Every material Form 8-K Dow filed with the SEC in 2024, read and summarized by AI: what happened, the key figures, whether it reads positive or negative for shareholders, and how big a deal it is (impact 1-5). Newest first; each brief links to its own page and to the filing on SEC.gov.
Dow Inc. appointed Karen S. Carter, previously president of its Packaging & Specialty Plastics segment, to the newly created role of Chief Operating Officer, effective December 3, 2024. She will oversee the company's operating segments and several functional organizations and will join the Executive Committee while reporting to CEO Jim Fitterling.
Carter's annual base salary is $975,000, with a target annual cash incentive of 120% of base salary.
Her long-term incentive target award value is $5.2 million, anticipated to be granted in February 2025.
Carter joined Dow in 1994 and was Chief Human Resources Officer and Chief Inclusion Officer from April 2019 to November 2022.
Dow Inc. reported third-quarter 2024 net sales of $10.9 billion, up 1% from a year earlier, and operating EBIT of $641 million, up $15 million. GAAP earnings per share fell to $0.30 from $0.42, and operating EPS was $0.47 compared with $0.48 a year earlier. The company also announced a strategic review of select European assets, primarily in its Polyurethanes business.
Net sales were $10.9 billion, up 1% year over year, and flat sequentially.
GAAP net income was $240 million, compared with $327 million a year earlier; operating EPS was $0.47, versus $0.48 a year earlier and $0.68 in the prior quarter.
Operating EBIT was $641 million, up $15 million year over year, reduced by an unplanned cracker outage in Texas.
Cash provided by operating activities from continuing operations was $800 million, down $858 million year over year.
Dow Inc. reported second-quarter 2024 results with net sales of $10.9 billion, down 4% from a year earlier, and operating EPS of $0.68 versus $0.75 in the year-ago period. Sequentially, operating EPS rose from $0.56 and operating EBIT increased $145 million, but both sales and profit remained below the prior-year level, and the company returned $691 million to shareholders in the quarter.
GAAP EPS was $0.62 versus $0.68 a year earlier; operating EPS excludes restructuring and efficiency costs of $0.06 per share.
Operating EBIT was $819 million, down $66 million year over year, and up $145 million from the first quarter of 2024.
Cash provided by operating activities from continuing operations was $832 million, down $515 million year over year.
Dow returned $691 million to shareholders, including $491 million in dividends and $200 million in share repurchases.
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