DERIVATIVE FINANCIAL INSTRUMENTS

9 Months Ended

Sep. 27, 2025

DERIVATIVE FINANCIAL INSTRUMENTS

DERIVATIVE FINANCIAL INSTRUMENTS

(7) DERIVATIVE FINANCIAL INSTRUMENTS

The Company manages risks related to interest rates, commodity prices, and foreign currency, particularly those arising from foreign currency denominated transactions and investments in foreign subsidiaries. To address these risks, the Company may use derivative financial instruments. Depending on their classification, some derivatives are marked to market and recorded in the Company’s Condensed Consolidated Statements of Earnings, while others are accounted for as fair value, cash flow, or net investment hedges.

Derivative financial instruments inherently carry credit and market risks, which the Company mitigates by monitoring exposure limits and transacting with recognized, stable multinational banks as counterparties. Gains or losses from net investment hedge activities remain in AOCI until the related subsidiaries are sold or substantially liquidated.

The fair value of derivative instruments as of September 27, 2025 and December 28, 2024 was as follows:

	Condensed Consolidated	September 27,		December 28,
Derivatives designated as hedging instruments:	Balance Sheets location	2025		2024
Commodity contracts	Prepaid expenses and other current assets	$	1,485	$	617
Commodity contracts	Other accrued expenses		(98)		(371)
Cross-currency swap contracts	Prepaid expenses and other current assets		651		1,074
Cross-currency swap contracts	Other accrued expenses		(7,118)		—
		$	(5,080)	$	1,320

Gains (losses) on derivatives recognized in the Condensed Consolidated Statements of Earnings for the thirteen and thirty-nine weeks ended September 27, 2025 and September 28, 2024 were as follows:

	Condensed Consolidated	Thirteen weeks ended				Thirty-nine weeks ended
Derivatives designated	Statements of	September 27,		September 28,		September 27,		September 28,
as hedging instruments:	Earnings location	2025		2024		2025		2024
Commodity contracts	Product cost of sales	$	632	$	(1,552)	$	236	$	(993)
Interest rate hedge amortization	Interest expense		(16)		(16)		(48)		(48)
Cross-currency swap contracts	Interest expense		444		248		1,017		934
		$	1,060	$	(1,320)	$	1,205	$	(107)

Cash Flow Hedges

The Company enters into commodity forward, swap, and option contracts to hedge variability in cash flows related to future purchases. Gains (losses) realized upon settlement are recorded in “Product cost of sales” in the Condensed Consolidated Statements of Earnings in the period in which the hedged items are consumed. As of September 27, 2025, the details of these contracts were as follows:

	Notional		Total
Commodity Type	Amount		Purchase Quantity	Maturity Dates
Hot-rolled coil steel	$	11,055	13,250 short tons	September 2025 to December 2025
Natural gas		787	205,000 MMBtu	October 2025 to December 2026
Ultra-low-sulfur diesel fuel		10,490	4,788,000 gallons	September 2025 to June 2027
Zinc		7,791	2,880 metric tons	January 2026 to December 2027

Net Investment Hedges

To manage foreign currency risk associated with its foreign currency investments and reduce interest expenses, the Company uses fixed-for-fixed cross-currency swaps (“CCS”). These swaps convert U.S. dollar-denominated principal and interest payments on a portion of its 5.00% senior unsecured notes due in 2044 into foreign-currency‑denominated payments. Interest payments are exchanged biannually on April 1 and October 1.

The Company designated the full notional amounts of its CCS as net investment hedges for certain subsidiaries under the spot method. Changes in fair value of the CCS attributable to spot exchange rates are recorded as cumulative foreign currency translation within AOCI, while net interest receipts reduce interest expense over the life of the CCS. Key terms as of September 27, 2025 were as follows:

	Notional			Swapped	Settlement
Currency	Amount		Termination Date	Interest Rate	Amount
Canadian dollar	$	40,000	October 1, 2028	4.0900%	C$	54,776
Chinese yuan	$	30,000	October 1, 2032	3.1125%	¥	215,640
Euro	$	80,000	April 1, 2029	3.4610%	€	74,509

In the first quarter of fiscal 2024, the Company early settled a euro net investment hedge entered in fiscal 2019, receiving proceeds of $2,711. These proceeds will remain in AOCI until the related subsidiaries are sold or substantially liquidated.