HP (HPQ) Risk Factor Changes

Our contracts with our customers may include unique and specialized performance requirements.

As new laws, regulations, treaties, executive orders, directives, enforcement priorities and similar initiatives and programs are adopted and implemented, we are required to comply or potentially face market access li…

The increasing concern over climate change has resulted, and we expect will continue to result, in transition risks such as shifting customer preferences and regulations, including with regard to our products and thei…

disruptions to us, our suppliers, vendors, customers and logistics hubs and impact employees’ abilities to live in certain areas, commute or to work from home effectively.

Standards for tracking and reporting environmental and societal matters continue to evolve.

Our ability to achieve any environmental and societal objectives is subject to numerous risks, some of which are outside of our control.

Our aspirations and disclosures related to environmental and societal matters expose us to risks that could adversely affect our reputation and performance.

practices or internal controls, including as a result of being dependent on the veracity and completeness of statements and disclosures made or actions taken by third parties, or the assumptions or judgments we make w…

•In certain instances we have not, and we may not in the future, fully realize the anticipated benefits of particular transactions in the timeframe we expected or at all, such transactions may be less profitable than…

We have undertaken and may undertake in the future restructuring and other plans in order to realign our cost structure, drive customer satisfaction, product innovation and productivity through artificial intelligence…

We may not achieve some or all of the expected benefits of our restructuring and other plans and such plans may adversely affect our business.

While we have implemented security measures and internal controls designed to protect against cyber and other security threats, such measures cannot provide absolute security and may not be successful in preventing fu…

services we sell, provide or otherwise use in our operations.

Our net revenue, gross margin, profit and cash flow generation vary among our portfolio of products and services, customer groups and geographic markets and therefore will likely vary in future periods.

We are subject to third party claims that we or customers indemnified by us are infringing upon IP rights.

greater financial, technical and marketing resources available for their products and services, compared to the resources allocated to our competing products and services, or greater economies of scale, which could in…

We have a large portfolio of products and must allocate our financial, personnel and other resources across our products while competing with companies that have smaller portfolios or specialize in one or more of our…

•Single-source suppliers.

In addition, AI algorithms may be flawed.

We believe the proliferation of AI, especially as it relates to our product and solutions offerings, will continue to have a significant impact on customer preferences and market dynamics in our industry, and our abil…

To execute our strategy, we must, among other things, optimize our cost structure, make long-term investments, develop or acquire and appropriately protect intellectual property, commit significant research and develo…

The following discussion of risk factors contains forward-looking statements.

also contain terms relating to new partner business models and tools creation that could raise issues for which laws or regulations are currently changing or emerging.

We can give no assurance that additional material weaknesses will not arise in the future.

We identified a material weakness in internal control over financial reporting that resulted from undue reliance on information generated from certain software solutions affecting various financial statement accounts…

As more fully disclosed in Item 9A, “Controls and Procedures,” under the supervision and with the participation of our management, including our principal executive officer and principal financial officer, we conducte…

We have identified a material weakness in our internal control over financial reporting that could, if not remediated, result in material misstatements in our financial statements and cause us to fail to meet our repo…

We have established and publicly announced ESG goals, including our commitments to address climate change, human rights, and digital equity.

There are climate-related risks wherever our business is conducted.

supply chain to comply with and offset the impact of new or revised trade restrictions has in the past and could in the future be expensive, time-consuming and disruptive to our business.

Since April 2025, new, substantial tariffs have been imposed on imports to the United States.

We face increasing attention from the investment community, special interest groups, customers, enforcement authorities and other stakeholders, who may have conflicting views, related to our positions, performance, an…

•Our due diligence may fail to identify significant issues with the target’s product quality, financial disclosures, accounting

ability to provide prompt, full, and reliable information about the incident to our customers, partners, regulators, and the public.

We rely upon patent, copyright, trademark, trade secret and other IP laws in the United States, similar laws in other countries, and agreements with our employees, customers, suppliers and other parties, to establish…

Even if we believe that IP claims are without merit, they can be time-consuming and costly to defend and may divert management’s attention and resources away from our business.

•International trade restrictions.

with, or limits in allocation by, a single-source supplier, or any unilateral modification to the contractual terms under which we are supplied components by a single-source supplier could adversely affect our busines…