Quarterly report [Sections 13 or 15(d)]

DERIVATIVE FINANCIAL INSTRUMENTS AND HEDGING ACTIVITIES

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DERIVATIVE FINANCIAL INSTRUMENTS AND HEDGING ACTIVITIES
 6 Months Ended
Sep. 27, 2025
Derivative Instruments and Hedging Activities Disclosure [Abstract]  
DERIVATIVE FINANCIAL INSTRUMENTS AND HEDGING ACTIVITIES DERIVATIVE FINANCIAL INSTRUMENTS AND HEDGING ACTIVITIES
Summary of Derivative Financial Instruments

All of VF’s outstanding derivative financial instruments at September 2025 are foreign currency exchange forward contracts. Although derivatives meet the criteria for hedge accounting at the inception of the hedging relationship, a limited number of derivative contracts intended to hedge assets and liabilities are not designated as hedges for accounting purposes.
The notional amounts of all outstanding foreign currency exchange forward contracts were $3.1 billion at September 2025, March 2025 and September 2024, consisting primarily of contracts hedging exposures to the euro, British pound, Chinese
renminbi, Canadian dollar, Swiss franc, Mexican peso, Taiwan dollar, Polish zloty, Swedish krona, South Korean won and Japanese yen. These derivative contracts have maturities up to 20 months.
During the three months ended December 2024, VF settled interest rate swap contracts that were in place to hedge the cash flow risk of interest payments on the variable-rate DDTL Agreement. The DDTL was prepaid on October 4, 2024. The notional amount of VF's outstanding interest rate swap contracts was $500.0 million at September 2024.
The following table presents outstanding derivatives on an individual contract basis:
  Fair Value of Derivatives
with Unrealized Gains		 Fair Value of Derivatives
with Unrealized Losses
(In thousands) September 2025 March 2025 September 2024 September 2025 March 2025 September 2024
Derivatives Designated as Hedging Instruments:
Foreign exchange contracts $ 21,428  $ 32,608  $ 15,846  $ (93,577) $ (29,847) $ (53,621)
Interest rate contracts —  —  324  —  —  — 
Total derivatives designated as hedging instruments 21,428  32,608  16,170  (93,577) (29,847) (53,621)
Derivatives Not Designated as Hedging Instruments:
Foreign exchange contracts 318  1,763  275  (790) (156) (948)
Total derivatives
 $ 21,746  $ 34,371  $ 16,445  $ (94,367) $ (30,003) $ (54,569)
VF records and presents the fair values of all of its derivative assets and liabilities in the Consolidated Balance Sheets on a gross basis, even though they are subject to master netting agreements. If VF were to offset and record the asset and liability balances on a net basis in accordance with the terms of its master netting agreements, the amounts presented in the Consolidated Balance Sheets would be adjusted from the current gross presentation to the net amounts as detailed in the following table:
  September 2025 March 2025 September 2024
(In thousands) Derivative
Asset		 Derivative
Liability		 Derivative
Asset		 Derivative
Liability		 Derivative
Asset		 Derivative
Liability
Gross amounts presented in the Consolidated Balance Sheets
 $ 21,746  $ (94,367) $ 34,371  $ (30,003) $ 16,445  $ (54,569)
Gross amounts not offset in the Consolidated Balance Sheets
 (12,336) 12,336  (13,592) 13,592  (8,282) 8,282 
Net amounts
 $ 9,410  $ (82,031) $ 20,779  $ (16,411) $ 8,163  $ (46,287)
Derivatives are classified as current or noncurrent based on maturity dates, as follows:
(In thousands) September 2025 March 2025 September 2024
Derivative Instruments Balance Sheet Location
Foreign exchange contracts Other current assets $ 18,608  $ 32,290  $ 12,988 
Foreign exchange contracts Accrued liabilities (88,490) (19,810) (44,300)
Foreign exchange contracts Other assets 3,138  2,081  3,133 
Foreign exchange contracts Other liabilities (5,877) (10,193) (10,269)
Interest rate contracts Other current assets —  —  324 
Cash Flow Hedges
VF primarily uses foreign currency exchange forward contracts to hedge a portion of the exchange risk for its forecasted sales, inventory purchases, operating costs and certain intercompany transactions, including sourcing and management fees and royalties. The Company also used interest rate swap contracts to hedge against a portion of the exposure related to its interest payments on its variable-rate debt, which was prepaid on October 4, 2024. The effects of cash flow hedging included in VF’s Consolidated Statements of Comprehensive Income (Loss) and Consolidated Statements of Operations are summarized as follows:
(In thousands) Gain (Loss) on Derivatives
Recognized in Accumulated OCL
Three Months Ended September
Gain (Loss) on Derivatives
Recognized in Accumulated OCL
Six Months Ended September
Cash Flow Hedging Relationships 2025 2024 2025 2024
Foreign exchange contracts $ 20,842  $ (54,203) $ (110,448) $ (34,702)
Interest rate contracts —  (232) —  288 
Total $ 20,842  $ (54,435) $ (110,448) $ (34,414)
(In thousands)
Gain (Loss) Reclassified from Accumulated OCL into Net Income (Loss)
Three Months Ended September
Gain (Loss) Reclassified from Accumulated OCL into Net Income (Loss)
Six Months Ended September
Cash Flow Hedging Relationships Location of Gain (Loss) 2025 2024 2025 2024
Foreign exchange contracts Revenues $ 545  $ (7,851) $ (1,426) $ (12,182)
Foreign exchange contracts Cost of goods sold (863) (4,001) 14,171  (14,127)
Foreign exchange contracts SG&A expenses (250) (47) (511) (455)
Foreign exchange contracts Other income (expense), net 1,074  53  1,550  (3)
Interest rate contracts Interest expense 27  27  54  54 
Interest rate contracts Loss from discontinued operations, net of tax —  1,134  —  2,299 
Total $ 533  $ (10,685) $ 13,838  $ (24,414)
Derivative Contracts Not Designated as Hedges
VF uses foreign currency exchange contracts to manage foreign currency exchange risk on third-party and intercompany accounts receivable and payable, as well as third-party and intercompany borrowings and interest payments. These contracts are not designated as hedges, and are recorded at fair value in the Consolidated Balance Sheets. Changes in the fair values of these instruments are recognized directly in earnings. Gains or losses on these contracts largely offset the net transaction losses or gains on the related assets and liabilities. In the case of derivative contracts executed on foreign currency exposures that are no longer probable of occurring, VF de-designates these hedges and the fair value changes of these instruments are also recognized directly in earnings. The impact of de-designated derivative contracts and changes in the fair value of derivative contracts not designated as hedges, recognized as gains or losses in VF's Consolidated Statements of Operations were not material for the three and six months ended September 2025 and September 2024.
Other Derivative Information
At September 2025, accumulated OCL included $60.1 million of pre-tax net deferred losses for foreign currency exchange
contracts that are expected to be reclassified to earnings during the next 12 months. The amounts ultimately reclassified to earnings will depend on exchange rates in effect when outstanding derivative contracts are settled.
Net Investment Hedge
The Company has designated its euro-denominated fixed-rate notes, which represented €2.0 billion in aggregate principal as of September 2025, as a net investment hedge of VF’s investment in certain foreign operations. Because this debt qualified as a nonderivative hedging instrument, foreign currency transaction gains or losses of the debt are deferred in the foreign currency translation and other component of accumulated OCL as an offset to the foreign currency translation adjustments on the hedged investments. During the three and six-month periods ended September 2025, the Company recognized an after-tax gain of $4.3 million and an after-tax loss of $130.1 million, respectively, in other comprehensive income (loss) related to the net investment hedge transaction and an after-tax loss of $64.8 million and $54.0 million for the three and six-month periods ended September 2024, respectively. Any amounts deferred in accumulated OCL will remain until the hedged investment is sold or substantially liquidated.