CLAIM #49317 · Procter & Gamble Company (PG) · 2026Q3 earnings call · Apr 24, 2026 · due Jun 30, 2026
“Our fiscal '26 outlook continues to call for approximately $500 million before tax and higher costs from tariffs.”
Andre Schulten · CFO
In context
“East. Almost all of these increased costs will be in the fourth -- fiscal fourth quarter. Our teams are doing a tremendous job to protect supply continuity and to minimize cost impacts much of this work, such as rapid product reformulation and supply diversification is enabled by the advanced data tools and capabilities we discussed earlier. With the timing of these cost impacts, there is little opportunity to create short-term offsets within cost of goods sold. Likewise, we will protect our demand creation investments in the business to support our new innovation and maintain positive momentum. In fact, we've approved incremental investments in several businesses in the last month. Given all the above, we now expect full year EPS results to be towards the lower end of the guidance range. Our fiscal '26 outlook continues to call for approximately $500 million before tax and higher costs from tariffs. Below the operating line, we continue to expect modestly higher interest expense versus last fiscal year and a core effective tax rate in the range of 20% to 21% for fiscal '26 combined a $250 million after-tax headwind to earnings growth. We continue to forecast adjusted free cash flow productivity in the range of 85% to 90% for the year. This includes an increase in capital spending as we add capacity in several categories and as we incur the cash costs from the restructuring work. We expect to pay around $10 billion in dividends and to repurchase approximately $5 billion of common stock, combined a plan to return roughly $15 billion of cash to shareowners at fiscal '26. This outlook is based on current market growth rates, commodity prices and foreign exchange rates. Significant additi”
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