{"url_path":"/sec/gild/8-k/2026-05-20/item-1-01","section_key":"item-1-01","section_title":"Item 1.01 ****Entry into a Material Definitive Agreement.**","topic":"sec","document":{"doc_type":"8-K","doc_date":"2026-05-20","source_url":"https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/882095/0001104659-26-064518-index.html","accession_number":"0001104659-26-064518","cik":"0000882095","ticker":"GILD","issuer_name":"GILEAD SCIENCES, INC.","edgar_url":"https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/882095/0001104659-26-064518-index.html","primary_entity_key":"0000882095","primary_entity_name":"GILEAD SCIENCES, INC."},"word_count":487,"has_tables":true,"body_markdown":"**Item 1.01.****Entry into a Material Definitive Agreement.**\n\n \n\nSupplemental Indenture\n\n \n\nOn May 20, 2026, Gilead Sciences,\nInc. (the “Company”) and Computershare Trust Company, National Association, as successor to Wells Fargo Bank, National Association,\nas trustee (the “Trustee” and, together with the Company, the “Parties”), entered into an Eleventh Supplemental\nIndenture (the “Eleventh Supplemental Indenture”) to the Indenture between the Parties, dated as of March 30, 2011 (the\n“Base Indenture”). The Eleventh Supplemental Indenture relates to the Company’s issuance of (a) $500,000,000 aggregate\nprincipal amount of the Company’s 4.250% Senior Notes due 2028 (the “2028 Notes”), (b) $1,000,000,000 aggregate\nprincipal amount of the Company’s 4.400% Senior Notes due 2029 (the “2029 Notes”), (c) $1,000,000,000 aggregate\nprincipal amount of the Company’s 4.600% Senior Notes due 2031 (the “2031 Notes”) and (d) $500,000,000 aggregate principal\namount of the Company’s 4.900% Senior Notes due 2034 (the “2034 Notes” and, together with the 2028 Notes, the 2029 Notes\nand the 2031 Notes, the “Notes”). The Notes were sold in a public offering pursuant to the Company’s Registration Statement\non Form S-3 (File No. 333-273745).\n\n \n\nThe 2028 Notes will pay interest\nsemi-annually at a rate of 4.250% per annum until May 20, 2028. The 2029 Notes will pay interest semi-annually at a rate of 4.400% per\nannum until May 20, 2029. The 2031 Notes will pay interest semi-annually at a rate of 4.600% per annum until May 20, 2031. The 2034 Notes\nwill pay interest semi-annually at a rate of 4.900% per annum until May 20, 2034.\n\n \n\nThe Company intends to use\nthe net proceeds from the sale of the Notes for general corporate purposes, which may include funding for acquisitions, investments, strategic\ntransactions or other business opportunities.\n\n \n\nThe Base Indenture and the\nEleventh Supplemental Indenture contain certain restrictions, including a limitation that restricts the Company’s ability and ability\nof certain of its subsidiaries to create or incur secured indebtedness, enter into sale and leaseback transactions and consolidate, merge\nor transfer all or substantially all of the Company’s assets and the assets of its subsidiaries, and also requires the Company to\noffer to repurchase the Notes upon certain change of control events.\n\n \n\nThe Company may redeem some\nor all of the Notes at any time and from time to time at the applicable redemption prices described in the form of such notes.\n\n \n\nFor a complete description\nof the terms and conditions of the Base Indenture, please refer to the Base Indenture, filed as [Exhibit 4.1](https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/882095/000119312511086814/dex41.htm) to the Company’s\nCurrent Report on Form 8-K, filed with the Commission on April 1, 2011, and incorporated herein by reference. For a complete description\nof the terms and conditions of the Eleventh Supplemental Indenture and the Notes, please refer to the Eleventh Supplemental Indenture\nand the forms of each series of Notes, each of which is incorporated herein by reference and attached to this Current Report on Form\n8-K as Exhibits 4.2, 4.3, 4.4, 4.5 and 4.6, respectively."}