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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. A fuller discussion of our operations, financial
condition and 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, including our Annual Report
on Form 10-K, 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. 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 impact on these items), the rate and
consistency with which dental and other practices resume or maintain
normal operations in the United States and
internationally, expectations regarding personal protective equipment (“PPE”) and COVID-19 related product
sales and
inventory levels, whether additional resurgences or variants of the virus will adversely
impact the resumption of normal
operations, whether vaccine mandates will adversely impact the Company
(by disrupting our workforce and/or business),
whether supply chain disruptions will adversely impact our business, the
impact of restructuring programs as well as of any
future acquisitions, and more generally current expectations regarding
performance in current and future periods.
Forward
looking statements also include the (i) ability of the Company to have
continued access to a variety of COVID-19 test types,
expectations regarding COVID-19 test sales, demand and inventory levels,
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 and (ii) potential for the Company to distribute the COVID-19
vaccines and ancillary supplies.
Risk factors and uncertainties that could cause actual results to differ materially from
current and historical results
include, but are not limited to: risks associated with COVID-19
and any variants thereof, as well as other disease outbreaks,
epidemics, pandemics, or similar wide-spread public health concerns
and other natural disasters; our dependence on third
parties for the manufacture and supply of our products; our ability to
develop or acquire and maintain and protect new
products (particularly technology products) and technologies that achieve
market acceptance with acceptable margins;
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; certain
provisions in our governing documents that may discourage third-party
acquisitions of us; effects of a highly competitive
(including, without limitation, competition from third-party online commerce
sites) and consolidating market; the repeal or
judicial prohibition on implementation of the Affordable Care Act; changes
in the health care industry; 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 and domestic
macroeconomic and political conditions, including
inflation, deflation,
fluctuations in the value of the U.S. dollar as compared to foreign currencies
and changes to other
economic indicators,
international trade agreements, potential trade barriers and terrorism;
failure to comply with existing and
future regulatory requirements; risks associated with the EU Medical Device
Regulation; failure to comply with laws and
regulations relating to health care fraud or other laws and regulations; failure
to comply with laws and regulations relating to
the collection, storage and processing of sensitive personal information or
standards in electronic health records or
transmissions; changes in tax legislation; risks related to product liability, intellectual property and other claims;
litigation
risks; new or unanticipated litigation developments and the status
of litigation matters; risks associated with customs policies
or legislative import restrictions; cyberattacks or other privacy or data
security breaches; risks associated with our global
operations; our dependence on our senior management, employee hiring and
retention, and our relationships with customers,
suppliers and manufacturers; and disruptions in financial markets.
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 except as required by law.
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 the
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