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BH-A

Biglari Holdings Inc.
NYSE · CONSUMER DISCRETIONARY · RETAIL-EATING PLACES
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How BH-A rewrote its risk factors

10-K ITEM 1A · FY2024 → FY2025
Text kept
88%
of sentences unchanged
Added
12
new sentences
Dropped
7
sentences removed
Length
+62
words, now 3,621

New in FY2025

  • The ability of our insurance subsidiaries to pay dividends to Biglari Holdings is regulated by state insurance laws, which limit the amount of, and in certain circumstances may prohibit the payment of, cash dividends, and Steak n Shake’s credit facility contains restrictions on its ability to pay dividends to Biglari Holdings.
  • Legislation or other regulatory developments could make the shares of Class A common stock and Class B common stock ineligible for trading on national securities exchanges.
  • The Company had five material weaknesses in internal controls over financial reporting during 2024.
  • Management has assessed the effectiveness of the Company’s internal control over financial reporting as of December 31, 2025, and determined that the Company remediated four of the five 2024 material weaknesses.
  • We cannot be certain that the measures we may take in the future will be sufficient to remediate the final 2024 control deficiency or that they will prevent or avoid potential future material weaknesses.
  • If we are unable to successfully remediate our remaining material weakness or any future material weaknesses in our internal control over financial reporting, we would be exposed to greater risk of misstatement in the financial statements.
  • Future sales of our common stock may cause the market price of our common stock to decline.
  • We have registered up to $500,000,000 of our common stock for sale in an at-the-market offering.
  • Sales of these shares could adversely affect the market value of our common stock.
  • The market price of our common stock could decline as a result of sales or the perception that these sales could occur.
  • A significant component of our restaurant business costs is related to food commodities, including beef and dairy products, which can be subject to significant price fluctuations due to seasonal shifts, climate conditions, industry demand, changes in commodity markets, inflation, tariffs, and other factors.
  • To avoid becoming and registering as an investment company under the Investment Company Act, we operate as an ongoing enterprise, with approximately 2,300 employees, along with an asset base from which to pursue acquisitions.

Gone since FY2024

  • The ability of our insurance subsidiaries to pay dividends to Biglari Holdings is regulated by state insurance laws, which limit the amount of, and in certain circumstances may prohibit the payment of, cash dividends.
  • Legislation or other regulatory developments could make the shares of Class A common stock and Class B common stock ineligible for trading on the NYSE or other national securities exchanges.
  • Management has assessed the effectiveness of the Company’s internal control over financial reporting as of December 31, 2024 using criteria established in Internal Control - Integrated Framework (2013) issued by the Committee of Sponsoring Organizations of the Treadway Commission and determined that the Company did not design effective internal controls over financial reporting to mitigate potential risks.
  • We cannot be certain that the measures we may take in the future will be sufficient to remediate the control deficiencies that led to our material weakness in our internal control over financial reporting or that they will prevent or avoid potential future material weaknesses.
  • If we are unable to successfully remediate our existing or any future material weaknesses in our internal control over financial reporting, we would be exposed to greater risk of misstatement in the financial statements.
  • A significant component of our restaurant business costs is related to food commodities, including beef and dairy products, which can be subject to significant price fluctuations due to seasonal shifts, climate conditions, industry demand, changes in commodity markets, inflation, and other factors.
  • To avoid becoming and registering as an investment company under the Investment Company Act, we operate as an ongoing enterprise, with approximately 2,500 employees, along with an asset base from which to pursue acquisitions.

Sentence-level comparison of Item 1A in the two most recent 10-Ks (FY2024 ↗, FY2025 ↗). A reworded sentence counts as one dropped and one added, so heavy edits read as low “kept”. Headings and page furniture are stripped; nothing is summarised by a model.

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