Dow (DOW) Financial History

While the Company expects abundant and cost-advantaged supplies of natural gas liquids ("NGLs") in the United States to persist for the foreseeable future, if NGLs become significantly less advantaged than crude oil-b…

Purchased feedstock and energy costs account for a substantial portion of the Company’s total production costs and operating expenses.

Major hurricanes and other weather-related events have caused significant disruption in the Company's operations on the U.S.

As a diversified chemical manufacturing company, the Company's operations at each site, including maintenance of its facilities; the transportation of supplies and products; cyberattacks; the expanding utilization of…

At least annually, the Company assesses goodwill for impairment.

While the Company has been the target of cyberattacks, including phishing, social engineering, industrial espionage and other malicious attacks, and has determined that certain of these attacks have resulted in and co…

The Company relies on various information systems, including information systems operated by third-parties and which may also include embedded artificial intelligence ("AI"), to support safe, efficient and reliable bu…

Dow is one of the world’s largest plastics producers and sells plastic products that continue to enable increasing quality and standards of living and offer significant greenhouse gas reductions compared with alternat…

Union Carbide is and has been involved in a large number of asbestos-related suits filed primarily in state courts during the past several decades.

materials.

The Company's business operations are subject to the cyclical nature of the supply-demand balance in the chemical industry.

While the Company has frozen its defined benefit plans and other postretirement benefit plans in the United States, the Company continues to sponsor these plans as well as defined benefit pension plans and other postr…

The Russia-Ukraine conflict has been ongoing for more than three years since Russia's February 2022 invasion of Ukraine, and although there have been recent efforts to seek a resolution, it remains unclear if these wi…

Economic conditions around the world, and in certain industries and geographic regions in which the Company does business, also impact sales price and volume and the efficacy of the Company's supply chain.

Sales of the Company's products are also subject to extensive federal, state, local and foreign laws and regulations; trade agreements; import and export controls; taxes; and duties and tariffs.

Financial Commitments and Credit Markets: Market conditions, availability of credit and changes in the Company's credit ratings could reduce the Company's flexibility to respond to changing economic and business condi…

Company’s operations at various sites.

have a negative impact on the Company's results of operations and cash flows for a particular period and on the Company's financial condition.

environment could result in a contraction in the availability of credit in the marketplace and reduce sources of liquidity for the Company.

Adverse economic conditions, such as fluctuating interest rates, could reduce the Company’s flexibility to respond to changing business and economic conditions or to fund capital expenditures or working capital needs.

propylene, to supplement internal production, as well as other raw materials.

The Company is subject to extensive federal, state, local and foreign laws, regulations, rules and ordinances relating to pollution, protection of the environment, climate change, greenhouse gas emissions, and the gen…

products and result in decreased sales price and volume or supply chain disruptions, which could have a negative impact on the Company’s results of operations.

During 2025, the United States changed its long-standing trade policies and announced significant new tariffs, with certain exceptions, on virtually all imported goods.

The Company sells its broad range of products and services in a competitive, global environment, and competes worldwide for sales on the basis of product quality, price, technology and customer service.

The Company utilizes cash from operations and its ability to access capital markets to meet the Company's cash requirements for working capital, capital projects, debt maturities and other needs.