UNITED STATES SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION

Washington, D.C. 20549

FORM 10-Q

For the quarterly period ended September 28, 2024

OR

Commission File Number: 1-6544

Sysco Corporation

(Exact name of registrant as specified in its charter)

1390 Enclave Parkway, Houston, Texas 77077-2099

(Address of principal executive offices) (Zip Code)

Registrant’s telephone number, including area code:

(281) 584-1390

Securities registered pursuant to Section 12(b) of the Act:

Indicate by check mark whether the registrant (1) has filed all reports required to be filed by Section 13 or 15(d) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 during the preceding 12 months (or for such shorter period that the registrant was required to file such reports), and (2) has been subject to such filing requirements for the past 90 days. Yes þ No ☐

Indicate by check mark whether the registrant has submitted electronically every Interactive Data File required to be submitted pursuant to Rule 405 of Regulation S-T during the preceding 12 months (or for such shorter period that the registrant was required to submit such files). Yes þ No ☐

Indicate by check mark whether the registrant is a large accelerated filer, an accelerated filer, a non-accelerated filer, a smaller reporting company or an emerging growth company. See the definitions of “large accelerated filer,” “accelerated filer,” “smaller reporting company” and “emerging growth company” in Rule 12b-2 of the Exchange Act.

If an emerging growth company, indicate by check mark if the registrant has elected not to use the extended transition period for complying with any new or revised financial accounting standards provided pursuant to Section 13(a) of the Exchange Act. ☐

Indicate by check mark whether the registrant is a shell company (as defined in Rule 12b-2 of the Exchange Act). Yes ☐ No þ

491,226,100 shares of common stock were outstanding as of October 11, 2024.

TABLE OF CONTENTS

PART I – FINANCIAL INFORMATION

Sysco Corporation and its Consolidated Subsidiaries

CONSOLIDATED BALANCE SHEETS

(In millions, except for share data)

Note: The June 29, 2024 balance sheet has been derived from the audited financial statements at that date.

See Notes to Consolidated Financial Statements

Sysco Corporation and its Consolidated Subsidiaries

CONSOLIDATED RESULTS OF OPERATIONS (Unaudited)

(In millions, except for share and per share data)

See Notes to Consolidated Financial Statements

Sysco Corporation and its Consolidated Subsidiaries

CONSOLIDATED STATEMENTS OF COMPREHENSIVE INCOME (Unaudited)

(In millions)

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This discussion should be read in conjunction with our consolidated financial statements as of June 29, 2024, and for the fiscal year then ended, and Management’s Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations, both contained in our Annual Report on Form 10-K for the fiscal year ended June 29, 2024 (our fiscal 2024 Form 10-K), as well as the consolidated financial statements (unaudited) and notes to the consolidated financial statements (unaudited) contained in this report.

Highlights

Our first quarter of fiscal 2025 results were driven by sales growth of 4.4% as compared to the first quarter of fiscal 2024 primarily due to U.S. Foodservice Operations volume growth and higher inflation. Our gross profit grew 2.9% compared to the first quarter of fiscal 2024, due to volume growth and margin management. Operating income increased 0.5% as compared to the first quarter of fiscal 2024. Adjusted operating income increased 2.2% due to sales growth and expense controls. See below for a comparison of our fiscal 2025 results to our fiscal 2024 results, both including and excluding “Certain Items” (as defined below).

Comparisons of results from the first quarter of fiscal 2025 to the first quarter of fiscal 2024 are presented below:

• Sales:

◦increased 4.4%, or $864 million, to $20.5 billion;

• Operating income:

◦increased 0.5%, or $4 million, to $808 million;

◦adjusted operating income increased 2.2%, or $19 million, to $873 million;

• Net earnings:

◦decreased 2.6%, or $13 million, to $490 million;

◦adjusted net earnings decreased 0.4%, or $2 million, to $540 million;

• Basic earnings per share:

◦unchanged, at $1.00 per share;

• Diluted earnings per share:

◦unchanged, at $0.99 per share;

◦adjusted diluted earnings per share increased 1.9%, or $0.02, to $1.09;

• EBITDA:

◦increased 3.4%, or $34 million, to $1.0 billion; and

◦adjusted EBITDA increased 4.4%, or $45 million, to $1.1 billion.

The discussion of our results includes certain non-GAAP financial measures, including EBITDA and adjusted EBITDA, that we believe provide important perspective with respect to underlying business trends. Other than EBITDA and free cash flow, any non-GAAP financial measures will be denoted as adjusted measures to remove (1) restructuring charges; (2) expenses associated with our various transformation initiatives; (3) severance charges; and (4) acquisition-related costs consisting of: (a) intangible amortization expense and (b) acquisition costs and due diligence costs related to our acquisitions.

The fiscal 2025 and fiscal 2024 items discussed above are collectively referred to as “Certain Items.” The results of our operations can be impacted by changes in exchange rates applicable to converting from local currencies to U.S. dollars. We measure our results on a constant currency basis.

Trends

Economic and Industry Trends

Foot traffic to restaurants decreased 3.6% for the first quarter of fiscal 2025; however, traffic trends did improve as the quarter progressed. Foot traffic declined approximately 5% in July, approximately 4% in August, and approximately 3% in September. We expect modest industry traffic improvements in the second half of fiscal 2025. Despite the current macroeconomic landscape, we expect to grow both sales and net earnings in fiscal 2025. We believe the food-away-from-home sector is a healthy long-term market, and Sysco is diversified and well positioned as a market leader in food service.

Sales and Gross Profit Trends

Our sales and gross profit performance are influenced by multiple factors, including price, volume, inflation, customer mix and product mix. We experienced a 2.7% improvement in U.S. Foodservice Operations case volume in the first quarter of fiscal 2025, as compared to the first quarter of fiscal 2024. Our volume growth was generated by 5.5% national volume growth and 0.2% local volume growth. Our volume reflects our broadline and specialty businesses, except for our specialty meats business, which measures its volume in pounds.

We experienced inflation at a rate of 2.2% in the first quarter of fiscal 2025, at the total enterprise level, primarily driven by inflation in the poultry and dairy categories. We continued to be successful in managing this inflation, resulting in an increase in gross profit dollars. Gross margin decreased 27 basis points in the first quarter of fiscal 2025, as compared to the first quarter of fiscal 2024, primarily due to a shift in our customer mix driven by national volume growth, a decrease in Sysco brand penetration, and the timing of benefits from strategic sourcing initiatives.

Operating Expense Trends

Total operating expenses were $2.9 billion in the first quarter of fiscal 2025, a 3.6% increase compared to the first quarter of fiscal 2024. Total adjusted operating expenses were $2.9 billion in the first quarter of fiscal 2025, a 3.1% increase as compared to the first quarter of fiscal 2024. Operating expenses increased primarily due to an increase in volumes. In addition, higher selling expenses, which includes sales professional hires, and depreciation expense related to new facilities also resulted in an increase in operating expenses in the first quarter of fiscal 2025. Adjusted operating expenses were 14.1% of sales, which is an 18-basis point improvement from the first quarter of fiscal 2024, due to supply chain and Global Support Center efficiencies.

Strategy

Our purpose is “Connecting the World to Share Food and Care for One Another.” Purpose-driven companies are believed to perform better. We believe our purpose will assist us to grow substantially faster than the foodservice distribution industry and deliver profitable growth through our Recipe for Growth transformation. This growth transformation is supported by strategic pillars that we believe will allow us to better serve our customers, including our digital, products and solutions, supply chain, customer teams, and future horizons strategies.

Our business transformation initiatives remain on track, which include promoting our specialty programs for produce, protein and Italian products and our customer growth initiatives. From these actions as a part of our Recipe for Growth, the benefits of our developing capabilities are apparent in the new customers we are winning and in the progress we are making toward increasing market share. We expect that, as our Recipe for Growth matures, the impact on our top-line growth will deliver profitable and consistent growth.

Results of Operations

The following table sets forth the components of our consolidated results of operations expressed as a percentage of sales for the periods indicated:

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Our market risks consist of interest rate risk, foreign currency exchange rate risk, fuel price risk and investment risk. For a discussion on our exposure to market risk, see Part II, Item 7A, “Quantitative and Qualitative Disclosures about Market Risks” in our fiscal 2024 Form 10-K. There have been no significant changes to our market risks since June 29, 2024.

Sysco’s management, with the participation of our chief executive officer and chief financial officer, evaluated the effectiveness of our disclosure controls and procedures as of September 28, 2024. The term “disclosure controls and procedures,” as defined in Rules 13a-15(e) and 15d-15(e) under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended (the Exchange Act), means controls and other procedures of a company that are designed to ensure that information required to be disclosed by a company in the reports that it files or submits under the Exchange Act is recorded, processed, summarized and reported, within the time periods specified in the Securities and Exchange Commission’s rules and forms. Disclosure controls and procedures include, without limitation, controls and procedures designed to ensure that information required to be disclosed by a company in the reports that it files or submits under the Exchange Act is accumulated and communicated to the company’s management, including its principal executive and principal financial officers, as appropriate to allow timely decisions regarding the required disclosure. Management recognizes that any controls and procedures, no matter how well designed and operated, can provide only reasonable assurance of achieving their objectives and management necessarily applies its judgment in evaluating the cost-benefit relationship of possible controls and procedures. Sysco’s disclosure controls and procedures have been designed to provide reasonable assurance of achieving their objectives. Based on the evaluation of our disclosure controls and procedures as of September 28, 2024, our chief executive officer and chief financial officer concluded that, as of such date, Sysco’s disclosure controls and procedures were effective at the reasonable assurance level.

There have been no changes in our internal control over financial reporting (as that term is defined in Rules 13a-15(f) and 15d-15(f) of the Exchange Act) that occurred during the fiscal quarter ended September 28, 2024, that have materially affected, or are reasonably likely to materially affect, our internal control over financial reporting.

PART II – OTHER INFORMATION

Item 1. Legal Proceedings

Environmental Matters

Item 103 of SEC Regulation S-K requires disclosure of certain environmental proceedings in which a governmental authority is a party to and when such proceedings involve potential monetary sanctions that Sysco’s management reasonably believes will exceed a specified threshold. Pursuant to recent SEC amendments to this Item, Sysco has chosen a reporting threshold for such proceedings of $1 million. Applying this threshold, there are no material environmental matters to disclose for this reporting period.

From time to time, we may be party to legal proceedings that arise in the ordinary course of our business. We do not believe there are any pending legal proceedings that, individually or in the aggregate, will have a material adverse effect on the company’s financial condition, results of operations or cash flows.

For a discussion of our risk factors, see the section entitled “Risk Factors” in our 2024 Annual Report on Form 10-K.

Item 2. Unregistered Sales of Equity Securities and Use of Proceeds

Recent Sales of Unregistered Securities

None.

Issuer Purchases of Equity Securities

We made the following share repurchases during the first quarter of fiscal 2025:

On May 20, 2021, our Board of Directors approved a share repurchase program to authorize the repurchase of up to $5.0 billion of the company’s common stock, in which the program will remain available until fully utilized.

We repurchased 1,439,652 shares for $108 million during fiscal 2025. As of September 28, 2024, we had a remaining authorization of approximately $2.7 billion. We repurchased 20,413 additional shares under our authorization through October 11, 2024.

Item 3. Defaults Upon Senior Securities

None.

Item 4. Mine Safety Disclosures

Not applicable.

Insider Trading Arrangements and Policies

The table below shows the plans or other arrangements adopted or terminated during the quarter ended September 28, 2024 providing for the purchase and/or sale of Sysco securities by Sysco’s directors and Section 16 officers:

The exhibits listed on the Exhibit Index below are filed as a part of this Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q.

EXHIBIT INDEX

† Executive Compensation Arrangement pursuant to 601(b)(10)(iii)(A) of Regulation S-K

Filed herewith

• Furnished, not filed.

SIGNATURES

Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, the registrant has duly caused this report to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned thereunto duly authorized.