FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

HENRY SCHEIN REPORTS SECOND QUARTER 2020 FINANCIAL RESULTS

·      Q2 GAAP loss per diluted share from continuing operations of $0.08 versus prior-year GAAP diluted EPS from continuing operations of $0.78

·      Q2 non-GAAP diluted EPS from continuing operations of $0.00 versus prior-year non-GAAP diluted EPS from continuing operations of $0.84

·      Company maintains a strong balance sheet with access to significant liquidity

MELVILLE, N.Y., August 4, 2020 – Henry Schein, Inc. (Nasdaq: HSIC), the world’s largest provider of health care solutions to office-based dental and medical practitioners, today reported second quarter 2020 financial results from continuing operations. Results from continuing operations exclude contributions from Henry Schein’s former Animal Health business, which was spun off in February 2019 to form a new publicly traded company, Covetrus (Nasdaq: CVET).

Net sales for the quarter ended June 27, 2020, were $1.7 billion, a decrease of 31.2% compared with the second quarter of 2019 due to the impact of COVID-19. In local currencies, internally generated sales decreased 30.5%. Acquisition growth was immaterial (See Exhibit A for details of sales growth and a reconciliation of this non-GAAP measure to GAAP sales).

GAAP net loss attributable to Henry Schein, Inc. from continuing operations for the second quarter of 2020 was $11.4 million, or a loss of $0.08 per diluted share, compared with prior-year net income from continuing operations of $116.8 million, or $0.78 per diluted share. Non-GAAP net income from continuing operations for the second quarter of 2020 was $0.6 million, or $0.00 per diluted share, compared with prior-year non-GAAP net income from continuing operations of $125.7 million, or $0.84 per diluted share. Non-GAAP results for the second quarter of 2020 and 2019 exclude certain items noted in Exhibit B, which provides a reconciliation of GAAP net income/loss from continuing operations and diluted EPS from continuing operations to non-GAAP net income and diluted EPS from continuing operations.

"Team Schein rose to the significant challenges caused by the global COVID-19 pandemic. These efforts are clear attributes of our corporate culture, which is rooted in care and respect for one another, as well as a commitment to our customers, suppliers, investors, and corporate social responsibility," said Stanley M. Bergman, Chairman of the Board and Chief Executive Officer of Henry Schein. "While results for the second quarter are reflective of the current challenging environment, we remain confident in our strategy. Throughout this pandemic, we have focused our dental and medical practice recovery programs to assist our customers with solutions ranging from management of temporary office closures to

practice safety, new protocol implementation, patient communications, and financial assistance, among many other solutions to help restore practices.

“Regarding our second quarter financial results, COVID-19 significantly impacted our worldwide results, particularly in our Dental business, yet sales improved relative to our original expectations across all our business groups as we progressed through the quarter. This was directly related to a resumption of operations for both our dental and medical customers, which occurred faster than we had anticipated, first in our international markets and then in North America,” said Mr. Bergman. “We remain cautiously optimistic about the immediate future while closely monitoring global diagnosed COVID-19 cases and the potential impact on customer activity, and focusing on cash management. Our enthusiasm for both our near- and long-term business prospects remains unchanged.”

Dental sales for the second quarter of 2020 of $941.3 million decreased 41.2% versus the prior year. In local currencies, internally generated sales decreased 40.1%. Acquisition growth was immaterial. The 40.1% internal decline in local currencies included a decrease of 46.9% in North America and a decrease of 29.5% internationally.

In North America, dental consumable merchandise internal sales in local currencies declined 47.5% and dental equipment internal sales in local currencies declined 44.9%. Internationally, dental consumable merchandise internal sales in local currencies declined 29.2% and dental equipment internal sales in local currencies declined 30.5%.

“We saw positive trends in sales later in the quarter as practices reopened and patients returned for oral care, leading to dental sales in the second quarter that were ahead of our original expectations,” noted Mr. Bergman.

Medical sales for the second quarter of 2020 of $617.8 million decreased 11.4% compared to the same period last year. There was no acquisition growth in the quarter. 

“Our second quarter medical sales were fairly resilient, due to strong demand for personal protective equipment (PPE),” remarked Mr. Bergman. “A portion of physician offices in North America remained open throughout the quarter, and sales of consumable merchandise experienced less of a decline than we anticipated. Henry Schein has also worked to make available a variety of COVID-19 point-of-care diagnostic tests and related solutions to our medical customers in response to the pandemic.”

Technology and Value-Added Services sales from continuing operations of $105.2 million decreased 15.9% versus the prior year. In local currencies, internally generated sales decreased 17.0%. Acquisition growth was immaterial.

“Henry Schein One dental software sales began to improve as we progressed through the second quarter, in line with the resumption of dental practice operations. In particular, the monthly trend for transactional software revenues improved as more patients visited dental offices worldwide. The ability for dentists to communicate with patients, providing information on practice reopening plans and safety measures, has been a critical solution for our customers in response to COVID-19,” said Mr. Bergman. “Dental practices have relied on Henry Schein for practice management, patient engagement, and demand creation software solutions, as well as financial services programs as they navigated office closures, staff furloughs, and a resumption of procedure bookings.”

Year-to-Date Financial Results

Net sales from continuing operations for the first half of 2020 were $4.1 billion, a decrease of 14.5% compared with the first half of 2019. In local currencies, internally generated sales decreased 14.5%.

GAAP net income attributable to Henry Schein, Inc. from continuing operations for the first half of 2020 was $119.2 million, or $0.84 per diluted share, compared with GAAP net income from continuing operations for the first half of 2019 of $235.2 million, or $1.56 per diluted share. Non-GAAP net income from continuing operations for the first half of 2020 was $134.7 million, or $0.94 per diluted share, compared with non-GAAP net income from continuing operations for the first half of 2019 of $246.3 million, or $1.64 per diluted share. Non-GAAP results for the first half of 2020 and 2019 exclude certain items noted in Exhibit B, which provides a reconciliation of GAAP net income from continuing operations and diluted EPS from continuing operations to non-GAAP net income and diluted EPS from continuing operations.

Financial Guidance

Due to the continued uncertainty surrounding the COVID-19 pandemic and its impact to business operations, Henry Schein is not providing 2020 financial guidance at this time. 

Second Quarter 2020 Conference Call Webcast

The Company will hold a conference call to discuss second quarter 2020 financial results today, beginning at 10:00 a.m. Eastern time. Individual investors are invited to listen to the conference call through Henry Schein’s website by visiting www.henryschein.com/IRwebcasts. In addition, a replay will be available beginning shortly after the call has ended.

About Henry Schein, Inc.

Henry Schein, Inc. (Nasdaq: HSIC) is a solutions company for health care professionals powered by a network of people and technology. With approximately 19,000 Team Schein Members worldwide, the Company's network of trusted advisors provides more than 1 million customers globally with more than 300 valued solutions that improve operational success and clinical outcomes. Our Business, Clinical, Technology, and Supply Chain solutions help office-based dental  and medical  practitioners work more efficiently so they can provide quality care more effectively. These solutions also support dental laboratories, government and institutional health care clinics, as well as other alternate care sites.

Henry Schein operates through a centralized and automated distribution network, with a selection of more than 120,000 branded products and Henry Schein private-brand products in stock, as well as more than 180,000 additional products available as special-order items.

A FORTUNE 500 Company and a member of the S&P 500® index, Henry Schein is headquartered in Melville, N.Y., and has operations or affiliates in 31 countries. The Company's sales from continuing operations reached $10.0 billion in 2019, and have grown at a compound annual rate of approximately 13 percent since Henry Schein became a public company in 1995.

For more information, visit Henry Schein at www.henryschein.com, Facebook.com/HenrySchein,  and @HenrySchein on Twitter. 

Cautionary Note Regarding Forward-Looking Statements and Use of Non-GAAP Financial Information

In accordance with the "Safe Harbor" provisions of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995, we provide the following cautionary remarks regarding important factors that, among others, could cause future results to differ materially from the forward-looking statements, expectations and assumptions expressed or implied herein.  All forward-looking statements made by us are subject to risks and uncertainties and are not guarantees of future performance.  These forward-looking statements involve known and unknown risks, uncertainties and other factors that may cause our actual results, performance and achievements or industry results to be materially different from any future results, performance or achievements expressed or implied by such forward-looking statements.  These statements include EPS guidance and are generally identified by the use of such terms as "may," "could," "expect," "intend," "believe," "plan," "estimate," "forecast," "project," "anticipate," “to be,” “to make” or other comparable terms. Forward looking statements include the overall impact of the Novel Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) on the Company, its results of operations, liquidity, and financial condition (including any estimates of the percentage impact on these items), the efficacy and impact of the Company’s cost reduction initiatives, the rate at which dental and other practices resume normal operations in the United States and internationally and whether one or more resurgences of the virus will adversely impact the resumption of normal operations. Forward looking statements also include the Company’s ability to make additional testing available, the nature of those tests and the number of tests intended to be made available and the timing for availability, the nature of the target market, as well as the efficacy or relative efficacy of the test results given that the test efficacy has not been, or will not have been, independently verified under normal FDA procedures. A full discussion of our operations and financial condition, status of litigation matters, including factors that may affect our business and future prospects, is contained in documents we have filed with the United States Securities and Exchange Commission, or SEC, and will be contained in all subsequent periodic filings we make with the SEC. These documents identify in detail important risk factors that could cause our actual performance to differ materially from current expectations.

Risk factors and uncertainties that could cause actual results to differ materially from current and historical results include, but are not limited to: effects of a highly competitive and consolidating market; increased competition by third party online commerce sites; our dependence on third parties for the manufacture and supply of our products; our dependence upon sales personnel, customers, suppliers and manufacturers; our dependence on our senior management; fluctuations in quarterly earnings; risks from expansion of customer purchasing power and multi-tiered costing structures; increases in shipping costs for our products or other service issues with our third-party shippers; general global macro-economic conditions; risks associated with currency fluctuations; risks associated with political and economic uncertainty; disruptions in financial markets; volatility of the market price of our common stock; changes in the health care industry; implementation of health care laws; failure to comply with regulatory requirements and data privacy laws; risks associated with our global operations; risks associated with COVID-19, as well as other disease outbreaks, epidemics, pandemics, or similar wide spread public health concerns and other natural disasters; risks associated with the United Kingdom’s withdrawal from the European Union; transitional challenges associated with acquisitions, dispositions and joint ventures, including the failure to achieve anticipated synergies/benefits; financial and tax risks associated with acquisitions, dispositions and joint ventures; litigation risks; new or unanticipated litigation developments and the status of litigation matters; the dependence on our continued product development, technical support and successful marketing in the technology segment; our dependence on third parties for certain technologically advanced components; risks from disruption to our information systems; cyberattacks or other privacy or data security breaches; certain provisions in our governing documents that may discourage third-party acquisitions of us; and changes in tax legislation. The order in which these factors appear should not be construed to indicate their relative importance or priority. 

We caution that these factors may not be exhaustive and that many of these factors are beyond our ability to control or predict. Accordingly, any forward-looking statements contained herein should not be relied upon as a prediction of actual results. We undertake no duty and have no obligation to update forward-looking statements.

Included within the press release are non-GAAP financial measures that supplement the Company’s Consolidated Statements of Income prepared under generally accepted accounting principles (GAAP).  These non-GAAP financial measures adjust the Company’s actual results prepared under GAAP to exclude certain items.  In the schedules attached to this press release, the non-GAAP measures have been reconciled to and should be considered together with the Consolidated Statements of Income.  Management believes that non-GAAP financial measures provide investors with useful supplemental information about the financial performance of our business, enable comparison of financial results between periods where certain items may vary independent of business performance and allow for greater transparency with respect to key metrics used by management in operating our business. These non-GAAP financial measures are presented solely for informational and comparative purposes and should not be regarded as a replacement for corresponding, similarly captioned, GAAP measures.

CONTACTS:    Investors 

Steven Paladino

Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer

steven.paladino@henryschein.com

(631) 843-5500

Carolynne Borders

Vice President, Investor Relations

carolynne.borders@henryschein.com

(631) 390-8105

Media

Ann Marie Gothard

Vice President, Corporate Media Relations

annmarie.gothard@henryschein.com

(631) 390-8169

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