---
schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0000014693-25-000055"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "BF-A"
cik: "0000014693"
company_name: "BROWN FORMAN CORP"
filed_at: "2025-06-05T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-05-19T21:43:35.290567+00:00"
event_type: "earnings"
sentiment: "negative"
materiality_score: 0.8
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.8
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Brown-Forman FY2025 net sales -5% to $4.0B, EPS -14% to $1.84; guides FY2026 low-single-digit organic decline

## Summary
- Q4 reported net sales -7% to $894M (-3% organic); operating income -45% (-2% organic); EPS -45% to $0.31.
- FY2025 reported operating income -22% to $1.1B (+3% organic); restructuring charges of $63M from 12% workforce cut and cooperage closure.
- Tequila portfolio net sales -14% (-12% organic); U.S. net sales -7% (-2% organic); Whiskey flat (+1% organic).
- Returned $420M in dividends; received $350M from sale of Duckhorn stake; repaid $300M maturing notes.
- FY2026 outlook: organic net sales decline low-single-digit; organic operating income decline low-single-digit; effective tax rate 21-23%.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0000014693-25-000055
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: BF-A
- cik: 0000014693
- company_name: BROWN FORMAN CORP
- filed_at: 2025-06-05T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: earnings
- sentiment: negative
- 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/14693/000001469325000055/0000014693-25-000055-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/14693/000001469325000055/bfb-20250605.htm

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