STRYKER CORP

This Form 8-K contains forward-looking statements subject to the safe harbor protection provided by Section 27A of the Securities Act of 1933, Section 21E of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, and the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. All statements other than statements of historical fact are forward-looking statements, including statements regarding the Company’s current beliefs regarding the extent of the cybersecurity incident and the results or findings of the Company’s investigation thereof; the Company’s ability to contain and/or mitigate the incident; the disruption to our business or operations; and the potential impact on the Company’s reputation, financial condition and results of operations. These forward-looking statements involve known and unknown risks, uncertainties and other important factors that may cause actual results to differ materially from expectations as of the date of this filing. Factors that could cause actual results to differ materially from those indicated in the forward-looking statements include, but are not limited to, any impairment of the integrity of the Company’s systems or data; delays or difficulties in restoring the Company’s systems and data; the Company’s continued ability to use alternatives to its systems, to the extent needed; the Company’s ability to process information it collected while using alternatives to its systems and the integrity of that information; the adequacy of processes during the period of disruption of the Company’s systems; the results of the Company’s analysis of the scope and details of the cybersecurity incident; the unauthorized release of any of the Company’s data, including third party data held by the Company, or the use of any such data for any fraudulent purposes; potential adverse impact of the incident on the Company’s results of operations, including revenue, operating income and cash flows from operations, and on its financial condition, including liquidity; diversion of management’s attention from operations of the Company to addressing the cybersecurity incident; potential litigation related to the cybersecurity incident; potential adverse effects on relationships with customers, suppliers and other third parties as a result of the cybersecurity incident; reputational risk related to the cybersecurity incident; regulatory scrutiny of the cybersecurity incident; and other risks listed or described from time to time in our filings with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, including our Annual Report on Form 10-K and Quarterly Reports on Form 10-Q that we have filed or will file hereafter. We disclaim any intention or obligation to publicly update or revise any forward-looking statement to reflect any change in our expectations or in events, conditions or circumstances on which those expectations may be based, or that affect the likelihood that actual results will differ from those contained in the forward-looking statements.