Edgewell Personal Care Company is a publicly traded consumer-products company listed on the New York Stock Exchange under the ticker EPC. Its corporate headquarters are located at 6 Research Drive in Shelton, Connecticut. Edgewell was formed on July 1, 2015, when Energizer Holdings separated its household-products business and renamed the ...Edgewell Personal Care Company is a publicly traded consumer-products company listed on the New York Stock Exchange under the ticker EPC. Its corporate headquarters are located at 6 Research Drive in Shelton, Connecticut. Edgewell was formed on July 1, 2015, when Energizer Holdings separated its household-products business and renamed the remaining personal-care company. Although the corporation is relatively young, many of its brands have substantially older operating histories and established consumer recognition.
The company's business is organized around three principal categories. Wet Shave includes men's and women's shaving systems, razor handles, refillable cartridges, disposable razors, shaving creams, gels, and related preparation products. Key brands include Schick, Wilkinson Sword, Edge, Skintimate, Shave Guard, and Personna. Sun and Skin Care includes sunscreen, sport and family sun-protection products, children's and baby formulas, tanning and after-sun products, hand wipes, hand sanitizers, men's grooming products, and specialty skin-care offerings. Banana Boat, Hawaiian Tropic, Wet Ones, Bulldog, Jack Black, and Cremo are among the brands in this area. Feminine Care provides tampons, pads, and liners through brands such as Playtex, Playtex Sport, Playtex Gentle Glide 360°, o.b., Stayfree, and Carefree.
Edgewell also operates Edgewell Custom Brands, its private-label group, which supplies razors and related products to retailers and other customers. This gives the company exposure beyond its branded portfolio and can support manufacturing scale, retailer relationships, and capacity utilization. Its products are typically sold through mass merchants, supermarkets, drugstores, specialty retailers, e-commerce platforms, and international distributors.
The company is a large, globally scaled manufacturer with approximately 6,700 full-time employees and a reported workforce category of 5,001 to 10,000 people. Its operating model requires procurement of metals, plastics, packaging, chemicals, textiles, and other components; manufacturing and quality control; inventory management; brand marketing; research and development; and distribution across multiple geographic markets. Shaving products can involve relatively complex razor-head and blade assemblies, while sun-care and skin-care products require formulation, packaging, regulatory compliance, and product testing. Feminine-care products depend on absorbent materials, nonwovens, packaging, and specialized production equipment.
The supplied trailing-period financial data indicates annual revenue of roughly $2.05 billion based on revenue per share and implied shares, gross margin near 40.9%, and an enterprise value of approximately $2.19 billion. However, the same data shows weak recent profitability, including a net margin of approximately negative 4.5%, negative return on equity, and negative free cash flow to equity. Leverage is meaningful, with net debt to EBITDA reported at approximately 16 times and interest coverage below one in the supplied snapshot. These figures highlight the importance of margin improvement, cash generation, working-capital discipline, portfolio productivity, and debt reduction. Edgewell's strategic priorities generally center on strengthening leading brands, expanding innovation, improving execution and supply-chain efficiency, growing e-commerce and international distribution, and pursuing sustainable profitable growth while maintaining dependable personal-care products for consumers.
YoYYoY means Year-over-Year. It compares the latest annual value with the previous annual value to show long-term trend strength.
QoQQoQ means Quarter-over-Quarter. It compares the latest quarter with the immediately previous quarter to show short-term momentum changes.
RevenueThe total money that came through the front door from selling things, before paying a single bill. Think of it as the grand total of every credit card swipe from customers. (YoY compares this year to last year's performance, while QoQ compares the current three months to the previous three).
$2.2B
-1.3%
+9.7%
Net IncomeThe absolute bottom line. If the company paid every single supplier, employee, banker, and tax collector, this is the actual money left in their pocket at the end of the day.
$25.4M
-74.2%
+229.2%
Gross MarginThe basic markup. If they sell a $100 pair of sneakers, this percentage tells you how much of that price tag is profit right after paying for the rubber and shoelaces, but before paying for things like store rent or TV commercials.
+41.6%
-1.9%
-2.0%
Operating MarginThe 'day job' efficiency score. Out of every dollar a customer spends, this shows how many cents the company keeps after making the product AND paying for all the everyday corporate overhead (like salaries, marketing, and keeping the lights on).
+4.3%
-50.9%
-50.6%
Net MarginThe final take-home percentage. When you strip away every conceivable cost, tax, and interest payment, this is the exact number of cents the company truly gets to keep from every dollar in sales.
+1.1%
-73.9%
+217.8%
Free Cash FlowThe holy grail of corporate cash. It's the spendable, physical money left over after the business pays for its daily operations AND buys the big, expensive upgrades (like new factories or servers) it needs to survive. This is the 'free' money they can use to pay dividends or buy back stock.
$41.4M
-76.3%
+155.8%
FCF MarginThe ultimate cash conversion rate. It shows how good the company is at turning regular sales directly into cold, hard, spendable cash. A high percentage means the business is an absolute cash-printing machine.
+1.9%
-76.0%
+133.1%
Debt / EquityThe financial risk gauge. It compares how much of the company's empire was built using borrowed money (loans) versus the owners' own money (shareholders). A high number means they are heavily leveraged and playing a riskier game; a low number means they are playing it safe.
99.3%
+13.5%
-0.8%
Current RatioThe 12-month survival check. It simply compares the cash they have right now (plus things they can quickly turn into cash) against the immediate bills they absolutely must pay this year. A score above 1 means they have enough in the wallet to cover the upcoming bills without panicking.
1.76x
+6.0%
+1.9%
Total AssetsThe absolute size of the company's empire. It bundles together absolutely everything of value they own—from the cash in the register and the inventory in the warehouse, to the software patents in the vault and the factories on the ground.
Operator: Good morning and welcome to Edgewell's Third Quarter Fiscal Year 2026 Earnings Call. [Operator Instructions] Please note, this event is being recorded. I would now like to turn the conference over to Chris Gough, Vice President, Investor Relations. Please go ahead.
Chris Gough: Good morning, everyone and thank you for joining us this morning for Edgewell's Third Quarter Fiscal Year 2026 Earnings Call. With me this morning are Rod Little, our President and Chief Executive Officer; and Fran Weissman, our Chief Financial Officer. Rod will kick off the call and then hand it over to Fran to discuss our third quarter 2026 results and full year fiscal 2026 outlook. We will then transition to Q&A. This call is being recorded and will be available via replay on our website, www.edgewell.com. During this call, we may make statements about our expectations for future plans and performance. This might include future sales, earnings, advertising and promotional spending, product launches, brand investment, investments in technology, advanced analytics and AI-enabled capabilities, organizational and operational structures and models, cost mitigation and productivity efficiency efforts, savings and costs related to restructuring and repositioning actions, impacts from tariffs and other recent developments such as the conflict in the Middle East, changes to our working capital metrics, currency fluctuations, commodity costs, inflation, future plans for return of capital to shareholders, the disposition of our Feminine Care business and more. Any such statements are forward-looking statements for the purposes of the safe harbor provisions under the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995, which reflect our current views with respect to future events, plans or prospects. These statements are based on assumptions and are subject to various risks and uncertainties, including those described under the caption Risk Factors in our annual report on Form 10-K for the year ended September 30, 2025, and as may be amended in our quarterly reports on Form 10-Q filed with the SEC. These risks may cause our actual results to be materially different from those expressed or implied by our forward-looking statements. We do not assume any obligation to update or revise any of these forward-looking statements to reflect new events or circumstances, except as required by law. During this call, we will refer to certain non-GAAP financial measures. These non-GAAP measures are not prepared in accordance with generally accepted accounting principles. A reconciliation of the non-GAAP financial measures to the most directly comparable GAAP measures is shown in our press release issued earlier today, which is available at the Investor Relations section of our website. This non-GAAP information is provided as a supplement to, not as a substitute for or as superior to measures of financial performance prepared in accordance with GAAP. However, management believes these …