---
schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001674910-25-000079"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "VVV"
cik: "0001674910"
company_name: "VALVOLINE INC"
filed_at: "2025-05-08T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-05-22T04:47:40.849760+00:00"
event_type: "earnings"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.65
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.65
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Valvoline Q2 sales $403M (+4%), SSS +5.8%, EPS $0.30; reaffirms FY guide; appoints new CFO

## Summary
- Sales $403M, +4% (+11% considering refranchising); system-wide SSS +5.8%.
- Reported EPS $0.30 (-9% YoY); adjusted EPS $0.34 (-8%); adjusted EBITDA $104M (-1%).
- FY2025 guidance reaffirmed; added 33 net stores in Q2 (15 franchise, 18 company-operated).
- Kevin Willis appointed CFO effective May 19; succeeds retiring Mary Meixelsperger.
- Willis (ex-Ashland CFO) gets $650K base, $950K target LTIP, $1.6M one-time grant.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001674910-25-000079
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: VVV
- cik: 0001674910
- company_name: VALVOLINE INC
- filed_at: 2025-05-08T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: earnings
- sentiment: neutral
- materiality_score: 0.65
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.65
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 2.02, 5.02, 7.01, 9.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1674910/000167491025000079/0001674910-25-000079-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1674910/000167491025000079/vvv-20250508.htm

## Machine-readable alternates
- HTML: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001674910-25-000079
- JSON: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001674910-25-000079.json
- Plain text: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001674910-25-000079.txt

## Key facts
- Executive change
  J. Kevin Willis was appointed as Chief Financial Officer at VALVOLINE INC.
  - Action: appointed
  - Role: Chief Financial Officer
  source text: the Board of Directors of Valvoline has appointed J. Kevin Willis, as Chief Financial Officer of the Company, effective May 19, 2025.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1674910/000167491025000079/0001674910-25-000079-index.htm
- Executive change
  Mary E. Meixelsperger retired as Chief Financial Officer at VALVOLINE INC.
  - Action: retired
  - Role: Chief Financial Officer
  source text: Mr. Willis succeeds Mary E. Meixelsperger, who previously announced her intention to retire in October 2024.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1674910/000167491025000079/0001674910-25-000079-index.htm

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