DoubleVerify Holdings, Inc.

1. Description of Business

DoubleVerify Holdings, Inc. (the “Company”) is one of the industry’s leading media effectiveness platforms that leverages artificial intelligence (“AI”) to drive superior outcomes for global brands. By creating more effective, transparent ad transactions, we make the digital advertising ecosystem stronger, safer and more secure, thereby preserving the fair value exchange between buyers and sellers of digital media. The Company’s solutions provide advertisers unbiased data analytics that enable advertisers to increase the effectiveness, quality and return on their digital advertising investments. The DV Authentic Ad is our proprietary metric of digital media quality, which measures whether a digital ad was delivered in a brand suitable environment, fully viewable, by a real person and in the intended geography. The Company’s software interface, DV Pinnacle, delivers these metrics to our customers in real time, allowing them to access critical performance data on their digital transactions. The Company’s software solutions are integrated across the entire digital advertising ecosystem, including programmatic platforms, social media channels and digital publishers. The Company’s solutions are accredited by the Media Rating Council, which allows the Company’s data to be used as a single source standard in the evaluation and measurement of digital ads.

The Company was incorporated on August 16, 2017 and is registered in the state of Delaware. The Company is headquartered in New York, New York and has wholly-owned subsidiaries in numerous jurisdictions, including Israel, the United Kingdom, the United Arab Emirates, Germany, Singapore, Australia, Canada, Brazil, Belgium, Mexico, France, Japan, Spain, Finland, Italy and India, and operates inone reportable segment.

2. Basis of Presentation and Summary of Significant Accounting Policies

Basis of Preparation and Principles of Consolidation

The accompanying Condensed Consolidated Balance Sheets as of March 31, 2025 and December 31, 2024, the Condensed Consolidated Statements of Operations and Comprehensive Income for the three months ended March 31, 2025 and 2024, the Condensed Consolidated Statements of Stockholders’ Equity for the three months ended March 31, 2025 and 2024, and the Condensed Consolidated Statements of Cash Flows for the three months ended March 31, 2025 and 2024 reflect all adjustments that are of a normal recurring nature and that are considered necessary for a fair presentation of the results for the periods shown in accordance with accounting principles generally accepted in the United States of America (“GAAP”) and the applicable rules and regulations of the SEC for interim financial reporting periods. Accordingly, certain information and footnote disclosures have been condensed or omitted pursuant to SEC rules that would ordinarily be required under GAAP for complete financial statements. These unaudited interim Condensed Consolidated Financial Statements should be read in conjunction with the Company’s audited consolidated financial statements and related notes included in its Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2024.

Use of Estimates and Judgments in the Preparation of the Condensed Consolidated Financial Statements

The preparation of financial statements in conformity with GAAP requires management to make estimates and assumptions that affect the reported amounts of assets and liabilities and the reported amounts of revenue and expense during the reporting periods. Significant estimates and judgments are inherent in the analysis and measurement of items including, but not limited to: revenue recognition criteria, including the determination of principal versus agent revenue considerations, operating lease assets and liabilities, including the incremental borrowing rate and terms and provisions of each lease, income taxes, the valuation and recoverability of goodwill and intangible assets, the assessment of potential loss from contingencies, assumptions in valuing acquired assets and liabilities assumed in business combinations, the allowance for doubtful accounts, and assumptions used in determining the fair value of stock-based compensation. Management bases its estimates and assumptions on historical experience and on various other factors that are believed to be reasonable under the circumstances. Due to the inherent uncertainty involved in making estimates, actual results reported in future periods may be affected by changes in those estimates. These estimates are based on the information available as of the date of the Condensed Consolidated Financial Statements*.*

Recently Issued Accounting Pronouncements

Income Taxes – Improvements to Income Tax Disclosures

In December 2023, the Financial Accounting Standards Board (“FASB”) issued Accounting Standards Update (“ASU”) No. 2023-09, “Income Taxes (Topic 740): Improvements to Income Tax Disclosures” (“ASU 2023-09”), which expands annual disclosure requirements related to the rate reconciliation and income taxes paid disclosures. ASU 2023-09 requires consistent categories and greater disaggregation of information in the rate reconciliation and income taxes paid to be disaggregated by jurisdiction. The updated standard is effective for fiscal years beginning after December 15, 2024. Early adoption is permitted and the update may be applied on a prospective basis with retrospective application permitted. The Company is currently in the process of evaluating the impact of this standard on the Company’s Condensed Consolidated Financial Statements.

Income Statement—Reporting Comprehensive Income—Expense Disaggregation Disclosures

In November 2024, the FASB issued ASU No. 2024-03, “Income Statement—Reporting Comprehensive Income—Expense Disaggregation Disclosures” (Subtopic 220-40) (“ASU 2024-03”), which expands annual and interim disclosure requirements to include specific information about certain costs and expenses in the notes to its financial statements. The objective of ASU 2024-03 is to provide disaggregated information about a public business entity's expenses to help investors better understand the entity's performance, better assess the entity's prospects for future cash flows, and compare an entity's performance over time and with that of other entities. In January 2025, the FASB issued ASU No. 2025-01, “Income Statement—Reporting Comprehensive Income—Expense Disaggregation Disclosures (Subtopic 220-40): Clarifying the Effective Date” (“ASU 2025-01”), which clarifies that ASU 2024-03 is effective for fiscal years beginning after December 15, 2026 and interim periods within fiscal years beginning after December 15, 2027. Early adoption is permitted and the update may be applied either on a prospective or retrospective basis. The Company is currently in the process of evaluating the impact of this ASU on the Company’s Condensed Consolidated Financial Statements.

3. Revenue

The following table disaggregates revenue between advertiser customers, where revenue is primarily generated based on the number of ads measured and purchased for Activation or measured for Measurement, and Supply-side, where revenue is generated based on contracts with minimum guarantees or contracts that contain overages after minimum guarantees are achieved.

Disaggregated revenue by customer type was as follows:

Contract assets relate to the Company’s conditional right to consideration for completed performance under the contract (e.g., unbilled receivables). Trade receivables, net of allowance for doubtful accounts, include unbilled receivable balances of $57.8 million and $62.7 million as of March 31, 2025 and December 31, 2024, respectively.

Remaining Performance Obligations

As of March 31, 2025, the Company had $35.9 million of remaining performance obligations which are expected to be recognized over the nextone tothree years. These non-cancelable arrangements have original expected durations longer thanone year and for which the consideration is not variable. These obligations relate primarily to the Company’s Supply-side revenue which represented $16.5 million, or 10.0% of the Company’s total revenue for the three months ended March 31, 2025. The vast majority of the Company’s revenue is derived primarily from our advertising customers and partners based on the volume of media transactions, or ads, that our software platform measures, and not from supply-side arrangements. In determining the remaining performance obligations, the Company applied the allowable practical expedient and did not disclose information about (1) contracts remaining performance obligations that have original expected durations of one year or less and (2) contracts for which the Company recognizes revenue at the amount to which it has the right to invoice for services performed.

4. Business Combinations

Rockerbox, Inc.

On March 13, 2025, the Company acquired all of the outstanding stock of Rockerbox, Inc. (“Rockerbox”), a global leader in marketing attribution. The acquisition enhances DoubleVerify’s suite of data solutions, advancing the Company’s capabilities in end-to-end media performance measurement and AI-powered activation. The total purchase price was $82.6 million, net of cash acquired.

The following table summarizes the preliminary fair value of assets acquired and liabilities assumed as of the acquisition date:

The acquired intangible assets of Rockerbox will be amortized over their estimated useful lives. Accordingly, customer relationships will be amortized overten years and developed technology will be amortized over four years. The weighted-average useful life of the acquired intangible assets is 6.3 years. The Company recognized a deferred tax liability of $3.1 million in relation to the intangible assets acquired. The deferred tax liability recognized in relation to the acquisition of Rockerbox was recorded in Deferred tax assets within the Condensed Consolidated Balance Sheets due to jurisdictional netting requirements.

The goodwill and identified intangible assets are not deductible for tax purposes. The Company incurred acquisition-related transaction costs of $1.2 million included in General and administrative expenses in the Condensed Consolidated Statement of Operations and Comprehensive Income for the three months ended March 31, 2025.

The goodwill associated with Rockerbox includes the acquired assembled work force, the value associated with the opportunity to leverage the work force to continue to develop the future generations of technology assets, and the ability to grow the Company through adding additional customer relationships or new solutions in the future.

The preliminary allocations of the purchase price for Rockerbox are subject to revisions as additional information is obtained about the facts and circumstances that existed as of the acquisition date. The revisions may have a significant impact on the accompanying Condensed Consolidated Financial Statements. The allocations of the purchase price will be finalized once all information is obtained and assessed, not to exceed one year from the acquisition date.

The acquisition of Rockerbox was immaterial to the Company's Condensed Consolidated Financial Statements for the three months ended March 31, 2025 and 2024, and therefore, supplemental information disclosure on an unaudited pro forma basis is not presented.

5. Goodwill and Intangible Assets

The following is a summary of changes to the goodwill carrying value from December 31, 2024 to March 31, 2025:

The following table summarizes the Company’s intangible assets and related accumulated amortization:

Amortization expense related to intangible assets for the three months ended March 31, 2025 and March 31, 2024 was $7.2 million and $7.3 million, respectively.

Estimated future expected amortization expense of intangible assets as of March 31, 2025 is as follows:

The weighted-average remaining useful life by major asset classes as of March 31, 2025 is as follows:

There wereno impairments of Goodwill or Intangible assets identified during the three months ended March 31, 2025 and March 31, 2024.

6. Property, Plant and Equipment

Property, plant and equipment, including equipment under finance lease obligations and capitalized software development costs, consisted of the following:

For the three months ended March 31, 2025 and March 31, 2024, total depreciation expense was $5.2 million and $3.6 million, respectively.

Property and equipment under finance lease obligations, consisting of computer equipment, totaled $31.6 million and $17.8 million as of March 31, 2025 and December 31, 2024, respectively. As of March 31, 2025 and December 31, 2024, accumulated depreciation related to property and equipment under finance lease obligations totaled $16.0 million and $15.0 million, respectively. Refer to Note 7 for further information.

There wereno impairments of Property, plant and equipment identified during the three months ended March 31, 2025 and March 31, 2024.

7. Leases

The following table presents lease cost and cash paid for amounts included in the measurement of lease liabilities for finance and operating leases for the three months ended March 31, 2025 and 2024, respectively.

The following table presents weighted-average remaining lease terms and weighted-average discount rates for finance and operating leases as of March 31, 2025 and 2024, respectively:

Maturities of lease liabilities as of March 31, 2025 were as follows:

There wereno impairments of Operating lease right-of-use assets identified during the three months ended March 31, 2025 and March 31, 2024.

8. Fair Value Measurement

The following tables present the Company’s financial instruments that are measured at fair value on a recurring basis:

Cash equivalents consisted of treasury bills with original maturities at the date of purchase of three months or less and money market funds of $43.9 million and $67.6 million as of March 31, 2025 and December 31, 2024, respectively.

Short-term investments consisted of treasury bills and treasury notes of $17.9 million and $17.8 million as of March 31, 2025 and December 31, 2024, respectively. As of March 31, 2025 and December 31, 2024, all of the Company’s Short-term investments were contractually due within one year.

As of March 31, 2025 and December 31, 2024, the amortized cost of the Company’s treasury bills and treasury notes approximated fair value. The Company did not record any unrealized gains, unrealized losses, or credit losses for the three months ended March 31, 2025.

9. Long-term Debt

On August 12, 2024, DoubleVerify Inc., as borrower (the “Borrower”) and DoubleVerify Midco, Inc. (“Midco”), as holdings (“Holdings”), entered into a credit agreement with the banks and other financial institutions party thereto, as lenders and letter of credit issuers, and JPMorgan Chase Bank, N.A., as administrative agent, letter of credit issuer and swing lender (the “Credit Agreement”), to provide for a new senior secured revolving credit facility (the “New Revolving Credit Facility”) in an aggregate principal amount of $200.0 million (with a letter of credit facility of up to a $20.0 million sublimit), which matures on August 12, 2029 (the “Revolving Termination Date”). Subject to certain terms and conditions, the Borrower is entitled to request incremental facilities (including term, revolving and/or letter of credit facilities).

The New Revolving Credit Facility replaces in full the Company’s prior senior secured revolving credit facility provided under the Second Amended and Restated Credit Agreement, dated as of October 1, 2020 as amended by the First Amendment, dated as March 29, 2023, and as further amended, restated, amended and restated, supplemented or otherwise modified (the “Prior Revolving Credit Facility”).

The loans under the New Revolving Credit Facility, at the Borrower's option, bear interest at either a Secured Overnight Financing Rate (“SOFR”) or an Alternate Base Rate (“ABR”). In the case of SOFR loans, for each day during each interest period with respect thereto, a rate per annum equal to Term SOFR (as defined in the Credit Agreement) determined for such day plus an applicable margin ranging from 2.00% to 2.75% per annum (depending on the total net leverage ratio of Holdings and its subsidiaries (the “Credit Group”)). In the case of ABR loans, a rate per annum equal to ABR (as defined in the Credit Agreement) plus an applicable margin ranging from 1.00% to 1.75% per annum (depending on the total net leverage ratio of the Credit Group). The Term SOFR rate is subject to a “floor” of 0.00% per annum. The New Revolving Credit Facility is payable in monthly or quarterly installments for interest, with the principal balance due in full at the Revolving Termination Date, subject to customary events of default as defined by the Credit Agreement.

The New Revolving Credit Facility bears a commitment fee ranging from 0.25% to 0.35% per annum (depending on the total net leverage ratio of the Credit Group), payable quarterly in arrears commencing on April 15, 2025 and on the fifteenth day following the last day of each calendar quarter occurring thereafter prior to the Revolving Termination Date, and on the Revolving Termination Date, based on the utilization of the New Revolving Credit Facility, and customary letter of credit fees.

The New Revolving Credit Facility contains customary representations and warranties and customary affirmative and negative covenants. The negative covenants include restrictions on, among other things: paying dividends or purchasing, redeeming or retiring capital stock; granting liens; incurring or guaranteeing additional debt; making investments and acquisitions; entering into transactions with affiliates; entering into any merger, consolidation or amalgamation or disposing of all or substantially all property or business; and disposing of property, including issuing capital stock.

All obligations under the New Revolving Credit Facility are guaranteed by the Company pursuant to the guarantee agreement (the “Guarantee Agreement”) made by the Company in favor of JPMorgan Chase Bank, N.A., as administrative agent under the Credit Agreement. The obligations are also guaranteed by Midco, Ad-Juster, Inc. and Outrigger Media, Inc., and secured by a first priority perfected security interest in substantially all of the assets (subject to customary exceptions) of Midco, the Borrower, Ad-Juster, Inc. and Outrigger Media, Inc. (but not the Company).

The Credit Agreement requires the Credit Group to remain in compliance with a maximum total net leverage ratio of 4.50 x as at the last day of each fiscal quarter. The Borrower was in compliance with all covenants under the New Revolving Credit Facility as of March 31, 2025.

As of March 31, 2025 and December 31, 2024, there wasno outstanding debt under the New Revolving Credit Facility.

10. Income Tax

The Company’s quarterly income tax provision is calculated using an estimated annual effective income tax rate (“ETR”) based on historical information and forward-looking estimates. The Company’s estimated annual ETR may fluctuate due to changes in forecasted annual pre-tax income, and changes to forecasted permanent book to tax differences (e.g., non-deductible expenses).

The Company’s ETR for a particular reporting period may fluctuate as the result of changes to the valuation allowance for net deferred tax assets, the impact of anticipated tax settlements with federal, state, or foreign tax authorities, or the impact of tax law changes. The Company identifies items that are unusual and non-recurring in nature and treats these as discrete events. The tax effect of these discrete events is booked entirely in the quarter in which they occur.

During the three months ended March 31, 2025, the Company recorded an income tax provision of $7.2 million, resulting in an effective tax rate of 75.1%, that includes the effects of various permanent book-to-tax adjustments, foreign tax rate differences, U.S. tax on foreign operations, and U.S. state/local taxes. During the three months ended March 31, 2024, the Company recorded an income tax provision of $1.8 million, resulting in an effective tax rate of 19.9%.

A valuation allowance has been established against a small amount of foreign capital losses and certain U.S. tax loss carryforwards. All other net deferred tax assets have been determined to be more likely than not realizable. The Company regularly reviews its deferred tax assets for recoverability and would establish a valuation allowance if it believed that such assets may not be recovered, taking into consideration historical operating results, expectations of future earnings, changes in its operations, and the expected timing of the reversals of existing temporary differences.

The Company accounts for uncertainty in income taxes utilizing ASC 740-10, “Income Taxes.” ASC 740-10 clarifies whether or not to recognize assets or liabilities for tax positions taken that may be challenged by a tax authority. It prescribes a recognition threshold and measurement attribute for financial statement disclosure of tax positions taken or expected to be taken. This interpretation also provides guidance on derecognition, classification, interest and penalties, accounting in interim periods, and disclosures. The application of ASC 740-10 requires judgment related to the uncertainty in income taxes and could impact the Company’s effective tax rate.

11. Earnings Per Share

The following table reconciles the numerators and denominators used in computations of the basic and diluted EPS for the three months ended March 31, 2025 and March 31, 2024:

Approximately 10.2 million and 6.2 million weighted average shares issuable under stock-based awards were not included in the diluted EPS calculation in the three months ended March 31, 2025 and March 31, 2024, respectively, because they were antidilutive.

12. Stock-Based Compensation

Employee Equity Incentive Plan

On September 20, 2017, the Company established its 2017 Omnibus Equity Incentive Program (the “2017 Plan”) which provides for the granting of equity-based awards to certain employees, directors, independent contractors, consultants and agents. Under the 2017 Plan, the Company may grant non-qualified stock options, stock appreciation rights, restricted stock units, and other stock-based awards.

On April 19, 2021, the Company established its 2021 Omnibus Equity Incentive Plan (“2021 Equity Plan”). The 2021 Equity Plan provides for the grant of stock options (including qualified incentive stock options and nonqualified stock options), stock appreciation rights, restricted stock, restricted stock units, performance stock units, dividend equivalents, and other stock or cash settled incentive awards.

Stock Options

Options become exercisable subject to vesting schedules up tofour years from the date of the grant and subject to certain timing restrictions upon an employee’s separation of service and no later than 10 years after the grant date.

A summary of stock option activity as of and for the three months ended March 31, 2025 is as follows:

Stock options include grants to executives that contain both market-based and performance-based vesting conditions. There wereno stock options granted that contain both market-based and performance-based vesting conditions during the three months ended March 31, 2025. During the three months ended March 31, 2025,38 stock options were exercised and 1,238 market-based and performance-based stock options remain outstanding as of March 31, 2025.

The total intrinsic value of options exercised during the three months ended March 31, 2025 and March 31, 2024 was $1.0 million and $5.1 million, respectively.

The Company’s board of directors (the “Board”) did not declare or pay dividends on any Company stock during the three months ended March 31, 2025 and March 31, 2024.

Restricted Stock Units (“RSUs”)

RSUs are subject to vesting schedules up tofour years from the date of the grant and subject to certain restrictions upon employee separation.

A summary of RSUs activity as of and for the three months ended March 31, 2025 is as follows:

The total grant date fair value of RSUs that vested during the three months ended March 31, 2025 was $18.3 million.

Performance Stock Units (“PSUs”)

PSUs are subject to vesting and performance periods of up to approximately three years from the date of the grant.

A summary of PSUs activity as of and for the three months ended March 31, 2025 is as follows:

(1) For awards for which the performance period is complete, the number of outstanding PSUs is based on the actual shares that will vest upon completion of the service period. For awards for which the performance period is not yet complete, the number of outstanding PSUs is based on the participants earning 100% of their target PSUs.

The total grant date fair value of PSUs that vested during the three months ended March 31, 2025 was $2.6 million.

The fair market value of PSUs with market-based and service-based vesting conditions granted for the years presented has been estimated on the grant date using the Monte Carlo Simulation model with the following assumptions:

Stock-based Compensation Expense

Total stock-based compensation expense recorded in the Condensed Consolidated Statements of Operations and Comprehensive Income was as follows:

As of March 31, 2025, unrecognized stock-based compensation expense was $236.1 million, which is expected to be recognized over a weighted-average period of 1.7 years.

Employee Stock Purchase Plan (“ESPP”)

In March 2021, the Board approved the Company’s 2021 ESPP. Purchases are accomplished through participation in discrete offering periods. The ESPP is available to most of the Company’s employees. The current offering period began on December 1, 2024 and will end on May 31, 2025. The Company expects the program to continue consecutively for six-month offering periods for the foreseeable future.

Under the ESPP, eligible employees are able to acquire shares of the Company’s common stock by accumulating funds through payroll deductions. The purchase price for shares of common stock purchased under the ESPP is 85% of the lesser of the fair market value of the common stock on (i) the first trading day of the applicable offering period and (ii) the last trading day of the applicable offering period. Employees are required to hold shares purchased for a minimum of six months following the purchase date.

Stock-based compensation expense for the ESPP is recognized on a straight-line basis over the requisite service period of each award. Stock-based compensation expense related to the ESPP totaled $0.2 million and $0.3 million for the three months ended March 31, 2025 and March 31, 2024, respectively.

13. Stockholders’ Equity

Repurchase Program

On May 16, 2024, the Company announced that the Board authorized the repurchase of up to $150.0 million of the Company’s outstanding common stock (the “Repurchase Program”). Under the Repurchase Program, the Company may repurchase for cash from time to time shares of its common stock through open market purchases pursuant to Rule 10b-18 and/or Rule 10b5-1 plans, in compliance with applicable securities laws and other legal requirements. The Repurchase Program does not obligate the Company to repurchase any specific number of shares, has no time limit, and may be modified, suspended, or discontinued at any time at the Company’s discretion.

During the three months ended March 31, 2025, the Company repurchased 1.1 million shares of its common stock for an aggregate repurchase amount of $22.2 million under the Repurchase Program, which included immaterial amounts of broker commissions. Amounts related to the 1% excise tax on share repurchases, net of share issuances, as a result of the Inflation Reduction Act of 2022 (“IRA”) are included in the Condensed Consolidated Statements of Stockholders’ Equity. As of March 31, 2025, the $150.0 million authorized for repurchase under the Repurchase Program was fully utilized. Activity under the Repurchase Program was recognized in the Condensed Consolidated Balance Sheets on a trade-date basis.

New Repurchase Program

On November 6, 2024, the Company announced that the Board authorized the repurchase of up to $200.0 million of the Company’s outstanding common stock (the “New Repurchase Program”), which amount is in addition to the initial Repurchase Program previously approved by the Board in May 2024. Under the New Repurchase Program, the Company may repurchase for cash from time to time shares of its common stock through open market purchases pursuant to Rule 10b-18 and/or Rule 10b5-1 plans, in compliance with applicable securities laws and other legal requirements. The New Repurchase Program does not obligate the Company to repurchase any specific number of shares, has no time limit, and may be modified, suspended, or discontinued at any time at the Company’s discretion.

During the three months ended March 31, 2025, the Company repurchased 4.0 million shares of its common stock for an aggregate repurchase amount of $60.0 million under the New Repurchase Program, which included immaterial amounts of broker commissions. Amounts related to the 1% excise tax on share repurchases, net of share issuances, as a result of the IRA are included in the Condensed Consolidated Statements of Stockholders’ Equity. As of March 31, 2025, $140.0 million remained available and authorized for repurchase under the New Repurchase Program. Activity under the Repurchase Program was recognized in the Condensed Consolidated Balance Sheets on a trade-date basis.

14. Supplemental Financial Statement Information

Accrued Expenses

Accrued expenses as of March 31, 2025 and December 31, 2024 were as follows:

Other Income, Net

The components of Other income, net recorded in the Condensed Consolidated Statements of Operations and Comprehensive Income were as follows:

15. Commitments and Contingencies

Contingencies

Litigation

From time to time, the Company is subject to various legal proceedings and claims, either asserted or unasserted, that arise in the ordinary course of business. The Company records liabilities for contingencies including legal costs when it is probable that a liability has been incurred and when the amount can be reasonably estimated. Legal costs are expensed as incurred. Although the outcome of the various legal proceedings and claims cannot be predicted with certainty, management does not believe that any of these proceedings or other claims will have a material effect on the Company’s business, financial condition, results of operations or cash flows.

16. Segment Information

The Company’s chief operating decision maker (“CODM”), the Chief Executive Officer, manages the Company’s business activities as a single operating and reportable segment at the consolidated level. The CODM primarily uses consolidated net income as the measure of segment profit or loss in assessing performance by comparing current results to prior periods and making decisions such as resource allocations related to operations.

The CODM is provided with the segment expenses included in consolidated Net income and reflected in the Condensed Consolidated Statements of Operations and Comprehensive Income, and in the accompanying Notes to Condensed Consolidated Financial Statements, to manage the Company’s operations.