Item 6. Selected Financial Data.

The table below summarizes selected financial information. For further information, refer to the audited consolidated financial statements and the notes thereto beginning on page F-1 of this report.

(1)Results included charges associated with restructuring and other activities of $68 million, $190 million, $193 million, $143 million and $90 million, after tax, or $.19, $.51, $.51, $.38, and $.24 per diluted common share in fiscal 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017 and 2016, respectively.

(2)In November 2019, we issued $500 million of 2.00% Senior Notes, $650 million of 2.375% Senior Notes and $650 million of 3.125% Senior Notes in a public offering. These Senior Notes are due in December 2024, 2029 and 2049, respectively. In April 2020, we issued $700 million of 2.60% Senior Notes, due in April 2030 in a public offering. In February 2017, we issued 1.80%, 3.15% and 4.15% Senior Notes in a public offering, each with an aggregate principal amount of $500 million. The 1.80% Senior Notes were repaid in February 2020. The 3.15% and 4.15% Senior Notes become due in March 2027 and March 2047, respectively. In May 2016, we issued $450 million of 1.70% Senior Notes due May 10, 2021 and an additional $150 million of our 4.375% Senior Notes due June 15, 2045 in a public offering.

(3)Fiscal 2020 results included $1,215 million, after tax, or $3.31 per diluted common share related to goodwill, other intangible and long-lived asset impairments. Fiscal 2019 and 2017 results included $85 million and $23 million, after tax, or $.23 and $.06 per diluted common share related to goodwill and other intangible asset impairments, respectively.

(4)Results included gains (losses) associated with changes in fair value of contingent consideration related to certain of our acquisitions of $16 million, $31 million, $33 million, $44 million, $(8) million and $(6) million, after tax, or $.04, $.08, $.09, $.12, $(.02) and $(.02) per diluted common share in fiscal 2019, 2018, 2017, 2016 and 2015, respectively.

(5)On December 22, 2017, the U.S. government enacted comprehensive tax legislation commonly referred to as the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act (the “TCJA”), which, among other things, lowered the U.S. corporate statutory income tax rate and established a modified territorial system requiring a mandatory deemed repatriation tax on undistributed earnings of foreign subsidiaries (the “Transition Tax”). See Item 8. Financial Statements and Supplementary Data – Note 9 – Income Taxes for further discussion relating to the TCJA. Fiscal 2019 results reflected credits (charges) to adjust the TCJA provisional amounts recorded in fiscal 2018 relating to the Transition Tax, the remeasurement of U.S. net deferred tax assets and the foreign withholding taxes recorded in connection with the reversal of its indefinite reinvestment assertion related to certain foreign earnings of $12 million, or $.03 per diluted common share, $(8) million, or $(.02) per diluted common share and $(9) million, or $(.02) per diluted common share, respectively. Fiscal 2018 results reflected impacts and charges resulting from the TCJA, including the Transition Tax, the remeasurement of U.S. net deferred tax assets and the establishment of a net deferred tax liability related to foreign withholding taxes on certain foreign earnings of $(351) million, or $(.94) per diluted common share, $(53) million, or $(.14) per diluted common share and $(46) million, or $(.12) per diluted common share, respectively.

(6)Fiscal 2020 results included $441 million, after tax, or $1.20 per diluted common share, of Other income, net primarily related to a gain on a previously held equity method investment.

(7)Fiscal 2019 results included $57 million, after tax, or $.15 per diluted common share, related to a gain on liquidation of an investment in a foreign subsidiary, net.

(8)As part of the cost saving actions and cash conservation measures taken in response to the COVID-19 pandemic, we did not declare quarterly cash dividends that would have been paid in June 2020.