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On June 17, 2024, Masimo Corporation (“Masimo” or the
“Company”) issued a press release announcing that it has filed its definitive proxy statement and sent a letter to its stockholders
regarding Masimo’s 2024 annual meeting of stockholders. A copy of the press release and the letter are set forth below.
Masimo Board of Directors Files Definitive
Proxy and Issues Letter to Stockholders
Strongly
Encourages Stockholders to Vote FOR Joe Kiani and Christopher Chavez on the GOLD Proxy Card
Warns
Stockholders of Politan’s Value-Destructive Agenda Should It Gain Control
Highlights
Masimo’s Track Record of Innovation, Longstanding Premium Valuation, Strong Long-Term Plan and Superior Director Nominees
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IRVINE, Calif. –
June 17, 2024 – Members of the Masimo Corporation (“Masimo” or the “Company”)
(NASDAQ: MASI) Board of Directors today issued a letter to stockholders in connection with its definitive proxy materials filed on June
17, 2024, and the Company’s Annual Meeting of Stockholders to be held on July 25, 2024. The letter highlights what in our view are
the significant risks to the value of Masimo if control of the Board is ceded to Politan Capital Management (“Politan”), which
we believe wants to eliminate some of the key people and practices that have fueled Masimo’s long-term innovation and growth and
supported its premium valuation multiple. The letter also details the Company’s excellent positioning to continue to drive above-market
organic growth and meaningful margin expansion, while highlighting the expertise and experience of Masimo’s highly qualified director
nominees. To protect stockholders’ investment and the Company’s future, the Board strongly encourages stockholders to vote
FOR Masimo’s exceptional director nominees, Joe Kiani and Christopher Chavez.
Find our definitive proxy materials
and more information on why your vote is critical to the future of Masimo at www.ProtectMasimosFuture.com. The full text of the Board’s
letter to our stockholders can be found here:
Dear Fellow Masimo Stockholders:
At the upcoming Annual Meeting of Stockholders, you face a choice:
electing your Board’s nominees – Joe Kiani, the founder, Chairman and CEO of Masimo, and Christopher Chavez, a highly experienced
and independent former CEO and director of public medical device companies – or adding two more nominees hand-picked and paid by
Politan, thereby ceding control of Masimo to Politan.
This election is critical to the future of Masimo and the value
of your investment in our stock. As independent directors who have served on Masimo’s Board alongside Politan directors Quentin
Koffey and Michelle Brennan, it’s clear to us that they have no understanding of Masimo’s business. Innovation and revenue
growth have supported Masimo’s longstanding valuation premium to medical technology peers, but we believe Politan wants to eliminate
some of the key people and practices that drive Masimo’s innovation and growth. The risk of their agenda is immense.
Masimo has earned its valuation through innovation that has driven
consistent organic growth, consistently taking share in existing markets with clinically superior products and creating new markets with
new technologies and applications. Mr. Kiani leads this process with a team that drives and is driven by him. We are concerned that replacing
this approach and team with Politan’s inexperience and what we believe is a misguided agenda will destroy Masimo’s innovation
engine, slow organic growth, and dramatically depress Masimo’s valuation multiple.
A year ago, Politan rebuffed Masimo’s assertion that Politan
was seeking control of the Company as “absurd.” Now, Politan is doing exactly that—refusing to settle its second consecutive
proxy contest for anything less than a majority of Politan-nominated directors on the Company’s Board.
Your vote on the GOLD card FOR Masimo director nominees
Joe Kiani and Christopher Chavez will help ensure that Masimo continues delivering on its business plan to create value for stockholders
and improve the lives of patients and customers.
With your support at the upcoming Annual Meeting, we are confident
that we can complete the separation of Masimo’s consumer business, continue to advance our strong innovation pipeline to support
our valuation premium, consistently meet or exceed revenue and earnings expectations, and continue to seat highly qualified and independent
directors to expand the Board.
Since last year’s Annual Meeting, Masimo has weathered the post-Covid
market environment and returned to growth in its healthcare business, gained significant market share, and successfully enforced our intellectual
property against Apple at the U.S. International Trade Commission. Our Board and management team also undertook a thorough engagement
program with our stockholders – we listened and we acted. As a result, we have undertaken a process to separate our consumer business
in a manner that we believe will maximize value for our stockholders.
We accomplished all of this despite what we view as obstructive behavior
by the Politan directors. During the past year, we believe the Politan directors:
| ● | Imposed undue burdens on management and the rest of the Board, while making
no constructive business proposals or suggestions; |
| ● | Obstructed the stockholder-directed expansion of the Board by creating an
adversarial Board environment that helped drive away two qualified Board members and threatened litigation when the Board sought to replace
them; and |
| ● | Obstructed the stockholder-requested process to separate the Consumer business. |
In our opinion, this obstruction has not served stockholders’
interests; it has only served Politan’s bid for control of Masimo.
The choice in front of you is stark. Here’s why you should vote
“FOR” Masimo’s nominees on the GOLD proxy card:
| 1. | Preserve Masimo’s innovation engine and valuation premium. |
| 2. | Support Masimo’s push to achieve a 30% operating margin while maintaining its historical organic growth. |
| 3. | Stop Politan from enacting its destructive agenda and impeding progress on value creation at Masimo, including successfully completing
the separation of the Consumer business. |
| 4. | Elect the most qualified nominees to Masimo’s Board, ensuring strong independent oversight and the resumption of a rigorous
process to expand the Board. |
We remain committed to listening to and delivering value for our stockholders.
We believe handing control of the Company to Politan would risk the destruction of value in your investment in Masimo.
PRESERVE MASIMO’S INNOVATION PREMIUM
Historically, Masimo’s stockholders have benefited from the significant
valuation premium ascribed to the Company for its ability to drive above-market organic growth through consistently innovating profitable,
market-leading products (Fig. 1).
Fig. 1 – Masimo Has Historically Traded
at a Premium to Select MedTech Peers
Since Masimo’s founding and to this day, Mr. Kiani’s vision,
leadership and hands-on R&D direction have been critical to sustaining innovation, growth and shareholder value beyond its peers.
In the medical technology industry broadly, stock valuation is strongly correlated to forward revenue growth expectations (Fig. 2). Masimo
has achieved revenue growth by taking market share from competitors through innovating clinically superior products and by creating new
markets with its new technologies. Notably, Masimo trades at a nearly 63% premium to select MedTech peers on a NTM P/E multiple basis,
highlighting the risk to the Company’s valuation if the Company loses Mr. Kiani’s leadership and is unable to sustain the
consistent innovation that has driven its growth for decades.
Fig. 2 – MedTech P/E Multiples Highly
Correlated to Organic Revenue Growth
Unlike most other CEOs in the medical device industry, Mr. Kiani continues
to play a direct role in Masimo’s R&D efforts. Mr. Kiani is named as an inventor on over 900 of Masimo’s patent filings,
reflecting his unique contributions to Masimo’s core technologies and capabilities. This is not just a historical achievement –
many of Masimo’s recently introduced products, such as Oxygen Reserve Index™ (ORi™), Stork™, Opioid Halo™,
W1 and Radius VSM™, originated with Mr. Kiani.
Despite challenges from last year’s proxy contest, rapidly shifting
market conditions and Politan’s disruptive presence in the boardroom, the Company achieved significant innovation milestones. These
include:
| ● | Securing FDA clearances of: |
| o | Masimo SET®-based Opioid Halo™ wearable, the first-ever FDA-authorized opioid overdose prevention system; |
| o | Radius VSM™, an incredibly versatile, wearable vital signs monitor; |
| o | Masimo Stork™, a state-of-the-art baby monitor backed by clinically proven Masimo SET® pulse oximetry; and |
| o | Masimo W1 medical watch for use in hospital-to-home and telehealth programs. |
We expect these and future innovations will continue to be important
drivers of growth. One of Masimo’s fastest-growing products, ORi™ accounted for more than 20% of worldwide sales of rainbow™
products in 2023 despite only launching in the U.S. late in the fourth quarter. ORi™ is the first noninvasive technology that provides
insight into a patient’s oxygen status in the moderate hyperoxic range, and our research has clearly established its clinical benefits
for use during surgery, in the ICU and in other places where oxygen is prescribed. We expect ORi™ will drive significant growth
in rainbow™ revenues and have a positive effect on our broader hospital relationships and contracting efforts.
Under Mr. Kiani’s leadership, Masimo has continued to build a
pipeline of promising products to sustain the Company’s long-term growth trajectory. Innovative hospital technologies outside of
Masimo’s core SET® pulse oximetry products achieved double-digit growth in 2022 and 2023. Additionally, Masimo’s pulse
oximetry business has benefitted greatly from the fact that customers can upgrade to rainbow™ or tetherless pulse oximetry, which
are two highly differentiated technologies that are unique to Masimo.
SUPPORT MASIMO’S PUSH TO ACHIEVE A 30% OPERATING MARGIN WHILE
MAINTAINING ITS HISTORICAL ORGANIC GROWTH
Under our oversight, Mr. Kiani and the current management team have
returned the professional healthcare business to its customary consistent meet or beat performance. Even as sensor sales temporarily declined
during 2023, Mr. Kiani’s team successfully focused on expanding its footprint with existing customers and winning new customers
to build a strong foundation for returning growth in healthcare to its historic trajectory. The value of incremental new contracts won
in 2023 exceeded the previous record high set during the height of the Covid pandemic (Fig. 3), and worldwide unrecognized contract revenue
reached levels that we believe support our effort to achieve high-single-digit organic revenue growth in 2024 (Fig. 4).
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Masimo’s driver installed base has increased over 60% from 1.6
million drivers in 2017 to about 2.6 million as of the first quarter of 2024. At the same time, consumable revenue per driver has grown
from pre-COVID levels, driven by continued strong utilization, increasing adoption of premium rainbow sensors and our ongoing development
of new applications and use cases – all trends we anticipate continuing under our long-term plan (Fig. 5).
Fig. 5 - Masimo’s Underlying Business
Fundamentals Remain Strong
This strong foundation, along with significant contributions from faster-growing
new products, underpins our growth expectations and ensures that we can generate substantial operating leverage to reach our long-term
goal of 30% non-GAAP operating margins, as management shared in our Q1 2024 earnings presentation. Alongside the transition of high-volume
sensor manufacturing to Malaysia and engineering initiatives to reduce product costs, we anticipate our steady innovation-led growth trajectory
to drive leverage on our R&D, sales, and corporate and administrative expenses and account for a significant portion of that margin
improvement.
Successful execution of these plans requires a focused, experienced
Board and management team with a deep understanding of the business and the ability to balance innovation-driven growth and profitability.
During their time on the Board, Mr. Koffey and Michelle Brennan have in our view distracted the Board and management team and made no
strategic recommendations or suggested any ideas for improving Masimo’s revenue growth, operating margin and earnings. We believe
cutting R&D investments and jettisoning Masimo’s time-tested approach to innovation would make it unlikely that Masimo achieves
our targeted growth rates and generates the operating leverage needed to substantially expand margins. We believe handing control of the
Board to Politan would threaten Masimo’s operational and financial stability and its ability to achieve its long-term goals.
STOP POLITAN FROM ENACTING WHAT WE BELIEVE IS A DESTRUCTIVE AGENDA
AND OBSTRUCTING PROGRESS
While we have acted in accordance with the wishes of the majority stockholders
of Masimo to separate the Consumer business, continue meeting or exceeding earnings expectations, expand the Board with independent directors,
and try to avoid another proxy contest, we believe that Politan has obstructed progress and prioritized gaining control over serving stockholders’
interests. Notably, in our view:
| ● | Mr. Koffey led the Special Committee to failure: After Mr. Koffey
and Mr. Kiani discussed and agreed to potential terms for a separation of the Consumer Business, the Board formed a Special Committee
of independent directors on February 13, 2024, chaired by Mr. Koffey, to progress the separation plans. In his capacity as chair, Mr.
Koffey delivered a new term sheet that was radically different from the terms he had previously proposed and discussed with the full Board.
In our view, the new term sheet would have created an unviable business without the cash reserves needed to operate on a solvent footing
and without the rights necessary for the litigation with Apple. Two of the Special Committee members recommended dissolving the Special
Committee because of its departure from what was discussed with the full Board and Mr. Koffey’s handling of it in his role as chairperson. |
| ● | Mr. Koffey has refused to settle despite stockholder support for a settlement:
Following our initial settlement offer made on April 4, 2024, Mr. Koffey told Bob Chapek that his efforts to settle would be fruitless.
Nonetheless, we tried and made two additional settlement proposals that would have given the Politan directors veto power. Politan’s
only proposal would hand majority control of the Board to Politan and its unqualified Board members, which we believe would have been
a dereliction of the Board’s fiduciary duties. Mr. Koffey never engaged with us to find a middle ground that would benefit stockholders. |
| ● | Politan’s directors took actions that tried to delay and block the
expansion of the Board with highly qualified independent directors: Despite being offered – and accepting – the opportunity
to review resumes, interview candidates, submit additional candidates and amend the search criteria, Mr. Koffey and Ms. Brennan requested
that the Company start an entirely new director search process, after Heidrick & Struggles had already identified and evaluated approximately
50 candidates. They then voted against the appointments of highly qualified independent directors Rolf Classon and Mr. Chapek. Further,
after Mr. Mikkelson and Mr. Classon resigned from the Board citing personal and health reasons, respectively, Politan threatened litigation
if we replaced them despite the fact that the Board now has only five members. |
| ● | Mr. Koffey proposed Mr. Kiani swap classes with another director so Politan
would not face Mr. Kiani at this Annual Meeting, contrary to Delaware law: On April 25, 2024, Mr. Koffey proposed that Mr. Kiani and
Mr. Reynolds switch director classes ahead of the Annual Meeting so that Mr. Reynolds would stand for election instead of Mr. Kiani. Ms.
Brennan also supported this proposal, which is not permitted under Delaware law, as it undermines the stockholder franchise and flies
in the face of good governance. We think this, and his plan to reappoint Mr. Kiani as Chairman of the Board if he is not reelected to
the Board, demonstrates that Mr. Koffey does not truly care about good governance. Mr. Koffey also told us he would put Mr. Kiani on administrative
leave following the election if Mr. Kiani were to accept reappointment to the Board, which Mr. Kiani has made clear he would not do. |
Most recently, the Politan directors have taken actions that, in our
view, have obstructed the separation of the Consumer business. We continue to pursue both a spinoff transaction and a potential JV transaction
and are focused on executing whichever option creates more value for stockholders. Mr. Koffey’s legal threats and false accusations
have unjustifiably alarmed some stockholders and delayed and made the pathway to a successful and value-accretive separation more challenging
and costly.
More worrisome is the prospect of Politan enacting a potentially destructive
agenda for Masimo. Politan’s eagerness to discard Masimo’s successful approach to running the Company as well as the leadership
team that has created value for 35 years highlights what we view as Mr. Koffey’s reckless disregard for risk to stockholders. His
failed leadership of the Special Committee foreshadows the future of the Company under his control. None of the Politan directors or nominees
have public medical technology company director experience that would suggest they should be trusted with choosing a CEO for Masimo. By
ousting Mr. Kiani, Politan would also destroy our succession plans, as we think other key employees may also leave.
We believe Politan’s approach to replacing a successful founder
CEO, who many other companies would like to recruit, is dangerous to stockholders and other important stakeholders, including the hospitals
and patients that rely on Masimo’s products and innovation.
ELECT THE MOST QUALIFIED NOMINEES TO MASIMO’S BOARD, ENSURING
STRONG INDEPENDENT OVERSIGHT AND THE RESUMPTION OF A RIGOROUS PROCESS TO EXPAND THE BOARD
Mr. Kiani and Mr. Chavez bring Masimo’s Board significant insight
and experience, with 70-plus years of combined medical device industry leadership at the highest levels. By contrast, Politan’s
nominees, William Jellison and Darlene Solomon, lack CEO experience, and neither have previously been directors at a medical device company
– bringing the total medical company director experience of the Politan directors and nominees to zero.
As Masimo’s Founder and CEO since its inception 35 years ago,
Mr. Kiani has a unique understanding of Masimo’s business and the innovation required to drive stockholder value. He has led Masimo
through numerous strategic, engineering, market access, regulatory and legal challenges and built irreplaceable relationships with customers,
partners, physicians, industry leaders and regulators. As previously discussed, Mr. Kiani remains deeply involved in Masimo’s R&D
efforts. Mr. Kiani’s success in enforcing Masimo’s intellectual property resulted in multiple injunctions, damages and payments
exceeding $1 billion, and related business agreements worth billions of dollars. In addition, Mr. Kiani is well known in the healthcare
industry as a patient safety expert worldwide; founded the Patient Safety Movement Foundation and co-chaired the President’s Council
of Advisors on Science and Technology’s Patient Safety Working Group and published recommendations to the President that have become
a model for many organizations and countries to follow.
Mr. Chavez would bring valuable strategic, operational and transactional
expertise to Masimo’s Board through his deep leadership experience in the medical device industry as a CEO and independent public
company director. He led FDA product approvals, commercialization processes, and significant revenue growth at two public medical device
companies, TriVascular Inc. and Advanced Neuromodulation Systems Inc. (ANSI), that culminated in strategic acquisitions of both companies.
Additionally, Mr. Chavez previously served as an independent director at Endologix, Nuvectra Corp. and Advanced Medical Optics Inc., which
was acquired by Abbott Laboratories in 2009. Further, as former Chair of the Medical Device Manufacturers Association, a leading industry
trade association, Mr. Chavez brings a wealth of business associations and contacts that will help drive value for stockholders.
Meanwhile, Politan nominee Dr. Solomon has never worked at or served
on the board of a medical device company. She has never served as a CEO, and, though a successful scientist in an area unrelated to Masimo’s
business, her R&D experience is primarily in industries that face very different regulatory and operational challenges than the medical
device industry. This seems to us an odd choice that demonstrates Politan’s inability to recruit CEOs or other top candidates in
our industry.
We are concerned that Politan’s other nominee, Mr. Jellison,
is a serial activist nominee who may not act as a true independent director but may operate at Mr. Koffey’s direction, as we believe
Ms. Brennan has. In addition to Masimo and Politan, Mr. Jellison was nominated by Caligan Partners LP, an activist investment firm, as
a director candidate for Anika Therapeutics less than three weeks ago, and was previously nominated by Gilead Capital LP, another activist
investment firm, as a director candidate at Landauer Inc. for its 2017 annual meeting. Once again, despite having a year to plan, Politan
was only able to secure a nominee who last worked as a CFO in 2016 and has since served activists. We believe this demonstrates the type
of poor planning and execution that will create risk for stockholders should Politan gain control.
We are also concerned that Mr. Koffey, rather than recruiting the most
qualified candidates, has selected candidates who he believes will take his direction and vote as he wishes, as we believe Ms. Brennan
has. If both Politan nominees are elected, not only would Politan control the Board, but the Board would be left with only the two of
us who previously served as CEOs, with Mr. Reynolds the lone former CEO of a medical technology company. We question how stripping Masimo’s
Board of its industry and leadership experience will serve to benefit Masimo and its stockholders.
By contrast, Masimo remains committed to expanding the Board through
a comprehensive search process focused on nominating highly qualified independent candidates with experience directly relevant to Masimo
and its strategy.
YOUR VOTE FOR JOE KIANI AND CHRIS CHAVEZ ON THE GOLD PROXY CARD
IS CRITICAL
Your vote for our nominees will help to ensure that Masimo continues
to execute on what you have asked for and expect from us: the Consumer business separation, continued innovation to support Masimo’s
premium valuation, consistent financial and operating performance and a highly qualified and expanded independent Board.
We believe electing Politan’s nominees to the Board hands control
of Masimo to Politan and jeopardizes the value of your investment in Masimo. Please do not vote using any WHITE proxy card you may receive
from Politan. Any vote on the WHITE proxy card will revoke your prior vote on a GOLD proxy card, and only your latest-dated proxy counts.
We have been deeply committed to engaging with you and delivering the
changes you have requested. We look forward to continuing to work together to create value for all stockholders.
Thank you for your continued support,
Craig Reynolds
Bob Chapek
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About Masimo
Masimo (NASDAQ: MASI) is a global medical technology company that develops
and produces a wide array of industry-leading monitoring technologies, including innovative measurements, sensors, patient monitors, and
automation and connectivity solutions. In addition, Masimo Consumer Audio is home to eight legendary audio brands, including Bowers &
Wilkins, Denon, Marantz, and Polk Audio. Our mission is to improve life, improve patient outcomes, and reduce the cost of care. Masimo
SET® Measure-through Motion and Low Perfusion™ pulse oximetry, introduced in 1995, has been shown in over 100 independent
and objective studies to outperform other pulse oximetry technologies.1 Masimo SET® has also been shown to help
clinicians reduce severe retinopathy of prematurity in neonates,2 improve CCHD screening in newborns3 and, when
used for continuous monitoring with Masimo Patient SafetyNet™ in post-surgical wards, reduce rapid response team activations, ICU
transfers, and costs.4-7 Masimo SET® is estimated to be used on more than 200 million patients in leading hospitals
and other healthcare settings around the world,8 and is the primary pulse oximetry at 9 of the top 10 hospitals as ranked in
the 2022-23 U.S. News and World Report Best Hospitals Honor Roll.9 In 2005, Masimo introduced rainbow®
Pulse CO-Oximetry technology, allowing noninvasive and continuous monitoring of blood constituents that previously could only be measured
invasively, including total hemoglobin (SpHb®), oxygen content (SpOC™), carboxyhemoglobin (SpCO®),
methemoglobin (SpMet®), Pleth Variability Index (PVi®), RPVi™ (rainbow® PVi), and Oxygen
Reserve Index (ORi™). In 2013, Masimo introduced the Root® Patient Monitoring and Connectivity Platform, built from
the ground up to be as flexible and expandable as possible to facilitate the addition of other Masimo and third-party monitoring technologies;
key Masimo additions include Next Generation SedLine® Brain Function Monitoring, O3® Regional Oximetry,
and ISA™ Capnography with NomoLine® sampling lines. Masimo’s family of continuous and spot-check monitoring
Pulse CO-Oximeters® includes devices designed for use in a variety of clinical and non-clinical scenarios, including tetherless,
wearable technology, such as Radius-7®, Radius PPG®, and Radius VSM™, portable devices like Rad-67®,
fingertip pulse oximeters like MightySat® Rx, and devices available for use both in the hospital and at home, such as Rad-97®
and the Masimo W1® medical watch. Masimo hospital and home automation and connectivity solutions are centered around the
Masimo Hospital Automation™ platform, and include Iris® Gateway, iSirona™, Patient SafetyNet, Replica®,
Halo ION®, UniView®, UniView :60™, and Masimo SafetyNet®. Its growing portfolio of
health and wellness solutions includes Radius Tº®, Masimo W1 Sport, and Masimo Stork™. Additional information
about Masimo and its products may be found at www.masimo.com. Published clinical studies on Masimo products can be found at www.masimo.com/evidence/featured-studies/feature/.
RPVi has not received FDA 510(k) clearance and is not available for
sale in the United States. The use of the trademark Patient SafetyNet is under license from University HealthSystem Consortium.
References
| 1. | Published clinical studies on pulse oximetry and the benefits of Masimo SET® can be found on our website at http://www.masimo.com.
Comparative studies include independent and objective studies which are comprised of abstracts presented at scientific meetings and peer-reviewed
journal articles. |
| 2. | Castillo A et al. Prevention of Retinopathy of Prematurity in Preterm Infants through Changes in Clinical Practice and SpO2
Technology. Acta Paediatr. 2011 Feb;100(2):188-92. |
| 3. | de-Wahl Granelli A et al. Impact of pulse oximetry screening on the detection of duct dependent congenital heart disease: a Swedish
prospective screening study in 39,821 newborns. BMJ. 2009;Jan 8;338. |
| 4. | Taenzer A et al. Impact of pulse oximetry surveillance on rescue events and intensive care unit transfers: a before-and-after concurrence
study. Anesthesiology. 2010:112(2):282-287. |
| 5. | Taenzer A et al. Postoperative Monitoring – The Dartmouth Experience. Anesthesia Patient Safety Foundation Newsletter.
Spring-Summer 2012. |
| 6. | McGrath S et al. Surveillance Monitoring Management for General Care Units: Strategy, Design, and Implementation. The Joint Commission
Journal on Quality and Patient Safety. 2016 Jul;42(7):293-302. |
| 7. | McGrath S et al. Inpatient Respiratory Arrest Associated With Sedative and Analgesic Medications: Impact of Continuous Monitoring
on Patient Mortality and Severe Morbidity. J Patient Saf. 2020 14 Mar. DOI: 10.1097/PTS.0000000000000696. |
| 8. | Estimate: Masimo data on file. |
| 9. | http://health.usnews.com/health-care/best-hospitals/articles/best-hospitals-honor-roll-and-overview. |
Forward-Looking Statements
This communication includes forward-looking statements as defined in
Section 27A of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, and Section 21E of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended, in connection
with the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. These forward-looking statements include, among others, statements regarding
Masimo’s expectations for full-year 2024 financial guidance; the 2024 Annual Meeting of Stockholders (the “2024 Annual Meeting”)
of Masimo and the potential stockholder approval of the Board’s nominees; the proposed separation of Masimo’s consumer business,
including the potential timing and structure thereof and the expectation that the proposed separation will maximize shareholder value
or be the best path for success; any potential joint venture involving Masimo’s consumer business and any proposed new terms thereof;
Masimo’s expectation that OriTM will drive significant growth in rainbowTM revenues and margins and have a
positive effect on Masimo’s broader hospital relationships and contracting efforts; Masimo’s expectation that its innovation-led
growth trajectory will drive leverage on its R&D, sales, and corporate and administrative expenses and account for a significant portion
of that margin improvement; Masimo’s long-term outlook; demand for Masimo’s products; anticipated revenue and earnings growth;
Masimo’s financial condition, results of operations and business generally; expectations regarding Masimo’s ability to design
and deliver innovative new noninvasive technologies and reduce the cost of care; and demand for Masimo’s products and technologies;
Masimo’s long-term outlook; Masimo’s ability to continue in its leadership in delivering innovative solutions to clinicians
and patients worldwide; and anticipated revenue, operating margins and earnings growth. These forward-looking statements are based on
current expectations about future events affecting Masimo and are subject to risks and uncertainties, all of which are difficult to predict
and many of which are beyond Masimo’s control and could cause its actual results to differ materially and adversely from those expressed
in its forward-looking statements as a result of various risk factors, including, but not limited to (i) uncertainties regarding a potential
separation of Masimo’s consumer business, (ii) uncertainties regarding future actions that may be taken by Politan in furtherance
of its nomination of director candidates for election at the 2024 Annual Meeting, (iii) the potential cost and management distraction
attendant to Politan’s nomination of director nominees at the 2024 Annual Meeting and (iv) factors discussed in the “Risk
Factors” section of Masimo’s most recent periodic reports filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission (“SEC”),
which may be obtained for free at the SEC’s website at www.sec.gov. Although
Masimo believes that the expectations reflected in its forward-looking statements are reasonable, the Company does not know whether its
expectations will prove correct. All forward-looking statements included in this communication are expressly qualified in their entirety
by the foregoing cautionary statements. You are cautioned not to place undue reliance on these forward-looking statements, which speak
only as of today’s date. Masimo does not undertake any obligation to update, amend or clarify these statements or the “Risk
Factors” contained in the Company’s most recent reports filed with the SEC, whether as a result of new information, future
events or otherwise, except as may be required under the applicable securities laws.
Additional Information Regarding the 2024 Annual Meeting of Stockholders
and Where to Find It
The Company has filed a definitive
proxy statement containing a form of GOLD proxy card with the SEC in connection with its solicitation of proxies for its 2024 Annual Meeting.
THE COMPANY’S STOCKHOLDERS ARE STRONGLY ENCOURAGED TO READ THE DEFINITIVE PROXY STATEMENT (AND ANY AMENDMENTS AND SUPPLEMENTS THERETO)
AND ACCOMPANYING GOLD PROXY CARD AS THEY WILL CONTAIN IMPORTANT INFORMATION. Stockholders may obtain the proxy statement, any amendments
or supplements to the proxy statement and other documents as and when filed by the Company with the SEC without charge from the SEC’s
website at www.sec.gov.
Certain Information Regarding Participants
The Company, its directors and
certain of its executive officers and employees may be deemed to be participants in connection with the solicitation of proxies from the
Company’s stockholders in connection with the matters to be considered at the 2024 Annual Meeting. Information regarding the direct
and indirect interests, by security holdings or otherwise, of the Company’s directors and executive officers in the Company is included
in the Company’s definitive proxy statement for the 2024 Annual Meeting, and any changes thereto may be found in any amendments
or supplements to the proxy statement and other documents as and when filed by the Company with the SEC, which can be found through the
SEC’s website at www.sec.gov.
Investor Contact: Eli Kammerman
(949) 297-7077
ekammerman@masimo.com
Media Contact: Evan Lamb
(949) 396-3376
elamb@masimo.com
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