay on our Credit Facilities remains higher than when the debt was incurred, which increases interest expense on the unhedged portion of our Term Loan. 

Beginning in the first half of fiscal year 2024, we implemented a new enterprise resource planning system and exited our transition service agreements with 3M, which led to certain shipment delays and an elevated backlog of open orders, specifically in the Food Safety segment. At the conclusion of fiscal year 2024, order fulfillment issues were largely resolved, however, the impact of lost market share stemming from these fulfillment issues continued in fiscal year 2025. Also in fiscal year 2025, we experienced an elevated amount of inventory write-offs, particularly in the fourth quarter, due, in part, to expiration of certain inventory held at our international locations stemming from supply chain and distribution challenges in fiscal year 2024. Further, in fiscal year 2025, we experienced negative impacts from delays in restarting full production of our sample collection product line, which we relocated from 3M into a Neogen facility. In the second half of fiscal year 2025, production increased to the prior normal levels, but