---
schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0000014693-25-000093"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "BF-A"
cik: "0000014693"
company_name: "BROWN FORMAN CORP"
filed_at: "2025-08-28T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-05-17T09:26:06.809318+00:00"
event_type: "earnings"
sentiment: "negative"
materiality_score: 0.65
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.65
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Brown-Forman Q1 net sales -3% to $924M; diluted EPS -13% to $0.36; reaffirms FY outlook

## Summary
- Net sales declined 3% to $924M; organic net sales up 1%; operating income -7% to $260M (+2% organic).
- Diluted EPS decreased 13% to $0.36; gross margin expanded 40 bps to 59.8%.
- Whiskey net sales flat; Jack Daniel's Tennessee Blackberry launch offset by US/Germany declines; Tequila -1% organic.
- United States net sales -8% (-2% organic); Emerging markets +20% (+25% organic).
- Fiscal 2026 outlook reiterated: organic net sales and operating income decline low-single digit; capex $125-135M.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0000014693-25-000093
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: BF-A
- cik: 0000014693
- company_name: BROWN FORMAN CORP
- filed_at: 2025-08-28T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: earnings
- sentiment: negative
- materiality_score: 0.65
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.65
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 2.02, 9.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/14693/000001469325000093/0000014693-25-000093-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/14693/000001469325000093/bfb-20250828.htm

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