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PELOTON INTERACTIVE INC

For the period ended Sep 30, 2024. Filed Oct 31, 2024.

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Sep 30, 2024 · Filed Oct 31, 2024

PTON$5.95+6.1%Stored close · as of Nov 9, 2026

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Item 4. Controls and Procedures

Evaluation of Disclosure Controls and Procedures

Under the supervision of our Co-Chief Executive Officers and Chief Financial Officer, we evaluated the effectiveness of our disclosure controls and procedures (as defined in Rules 13a-15(e) and 15d-15(e) under the Exchange Act) as of September 30, 2024.

Disclosure controls and procedures are designed to ensure that information required to be disclosed in our reports filed or submitted under the Exchange Act is recorded, processed, summarized, and reported within the time periods specified in the SEC’s rules and forms. Disclosure controls and procedures include controls and procedures designed to ensure that information required to be disclosed in our reports filed under the Exchange Act is accumulated and communicated to management, including our Co-Chief Executive Officers and Chief Financial Officer, to allow timely decisions regarding required disclosure. As described below, we have identified material weaknesses in our internal control over financial reporting. A material weakness is a deficiency, or a combination of deficiencies, in internal control over financial reporting such that there is a reasonable possibility that a material misstatement of a company’s annual or interim consolidated financial statements will not be prevented or detected on a timely basis. Solely as a result of these material weaknesses, our Co-Chief Executive Officers and Chief Financial Officer concluded that our disclosure controls and procedures were not effective as of September 30, 2024.

Material Weaknesses and Remediation Plans

Previously Reported Material Weaknesses

As reported in Part II, Item 9A. “Controls and Procedures” of our Annual Reports on Form 10-K for the fiscal years ended June 30, 2024, June 30, 2023, June 30, 2022, and June 30, 2021, we have identified a material weakness in our internal control over financial reporting related to controls around the existence, completeness, and valuation of inventory.

Management has made significant enhancements to the Company’s inventory management process related to the existence, completeness, and valuation of inventory. Management has implemented or is in process of implementing new or enhanced internal control procedures intended to both address the identified material weakness and strengthen our overall financial control environment, including:

Increased frequency of the periodic physical inventory count process at our distribution centers and final mile and locations;

Increased accuracy of periodic inventory count at all third-party logistics service providers through increased communication, oversight of their inventory management policies and procedures, and higher partner accountability when dealing with errors;

Designed and implemented management oversight controls specifically related to inventory counts at third party distribution centers and final mile locations;

Increased operational accuracy of inventory cycle count processes;

Improved timeliness and accuracy of transactional processing between Peloton and third-party service providers and increased the accuracy of inventory data across Peloton internal systems, Peloton warehouses, and third-party providers;

Implemented or enhanced controls related to inventory costing and the review of inventory excess and obsolescence reserves;

Consolidation of our inventory network to reduce exposure to locations with historically high physical count inaccuracy; and

Enhancements to training of standard operating procedures and internal controls to key stakeholders within the supply chain, logistics, and inventory processes.

These steps are subject to ongoing senior management review, as well as oversight by the audit committee of our Board of Directors.

While significant progress has been made to remediate this material weakness, management does not believe that these corrective measures have been either fully implemented or operating for a sufficient period of time to enable management to conclude that these internal controls over financial reporting are operating effectively and sufficiently to remediate this material weakness. When fully implemented and operational, we believe the measures described above will remediate the material weakness. We are committed to continuing to improve our internal control processes and will continue to diligently and vigorously review our financial reporting controls and procedures.

In addition, during the fiscal year ended June 30, 2024, management identified a material weakness in our internal control over financial reporting related to the business process control environment at Precor. Management assessed the design and operating effectiveness of automated and manual business process controls in Precor’s environment, and identified a number of deficiencies related to lack of proper design of controls and lack of sufficient documentation to validate control design effectiveness, in particular management review controls. Management determined that in the aggregate, these control deficiencies constitute a material weakness.

Management has designed and performed additional procedures on a quarterly basis to gain comfort over the completeness and accuracy of the financial information relied upon at Precor and to ensure material errors do not exist within the Precor information consolidated into Peloton’s financial statements. We have not identified any material errors or misstatements as a result of these procedures in our interim financial statements for the quarter ended September 30, 2024 or in our annual financial statements for the year ended June 30, 2024 or June 30, 2023.

In order to remediate the material weakness related to Precor’s business process controls, management has designed and is actively executing on the following remediation plan, which includes:

Taking a risk-based approach to remediation, prioritizing business process controls designed to mitigate significant financial statement risk areas, including financial statement close process review controls and management review controls over inventory and revenue judgments and estimates;

Engaging an accounting advisory firm to assist with the documentation, evaluation, remediation, and testing of our internal control over financial reporting related to Precor’s business process control environment based on the criteria established in Internal Control - Integrated Framework (2013) issued by the Committee of Sponsoring Organizations (COSO) of the Treadway Commission;

Training of relevant personnel on the design and operation of our internal control over financial reporting relating to Precor’s business process control environment; and

Hiring additional qualified accounting and financial reporting personnel with internal control expertise to support the Precor business

These steps are subject to ongoing senior management review, as well as oversight by the audit committee of our Board of Directors.

While management has made progress towards the remediation of the material weakness through the design and implementation of certain business process controls which mitigate significant financial risk, we will not be able to conclude that we have remediated this material weakness until the applicable remedial measures are fully implemented and operate for a sufficient period of time and management has concluded, through formal testing, that all of the remediated controls are operating effectively. We will continue to monitor the design and effectiveness of these controls and make any further changes management deems appropriate.

We concluded with respect to each of the material weaknesses described above that these material weaknesses did not result in any material misstatements in our financial state ments or disclosuresin the current year or in our annual consolidated financial statements in any of the prior fiscal years in which this material weakness existed. Based on additional procedures and post-closing review, management concluded that the consolidated financial statements included in this Quart erly Report on Form 10-Q present fairly, in all material respects, our financial position, results of operations, and cash flows for the periods presented in conformity with accounting principles generally accepted in the United States.

Changes in Internal Control over Financial Reporting

Other than the ongoing remediation efforts and the new material weakness described above, there were no changes in our internal control over financial reporting (as defined in Rules 13a-15(f) and 15d-15(f) under the Exchange Act) during the quarter ended September 30, 2024 that have materially affected, or are reasonably likely to materially affect, our internal control over financial reporting.

Limitations on the Effectiveness of Disclosure Controls and Procedures

Our management, including our Co-Chief Executive Officers and Chief Financial Officer, does not expect that our disclosure controls and procedures or internal control over financial reporting will prevent all errors and all fraud. A control system, no matter how well designed and implemented, can provide only reasonable, not absolute, assurance that the control system’s objectives will be met. Further, the design of a control system must reflect the fact that there are resource constraints and the benefits of controls must be considered relative to their costs. Because of the inherent limitations in all control systems, no evaluation of controls can provide absolute assurance that all control issues within a company are detected. The inherent limitations include the realities that judgments in decision-making can be faulty and that breakdowns can occur because of simple errors or mistakes. Controls can also be circumvented by the individual acts of some persons, by collusion of two or more people, or by management override of the controls. Also, projections of any evaluation of effectiveness to future periods are subject to the risk that controls may become inadequate because of changes in conditions or that the degree of compliance with the policies or procedures may deteriorate. Because of the inherent limitations in a cost-effective control system, misstatements due to error or fraud may occur and may not be detected.

PART II. OTHER INFORMATION

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