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PHOTRONICS INC

For the period ended Jul 28, 2024. Filed Sep 5, 2024.

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A company's report for each of its first three quarters. The financial statements are not audited. It shows how the business has moved since the last annual report, and what management says changed.

Jul 28, 2024 · Filed Sep 5, 2024

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What changed in Risk Factors?

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The baseline is this issuer’s latest earlier reporting period of the same form that was filed before the current report. A previous 10-Q is a different quarter, not a year-over-year comparison. Amendments are excluded.

Compared 10 previous paragraphs and 7 current paragraphs.

4 unchanged; 2 reworded; 1 added; 4 removed; 0 previous and 0 current paragraphs rearranged.

Tables are not compared: 6 previous and 5 current tables excluded. Dates, whitespace, punctuation and numbering changes are ignored; changes to financial figures remain significant.

A changed paragraph is not evidence that risk increased or decreased. An unchanged paragraph does not establish that risk stayed the same.

The current filing states there were no material changes to risk factors.

This is the filer’s own statement, not a conclusion from the comparison. Read its qualifications and the report it references.

Current filing’s statement

There have been no material changes to our risk factors as set forth in “Item 1A. Risk Factors” in our Form 10-K for the fiscal year ended October 31, 2023.
Added paragraphs (1)

Current report

On August 28, 2024, the board of directors authorized an increase to the Company’s existing share repurchase program from the remaining $31.7 million up to $100 million. As of the date of this report, there were no additional shares repurchased under this program
Removed paragraphs (4)

Previous report

Securities Trading Plans of Directors and Executive Officers

Previous report

The following officer, as defined in Rule 16a-1(f) of the Exchange Act, adopted a “Rule 10b5-1 trading arrangement,” as defined in Item 408 of Regulation S-K, as follows:

Previous report

On January 11, 2024, Lucien Bouchard, our Vice President of Global Sales and Global Sales Engineering, adopted a Rule 10b5-1 trading arrangement, (the “Plan”) providing for the sale of an aggregate of up to 9,000 shares of our common stock granted to Mr. Bouchard under our compensation program. The Plan is intended to satisfy the affirmative defense in Rule 10b5-1(c). The first date that sales of any shares are permitted to be sold under the Plan was February 12, 2024. All shares under the Plan have been traded.

Previous report

No other officers or directors, as defined in Rule 16a-1(f), adopted and/or terminated a “Rule 10b5-1 trading arrangement” or a “non-Rule 10b5-1 trading arrangement,” as defined in Item 408 of Regulation S-K, during the last fiscal quarter.
Reworded paragraphs (2)

Previous wording

There have been no material changes to our risk factors as set forth in “Item 1A. Risk Factors” in our 2023 Form 10-K.

Current wording

There have been no material changes to our risk factors as set forth in “Item 1A. Risk Factors” in our Form 10-K for the fiscal year ended October 31, 2023.

Previous wording

In September 2020, the Company’s board of directors authorized the repurchase of up to $100 million of its common stock, pursuant to a repurchase plan under Rule 10b5-1 of the Securities Act. The share repurchase program commenced on September 16, 2020, and all shares repurchased under this program were retired. The following table provides information relating to the Company’s repurchase of common stock for the second fiscal quarter of 2024. This table excludes shares repurchased to settle employee tax withholding related to the vesting of stock awards.

Current wording

In September 2020, the Company’s board of directors authorized the repurchase of up to $100 million of its common stock, pursuant to a repurchase plan under Rule 10b5-1 of the Securities Act. The share repurchase program commenced on September 16, 2020, and all shares repurchased under this program were retired. The following table provides information relating to the Company’s repurchase of common stock for the third fiscal quarter of 2024. This table excludes shares repurchased to settle employee tax withholding related to the vesting of stock awards.