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Symbotic Inc

For the period ended Mar 30, 2024. Filed May 7, 2024.

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Mar 30, 2024 · Filed May 7, 2024

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Notes to Unaudited Condensed Consolidated Financial Statements

  1. Organization and Operations

SVF Investment Corp. 3, formerly known as SVF Investment III Corp., (“SVF 3” and, after the transactions described below, “Symbotic” or the “Company”) was a blank check company incorporated as a Cayman Islands exempted company on December 11, 2020. Warehouse Technologies LLC (“Legacy Warehouse”), was formed in December 2006 to make investments in companies that develop new technologies to improve operating efficiencies in modern warehouses. Symbotic LLC, a technology company that develops and commercializes innovative technologies for use within warehouse operations, and Symbotic Group Holdings, ULC were wholly owned subsidiaries of Legacy Warehouse. On December 12, 2021, (i) SVF 3 entered into an Agreement and Plan of Merger (the “Merger Agreement”) with Legacy Warehouse, Symbotic Holdings LLC (“Symbotic Holdings”), and Saturn Acquisition (DE) Corp., a wholly owned subsidiary of SVF 3 (“Merger Sub”) and (ii) Legacy Warehouse entered into an Agreement and Plan of Merger (the “Company Merger Agreement”) with Symbotic Holdings.

On June 7, 2022, as contemplated by the Company Merger Agreement, Legacy Warehouse merged with and into Symbotic Holdings (the “Company Reorganization”), with Symbotic Holdings surviving the merger (“Interim Symbotic”). Immediately following such merger, on June 7, 2022, as contemplated by the Merger Agreement, SVF 3 transferred by way of continuation from the Cayman Islands and domesticated as a Delaware corporation, changing its name to “Symbotic Inc.”. Immediately following the domestication of SVF 3, on June 7, 2022, as contemplated by the Merger Agreement, Merger Sub merged with and into Interim Symbotic (the “Merger” and, together with the Company Reorganization, the “Business Combination”), with Interim Symbotic surviving the merger as a subsidiary of Symbotic (“New Symbotic Holdings”).

Symbotic Inc. is an automation technology company established to develop technologies to improve operating efficiencies in modern warehouses. The Company’s vision is to make the supply chain work better for everyone. The Company does this by developing innovative, end-to-end technology solutions that dramatically improve supply chain operations. The Company currently automates the processing of pallets and cases in large warehouses or distribution centers for some of the largest retail companies in the world. Its systems enhance operations at the front end of the supply chain, and therefore benefit all supply partners further down the chain, irrespective of fulfillment strategy.

The Company’s headquarters are located in Wilmington, Massachusetts, and its Canadian headquarters are located in Montreal, Quebec.

  1. Summary of Significant Accounting Policies

Basis of Presentation and Consolidation

The accompanying unaudited condensed consolidated financial statements have been prepared in U.S. dollars, in accordance with accounting principles generally accepted in the United States of America (“GAAP”). Certain information and note disclosures normally included in the Company’s annual audited consolidated financial statements and accompanying notes prepared in accordance with GAAP have been condensed in, or omitted from, these interim financial statements. Accordingly, these unaudited condensed consolidated financial statements included herein should be read in conjunction with the audited consolidated financial statements and accompanying notes thereto as of and for the year ended September 30, 2023, which are included within the Company’s Annual Report on Form 10-K filed with the SEC on December 11, 2023. The September 30, 2023 consolidated balance sheet included herein is derived from the Company’s audited consolidated financial statements.

The accompanying unaudited condensed consolidated financial statements include the accounts of the Company and its wholly owned subsidiaries and majority-owned subsidiaries and reflect all adjustments (consisting solely of normal, recurring adjustments) which are, in the opinion of management, necessary for a fair statement of results for the interim periods presented. All intercompany balances and transactions have been eliminated in consolidation. The consolidated financial statements include 100% of the accounts of wholly owned and majority-owned subsidiaries and the ownership interest of the minority investor is recorded as a non-controlling interest in a subsidiary. The results of operations for the interim periods presented are not necessarily indicative of the results to be expected for any future period or the entire fiscal year.

The Company operates and reports using a 52-53 week fiscal year ending on the last Saturday of September of each calendar year. Each of the Company’s fiscal quarters end on the last Saturday of the third month of each quarter.

Use of Estimates

The preparation of unaudited condensed consolidated financial statements in conformity with GAAP requires management to make estimates, judgments, and assumptions that affect the reported amounts of assets, liabilities, revenue, and expenses, and the amounts disclosed in the related notes to the consolidated financial statements. Actual results and outcomes may differ materially from management’s estimates, judgments, and assumptions. Significant estimates, judgments, and assumptions used in these financial statements include, but are not limited to, those related to revenue, useful lives and realizability of long-lived assets, accounting for income taxes and related valuation allowances, and stock-based compensation. Estimates are periodically reviewed in light of changes in circumstances, facts, and experience.

Significant Accounting Policies

The Company’s significant accounting policies are described in Note 2, Summary of Significant Accounting Policies, to the audited consolidated financial statements and related notes thereto as of and for the year ended September 30, 2023. There have been no material changes to the significant accounting policies during the three month period ended March 30, 2024.

Presentation of Restricted Cash

Restricted cash consists of collateral required for a credit card processing program and a U.S. customs bond. The short-term or long-term classification is determined in accordance with the required amount of time the cash is to be held as collateral, which is short-term for less than 12 months, and long-term for greater than 12 months from the balance sheet date. As the cash is required to be held as collateral for a period which is greater than 12 months from March 30, 2024, it is presented in other long-term assets. The following table summarizes the end-of-period cash and cash equivalents from the Company’s Consolidated Balance Sheets and the total cash, cash equivalents, and restricted cash as presented on the accompanying Consolidated Statements of Cash Flows (in thousands):

Six Months Ended
March 30, 2024March 25, 2023
Cash and cash equivalents$901,382$256,954
Restricted cash classified in:
Other long-term assets2,8602,132
Cash, cash equivalents, and restricted cash shown in the statement of cash flows$904,242$259,086

Volume of Business

The Company has concentration in the volume of purchases it conducts with its suppliers. For the three months ended March 30, 2024, there were two suppliers that accounted for greater than 10% of total purchases, and the aggregate purchases amounted to $92.0 million. For the six months ended March 30, 2024, there was one supplier that accounted for greater than 10% of total purchases, and the aggregate purchases amounted to $94.9 million. For the three and six months ended March 25, 2023, there was one supplier that accounted for greater than 10% of total purchases, and the aggregate purchases amounted to $35.8 million and $64.1 million, respectively.

Emerging Growth Company

The Company is an emerging growth company (“EGC”), as defined in Section 2(a) of the Securities Act of 1933, as modified by the Jumpstart Our Business Startups Act of 2012 (the “JOBS Act”). Section 102(b)(1) of the JOBS Act exempts EGCs from being required to comply with new or revised financial accounting standards until private companies (that is, those that have not had a Securities Act registration statement declared effective or do not have a class of securities registered under the Exchange Act) are required to comply with the new or revised financial accounting standards. The JOBS Act provides that an EGC can elect to opt out of the extended transition period and comply with the requirements that apply to non-EGCs but any such an election to opt out is irrevocable. The Company has not elected to opt out of such extended transition period which means that when a financial accounting standard is issued or revised and it has different application dates for public or private companies, the Company, as an EGC, can adopt the new or revised standard at the time private companies adopt the new or revised standard. The Company will be eligible to use this extended transition period under the JOBS Act until the earlier of the date it (i) is no longer an EGC or (ii) affirmatively and irrevocably opts out of the extended transition period provided in the JOBS Act. As a result, the Company’s financial statements may not be comparable to the financial statements of issuers who are required to comply with the effective dates for new or revised accounting standards that are applicable to public companies, which may make comparison of the Company’s financials to those of other public companies more difficult.

The Company will cease to be an EGC on the date that is the earliest of (i) the end of the fiscal year in which total annual gross revenue exceeds $1.235 billion, (ii) the last day of the Company’s fiscal year following March 11, 2026 (the fifth anniversary of the date on which SVF 3 consummated the initial public offering of SVF 3), (iii) the date on which the Company has issued more than $1.0 billion in non-convertible debt during the preceding three-year period; or (iv) the end of the fiscal year in which the market value of the Company’s common stock held by non-affiliates exceeds $700 million as of the last business day of the most recently completed second fiscal quarter. As of the last business day of the most recently completed second fiscal quarter ended March 30, 2024, the market value of the Company’s common stock held by non-affiliates was approximately $1,934 million (based on the closing sales price of the Class A common stock on March 28, 2024 of $45.00), and therefore, the Company expects to cease to be an EGC as of the end of the current fiscal year ending September 28, 2024.

Recent Accounting Pronouncements

The Company has implemented all applicable accounting pronouncements that are in effect and there are no new accounting pronouncements that have been issued that would have a material impact on its financial position or results of operations.

  1. Noncontrolling Interests

Noncontrolling interests represent the portion of net assets in consolidated entities that are not owned by the Company.

The following table summarizes the ownership of Symbotic Inc. stock for the three months ended March 30, 2024.

Class A Common StockClass V-1 and Class V-3 Common StockTotalClass A Common StockClass V-1 and Class V-3 Common StockTotal
Balance at December 30, 202385,106,588488,002,584573,109,172
Issuances10,852,700—10,852,700
Exchanges5,236,000(5,236,000)—
Balance at March 30, 2024101,195,288482,766,584583,961,87217.3%82.7%100%

The following table summarizes the ownership of Symbotic Inc. stock for the six months ended March 30, 2024.

Class A Common StockClass V-1 and Class V-3 Common StockTotalClass A Common StockClass V-1 and Class V-3 Common StockTotal
Balance at September 30, 202382,112,881474,460,038556,572,919
Issuances11,518,54215,870,41127,388,953
Exchanges7,563,865(7,563,865)—
Balance at March 30, 2024101,195,288482,766,584583,961,87217.3%82.7%100%
  1. Revenue

The Company generates revenue through its design and installation of modular inventory management systems (the “Systems”) to automate customers’ depalletizing, storage, selection, and palletization warehousing processes. The Systems have both a hardware component and an embedded software component that enables the system to be programmed to operate within specific customer environments. The Company enters into contracts with customers that can include various combinations of services to design and install the Systems. These services are generally distinct and accounted for as separate performance obligations. As a result, each customer contract may contain multiple performance obligations. The Company determines whether performance obligations are distinct based on whether the customer can benefit from the product or service on its own or together with other resources that are readily available and whether the Company’s commitment to provide the services to the customer is separately identifiable from other obligations in the contract.

The Company recognizes revenue upon transfer of control of promised goods or services in a contract with a customer, generally as title and risk of loss pass to the customer, in an amount that reflects the consideration the Company expects to receive in exchange for those products or services. Revenue is recognized only to the extent that it is probable that a significant reversal of revenue will not occur and when collection is considered probable. In instances where the timing of revenue recognition differs from the timing of invoicing, the Company has determined its contracts do not include a significant financing component. Taxes collected from customers, which are subsequently remitted to governmental authorities, are excluded from revenue. Shipping and handling costs billed to customers are included in revenue and the related costs are included in cost of revenue when control transfers to the customer. The Company presents amounts collected from customers for sales and other taxes net of the related amounts remitted.

The design, assembly, and installation of a System includes substantive customer-specified acceptance criteria that allow the customer to accept or reject systems that do not meet the customer’s specifications. When the Company cannot objectively determine that acceptance criteria will be met upon contract inception, revenue relating to systems is deferred and recognized at a point in time upon final acceptance from the customer. If acceptance can be reasonably certain upon contract inception, revenue is recognized over time based on an input method, using a cost-to-cost measure of progress.

Disaggregation of Revenue

The Company provides disaggregation of revenue based on product and service type on the consolidated statements of operations as it believes these categories best depict how the nature, amount, timing, and uncertainty of revenue and cash flows are affected by economic factors.

Contract Balances

The following table provides information about accounts receivable, unbilled accounts receivable, and contract liabilities from contracts with customers (in thousands):

March 30, 2024September 30, 2023
Accounts receivable$127,677$69,206
Unbilled accounts receivable$173,995$121,149
Contract liabilities$856,922$787,227

The change in the opening and closing balances of the Company’s accounts receivable primarily results from the increase in customer system implementations in the current fiscal year as well as the timing of when customer payments are due. The change in the opening and closing balances of the Company’s contract liabilities primarily results from the timing difference between the Company’s performance and customer payments. The Company’s performance obligations are typically satisfied over time as work is performed. Payment from customers can vary, and is often received in advance of satisfaction of the performance obligations, resulting in a contract liability balance. During the six months ended March 30, 2024 and March 25, 2023, the Company recognized $221.0 million and $229.0 million, respectively, of the contract liability balance as revenue upon transfer of the products or services to customers.

Remaining Performance Obligations

Remaining performance obligations represent the aggregate amount of the transaction price allocated to performance obligations not delivered, or partially undelivered, at the end of the reporting period. Remaining performance obligations include deferred revenue plus unbilled amounts not yet recorded in deferred revenue. Remaining performance obligation estimates are subject to change and are affected by several factors, including terminations, changes in scope of contracts, periodic revalidation, adjustments for revenue that have not materialized, adjustments for inflation, and adjustments for currency. For contracts with a duration of greater than one year, the transaction price allocated to performance obligations that are unsatisfied as of March 30, 2024 was $22.8 billion, which is primarily comprised of undelivered or partially undelivered Systems under contract, and which a substantial majority relates to undelivered or partially undelivered Systems in connection with the Master Automation Agreement with Walmart Inc. (“Walmart”) to implement Systems in all of Walmart’s 42 regional distribution centers, and in connection with the Commercial Agreement with GreenBox (as defined below) under which Symbotic will implement its warehouse automation system into GreenBox distribution center locations. The definition of remaining performance obligations excludes those contracts that provide the customer with the right to cancel or terminate the contract without incurring a substantial penalty. The Company expects to recognize approximately 9% of its remaining performance obligations as revenue in the next 12 months, approximately 60% of its remaining performance obligations as revenue within 5 years, and the remaining thereafter, which is dependent on the timing of System installation timelines. The Company does not disclose the value of remaining performance obligations for contracts with an original expected duration of one year or less.

Significant Customers

For the three and six months ended March 30, 2024 and March 25, 2023, there was one customer that individually accounted for 10% or more of total revenue. The following table represents this customer’s aggregate percent of total revenue.

Three Months EndedSix Months Ended
March 30, 2024March 25, 2023March 30, 2024March 25, 2023
Customer A84.2%89.7%83.4%86.1%

At March 30, 2024, one customer accounted for over 10% of the Company’s accounts receivable balance, and two customers accounted for over 10% of the Company’s accounts receivable balance at September 30, 2023. The following table represents these customers’ aggregate percent of total accounts receivable. The symbol “n/a” indicates that such customer’s accounts receivable balance at the period indicated within the table did not exceed 10% of the Company’s accounts receivable balance.

March 30, 2024September 30, 2023
Customer A80.5%86.6%
Customer Bn/a10.3%
Aggregate Percent of Total Accounts Receivable80.5%96.9%

The concentration in the volume of business transacted with these customers may lead to a material impact on the Company’s results from operations if a total or partial loss of the business relationship were to occur. As of the date of the issuance of these financial statements, the Company is not aware of any specific event or circumstance which would result in a material adverse impact to its results of operations or liquidity and financial condition.

  1. Leases

The Company leases office space in Wilmington, MA and Montreal, QC through operating lease arrangements. The Company has no finance lease agreements. The operating lease arrangements expire at various dates through December 2030.

The following table presents the balance sheet location of the Company’s operating leases for each of the periods presented (in thousands):

March 30, 2024September 30, 2023
ROU assets:
Other long-term assets$16,593$12,398
Lease Liabilities:
Accrued expenses and other current liabilities$1,891$1,347
Other long-term liabilities16,73312,291
Total lease liabilities$18,624$13,638

The following table presents maturities of the Company’s operating lease liabilities as of March 30, 2024, presented under ASC Topic 842 (in thousands):

March 30, 2024
Remaining fiscal year 2024$1,621
Fiscal year 20252,957
Fiscal year 20263,407
Fiscal year 20273,681
Fiscal year 2028 and thereafter12,746
Total future minimum payments$24,412
Less: Implied interest(5,788)
Total lease liabilities$18,624

The Company uses its estimated incremental borrowing rate, which is derived from information available at the lease commencement date, in determining the present value of operating lease payments. To determine the estimated incremental borrowing rate, the Company uses publicly available credit ratings for peer companies. The Company estimates the incremental borrowing rate using yields for maturities that are in line with the duration of the lease payments. The weighted average discount rate for operating leases as of March 30, 2024 was 8.0%.

As of March 30, 2024, the weighted-average remaining lease term of the Company’s operating leases was approximately 6.2 years. Operating cash flows for amounts included in the measurement of the Company’s operating lease liabilities were $0.7 million for the six months ended March 30, 2024.

  1. Inventories

Inventories at March 30, 2024 and September 30, 2023 consist of the following (in thousands):

March 30, 2024September 30, 2023
Raw materials and components$90,174$124,446
Finished goods29,59811,675
Total inventories$119,772$136,121
  1. Property and Equipment

Property and equipment at March 30, 2024 and September 30, 2023 consists of the following (in thousands):

March 30, 2024September 30, 2023
Computer equipment and software, furniture and fixtures, test equipment, and other equipment$83,041$40,437
Internal use software6,7865,638
Leasehold improvements8,7997,194
Total property and equipment98,62653,269
Less accumulated depreciation(23,588)(18,762)
Property and equipment, net$75,038$34,507

Included within the $40.5 million net increase of property and equipment from September 30, 2023 to March 30, 2024 is approximately $38.5 million transfer of equipment from deferred cost to property and equipment related to equipment which the Company will be utilizing for internal operations.

For the three and six months ended March 30, 2024, depreciation expense was $2.5 million and $4.8 million, respectively. For the three and six months ended March 25, 2023, depreciation expense was $1.6 million and $3.2 million, respectively.

  1. Severance Charges

During the second quarter of fiscal year 2023, management committed to actions to restructure certain parts of the Company within the U.S. and Canada to better position the Company to become more agile in delivering its solutions through various outsourcing partnerships. As a result, certain headcount reductions were necessary, and the Company recognized $2.3 million of expense associated with these actions, which is included within selling, general, and administrative expenses on the Consolidated Statements of Operations for the three and six months ended March 25, 2023, and was completed within fiscal year 2023. The costs incurred related to employee severance are recorded as a liability when it is probable that employees will be entitled to termination benefits and the amounts can be reasonably estimated. The liability related to these charges is included in accrued expenses and other current liabilities in the Consolidated Balance Sheets.

The following table presents the activity related to the Company’s severance liability as of March 25, 2023 (in thousands). The Company did not have material severance activity for the three or six months ended March 30, 2024 or year ended September 30, 2023.

March 25, 2023
Severance liability at September 25, 2022$1,051
Severance charges5,242
Cash paid and other(4,118)
Severance liability at March 25, 2023$2,175
  1. Income Taxes

The Company is subject to U.S. federal income taxes, in addition to state and local income taxes, with respect to its allocable share of any taxable income or loss of Symbotic Holdings, LLC. The remaining share of Symbotic Holdings income or loss is non-taxable to the Company and is not reflected in current or deferred income taxes. The Company’s foreign subsidiaries are subject to income tax in their local jurisdictions.

For the three and six months ended March 30, 2024, the Company recorded a current income tax benefit of $0.2 million and $0.1 million, respectively. For the three and six months ended March 25, 2023, the Company recorded a current income tax benefit of less than $0.1 million and a $0.2 million current income tax expense, respectively. The Company incurred a pre-tax loss for the three and six month periods and recorded a full valuation allowance against its domestic deferred tax assets and a partial valuation allowance against its foreign deferred tax assets. The Company incurs state tax expense by Symbotic LLC at the flow-through entity level and foreign tax expense at its foreign subsidiaries. The effective tax rate for the three and six months ended March 30, 2024 is 0.46% and 0.13% respectively, as compared to an effective tax rate for the three and six months ended March 25, 2023 of 0.03% and (0.19)%, respectively. The effective tax rate differs from the federal statutory income tax rate primarily due to the flow-through entity level taxes and the effect of the valuation allowance against the Company’s net federal, state, and foreign deferred income taxes.

As of March 30, 2024, the Company continues to conclude that the negative evidence regarding its ability to realize its deferred tax assets outweighs the positive evidence, and the Company has a full valuation allowance against its domestic federal and state net deferred tax assets and a partial valuation allowance against its foreign net deferred tax assets. The Company has a history of cumulative pre-tax losses for the three previous fiscal years which it believes represents significant negative evidence in evaluating whether its deferred tax assets are realizable. Given these cumulative losses, lack of forecast history, the competitive environment, and uncertainty of general economic conditions, the Company does not believe it can rely on projections of future taxable income exclusive of reversing taxable temporary differences to support the realization of its deferred tax assets. In upcoming quarters, the Company will continue to evaluate both the positive and negative evidence surrounding its ability to realize its deferred tax assets.

Tax Receivable Agreement

As of March 30, 2024 future payments under the Tax Receivable Agreement (“TRA”) with respect to the purchase of Symbotic Holdings Units which occurred as part of or subsequent to the Business Combination are expected to be $443.8 million. Payments made under the TRA represent payments that otherwise would have been made to taxing authorities in the absence of attributes obtained by the Company as a result of exchanges by its pre-IPO members. Such amounts will be paid only when a cash tax savings is realized as a result of attributes subject to the TRA. That is, payments under the TRA are only expected to be made in periods following the filing of a tax return in which the Company is able to utilize certain tax benefits to reduce its cash taxes paid to a taxing authority. The impact of any changes in the projected obligations under the TRA as a result of changes in the geographic mix of the Company’s earnings, changes in tax legislation and tax rates or other factors that may impact the Company’s tax savings will be reflected in income or loss before taxes on the consolidated statement of operations in the period in which the change occurs. As of March 30, 2024, no TRA liability was recorded based on the amount expected to be paid for cash tax savings related to fiscal year 2024. No TRA liability was recorded for periods after fiscal year 2024 based on current projections of future taxable income and taking into consideration the Company’s full valuation allowance against its net deferred tax asset.

  1. Fair Value Measures

The Company measures certain financial assets at fair value. Fair value is determined based upon the exit price that would be received to sell an asset or paid to transfer a liability in an orderly transaction between market participants, as determined by either the principal market or the most advantageous market. Inputs used in the valuation techniques to derive fair values are classified based on a three-level hierarchy, as follows:

Level 1 – inputs to the valuation methodology are quoted prices (unadjusted) for an identical asset or liability in an active market

Level 2 – inputs to the valuation methodology include quoted prices for a similar asset or liability in an active market or model-derived valuations in which all significant inputs are observable for substantially the full term of the asset or liability

Level 3 – inputs to the valuation methodology are unobservable and significant to the fair value measurement of the asset or liability

The following table presents the Company’s financial assets measured and recorded at fair value on a recurring basis using the above input categories as of March 30, 2024 and September 30, 2023 (in thousands):

March 30, 2024September 30, 2023
Level 1Level 2Level 3TotalLevel 1Level 2Level 3Total
Assets:
Money market funds$851,779$—$—$851,779$219,945$—$—$219,945
U.S. Treasury securities—49,978—49,978—286,736—286,736
Total assets$851,779$49,978$—$901,757$219,945$286,736$—$506,681

The Company hadno liabilities measured and recorded at fair value on a recurring basis as of March 30, 2024 and September 30, 2023.

The Company considers all highly liquid investments purchased with an original maturity of three months or less to be cash equivalents. The fair value of the Company’s investments in certain money market funds is their face value and such instruments are classified as Level 1 and are included in cash and cash equivalents on the consolidated balance sheets. At March 30, 2024, Level 2 securities were priced by pricing vendors. These pricing vendors utilize the most recent observable market information in pricing these securities or, if specific prices are not available for these securities, use other observable inputs like market transactions involving identical or comparable securities.

At March 30, 2024, the amortized cost of the Company’s U.S. Treasury securities is $48.7 million, with unrealized gains of $1.3 million andno unrealized losses, resulting in a fair value of $50.0 million. As applicable, when making the determination as to whether unrealized losses are other-than-temporary, the Company considers the length of time and extent to which each investment has been in an unrealized loss position, the financial condition and near-term prospects of the issuers, the issuers’ credit rating, and the time to maturity. There wereno cash and cash equivalents related to U.S. Treasury securities with an original maturity of three months or less included in the amortized cost of $48.7 million.

  1. Related Party Transactions

ASC 850, Related Party Disclosures(“ASC 850”) provides guidance for the identification of related parties and the disclosure of related party transactions. Related parties are generally defined as (i) affiliates of the Company; (ii) owners of more than 10% of the voting interests of the Company and members of their immediate families; (iii) management of the Company and members of their immediate families; (iv) other parties which directly or indirectly control, are controlled by, or are under common control with the Company; or (v) other parties who can significantly influence the financial and operating decisions of the Company. A transaction is considered to be a related party transaction when there is a transfer of resources or obligations between related parties. The Company assesses related parties each reporting period. For the reporting periods covered by this report, the Company determined that C&S Wholesale Grocers, Inc. (“C&S”) was a related party under ASC 850 and the following transactions were related party transactions under ASC 850.

Aircraft Time Sharing Agreement

In December 2021 and May 2022, the Company entered into aircraft time-sharing agreements with C&S whereby the Company’s officials, employees, and guests are permitted to use thetwo C&S aircraft on an as-needed and as-available basis, with no minimum usage being required. As there is no defined period of time stated within these aircraft time-sharing agreements, the Company does not consider these to meet the definition of a lease, and as such, records payments in the period in which the obligation for the payment is incurred. For the three and six months ended March 30, 2024, the Company incurred expense of $0.3 million and $0.5 million, respectively, and for the three and six months ended March 25, 2023, the Company incurred expense of $0.3 million and $0.4 million, respectively, related to these aircraft time-sharing agreements.

Usage of Facility and Employee Services

The Company has a license arrangement with C&S whereby C&S is providing receiving and logistics services for the Company within a C&S distribution facility. The arrangement also provides for C&S employees assisting with certain of the Company’s operations. For the three and six months ended March 30, 2024, the Company incurred expense of $0.8 million and $1.5 million, respectively, and for the three and six months ended March 25, 2023, the Company incurred expense of $0.7 million and $1.0 million, respectively, related to this arrangement.

Customer Contracts

The Company has customer contracts with C&S relating to systems implementation, software maintenance services and the operations of a warehouse automation system. For the three and six months ended March 30, 2024, revenue of $23.0 million and $35.6 million was recognized, respectively, relating to these customer contracts. For the three and six months ended March 25, 2023, revenue of $7.2 million and $12.7 million was recognized, respectively, relating to these customer contracts. There was $2.9 million accounts receivable due from and $10.3 million of unbilled receivables for C&S at March 30, 2024, and $0.9 million accounts receivable due from C&S at September 30, 2023. There was $1.0 million and $9.3 million of deferred revenue related to contracts with C&S at March 30, 2024 and September 30, 2023, respectively.

  1. Commitments and Contingencies

Contingencies

Liabilities for any loss contingencies arising from claims, assessments, litigation, fines, penalties, and other matters are recorded when it is probable that the liability has been incurred and the amount of the liability can be reasonably estimated. As of March 30, 2024, the Company has made appropriate provisions related to such matters and does not believe that such matters will have a material adverse effect on the Company’s consolidated operations, financial position, or liquidity.

Indemnifications

In the ordinary course of business, the Company enters into various contracts under which it may agree to indemnify other parties for losses incurred from certain events as defined in the relevant contract, such as litigation, regulatory penalties, or claims relating to past performance. Such indemnification obligations may not be subject to maximum loss clauses. The Company has never incurred costs to defend lawsuits or settle claims related to these indemnification obligations. As a result, the Company believes the estimated fair value of these obligations is minimal. Accordingly, the Company hasno liabilities recorded for these obligations as of March 30, 2024 and September 30, 2023.

Warranty

The Company provides a limited warranty on its warehouse automation systems and has established a reserve for warranty obligations based on estimated warranty costs. The reserve is included as part of accrued expenses and other long-term liabilities in the accompanying consolidated balance sheets.

Activity related to the warranty accrual is as follows (in thousands):

Three Months EndedSix Months Ended
March 30, 2024March 25, 2023March 30, 2024March 25, 2023
Balance at beginning of period$22,323$9,990$18,948$9,004
Provision5,8444,48412,0396,701
Warranty usage(691)(2,058)(3,511)(3,289)
Balance at end of period$27,476$12,416$27,476$12,416
  1. Variable Interest Entities (“VIE”)

VIEs are entities with any of the following characteristics: (i) the entity does not have enough equity to finance its activities without additional financial support; (ii) the equity holders, as a group, lack the characteristics of a controlling financial interest; or (iii) the entity is structured with non-substantive voting rights.

Consolidation of a VIE is required for the party deemed to be the primary beneficiary, if any. The primary beneficiary is the party who has both (a) the power to direct the activities of a VIE that most significantly impact the entity’s economic performance and (b) an obligation to absorb losses of the entity or a right to receive benefits from the entity that could potentially be significant to the entity.

On July 23, 2023, the Company, New Symbotic Holdings, and Symbotic US (collectively, the “Symbotic Group”), entered into a Framework Agreement (the “Framework Agreement”) with Sunlight Investment Corp., a Delaware corporation (“Sunlight”), SVF II Strategic Investments AIV LLC, a Delaware limited liability company (“SVF” and, together with Sunlight, “SoftBank”), and GreenBox Systems LLC, a Delaware limited liability company (“GreenBox”), related to the formation of GreenBox as a venture between the Symbotic Group and SoftBank, the entry into a Limited Liability Company Agreement of GreenBox and Master Services, License and Equipment Agreement (the “Commercial Agreement”) and issuance of a warrant to purchase Class A Common Stock of Symbotic (the “GreenBox Warrant”).

GreenBox was established on July 21, 2023, to build and automate supply chain networks globally by operating and financing the Company’s advanced artificial intelligence (“A.I.”) and automation technology for the warehouse. Symbotic Holdings and Sunlight own 35% and 65% of GreenBox, respectively. On July 23, 2023, GreenBox entered into the Commercial Agreement with Symbotic US with respect to the purchase of Symbotic’s automated case handling systems. The Company evaluated for VIEs upon the formation of GreenBox in accordance with ASC 810, Consolidation. The Company holds a variable interest in GreenBox through its equity interest in GreenBox. GreenBox is a VIE resulting from GreenBox’s lack of sufficient equity to finance its operations without additional subordinated financial support from both the Company and SoftBank. The consolidation of GreenBox is not required as the Company is not the primary beneficiary of this VIE as it does not have the power to direct the activities that most significantly impact GreenBox’s economic performance. Such power is conveyed through GreenBox’s board of directors and the Company does not have control over GreenBox’s board of directors. The Company calculated its maximum exposure to loss while considering its equity investment in the VIE, any amounts owed to the Company for services which may have been provided, net of any unearned revenue commitments from the VIE under the Commercial Agreement, and future funding commitments. As of March 30, 2024, there isno carrying value of the VIE as no significant activity had occurred in the period related to the VIE. As of March 30, 2024 the Company doesnot have a maximum exposure to loss as the Company’s future funding commitment is less than the revenue commitment from the VIE under the Commercial Agreement.

  1. Net Loss per Share

Basic earnings per share of Class A common stock is computed by dividing net loss attributable to common shareholders by the weighted-average number of shares of Class A common stock outstanding during the period. Diluted earnings per share of Class A common stock is computed by dividing net loss attributable to common shareholders adjusted for the assumed exchange of all potentially dilutive securities, by the weighted-average number of shares of Class A common stock outstanding adjusted to give effect to potentially dilutive elements. Since the Company incurred net losses for each of the periods presented, diluted net loss per share is the same as basic net loss per share.

The following table sets forth reconciliations of the numerators and denominators used to compute basic and diluted earnings per share of Class A common stock (in thousands, except per share information):

Three Months EndedSix Months Ended
March 30, 2024March 25, 2023March 30, 2024March 25, 2023
Numerator - basic and diluted
Net loss$(40,952)$(55,416)$(53,919)$(123,402)
Less: Net loss attributable to the noncontrolling interest(34,372)(49,298)(45,411)(110,091)
Net loss attributable to common stockholders$(6,580)$(6,118)$(8,508)$(13,311)
Denominator - basic and diluted
Weighted-average shares of Class A common shares outstanding93,043,76960,503,11988,155,79159,352,634
Loss per share of Class A common stock - basic and diluted$(0.07)$(0.10)$(0.10)$(0.22)

The Company’s Class V-1 Common Stock and Class V-3 Common Stock do not participate in the earnings or losses of the Company and are therefore not participating securities. As such, separate presentation of basic and diluted earnings per share of Class V-1 Common Stock and Class V-3 Common Stock under the two-class method has not been presented.

The Company uses the treasury stock method and the average market price per share during the period for calculating any potential dilutive effect of the restricted stock units (“RSUs”), 2022 Employee Stock Purchase Plan (the “ESPP”) and Warrant Units. The average stock price for the three and six months ended March 30, 2024 was $43.81 and $43.83, respectively. For the three months ended March 30, 2024, there were 7.3 million and 0.5 million potentially dilutive common stock equivalents related to the RSUs and Warrant Units, respectively. For the six months ended March 30, 2024, there were 7.1 million and 0.5 million potentially dilutive common stock equivalents related to the RSUs and Warrant Units, respectively.

  1. Stock-Based Compensation and Warrant Units

The following two tables show stock-based compensation expense by award type and where the stock-based compensation expense is recorded in the Company’s consolidated statements of operations (in thousands):

Three Months EndedSix Months Ended
March 30, 2024March 25, 2023March 30, 2024March 25, 2023
RSUs (service-based and performance-based)$27,568$34,945$56,555$84,168
Employee stock purchase plan497278972595
Total stock-based compensation expense$28,065$35,223$57,527$84,763

Effect of stock-based compensation expense on income by line item (in thousands):

Three Months EndedSix Months Ended
March 30, 2024March 25, 2023March 30, 2024March 25, 2023
Cost of revenue, Systems$3,839$9$6,554$16
Cost of revenue, Software maintenance and support608723596
Cost of revenue, Operation services6713451,212641
Research and development12,78915,75725,08638,585
Selling, general, and administrative10,70619,02524,44045,425
Total stock-based compensation expense$28,065$35,223$57,527$84,763

Total stock-based compensation expense for the six months ended March 30, 2024 decreased as compared to the six months ended March 25, 2023 as a result of the issuance of restricted stock to our employees in August 2022 following the Business Combination with application of the graded-vesting method of expense recognition. There was no such grant in the same period of fiscal year 2023. For the three and six months ended March 30, 2024, the Company capitalized $0.1 million and $0.3 million, respectively of stock-based compensation expense to property and equipment related to internal use software projects. There wereno stock-based compensation costs capitalized for the three and six months ended March 25, 2023.

Warrant Units

GreenBox Warrant

On July 23, 2023, in connection with its entry into the Commercial Agreement with GreenBox, the Company issued Sunlight the GreenBox Warrant to acquire up to an aggregate of 11,434,360 shares of the Company’s Class A Common Stock, subject to certain vesting conditions. The GreenBox Warrant had a grant date fair value of $19.90 per unit. The GreenBox Warrant may vest in connection with conditions defined by the terms of the GreenBox Warrant, as GreenBox makes additional expenditures to the Company in connection with the Framework Agreement. There are up toeight tranches based on increments of expenditures where approximately 1,429,295 additional warrant units may vest per tranche, subject to certain conditions defined by the terms of the GreenBox Warrant. Upon vesting, warrant units may be acquired at an exercise price of $41.9719. The warrant units contain customary anti-dilution, down-round, and change-in-control provisions. The right to purchase units in connection with the GreenBox Warrant expires 36 months following the end of the initial term of the Framework Agreement which is July 23, 2027, or if applicable, the extension term of the Framework Agreement, which is July 23, 2029. As of March 30, 2024, none of the GreenBox Warrant units had vested.

Walmart Warrant

On May 20, 2022, in connection with its entry into the 2nd Amended and Restated Master Automation Agreement, the Company issued Walmart a warrant to acquire up to an aggregate of 258,972 Legacy Warehouse Class A Units (“May 2022 Warrant”), subject to certain vesting conditions. The May 2022 Warrant had a grant date fair value of $224.45. In connection with the closing of the Company’s initial public offering in June 2022, the May 2022 Warrant was converted into a new warrant to acquire up to an aggregate of 15,870,411 common units of Symbotic Holdings LLC (“June 2022 Warrant” and, the common units of Symbotic Holdings LLC issuable thereunder, the “Warrant Units”). The June 2022 Warrant vested in the second quarter of fiscal year 2023, as the installation commencement date for certain Systems which the Company is installing in Walmart’s 42 regional distribution centers had occurred. In December 2023, Walmart elected to gross exercise the vested warrants for $158.7 million. As a result of this gross exercise,15,870,411 shares of Class V-1 Common Stock were issued to Walmart.

  1. Segment and Geographic Information

The Company operates asone operating segment. Revenue and property and equipment, net by geographic region, based on physical location of the operations recording the sale or the assets are as follows:

Revenue by geographical region for the three and six months ended March 30, 2024 and March 25, 2023 are as follows (in thousands):

Three Months EndedSix Months Ended
March 30, 2024March 25, 2023March 30, 2024March 25, 2023
United States$423,304$265,962$790,700$471,382
Canada9978922,0511,784
Total revenue$424,301$266,854$792,751$473,166
Percentage of revenue generated outside of the United States (a)immaterialimmaterialimmaterialimmaterial

(a) The percentage of revenue generated outside of the United States for the three and six months ended March 30, 2024 and March 25, 2023 was immaterial.

Total property and equipment, net by geographical region at March 30, 2024 and at September 30, 2023 are as follows (in thousands):

March 30, 2024September 30, 2023
United States$74,560$33,828
Canada478679
Total property and equipment, net$75,038$34,507
Percentage of property and equipment, net held outside of the United States1%2%
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