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schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0000014693-22-000059"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "BF-A"
cik: "0000014693"
company_name: "BROWN FORMAN CORP"
filed_at: "2022-06-08T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-06-25T03:30:16.586819+00:00"
event_type: "earnings"
sentiment: "positive"
materiality_score: 0.8
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.8
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Brown-Forman reports Q4 net sales +23%, full-year +14%; guides mid-single-digit organic growth for FY23

## Summary
- Q4 reported net sales $996M (+23%), operating income $246M (+46%), EPS $0.31 (+26%).
- Full-year net sales $3.933B (+14% reported, +17% organic); operating income $1.204B (+3% reported, +27% organic).
- Jack Daniel's Tennessee Whiskey led with 20% reported net sales growth; premium bourbons +17%, tequila +22%.
- Fiscal 2023 guidance: organic net sales growth mid-single-digit, operating income growth mid-single-digit, gross margin slightly expand.
- Returned $831M to stockholders including $480M special dividend; Finlandia impaired $52M due to Russia suspension.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0000014693-22-000059
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: BF-A
- cik: 0000014693
- company_name: BROWN FORMAN CORP
- filed_at: 2022-06-08T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: earnings
- sentiment: positive
- materiality_score: 0.8
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.8
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 2.02, 9.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/14693/000001469322000059/0000014693-22-000059-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/14693/000001469322000059/bfb-20220608.htm

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