Emergent BioSolutions Inc.
For the period ended Dec 31, 2025. Filed Feb 27, 2026.
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FY2025 · Filed Feb 27, 2026
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Item 8. Report of Independent Registered Public Accounting Firm
Report of Independent Registered Public Accounting Firm
To the Stockholders and the Board of Directors of Emergent BioSolutions Inc.
Opinion on the Financial Statements
We have audited the accompanying consolidated balance sheets of Emergent BioSolutions Inc. and subsidiaries (the Company) as of December 31, 2025 and 2024, the related consolidated statements of operations, comprehensive income (loss), changes in stockholders’ equity and cash flows for each of the three years in the period ended December 31, 2025, and the related notes and financial statement schedule listed in the Index at Item 15 (collectively referred to as the “consolidated financial statements”). In our opinion, the consolidated financial statements present fairly, in all material respects, the financial position of the Company at December 31, 2025 and 2024, and the results of its operations and its cash flows for each of the three years in the period ended December 31, 2025, in conformity with U.S. generally accepted accounting principles.
We also have audited, in accordance with the standards of the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board (United States) (PCAOB), the Company's internal control over financial reporting as of December 31, 2025, based on criteria established in Internal Control-Integrated Framework issued by the Committee of Sponsoring Organizations of the Treadway Commission (2013 framework), and our report dated February 26, 2026 expressed an unqualified opinion thereon.
Basis for Opinion
These financial statements are the responsibility of the Company's management. Our responsibility is to express an opinion on the Company’s financial statements based on our audits. We are a public accounting firm registered with the PCAOB and are required to be independent with respect to the Company in accordance with the U.S. federal securities laws and the applicable rules and regulations of the Securities and Exchange Commission and the PCAOB.
We conducted our audits in accordance with the standards of the PCAOB. Those standards require that we plan and perform the audit to obtain reasonable assurance about whether the financial statements are free of material misstatement, whether due to error or fraud. Our audits included performing procedures to assess the risks of material misstatement of the financial statements, whether due to error or fraud, and performing procedures that respond to those risks. Such procedures included examining, on a test basis, evidence regarding the amounts and disclosures in the financial statements. Our audits also included evaluating the accounting principles used and significant estimates made by management, as well as evaluating the overall presentation of the financial statements. We believe that our audits provide a reasonable basis for our opinion.
Critical Audit Matter
The critical audit matter communicated below is a matter arising from the current period audit of the financial statements that was communicated or required to be communicated to the audit committee and that: (1) relates to accounts or disclosures that are material to the financial statements and (2) involved our especially challenging, subjective or complex judgments. The communication of the critical audit matter does not alter in any way our opinion on the consolidated financial statements, taken as a whole, and we are not, by communicating the critical audit matter below, providing a separate opinion on the critical audit matter or on the account or disclosure to which it relates.
| Reserve for Excess and Obsolete Finished Goods Inventories | |
| Description of the Matter | The Company had total inventories, net of $343.4 million as of December 31, 2025. As discussed in Note 2 of the consolidated financial statements, inventories are stated at the lower of cost or net realizable value. The Company evaluates its inventories each reporting period and records a reserve to account for inventory that has become obsolete, expired, slow-moving, or short-dated based on customer requirements.Auditing the Company’s assessment for finished goods inventory reserves was subjective and involved auditor judgment as the estimate relies on factors that are outside of the Company’s control. In particular, the analysis is dependent on assumptions such as the expected timing of delivery for customer orders and the shelf-life requirements of customers. |
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| How We Addressed the Matter in Our Audit | We obtained an understanding, evaluated the design, and tested the operating effectiveness of the Company's control over the finished goods inventory reserve process, which included management’s review of the assumptions, and the completeness and accuracy of the data underlying the finished goods inventory reserve analysis.Our audit procedures included, among others, assessing the appropriateness of the Company’s methodology and the significant assumptions used in the analysis for finished goods inventory reserves. We tested the mathematical accuracy of the calculations and audited the completeness and accuracy of the underlying inputs used, such as expiration dates and customer shelf-life requirements. In addition, we performed inquiries of management and inspected documentation, such as customer contracts, to evaluate the reasonableness of the Company’s estimate. |
/s/Ernst & Young LLP
We have served as the Company’s auditor since 2004.
Tysons, Virginia
February 26, 2026
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