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SYYSysco

Consumer staples · Food Distribution · NYSE

Unless this Form 10-K indicates otherwise or the context otherwise requires, the terms “we,” “our,” “us,” “Sysco,” or the “company” as used in this Form 10-K refer to Sysco Corporation together with its consolidated subsidiaries and divisions. 10-K, Item 1

Employees
75,000
Headquarters
Houston, TX
CEO
Kevin Hourican
Next results
around Jan 26, 2027
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When the SEC's staff reviews a filing, it writes to the company with numbered questions, and the company answers each one in a letter. SEC publishes the exchange once the review is over, at least 20 business days later. Below: what the staff asked SYY, and the company's answer to each question, quoted from the letters. A question is not an accusation; most reviews end with the company adding detail to its next filing.

Form 10-K

2025-03-11 to 2025-03-31 · 1 question · 1 letter from the SEC, 1 from the company
Review closed 2025-03-31
Non-GAAP measuresSegmentsDebt
Financial Statements · Note 21. Business Segment Information, page 110
SEC asked
Please disclose in greater detail the specific types of corporate office and shared service operations expenses (not allocated to your segments) that are included in the Global Support Center reconciling line item. Refer to ASC 280-10-50-29(b) and 50-31.
Rest of the question

Exhibit 99.1 Sysco Reports Second Quarter Fiscal Year 2025 Results, page 1 You discuss the changes in EBITDA and adjusted EBITDA in the key financial results for the second quarter of fiscal year 2025 without disclosing the change in their most directly comparable GAAP measure, net earnings. Please revise to disclose the change in net earnings with equal or greater prominence. Refer to Item 10(e)(1)(i)(A) 2. of Regulation S-K and Question 102.10(a) of the Non-GAAP Financial Measures Compliance and Disclosure Interpretations. Non-GAAP Reconciliation Net Debt to Adjusted EBITDA, page 23 3. Please disclose the reasons why management believes that presentation of debt/net debt to adjusted EBITDA ratios provides useful information to investors. Also, present and/or discuss debt/net debt to net earnings ratios with equal or greater prominence, when you present and/or discuss debt/net debt to adjusted EBITDA ratios. Refer to Item 10(e)(1)(i)(A) and (C) of Regulation S-K and Question 102.10(a) of the Non-GAAP Financial Measures Compliance and Disclosure Interpretations. We remind you that the company and its management are responsible for the accuracy and adequacy of their disclosures, notwithstanding any review, comments, action or absence of action by the staff.

SYY answered
The Company respectfully acknowledges the Staff’s comment. The Company advises the Staff that in future filings (including the Company’s next quarterly report on Form 10-Q), the Company will disclose the specific types of corporate office and shared service operation expenses that are included in the Global Support Center reconciling line item. Such disclosure will conform with ASC paragraphs ASC 280-10-50-29(b) and ASC 280-10-50-31.
Rest of the answer

The following is an example of the intended disclosure:

The accounting policies for the segments are the same as those disclosed by Sysco for its consolidated financial statements. Our Global Support Center expenses generally include all expenses of the corporate office and Sysco’s shared service operations. Collectively, our Global Support Center provides numerous centralized services to our operating sites and performs support activities for employees, suppliers and customers. These services include customer and vendor contract administration, finance, legal, information technology, risk management and insurance, sales and marketing, merchandising, inbound logistics, human resources, and strategy. Expenses for the Global Support Center primarily consist of payroll costs for employees assigned to these operations, including severance, if any, all U.S. share-based compensation costs, and certain information technology, self-insurance, and depreciation expenses.

Read in the reply ↗
In its next report

First report after the company's reply of 2025-03-24: 10-Q filed 2025-04-30 ↗, against the 10-Q filed 2025-01-29 ↗.

Tickdelta does not hold the text of both reports, so they are not compared here.

Also in this review: closing letter, 2025-03-31

Form 10-K For the Fiscal Year Ended June 27, 2020

2021-06-24 to 2021-08-04 · 2 questions · 1 letter from the SEC, 1 from the company
Review closed 2021-08-04
Non-GAAP measuresExecutive payDerivatives and hedging
Item 11. Executive Compensation, page 119
SEC asked (1)
We note that Adjusted EPS CAGR is one of the metrics used in your compensation plan and that you made $844.7 million in common stock repurchases in 2020. While we note that you have discontinued share repurchases under your current repurchase program and do not anticipate making any further repurchases through fiscal 2021, if and when you do resume stock repurchases, please discuss in future filings if and how the
Rest of the question

share repurchases affected the manner in which the Compensation Committee set the relevant targets used in your compensation plan and determined whether such targets were met. Exhibits

SYY answered
The Company respectfully acknowledges the Staff’s comment and will include appropriate discussion in its future filings. Read in the reply ↗
In its next report

First report after the company's reply of 2021-07-09: 10-K filed 2021-08-30 ↗, against the 10-K filed 2020-08-26 ↗.

Tickdelta does not hold the text of both reports, so they are not compared here.

Amended and Restated Bylaws
SEC asked (2)
We note that Article IX of your Amended and Restated Bylaws provides that a state court located within the State of Delaware (or, if no state court located within the State of Delaware has jurisdiction, the federal district court for the District of Delaware) is the sole and exclusive forum for “any derivative action or proceeding brought on behalf of the Corporation.” In future filings, please clearly describe the
Rest of the question

provision in your disclosure, including any risks or other impact on investors related to the provision and that that investors cannot waive compliance with the federal securities laws and the rules and regulations thereunder. Risks may include, but are not limited to, increased costs to bring a claim and that these provisions can discourage claims or limit investors' ability to bring a claim in a judicial forum that they find favorable. Please also tell us, and disclose in future filings, whether this provision applies to actions arising under the Exchange Act and/or the Securities Act. In this regard, we note that Section 27 of the Exchange Act creates exclusive federal jurisdiction over all suits brought to enforce any duty or liability created by the Exchange Act or the rules and regulations thereunder. We also note that Section 22 of the Securities Act creates concurrent jurisdiction for federal and state courts over all suits brought to enforce any duty or liability created by the Securities Act or the rules and regulations thereunder. If the provision applies to Securities Act claims, please also disclose in future filings that there is uncertainty as to whether a court would enforce such provision and that investors cannot waive compliance with the federal securities laws and the rules and regulations thereunder.

SYY answered
The Company respectfully advises the Staff that it plans to amend the exclusive forum provisions in the Company’s Amended and Restated Bylaws (the

“Amended Bylaws”) to clarify that the designation of the Delaware Court of Chancery as the exclusive forum will not apply in certain circumstances, including actions where another court has exclusive jurisdiction. In addition, in response to the Staff’s comment, the Company will revise the disclosure in the Company’s future filings with the Commission accordingly.
Rest of the answer

The Amended Bylaws are expected to state that, “[u]nless the Corporation consents in writing to the selection of an alternative forum, the Court of Chancery of the State of Delaware (or if the Court of Chancery does not have jurisdiction, the federal district court for the District of Delaware) shall, to the fullest extent permitted by law, be the sole and exclusive forum for (i) any derivative action or proceeding brought on behalf of the Corporation, (ii) any action asserting a claim of breach of a fiduciary duty owed by any director or officer or other employee of the Corporation to the Corporation or the Corporation’s stockholders, (iii) any action asserting a claim against the Corporation or any director or officer or other employee of the Corporation arising pursuant to any provision of the General Corporation Law or the Corporation’s certificate of incorporation or bylaws (as either may be amended from time to time), or (iv) any action asserting a claim against the Corporation or any director or officer or other employee of the Corporation governed by the internal affairs doctrine, except for, as to each of (i) through (iv) above, any claim (A) as to which such court determines that there is an indispensable party not subject to the jurisdiction of such court (and the indispensable party does not consent to the personal jurisdiction of such court within ten days following such determination), (B) which is vested in the exclusive jurisdiction of a court or forum other than such court, or (C) for which such court does not have subject matter jurisdiction” (emphasis added). Accordingly, the provision does not designate the Court of Chancery as the exclusive forum for any derivative action arising under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended, since there is exclusive federal jurisdiction for such an action, and instead designates the federal district court for the District of Delaware in such instance.

If any member of the Staff has any questions or additional comments, please contact our Securities Counsel, Ian Brown of Bracewell LLP at (214) 758-1667.

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In its next report

First report after the company's reply of 2021-07-09: 10-K filed 2021-08-30 ↗, against the 10-K filed 2020-08-26 ↗.

Tickdelta does not hold the text of both reports, so they are not compared here.

Also in this review: closing letter, 2021-08-04

1 other letter: notices that a filing will not be reviewed, requests to declare a registration effective, and the like
  • 2018-07-02 · SEC: review completed · Sysco Corporation · Form 10-K for the fiscal year ended July 1, 2017 · Filed August...

From the SEC's correspondence on EDGAR: staff letters (form UPLOAD) and company letters (form CORRESP), 7 letters filed since 2018-07-03. Questions and answers are matched by their numbers; topics come from words in each question. The reports are compared word for word (same form, before the first SEC letter against the first report after the company's reply). No AI.

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