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April 30, 2024
Matthew Walsh
Chief Financial Officer
Organon & Co.
30 Hudson Street, Floor 33
Jersey City, New Jersey 07302
Re: Organon & Co.
Form 10-K for
Fiscal Year Ended December 31, 2023
Form 8-K filed
February 15, 2024
File No. 001-40235
Dear Matthew Walsh:
We have limited our review of your filing to the financial
statements and related
disclosures and have the following comments.
Please respond to this letter within ten business days by
providing the requested
information or advise us as soon as possible when you will respond. If
you do not believe a
comment applies to your facts and circumstances, please tell us why in
your response.
After reviewing your
response to this letter, we may have additional comments.
Form 8-K Filed February 15, 2024
Exhibit 99.1
Organon Reports Results for the Fourth Quarter and Full Year Ended
December 31, 2023, page 1
1. Within the header of
your earnings release you discuss the non-GAAP measure Adjusted
EBITDA without also
discussing the most comparable GAAP measure of net income.
This presentation gives
greater prominence to the non-GAAP measure and does not
comply with Item
10(e)(1)(i)(A) of Regulation S-K. Please revise your header and
presentations in future
filings accordingly. Refer to Question 102.10(a) of the Division's
Compliance & Disclosure
Interpretations ( C&DIs ) on Non-GAAP Financial Measures.
Table 4. Reconciliation of GAAP Reported to Non-GAAP Adjusted
Information, page 14
2. We note your non-GAAP
reconciliation tables presented here and on page15 give the
appearance of a full
non-GAAP income statement. Please note that the presentation of a
full non-GAAP income
statement, or a presentation that gives the appearance of one, may
place undue prominence
on the non-GAAP information and give the impression that
Matthew Walsh
Organon & Co.
April 30, 2024
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the non-GAAP income statement represents a comprehensive basis of
accounting. Please
remove this presentation in your future filings. To the extent you
wish to present any of
the non-GAAP measures, you could present a separate reconciliation for
each non-GAAP
measure and provide all the disclosures required by Item 10(e)(1)(i)
of Regulation S-K
including quantification and description of each adjustment
individually. Refer to
Question 102.10(a) and (c) of the C&DIs for Non-GAAP Financial
Measures.
3. We note that table 4 presents the tax impact of your non-GAAP
adjustments. Please revise
future filings to provide a brief explanation as to how the tax impact
of the non-GAAP
adjustments were computed. Refer to Question 102.11 of the C&DIs for
Non-
GAAP Financial Measures.
Table 5. Reconciliation of GAAP Income Before Income Taxes to Adjusted EBITDA,
page 16
4. We note that you present Adjusted EBITDA as a non-GAAP performance
measure.
However, your reconciliation does not reconcile Adjusted EBITDA to the
most directly
comparable GAAP measure, net income (loss), as required by Item
10(e)(1)(i)(B) of
Regulation S-K. Please revise your presentation in future filings
accordingly. Refer also to
Question 103.02 of the C&DIs for Non-GAAP Financial Measures.
5. Please refer to footnote (2) and one-time costs. Please tell us
and revise your future
filings to quantify and describe the nature of each of the significant
components of these
adjustments. Explain to us how each of these one-time costs comply
with the guidance of
Questions 100.01 and 102.03 of the C&DIs for Non-GAAP Financial
Measures.
In closing, 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.
Please contact Gary Newberry at 202-551-3761 or Tara Harkins at
202-551-3639 with
any questions.
FirstName LastNameMatthew Walsh Sincerely,
Comapany NameOrganon & Co.
Division of
Corporation Finance
April 30, 2024 Page 2 Office of Life
Sciences
FirstName LastName