ZEBRA TECHNOLOGIES CORP
For the period ended Sep 27, 2025. Filed Oct 28, 2025.
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Sep 27, 2025 · Filed Oct 28, 2025
What changed in Risk Factors?
Read the current filingPrevious report: 10-Q
Period ended 2025-06-28; filed 2025-08-05.
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Item 1A. Risk FactorsUnregistered Sales of Equity Securities and Use of ProceedsCurrent report: 10-Q
Period ended 2025-09-27; filed 2025-10-28.
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Item 1A. Risk FactorsUnregistered Sales of Equity Securities and Use of ProceedsThe 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 3 previous paragraphs and 18 current paragraphs.
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Tables are not compared: 3 previous and 3 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
In addition to the other information included in this report, you should carefully consider the factors discussed in Part I, Item 1A. “Risk Factors” in the Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2024, and the factors identified under “Safe Harbor” in Part I, Item 2 of this Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q, which could materially affect our business, financial condition, cash flows, or results of operations. The risks described in the Annual Report are not the only risks facing the Company. Additional risks and uncertainties not currently known to the Company or that the Company currently considers immaterial also may materially adversely affect its business, financial condition, and/or operating results. There have been no material changes to the risk factors included in our Annual Report for the year ended December 31, 2024, other than as described below.
Added paragraphs (15)
Current report
The Company is vulnerable to the potential difficulties associated with the increase in the complexity of our business. We have expanded operations and customer offerings over the last several years both organically and through acquisitions. This has caused increased complexities in the business. We believe our future success depends in part on our ability to manage our growth and increased complexities of our business. The following factors could present difficulties to us:
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•Managing our distribution channel partners and end-user customers;
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•Managing our contract manufacturing and supply chain;
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•Managing parties to whom we have outsourced portions of our business operations;
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•Managing administrative and operational burdens;
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•Managing stakeholder interests including customer, investor and employee social responsibility matters;
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•Maintaining and improving information technology infrastructure to support growth and to manage cybersecurity threats;
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•Managing logistical problems common to complex, expansive operations;
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•Managing impacts of government shutdowns or disruptions, including any adverse effects due to limited government funding and services, such as import and export clearance, regulatory approvals or visa processing;
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•Managing the cost of labor including any union organizing efforts and our responses to such efforts; and
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•Attracting, developing and retaining individuals with the requisite technical expertise to develop new technologies and introduce new offerings.
Reworded paragraphs (2)
Previous wording
In addition to the other information included in this report, you should carefully consider the factors discussed in Part I, Item 1A. “Risk Factors” in the Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2024, and the factors identified under “Safe Harbor” in Part I, Item 2 of this Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q, which could materially affect our business, financial condition, cash flows, or results of operations. The risks described in the Annual Report are not the only risks facing the Company. Additional risks and uncertainties not currently known to the Company or that the Company currently considers immaterial also may materially adversely affect its business, financial condition, and/or operating results. There have been no material changes to the risk factors included in our Annual Report for the year ended December 31, 2024.
Current wording
In addition to the other information included in this report, you should carefully consider the factors discussed in Part I, Item 1A. “Risk Factors” in the Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2024, and the factors identified under “Safe Harbor” in Part I, Item 2 of this Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q, which could materially affect our business, financial condition, cash flows, or results of operations. The risks described in the Annual Report are not the only risks facing the Company. Additional risks and uncertainties not currently known to the Company or that the Company currently considers immaterial also may materially adversely affect its business, financial condition, and/or operating results. There have been no material changes to the risk factors included in our Annual Report for the year ended December 31, 2024, other than as described below.
Previous wording
(1)On May 17, 2022, the Company announced that its Board of Directors authorized a share repurchase program for up to $1 billion of its outstanding shares of common stock. Repurchases may be effected from time to time through open market purchases, including pursuant to a pre-set trading plan meeting the requirements of Rule 10b5-1(c) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934. As of June 28, 2025, the Company has cumulatively repurchased 1,388,599 shares of common stock for approximately $404 million, resulting in a remaining amount of share repurchases authorized under the May 2022 program of $596 million.
Current wording
(1)On May 17, 2022, the Company announced that its Board of Directors authorized a share repurchase program for up to $1 billion of its outstanding shares of common stock. Repurchases may be effected from time to time through open market purchases, including pursuant to a pre-set trading plan meeting the requirements of Rule 10b5-1(c) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934. As of September 27, 2025, the Company has cumulatively repurchased 1,500,463 shares of common stock for approximately $438 million, resulting in a remaining amount of share repurchases authorized under the May 2022 program of approximately $562 million.