---
schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0000950157-25-000375"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "KVUE"
cik: "0001944048"
company_name: "Kenvue Inc."
filed_at: "2025-05-08T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-05-22T05:44:37.881937+00:00"
event_type: "earnings"
sentiment: "negative"
materiality_score: 0.75
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.75
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Kenvue Q1 net sales -3.9%, adj EPS $0.24; appoints new CFO Amit Banati

## Summary
- Net sales decreased 3.9% YoY; organic sales -1.2% (volume -0.9%, value -0.3%); FX headwind 2.7%.
- Adjusted diluted EPS $0.24 vs $0.28 prior year; GAAP diluted EPS $0.17 vs $0.15.
- FY2025 outlook: net sales +1% to +3% (organic +2% to +4% unchanged); adj EPS about flat YoY; adj op margin to decline due to tariffs.
- Amit Banati appointed CFO effective May 12, 2025; succeeds Paul Ruh who remains strategic advisor through May 16.
- Banati compensation: $900k base salary, 110% bonus target, $3.2M equity target; plus sign-on awards tied to Mars/Kellanova closing.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0000950157-25-000375
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: KVUE
- cik: 0001944048
- company_name: Kenvue Inc.
- filed_at: 2025-05-08T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: earnings
- sentiment: negative
- materiality_score: 0.75
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.75
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 2.02, 5.02, 9.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1944048/000095015725000375/0000950157-25-000375-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1944048/000095015725000375/form8-k.htm

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## Key facts
- Executive change
  Paul Ruh departed as Chief Financial Officer at Kenvue Inc..
  - Action: cease
  - Role: Chief Financial Officer
  source text: On May 8, 2025, the Company also announced that Paul Ruh, currently Kenvue’s Chief Financial Officer, will ceas
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1944048/000095015725000375/0000950157-25-000375-index.htm
- Executive change
  Amit Banati was appointed as Chief Financial Officer at Kenvue Inc..
  - Action: appointed
  - Role: Chief Financial Officer
  source text: On May 8, 2025, the Company announced the appointment of Amit Banati as Kenvue’s Chief Financial Officer, which is expected to be effective May 12, 2025
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1944048/000095015725000375/0000950157-25-000375-index.htm

This AI-assisted summary is a reading aid. Review the linked SEC EDGAR filing before relying on any specific claim.