Filed Pursuant to Rule 424(b)(7)
Registration Number 333-274535
The information contained in this preliminary prospectus
supplement and the accompanying prospectus is not complete and may be changed. A registration statement relating to the securities has been declared effective by the Securities and Exchange Commission. This preliminary prospectus supplement and the
accompanying prospectus are not an offer to sell these securities and are not soliciting an offer to buy these securities in any jurisdiction where the offer or sale is not permitted.
SUBJECT TO COMPLETION, DATED SEPTEMBER 19, 2024
PROSPECTUS SUPPLEMENT
(To Prospectus
dated September 15, 2023)
$500,000,000 of shares
Chewy, Inc.
Class A Common Stock
The selling
securityholder identified in this prospectus supplement (the Selling Securityholder) is offering $500,000,000 of shares of Class A Common Stock, par value $0.01 per share (Class A Common Stock), of Chewy, Inc.
(Chewy or the Company). At an assumed purchase price of $30.90 per share, the last reported sale price of our Class A Common Stock on The New York Stock Exchange (the NYSE) on September 18, 2024, the aggregate
number of shares of Class A Common Stock being offered by the Selling Stockholder would be 16,181,229 shares. We will not receive any of the proceeds from the sale of shares of Class A Common Stock by the Selling Securityholder.
We have two classes of common stock: Class A Common Stock and Class B Common Stock. The rights of the holders of Class A Common
Stock and Class B Common Stock are identical, except with respect to voting, conversion and transfer rights. Each share of Class A Common Stock is entitled to one vote. Each share of Class B Common Stock is entitled to ten votes and
is convertible at any time into one share of Class A Common Stock. The Class A Common Stock is listed on the NYSE under the symbol CHWY. On September 18, 2024, the last reported sale price of Class A Common Stock on the
NYSE was $30.90 per share.
Pursuant to a privately negotiated agreement between us and the Selling Securityholder, we have separately
agreed to purchase from the Selling Securityholder $300 million of shares of Class A Common Stock in a private transaction at a price per share equal to the per share price at which the underwriters will purchase the Class A Common
Stock from the Selling Securityholder in this offering (the Concurrent Repurchase). At an assumed purchase price of $30.90 per share, the last reported sale price of our Class A Common Stock on the NYSE on September 18, 2024,
the aggregate number of shares of Class A Common Stock repurchased would be 9,708,737 shares. The Concurrent Repurchase was approved by a special committee of the Companys board of directors, consisting solely of independent and
disinterested directors not affiliated with the BCP Stockholder Parties, and is being executed separately from the Companys existing $500 million share repurchase program authorized on May 24, 2024, which will be unaffected by this
transaction. The Concurrent Repurchase is expected to be consummated concurrently with this offering. This offering is not conditioned upon the closing of the Concurrent Repurchase, but the Concurrent Repurchase is conditioned upon the closing of
this offering. See Selling Securityholder beginning on page S-11.
The Selling Securityholder and certain of its affiliates
(together, the BCP Stockholder Parties) are, when aggregated, currently our majority stockholders. If this offering and the Concurrent Repurchase are completed at the assumed purchase price described above, the BCP Stockholder Parties
will retain 248,756,585 shares of our Class B common stock, par value $0.01 per share (Class B Common Stock), or approximately 60.9% of our total outstanding shares of common stock and approximately 94.0% of the combined voting
power of our common stock, after giving effect to this offering and the Concurrent Repurchase (or approximately 60.3% of our total outstanding shares of common stock and approximately 93.8% of the combined voting power of our common stock, if the
underwriters option to purchase additional shares as described below is exercised in full). Upon completion of this offering and the Concurrent Repurchase, we will continue to be a controlled company as defined under the corporate
governance rules of NYSE.
Investing in the Class A Common Stock involves risks. You should carefully review the risks and uncertainties described under the
heading Risk Factors contained on page S-5 of this prospectus supplement, page 1 of the accompanying prospectus and under similar headings in the other documents
incorporated by reference into this prospectus supplement.
NEITHER THE
SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION (SEC) NOR ANY STATE SECURITIES COMMISSION HAS APPROVED OR DISAPPROVED OF THESE SECURITIES OR PASSED UPON THE ADEQUACY OR ACCURACY OF THIS PROSPECTUS SUPPLEMENT OR THE ACCOMPANYING PROSPECTUS. ANY
REPRESENTATION TO THE CONTRARY IS A CRIMINAL OFFENSE.
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The Selling Securityholder has granted the underwriters an option to purchase up to an additional 75 million of shares of Class A Common
Stock at the public offering price, less the underwriting discounts and commissions, within 30 days from the date of this prospectus supplement. We will not receive any proceeds from the sale of shares of Class A Common Stock by the Selling
Securityholder pursuant to any exercise of the underwriters option to purchase additional shares of Class A Common Stock.
The
underwriters expect to deliver the shares of Class A Common Stock against payment on or about , 2024.
The date of this prospectus supplement is , 2024.