---
schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001437749-21-025689"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "FRPT"
cik: "0001611647"
company_name: "Freshpet, Inc."
filed_at: "2021-11-08T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-06-28T11:33:19.886243+00:00"
event_type: "earnings"
sentiment: "negative"
materiality_score: 0.75
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.75
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Freshpet cuts FY 2021 adjusted EBITDA guidance to ~$50M from >$61M; Q3 net loss $2.1M

## Summary
- Net sales $107.6M (+27.8% YoY), net loss $2.1M vs prior year net income $3.5M.
- Adjusted EBITDA Q3 $14.6M (13.6% of sales) vs $17.0M (20.2%) prior year.
- Full-year 2021 guidance: net sales ~$445M (flat from >$445M); adjusted EBITDA ~$50M (cut from >$61M).
- Supply chain challenges, labor/material shortages, and accelerating inflation cited as headwinds.
- Cash and cash equivalents $170.8M, no debt outstanding.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001437749-21-025689
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: FRPT
- cik: 0001611647
- company_name: Freshpet, Inc.
- filed_at: 2021-11-08T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: earnings
- sentiment: negative
- materiality_score: 0.75
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.75
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 2.02, 7.01, 9.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1611647/000143774921025689/0001437749-21-025689-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1611647/000143774921025689/frpt20210915_8k.htm

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