What Changed
Risk factors · Feb 18, 2025 → Feb 17, 202615 added · 6 removed between the two most recent 10-Ks. The risks a company starts — or stops — disclosing are often the story.
Newly disclosed
- The Company’s ability to execute its strategic objectives could be adversely affected if it is unable to successfully integrate new technologies, including artificial intelligence, in a timely, cost‑effective, compliant, and appropriate manner, or if the processes and methods used to develop, deploy, or otherwise utilize such technologies are determined to be inconsistent with evolving or newly enacted regulatory requirements.
- Tariff and Trade Policies – Changes and uncertainty in U.S. trade policies, including tariffs, trade agreements and other regulations, as well as in those of other countries, may affect our operating results, cash flows and financial condition. 14 Table of Contents The Company’s business can be impacted by changes in U.S. trade policies, including tariffs, trade agreements and other related regulations, as well as trade restrictions and retaliatory actions imposed or taken by foreign governments.
- The tactics and capabilities of cybercriminals are growing increasingly sophisticated, and they will continue to evolve in their sophistication as artificial intelligence is leveraged to perpetrate cyberattacks.
- Legal Proceedings – Costs associated with claims, litigation, administrative proceedings and regulatory reviews, and potentially adverse outcomes, may affect our profitability.
- Economic, Financial and Political Risks Economic Environment – Demand for our products depends on the level of commercial and industrial activity worldwide. 8 Table of Contents The demand for our products depends, in part, on the general economic conditions of the industries, geographies or economies in which our customers operate.
- If any participant in our sales channel, including end users, are unable to, or have a diminished ability to, purchase our products because of unavailable credit or unfavorable credit terms, depressed end-user demand, or are simply unwilling to purchase our products, our net sales and earnings will be adversely affected.
- This has resulted in higher costs to the Company for certain raw materials and components it imports and uses in the manufacture of its products, as well as higher prices to purchasers of the Company’s products in certain foreign geographies and opportunities for competitors to enhance their presence in markets in which we participate.
- Even if those challenges are successful, it is uncertain as to whether the Company will be able to recover any tariffs it has previously paid, or whether the U.S. government will attempt to reimpose the tariffs under some other authority.
- Further changes in U.S. or foreign trade policies, tariffs and other trade-related regulations, and continued uncertainty around the foregoing, could adversely impact the Company’s business, financial condition and results of operations.
- To date, none of the cybersecurity threats and attacks we have experienced have materially affected, or are reasonably likely to materially affect, our results of operations, business strategy or financial condition.
- An economic downturn may have an adverse effect on our results of operations and financial condition and affect our ability to satisfy the financial covenants in the terms of our financing arrangements.
- The U.S. government has imposed and significantly increased tariffs on foreign imports, with many foreign governments implementing retaliatory tariffs on U.S. exports into their countries.
No longer disclosed
- If our distributors and original equipment manufacturers are unable to, or have a diminished ability to, purchase our products because of unavailable credit or unfavorable credit terms, depressed end-user demand, or are simply unwilling to purchase our products, our net sales and earnings will be adversely affected. 9 Table of Contents An economic downturn may have an adverse effect on our results of operations and financial condition and affect our ability to satisfy the financial covenants in the terms of our financing arrangements.
- The tactics and capabilities of cybercriminals are growing increasingly sophisticated, and it is virtually impossible for any organization, including us, to completely eliminate the risk of cyberattacks.
- To date, none of the cybersecurity threats and attacks we have experienced have had a material adverse impact on our operations, business or financial condition.
- Economic, Financial and Political Risks Economic Environment - Demand for our products depends on the level of commercial and industrial activity worldwide.
- The demand for our products depends, in part, on the general economic conditions of the industries, geographies or economies in which our customers operate.
- In addition, the U.S. government could adopt changes to international trade agreements, tariffs, taxes and other related regulations.