Company: NEOG
Filing Date: 2025-07-30
Form Type: 10-K
Source: 0000950170-25-100064
Chunk: 15

Company: NEOGEN CORP
Filing Date: 2025-07-30
Form: 10-K
Item: Item 6
Chunk 15
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 using the reporting unit’s weighted average cost of capital (WACC) as the discount rate. For the market-based approach, management uses the guideline public company method. The guideline public company method analyzes market multiples of revenues and earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortization (“EBITDA”) for a group of comparable public companies. Valuation multiples are calculated utilizing actual transaction prices and revenue/EBITDA data from target companies deemed similar to the reporting unit. Management typically assigns more weight to the income-based valuation method. Management also evaluates the fair value estimates of the reporting units in the context of the Company’s total enterprise market value. Based on the estimated fair value developed from the income and market-based methods, we determine the estimated fair value of the reporting unit. If the estimated fair value of the reporting unit exceeds its carrying value, the goodwill is not impaired and no analysis is required. However, if the estimated fair value of the reporting unit is less than its carrying value, the impairment loss is calculated as the difference between the carrying value of the reporting unit and the estimated fair value, limited to the amount of the goodwill assigned to the reporting unit. We develop our estimates based on information available as of the date of our assessment, using assumptions we believe market participants would use in performing an independent valuation of the business. Although we believe the estimates and assumptions used in the impairment assessment are reasonable and appropriate, it is possible that the assumptions and conclusions regarding the impairment of goodwill of the reporting unit could change in future periods. There can be no assurance the estimates and assumptions, in particular our long-term financial projections, that are based on information that are known or knowable by us at the time of our goodwill impairment assessment will prove to be accurate predictions of the future, if, for example, (i) the reporting unit does not perform as projected, (ii) overall economic conditions in future years vary from current assumptions (including a change in the discount rate), (iii) business conditions or strategies change from current assumptions, including loss of major customers or channels, (iv) investors require higher rates of return on equity investments in the marketplace, or (v) enterprise values of comparable publicly traded companies, or actual sales transactions of comparable companies, were to decline, resulting in lower multiples of revenues and EBITDA.     See Note 6 "Goodwill and Other Intangible Assets" for further detail on the results of our goodwill impairment tests conducted in fiscal year 2025. NEW ACCOUNTING PRONOUNCEMENTS See discussion of any New Accounting Pronouncements