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How CALX rewrote its risk factors

10-K ITEM 1A · FY2024 → FY2025
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  • Summary of Material Risks Associated With Our Business The principal risks and uncertainties affecting our business include the following: Business and Operational Risks • If we do not successfully increase our sales through adoption of our platform, cloud and managed service offerings, our operating results, financial condition, cash flows and long-term growth may be negatively impacted. • If we do not successfully execute our business strategy to increase our sales to new and existing CXPs, our operating results, financial condition, cash flows and long-term growth may be negatively impacted. • We face risks associated with being materially dependent upon third-party vendors; certain factors such as component shortages that affect our business as a result of those dependencies have and could continue to disrupt our business and adversely impact our gross margin and results of operations. • If we fail to properly develop, invest in, and manage AI Technologies used in our products and services, our business, financial condition, and results of operations could be materially adversely affected. • The imposition of new duties, tariffs, trade barriers and retaliatory countermeasures implemented by the U.S. and other governments and resulting impact on customer demand may have a material adverse effect on our business, financial condition and results of operations. • Cyberattacks or other security incidents that disrupt our or our third-party providers’ operations or compromise data, may expose us to liability, harm our reputation or otherwise adversely affect our business. • Changing market and customer requirements may adversely affect the valuation of our inventory as well as our supplier purchase commitments. • Business and operational risks associated with expanding our international operations could harm our business. • We may have difficulty evolving and scaling our business and operations to meet customer and market demand, which could harm our financial results or cause us to fail to execute on our business strategies. • Litigation and regulatory proceedings could harm our business or negatively impact our results of operations. • We have a history of fluctuations in our gross margin and operating results, which can make it difficult to predict our future performance and could cause the market price of our stock to decline. • We are exposed to customer credit risks that could adversely affect our operating results and financial condition. • If we lose any of our key personnel, or are unable to attract, train and retain qualified personnel, our ability to manage our business and continue our growth would be negatively impacted. • If we experience disruptions with our enterprise resource planning system, we may not be able to effectively transact business or produce financial statements, which would adversely affect our business, results of operations and cash flows.
  • Risks Related to Our Products • Our products are highly technical and may contain undetected hardware or software defects or software bugs, which could harm our reputation and adversely affect our business. • If we are unable to ensure that our products interoperate properly and as required within our customers’ networks, our business will be harmed. • Our estimates regarding warranty or product obligations are highly subjective.
  • If our estimates change, the liability for warranty or product obligations may be increased, impacting future cost of revenue. • Our business and operations depend on proprietary technologies, and our financial performance may suffer if we cannot protect and enforce our IP rights. • If we are unable to obtain third-party technology licenses needed for our products and platform solutions, our business and operations will be impaired, and our operating results could be adversely affected. • Our use of open-source software could impose limitations on our ability to commercialize our products.
  • Macroeconomic and Industry Risks • Our business depends upon the capital spending patterns and decisions of CXPs, and any decrease or delay in capital spending by CXPs due to the timing and availability of capital and other causes would reduce our revenue and harm our business. • Government-sponsored programs and U.S. federal government shutdowns could impact the timing and buying patterns of CXPs, which may cause fluctuations in our operating results. • Adverse global economic, market and industry conditions, geopolitical issues and other conditions that impact our increasingly global operations could have a negative effect on our business, results of operations and financial condition and liquidity. • We face intense competition that could reduce our revenue and adversely affect our financial results. • Historically, our customer base has been concentrated, and the loss of any of our key customers may adversely impact our revenue and results of operations, and any delays in payment by a key customer could negatively impact our cash flows and working capital. • Our industry is characterized by rapid technological advancements, and if we fail to develop new products or enhancements that meet changing CXP requirements, we could experience lower sales. • Our sales cycles can be long and unpredictable, and our sales efforts require considerable time and expense.
  • Government and Regulatory Risks • Actual or perceived failure to comply with applicable data privacy, security and platform and technology regulation laws, regulations and standards could impact our business, operations, and expose us to increased liability. • If we fail to comply with evolving industry standards, sales of our products would be adversely affected. • Our failure or the failure of our manufacturers to comply with environmental and other legal regulations could adversely impact our results of operations. • We are subject to governmental export and import controls that could subject us to liability or impair our ability to compete in additional international markets. • Regulatory and physical impacts of climate change and other natural events may affect our customers and our manufacturers, resulting in adverse effects on our operating results. • Our customers are subject to government regulation, and changes in current or future laws or regulations that negatively impact our customers could harm our business.
  • Risks Related to Ownership of Our Common Stock and Other Risks • Our stock price may continue to be volatile, and the value of an investment in our common stock may decline. • Provisions in our charter documents and under Delaware law could discourage a takeover that stockholders may consider favorable and may lead to entrenchment of our management and Board of Directors. • We may need additional capital in the future to finance our business. • We do not currently intend to pay dividends on our common stock and, consequently, our stockholders’ ability to achieve a return on their investment will depend on appreciation in the price of our common stock. • Our failure to adequately address and resolve risks and uncertainties associated with acquisitions could have a material adverse impact on our financial condition and results of operations. • We cannot guarantee that our stock repurchase program will be utilized to the full value approved or that it will enhance long-term stockholder value.
  • General Risks • As a public company, we are subject to significant accounting, legal and regulatory requirements; our failure to comply with these requirements may adversely affect our operating results and financial condition. • If we fail to maintain proper and effective internal controls, our ability to produce accurate financial statements on a timely basis could be impaired, which would adversely affect our operating results and our stock price.
  • Business and Operational Risks If we do not successfully increase our sales through adoption of our platform, cloud and managed service offerings, our operating results, financial condition, cash flows and long-term growth may be negatively impacted.
  • We have platform, cloud and managed service offerings, including new AI-enabled “agentic” capabilities, which are early in their product life cycles and subject to uncertain market demand.
  • For example, our SmartLife managed services include AI-driven managed Wi-Fi, network security, parental controls and an ecosystem of services from partners, including Arlo and Bark.
  • However, if subscriber demand for such services does not grow as expected or declines, or our customers are unable or unwilling to invest in our platform to deploy and market these services, demand for our products may not grow at rates as we anticipate, negatively impacting our revenue and long-term growth.
  • If we do not successfully execute our business strategy to increase our sales to new and existing CXPs, our operating results, financial condition, cash flows and long-term growth may be negatively impacted.
  • Our growth depends upon our ability to increase sales to existing and new service providers of all types and sizes, and the execution of our strategy to increase sales to CXPs involves significant risk.
  • If we are unable to increase our sales to new and existing CXPs, our operating results, financial condition, cash flows and long-term growth may be negatively impacted.
  • We face risks associated with being materially dependent upon third-party vendors; certain factors such as component shortages that affect our business as a result of those dependencies have and could continue to disrupt our business and adversely impact our gross margin and results of operations.
  • We do not have internal manufacturing capabilities and we rely solely on a small number of CMs and ODMs to manufacture and supply our products.
  • We are dependent upon sole-source or limited-source suppliers for some key product components such as chipsets, certain of our application-specific integrated circuit processors and memory and resistor components, including certain components sourced solely through suppliers located in China and other Asian countries.
  • For example, the technology industry is currently experiencing significant supply constraints for memory components, driven in part by the reallocation of manufacturing capacity towards the global AI infrastructure build, which constraints may continue for years until new manufacturing capacity is built.
  • These constraints have resulted in, and are expected to continue to result in, increased costs and extended lead times for the components used in our products.
  • This may adversely affect our ability to obtain components and materials needed to manufacture our products at acceptable prices in a timely fashion, or at all.
  • While we have worked to mitigate the cost impact from historical price increases, our efforts may not be successful with respect to increases arising from product tariffs recently announced by the U.S.
  • If we are unable to adequately anticipate demand, this could interrupt our product manufacturing, increase our cost of revenue associated with expedite fees and air freight and/or result in delays or cancellation of customer orders.
  • If we fail to properly develop, invest in, and manage AI Technologies used in our products and services, our business, financial condition, and results of operations could be materially adversely affected.
  • We use AI, machine learning, and automated decision-making technologies, including proprietary AI and machine learning algorithms and models (collectively, “AI Technologies”) throughout our business, and are making significant investments in this area.
  • For example, with the implementation of our agentic workflows within our platform, we will aim to provide both our customer success team and CXP customers with advanced automated tools to augment their operations, accelerate transformation initiatives and expand their impact independent of traditional resource constraints.
  • We expect that increased investment will be required in the future to continuously improve our use of AI Technologies.
  • As with many technological innovations, there are significant risks involved in developing, maintaining and deploying these technologies, and there can be no assurance that the usage of, or our investments in, such technologies will always enhance our products or services or be beneficial to our business, including our efficiency or profitability.
  • In particular, if the models underlying our AI Technologies are: incorrectly designed or implemented; trained or reliant on incomplete, inadequate, inaccurate, biased or otherwise poor quality data, or on data to which we do not have sufficient rights or in relation to which we and/or the providers of such data have not implemented sufficient legal compliance measures; used without sufficient oversight and governance to ensure their responsible use; and/or adversely impacted by unforeseen defects, technical challenges, cybersecurity threats or material performance issues, the performance of our products, services and business, as well as our reputation and the reputations of our customers, could suffer or we could incur liability resulting from the violation of laws or contracts to which we are a party or civil claims.
  • With respect to our products or services that incorporate AI Technologies, including agentic AI, the market for such products and services is rapidly evolving and unproven in many industries, including our own, and important assumptions about the characteristics of targeted markets, pricing, sales cycles, cost, performance, and perceived value associated with our services or products may be inaccurate.
  • We cannot be sure that the market will continue to grow or that it will grow in ways we anticipate.
  • In addition, market acceptance and consumer perceptions of products and services that incorporate AI Technologies is uncertain.
  • Additionally, the regulatory framework for AI Technologies is rapidly evolving.
  • Existing laws and regulations may be interpreted in ways that could affect the operation of our AI Technologies, and federal, state and foreign government bodies and agencies have introduced or are currently considering additional laws and regulations applicable to AI Technologies.
  • For example, in the U.S., legislation related to AI Technologies has been introduced at the federal level and enacted or proposed by various states, including California, Colorado, Connecticut and Texas.
  • Some enacted or proposed frameworks include requirements focused on transparency, risk-management and accountability for AI Technologies, while others focus on high-risk uses of AI or the use of automated decision-making.
  • Collectively, these developments signal an emerging trend towards a patchwork of state-level governance of AI in the U.S.
  • Furthermore, the Trump administration’s approach to investment in and regulation of AI technologies has and is expected to continue to deviate from that of the previous administration, and we will need to adapt to any changes that may result from such approach, including as the result of new or changing executive orders.
  • For instance, the U.S. federal government may seek to pre-empt state laws when they seek to govern certain topics as evidenced by the Trump administration’s “Ensuring a National Policy Framework for Artificial Intelligence” Executive Order signed on December 11, 2025.
  • This order calls for federal standards and legislation that would preempt conflicting state AI regulations and create a federal litigation task force focused on challenging state AI laws in court.
  • In Europe, the EU Artificial Intelligence Act (“EU AI Act”) establishes a comprehensive, risk-based governance framework for AI in the European Union (“EU”) market.

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  • Business and Operational Risks If we do not successfully execute our business strategy to increase our sales to new and existing Broadband Experience Providers, or BEPs, our operating results, financial condition, cash flows and long-term growth may be negatively impacted.
  • Our growth depends upon our ability to increase sales to existing and new service providers of all types and sizes, and the execution of our strategy to increase sales to BEPs involves significant risk.
  • If we are unable to increase our sales to new and existing BEPs, our operating results, financial condition, cash flows and long-term growth may be negatively impacted.
  • We face risks associated with being materially dependent upon third-party vendors; certain factors that affect our business as a result of those dependencies have and could continue to disrupt our business and adversely impact our gross margin and results of operations.
  • We do not have internal manufacturing capabilities and rely solely on a small number of CMs and ODMs to manufacture and supply our products.
  • We are dependent upon sole-source or limited-source suppliers for some key product components such as chipsets and certain of our application-specific integrated circuit processors and resistor components, including certain components sourced solely through suppliers located in China and other Asian countries.
  • For example, we have experienced disruptions in our supply of certain components that we source from suppliers in China and other Asian countries due to production disruptions, factory closures and longer lead times for components and from uncertainty around trade and tariff policies between the U.S. and China, which has caused delays in our product supply.
  • This may adversely affect our ability to obtain components and materials needed to manufacture our products at acceptable prices or at all.
  • If we are not able to adequately anticipate demand, this could interrupt our product manufacturing, increase our cost of revenue associated with expedite fees and air freight and/or result in delays or cancellation of customer orders.
  • For example, as of December 31, 2024, we had inventory deposits totaling $62.6 million to address excess components owned by our CMs and ODMs.
  • We rely on our own and third-party hardware, software, technology infrastructure, data centers, digital networks and online sites and services for both internal and customer-facing operations that are critical to our business, or collectively, IT Systems.
  • In addition, as part of our business operations, we collect, store, process, use and/or disclose information, including sensitive data relating to our business, our business partners and our customers, and personal information about individuals such as our employees and our customers’ subscribers, or collectively, Confidential Information.
  • If we do not successfully increase our sales through adoption of our platform, cloud and managed service offerings, our operating results, financial condition, cash flows and long-term growth may be negatively impacted.
  • We have platform, cloud and managed service offerings that are early in their product life cycles and subject to uncertain market demand.
  • For example, our SmartLife TM managed services include managed Wi-Fi, network security, parental controls and an ecosystem of services from partners, including Arlo and Bark.
  • However, if subscriber demand for such services does not grow as expected or declines, or our customers are unable or unwilling to invest in our platform to deploy and market these services, demand for our products may not grow at rates as we anticipate.
  • We may, from time to time, adjust inventory valuations downward or end of life certain of our products in response to our assessment of our business strategy as well as consideration of demand from our customers for specific products or product lines.
  • We also periodically evaluate our supplier purchase commitments, which increased significantly due to extended lead-times during the global pandemic.
  • While our purchase commitments have normalized, the effect of those purchase decisions are still impacting our balance sheet through component inventory and inventory deposits with suppliers.
  • If we invest substantial resources to expand our international operations and are unable to do so successfully and in a timely manner, our financial condition and results of operations may suffer.
  • Patent infringement claims may be asserted by patent assertion entities and non-practicing entities, or NPEs, that do not conduct business as an operating company and hold and own patents only for the purpose of aggressively pursuing royalties through infringement assertions or patent infringement litigation.
  • Factors that impact variability of our operating results include our ability to predict our revenue and reduce and control our costs, our ability to predict product functions and features desired by our customers, the impact of global economic conditions, our ability to effectively manage our global supply chain operations, our ability to effectively manage third parties upon whom we depend to conduct our business, our customers’ spending patterns and purchasing decisions, the impact of competition, customer adoption of our products, our ability to manage our legal, contractual and regulatory obligations and liabilities and other risk factors identified in “Management’s Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations” and in this “Risk Factors” section.
  • We operate our Oracle enterprise resource planning, or ERP, system on Oracle’s cloud platform and our software billing application on Salesforce.com.
  • Our products, including our platform (cloud, software and systems) and SmartLife TM managed services, are highly technical and, when deployed, are critical to the operation of many networks.
  • Third parties may also choose to not renew licenses with us, demand unreasonable license fees or cease to offer technologies that we require.
  • Macroeconomic and Industry Risks Our business depends upon the capital spending patterns and decisions of BEPs, and any decrease or delay in capital spending by BEPs due to the timing and availability of capital and other causes would reduce our revenue and harm our business.
  • Demand for our products depends on the magnitude and timing of capital spending by BEPs as they construct, expand, upgrade and maintain their access networks as well as BEPs’ adoption of our platform and managed services.
  • Capital spending is cyclical in our industry, sporadic among individual BEPs and can change on short notice, which gives us little visibility into changes in spending behavior in any particular quarter.
  • BEP spending is also affected by reductions in budgets, including as a result of a general economic downturn, delays in purchasing cycles, access to or timing of government funding programs or capital markets, and seasonality and delays in capital allocation decisions.
  • Further, BEPs may pursue capital investment in network technologies other than those offered by us or may choose not to adopt our products and platform solutions in their networks.
  • Reductions in capital expenditures by BEPs would have a material negative impact on our revenue and results of operations and slow our rate of revenue growth.
  • Government-sponsored programs and U.S. federal government shutdowns could impact the timing and buying patterns of BEPs, which may cause fluctuations in our operating results.
  • We sell to broadband service providers and BEPs, including U.S.-based independent operating companies, or IOCs, which rely significantly upon interstate and intrastate access charges and federal and state subsidies in the form of grants and other funding, such as the Federal Communications Commission’s, or FCC’s, Rural Digital Opportunity Fund, the CARES Act Enhanced Alternative Connect America Cost Model, or the American Rescue Plan Act.
  • Department of Agriculture’s Rural Utility Service or the U.S.
  • Department of Commerce National Telecommunications and Information Administration’s, or NTIA’s, Broadband Equity, Access and Deployment, or BEAD, Program loans and grants, to finance capital spending.
  • For example, the U.S. government passed The Infrastructure Investment Jobs Act, which charged the NTIA with establishing the BEAD Program and ensuring that BEAD-funded infrastructure projects comply with the Buy America Domestic Content Procurement Preference, or Buy America Preference, of the Build America, Buy America Act, or BABA.
  • Geopolitical issues, such as the Russian invasion of Ukraine, armed conflict in the Middle East, relations between the U.S. and China, tariff and trade policy changes, and increasing potential of conflict involving countries in Asia that are critical to our supply-chain operations, such as Taiwan and China, have resulted in increasing global tensions and create uncertainty for global commerce.
  • New or increased tariffs and other changes in U.S. trade policy, including new sanctions, could trigger retaliatory actions by affected countries.
  • Our ability to compete successfully depends on a number of factors, including our ability to successfully develop new products and solutions that anticipate BEP and market requirements and changes in technology and industry standards; BEP acceptance and adoption of our products and solutions; our ability to differentiate our products from our competitors’ offerings based on performance, features, cost-effectiveness or other factors; our product capabilities to meet customer network requirements and preferences; and our success in marketing and selling our products and platform solutions.
  • Although we have not had a greater-than-10%-of-revenue customer in the past four years, a large portion of our sales has been, and in the future may be, to a limited number of customers.

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