Fiscal period ending 2025-09-30 versus 2024-09-30
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Risk exposure broadened across cybersecurity, trade, and operations with no offsetting easing. The 2023 data breach has escalated into a defined regulatory and notification liability, new tariff disclosures across five major trading partners threaten revenue and margins, and a newly surfaced on-time delivery risk introduces direct customer-loss and capacity consequences. AI-related IP risk adds an emerging technology dimension that compounds the cybersecurity picture.
4 company-specific
· 1 common-mode
Company-specific changes
Revised
Prior year disclosed September 2023 incident vaguely; this year specifies data types impacted (employee, job applicant, personal info) and adds notification obligations, escalating disclosure and regulatory exposure.
Data privacy, identity protection and information security compliance may require significant resources and presents certain risks. We collect, store, have access to and otherwise process certain…
Revised
Added specific tariff disclosure: U.S. announced tariffs on Canada, China, EU, Japan, Mexico; reciprocal tariffs expected; explicit revenue/margin impact warning and supply chain disruption risk.
Changes in U.S. or foreign trade policies and other factors beyond our control may adversely impact our business and operating results. Geopolitical tensions and trade disputes can disrupt supply…
Revised
Added material on-time delivery risk with new consequences: lost sales, lost customers, restricted manufacturing capacity, and growth constraints.
Failure to achieve and maintain a high level of product and service quality and on-time delivery could damage our reputation with customers and negatively impact our results. Product and service…
Revised
China weakness now extends into fiscal 2025, escalating from prior-year issue. Removal of U.S. dollar strength discussion suggests ongoing currency headwinds persist unabated.
Risks associated with our non-U.S. operations could adversely affect our business, financial condition and results of operations. We have significant operations in a number of countries outside the…
Also disclosed — common-mode (Generative AI competition disruption)
Generative AI competition disruption
Revised
New disclosure that AI use in product development could impact IP protections—a substantive emerging risk in the AI era.
Infringement or expiration of our intellectual property rights, or allegations that we have infringed upon the intellectual property rights of third parties, could negatively affect us. We rely on a…