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schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001530979-25-000006"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "HNST"
cik: "0001530979"
company_name: "Honest Company, Inc."
filed_at: "2025-01-08T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-05-28T06:37:02.421483+00:00"
event_type: "leadership"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.55
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.55
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Honest Co. CFO David Loretta to retire in 2025; FY 2024 guidance reaffirmed

## Summary
- CFO David Loretta to retire in 2025; search for successor underway with executive search firm.
- Loretta will continue as CFO through transition; departure not due to disagreement.
- Reaffirms full-year 2024 revenue growth of high single digit % year-over-year.
- Reaffirms FY 2024 Adjusted EBITDA guidance of $20M to $22M.
- Loretta joined in 2023, helped achieve positive operating profitability in Q4 2023 and Q3 2024.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001530979-25-000006
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: HNST
- cik: 0001530979
- company_name: Honest Company, Inc.
- filed_at: 2025-01-08T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: leadership
- sentiment: neutral
- materiality_score: 0.55
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.55
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 2.02, 5.02, 7.01, 9.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1530979/000153097925000006/0001530979-25-000006-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1530979/000153097925000006/hnst-20250106.htm

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- Plain text: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001530979-25-000006.txt

## Key facts
- Executive change
  David Loretta departed as Chief Financial Officer at Honest Company, Inc..
  - Action: retire
  - Role: Chief Financial Officer
  source text: On January 6, 2025, David Loretta, Chief Financial Officer (“CFO”) of the Company, notified the Company of his intention to retire during the 2025 fiscal year
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1530979/000153097925000006/0001530979-25-000006-index.htm

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