LiveWire Group Inc
For the period ended Sep 30, 2024. Filed Nov 6, 2024.
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Sep 30, 2024 · Filed Nov 6, 2024
What changed in Risk Factors?
Read the current filingPrevious report: 10-Q
Period ended 2024-06-30; filed 2024-08-07.
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Item 1A. Risk FactorsUnregistered Sales of Equity Securities and Issuer Purchases of Equity SecuritiesDefaults Upon Senior SecuritiesMine Safety DisclosuresOther InformationCurrent report: 10-Q
Period ended 2024-09-30; filed 2024-11-06.
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Item 1A. Risk FactorsUnregistered Sales of Equity Securities and Issuer Purchases of Equity SecuritiesDefaults Upon Senior SecuritiesMine Safety DisclosuresOther InformationThe 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 14 previous paragraphs and 16 current paragraphs.
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Tables are not compared: 1 previous and 0 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.
Added paragraphs (3)
Current report
If retail partners are unwilling to participate in our go-to-market business model or are unable or ineffective in establishing or maintaining relationships with customers for electric vehicles, it may adversely impact our business.
Current report
We employ a go-to-market business model whereby our revenue is generated primarily by selling at wholesale to a network of independent dealers, which are largely drawn from H-D’s traditional motorcycle dealer network, while we also seek to develop new retail partners. We depend on the capability of these retail partners to develop and implement effective retail sales plans to create demand among retail purchasers for our electric vehicles and related products and services that the retail partners may purchase from us. We provide our retail partners with specific training and programs to assist them in selling our products, but there can be no assurance that these steps will be effective. If our retail partners are not able to establish, maintain and strengthen our brand, we may lose the opportunity to build a critical mass of customers. Our retail partners’ ability to develop, maintain and strengthen their relationships with customers for electric vehicles will depend heavily on our ability to provide high-quality electric vehicles and engage with our customers as intended, as well as the success of our customer development and marketing efforts. The electric vehicle industry is intensely competitive, and we may not be successful in building, maintaining and strengthening our relationship with customers. If we do not develop and maintain a strong brand, our business, prospects, financial condition and operating results could be materially and adversely impacted.
Current report
Some of these retail partners may also market, sell and support offerings that may be competitive with ours, may devote more resources to the marketing, sales and support of such competitive offerings or may have incentives to promote other offerings to the detriment of our own. Our retail partners could subject us to lawsuits, potential liability, and reputational harm if, for example, any of our retail partners misrepresents the functionality of our electric vehicles to customers or violates laws or our or their corporate policies. Our ability to achieve revenue growth in the future will depend, in part, on our success in maintaining successful relationships with our retail partners, identifying additional retail partners, including in new markets, and training our retail partners to independently sell our electric vehicles. For example, we recently changed our go-to-market strategy in Europe from selling direct to customers through international partners to selling at wholesale to independent dealers. If our current retail partners in Europe do not commit to our new go-to-market strategy by continuing to be a part of our network going forward, or if we are unable to enter into arrangements with or retain a sufficient number of high-quality retail partners in each of the regions in which we sell our electric vehicles and keep them motivated to sell our electric vehicles, our business, prospects, financial condition and operating results could be adversely affected.
Reworded paragraphs (4)
Previous wording
There have been no material changes to the principal risks that the Company believes are material to the Company’s business, results of operations, and financial condition from those disclosed in Part I, “Item 1A. Risk Factors” of the 2023 Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2023.
Current wording
The Company’s business, results of operations, and financial condition can be affected by a number of factors, whether current known or unknown, including but not limited to those described as risk factors, any one or more of which could, directly or indirectly, cause the Company’s actual results of operations and financial condition to vary materially from past, or anticipated future, results of operation and financial condition. For a discussion of these potential risks and uncertainties, see Part I, Item 1A. "Risk Factors" of the 2023 Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2023. Any of these factors, in whole or in part, could materially and adversely affect the Company’s business, results of operations, financial condition, and the price of the Common Stock. Other than the risk factor set forth below, there have been no material changes to the principal risks that the Company believes are material to the Company’s business, results of operations, and financial condition from those included in the 2023 Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2023.
Previous wording
There were no unregistered sales of equity securities for the three and six months ended June 30, 2024.
Current wording
There were no unregistered sales of equity securities for the three and nine months ended September 30, 2024.
Previous wording
The LiveWire Group, Inc. 2022 Incentive Award Plan provides that the withholding obligations be settled by the Company retaining shares that are part of the award. During the second quarter of 2024, the Company retained 29 thousand shares of common stock to satisfy withholding taxes in connection with the vesting of restricted stock units.
Current wording
The LiveWire Group, Inc. 2022 Incentive Award Plan provides that the withholding obligations be settled by the Company retaining shares that are part of the award. During the third quarter of 2024, there were no shares of common stock retained to satisfy withholding taxes in connection with the vesting of restricted stock units.
Previous wording
None of our directors or executive officers adopted orterminated a Rule 10b5-1 trading arrangement or a non-Rule 10b5-1 trading arrangement (as defined in Item 408(c) of Regulation S-K) during the second quarter of 2024.
Current wording
None of our directors or executive officers adopted orterminated a Rule 10b5-1 trading arrangement or a non-Rule 10b5-1 trading arrangement (as defined in Item 408(c) of Regulation S-K) during the third quarter of 2024.
Rearranged previous paragraphs (1)
Previous report — wording carried elsewhere
The Company’s share repurchases, which consisted of shares of Common Stock surrendered to satisfy withholding taxes in connection with the vesting of restricted stock units were as follows during the quarter ended June 30, 2024: