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Financial report summary
?Risks
- Risks Related to our Business, Operations and Industry
- Risks Associated with Supply and Manufacturing
- Risks Related to Human Capital and Corporate Responsibility
- Risks Related to Financial Performance or General Economic Conditions
- Legal, Regulatory and Compliance Risks
- Risks Related to Intellectual Property and Other Proprietary Rights
- Risks Related to Information Technology, Data and Information Security
- Risks Related to Owning our Ordinary Shares
- Our ability to increase our revenue and maintain our market share depends on our ability to successfully introduce and achieve market acceptance of new products on a timely basis. If our products do not keep pace with customer requirements, our results of operations will be adversely affected.
- We operate in highly competitive markets and our failure to anticipate and respond to technological changes and other market developments, including price competition, could harm our ability to compete.
- We have been adversely affected by reduced, delayed, loss of or canceled purchases by one or more of our key customers, including large hyperscale data center companies and CSPs.
- We are dependent on sales to distributors and retailers, which may increase price erosion and the volatility of our sales.
- We must plan our investments in our products and incur costs before we have customer orders or know about the market conditions at the time the products are produced. If we fail to predict demand accurately for our products or if the markets for our products change, we may have insufficient demand or we may be unable to meet demand, which may materially adversely affect our financial condition and results of operations.
- Changes in demand for computer systems, data storage subsystems and consumer electronic devices may in the future cause a decline in demand for our products.
- We have a long and unpredictable sales cycle for nearline storage solutions, which impairs our ability to accurately predict our financial and operating results in any period and may adversely affect our ability to manage inventory and forecast the need for investments and expenditures.
- We experience seasonal declines in the sales of our consumer products during the second half of our fiscal year which may adversely affect our results of operations.
- We may not be successful in our efforts to grow our systems, SSD and Lyve revenues.
- Our worldwide sales and manufacturing operations subject us to risks that may adversely affect our business related to disruptions in international markets, currency exchange fluctuations and increased costs.
- If we do not control our costs, we will not be able to compete effectively and our financial condition may be adversely impacted.
- Shortages or delays in the receipt of, or cost increases in, critical components, equipment or raw materials necessary to manufacture our products, as well as reliance on single-source suppliers, may affect our production and development of products and may harm our operating results.
- We have cancelled purchase commitments with suppliers and incurred costs associated with such cancellations, and if revenues fall or customer demand decreases significantly, we may seek to cancel or may otherwise not meet our purchase commitments to certain suppliers in the future, which could result in damages, penalties, disputes, litigation, increased manufacturing costs or excess inventory.
- Due to the complexity of our products, some defects may only become detectable after deployment, which may lead to increased costs and adversely affect our operating results.
- The loss of or inability to attract, retain and motivate key executive officers and employees could negatively impact our business prospects.
- We are subject to risks related to corporate and social responsibility that could adversely affect our reputation and performance.
- Changes in the macroeconomic environment have impacted and may continue to negatively impact our results of operations.
- We may not be able to generate sufficient cash flows from operations and our investments to meet our liquidity requirements, including servicing our indebtedness and continuing to declare our quarterly dividend.
- Our quarterly results of operations fluctuate, sometimes significantly, from period to period, and may cause our share price to decline.
- Any cost reduction initiatives that we undertake may not deliver the results we expected and these actions may adversely affect our business.
- The effect of geopolitical uncertainties, war, terrorism, natural disasters, public health issues and other circumstances, on national and/or international commerce and on the global economy, could materially adversely affect our results of operations and financial condition.
- We are subject to counterparty default risks.
- Our business is subject to various laws, regulations, governmental policies, litigation, governmental investigations or governmental proceedings that may cause us to incur significant expense or adversely impact our results of operations and financial condition.
- Some of our products and services are subject to export control laws and other laws affecting the countries in which our products and services may be sold, distributed, or delivered, and any changes to or violation of these laws could have a material adverse effect on our business, results of operations, financial condition and cash flows.
- Changes in U.S. trade policy, including the imposition of sanctions or tariffs and the resulting consequences, may have a material adverse impact on our business and results of operations.
- We may be unable to protect our intellectual property rights, which could adversely affect our business, financial condition and results of operations.
- We are at times subject to intellectual property proceedings and claims which could cause us to incur significant additional costs or prevent us from selling our products, and which could adversely affect our results of operations and financial condition.
- Our business and certain products and services depend in part on intellectual property and technology licensed from third parties, as well as data centers and infrastructure operated by third parties.
- We could suffer a loss of revenue and increased costs, exposure to significant liability including legal and regulatory consequences, reputational harm and other serious negative consequences in the event of cyber-attacks, ransomware or other cyber security breaches or incidents that disrupt our operations or result in unauthorized access to, or the loss, corruption, unavailability or dissemination of proprietary or confidential information of our customers or about us or other third parties.
- We must successfully implement our new global enterprise resource planning system and maintain and upgrade our information technology (“IT”) systems, and our failure to do so could have a material adverse effect on our business, financial condition and results of operations.
- The price of our ordinary shares may be volatile and could decline significantly.
- Any decision to reduce or discontinue the payment of cash dividends to our shareholders or the repurchase of our ordinary shares pursuant to our previously announced share repurchase program could cause the market price of our ordinary shares to decline significantly.
Management Discussion
- During the March 2024 quarter, we shipped 99 exabytes of HDD storage capacity. We generated revenue of approximately $1.7 billion with a gross margin of 26%. Our operating cash flow was $188 million and we paid $147 million in dividends.
- During the March 2024 quarter, we experienced ongoing recovery within the cloud market, reflecting continued progress in customer inventory adjustments which we believe are now mostly complete, along with an improvement in end-market demand. We continued to execute cost discipline and implement pricing actions to improve operational efficiency and profitability. We believe that we are in the early stage of an industry-wide demand recovery, however we expect the macroeconomic environment to remain dynamic and continue to impact our business and results of operations.
- As described in “Part I, Item 1. Financial Statements — Note 14. Subsequent Events”, on April 23, 2024, we sold certain intellectual property, equipment and other assets related to the design, development and manufacture of our System-on-Chip products to Avago Technologies International Sales Pte. Limited, a subsidiary of Broadcom Inc., for $600 million.