Risk-factor diff
FY 2025 10-K vs. FY 2024Net-new paragraphs in the most recent 10-K's Item 1A. Companies rarely add risk language without a real reason — additions here are often a leading signal of management concerns.
“Our customers include pharmaceutical and biotechnology companies, laboratories, academic and research institutions, public health authorities, private healthcare organizations, doctors and government agencies. Our quarterly revenue and results of operations are highly dependent on the volume and timing of orders received during the quarter. In addition, our revenues and earnings forecasts for future quarters are often based on the expected trends in our markets. However, the markets we serve do not always experience the trends that we may expect. Negative fluctuations in our customers’ markets…”
“ecently announced and proposed changes in U.S. funding and regulations have created a more cautious spending environment for our customers and could cause them to become more conservative with both instrumentation and consumable purchases due to funding and regulatory uncertainty. Our revenues may be adversely affected if our customers delay or reduce purchases as a result of uncertainties surrounding the approval of government or industrial funding proposals or reductions in government funding. Such declines could harm our consolidated financial position, results of operations, cash flows and…”
“changes in trade policy applicable to the regions in which we do business, including changes in U.S. trade policies or the imposition of higher tariffs on products being shipped into and from the U.S.,”
“differing tax laws and changes in those laws (including the enactment by countries of the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) Base Erosion and Profit Shifting Pillar Two, which would impose a minimum corporate income tax rate of at least 15%, subject to certain safe harbors), or changes in the countries in which we are subject to taxation,”
“Uncertainties related to the development, deployment and use of AI to advance our product offerings and improve internal operations may result in harm to our business and reputation.”
Policies & disclosures
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