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Dorman Products, Inc.
NASDAQ · CONSUMER DISCRETIONARY · MOTOR VEHICLE PARTS & ACCESSORIES
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MKT CAP $3.7BP/E 17.3DIV YIELD —FCF YIELD 5.76%REV TTM $2.2B +3.3%NET INCOME $219.3M −3.0%NET DEBT $308.6M52W 100.50 – 153.75SEC XBRL · TTM TO Invalid Date

How DORM rewrote its risk factors

10-K ITEM 1A · FY2024 → FY2025
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  • The risks described below, which are listed in no particular order, are not the only risks we face.
  • The size of the motor vehicle aftermarket industry depends on factors such as the number of vehicles on the road, average vehicle age, change in total miles driven, regulatory changes, pricing of new and used vehicles, vehicle and component quality and warranties and maintenance programs.
  • We believe that industry demand may be negatively impacted as vehicle and component quality improve, which could reduce part replacement frequency.
  • Enhancements to the duration or scope of warranties and maintenance programs offered by OEMs may also further reduce demand for our products.
  • We compete against a broad range of companies (public and private, large and small) and brands, including, but not limited to, Standard Motor Products, Inc., Tenneco, Inc., TrakMotive, Bosch Auto Parts, Gates Corporation, Continental Automotive Systems, Inc.
  • (following its acquisition of Meritor, Inc.), Automann Inc., WARN Industries (owned by LKQ Corporation), Rocky Mountain ATV/MC, and numerous category specific competitors.
  • We also face competition from OEMs, through their dealer networks, and from some of our customers whose private-label brands compete with ours.
  • Competitors that have larger customer bases and greater financial, technical, and marketing resources may: • respond faster to new technologies and changing customer needs; • engage in more extensive research and development; • offer lower product prices; • exercise broader marketing campaigns; and • provide more attractive terms to customers and strategic partners.
  • We cannot assure you that competitors will not (i) adopt fast follower strategies, based on our new product launches, (ii) develop products or services that are equal or superior to our products, or that achieve greater market acceptance than our products, or (iii) expand into our product lines.
  • Such risks may be compounded by the availability and use of artificial intelligence ("AI") by our competitors.
  • We also cannot assure you that additional companies will not enter our industry or that companies in our industry will not consolidate.
  • These events could pressure us to offer customers better pricing or contract terms to retain business or cause us to lose market share, which, in turn, could have a material adverse effect on our business, financial condition, and results of operations.
  • A significant percentage of our sales are concentrated among a relatively small number of customers.
  • In 2025, two customers each represented more than 10% of net sales and together accounted for approximately 40% of net sales.
  • We anticipate that this concentration of sales among these customers may continue in the future.
  • The loss of a significant customer or a substantial reduction in purchases or a change in buying behaviors of a significant customer could have a material adverse effect on our sales and operating results.
  • Customer consolidation may further increase this risk.
  • Although we may enter into long-term agreements with certain of our customers, these typically lack purchase commitments and instead rely on individual purchase orders.
  • We have in the past, and may in the future, lose customers or lose a particular product line of a customer due to competition in the industry, customer consolidation, and customer initiatives to buy direct from our suppliers.
  • Given the size and scale of some of our customers, their ability to forge direct relationships with our suppliers could cause those customers to reduce their purchases from us or to cease purchasing from us altogether.
  • A decision by any significant customer to materially decrease the amount of products purchased from us or the number of our product lines they choose to carry, to change their manner of doing business with us, or to stop doing business with us, could have a material adverse effect on our business, financial condition, and results of operations.
  • Because of this customer concentration and intense competition, we often are under pressure from our customers to lower prices, extend payment terms, increase marketing and transportation allowances, provide enhanced rebates, discounts, rights of return and credits, and offer customers other more favorable terms.
  • If and when we meet these customer demands, they adversely impact our operating margins and profitability and could have a material adverse effect on our business, financial condition, and results of operations.
  • Our industry faces intense price competition, and our success depends on maintaining a competitive cost and price structure .
  • Our industry faces intense price competition.
  • Our competitors strive to attract business in many ways, including by growing their e-commerce platforms, sourcing from countries with more favorable U.S. tariff and trade treatment, and lowering their prices.
  • To remain competitive, we may need to reduce prices, which could impact our margins.
  • Our ability to maintain or improve our margins depends on, among other things, enhancing manufacturing and distribution efficiency, managing product and channel mix, further diversifying our supply chain, passing through cost increases (including tariffs) where possible, and achieving cost reductions from suppliers, such as by reducing the costs of components used in our products.
  • Our inability to maintain a competitive cost structure could have a material adverse effect on our business, financial condition, and results of operations.
  • Our business depends on the ability of our customers to grow their businesses and compete effectively.
  • Our business depends on the ability of our customers, such as retailers, dealers, distributors, installers, and specialty markets, to grow their businesses and compete effectively.
  • If they fail to do so, their demand for our products may decline.
  • Our customers’ growth and competitiveness can be affected by, among other things: • Technological Changes : Increasing vehicle complexity may require our customers to make investments in training and tools, and failure to adapt may reduce their ability to compete. • Competitive Pressures : Increased competition from existing or new market entrants (e.g., the growth of e-commerce) could erode our customers' market share, impacting their business performance and, consequently, their demand for our products. • Shelf Space Limitations : Limited retail space forces our products to compete with other aftermarket items, including unrelated products.
  • The failure of our customers to increase their shelf space or grow in new locations may adversely impact their demand for our products.
  • If our customers cannot grow their businesses or maintain their ability to compete, they may face reduced sales, increased credit risk, and potential loss of business, which, in turn, could have a material adverse effect on our business, financial condition, and results of operations .
  • The motor vehicle aftermarket industry has been consolidating over the past several years, resulting in some of our customers having grown larger and having more leverage in negotiating agreements to buy products from us.
  • They may ask us to lower prices, provide extended payment terms, issue customer credits, and accept returns of slow-moving product to obtain new, or retain existing, business.
  • While we seek to limit such concessions, in some cases customer payment terms have been extended, enhanced credits have been issued, and returns of product have exceeded historical levels.
  • Returns and credits reduce net sales and profitability, while longer payment terms and factoring costs reduce operating cash flow and require additional capital to finance our business.
  • We expect these trends to continue, which could materially adversely affect our business, financial condition, and results of operations.

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  • The risks described below are not the only risks we face.
  • The risks are listed below in no particular order.
  • The size of the motor vehicle aftermarket industry depends, in part, upon the number of vehicles on the road, average vehicle age, change in total miles driven per year, new or modified environmental and vehicle safety regulations, including fuel-efficiency and emissions reduction standards, pricing of new and used vehicles, and new vehicle quality and related warranties.
  • We believe the motor vehicle aftermarket industry has been negatively impacted by the fact that the quality of certain motor vehicles and their component parts (and related warranties) has improved, thereby lengthening the repair cycle.
  • Generally, if parts last longer, there will be less demand for our products, and the average useful life of motor vehicle parts has been steadily increasing in recent years due to innovations in products and technology.
  • In addition, the introduction by original equipment manufacturers of increased warranty and maintenance initiatives has the potential to decrease the demand for our products.
  • Due to the diversity of our product offering, we compete against a large cross-section of aftermarket companies and brands, including, but not limited to, Cardone Industries, Inc., Standard Motor Products, Inc., Tenneco, Inc., Bosch Auto Parts, First Brands Group, LLC, Gates Corporation, Continental Automotive Systems, Inc.
  • (following its acquisition of Meritor, Inc.), Automann Inc., WARN Industries, Rocky Mountain ATV/MC and numerous category specific competitors.
  • In addition, we face competition from original equipment manufacturers, which, through their dealers or dealerships, supply many of the same types of parts we sell.
  • Further, some of our private label customers also compete with us.
  • Some of our competitors may have larger customer bases and greater financial, technical, and marketing resources than we do.
  • These factors may allow our competitors to: • respond more quickly than we can to new or emerging technologies and changes in customer requirements by devoting greater resources than we can to the development, promotion, and sale of motor vehicle aftermarket products; • engage in more extensive research and development; • sell products at lower prices than we do; • undertake more extensive marketing campaigns; and • make more attractive offers to existing and potential customers and strategic partners.
  • We cannot assure you that our competitors or others in our industry will not (i) adopt fast follower strategies, based on the Company's new product launches, (ii) develop products or services that are equal or superior to our products, or that achieve greater market acceptance than our products, or (iii) expand their operations into product lines produced and sold by us.
  • We also cannot assure you that additional entrants will not enter our industry or that companies in our industry will not consolidate.
  • Any such competitive pressures could cause us to lose market share or could result in significant price decreases and could have a material adverse effect on our business, financial condition, and results of operations.
  • A significant percentage of our sales has been, and is expected to be, concentrated among a relatively small number of customers.
  • During 2024, two customers each accounted for more than 10% of net sales and in the aggregate accounted for approximately 39% of net sales.
  • We anticipate that this concentration of sales among these customers will continue in the future.
  • The loss of a significant customer, changes in customer buying behaviors, or a substantial decrease in sales to such a customer could have a material adverse effect on our sales and operating results.
  • In addition, any consolidation among our key customers may further increase our customer concentration risk.
  • Also, while we may enter into long-term agreements with certain of our significant customers, those agreements generally do not contain purchase commitments, which instead are set forth in individual purchase orders submitted by customers based on their then-current or projected needs.
  • We have in the past, and may in the future, lose customers or lose a particular product line of a customer due to the highly competitive conditions in the motor vehicle aftermarket industry, consolidation of customers, and customer initiatives to buy direct from foreign suppliers or other business considerations.
  • In addition, given the size and scale of some of our customers, there is a risk that they may establish and grow direct relationships with our suppliers or other suppliers in the marketplace and reduce their purchases or cease purchasing from us.
  • A decision by any significant customer, whether motivated by competitive conditions, financial difficulties, or otherwise, to materially decrease the amount of products purchased from us or the number of our product lines they choose to carry, to change their manner of doing business with us, or to stop doing business with us, could have a material adverse effect on our business, financial condition, and results of operations.
  • Because our sales are concentrated, and the industry in which we operate is very competitive, we are under ongoing pressure from our customers to offer lower prices, extend payment terms, increase marketing and transportation allowances, provide enhanced rebates, discounts, rights of return and credits and offer other terms more favorable to these customers.
  • These customer demands have put continued pressure on our operating margins and profitability and in the future could have a material adverse effect on our business, financial condition, and results of operations.
  • There is substantial price competition in our industry, and our success and profitability will partially depend on our ability to maintain a competitive cost and price structure .
  • Given the substantial price competition in our industry, our success and profitability will partially depend on our ability to maintain a competitive cost and price structure.
  • This is the result of several industry trends, including the consolidated purchasing power of large customers, the growth of e-commerce, and actions taken by some of our competitors to attract new business, including efforts to enhance their online presence.
  • In addition, some of our competitors may source their products from countries with more favorable U.S. tariff and trade treatment than the countries from which we source our products, enabling those competitors to offer lower prices than we do.
  • Price reductions may be required to remain competitive, and such reductions may impact our sales and profit margins.
  • Our future profitability will depend in part upon our ability to respond to changes in product and distribution channel mix, to continue to improve our manufacturing and distribution efficiencies, and to increase prices to address increasing costs, including costs such as tariffs that are outside of our control.
  • In addition, our future profitability will depend in part upon our ability to generate cost reductions, including reductions in the cost of components purchased from outside suppliers, and to maintain a cost structure that will enable us to offer competitive prices.
  • Our inability to maintain a competitive cost structure or to pass through increases in costs to our customers could have a material adverse effect on our business, financial condition, and results of operations.
  • The inability of our customers to grow their businesses and compete effectively may adversely affect our business.
  • Our products are sold primarily to aftermarket retailers; dealers; national, regional, and local wholesale distributors; professional installers; specialty markets; and salvage yards.
  • The growth of our business depends, in part, on the ability of our customers to grow their businesses and compete effectively in their respective markets.
  • If our customers are unable to grow while maintaining or improving their competitive position, it could adversely affect their demand for our products and services.
  • Factors that could impact our customers' growth and competitiveness include: • Technological Changes : Technological advancements and the complexity of motor vehicles may render our customers less competitive if they do not make adequate investments in their businesses, including, but not limited to, investments in training and tools; • Competitive Pressures : Increased competition from existing or new market entrants (e.g., the growth of e-commerce) could erode our customers' market share, impacting their business performance and, consequently, their demand for our products; and • Shelf Space Limitations : The amount of space available to retailers and other resellers of our products is limited, and, therefore, our products compete with other motor vehicle aftermarket products, some of which are entirely dissimilar and otherwise non-competitive (such as car waxes and engine oil), for shelf and floor space.
  • The failure of our customers to increase shelf space or grow in new locations may adversely impact their demand for our products.

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