HLIT 10-Q
Harmonic Inc. (HLIT)
UNITED STATES
SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION
Washington, D.C. 20549
Form
(Mark One)
For the Quarterly Period Ended
Commission File No.
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Indicate by check mark whether the registrant is a large accelerated filer, an accelerated filer, a non-accelerated filer, a smaller reporting company, or an emerging growth company. See the definitions of “large accelerated filer,” “accelerated filer,” “smaller reporting company,” and “emerging growth company” in Rule 12b-2 of the Exchange Act.
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If an emerging growth company, indicate by check mark if the registrant has elected not to use the extended transition period for complying with any new or revised financial accounting standards provided pursuant to Section 13(a) of the Exchange Act. ☐
Indicate by check mark whether the registrant is a shell company (as defined in Rule 12b-2 of the Exchange Act). Yes ☐ No
The number of shares of the registrant’s Common Stock, $0.001 par value, outstanding on October 27, 2025 was
TABLE OF CONTENTS
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PART I
FINANCIAL INFORMATION
ITEM 1. FINANCIAL STATEMENTS
HARMONIC INC.
CONDENSED CONSOLIDATED BALANCE SHEETS
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ASSETS |
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Current assets: |
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Accounts receivable, net of allowances for credit losses of $ |
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Property and equipment, net |
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Operating lease right-of-use assets |
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Goodwill |
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Other non-current assets |
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Total assets |
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LIABILITIES AND STOCKHOLDERS’ EQUITY |
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Deferred revenue |
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Operating lease liabilities |
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Total current liabilities |
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Long-term debt |
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Other borrowings |
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Operating lease liabilities, non-current |
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Total liabilities |
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Commitments and contingencies (Note 12) |
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Stockholders’ equity: |
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Preferred stock, $ |
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Common stock, $ |
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Total stockholders’ equity |
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Total liabilities and stockholders’ equity |
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The accompanying notes are an integral part of these condensed consolidated financial statements.
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HARMONIC INC.
CONDENSED CONSOLIDATED STATEMENTS OF OPERATIONS
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September 26, 2025 |
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September 27, 2024 |
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Revenue: |
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Appliance and integration |
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SaaS and service |
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Total gross profit |
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Operating expenses: |
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Research and development |
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Selling, general and administrative |
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Asset impairment and related charges |
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Restructuring and related charges |
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Total operating expenses |
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Income from operations |
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Interest expense, net |
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Other income (expense), net |
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Income before income taxes |
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Provision for income taxes |
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Net income |
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Net income per share: |
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Diluted |
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Weighted average shares outstanding: |
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The accompanying notes are an integral part of these condensed consolidated financial statements.
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HARMONIC INC.
CONDENSED CONSOLIDATED STATEMENTS OF COMPREHENSIVE INCOME
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Net income |
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Provision for (benefit from) income taxes |
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Other comprehensive income (loss), net of tax |
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Total comprehensive income |
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The accompanying notes are an integral part of these condensed consolidated financial statements.
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HARMONIC INC.
CONDENSED CONSOLIDATED STATEMENTS OF STOCKHOLDERS’ EQUITY
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Balance at June 27, 2025 |
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Net income |
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Other comprehensive loss, net of tax |
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Issuance of common stock under award and purchase plans, net |
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Repurchase of common stock |
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Excise tax on share repurchases |
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Stock-based compensation |
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Balance at September 26, 2025 |
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Balance at June 28, 2024 |
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Net income |
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Other comprehensive income, net of tax |
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Issuance of common stock under award and purchase plans, net |
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Balance at September 27, 2024 |
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The accompanying notes are an integral part of these condensed consolidated financial statements.
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Nine Months Ended September 26, 2025 |
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Balance at December 31, 2024 |
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Net income |
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Other comprehensive income, net of tax |
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Issuance of common stock under award and purchase plans, net |
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Balance at September 26, 2025 |
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Balance at December 31, 2023 |
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Issuance of common stock upon conversion of 2024 Notes |
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Balance at September 27, 2024 |
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The accompanying notes are an integral part of these condensed consolidated financial statements.
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HARMONIC INC.
CONDENSED CONSOLIDATED STATEMENTS OF CASH FLOWS
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Cash flows from operating activities: |
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Net income |
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Adjustments to reconcile net income to net cash provided by operating activities: |
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Changes in operating assets and liabilities: |
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Net cash provided by operating activities |
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Cash flows from investing activities: |
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Cash and cash equivalents and restricted cash at end of period |
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Cash and cash equivalents and restricted cash at end of period |
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Cash and cash equivalents |
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Total cash, cash equivalents and restricted cash as shown in the condensed consolidated statement of cash flows |
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The accompanying notes are an integral part of these condensed consolidated financial statements.
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HARMONIC INC.
CONDENSED CONSOLIDATED STATEMENTS OF CASH FLOWS
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Supplemental cash flow disclosure: |
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Income tax payments, net |
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Interest payments, net |
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Supplemental schedule of non-cash investing activities: |
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Capital expenditures incurred but not yet paid |
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Supplemental schedule of non-cash financing activities: |
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The accompanying notes are an integral part of these condensed consolidated financial statements.
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HARMONIC INC.
NOTES TO CONDENSED CONSOLIDATED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS (UNAUDITED)
NOTE 1: BASIS OF PRESENTATION
The accompanying unaudited condensed consolidated financial statements have been prepared in accordance with generally accepted accounting principles in the United States (“GAAP”) and applicable rules and regulations of the Securities and Exchange Commission (“SEC”) for interim financial information. As permitted under those rules, certain footnotes or other financial information that are normally required by GAAP can be condensed or omitted. These financial statements have been prepared on the same basis as our annual consolidated financial statements and, in the opinion of management, reflect all normal recurring adjustments, which are necessary for the fair statement of our financial information. As such, the information included in this Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q should be read in conjunction with the Company’s audited consolidated financial statements and accompanying notes included in our Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2024 (“2024 Form 10-K”) as filed with the SEC on February 14, 2025. Operating results for interim periods are not necessarily indicative of the results that may be expected for any subsequent quarter or for the fiscal year ending December 31, 2025. All intercompany balances and transactions have been eliminated in consolidation.
The preparation of financial statements in conformity with U.S. GAAP requires management to make estimates and assumptions that affect the amounts reported in the financial statements and accompanying notes. Actual results could differ from those estimates.
The Company’s significant accounting policies are described in Note 2 to its audited Consolidated Financial Statements included in the 2024 Form 10-K. There have been no significant changes to these policies during the nine months ended September 26, 2025.
NOTE 2: RECENT ACCOUNTING PRONOUNCEMENTS AND INCOME TAX LEGISLATION
New Accounting Pronouncements Not Yet Adopted
In December 2023, the Financial Accounting Standards Board (“FASB”) issued Accounting Standards Update (“ASU”) No. 2023-09, Improvements to Income Tax Disclosures. This ASU requires disaggregated information about a reporting entity’s effective tax rate reconciliation as well as additional information on income taxes paid. The ASU is effective on a prospective basis for annual periods beginning after December 15, 2024 and early adoption is permitted. This ASU will result in the required additional disclosures being included in our consolidated financial statements, once adopted in the fourth quarter of fiscal 2025.
In November 2024, the FASB issued ASU No. 2024-03, Income Statement - Reporting Comprehensive Income - Expense Disaggregation Disclosures (“ASU 2024-03”). The ASU aims to improve financial reporting by requiring additional disclosure about specific expense categories in the notes to the financial statements at interim and annual reporting periods. ASU 2024-03 is effective on a prospective basis for annual periods beginning after December 15, 2026 and interim periods within fiscal years beginning after December 15, 2027 with early adoption permitted. The Company is currently assessing the impact of this ASU on its consolidated financial statements and related disclosures.
Income Tax Legislation
On July 4, 2025, President Trump signed into law the One Big Beautiful Bill Act (“OBBBA”). The OBBBA adjusted a number of tax provisions affecting businesses including the immediate expensing of domestic research and development costs, limitations on deductions for interest expense, and accelerated fixed asset depreciation. As of September 26, 2025, we have recognized the tax effects of the OBBBA, which did not have a material impact on our consolidated financial statements.
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NOTE 3: CONTRACT ASSETS AND DEFERRED REVENUE
Contract assets exist when the Company has satisfied a performance obligation but does not have an unconditional right to consideration (e.g., because the entity first must satisfy another performance obligation in the contract before it is entitled to invoice the customer). Deferred revenue represents the Company’s obligation to transfer goods or services to a customer for which the Company has received consideration (or an amount of consideration is due) from the customer.
Contract assets and deferred revenue consisted of the following:
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Deferred revenue |
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Contract assets and the non-current portion of deferred revenue are reported as components of “Prepaid expenses and other current assets” and “Other non-current liabilities,” respectively, on the condensed consolidated balance sheets.
Revenue recognized during the three months ended September 26, 2025 and September 27, 2024 that was included within the deferred revenue balance at January 1, 2025 and January 1, 2024, was $
Remaining performance obligations represent contracted revenues that have not yet been recognized and include deferred revenue and unbilled amounts that will be recognized as revenue in the future. The aggregate balance of the Company’s remaining performance obligations as of September 26, 2025 was $
NOTE 4: LEASES
The components of lease expense are as follows:
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Operating lease cost |
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Variable lease cost |
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Total lease cost |
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Supplemental information related to leases are as follows:
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Cash paid for operating lease liabilities |
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$ |
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Right-of-use assets obtained in exchange for operating lease obligations |
$ |
|
$ |
|
$ |
|
$ |
||||
During the second quarter of fiscal year 2025, the Company recorded additional lease-related impairment and other charges of $
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NOTE 5: OTHER FINANCIAL STATEMENT INFORMATION
The following tables provide details of selected balance sheet components:
Inventories: |
As of |
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(in thousands) |
September 26, 2025 |
|
December 31, 2024 |
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Finished goods |
$ |
|
$ |
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Raw materials |
|
|
|
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Work-in-process |
|
|
|
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Service-related spares |
|
|
|
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Total |
$ |
|
$ |
||
Prepaid expenses and other current assets: |
As of |
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(in thousands) |
September 26, 2025 |
|
December 31, 2024 |
||
Prepaid expenses |
$ |
|
$ |
||
Contract assets |
|
|
|
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Other current assets |
|
|
|
||
Total |
$ |
|
$ |
||
Property and equipment, net: |
As of |
||||
(in thousands) |
September 26, 2025 |
|
December 31, 2024 |
||
Machinery and equipment |
$ |
|
$ |
||
Capitalized software |
|
|
|
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Leasehold improvements |
|
|
|
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Furniture and fixtures |
|
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|
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Construction-in-progress |
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|
|
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Property and equipment, gross |
|
|
|
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Less: accumulated depreciation and amortization |
|
( |
|
|
( |
Total |
$ |
|
$ |
||
During the second quarter of 2025, the Company recognized impairment charges of $
Other current liabilities: |
As of |
||||
(in thousands) |
September 26, 2025 |
|
December 31, 2024 |
||
Accrued employee compensation and related expenses |
$ |
|
$ |
||
Income tax payable |
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Accrued customer rebates |
|
|
|
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Accrued liabilities for excess and obsolete inventory |
|
|
|
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Other |
|
|
|
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Total |
$ |
|
$ |
||
NOTE 6: DEBT
In September 2019, the Company issued $
In April 2024, the Company settled the conversion of the entire $
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Revolving and Term Facilities
In December 2023, the Company entered into a
Loans under the Revolving Facility and Term Facility bear interest, at a floating rate per annum equal to an adjusted Term Secured Overnight Financing Rate (“SOFR”) (based on one-, three- or six-month interest periods), plus a SOFR premium fee of
The Credit Agreement contains customary affirmative and negative covenants. The Company is also required to maintain compliance with a maximum consolidated net leverage ratio and a minimum fixed charge coverage ratio, in each case, determined in accordance with the terms of the Credit Agreement. As of September 26, 2025, the Company was in compliance with the covenants under the Credit Agreement.
Repayment of the principal amount of the term loans began on December 31, 2024, in quarterly installments equal to
For the three and nine months ended September 26, 2025, the Company incurred interest expenses of $
NOTE 7: STOCKHOLDERS’ EQUITY
Share-based Compensation Plans
The following table sets forth the detailed allocation of the share-based compensation expense which was included in the Company’s condensed consolidated statements of operations:
|
Three Months Ended |
|
Nine Months Ended |
||||||||
(in thousands) |
September 26, 2025 |
|
September 27, 2024 |
|
September 26, 2025 |
|
September 27, 2024 |
||||
Cost of revenue |
$ |
|
$ |
|
$ |
|
$ |
||||
Research and development |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
||||
Selling, general and administrative |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
||||
Total |
$ |
|
$ |
|
$ |
|
$ |
||||
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Restricted Stock Units
(in thousands, except per share amounts) |
Number of |
|
Weighted Average |
||
Balance at December 31, 2024 |
|
|
$ |
||
Granted |
|
|
|
||
Vested |
|
( |
|
|
|
Forfeited |
|
( |
|
|
|
Balance at September 26, 2025 |
|
|
$ |
||
The Company’s stock benefit plans include the 2002 Employee Stock Purchase Plan (as amended and restated, the “ESPP”) and, until June 2025, stock plans adopted in 1995 and 2002 (as amended and restated, the “1995 Stock Plan” and “2002 Director Plan”, respectively). Refer to Note 11, “Employee Benefit Plans” of Notes to Consolidated Financial Statements in the 2024 Form 10-K for details pertaining to each plan.
In June 2025, the Company’s stockholders approved the 2025 Equity Incentive Plan (the “2025 Stock Plan”) to replace the 1995 Stock Plan and 2002 Director Plan. Stockholders also approved an amendment to the 2002 ESPP, increasing the number of shares of common stock reserved for issuance by
Share Repurchase Program
In February 2025, the Board of Directors terminated the Company’s existing stock repurchase program and authorized a new program under which the Company may repurchase up to $
During the nine months ended September 26, 2025, the Company repurchased and retired approximately
NOTE 8: FAIR VALUE MEASUREMENTS
The applicable accounting guidance establishes a framework for measuring fair value and requires disclosure about the fair value measurements of assets and liabilities. This guidance defines fair value as the exchange price that would be received for an asset or paid to transfer a liability, in the principal or most advantageous market for the asset or liability, in an orderly transaction between market participants on the measurement date. Valuation techniques used to measure fair value must maximize the use of observable inputs and minimize the use of unobservable inputs. This guidance requires the Company to classify and disclose assets and liabilities measured at fair value on a recurring basis, as well as fair value measurements of assets and liabilities measured on a nonrecurring basis in periods subsequent to initial measurement, in a three-tier fair value hierarchy as follows:
The carrying value of the Company’s financial instruments, including cash equivalents, accounts receivable, accounts payable and accrued liabilities, approximate fair value due to their short maturities.
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The following table sets forth the fair value of the Company’s financial assets measured at fair value on a recurring basis based on the three-tier fair value hierarchy (in thousands):
|
September 26, 2025 |
|
December 31, 2024 |
||||||||||||||||||||
(in thousands) |
Level 1 |
|
Level 2 |
|
Level 3 |
|
Total |
|
Level 1 |
|
Level 2 |
|
Level 3 |
|
Total |
||||||||
Cash equivalents |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Money market funds |
$ |
|
$ |
|
$ |
|
$ |
|
$ |
|
$ |
|
$ |
|
$ |
||||||||
The Company’s financial instruments not recorded at fair value on a recurring basis were as follows:
|
September 26, 2025 |
|
December 31, 2024 |
||||||||||||||||||||
|
Carrying |
|
Fair Value |
|
Carrying |
|
Fair Value |
||||||||||||||||
(in thousands) |
Value |
|
Level 1 |
|
Level 2 |
|
Level 3 |
|
Value |
|
Level 1 |
|
Level 2 |
|
Level 3 |
||||||||
Long-term debt |
$ |
|
$ |
|
$ |
|
$ |
|
$ |
|
$ |
|
$ |
|
$ |
||||||||
Other borrowings |
$ |
|
$ |
|
$ |
|
$ |
|
$ |
|
$ |
|
$ |
|
$ |
||||||||
NOTE 9: NET INCOME PER SHARE
Basic earnings per share is computed by dividing net income for the period by the weighted-average number of common shares outstanding during the period. Diluted earnings per share is calculated by dividing net income by the weighted-average number of common shares and potentially dilutive securities outstanding during the period using the treasury stock method for the Company’s restricted stock units, shares issuable under the ESPP, and the if-converted method for the 2024 Notes.
As noted in Note 6, “Debt,” the principal amount of the 2024 Notes was settled in cash while the conversion spread value was settled in shares.
The following table sets forth the computation of the basic and diluted net income per share:
|
Three Months Ended |
|
Nine Months Ended |
||||||||
(in thousands, except per share amounts) |
September 26, 2025 |
|
September 27, 2024 |
|
|
September 26, 2025 |
|
|
September 27, 2024 |
||
Numerator: |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Net income |
$ |
|
$ |
|
$ |
|
$ |
||||
Denominator: |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Weighted average number of shares outstanding: |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Basic |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
||||
2024 Notes |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
||||
Restricted stock units |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
||||
Stock purchase rights under the ESPP |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
||||
Diluted |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
||||
Net income per share: |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Basic |
$ |
|
$ |
|
$ |
|
$ |
||||
Diluted |
$ |
|
$ |
|
$ |
|
$ |
||||
The following table sets forth the potential dilutive shares that were excluded from the computation of diluted net income per share, because their effects were anti-dilutive:
|
Three Months Ended |
|
Nine Months Ended |
||||||||
(in thousands) |
September 26, 2025 |
|
September 27, 2024 |
|
September 26, 2025 |
|
|
September 27, 2024 |
|||
Restricted stock units |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
||||
Stock purchase rights under the ESPP |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
||||
Total |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
||||
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NOTE 10: SEGMENT INFORMATION
Operating segments are defined as components of an enterprise that engage in business activities for which separate financial information is available and evaluated by the Company’s Chief Operating Decision Maker (the “CODM”), which for the Company is its , in deciding how to allocate resources and assess performance. Based on the internal reporting structure, the Company consists of
The following tables set forth our segment information of revenue, expense, and income (loss) from operations:
|
Three Months Ended September 26, 2025 |
|||||||
(in thousands) |
Broadband |
|
Video |
|
Total |
|||
Revenue |
$ |
|
$ |
|
$ |
|||
Less: |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Cost of revenue |
|
|
|
|
|
|||
Research and development |
|
|
|
|
|
|||
Selling, general and administrative |
|
|
|
|
|
|||
Segment operating income |
$ |
|
$ |
|
$ |
|||
|
Three Months Ended September 27, 2024 |
|||||||
(in thousands) |
Broadband |
|
Video |
|
Total |
|||
Revenue |
$ |
|
$ |
|
$ |
|||
Less: |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Cost of revenue |
|
|
|
|
|
|||
Research and development |
|
|
|
|
|
|||
Selling, general and administrative |
|
|
|
|
|
|||
Segment operating income |
$ |
|
$ |
|
$ |
|||
|
Nine Months Ended September 26, 2025 |
|||||||
(in thousands) |
Broadband |
|
Video |
|
Total |
|||
Revenue |
$ |
|
$ |
|
$ |
|||
Less: |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Cost of revenue |
|
|
|
|
|
|||
Research and development |
|
|
|
|
|
|||
Selling, general and administrative |
|
|
|
|
|
|||
Segment operating income |
$ |
|
$ |
|
$ |
|||
|
Nine Months Ended September 27, 2024 |
|||||||
(in thousands) |
Broadband |
|
Video |
|
Total |
|||
Revenue |
$ |
|
$ |
|
$ |
|||
Less: |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Cost of revenue |
|
|
|
|
|
|||
Research and development |
|
|
|
|
|
|||
Selling, general and administrative |
|
|
|
|
|
|||
Segment operating income (loss) |
$ |
|
$ |
( |
|
$ |
||
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A reconciliation of the Company’s consolidated segment operating income to consolidated income before income taxes is as follows:
|
Three Months Ended |
|
Nine Months Ended |
||||||||
(in thousands) |
September 26, 2025 |
|
September 27, 2024 |
|
September 26, 2025 |
|
September 27, 2024 |
||||
Total consolidated segment operating income |
$ |
|
$ |
|
$ |
|
$ |
||||
Stock-based compensation (1) |
|
( |
|
|
( |
|
|
( |
|
|
( |
Restructuring and related charges (1) |
|
( |
|
|
( |
|
|
( |
|
|
( |
Lease-related asset impairment and other charges (1) |
|
|
|
( |
|
|
( |
|
|
( |
|
Asset impairment charges (1) |
|
|
|
( |
|
|
|
|
( |
||
Non-recurring advisory fees (1) |
|
( |
|
|
|
|
( |
|
|
( |
|
Consolidated income from operations |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
||||
Non-operating expense, net |
|
( |
|
|
( |
|
|
( |
|
|
( |
Income before income taxes |
$ |
|
$ |
|
$ |
|
$ |
||||
(1) Together with stock-based compensation, the Company does not allocate restructuring and related charges, lease-related asset impairment and other non-recurring advisory fees to the operating income for each segment because management does not include this information in the measurement of the performance of the operating segments.
Disaggregation of Revenues
The following table provides a summary of total revenues disaggregated by type:
|
Three Months Ended |
|
Nine Months Ended |
||||||||
(in thousands) |
September 26, 2025 |
|
September 27, 2024 |
|
September 26, 2025 |
|
September 27, 2024 |
||||
Product sales |
$ |
|
$ |
|
$ |
|
$ |
||||
Professional services |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
||||
Total Appliance and integration |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
||||
SaaS |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
||||
Support services |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
||||
Total SaaS and services |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
||||
Total revenue |
$ |
|
$ |
|
$ |
|
$ |
||||
The following table provides a summary of total revenues by geographic region:
|
Three Months Ended |
|
Nine Months Ended |
||||||||
(in thousands) |
September 26, 2025 |
|
September 27, 2024 |
|
September 26, 2025 |
|
September 27, 2024 |
||||
United States (1) |
$ |
|
$ |
|
$ |
|
$ |
||||
Other countries (1) |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
||||
Total revenue |
$ |
|
$ |
|
$ |
|
$ |
||||
(1) Revenue is attributed to countries based on the location of the customer.
No single country, other than the United States, accounted for
NOTE 11: RESTRUCTURING AND RELATED CHARGES
The Company has undertaken multiple restructuring plans in recent years to align operating expenses with revenue and implement broad expense controls. These plans have primarily involved severance and termination benefits from headcount reductions. The total restructuring costs associated with restructuring activities in 2025 are currently estimated to be $
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NOTE 12: COMMITMENTS AND CONTINGENCIES
Legal Proceedings
From time to time, the Company is involved in lawsuits and is subject to various legal proceedings, claims, threatened litigation, and investigations in the ordinary course of business, including claims of alleged infringement of third-party patents and other intellectual property rights, commercial, employment, and other matters. The Company assesses potential liabilities in connection with each lawsuit and threatened lawsuits and accrues an estimated loss for these loss contingencies if both of the following conditions are met: (i) information available prior to issuance of the financial statements indicates that it is probable that a liability has been incurred at the date of the financial statements, and (ii) the amount of loss can be reasonably estimated. While certain matters to which the Company is a party specify the damages claimed, such claims may not represent reasonably probable losses. Given the inherent uncertainties of litigation, the ultimate outcome of these matters cannot be predicted at this time, nor can the amount of possible loss or range of loss, if any, be reasonably estimated.
NOTE 13: SUBSEQUENT EVENTS
On October 1, 2025, the Company used cash on hand to repay its $
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SPECIAL NOTE REGARDING FORWARD-LOOKING STATEMENTS
The terms “Harmonic,” “Company,” “we,” “us,” “its,” and “our,” as used in this Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q (this “Form 10-Q”), refer to Harmonic Inc. and its subsidiaries and its predecessors as a combined entity, except where the context requires otherwise.
Some of the statements contained in this Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q are forward-looking statements that involve risk and uncertainties. The statements contained in this Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q that are not purely historical are forward-looking statements within the meaning of Section 27A of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended (the “Securities Acts”), and Section-21E of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended (the “Exchange Act”), including, without limitation, statements regarding our expectations, beliefs, intentions or strategies regarding the future. In some cases, you can identify forward-looking statements by terminology such as, “may,” “will,” “should,” “expects,” “plans,” “anticipates,” “could,” “believes,” “intends,” “estimates,” “predicts,” “potential,” or “continue” or the negative of these terms or other comparable terminology. These forward-looking statements include, but are not limited to, statements regarding:
These statements are subject to known and unknown risks, uncertainties and other factors, any of which may cause our actual results to differ materially from those implied by the forward-looking statements. Important factors that may cause actual results to differ from expectations include those discussed in “Risk Factors” in Item 1A of Part II of this Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q. All forward-looking statements included in this Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q are based on information available to us on the date thereof, and we assume no obligation to update any such forward-looking statements.
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ITEM 2. MANAGEMENT’S DISCUSSION AND ANALYSIS OF FINANCIAL CONDITION AND RESULTS OF OPERATIONS
You should read the following discussion and analysis of our financial condition and results of operations together with the condensed consolidated financial statements and related notes included elsewhere in this Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q. This discussion contains forward-looking statements based upon current expectations that involve risks and uncertainties. Our actual results may differ materially from those anticipated in these forward-looking statements as a result of various factors, including those discussed in the section titled “Risk Factors” and in other parts of this Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q.
OVERVIEW
We are a leading global provider of (i) broadband solutions that enable broadband operators to more efficiently and effectively deploy high-speed internet, for data, voice and video services for their customers and (ii) versatile and high performance video delivery software, products, system solutions and services that enable our customers to efficiently create, prepare, store, playout and deliver a full range of high-quality broadcast and streaming video services to consumer devices, including televisions, personal computers, laptops, tablets and smart phones.
We classify our total revenue in two categories, “Appliance and integration” and “SaaS and service.” The “Appliance and integration” revenue category includes hardware, licenses and professional services and is reflective of non-recurring revenue, while the “SaaS and service” category includes usage fees for our SaaS platform and support service revenue from our appliance-based customers and reflects our recurring revenue stream.
We conduct business in three geographic regions—the Americas, Europe, the Middle East, and Africa, and Asia-Pacific —and operate in two segments, Broadband and Video. Our Broadband business sells broadband access solutions and related services, including our cOS™ software-based broadband access solutions, to broadband operators globally. Our Video business sells video processing, production and playout solutions, and services worldwide to cable operators and satellite and telco Pay-TV service providers, which we refer to collectively as “service providers,” as well as to broadcast and media companies, including streaming media companies.
Historically, our revenue has been dependent upon spending in the cable, satellite, telco, broadcast and media industries, including streaming media. Our customers’ spending patterns are dependent on a variety of factors, including but not limited to: economic conditions in the United States and international markets, and impact of factors such as the Middle East and Russia-Ukraine conflicts, inflation, changes in interest rates, potential supply chain disruptions, volatility in capital markets and foreign currency fluctuations; volatility and uncertainty in the banking and financial services sector; access to financing; annual budget cycles of each of the industries we serve; impact of industry consolidations; customer end-market conditions; customers suspending or reducing spending in anticipation of new products or new standards; impact of heightened, new, or proposed tariffs; and new industry trends and/or technology shifts. If our product portfolio and product development plans do not position us well to capture an increased portion of the spending in the markets in which we compete, our revenue may decline. As we attempt to further diversify our customer base in these markets, we may need to continue to build alliances with other equipment manufacturers and suppliers, cloud service providers, content providers, resellers and system integrators, managed services providers and software developers; adapt our products for new applications; take orders at prices resulting in lower margins; and build internal expertise to handle the particular operational, payment, financing and/or contractual demands of our customers, which could result in higher operating costs for us.
Our Broadband strategy is focused on continuing to develop and deliver software-based broadband access technologies, which we refer to as our cOS solutions, to our broadband operator customers. We believe our cOS software-based broadband access solutions are superior to hardware-based systems and deliver unprecedented scalability, agility and cost savings for our customers. Our cOS solutions, which can be deployed based on a centralized, distributed access architecture (“DAA”) or hybrid architecture, enable our customers to migrate to multi-gigabit broadband capacity and the fast deployment of DOCSIS and/or fiber-to-the-home (“FTTH”) data, video and voice services. We believe our cOS solutions resolve space and power constraints in broadband operator facilities, eliminate dependence on hardware upgrade cycles and significantly reduce total cost of ownership, and are helping us to be a major player in the broadband access market. In the meantime, we believe our Broadband segment will continue to experience strong long-term growth as our customers adopt and deploy our virtualized DOCSIS, CMTS and FTTH solutions and distributed access architectures.
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We believe a material and growing portion of the opportunities for our Video business are linked to the industry and our customers (i) continuing to adopt streaming technologies to capture, process and deliver video content to consumers and, increasingly, utilizing public cloud solutions like our VOS SaaS platform to do so; (ii) transforming existing broadcast infrastructure workflows into more flexible, efficient and cost-effective operations running in public clouds; and (iii) for those customers maintaining on-premise video delivery infrastructure, continuing to upgrade and replace aging equipment with next-generation software-based appliances that significantly reduce operational complexity. Our Video business strategy is focused on continuing to develop and deliver products, solutions and services to enable and support these trends.
CRITICAL ACCOUNTING ESTIMATES
Our unaudited condensed consolidated financial statements and the related notes included elsewhere in this report are prepared in accordance with U.S. GAAP. The preparation of these unaudited condensed consolidated financial statements requires management to make estimates and assumptions that affect the reported amounts of assets and liabilities and disclosure of contingent assets and liabilities at the date of the consolidated financial statements and the reported amounts of revenues and expenses during the reporting period. Actual results could differ from those estimates.
Our critical accounting estimates are disclosed in our 2024 Annual Report on Form 10-K, as filed with the SEC on February 14, 2025. There have been no significant changes to these estimates during the nine months ended September 26, 2025.
ACCOUNTING PRONOUNCEMENTS
For a summary of recent accounting pronouncements applicable to our condensed consolidated financial statements, refer to Note 2 to the condensed consolidated financial statements in Item 1, which is incorporated herein by reference.
RESULTS OF OPERATIONS
Net Revenue
|
Three Months Ended |
|
|
|
|
|
Nine Months Ended |
|
|
|
|
||||||||
(in thousands, except percentages) |
September 26, 2025 |
|
September 27, 2024 |
|
Change |
|
September 26, 2025 |
|
September 27, 2024 |
|
Change |
||||||||
Appliance and integration |
$ |
97,774 |
|
$ |
153,685 |
|
$ |
(55,911) |
(36)% |
|
$ |
283,382 |
|
$ |
329,464 |
|
$ |
(46,082) |
(14)% |
as % of total net revenue |
|
69% |
|
|
79% |
|
|
|
|
|
|
69% |
|
|
72% |
|
|
|
|
SaaS and service |
|
44,608 |
|
|
42,071 |
|
|
2,537 |
6% |
|
|
130,162 |
|
|
127,092 |
|
|
3,070 |
2% |
as % of total net revenue |
|
31% |
|
|
21% |
|
|
|
|
|
|
31% |
|
|
28% |
|
|
|
|
Total net revenue |
$ |
142,382 |
|
$ |
195,756 |
|
$ |
(53,374) |
(27)% |
|
$ |
413,544 |
|
$ |
456,556 |
|
$ |
(43,012) |
(9)% |
Appliance and integration net revenue decreased by $55.9 million during the three months ended September 26, 2025, compared to the corresponding periods in 2024 primarily due to a decrease in revenue from our Broadband segment.
Appliance and integration net revenue decreased by $46.1 million during the nine months ended September 26, 2025, compared to the corresponding period in 2024. The decrease was mainly due to a $56.0 million decrease in our Broadband segment, partially offset by a $9.9 million increase in the Video segment revenue.
The decreases in our Broadband segment revenue in the fiscal 2025 periods presented, relative to the corresponding prior year fiscal periods, were primarily due to customer deployment timing delays associated with DOCSIS 4.0 and network readiness. The increase in our Video segment revenue for the nine months ended September 26, 2025, relative to the corresponding period in 2024, was primarily driven by higher sales to existing customers due to improved market dynamics and recent customer wins.
SaaS and service net revenue increased by $2.5 million during the three months ended September 26, 2025, compared to the corresponding period in 2024, primarily due to a $1.6 million increase in Broadband segment support services revenue, mainly driven by an expanded customer base and a $1.9 million increase in SaaS revenue, mainly driven by higher usage from existing customers. These increases were partially offset by a $1.0 million decrease in Video segment support services revenue, resulting from the decline in appliance and integration sales over the past several years.
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SaaS and service net revenue increased by $3.1 million during the nine months ended September 26, 2025, compared to the corresponding period in 2024, primarily due to a $5.2 million increase in Video Segment SaaS revenue, mainly driven by the acquisition of new customers and a $1.1 million increase in Broadband segment support services revenue, mainly driven by an expanded customer base. These increases were partially offset by a $3.2 million decrease in Video segment support services revenue, resulting from the decline in Video appliance and integration sales over the past several years.
Gross Profit
|
Three Months Ended |
|
|
|
|
|
Nine Months Ended |
|
|
|
|
||||||||
(in thousands, except percentages) |
September 26, 2025 |
|
September 27, 2024 |
|
Change |
|
September 26, 2025 |
|
September 27, 2024 |
|
Change |
||||||||
Gross profit |
$ |
77,129 |
|
$ |
104,732 |
|
$ |
(27,603) |
(26)% |
|
$ |
229,496 |
|
$ |
241,270 |
|
$ |
(11,774) |
(5)% |
as % of total net revenue (“gross margin”) |
|
54.2% |
|
|
53.5% |
|
|
|
|
|
|
55.5% |
|
|
52.8% |
|
|
|
|
Our gross margins are dependent upon, among other factors, the proportion of software sales, product mix, supply chain impacts, customer mix, product introduction costs, price reductions granted to customers and achievement of cost reductions.
Our gross margin increased by 70 basis points in the three months ended September 26, 2025, compared to the corresponding period in 2024. The increase was mainly driven by a 280 basis point margin expansion in the Broadband segment, benefiting from a favorable product mix. The increase was partially offset by a 210 basis point decrease in the Video segment, mainly due to the favorable appliance product mix in the prior period.
Our gross margin increased by 270 basis points in the nine months ended September 26, 2025, compared to the corresponding period in 2024, driven by contributions from both the Broadband and the Video segments. The margin expansion of 210 basis points in Broadband segment and 60 basis points in Video segment were primarily driven by a favorable product mix.
Research and Development Expenses
|
Three Months Ended |
|
|
|
|
|
Nine Months Ended |
|
|
|
|
||||||||
(in thousands, except percentages) |
September 26, 2025 |
|
September 27, 2024 |
|
Change |
|
September 26, 2025 |
|
September 27, 2024 |
|
Change |
||||||||
Research and development |
$ |
29,699 |
|
$ |
30,073 |
|
$ |
(374) |
(1)% |
|
$ |
90,490 |
|
$ |
89,562 |
|
$ |
928 |
1% |
as % of total net revenue |
|
21% |
|
|
15% |
|
|
|
|
|
|
22% |
|
|
20% |
|
|
|
|
Our research and development expenses consist primarily of employee salaries and related expenses, contractors and outside consultants, supplies and materials, equipment depreciation and facilities costs, all of which are associated with the design and development of new products and enhancements of existing products. The research and development expenses are net of French Research and Development credits.
Research and development expenses remained relatively flat for the three months ended September 26, 2025, compared to the corresponding period in 2024.
Research and development expenses increased by $0.9 million in the nine months ended September 26, 2025, compared to the corresponding period in 2024. The increase was primarily attributable to $4.4 million of higher spending to support the growth of our Broadband business, partially offset by a $3.5 million decrease related to headcount reductions in our Video business from 2024 restructuring activities.
Selling, General and Administrative Expenses
|
Three Months Ended |
|
|
|
|
|
Nine Months Ended |
|
|
|
|
||||||||
(in thousands, except percentages) |
September 26, 2025 |
|
September 27, 2024 |
|
Change |
|
September 26, 2025 |
|
September 27, 2024 |
|
Change |
||||||||
Selling, general and administrative |
$ |
36,524 |
|
$ |
35,851 |
|
$ |
673 |
2% |
|
$ |
111,816 |
|
$ |
114,537 |
|
$ |
(2,721) |
(2)% |
as % of total net revenue |
|
26% |
|
|
18% |
|
|
|
|
|
|
27% |
|
|
25% |
|
|
|
|
Selling, general and administrative expenses remained relatively flat for the three months ended September 26, 2025, compared to the corresponding period in 2024.
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Selling, general and administrative expenses decreased by $2.7 million in the nine months ended September 26, 2025, compared to the corresponding period in 2024, primarily due to a $5.8 million decrease in the Video business resulting from headcount reductions related to 2024 restructuring activities, partially offset by a $3.1 million increase in spending to support the growth of the Broadband business.
Restructuring and Related Charges
We have implemented several restructuring plans in the past few years. The goal of these plans is to bring operational expenses to appropriate levels relative to our net revenues, while simultaneously implementing appropriate expense control programs. We account for our restructuring plans under the authoritative guidance for exit or disposal activities. The restructuring and related charges are primarily included in “Operating expenses-restructuring and related charges” in the condensed consolidated statement of operations.
|
Three Months Ended |
|
|
|
|
|
Nine Months Ended |
|
|
|
|
||||||||
(in thousands, except percentages) |
September 26, 2025 |
|
September 27, 2024 |
|
Change |
|
September 26, 2025 |
|
September 27, 2024 |
|
Change |
||||||||
Total restructuring and related charges |
$ |
1,087 |
|
$ |
281 |
|
$ |
806 |
287% |
|
$ |
1,737 |
|
$ |
15,260 |
|
$ |
(13,523) |
(89)% |
Restructuring and related charges increased by $0.8 million in the three months ended September 26, 2025, compared to the corresponding periods in 2024, primarily due to higher severance and employee benefits costs recorded in connection with 2025 restructuring activities.
Restructuring and related charges decreased by $13.5 million in the nine months ended September 26, 2025, compared to the corresponding periods in 2024, primarily due to higher severance and employee benefits costs recorded in connection with 2024 restructuring activities in the prior period. Refer to Note 11, “Restructuring and Related Charges,” of the Notes to our condensed consolidated financial statements for additional information.
Interest Expense, Net
|
Three Months Ended |
|
|
|
|
|
Nine Months Ended |
|
|
|
|
||||||||
(in thousands, except percentages) |
September 26, 2025 |
|
September 27, 2024 |
|
Change |
|
September 26, 2025 |
|
September 27, 2024 |
|
Change |
||||||||
Interest expense, net |
$ |
(1,184) |
|
$ |
(2,686) |
|
$ |
1,502 |
(56)% |
|
$ |
(3,911) |
|
$ |
(4,833) |
|
$ |
922 |
(19)% |
Interest expense, net decreased by $1.5 million in the three months ended September 26, 2025, compared to the corresponding period in 2024, primarily due to lower costs of borrowing and lower outstanding principal balance resulting from the repayment and reborrowing activities under the Revolving Facility during the current period.
Interest expense, net decreased by $0.9 million in the nine months ended September 26, 2025, compared to the corresponding period in 2024, primarily due to higher interest rates for the borrowings under the Credit Agreement compared to the interest rate for the 2024 Notes. Refer to Note 6, “Debt,” of the Notes to our condensed consolidated financial statements for additional information regarding the interest rates applicable to our outstanding loans.
Other Income (Expense), Net
|
Three Months Ended |
|
|
|
|
|
Nine Months Ended |
|
|
|
|
||||||||
(in thousands, except percentages) |
September 26, 2025 |
|
September 27, 2024 |
|
Change |
|
September 26, 2025 |
|
September 27, 2024 |
|
Change |
||||||||
Other income (expense), net |
$ |
113 |
|
$ |
(3,932) |
|
$ |
4,045 |
(103)% |
|
$ |
300 |
|
$ |
(3,602) |
|
$ |
3,902 |
(108)% |
The change in other income (expense), net in the three and nine months ended September 26, 2025, respectively, compared to the corresponding periods in 2024, was primarily due to unrealized foreign exchange gains resulting from the strengthening of the Euro against the U.S. dollar in 2025, compared to unrealized foreign exchange losses in 2024.
Income Taxes
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|
Three Months Ended |
|
|
|
|
|
Nine Months Ended |
|
|
|
|
||||||||
(in thousands, except percentages) |
September 26, 2025 |
|
September 27, 2024 |
|
Change |
|
September 26, 2025 |
|
September 27, 2024 |
|
Change |
||||||||
Provision for income taxes |
$ |
6,054 |
|
$ |
7,088 |
|
$ |
(1,034) |
(15)% |
|
$ |
8,700 |
|
$ |
736 |
|
$ |
7,964 |
* |
*Not meaningful
The provision for income taxes decreased during the three months ended September 26, 2025, and increased during the nine months ended September 26, 2025, compared to the corresponding periods in 2024. The decrease in provision for income taxes for the three months ended September 26, 2025, was largely driven by lower pretax income in the current fiscal quarter compared to the corresponding quarter of 2024. This decrease was partially offset by a non-cash adjustment of $3.3 million in the current period related to the method change for capitalization of research and development expenses under Section 174 of the Internal Revenue Code, which reduced our Internal Revenue Code Section 250 tax benefits. The increase in provision for income taxes for the nine months ended September 26, 2025, was largely driven by an increase in pretax income for the nine months ended September 26, 2025, compared to the same period in the prior year.
Segment Financial Results
Below is a table of our segment financial results.
|
Three Months Ended |
|
|
|
|
|
Nine Months Ended |
|
|
|
|
||||||||
(in thousands, except percentages) |
September 26, 2025 |
|
September 27, 2024 |
|
Change |
|
September 26, 2025 |
|
September 27, 2024 |
|
Change |
||||||||
Broadband |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Revenue |
$ |
90,492 |
|
$ |
145,338 |
|
$ |
(54,846) |
(38)% |
|
$ |
262,288 |
|
$ |
317,172 |
|
$ |
(54,884) |
(17)% |
as % of total revenue |
|
64% |
|
|
74% |
|
|
(10)% |
|
|
|
63% |
|
|
69% |
|
|
(6)% |
|
Operating income |
|
12,095 |
|
|
38,192 |
|
|
(26,097) |
(68)% |
|
|
34,701 |
|
|
60,567 |
|
|
(25,866) |
(43)% |
Operating margin % |
|
13% |
|
|
26% |
|
|
(13)% |
|
|
|
13% |
|
|
19% |
|
|
(6)% |
|
Video |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Revenue |
$ |
51,890 |
|
$ |
50,418 |
|
$ |
1,472 |
3% |
|
$ |
151,256 |
|
$ |
139,384 |
|
$ |
11,872 |
9% |
as % of total revenue |
|
36% |
|
|
26% |
|
|
10% |
|
|
|
37% |
|
|
31% |
|
|
6% |
|
Operating income |
|
6,884 |
|
|
6,326 |
|
|
558 |
9% |
|
|
16,802 |
|
|
(2,594) |
|
|
19,396 |
* |
Operating margin % |
|
13% |
|
|
13% |
|
|
—% |
|
|
|
11% |
|
|
(2)% |
|
|
13% |
|
Total |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Revenue |
$ |
142,382 |
|
$ |
195,756 |
|
$ |
(53,374) |
(27)% |
|
$ |
413,544 |
|
$ |
456,556 |
|
$ |
(43,012) |
(9)% |
*Not meaningful
Broadband
Our Broadband segment revenue decreased by $54.8 and $54.9 during the three and nine months ended September 26, 2025, respectively, compared to the corresponding periods in 2024. The decreases were primarily driven by appliance and integration revenues, mainly due to customer deployment timing delays associated with DOCSIS 4.0 and network readiness, which resulted in $56.5 million and $56.0 million decline for the three and nine-month periods, respectively. These decreases were partially offset by $1.6 million and $1.1 million increases in support services revenue for the three and nine-month periods, respectively, driven by expanded service offering.
Our Broadband segment operating margin declined during the three and nine months ended September 26, 2025, compared to the corresponding periods in 2024, mainly due to lower sales.
Video
During the three months ended September 26, 2025, our Video segment revenue increased by $1.5 million, compared to the corresponding period in 2024. The increase was primarily due to a $1.9 million increase in SaaS revenue from the acquisition of new customers and a $0.6 million increase in appliance and integration revenue from sales to existing customers. The increases were partially offset by a $1.0 million decrease in support services revenue, related to overall decline in appliance and integration sales. The operating margin of our Video segment remained flat.
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During the nine months ended September 26, 2025, our Video segment revenue increased by $11.9 million, compared to the corresponding period in 2024, mainly driven by a $9.9 million increase in appliance and integration revenue from sales to existing customers, due to improved market dynamics and recent customer wins, and a $5.2 million increase in SaaS revenue, mainly from the acquisition of new customers. These increases were partially offset by a $3.2 million decrease in support services revenue, resulting from the overall decline in Video appliance and integration sales. The operating margin of our Video segment improved during the current period, primarily due to higher sales, gross margin expansion and savings from headcount reductions related to 2024 restructuring activities.
Liquidity and Capital Resources
We expect to continue to manage our cash from operations effectively, together with deploying cash in working capital for growth. The cash we generate from our operations enables us to fund ongoing operations, our research and development projects for new products and technologies, and other business activities. We continually evaluate our cash needs and may decide it is best to raise additional capital or seek alternative financing sources to fund our operations and the growth of our business, to take advantage of unanticipated strategic opportunities, or to strengthen our financial position, including through drawdowns on existing or new debt facilities or new financing (debt and equity) funds. In the future, we may enter into other arrangements for potential investments in, or acquisitions of, complementary businesses, services or technologies, which could require us to seek additional equity or debt financing. Additional funds may not be available on terms favorable to us or at all. Conversely, we may also from time to time determine that it is in our best interests to voluntarily repay certain indebtedness early. We believe that our current sources of funds will provide us with adequate liquidity during the 12-month period following September 26, 2025, as well as in the long-term.
Material Cash Requirements
Our principal uses of cash include repayments of debt and related interest, purchases of inventory, stock repurchases, payments for payroll, restructuring expenses, and other operating expenses related to the development and marketing of our products, purchases of property and equipment, facility leases, and other contractual obligations for the foreseeable future.
As of September 26, 2025, we had outstanding $126.8 million in aggregate principal amount of indebtedness, consisting of our $75.0 million Revolving Facility loan and our $38.0 million Term Facility loan under our Credit Agreement, and other debts, of which $8.7 million is scheduled to become due in the 12-month period following September 26, 2025. As of September 26, 2025, our total minimum lease payments are $22.6 million, of which $1.6 million is due before December 31, 2025, and $6.2 million is due within 12 months of September 26, 2025.
In February 2025, the Board of Directors authorized us to repurchase, from time to time, up to $200 million of our outstanding shares of common stock through February 2028 (the “Share Repurchase Authorization”), at such time and such prices as management may decide. The program does not obligate us to repurchase any specific number of shares and may be discontinued at any time. As of September 26, 2025, approximately $134.2 million of the Share Repurchase Authorization remained available for repurchases under this program.
Sources and Conditions of Liquidity
Our sources to fund our material cash requirements are predominantly from the sales of our products and services and, when applicable, proceeds from debt facilities and debt and equity offerings.
As of September 26, 2025, our principal sources of liquidity consisted of cash and cash equivalents of $127.4 million, net accounts receivable of $104.5 million, $30.0 million from our Master Receivables Purchase Agreement (described below), and $82.0 million remaining available under the Revolving Facility of our Credit Agreement, and financing from French government agencies.
In September 2023, we entered into a Master Receivables Purchase Agreement with JPMorgan Chase Bank N.A, as purchaser. The agreement allows us, from time to time, to sell certain eligible billed receivables in an aggregate outstanding amount of up to $30 million. The agreement expired on September 29, 2025, and no receivables were sold under the agreement prior to its expiration.
Our cash and cash equivalents of $127.4 million as of September 26, 2025 consisted of bank deposits held throughout the world and money market funds, of which $40.1 million was held outside of the United States. At present, such foreign funds are considered to be indefinitely reinvested in foreign countries to the extent of indefinitely reinvested foreign earnings. In the event funds from foreign operations are needed to fund cash needs in the United States and if U.S. taxes have not already been previously accrued, we may be required to accrue and pay additional U.S. and foreign withholding taxes in order to repatriate these funds.
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Summary of Cash Flows
The table below sets forth selected cash flow data:
|
|
Nine Months Ended |
||||
(in thousands) |
|
September 26, 2025 |
|
September 27, 2024 |
||
Net cash provided by (used in): |
|
|
|
|
|
|
Operating activities |
|
$ |
95,678 |
|
$ |
13,386 |
Investing activities |
|
|
(8,404) |
|
|
(6,840) |
Financing activities |
|
|
(66,631) |
|
|
(31,982) |
Effect of foreign exchange rate changes on cash and cash equivalents |
|
|
5,283 |
|
|
(332) |
Net increase (decrease) in cash and cash equivalents |
|
$ |
25,926 |
|
$ |
(25,768) |
Operating Activities
Net cash provided by operating activities increased by $82.3 million during the first nine months of fiscal 2025, compared to the corresponding period in fiscal 2024. The increase was primarily driven by improved working capital performance, and a net income of $11.5 million in the current period, compared to a net income of $1.1 million in the prior period.
We expect that cash provided by or used in operating activities may fluctuate in future periods as a result of a number of factors, including, but not limited to, instability and uncertainty in the financial services sector, the potential impact of the Middle East and Russia-Ukraine conflicts on our operations in those regions, fluctuations in our operating results, shipment linearity, accounts receivable collections performance, inventory and supply chain management, and the timing and amount of compensation and other payments.
Investing Activities
Net cash used in investing activities increased by $1.6 million during the first nine months of fiscal 2025, compared to the corresponding period in 2024, primarily due to higher purchases of property and equipment in the current period.
Financing Activities
Net cash used in financing activities increased by $34.6 million during the first nine months of fiscal 2025, compared to the corresponding period in 2024, primarily due to the $35.7 million higher stock repurchases in the current period, partially offset by a $3.1 million reduction in tax withholding payments related to net share settlement of restricted stock units.
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ITEM 3. QUANTITATIVE AND QUALITATIVE DISCLOSURES ABOUT MARKET RISK
Market risk represents the risk of loss that may impact our operating results, financial position or liquidity due to adverse changes in market prices and rates. We are exposed to market risk because of changes in interest rates, foreign currency exchange rates, when other currencies held by our subsidiaries are measured against the U.S. dollar, and to changes in the value of financial instruments held by us.
For quantitative and qualitative disclosures about foreign currency exchange risk and interest rate risk affecting the Company, see Item 7A “Quantitative and Qualitative Disclosures about Market Risk” in our Annual Report on Form 10-K for the fiscal year ended December 31, 2024, as filed with the SEC on February 14, 2025. Our exposure related to foreign currency exchange risk and interest rate risk has not changed materially since December 31, 2024.
ITEM 4. CONTROLS AND PROCEDURES
Evaluation of Disclosure Controls and Procedures
We maintain “disclosure controls and procedures,” as such term is defined in Rule 13a-15(e) and 15d-15(e) under the Exchange Act, that are designed to ensure that information required to be disclosed by us in reports that we file or submit under the Exchange Act is recorded, processed, summarized and reported within the time periods specified in SEC rules and forms, and that such information is accumulated and communicated to our management, including our Chief Executive Officer and Chief Financial Officer, as appropriate, to allow timely decisions regarding required disclosure.
In designing and evaluating our disclosure controls and procedures, management recognized that disclosure controls and procedures, no matter how well conceived and operated, can provide only reasonable, and not absolute, assurance that the objectives of the disclosure controls and procedures are met. Additionally, in designing disclosure controls and procedures, our management necessarily was required to apply its judgment in evaluating the cost-benefit relationship of possible disclosure controls and procedures. The design of any disclosure controls and procedures also is based in part upon certain assumptions about the likelihood of future events, and there can be no assurance that any design will succeed in achieving its stated goals under all potential future conditions.
Based on their evaluation as of the end of the period covered by this Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q, our Chief Executive Officer and Chief Financial Officer have concluded that our disclosure controls and procedures were effective at a reasonable assurance level.
Changes in Internal Control over Financial Reporting
Our Chief Executive Officer and Chief Financial Officer evaluated the changes in our internal control over financial reporting that occurred during the period covered by this Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q. Based on their evaluation, it is concluded that there had been no change in our internal control over financial reporting during the quarter ended September 26, 2025 that had materially affected, or is reasonably likely to materially affect, our internal control over financial reporting.
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PART II
OTHER INFORMATION
ITEM 1. LEGAL PROCEEDINGS
From time to time, we are involved in lawsuits as well as subject to various legal proceedings, claims, threats of litigation, and investigations in the ordinary course of business, including claims of alleged infringement of third-party patents and other intellectual property rights, and commercial, employment, and other matters. While certain matters to which we are a party may specify the damages claimed, such claims may not represent reasonably possible losses. Given the inherent uncertainties of litigation, the ultimate outcome of these matters cannot be predicted at this time, nor can the amount of possible loss or range of loss, if any, be reasonably estimated.
An unfavorable outcome on any litigation matters could require us to pay substantial damages, or, in connection with any intellectual property infringement claims, could require us to pay ongoing royalty payments or could prevent us from selling certain of our products. As a result, a settlement of, or an unfavorable outcome on, any of the matters referenced above or other litigation matters could have a material adverse effect on our business, operating results, financial condition and cash flows.
Our industry is characterized by the existence of a large number of patents and frequent claims and related litigation regarding patent and other intellectual property rights. From time to time, third parties have asserted, and may in the future assert, exclusive patent, copyright, trademark and other intellectual property rights against us or our customers. Such assertions arise in the normal course of our operations. The resolution of any such assertions and claims cannot be predicted with certainty. Refer to Note 12 of the Notes to the condensed consolidated financial statements in Part 1, Item 1 of this Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q for details on legal proceedings.
ITEM 1A. RISK FACTORS
Risk Factor Summary
Our business is subject to significant risks and uncertainties that make an investment in us speculative and risky. Below we summarize what we believe are the principal risk factors but these risks are not the only ones we face, and you should carefully review and consider the full discussion of our risk factors in the section titled “Risk Factors,” together with the other information in this Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q. If any of the following risks actually occurs (or if any of those listed elsewhere in this Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q occur), our business, reputation, financial condition, results of operations, revenue, and future prospects could be seriously harmed. In that event, the market price of our common stock could decline, and you could lose part or all of your investment. Additional risks and uncertainties that we are unaware of, or that we currently believe are not material, may also become important factors that adversely affect our business.
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Risks Related to Our Business and Our Industry
We depend on cable, satellite and telco, and broadcast and media industry spending for our revenue and any material decrease or delay in spending in any of these industries would negatively impact our operating results, financial condition and cash flows.
Our revenue has been derived from worldwide sales to service providers and broadcast and media companies, and streaming media companies. We expect that these markets will provide our revenue for the foreseeable future. Demand for our products and solutions will depend on the magnitude and timing of spending by customers in each of these markets for the purpose of creating, expanding or upgrading their systems. These spending patterns are dependent on a variety of factors, including:
In the past, specific factors contributing to reduced spending have included:
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In the past, adverse economic conditions in one or more of the geographies in which we offer our products have adversely affected our customers’ spending in those geographies and, as a result, our business. During challenging economic times, such as those caused by the Middle East and Russia-Ukraine conflicts, inflation, currency devaluation, and bank insolvencies and related uncertainty and volatility in the financial services sector and in tight credit markets, many customers have delayed and reduced and may continue to delay or reduce capital expenditures. This has resulted and could continue to result in reductions in revenue from our products, longer sales cycles, difficulties in collection of accounts receivable, slower adoption of new technologies and increased price competition. If global economic and market conditions, or economic conditions in the United States, Europe or other key markets, remain uncertain or deteriorate, we could experience a material and adverse effect on our business, results of operations, financial condition and cash flows.
In addition, uncertainty regarding the impact of tariffs imposed by the current U.S. administration, as well as any potential retaliatory measures by impacted trade partners, could adversely impact trade relations, result in higher costs and thereby decrease the purchasing power of our customers, which could delay purchasing decisions, impact payment terms and collections, and create general market instability. Trade protection measures, retaliatory actions, tariffs and increased barriers, policies favoring domestic industries, or increased import or export licensing requirements or restrictions, could have a negative effect on the overall macro economy and our customers, and our ability to sell to certain customers, which could have an adverse impact on our operating results.
Additionally, since most of our international revenue is denominated in U.S. dollars, global economic and market conditions, including those exacerbated by a prolonged government shutdown, may impact currency exchange rates and cause our products to become relatively more expensive to customers in a particular country or region, which could lead to delayed or reduced spending in those countries or regions, thereby negatively impacting our business and financial condition.
In addition, industry consolidation has in the past constrained, and may in the future constrain or delay, spending by our customers. Further, if our product portfolio and product development plans do not position us well to capture an increased portion of the spending of customers in the markets on which we focus, our revenue may decline.
As a result of these various factors and potential issues related to customer spending, we may not be able to maintain or increase our revenue in the future, and our operating results, financial condition and cash flows could be materially and adversely affected.
The loss of one or more of our key customers, a failure to continue diversifying our customer base, or a decrease in the number of larger transactions could harm our business and our operating results.
Historically, a significant portion of our revenue has been derived from relatively few customers, due in part to customer consolidation. Sales to our top 10 customers in the three and nine months ended September 26, 2025 accounted for approximately 65% and 62%, respectively, of our net revenue compared to 78% and 71%, respectively, for the corresponding periods in 2024. Although we continue to seek to broaden our customer base by penetrating new markets and further expanding internationally, we expect to see continuing industry consolidation activity and customer concentration.
During the three and nine months ended September 26, 2025, Comcast accounted for approximately 43% and 39%, respectively, of our net revenue. For the three months ended September 27, 2024, Comcast and Charter Communications accounted for approximately 51% and 18%, respectively, of our net revenue. For the nine months ended September 27, 2024, Comcast and Charter Communications accounted for approximately 44% and 15%, respectively, of our net revenue. Further consolidation in the cable and broadcast and media industries could lead to additional revenue concentration for us. The loss of any significant customer, or any material reduction in orders from any other significant customer, or our failure to qualify our new products with any significant customer could materially and adversely affect, either long term or in a particular quarter, our operating results, financial condition and cash flows. If Comcast or other significant Broadband customers deploy our solutions slower or at a scale that is lower than we anticipate, our operating results, financial condition and cash flows could be materially and adversely affected.
In addition, in most quarters, we are involved in one or more relatively large individual transactions with respect to our Broadband and/or Video business. A decrease in the number of the relatively larger individual transactions in which we are involved in any quarter could materially and adversely affect the operating results for that quarter for the applicable business unit or the Company as a whole.
As a result of these and other factors, we may be unable to increase our revenues from some or all of the markets we address, or to do so profitably, and any failure to increase revenues and profits from these customers could materially and adversely affect our operating results, financial condition and cash flows.
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We need to develop and introduce new and enhanced products and solutions in a timely manner to meet the needs of our customers and to remain competitive.
All of the markets we address are characterized by continuing technological advancement, changes in customer requirements and evolving industry standards. To compete successfully, we must continually design, develop, manufacture and sell new or enhanced products and solutions that provide increasingly higher levels of performance and reliability and meet our customers’ changing needs. However, we may not be successful in those efforts if, among other things, our products and solutions:
If new standards or some of our new products are adopted later than we predict or not adopted at all, or if adoption occurs earlier than we are able to deliver the applicable products or functionality, we risk spending significant research and development time and dollars on products or features that may never achieve market acceptance or that miss the customer demand window and thus do not produce the revenue that a timely introduction would have likely produced.
If we fail to develop and market new and enhanced products and solutions on a timely basis, our operating results, financial condition and cash flows could be materially and adversely affected.
The markets in which we operate are intensely competitive.
The markets for our products are extremely competitive and have been characterized by rapid technological change and declining average sales prices in the past.
Our competitors in our Broadband business include a number of suppliers of networking and communications equipment and solutions to broadband service providers. Our competitors in our Video appliance business are primarily comprised of providers of video delivery and video processing and compression products and solutions, broadcast equipment and solutions providers, and certain network infrastructure providers. Our competitors in our Video SaaS business include companies that offer video delivery and processing SaaS solutions to SaaS video streaming platform providers, and certain public cloud service providers.
A number of our principal business competitors in both of our business segments are substantially larger and/or may have access to greater financial, technical, marketing or other resources than we have. Consolidation in the Video industry has led to the acquisition of a number of our historic competitors over the last several years by private equity firms and by Amazon Web Services. With respect to our Broadband business, certain competitors are substantially larger than us.
In addition, some of our larger competitors may have more long-standing and established relationships with certain domestic and foreign customers. Many of these large enterprises are in a better position to withstand any significant reduction in spending by customers in our markets and may be better able to navigate periods of market uncertainty, such as the uncertainty caused by the Middle East and the Russia-Ukraine conflicts and related risks of escalation or broader regional conflicts, bank insolvency and related uncertainty and volatility in the financial services sector and inflation. They often have broader product lines and market focus and may not be as susceptible to downturns in a particular market. These competitors may also be able to bundle their products together to meet the needs of a particular customer and may be capable of delivering more complete solutions than we are able to provide. To the extent large enterprises that currently do not compete directly with us choose to enter our markets by acquisition or otherwise, competition would likely intensify.
Further, some of our competitors have offered, and in the future may offer, their products at lower prices than we offer for our competing products or on more attractive financing or payment terms, which has in the past caused, and may in the future cause, us to lose sales opportunities and the resulting revenue or to reduce our prices in response to that competition. Also, some competitors that are smaller than us have engaged in, and may continue to engage in, aggressive price competition in order to gain customer traction and market share. Reductions in prices for any of our products could materially and adversely affect our operating margins and revenue.
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Additionally, with respect to our Video business in particular, certain customers and potential customers have developed, and may continue to develop, their own solutions that may cause such customers or potential customers to not consider our product offerings or to displace our installed products with their own solutions. The growing availability of open source codecs and related software, as well as new server chipsets that incorporate encoding technology, has, in certain respects, lowered the barriers to entry for the video processing industry. The development of solutions by potential and existing customers and the reduction of the barriers to entry to enter the video processing industry could result in increased competition and adversely affect our results of operations and business.
If any of our competitors’ products or technologies were to become the industry standard, our business could be seriously harmed. If our competitors are successful in bringing their products to market earlier than us, or if these products are more technologically capable than ours, our revenue could be materially and adversely affected.
Our future growth depends on a number of broadband and video industry trends.
Technology, industry and regulatory trends and requirements may affect the growth of our business. These trends and requirements include the following:
If we fail to recognize and respond to these trends, by timely developing products, features and services required by these trends, we are likely to lose revenue opportunities and our operating results, financial condition and cash flows could be materially and adversely affected.
Our software-based broadband access product initiatives expose us to certain technology transition risks that may adversely impact our operating results, financial condition and cash flows.
We believe our cOS software-based broadband access solutions, supporting centralized, DAA or hybrid configurations, will continue to significantly reduce broadband operator headend costs and increase operational efficiency, and are an important step in operators’ transition to all-IP networks. If we are unsuccessful in continuing to innovate, develop, and deploy our broadband access solutions in a timely manner, or are otherwise delayed in making our solutions available to our customers, our business may be adversely impacted, particularly if our competitors develop and market similar or superior products and solutions.
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We believe our software-based broadband access solutions will continue to replace and make obsolete current CMTS solutions, which is a market our products have historically not addressed, as well as cable edge-QAM products. If demand for our software-based broadband access solutions is weaker than expected, our near and long-term operating results, financial condition and cash flows could be adversely impacted. Moreover, if competitors adapt new broadband industry technology standards into competing broadband access solutions faster than we do, or if they promulgate a new or competitive architecture for next-generation broadband access solutions that renders our cOS solution obsolete, our business may be adversely impacted.
The sales cycle for our cOS solutions tends to be long. For broadband operators, upgrading or expanding network infrastructure is complex and expensive, and investing in a cOS solution is a significant strategic decision that may require considerable time to evaluate, test and qualify. Potential customers need to ensure our cOS solution will interoperate with the various components of its existing network infrastructure, including third-party equipment, servers and software. In addition, since we are a relatively new entrant into the CMTS market, we need to demonstrate significant performance, functionality and/or cost advantages with our cOS solutions that outweigh customer switching costs. If sales cycles are significantly longer than anticipated or we are otherwise unsuccessful in growing our cOS sales, our operating results, financial condition and cash flows could be materially and adversely affected.
Our operating results are likely to fluctuate significantly and, as a result, may fail to meet or exceed the expectations of securities analysts or investors, causing our stock price to decline.
Our operating results have fluctuated in the past and are likely to continue to fluctuate in the future, on an annual and a quarterly basis, as a result of several factors, many of which are outside of our control. Some of the factors that may cause these fluctuations include:
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The timing of deployment of our products by our customers can be subject to a number of other risks, including the availability of skilled engineering and technical personnel, and the availability of third-party equipment and services. For our Video business, deployment risks may also include our customers’ ability to negotiate and enter into rights agreements with video content owners that provide our customers with the right to deliver certain video content, and our customers’ need for local franchise and licensing approvals.
We often recognize a substantial portion of our quarterly revenue in the last month of the quarter. We establish our expenditure levels for product development and other operating expenses based on projected revenue levels for a specified period, and expenses are relatively fixed in the short term. Accordingly, even small variations in the timing of revenue, particularly from relatively large individual transactions, can cause significant fluctuations in operating results in a particular quarter.
As a result of these factors and other factors, our operating results in one or more future periods may fail to meet or exceed the expectations of securities analysts or investors. In that event, the trading price of our common stock would likely decline.
We purchase several key components, subassemblies and modules used in the manufacture or integration of our products from sole or limited sources, and we rely on contract manufacturers and other subcontractors.
Our reliance on sole or limited suppliers, particularly foreign suppliers, and our reliance on contractors for manufacturing and installation of our products, involves several risks, including a potential inability to obtain an adequate supply of required components, subassemblies or modules; reduced control over costs, quality and timely delivery of components, subassemblies or modules; supplier discontinuation of components, subassemblies or modules we require; and timely installation of products.
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In addition, our financial results may be impacted by tariffs imposed by the United States on goods from other countries and tariffs imposed by other countries on U.S. goods. Plexus Services Corp. (“Plexus”), which manufactures our products at its facilities in Malaysia, currently serves as our primary contract manufacturer, and currently accounts for a majority, by dollar amount, of the products that we purchase from our contract manufacturers. Since February 2025, the U.S. government has begun to impose (i) additional 10-35% fentanyl-related tariffs on certain goods from China, Canada, and Mexico (with exceptions for items qualifying for duty-free treatment under the U.S.-Mexico-Canada Agreement); (ii) additional Section 232 tariffs of 10-50% on certain imports deemed to threaten or impair U.S. national security (including aluminum, steel, copper and automotive goods); (iii) additional reciprocal tariffs of 10-125% on imports from most U.S. trading partners (including a rate of 19% for Malaysia and 20% for Taiwan since August 7, 2025, but with some exceptions, including but not limited to certain pharmaceuticals, semiconductors, computers, critical mineral products, and products subject to active Section 232 tariff orders); and (iv) additional Section 301 tariffs of 7.5-100% on certain commodities from certain U.S. partners, most prominently China and Brazil. Additional tariffs may be forthcoming. We are closely monitoring U.S. tariff policies, and retaliatory tariffs and actions from U.S. trading partners, which could have an adverse impact on our business and financial results. The full impact of these tariff measures on our business is uncertain. Further U.S. government investigations are currently underway that may result in new tariffs on certain products, including semiconductors, computers, and other products derivative of critical minerals. There can be no assurances that these disruptions will not continue or increase in the future, including with respect to countries with which we do business. The degree to which these changes in the global marketplace affect our financial results will be influenced by the specific details of the changes in trade policies, their timing and duration, and our effectiveness in deploying strategies to address these issues. During the second quarter of fiscal year 2025, we experienced a moderate increase in tariff-related costs due to U.S. tariff policies, primarily in our Broadband business. Further increases in or expansion of tariffs on products or components that we import, including those obtained from a sole supplier or a limited group of suppliers, or our contract manufacturers, that we are unable to mitigate through our sourcing and supply chain optimization strategies could result in additional increased costs, reduced revenues and/or the need to raise prices, any of which could have an adverse effect on our business, financial condition and operating results.
These risks could be heightened during a substantial economic slowdown, which may be caused or exacerbated by the above-noted changes in the tariff and trade policies of the United States or its trading partners, because our suppliers and subcontractors are more likely to experience adverse changes in their financial condition and operations during such a period. Further, these risks could materially and adversely affect our business if one of our sole sources, or a sole source of one of our suppliers or contract manufacturers, is adversely affected by a natural disaster or the outbreak of disease, epidemics and pandemics. These risks could also be heightened by geopolitical factors. For example, a number of the components we use in our products are sourced through Taiwan. Deterioration of relations between Taiwan and China and the United States, the resulting actions taken by any of these parties, and other factors affecting the political or economic conditions of Taiwan in the future, could adversely impact our supply chain, international sales and operations. While we expend resources to qualify additional component sources, consolidation of suppliers and the small number of viable alternatives have limited the results of these efforts. Managing our supplier and contractor relationships is particularly difficult during time periods in which we introduce new products and during time periods in which demand for our products is increasing, especially if demand increases more quickly than we expect.
From time to time, we assess our relationship with our contract manufacturers, and we do not generally maintain long-term agreements with any of our suppliers or contract manufacturers. Our agreement with Plexus has automatic annual renewals, unless prior notice is given by either party, and has been automatically renewed for a term expiring in October 2025.
Difficulties in managing relationships with any of our current contract manufacturers, particularly Plexus, that manufacture our products off-shore, or any of our suppliers of key components, subassemblies and modules used in our products, could impede our ability to meet our customers’ requirements and adversely affect our operating results. An inability to obtain adequate and timely deliveries of our products or any components or materials used in our products, or the inability of any of our contract manufacturers to scale their production to meet demand, or any other circumstance that would require us to seek alternative sources of supply, would negatively affect our ability to ship our products on a timely basis, which could damage relationships with current and prospective customers and harm our business and materially and adversely affect our revenue and other operating results. Furthermore, if we fail to meet customers’ supply expectations, our revenue would be adversely affected and we may lose sales opportunities, both short and long term, which could materially and adversely affect our business and our operating results, financial condition and cash flows. Increases, from time to time, in demand on our suppliers and subcontractors from our customers or from other parties have, on occasion, caused delays in the availability of certain components and products. In response, we may increase our inventories of certain components and products and expedite shipments of our products when necessary. These actions could increase our costs and could also increase our risk of holding obsolete or excess inventory, which, despite our use of a demand order fulfillment model, could materially and adversely affect our business, operating results, financial condition and cash flows.
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Operational Risks
We face risks associated with having facilities and employees located in Israel.
As of September 26, 2025, we maintained facilities in Israel with a total of 234 employees, or approximately 19% of our worldwide workforce. Our employees in Israel engage in a number of activities, for both our Broadband and Video business segments, including research and development, product development, product management, supply chain management for certain product lines and sales activities.
As such, we are directly affected by the political, economic and military conditions affecting Israel, such as the ongoing conflict in the Middle East and the risk of escalation and broader conflict in the region. Any significant conflict involving Israel could have a direct effect on our business, in the form of physical damage to our facilities or injury to personnel, restrictions from traveling or reluctance to travel to, from, or within Israel by our Israeli and other employees or those of our subcontractors, or the loss of Israeli employees to active military duty. Most of our employees in Israel are currently obligated to perform annual reserve duty in the Israel Defense Forces. In 2024, approximately 13% of our employees in Israel were called for military duty in connection with the current conflict in the Middle East, and in the event that more of our employees are called to active duty, certain of our research and development, product development and testing and other activities may be significantly delayed and adversely affected. Further, the interruption or curtailment of supply chains or trade between Israel and its trading partners, as a result of terrorist attacks or hostilities, conflicts between Israel and any other Middle Eastern country or organization, or any other cause, could significantly harm our business. Additionally, current or future tensions or conflicts in the Middle East, could materially and adversely affect our business, operating results, financial condition and cash flows.
We face risks associated with having outsourced engineering resources located in Ukraine.
We outsource a portion of our research and development and product support activities to our third-party partner, GlobalLogic, a Hitachi group company. Through GlobalLogic, we have a significant number of engineering resources located in Kyiv, Ukraine that are dedicated to our Broadband and Video business segments. Political, social and economic instability and unrest or violence in Ukraine from the ongoing military conflict with the Russian Federation have caused, and may continue to cause, disruptions to the business and operations of GlobalLogic, which could slow or delay the development work our outsourced engineering teams are undertaking for us. Any escalation of political tensions, military activity, instability, unrest or conflict could disrupt or prevent the work of our outsourced engineering teams; limit or prevent our employees from traveling to, from, or within Ukraine to direct and coordinate our outsourced engineering teams; or cause us to shift all or portions of the development work occurring in Ukraine, and/or cause GlobalLogic to relocate personnel to other locations or countries pursuant to its business continuity plans. Any resulting delays could negatively impact our product development efforts, operating results and our business. In addition, increased costs associated with managing or relocating our outsourced engineering teams in Ukraine, or engaging with alternative engineering resources outside of Ukraine, could negatively impact our operating results and financial condition.
We rely on resellers, value-added resellers and systems integrators for a significant portion of our Video business revenue, and disruptions to, or our failure to develop and manage our relationships with these customers or the processes and procedures that support them could adversely affect our business.
We generate a significant percentage of our revenue, particularly in our Video business, through sales to resellers, value-added resellers (“VARs”) and systems integrators that assist us with fulfillment or installation obligations. We expect that these sales will continue to generate a significant percentage of our revenue in the future. Accordingly, our future success is highly dependent upon establishing and maintaining successful relationships with a variety of channel partners.
We generally have no long-term contracts or minimum purchase commitments with any of our resellers, VAR or system integrator customers, and our contracts with these parties do not prohibit them from purchasing or offering products or services that compete with ours. Our competitors may provide incentives to any of our resellers, VAR or systems integrator customers to favor their products or, in effect, to prevent or reduce sales of our products. Any of our resellers, VAR or systems integrator customers may independently choose not to purchase or offer our products. Many of our resellers, and some of our VARs and system integrators are small, are based in a variety of international locations, and may have relatively unsophisticated processes and limited financial resources to conduct their business. Any significant disruption of our sales to these customers, including as a result of the inability or unwillingness of these customers to continue purchasing our products, or their failure to properly manage their business with respect to the purchase of, and payment for, our products, or their ability to comply with our policies and procedures as well as applicable laws, could materially and adversely affect our business, operating results, financial condition and cash flows. In addition, our failure to continue to establish or maintain successful relationships with reseller, VAR and systems integrator customers could likewise materially and adversely affect our business, operating results, financial condition and cash flows.
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We may not be able to effectively manage our operations.
As of September 26, 2025, we had 882 employees in our international operations, representing approximately 73% of our worldwide workforce. Our ability to manage our business effectively in the future, including with respect to any future growth, our operation as both a hardware and increasingly software and SaaS-centric business, the integration of any acquisition efforts, and the breadth of our international operations, will require us to train, motivate and manage our employees successfully, to attract and integrate new employees into our overall operations, to retain key employees and to continue to improve and evolve our operational, financial and management systems. There can be no assurance that we will be successful in any of these efforts, and our failure to effectively manage our operations could have a material and adverse effect on our business, operating results, cash flows and financial condition.
In order to manage our growth, we must be successful in addressing management succession issues and attracting and retaining qualified personnel.
Our future success will depend, to a significant extent, on the ability of our management to operate effectively, both individually and as a group. We must successfully manage transition and replacement issues that may result from the departure or retirement of members of our executive management. For example, Nimrod Ben-Natan, the former Senior Vice President and General Manager of our Broadband business, succeeded Patrick Harshman as President and Chief Executive Officer of the Company on June 11, 2024. Any significant leadership change or senior management transition involves inherent risks and any failure to ensure timely and suitable replacements and smooth transition could hinder our strategic planning, business execution, and future performance. We cannot provide assurances that any current or future changes of management personnel will not cause disruption to operations or customer relationships or a decline in our operating results.
We are also dependent on our ability to retain and motivate our existing highly qualified personnel, in addition to attracting new highly qualified personnel. Competition for qualified management, technical and other personnel is often intense, particularly in Silicon Valley, Israel and Hong Kong where we have significant research and development activities, and we may not be successful in attracting and retaining such personnel. Competitors and others have in the past attempted, and are likely in the future to attempt, to recruit our employees. While our employees are required to sign standard agreements concerning confidentiality, non-solicitation and ownership of inventions, other than in Israel, we generally do not have non-competition agreements with our personnel. The loss of the services of any of our key personnel, the inability to attract or retain highly qualified personnel in the future or delays in hiring such personnel, particularly senior management and engineers and other technical personnel, could negatively affect our business and operating results. Furthermore, a certain portion of our personnel in the United States is comprised of foreign nationals whose ability to work for us depends on obtaining the necessary visas. Our ability to hire and retain foreign nationals in the United States, and their ability to remain and work in the United States, is affected by various laws and regulations, including limitations on the availability of visas. Changes in U.S. laws or regulations affecting the availability of visas have, and may continue to adversely affect, our ability to hire or retain key personnel and as a result may impair our operations.
Our products include third-party technology and intellectual property, and our inability to acquire new technologies or use third-party technology in the future could harm our business.
In order to successfully develop and market certain of our planned products, we may be required to enter into technology development or licensing agreements with third parties. Although companies with technology useful to us are often willing to enter into technology development or licensing agreements with respect to such technology, we cannot provide assurances that such agreements may be negotiated on commercially reasonable terms, or at all. The failure to enter, or a delay in entering, into such technology development or licensing agreements, when necessary or desirable, could limit our ability to develop and market new products and could materially and adversely affect our business.
We incorporate certain third-party technologies, including software programs, into our products, and, as noted, intend to utilize additional third-party technologies in the future. In addition, the technologies that we license may not operate properly or as specified, and we may not be able to secure alternatives in a timely manner, either of which could harm our business. We could face delays in product releases until alternative technology can be identified, licensed or developed, and integrated into our products, if we are able to do so at all. These delays, or a failure to secure or develop adequate technology, could materially and adversely affect our business, operating results, financial condition and cash flows.
Cybersecurity incidents, including data security breaches or computer viruses, could harm our business by disrupting our business operations, compromising our products and services, damaging our reputation or exposing us to liability.
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Cyber criminals and hackers may attempt to penetrate our network security, or the network security of third parties we work with, including our third-party vendors, service providers, manufacturers, solution providers, partners and consultants, misappropriate our proprietary information or cause business interruptions, or access or misappropriate other sensitive data. Because the techniques used by such computer programmers to access or sabotage networks change frequently and may not be recognized until launched against a target, we may be unable to anticipate these techniques or to implement adequate preventative measures. In the past, we and relevant third parties have faced compromises to our network security, though no prior incidents we have identified to date have materially affected our business, results of operations or financial condition. Companies are facing additional attacks as workforces have become more distributed as a result of remote and hybrid working arrangements. Additionally, geopolitical events such as the Middle East and Russia-Ukraine conflicts and heightened tension between Israel and Iran may increase the cybersecurity risks we and the third parties we work with face. Our business operations utilize and rely upon numerous third-party vendors, service providers, manufacturers, solution providers, partners and consultants, and any failure of such third parties’ cybersecurity measures could materially and adversely affect or disrupt our business.
While we have invested in and continue to update our network security and cybersecurity infrastructure and systems, if our cybersecurity systems, or the cybersecurity systems of relevant third parties, fail to protect against unauthorized access, sophisticated cyber-attacks, phishing schemes, ransomware and other malicious code, data protection breaches, computer viruses, denial-of-service attacks, or disruptions from unauthorized tampering or human error, our ability to conduct our business effectively could be damaged in a number of ways, including:
In addition, our systems, and the systems of third parties we work with, are potentially vulnerable to breakdown or other damage or interruption from service interruptions, system malfunction, natural disasters, terrorism, war and telecommunication and electrical failures, as well as security breaches and incidents from inadvertent or intentional actions by our employees, contractors, consultants, business partners, and/or other third parties, which may compromise our system infrastructure or lead to the loss, destruction, alteration, prevention of access to, disclosure, or dissemination of, or damage or unauthorized access to, our data (including trade secrets or other confidential information, intellectual property, proprietary business information, and personal information) or data that is processed or maintained on our behalf, or other assets.
Should any of the above events occur, or be perceived to have occurred, our reputation, competitive position and business could be significantly harmed, and we could be subject to claims, demands and litigation from customers, third parties, and other individuals and groups, and investigations or other proceedings by governmental authorities, and may be subject to fines, penalties, damages, and other liabilities. Additionally, we could incur significant costs in order to upgrade our cybersecurity systems and remediate damages and otherwise respond to the incident. Consequently, our business, operating results, financial condition and cash flows could be materially and adversely affected.
We may not have applicable or otherwise adequate insurance to protect us from, or adequately mitigate, liabilities or damages resulting from security breaches or incidents. The successful assertion of one or more large claims against us that exceeds any available insurance coverage that we might have, or results in changes to insurance policies (including premium increases or the imposition of large deductible or co-insurance requirements), could have an adverse effect on our business. In addition, we cannot be sure that insurance coverage will be available on acceptable terms or that insurers will not deny coverage as to any future claim.
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Our operating results could be adversely affected by natural disasters affecting us or impacting our third-party manufacturers, suppliers, resellers or customers.
Our corporate headquarters is located in California, which is prone to earthquakes. In addition, climate change is contributing to an increase in erratic weather patterns globally and intensifying the impact of certain types of catastrophes, such as floods, wildfires and droughts. We have employees, consultants and contractors located in regions and countries around the world. In the event that any of our business, sales or research and development centers or offices in the United States or internationally are adversely affected by an earthquake, flood, wildfire or by any other natural disaster, we may sustain damage to our operations and properties, which could cause a sustained interruption or loss of affected operations, and cause us to suffer significant financial losses.
We rely on third-party contract manufacturers for the production of our products. Any significant disruption in the business or operations of such manufacturers or of their or our suppliers could adversely impact our business. Our principal contract manufacturers and several of their and our suppliers and our resellers have operations in locations that are subject to natural disasters, such as severe weather, tsunamis, floods, fires and earthquakes, which could disrupt their operations and, in turn, our operations.
In addition, if there is a natural disaster in any of the locations in which our significant customers are located, we face the risk that our customers may incur losses or sustained business interruption, or both, which may materially impair their ability to continue their purchase of products from us. Accordingly, natural disaster in one of the geographies in which we, or our third-party manufacturers, their or our suppliers or our customers, operate could have a material and adverse effect on our business, operating results, cash flows and financial condition.
Financial, Transactional and Tax Risks
We may need additional capital in the future and may not be able to secure adequate funds at all or on terms acceptable to us.
We engage in the design, development and manufacture and sale of a variety of video and broadband products and system solutions, which has required, and will continue to require, significant research and development expenditures.
We are monitoring and managing our cash position in light of ongoing market conditions due to potential volatility and uncertainty in the banking and financial services sector, and the Middle East and Russia-Ukraine conflicts and related macroeconomic conditions. We believe that our existing cash of approximately $127.4 million as of September 26, 2025 will satisfy our cash requirements for at least the next 12 months. However, we may need to raise additional funds to take advantage of presently unanticipated strategic opportunities, satisfy our other cash requirements from time to time, or strengthen our financial position. Our ability to raise funds may be adversely affected by a number of factors, including factors beyond our control, such as weakness in the economic conditions in markets in which we sell our products, bank failures and continued uncertainty in financial, capital and credit markets. There can be no assurance that equity or debt financing will be available to us on reasonable terms, if at all, when and if it is needed.
We may raise additional financing through public or private equity or convertible debt offerings, debt financings, or corporate partnership or licensing arrangements. To the extent we raise additional capital by issuing equity securities or convertible debt, our stockholders may experience dilution, and any new equity or convertible debt securities we issue could have rights, preferences, and privileges superior to holders of our common stock. Further, volatility in equity capital markets may adversely affect market prices of our common stock. This may materially and adversely affect our ability to raise additional capital through public or private equity offerings. To the extent that we raise additional funds through collaboration and licensing arrangements, it may be necessary to relinquish some rights to our technologies or products, or grant licenses on terms that are not favorable to us. Our current debt agreements require, and any debt financing that we secure in the future, may require us to pledge assets or enter into covenants that could restrict our operations or our ability to incur further indebtedness and our interest obligations with respect to such debt may adversely affect our operating results. Further, historically high interest rates and tightening credit markets may reduce our access to debt financing, which may adversely affect our future business plans and expected growth and would increase the cost of fixed rate and/or variable rate borrowings, which could reduce our earnings.
If adequate capital is not available, or is not available on reasonable terms, when needed, we may not be able to take advantage of acquisitions or other market opportunities, to timely develop new products, or to otherwise respond to competitive pressures.
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Our Credit Agreement imposes operating and financial restrictions on us.
On December 21, 2023, we entered into a Credit Agreement, among the Company, certain subsidiaries of the Company from time to time party thereto, the lenders party thereto from time to time and Citibank, N.A., as administrative agent (the “Credit Agreement”). The obligations under the Credit Agreement and the other loan documents are required to be guaranteed by certain of our material subsidiaries and secured by substantially all of the assets of the Company and such subsidiary guarantors. The Credit Agreement provides for a $160.0 million secured revolving loan facility (the “Revolving Facility”), with a $10.0 million sublimit for the issuance of letters of credit, and a $40.0 million secured delayed draw term loan facility (the “Term Facility”). To finance the settlement of the conversions of the 2024 Notes in connection with our delivery of the notice of redemption for such 2024 Notes, we drew down $75.0 million on the Revolving Facility and $40.0 million on the Term Facility, respectively. As of September 26, 2025, we had $82.0 million remaining available for borrowing under the Revolving Facility and no remaining amounts available for borrowing under the Term Facility.
Our Credit Agreement contains covenants that limit our ability and the ability of our subsidiaries to, subject to certain limitations and exceptions:
Further, the Credit Agreement contains financial covenants that require compliance with a maximum consolidated net leverage ratio and minimum fixed charge coverage ratio, in each case, determined in accordance with the terms of the Credit Agreement. These covenants may adversely affect our ability to finance our operations, meet or otherwise address our capital needs, pursue business opportunities or react to market conditions, or otherwise restrict our activities or business plans. In addition, our obligations to repay principal and interest on our indebtedness could make us vulnerable to economic or market downturns.
A breach of any of these covenants could result in an event of default under the Credit Agreement. As of September 26, 2025, we were in compliance with all covenants under the Credit Agreement; however, if an event of default occurs, the lenders may terminate their commitments and accelerate our obligations under the Credit Agreement. We might not be able to repay our debt or borrow sufficient funds to refinance it on terms that are acceptable to us.
Servicing our debt requires a significant amount of cash, and we may not have sufficient cash flow from our business to pay our substantial debt.
Our ability to make scheduled payments of the principal of, to pay interest on or to refinance our indebtedness, including any amounts borrowed under our Credit Agreement, depends on our future performance, which is subject to economic, financial, competitive and other factors beyond our control. Our business may not continue to generate cash flow from operations in the future sufficient to service our debt and make necessary capital expenditures. If we are unable to generate such cash flow, we may be required to adopt one or more alternatives, such as selling assets, restructuring debt or obtaining additional equity capital on terms that may be onerous or highly dilutive. Our ability to refinance our indebtedness will depend on our ability to borrow under the terms of the Credit Agreement, the capital markets and our financial condition at such time. We may not be able to engage in any of these activities or engage in these activities on desirable terms, which could result in a default on our debt obligations, including any outstanding loans under the Credit Agreement.
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Despite our current debt levels, we may still incur substantially more debt or take other actions which would intensify the risks discussed above.
Despite our current consolidated debt levels, we and our subsidiaries may be able to incur substantial additional debt in the future, subject to the restrictions contained in our debt instruments, some of which may be secured debt. Such additional indebtedness could have the effect of diminishing our ability to make payments on our debt when due. Our Credit Agreement permits us to incur certain additional indebtedness and grant certain liens on our assets, subject to limitations and requirements as set forth in the Credit Agreement, that could intensify the risks discussed above.
We have made, and may continue to make, acquisitions, and any acquisition could disrupt our operations, cause dilution to our stockholders and materially and adversely affect our business, operating results, cash flows and financial condition.
As part of our business strategy, from time to time we have acquired, and we may continue to acquire, businesses, technologies, assets and product lines that we believe complement or expand our existing business. Acquisitions involve numerous risks, including the following:
Competition within our industry for acquisitions of businesses, technologies, assets and product lines has been, and is likely to continue to be, intense. As such, even if we are able to identify an acquisition that we would like to consummate, we may not be able to complete the acquisition on commercially reasonable terms or because the target chooses to be acquired by another company. Furthermore, in the event that we are able to identify and consummate any future acquisitions, we may, in each of those acquisitions:
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These financing activities or expenditures could materially and adversely affect our operating results, cash flows and financial condition or the price of our common stock. Alternatively, due to difficulties in the capital or credit markets that may exists at the time, we may be unable to secure capital necessary to complete an acquisition on reasonable terms, or at all. Moreover, even if we were to obtain benefits from acquisitions in the form of increased revenue and earnings per share, there may be a delay between the time the expenses associated with an acquisition are incurred and the time we recognize such benefits.
As of September 26, 2025, we had approximately $241.8 million of goodwill recorded on our balance sheet associated with prior acquisitions. In the event we determine that our goodwill is impaired, we would be required to write down all or a portion of such goodwill, which could result in a material non-cash charge to our results of operations in the period in which such write-down occurs.
If we are unable to successfully address one or more of these risks, our business, operating results, financial condition and cash flows could be materially and adversely affected.
We may sell one or more of our product lines, from time to time, as a result of our evaluation of our products and markets, and any such divestiture could adversely affect our continuing business and our expenses, revenues, results of operation, cash flows and financial position.
We periodically evaluate our various product lines and may, as a result, consider the divestiture of one or more of those product lines. Such evaluations, may disrupt our business by causing distractions to management, shifts in strategy, decreased employee morale and productivity, and increased turnover. We have considered selling and sold product lines in the past, and any prior or future divestiture could adversely affect our continuing business and expenses, revenues, results of operations, cash flows and financial position.
Divestitures of product lines have inherent risks, including the expense of selling the product line, the possibility that any anticipated sale will not occur, delays in closing any sale, the risk of lower-than-expected proceeds from the sale of the divested business, unexpected costs associated with the separation of the business to be sold from the seller’s information technology and other operating systems, and potential post-closing claims for indemnification or breach of transition services obligations of the seller. Expected cost savings, which are offset by revenue losses from divested businesses, may also be difficult to achieve or maximize due to the seller’s fixed cost structure, and a seller may experience varying success in reducing fixed costs or transferring liabilities previously associated with the divested business.
The nature of our business requires the application of complex revenue and expense recognition rules and the current legislative and regulatory environment affecting generally accepted accounting principles is uncertain. Significant changes in current principles could affect our financial statements going forward and changes in financial accounting standards or practices may cause adverse, unexpected financial reporting fluctuations and harm our operating results.
United States generally accepted accounting principles (“U.S. GAAP”) are subject to interpretation by the Financial Standards Accounting Board (“FASB”), the SEC and various bodies formed to promulgate and interpret appropriate accounting principles. We are also subject to evolving rules and regulations of the countries in which we do business. Changes to accounting standards or interpretations thereof may result in different accounting principles under U.S. GAAP that have a significant effect on our reported financial results and require us to incur costs and expenses in order to comply with the updated standards or interpretations.
In addition, we have in the past and may in the future need to modify our customer contracts, accounting systems and processes when we adopt future or proposed changes in accounting principles. The cost and effect of these changes may negatively impact our results of operations during the periods of transition.
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Fluctuations in our future effective tax rates could affect our future operating results, financial condition and cash flows.
We are required to periodically review our deferred tax assets and determine whether, based on available evidence, a valuation allowance is necessary. The realization of our deferred tax assets, which are predominantly in the United States, is dependent upon the generation of sufficient U.S. and foreign taxable income in the future to offset these assets. Based on our evaluation, we recorded a net increase in valuation allowance of $0.4 million in 2024 and a net decrease of $63.9 million in 2023, respectively, against the net deferred tax assets. In 2023, there was a full release of the valuation allowance against U.S. federal and certain state deferred tax assets due to improved historical earnings and projected earnings. Changes in the amount of the valuation allowance in the U.S. and in foreign jurisdictions could result in a material non-cash expense or benefit in the period in which the valuation allowance is adjusted, and our results of operations could be materially affected.
The calculation of tax liabilities involves dealing with uncertainties in the application of complex global tax regulations. We recognize potential liabilities for anticipated tax audit issues in the U.S. and other tax jurisdictions based on our estimate of whether, and the extent to which, additional taxes will be due. In the event we determine that it is appropriate to create a reserve or increase an existing reserve for any such potential liabilities, the amount of the additional reserve will be charged as an expense in the period in which it is determined. If payment of these amounts ultimately proves to be unnecessary, the reversal of the liabilities would result in tax benefits being recognized in the period when we determine the liabilities are no longer necessary. If the estimate of tax liabilities proves to be less than the ultimate tax assessment for the applicable period, a further charge to expense in the period such shortfall is determined would result. Either such charge to expense could have a material and adverse effect on our operating results for the applicable period.
Our future effective income tax rates could be adversely affected if tax authorities challenge our international tax structure or if our relative mix of U.S. and international income changes for any reason. Accordingly, there can be no assurance that our effective income tax rate will remain consistent.
We are subject to taxation-related risks in multiple jurisdictions, and the adoption and interpretation of new tax legislation, tax regulations, tax rulings, or exposure to additional tax liabilities could materially affect our business, financial condition and results of operations.
Tax laws are regularly re-examined and evaluated globally. New laws and interpretations of the law are considered for financial statement purposes in the quarter or year that they are enacted. Tax authorities are increasingly scrutinizing the tax positions of multinational companies. If U.S. or other foreign tax authorities change applicable tax laws, or if there is a change in interpretation of existing law, our overall liability could increase, and our business, financial condition and results of operations may be harmed.
For example, effective as of January 1, 2022, the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act of 2017 eliminated the option to deduct research and development expenditures currently and requires such expenditures to be capitalized and amortized ratably over a five-year period for domestic expenditures or a fifteen-year period for foreign expenditures. However, the One Big Beautiful Bill Act of 2025, which was enacted on July 4, 2025, makes a number of changes to U.S. federal income tax law, including permanently suspending the requirement to capitalize and amortize domestic research and development costs and permitting deductions for them on a current basis.
Further, the Inflation Reduction Act of 2022, among other things, imposes a one-percent non-deductible excise tax on certain repurchases of stock that are made by U.S. publicly traded corporations on or after January 1, 2023, which may affect our share repurchase program.
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In addition, the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (the “OECD”), the European Union, as well as a number of other countries and organizations have recently enacted new laws, and proposed or recommended changes to existing tax laws, that may increase our tax obligations in many countries where we do business or require us to change the manner in which we operate our business. For example, the OECD has introduced a framework to implement a 15% global minimum corporate tax, referred to as Pillar 2, which Member States in the European Union have implemented into national legislation as of the end of 2023 and has been adopted by certain other jurisdictions. However, on June 28, 2025, the G7 released a joint statement that it had reached an understanding with the United States for a side-by-side system based on certain accepted principles, including that U.S.-parented groups, such as ours, would be exempt from certain provisions of Pillar Two. As we expand the scale of our business activities, any changes in U.S. or foreign tax laws that apply to such activities may increase our worldwide effective tax rate and harm our business, financial condition and results of operations.
Legal, Regulatory and Compliance Risks
We or our customers may face intellectual property infringement claims from third parties.
Our industry is characterized by the existence of a large number of patents and frequent claims and related litigation regarding patent and other intellectual property rights. In particular, leading companies in the telco industry have extensive patent portfolios. Also, patent infringement claims and litigation by entities that purchase or control patents, but do not produce goods or services covered by the claims of such patents (so-called “non-practicing entities” or “NPEs”), have increased rapidly over the last decade or so. From time to time, third parties, including NPEs, have asserted, and may assert in the future, patent, copyright, trademark and other intellectual property rights against us or our customers, and have initiated audits to determine whether we have missed royalty payments for technology that we license. Our suppliers and their customers, including us, may have similar claims asserted against them. A number of third parties, including companies with greater financial and other resources than us, have asserted patent rights to technologies that are important to us.
Any intellectual property litigation, regardless of its outcome, could result in substantial expense and significant diversion of the efforts of our management and technical personnel. An adverse determination in any such proceeding could subject us to significant liabilities and temporary or permanent injunctions and require us to seek licenses from third parties or pay royalties that may be substantial. Furthermore, necessary licenses may not be available on terms satisfactory to us, or at all. An unfavorable outcome on any such litigation matter could require that we pay substantial damages, could require that we pay ongoing royalty payments, or could prohibit us from selling certain of our products. Any such outcome could have a material and adverse effect on our business, operating results, financial condition and cash flows.
Our suppliers and customers may have intellectual property claims relating to our products asserted against them. We have agreed to indemnify some of our suppliers and most of our customers for patent infringement relating to our products. The scope of this indemnity varies, but, in some instances, includes indemnification for damages and expenses (including reasonable attorney’s fees) incurred by the supplier or customer in connection with such claims. If a supplier or a customer seeks to enforce a claim for indemnification against us, we could incur significant costs defending such claim, the underlying claim or both. An adverse determination in either such proceeding could subject us to significant liabilities and have a material and adverse effect on our operating results, cash flows and financial condition.
We may be the subject of litigation which, if adversely determined, could harm our business and operating results.
We may be subject to claims arising in the normal course of business. The costs of defending any litigation, whether in cash expenses or in management time, could harm our business and materially and adversely affect our operating results and cash flows. An unfavorable outcome on any litigation matter could require that we pay substantial damages, or, in connection with any intellectual property infringement claims, could require that we pay ongoing royalty payments or prohibit us from selling certain of our products. In addition, we may decide to settle any litigation, which could cause us to incur significant settlement costs. A settlement or an unfavorable outcome on any litigation matter could have a material and adverse effect on our business, operating results, financial condition and cash flows.
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Our failure to adequately protect our proprietary rights and data may adversely affect us.
As of September 26, 2025, we held 140 issued U.S. patents and 40 issued foreign patents, and had 52 patent applications pending. Although we attempt to protect our intellectual property rights through patents, trademarks, copyrights, licensing arrangements, maintaining certain technology as trade secrets and other measures, we can give no assurances that any patent, trademark, copyright or other intellectual property rights owned by us will not be invalidated, circumvented or challenged, that such intellectual property rights will provide competitive advantages to us, or that any of our pending or future patent applications will be issued with the scope of the claims sought by us, if at all. We can give no assurances that others will not develop technologies that are similar or superior to our technologies, duplicate our technologies or design around the patents that we own. In addition, effective patent, copyright and trade secret protection may be unavailable or limited in certain foreign countries in which we do business or may do business in the future.
We may enter into confidentiality or license agreements with our employees, consultants, and vendors and our customers, as needed, and generally limit access to, and distribution of, our proprietary information. Nevertheless, we cannot provide assurances that the steps taken by us will prevent misappropriation of our technology. In addition, we have taken in the past, and may take in the future, legal action to enforce our patents and other intellectual property rights, to protect our trade secrets, to determine the validity and scope of the proprietary rights of others, or to defend against claims of infringement or invalidity. Such litigation could result in substantial costs and diversion of management time and other resources, and could materially and adversely affect our business, operating results, financial condition and cash flows.
Our use of open source software in some of our products may expose us to certain risks.
Some of our products contain software modules licensed for use from third-party authors under open source licenses. Use and distribution of open source software may entail greater risks than use of third-party commercial software, as open source licensors generally do not provide warranties or other contractual protections regarding infringement claims or the quality of the code. Some open source licenses contain requirements that we make available source code for modifications or derivative works we create based upon the type of open source software we use. If we combine our proprietary software with open source software in a certain manner, we could, under certain of the open source licenses, be required to release the source code of our proprietary software to the public. This could allow our competitors to create similar products with lower development effort and in less time and ultimately could result in a loss of product sales for us.
Although we monitor our use of open source closely, it is possible our past, present or future use of open source has triggered or may trigger the foregoing requirements. Furthermore, the terms of many open source licenses have not been interpreted by U.S. courts, and there is a risk that such licenses could be construed in a manner that could impose unanticipated conditions or restrictions on our ability to commercialize our products. In such event, we could be required to seek licenses from third parties in order to continue offering our products, to re-engineer our products or to discontinue the sale of our products in the event re-engineering cannot be accomplished on a timely basis, any of which could materially and adversely affect our operating results, financial condition and cash flows.
We are subject to import and export control and trade and economic sanction laws and regulations that could subject us to liability or impair our ability to compete in international markets.
Our products are subject to U.S. export control laws and may be exported outside the United States only with the required export license or through an export license exception, in most cases because we incorporate encryption technology into certain of our products. We are also subject to U.S. trade and economic sanction regulations which include prohibitions on the sale or supply of certain products and services to the embargoed or sanctioned countries, governments, persons and entities of the United States or of countries in which we do business. In addition, various countries regulate the import of certain technology and have enacted laws that could limit our ability to distribute our products, or could limit our customers’ ability to implement our products, in those countries. Although we take precautions and have processes in place to prevent our products and services from being provided in violation of such laws, our products may have been in the past, and could in the future be, provided inadvertently in violation of such laws, despite the precautions we take.
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In March 2020, we received an administrative subpoena from the U.S. Treasury Department’s office of Foreign Assets Control (“OFAC”) requesting information about transactions involving Iran. The transactions were by the French company TVN, which we acquired in early 2016. Pursuant to regulations that remained in place until 2018, foreign subsidiaries of U.S. companies were allowed to engage in transactions with Iran if certain requirements were met. In February 2023, OFAC notified us that it had completed its review of these matters and closed its review with the issuance of a Cautionary Letter. While OFAC did not assess any penalties, the Cautionary Letter does not preclude OFAC from taking future enforcement actions if additional information warrants renewed attention. Furthermore, OFAC may consider our regulatory history, including this subpoena, our disclosures and the Cautionary Letter, if we are involved in future enforcement cases for failure to comply with export control laws and regulations. If we are found to have violated U.S. export control laws as a result of future investigations, we and certain of our employees could be subject to civil or criminal penalties, including the possible loss of export privileges, monetary penalties, and, in extreme cases, imprisonment of responsible employees for knowing and willful violations of these laws which could lead to penalties, reputational harm, loss of access to certain markets, or otherwise.
In addition, as discussed in more detail above, we may be affected by heightened or new tariffs that could have a significant adverse impact on our operating results or, if we are able to pass on the related costs in any particular situation, would increase the cost of the related product to our customers. As a result, the future imposition of significant increases in the level of tariffs or the creation of import quotas on our products, or any of the limitations on international sales described above, could have a material adverse effect on our business, operating results, financial condition and cash flows. Further, some of our customers in Europe have been, or are being, audited by local governmental authorities regarding the tariff classifications used for importation of our products. Import duties and tariffs vary by country and a different tariff classification for any of our products may result in higher duties or tariffs, which could have an adverse impact on our operating results and potentially increase the cost of the related products to our customers.
Our business and industry are subject to various laws and regulations that could adversely affect our business, operating results, cash flows and financial condition.
Our business and industry are regulated under various federal, state, local and international laws. For example, we are subject to environmental regulations such as the European Union’s Waste Electrical and Electronic Equipment and Restriction on the Use of Certain Hazardous Substances in Electrical and Electronic Equipment directives and similar legislation enacted in other jurisdictions worldwide. Our failure to comply with these laws could result in our being directly or indirectly liable for costs, fines or penalties and third-party claims, and could jeopardize our ability to conduct business in such regions and countries. We expect that our operations will be affected by other new environmental laws and regulations on an ongoing basis. Although we cannot predict the ultimate impact of any such new laws and regulations, they would likely result in additional costs, and could require that we redesign or change how we manufacture our products, any of which could have a material and adverse effect on our operating results, financial condition and cash flows.
We are subject to the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002 which, among other things, requires an annual review and evaluation of our internal control over financial reporting. If we conclude in future periods that our internal control over financial reporting is not effective or if our independent registered public accounting firm is unable to provide an unqualified attestation as of future year-ends, we may incur substantial additional costs in an effort to correct such problems, and investors may lose confidence in our financial statements, and our stock price may decrease in the short term, until we correct such problems, and perhaps in the long term, as well.
We are subject to requirements under the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act of 2010 that require us to conduct research, disclose, and report whether or not our products contain certain conflict minerals sourced from the Democratic Republic of Congo or its surrounding countries. The implementation of these requirements could adversely affect the sourcing, availability, and pricing of the materials used in the manufacture of components used in our products. In addition, we may incur certain additional costs to comply with the disclosure requirements, including costs related to conducting diligence procedures to determine the sources of conflict minerals that may be used or necessary to the production of our products and, if applicable, potential changes to products, processes or sources of supply as a consequence of such verification activities. It is also possible that we may face reputational harm if we determine that certain of our products contain minerals not determined to be conflict-free and/or we are unable to alter our products, processes or sources of supply to avoid such materials.
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Changes in telco legislation and regulations in the United States and other countries could affect our sales and the revenue we are able to derive from our products. In particular, changes in laws or regulations that adversely affect the growth, popularity or use of the internet, including laws impacting net neutrality or requiring payment of network access fees, could decrease the demand for our service and increase our cost of doing business. Certain laws intended to prevent network operators from discriminating against the legal traffic that traverse their networks have been implemented in many countries, including across the European Union. In others, the laws may be nascent or non-existent. Furthermore, favorable laws may change, including for example, in the United States where net neutrality regulations were recently repealed. We cannot predict whether such laws and regulations will be modified, overturned, or vacated. The repeal of the net neutrality rules or other regulations dealing with access by competitors to the networks of incumbent operators could slow or stop infrastructure and services investments or expansion by service providers. Increased regulation of our customers’ pricing or service offerings could limit their investments and, consequently, revenue from our products. The impact of new or revised legislation or regulations could have a material adverse effect on our business, operating results, financial condition and cash flows.
We are also subject to laws and regulations relating to privacy, data protection, and cyber security. These laws and regulations are subject to frequent modifications and updates and require ongoing supervision. For example, the European Union adopted a General Data Protection Regulation that became effective in May 2018, and has established new, and in some cases more stringent, requirements for data protection in Europe, and which provides for substantial penalties for noncompliance. Additionally, California has the California Consumer Privacy Act (“CCPA”), which went into effect on January 1, 2020. In November 2020, California passed the California Privacy Rights Act (“CPRA”), which went into effect on January 1, 2023. The CPRA amends and augments the CCPA including by expanding individuals’ rights and the obligations of businesses that handle personal data. Other legislation relating to these matters, in many cases general legislation similar to the CCPA, has been proposed or adopted in several other states. Aspects of the CCPA, CPRA and these other laws and regulations, as well as their enforcement, remain unclear. The U.S. federal government also is contemplating federal privacy legislation. The effects and impact of these laws and regulations relating to privacy, data protection, and cybersecurity are potentially significant and may require us to modify our data processing and cybersecurity practices and policies and to incur substantial costs and expenses in efforts to comply. Laws and regulations relating to these matters continue to evolve in various jurisdictions, with existing laws and regulations subject to new and differing interpretations and new laws and regulations being proposed and adopted. It is possible that our practices may be deemed not to comply with those privacy, data protection, or cybersecurity legal requirements that apply to us now or in the future. Our failure or perceived failure to comply with any of the foregoing legal and regulatory requirements, or other actual or asserted obligations relating to privacy, data protection or cybersecurity could result in increased costs for our products, monetary penalties, damage to our reputation, government inquiries, investigations and other legal proceeds, legal claims, demands and litigation and other obligations and liabilities.
We depend significantly on our international revenue and are subject to the risks associated with international operations, including those of our resellers, contract manufacturers and outsourcing partners, which may negatively affect our operating results.
Revenue derived from customers outside of the United States represented approximately 32% and 25% of our revenue for the nine months ended September 26, 2025, and September 27, 2024, respectively. Although no assurance can be given with respect to international sales growth in any one or more regions, we expect that international revenue will likely continue to represent, from year to year, a significant, and potentially increasing, percentage of our annual revenue for the foreseeable future. A significant percentage of our revenue is generated from sales to resellers, VARs and systems integrators, particularly in emerging market countries. Furthermore, the majority of our employees are based in our international offices and locations, and most of our contract manufacturing occurs outside of the United States. In addition, we outsource a portion of our research and development activities to certain third-party partners with development centers located in different countries, particularly Ukraine and India.
Our international operations, international operations of our resellers, contract manufacturers and outsourcing partners, and our efforts to maintain and increase revenue in international markets are subject to a number of risks, which are generally greater with respect to emerging market countries, including the following:
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We have certain international customers who are billed in their local currency, primarily the Euro, British pound and Japanese yen, which subjects us to foreign currency risk. In addition, a portion of our operating expenses relating to the cost of certain international employees, are denominated in foreign currencies, primarily the Euro, Israeli shekel, British pound, Singapore dollar, Chinese yuan and Indian rupee. Gains and losses on the conversion to U.S. dollars of accounts receivable, accounts payable and other monetary assets and liabilities arising from international operations may contribute to fluctuations in our operating results. Furthermore, payment cycles for international customers are typically longer than those for customers in the United States. Unpredictable payment cycles could cause us to fail to meet or exceed the expectations of security analysts and investors for any given period.
Most of our international revenue is denominated in U.S. dollars, and fluctuations in currency exchange rates could cause our products to become relatively more expensive to customers in a particular country or region, leading to a reduction in revenue or profitability from sales in that country or region. The potential negative impact of a strong U.S. dollar on our business may be exacerbated by the significant devaluation of a number of foreign currencies. Also, if the U.S. dollar were to weaken against many foreign currencies, there can be no assurance that a weaker dollar would lead to growth in customer spending in foreign markets.
Our operations outside the United States also require us to comply with a number of U.S. and international regulations that prohibit improper payments or offers of payments to foreign governments and their officials and political parties for corrupt purposes. For example, our operations in countries outside the United States are subject to the FCPA and similar laws, including the U.K. Bribery Act. Our activities in certain emerging countries create the risk of unauthorized payments or offers of payments by one of our employees, consultants, sales agents or channel partners that could be in violation of various anti-corruption laws, even though these parties may not be under our control. Under the FCPA and U.K. Bribery Act, companies may be held liable for the corrupt actions taken by their directors, officers, employees, channel partners, sales agents, consultants, or other strategic or local partners or representatives. We have internal control policies and procedures with respect to FCPA compliance, have implemented FCPA training and compliance programs for our employees, and include in our agreements with resellers a requirement that those parties comply with the FCPA. However, we cannot provide assurances that our policies, procedures and programs will prevent violations of the FCPA or similar laws by our employees or agents, particularly in emerging market countries, and as we expand our international operations. Any such violation, even if prohibited by our policies, could result in criminal or civil sanctions against us.
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The effect of one or more of these international risks could have a material and adverse effect on our business, financial condition, operating results and cash flows.
Risks Related to Ownership of Our Common Stock
Some anti-takeover provisions contained in our certificate of incorporation and bylaws, as well as provisions of Delaware law, could impair a takeover attempt.
We have provisions in our certificate of incorporation and bylaws that could have the effect of rendering more difficult or discouraging an acquisition deemed undesirable by our Board. These include provisions:
These provisions could delay hostile takeovers, changes in control of the Company or changes in our management. As a Delaware corporation, we are also subject to provisions of Delaware law, including Section 203 of the Delaware General Corporation law, which prevents some stockholders holding more than 15% of our outstanding common stock from engaging in certain business combinations without approval of the holders of substantially all of our outstanding common stock. Any provision of our certificate of incorporation or bylaws or Delaware law that has the effect of delaying or deterring a change in control could limit the opportunity for our stockholders to receive a premium for their shares of our common stock, and could also affect the price that some investors are willing to pay for our common stock.
Our common stock price may be extremely volatile, and the value of an investment in our stock may decline.
Our common stock price has been highly volatile. We expect that this volatility will continue in the future due to factors such as:
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In addition, in recent years, the stock market in general, and The Nasdaq Global Select Market and the securities of technology companies in particular, have experienced extreme price and volume fluctuations. These fluctuations have often been unrelated or disproportionate to the operating performance of individual companies. These broad market fluctuations have in the past, and may in the future, materially and adversely affect our stock price, regardless of our operating results. In these circumstances, investors may be unable to sell their shares of our common stock at or above their purchase price over the short term, or at all.
We cannot guarantee that our stock repurchase program will be fully implemented or that it will enhance long-term stockholder value.
In February 2025, our Board of Directors terminated our existing $100 million stock repurchase program and approved a new stock repurchase program for the repurchase of up to $200 million of the outstanding shares of common stock. The repurchase program expires in February 2028, and we are not obligated to repurchase a specified number or dollar value of shares. Share repurchases will be made from time to time in open market purchases and 10b5-1 trading plans, as permitted by securities laws and other legal requirements. Any share repurchases remain subject to the circumstances in place at that time, including prevailing market prices. As a result, there can be no guarantee around the timing or volume of our share repurchases. The stock repurchase program could affect the price of our common stock, increase volatility and diminish our cash reserves. Our repurchase program may be suspended or terminated at any time and, even if fully implemented, may not enhance long-term stockholder value.
Our stock price may decline if additional shares are sold in the market or if analysts drop coverage of or downgrade our stock.
Future sales of substantial amounts of shares of our common stock by our existing stockholders in the public market, or the perception that these sales could occur, may cause the market price of our common stock to decline. In addition, we issue additional shares upon exercise of stock options, including under our 2002 ESPP, and in connection with grants of restricted stock units on an ongoing basis. Increased sales of our common stock in the market after exercise of outstanding stock options or grants of restricted stock units could exert downward pressure on our stock price. These sales also might make it more difficult for us to sell equity or equity-related securities in the future at a time and price we deem appropriate.
The trading market for our common stock relies in part on the availability of research and reports that third-party industry or securities analysts publish about us and our business. If we do not maintain adequate research coverage or if one or more of the analysts who do cover us downgrade our stock or publishes inaccurate or unfavorable research about our business, our stock price may decline. If one or more of these analysts cease coverage of us or fails to publish reports on us regularly, we could lose visibility in the market, which in turn could cause the liquidity of our stock and our stock price to decline.
ITEM 2. UNREGISTERED SALES OF EQUITY SECURITIES AND USE OF PROCEEDS
Issuer Purchases of Equity Securities
The Company is authorized to repurchase, from time to time, shares of its outstanding common stock through open market purchases and 10b5-1 trading plans, in accordance with applicable rules and regulations, at such time and such prices as management may decide. The program does not obligate the Company to repurchase any specific number of shares and may be discontinued at any time. The actual timing and amount of repurchases are subject to business and market conditions, corporate and regulatory requirements, stock price, acquisition opportunities and other factors. As of September 26, 2025, approximately $134.2 million of the share repurchase authorization remained available.
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The following table summarizes the repurchase activities for the three months ended September 26, 2025.
Period |
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Total Number of |
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Average Price Paid |
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Total Number of |
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Approximate Dollar |
||||
June 28, 2025 - July 25, 2025 |
|
|
— |
|
|
n/a |
|
|
— |
|
$ |
149.9 |
July 26, 2025 - August 22, 2025 |
|
|
1,765,028 |
|
$ |
8.87 |
|
|
1,765,028 |
|
$ |
134.2 |
August 23, 2025 - September 26, 2025 |
|
|
— |
|
|
n/a |
|
|
— |
|
$ |
134.2 |
Total |
|
|
1,765,028 |
|
|
|
|
|
1,765,028 |
|
|
|
(1) Average price paid per share in the period includes commission. In February 2022, the Board of Directors authorized the Company to repurchase up to $100 million of the Company’s outstanding shares of common stock through February 2025. This authorization was terminated by the Board of Directors in February 2025 with $35.2 million of repurchases effectuated. In connection with the termination of the existing program, the Board of Directors authorized a new repurchase program for the Company to repurchase up to $200 million of the Company’s outstanding shares of common stock through February 2028.
During the quarter ended September 26, 2025, we paid approximately $0.6 million in employee withholding taxes due upon the vesting of net settled equity awards. We withheld approximately 64,930 shares of common stock from employees in connection with such net share settlement at an average price of $9.09 per share. These shares may be deemed to be “issuer purchases” of shares.
ITEM 5. OTHER INFORMATION
Securities Trading Plans of Directors and Executive Officers
During the three months ended September 26, 2025, no director or officer, as defined in Rule 16a-1(f),
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ITEM 6. EXHIBITS
Exhibit Number |
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Exhibit Index |
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|
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31.1 |
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|
|
|
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31.2 |
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|
|
|
|
32.1* |
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|
|
|
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32.2* |
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|
|
|
|
101 |
|
The following materials from Registrant’s Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q for the quarter ended September 26, 2025, formatted in Inline Extensible Business Reporting Language (iXBRL) include: (i) Condensed Consolidated Balance Sheets at September 26, 2025 and December 31, 2024, (ii) Condensed Consolidated Statements of Operations for the three and nine months ended September 26, 2025 and September 27, 2024, (iii) Condensed Consolidated Statements of Comprehensive Income (Loss) for the three and nine months ended September 26, 2025 and September 27, 2024, (iv) Condensed Consolidated Statements of Stockholders’ Equity for the three and nine months ended September 26, 2025 and September 27, 2024, (v) Condensed Consolidated Statements of Cash Flows for the nine months ended September 26, 2025 and September 27, 2024, and (vi) Notes to Condensed Consolidated Financial Statements. |
|
|
|
104 |
|
Cover Page Interactive Data File (formatted as inline XBRL and contained in Exhibit 101) |
*The certifications attached as Exhibits 32.1 and 32.2 that accompany this Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q, are deemed furnished and not filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission and are not to be incorporated by reference into any filing of Harmonic Inc. under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, or the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended, whether made before or after the date of this Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q, irrespective of any general incorporation language contained in such filing.
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SIGNATURES
Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, the registrant has duly caused this report to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned thereunto duly authorized.
HARMONIC INC. |
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By: |
/s/ Walter Jankovic |
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Walter Jankovic |
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Title: Chief Financial Officer |
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(Principal Financial Officer) |
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Date: November 4, 2025 |
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Exhibit 31.1
Harmonic Inc.
Certification of Principal Executive Officer
Pursuant to Section 302 of
The Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002
I, Nimrod Ben-Natan, certify that:
Date: November 4, 2025
By: |
/s/ Nimrod Ben-Natan |
|
Nimrod Ben-Natan |
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President and Chief Executive Officer |
Exhibit 31.2
Harmonic Inc.
Certification of Principal Financial Officer
Pursuant to Section 302 of
The Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002
I, Walter Jankovic, certify that:
Date: November 4, 2025
By: |
/s/ Walter Jankovic |
|
Walter Jankovic |
|
Chief Financial Officer |
Exhibit 32.1
Harmonic Inc.
Certification of Principal Executive Officer
Pursuant to 18 U.S.C. Section 1350 as Adopted Pursuant to
Section 906 of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002
I, Nimrod Ben-Natan, President and Chief Executive Officer of Harmonic Inc., certify, pursuant to 18 U.S.C. Section 1350, as adopted pursuant to Section 906 of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002, that the Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q of Harmonic Inc. for the fiscal quarter ended September 26, 2025 fully complies with the requirements of Section 13(a) or 15(d) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, and that the information contained in such Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q fairly presents, in all material respects, the financial condition and results of operations of Harmonic Inc.
Date: November 4, 2025
/s/ Nimrod Ben-Natan |
Nimrod Ben-Natan |
President and Chief Executive Officer |
Exhibit 32.2
Harmonic Inc.
Certification of Principal Financial Officer
Pursuant to 18 U.S.C. Section 1350 as Adopted Pursuant to
Section 906 of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002
I, Walter Jankovic, Chief Financial Officer of Harmonic Inc., certify, pursuant to 18 U.S.C. Section 1350, as adopted pursuant to Section 906 of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002, that the Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q of Harmonic Inc. for the fiscal quarter ended September 26, 2025 fully complies with the requirements of Section 13(a) or 15(d) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, and that the information contained in such Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q fairly presents, in all material respects, the financial condition and results of operations of Harmonic Inc.
Date: November 4, 2025
/s/ Walter Jankovic |
Walter Jankovic |
Chief Financial Officer |