UNITED STATES

SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION

Washington, D.C. 20549

Form

FORM 10-Q

(Mark One)

QUARTERLY REPORT PURSUANT TO SECTION 13 OR 15(d) OF THE SECURITIES EXCHANGE ACT OF 1934

For the quarterly period ended January 27, 2018

28, 2023

OR

TRANSITION REPORT PURSUANT TO SECTION 13 OR 15(d) OF THE SECURITIES EXCHANGE ACT OF 1934

For the transition period from to

Commission file number: 001-38291

Stitch Fix, Inc.

STITCH FIX, INC.
(Exact Namename of Registrantregistrant as Specifiedspecified in its Charter)

charter)

Delaware

27-5026540

Delaware27-5026540
(State or Other Jurisdictionother jurisdiction of

Incorporation incorporation or Organization)

organization)

(I.R.S. Employer

Identification No.)

1 Montgomery Street, Suite 1100
San Francisco, California 94104
(Address of principal executive offices and zip code)

(415) 882-7765
(Registrant's telephone number, including area code)

1 Montgomery Street, Suite 1500

San Francisco, CA

Securities registered pursuant to Section 12(b) of the Act:

94104

(AddressTitle of Principal Executive Offices)

Each Class

(Zip Code)

Trading Symbol
Name of Each Exchange on Which Registered
Class A common stock, par value $0.00002 per shareSFIXNasdaq Global Select Market

(415) 882-7765

(Registrant’s Telephone Number, Including Area Code)

Indicate by check mark whether the registrant:registrant (1) has filed all reports required to be filed by Section 13 or 15(d) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 during the preceding 12 months (or for such shorter period that the registrant was required to file such reports), and (2) has been subject to such filing requirements for the past 90 days. Yes No

Indicate by check mark whether the registrant has submitted electronically and posted on its corporate Web site, if any, every Interactive Data File required to be submitted and posted pursuant to Rule 405 of Regulation S-T (§232.405 of this chapter) during the preceding 12 months (or for such shorter period that the registrant was required to submit and post such files). Yes No

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. (Check one):

Large accelerated filer

 ☒

Accelerated filer

Non-accelerated filer

  (Do not check if a smaller reporting company)

Smaller reporting company

Emerging growth company

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

As of March 9, 20183, 2023, the number of outstanding shares of the registrant’s Class A common stock, par value $0.00002 per share, was 17,256,799,87,102,415, and the number of outstanding shares of the registrant’s Class B common stock, par value $0.00002 per share, was 79,931,282.

25,405,020.
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In this Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q, “we,” “our,” “us,” “Stitch Fix,” and “the Company” refer to Stitch Fix, Inc. The Stitch Fix logo and other trade names, trademarks or service marks of Stitch Fix are the property of Stitch Fix, Inc. This Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q contains references to our trademarks and to trademarks belonging to other entities. Trade names, trademarks and service marks of other companies appearing in this Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q are the property of their respective holders. We do not intend our use or display of other companies’ trade names or trademarks to imply a relationship with, or endorsement or sponsorship of us by, any other companies.



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PART I. FINANCIALFINANCIAL INFORMATION

ITEM 1.

FINANCIAL STATEMENTS


Stitch Fix, Inc.

Condensed Consolidated Balance Sheets

(Unaudited)

(In thousands, except share and per share amounts)

 

January 27, 2018

 

 

July 29, 2017

 

January 28, 2023July 30, 2022

Assets

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Assets

Current assets:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Current assets:

Cash

 

$

266,374

 

 

$

110,608

 

Restricted cash

 

 

 

 

 

250

 

Cash and cash equivalentsCash and cash equivalents$138,979 $130,935 
Short-term investmentsShort-term investments82,620 82,049 

Inventory, net

 

 

80,094

 

 

 

67,592

 

Inventory, net158,927 197,251 

Prepaid expenses and other current assets

 

 

11,653

 

 

 

19,312

 

Prepaid expenses and other current assets32,979 39,456 
Income tax receivableIncome tax receivable921 27,561 

Total current assets

 

 

358,121

 

 

 

197,762

 

Total current assets414,426 477,252 
Long-term investmentsLong-term investments2,288 17,713 
Income tax receivable, net of current portionIncome tax receivable, net of current portion26,091 26,091 

Property and equipment, net

 

 

30,875

 

 

 

26,733

 

Property and equipment, net92,434 103,375 

Deferred tax assets

 

 

14,493

 

 

 

19,991

 

Restricted cash, net of current portion

 

 

9,100

 

 

 

9,100

 

Operating lease right-of-use assetsOperating lease right-of-use assets119,831 132,179 

Other long-term assets

 

 

3,813

 

 

 

3,619

 

Other long-term assets5,528 7,925 

Total assets

 

$

416,402

 

 

$

257,205

 

Total assets$660,598 $764,535 

Liabilities, Convertible Preferred Stock and Stockholders’ Equity

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Liabilities and Stockholders’ EquityLiabilities and Stockholders’ Equity

Current liabilities:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Current liabilities:

Accounts payable

 

$

55,145

 

 

$

44,238

 

Accounts payable$104,715 $143,934 
Operating lease liabilitiesOperating lease liabilities32,413 29,014 

Accrued liabilities

 

 

51,077

 

 

 

46,363

 

Accrued liabilities91,859 94,416 

Preferred stock warrant liability

 

 

 

 

 

26,679

 

Gift card liability

 

 

8,151

 

 

 

5,190

 

Gift card liability12,489 10,551 

Deferred revenue

 

 

10,433

 

 

 

7,150

 

Deferred revenue13,428 14,441 

Other current liabilities

 

 

4,953

 

 

 

4,298

 

Other current liabilities6,045 3,214 

Total current liabilities

 

 

129,759

 

 

 

133,918

 

Total current liabilities260,949 295,570 

Deferred rent, net of current portion

 

 

10,752

 

 

 

11,781

 

Operating lease liabilities, net of current portionOperating lease liabilities, net of current portion139,644 141,334 

Other long-term liabilities

 

 

4,794

 

 

 

7,423

 

Other long-term liabilities4,728 4,980 

Total liabilities

 

 

145,305

 

 

 

153,122

 

Total liabilities405,321 441,884 

Commitments and contingencies (Note 6)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Commitments and contingencies (Note 6)

Convertible preferred stock, $0.00002 par value – zero and 60,577,280 shares authorized as of

January 27, 2018 and July 29, 2017, respectively; zero and 59,511,055 shares issued and

outstanding as of January 27, 2018 and July 29, 2017, respectively; aggregate liquidation preference of $42,389 as of July 29, 2017

 

 

 

 

 

42,222

 

Stockholders’ equity:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Stockholders’ equity:

Preferred stock, $0.00002 par value – 20,000,000 and zero shares authorized as of

January 27, 2018 and July 29, 2017, respectively; zero shares issued and outstanding

as of January 27, 2018 and July 29, 2017

 

 

 

 

 

 

Class A common stock, $0.00002 par value – 2,000,000,000 and zero shares authorized as of

January 27, 2018 and July 29, 2017, respectively; 9,175,557 and zero shares issued

and outstanding as of January 27, 2018 and July 29, 2017, respectively

 

 

 

 

 

 

Class B common stock, $0.00002 par value – 100,000,000 shares authorized as of

January 27, 2018 and July 29, 2017; 87,885,193 and 26,834,535 shares issued

and outstanding as of January 27, 2018 and July 29, 2017, respectively (1)

 

 

2

 

 

 

1

 

Class A common stock, $0.00002 par value – 2,000,000,000 shares authorized; 89,404,556 and 86,187,911 shares issued; 87,102,415 and 86,187,911 shares outstandingClass A common stock, $0.00002 par value – 2,000,000,000 shares authorized; 89,404,556 and 86,187,911 shares issued; 87,102,415 and 86,187,911 shares outstanding
Class B common stock, $0.00002 par value – 100,000,000 shares authorized; 25,405,020 and 25,405,020 shares issued and outstandingClass B common stock, $0.00002 par value – 100,000,000 shares authorized; 25,405,020 and 25,405,020 shares issued and outstanding

Additional paid-in capital

 

 

219,108

 

 

 

27,002

 

Additional paid-in capital575,129 522,658 

Retained earnings

 

 

51,987

 

 

 

34,858

 

Accumulated other comprehensive lossAccumulated other comprehensive loss(1,883)(3,527)
Accumulated deficitAccumulated deficit(287,929)(166,440)
Treasury stock at cost (2,302,141 and 2,302,141 shares)Treasury stock at cost (2,302,141 and 2,302,141 shares)(30,042)(30,042)

Total stockholders’ equity

 

 

271,097

 

 

 

61,861

 

Total stockholders’ equity255,277 322,651 

Total liabilities, convertible preferred stock and stockholders’ equity

 

$

416,402

 

 

$

257,205

 

(1) Shares authorized, issued and outstanding as of July 29, 2017 includes common stock prior to our initial public offering. Please see Note 1 for additional details.

 

 

Total liabilities and stockholders’ equityTotal liabilities and stockholders’ equity$660,598 $764,535 

The accompanying notes are an integral part of these unaudited condensed consolidated financial statements.


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Stitch Fix, Inc.

Condensed Consolidated Statements of Operations and Comprehensive Income

Loss

(Unaudited)

(In thousands, except share and per share amounts)

 

 

For the Three Months Ended

 

 

For the Six Months Ended

 

 

 

January 27, 2018

 

 

January 28, 2017

 

 

January 27, 2018

 

 

January 28, 2017

 

Revenue, net

 

$

295,906

 

 

$

237,775

 

 

$

591,469

 

 

$

473,779

 

Cost of goods sold

 

 

168,523

 

 

 

131,053

 

 

 

335,071

 

 

 

256,979

 

Gross profit

 

 

127,383

 

 

 

106,722

 

 

 

256,398

 

 

 

216,800

 

Selling, general and administrative expenses

 

 

111,771

 

 

 

105,835

 

 

 

231,242

 

 

 

189,385

 

Operating income

 

 

15,612

 

 

 

887

 

 

 

25,156

 

 

 

27,415

 

Remeasurement of preferred stock warrant liability

 

 

(1,614

)

 

 

1,146

 

 

 

(10,685

)

 

 

2,649

 

Other income, net

 

 

(18

)

 

 

(6

)

 

 

(35

)

 

 

(13

)

Income (loss) before income taxes

 

 

17,244

 

 

 

(253

)

 

 

35,876

 

 

 

24,779

 

Provision for (benefit from) income taxes

 

 

13,603

 

 

 

(486

)

 

 

18,747

 

 

 

11,303

 

Net income and comprehensive income

 

$

3,641

 

 

$

233

 

 

$

17,129

 

 

$

13,476

 

Earnings per share attributable to common stockholders:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Basic

 

$

0.04

 

 

$

 

 

$

0.18

 

 

$

0.14

 

Diluted

 

$

0.02

 

 

$

 

 

$

0.06

 

 

$

0.14

 

Weighted-average shares used to compute earnings per share attributable to common stockholders:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Basic

 

 

82,439,351

 

 

 

 

 

 

54,377,466

 

 

 

24,546,556

 

Diluted

 

 

87,954,656

 

 

 

 

 

 

60,599,568

 

 

 

29,134,729

 

 For the Three Months EndedFor the Six Months Ended
 January 28, 2023January 29, 2022January 28, 2023January 29, 2022
Revenue, net$412,118 $516,724 $867,711 $1,097,968 
Cost of goods sold243,001 283,920 506,833 592,247 
Gross profit169,117 232,804 360,878 505,721 
Selling, general, and administrative expenses235,827 263,502 482,718 538,269 
Operating loss(66,710)(30,698)(121,840)(32,548)
Interest income706 171 1,479 505 
Other income (expense), net652 (45)(632)(154)
Loss before income taxes(65,352)(30,572)(120,993)(32,197)
Provision for income taxes219 340 496 542 
Net loss$(65,571)$(30,912)$(121,489)$(32,739)
Other comprehensive income (loss):
Change in unrealized gain (loss) on available-for-sale securities, net of tax941 (654)755 (969)
Foreign currency translation2,501 (848)889 (1,451)
Total other comprehensive income (loss), net of tax3,442 (1,502)1,644 (2,420)
Comprehensive loss$(62,129)$(32,414)$(119,845)$(35,159)
Net loss attributable to common stockholders:
Basic$(65,571)$(30,912)$(121,489)$(32,739)
Diluted$(65,571)$(30,912)$(121,489)$(32,739)
Loss per share attributable to common stockholders:  
Basic$(0.58)$(0.28)$(1.07)$(0.30)
Diluted$(0.58)$(0.28)$(1.07)$(0.30)
Weighted-average shares used to compute loss per share attributable to common stockholders:  
Basic113,928,081 109,178,086 113,143,991 108,776,998 
Diluted113,928,081 109,178,086 113,143,991 108,776,998 

The accompanying notes are an integral part of these unaudited condensed consolidated financial statements.


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Stitch Fix, Inc.

Condensed Consolidated Statements of Convertible Preferred Stock and Stockholders’ Equity

(Unaudited)

(In thousands, except share amounts)

 

 

Convertible

Preferred Stock

 

 

 

Common Stock

 

 

Additional

Paid-In

 

 

Retained

 

 

Total

Stockholders'

 

 

 

Shares

 

 

Amount

 

 

 

Shares

 

 

Amount

 

 

Capital

 

 

Earnings

 

 

Equity

 

Balance as of July 29, 2017

 

 

59,511,055

 

 

$

42,222

 

 

 

 

26,834,535

 

 

$

1

 

 

$

27,002

 

 

$

34,858

 

 

$

61,861

 

Issuance of Class A common stock upon initial public offering, net of offering costs

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

9,175,557

 

 

 

 

 

 

127,033

 

 

 

 

 

 

127,033

 

Issuance of Class B common stock upon conversion of convertible preferred stock

 

 

(59,511,055

)

 

 

(42,222

)

 

 

 

59,511,055

 

 

 

1

 

 

 

42,221

 

 

 

 

 

 

42,222

 

Reclassification of warrant liability to additional paid-in capital upon the initial public offering

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

1,066,225

 

 

 

 

 

 

15,994

 

 

 

 

 

 

15,994

 

Issuance of Class B common stock upon exercise of stock options

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

492,857

 

 

 

 

 

 

1,006

 

 

 

 

 

 

1,006

 

Repurchase of Class B common stock related to early exercised options

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

(19,479

)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Vesting of early exercised options

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

456

 

 

 

 

 

 

456

 

Stock-based compensation

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

5,396

 

 

 

 

 

 

5,396

 

Net income

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

17,129

 

 

 

17,129

 

Balance as of January 27, 2018

 

 

 

 

$

 

 

 

 

97,060,750

 

 

$

2

 

 

$

219,108

 

 

$

51,987

 

 

$

271,097

 

For the Three Months Ended January 28, 2023
 Common StockAdditional
Paid-In
Capital
Accumulated Other Comprehensive Income (Loss)Accumulated DeficitTreasury StockTotal
Stockholders’
Equity
 SharesAmountSharesAmount
Balance as of October 29, 2022113,110,197 $$552,490 $(5,325)$(222,358)(2,302,141)$(30,042)$294,767 
Issuance of common stock upon exercise of stock options117,607 — 154 — — — — 154 
Issuance of common stock upon settlement of restricted stock units, net of tax withholdings1,581,772 — (3,216)— — — — (3,216)
Stock-based compensation— — 25,701 — — — — 25,701 
Net loss— — — — (65,571)— — (65,571)
Other comprehensive income, net of tax— — — 3,442 — — — 3,442 
Balance as of January 28, 2023114,809,576 $$575,129 $(1,883)$(287,929)(2,302,141)$(30,042)$255,277 
For the Three Months Ended January 29, 2022
 Common StockAdditional
Paid-In
Capital
Accumulated Other Comprehensive Income (Loss)Retained
Earnings
Treasury StockTotal
Stockholders’
Equity
 SharesAmountSharesAmount
Balance as of October 30, 2021108,794,956 $$437,246 $2,493 $38,854 — $— $478,595 
Issuance of common stock upon exercise of stock options48,983 — 311 — — — — 311 
Issuance of common stock upon settlement of restricted stock units, net of tax withholdings857,276 — (8,620)— — — — (8,620)
Stock-based compensation— — 34,206 — — — — 34,206 
Repurchase of common stock— — — — — (682,184)(10,996)(10,996)
Net loss— — — — (30,912)— — (30,912)
Other comprehensive loss, net of tax— — — (1,502)— — — (1,502)
Balance as of January 29, 2022109,701,215 $$463,143 $991 $7,942 (682,184)$(10,996)$461,082 

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For the Six Months Ended January 28, 2023
Common StockAdditional
Paid-In
Capital
Accumulated Other Comprehensive Income (Loss)Accumulated DeficitTreasury StockTotal
Stockholders’
Equity
SharesAmountSharesAmount
Balance as of July 30, 2022111,592,931 $$522,658 $(3,527)$(166,440)(2,302,141)$(30,042)$322,651 
Issuance of common stock upon exercise of stock options117,607 — 154 — — — — 154 
Issuance of common stock upon settlement of restricted stock units, net of tax withholdings3,099,038 (6,969)— — — — (6,969)
Stock-based compensation— — 59,286 — — — — 59,286 
Net loss— — — — (121,489)— — (121,489)
Other comprehensive income, net of tax— — — 1,644 — — — 1,644 
Balance as of January 28, 2023114,809,576 $$575,129 $(1,883)$(287,929)(2,302,141)$(30,042)$255,277 
For the Six Months Ended January 29, 2022
 Common StockAdditional
Paid-In
Capital
Accumulated Other Comprehensive Income (Loss)Retained
Earnings
Treasury StockTotal
Stockholders’
Equity
 SharesAmountSharesAmount
Balance as of July 31, 2021107,955,988 $$416,755 $3,411 $40,681 — $— $460,849 
Issuance of common stock upon exercise of stock options140,377 — 1,365 — — — — 1,365 
Issuance of common stock upon settlement of restricted stock units, net of tax withholdings1,604,850 — (23,372)— — — — (23,372)
Stock-based compensation— — 68,395 — — — — 68,395 
Repurchase of common stock— — — — — (682,184)(10,996)(10,996)
Net loss— — — — (32,739)— — (32,739)
Other comprehensive loss, net of tax— — — (2,420)— — — (2,420)
Balance as of January 29, 2022109,701,215 $$463,143 $991 $7,942 (682,184)$(10,996)$461,082 

The accompanying notes are an integral part of these unaudited condensed consolidated financial statements.


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Stitch Fix, Inc.

Condensed Consolidated Statements of Cash Flow

(Unaudited)

(In thousands)

 For the Six Months Ended
 January 28, 2023January 29, 2022
Cash Flows from Operating Activities  
Net loss$(121,489)$(32,739)
Adjustments to reconcile net loss to net cash (used in) provided by operating activities:  
Change in inventory reserves(6,413)445 
Stock-based compensation expense57,581 64,713 
Depreciation, amortization, and accretion22,095 17,374 
Asset impairment16,874 — 
Other1,067 
Change in operating assets and liabilities: 
Inventory44,896 28,100 
Prepaid expenses and other assets8,938 (5,755)
Income tax receivables26,640 43 
Operating lease right-of-use assets and liabilities(111)4,855 
Accounts payable(38,678)51,296 
Accrued liabilities(3,840)(4,267)
Deferred revenue(1,016)(3,699)
Gift card liability1,938 3,261 
Other liabilities2,578 1,298 
Net cash provided by operating activities11,060 124,932 
Cash Flows from Investing Activities  
Purchases of property and equipment(11,886)(30,900)
Purchases of securities available-for-sale(258)(77,532)
Sales of securities available-for-sale4,144 4,690 
Maturities of securities available-for-sale11,210 76,109 
Net cash provided by (used in) investing activities3,210 (27,633)
Cash Flows from Financing Activities  
Proceeds from the exercise of stock options, net154 1,365 
Payments for tax withholdings related to vesting of restricted stock units(6,969)(23,372)
Repurchase of common stock— (9,996)
Other(117)— 
Net cash used in financing activities(6,932)(32,003)
Net increase in cash and cash equivalents7,338 65,296 
Effect of exchange rate changes on cash and cash equivalents706 (1,203)
Cash and cash equivalents at beginning of period130,935 129,785 
Cash and cash equivalents at end of period$138,979 $193,878 
Supplemental Disclosure  
Cash paid for income taxes$178 $389 
Supplemental Disclosure of Non-Cash Investing and Financing Activities:  
Purchases of property and equipment included in accounts payable and accrued liabilities$1,430 $3,040 
Capitalized stock-based compensation$3,409 $3,682 
Repurchase of common stock included in accrued liabilities$— $1,000 

 

 

For the Six Months Ended

 

 

 

January 27, 2018

 

 

January 28, 2017

 

Cash Flows from Operating Activities

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Net income

 

$

17,129

 

 

$

13,476

 

Adjustments to reconcile net income to net cash provided by operating activities:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Deferred income taxes

 

 

5,498

 

 

 

(847

)

Remeasurement of preferred stock warrant liability

 

 

(10,685

)

 

 

2,649

 

Inventory reserves

 

 

7,027

 

 

 

3,177

 

Compensation expense related to certain stock sales by current and former employees

 

 

 

 

 

9,699

 

Stock-based compensation expense

 

 

5,135

 

 

 

1,362

 

Depreciation and amortization

 

 

4,888

 

 

 

3,385

 

Loss on disposal of property and equipment

 

 

131

 

 

 

(7

)

Change in operating assets and liabilities:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Inventory

 

 

(19,529

)

 

 

(10,470

)

Prepaid expenses and other assets

 

 

5,078

 

 

 

(9,417

)

Accounts payable

 

 

10,843

 

 

 

13,629

 

Accrued liabilities

 

 

4,484

 

 

 

14,914

 

Deferred revenue

 

 

3,283

 

 

 

1,321

 

Gift card liability

 

 

2,961

 

 

 

3,588

 

Other liabilities

 

 

(2,508

)

 

 

3,073

 

Net cash provided by operating activities

 

 

33,735

 

 

 

49,532

 

Cash Flows from Investing Activities

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Purchase of property and equipment

 

 

(8,232

)

 

 

(11,367

)

Net cash used in investing activities

 

 

(8,232

)

 

 

(11,367

)

Cash Flows from Financing Activities

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Proceeds from initial public offering, net of underwriting discounts paid

 

 

129,046

 

 

 

 

Proceeds from the exercise of stock options

 

 

1,006

 

 

 

922

 

Repurchase of Class B common stock related to early exercised options

 

 

(39

)

 

 

(3,557

)

Net cash provided by (used in) financing activities

 

 

130,013

 

 

 

(2,635

)

Net increase in cash and restricted cash

 

 

155,516

 

 

 

35,530

 

Cash and restricted cash at beginning of period

 

 

119,958

 

 

 

101,492

 

Cash and restricted cash at end of period

 

$

275,474

 

 

$

137,022

 

Components of cash and restricted cash

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Cash

 

$

266,374

 

 

$

127,672

 

Restricted cash – current portion

 

 

 

 

 

 

Restricted cash – long-term portion

 

 

9,100

 

 

 

9,350

 

Total cash and restricted cash

 

$

275,474

 

 

$

137,022

 

Supplemental Disclosure

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Cash paid for income taxes

 

$

3,091

 

 

$

18,517

 

Supplemental Disclosure of Non-Cash Investing and Financing Activities:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Purchases of property and equipment included in

   accounts payable and accrued liabilities

 

$

780

 

 

$

208

 

Capitalized stock-based compensation

 

$

261

 

 

$

45

 

Vesting of early exercised options

 

$

456

 

 

$

488

 

Deferred offering costs included in accounts payable and accrued liabilities

 

$

134

 

 

$

 

Conversion of preferred stock upon initial public offering

 

$

42,222

 

 

$

 

Reclassification of preferred stock warrant liability upon initial public offering

 

$

15,994

 

 

$

 

Deferred offering costs paid in prior year

 

$

1,879

 

 

$

 

The accompanying notes are an integral part of these unaudited condensed consolidated financial statements.


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Stitch Fix, Inc.

Notes to Condensed Consolidated Financial Statements

(Unaudited)

1.

Description of Business

1.    Description of Business
Stitch Fix, Inc. (“we,” “our,” “us”, or “the Company”the “Company”) delivers one-to-one personalization to our clients through the combinationpairing of data science and human judgment. Our stylists hand select items from a broad selectionCurrently, clients can engage with us in one of merchandise. Stylists pair their own judgment with our analysistwo ways that, combined, form an ecosystem of clientpersonalized experiences across styling, shopping, and merchandise data to provideinspiration: (1) by receiving a personalized shipment of apparel, shoesitems informed by our algorithms and accessories suitedsent by a Stitch Fix stylist (a “Fix”); or (2) by purchasing directly from our website or mobile app based on a personalized assortment of outfit and item recommendations (“Freestyle”). Clients can choose to each client’s needs. We call each of these uniqueschedule automatic shipments or order a Fix.Fix on demand after they fill out a style profile on our website or mobile app. After receiving a Fix, our clients purchase the items they want to keep and return the other items.items, if any. Freestyle utilizes our algorithms to recommend a personalized assortment of outfit and item recommendations that will update throughout the day and will continue to evolve as we learn more about the client. We are incorporated in Delaware and operatehave operations in the United States.

Initial Public Offering

On November 16, 2017, we completed an initial public offeringStates and the United Kingdom (“IPOUK”).In connection with the IPO, we authorized two new classes

2.    Summary of common stock: Class A common stock and Class B common stock. The rights of the holders of Class A and Class B common stock are identical, except with respect to voting, conversion and transfer rights. Each share of Class A common stock is entitled to one vote per share and each share of Class B common stock is entitled to ten votes per share. Each share of Class B common stock is convertible at any time at the option of the stockholder into one share of Class A common stock and has no expiration date. The Class B common stock automatically converts to Class A common stock upon transfers or any sale. In our IPO, we issued and sold 8,000,000 shares of our Class A common stock at a public offering price of $15.00 per share. We received $110.4 million in net proceeds after deducting $6.2 million of underwriting discounts and $3.4 million in offering costs. Upon the closing of the IPO, all of the then outstanding shares of common stock were reclassified into Class B common stock, all of the outstanding shares of convertible preferred stock automatically converted into 59,511,055 shares of Class B common stock and all of the outstanding preferred stock warrants were automatically exercised into 1,066,225 shares of Class B common stock. Subsequent to the closing of the IPO, there were no shares of preferred stock or preferred stock warrants outstanding.

In December 2017, we issued an additional 1,175,557 shares of Class A common stock at a price of $15.00 per share following the underwriters’ exercise of their option to purchase additional shares and received $16.7 million in net proceeds after deducting underwriting discounts and expenses.

Significant Accounting Policies

2.

Summary of Significant Accounting Policies

Basis of Presentation

Our fiscal year is a 52-week or 53-week period ending on the Saturday closest to July 31. The fiscal years endedending July 29, 20172023 (“2017”2023”), and July 28, 201830, 2022 (“2018”2022”) each, consist of 52 weeks.

The unaudited condensed consolidated financial statements include the accounts of Stitch Fix, Inc. and our wholly owned subsidiaries, and have been prepared in accordance with generally accepted accounting principles in the United States (“GAAP”) and following the requirements of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (“SEC”(the “SEC”) for interim reporting. 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 adjustments, consisting only of normal recurring adjustments, which are necessary for the fair statement of our financial information. These interim results are not necessarily indicative of the results to be expected for the fiscal year ending July 28, 201829, 2023, or for any other interim period or for any other future year. All intercompany balances and transactions have been eliminated in consolidation.

The accompanying unaudited condensed consolidated financial statements and related financial information should be read in conjunction with the audited consolidated financial statements and the related notes thereto for the fiscal year ended July 29, 2017 contained30, 2022, included in our prospectusAnnual Report on Form 10-K filed pursuant to Rule 424(b) under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, with the SEC on November 17, 2017.

September 21, 2022 (the “2022 Annual Report”).

Use of Estimates

The preparation of condensed consolidated financial statements in conformity with GAAP requires management to make estimates and assumptions that affect the reported amounts in our condensed consolidated financial statements and accompanying footnotes.


Significant estimates and assumptions are used for inventory, stock-based compensation expense, common stock valuation preceding our IPO, remeasurement of preferred stock warrant liability preceding our IPO,income taxes, and revenue recognition and income taxes.recognition. Actual results could differ from those estimates and such differences may be material to the condensed consolidated financial statements.

Restricted Cash

Restricted cash represents cash balances held

Short-Term and Long-Term Investments
Our short-term and long-term investments have been classified and accounted for as available-for-sale securities. We determine the appropriate classification of our investments at the time of purchase and reevaluate the classification at each balance sheet date. Available-for-sale securities with maturities of 12 months or less are classified as short-term and available-for-sale securities with maturities greater than 12 months are classified as long-term. Our available-for-sale securities are carried at fair value, with unrealized gains and losses, net of taxes, reported within accumulated other comprehensive income (loss) (“AOCI”) in segregated accounts collateralizing lettersstockholders’ equity. The cost of securities sold is based upon the specific identification method.
For debt securities with an amortized cost basis in excess of estimated fair value, we determine what amount of that deficit, if any, is caused by expected credit forlosses. The portion of the deficit attributable to expected credit losses is recognized in other income (expense), net on our leased propertiescondensed consolidated statements of operations and comprehensive loss. During the three and six months ended January 28, 2023, we did not record any expected credit losses on our available-for-sale debt securities.
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We have elected to present accrued interest receivable separately from short-term and long-term investments on our condensed consolidated balance sheets. Accrued interest receivable was $0.4 million and $0.3 million as of January 27, 201828, 2023, and July 30, 2022, respectively, and was recorded in prepaid expenses and other current assets in the condensed consolidated balance sheets. We have also elected to exclude accrued interest receivable from the estimation of expected credit losses on our available-for-sale securities and reverse accrued interest receivable through interest income when amounts are determined to be uncollectible. We did not write off any accrued interest receivable during the three and six months ended January 28, 2023, and January 29, 2017.

Deferred Offering Costs

Deferred offering2022, respectively.

Inventory, net
Inventory, net consists of finished goods which are recorded at the lower of cost or net realizable value using the first-in-first-out (FIFO) method. Gross inventory costs which consistinclude both merchandise costs and in-bound freight costs. Inventory, net includes reserves for excess and slow-moving inventory we expect to write off based on historical trends, damaged inventory, and shrinkage. We estimate and accrue shrinkage as a percentage of direct incremental legal, consulting, banking and accounting fees relatinginventory out to the IPO were capitalizedclient and offset against proceedsdamaged items at 100% of cost.
Leases
Our leasing portfolio consists of operating leases, which include lease arrangements for our corporate offices, fulfillment centers, and, to a lesser extent, equipment. Operating leases with a term greater than one year are recorded on the condensed consolidated balance sheets as operating lease right-of-use assets and operating lease liabilities at the commencement date. These balances are initially recorded at the present value of future minimum lease payments, which is calculated using our incremental borrowing rate and the expected lease term. Certain adjustments to our operating lease right-of-use assets may be required for items such as initial direct costs paid or incentives received.
In September 2022, we amended our lease agreement for our fulfillment center in Phoenix, AZ, to extend the lease term by five years. We recorded an additional operating lease liability of $14.9 million and right-of-use asset of $14.9 million.
Foreign Currency
The functional currency of our international subsidiary is the British pound sterling. For that subsidiary, we translate assets and liabilities to U.S. dollars using period-end exchange rates, and average monthly exchange rates for revenues, costs, and expenses. We record translation gains and losses in AOCI as a component of stockholders’ equity. Net foreign exchange transaction gains and losses resulting from the conversion of the transaction currency to functional currency are recorded in other income (expense), net in the condensed consolidated statements of operations and comprehensive loss.   
Impairment of Long-Lived Assets
We review our long-lived assets for impairment whenever events or changes in circumstances indicate the carrying amount of an asset may not be recoverable. Recoverability of assets held and used is measured by comparison of the carrying amount of an asset to the future undiscounted cash flows expected to be generated from the use of the asset and its eventual disposition. If such assets are considered to be impaired, the impairment to be recognized is measured as the amount by which the carrying amount exceeds the fair value of the impaired assets. Assets to be disposed of are reported at the lower of their carrying amount or fair value less cost to sell.
In the second quarter of 2023, we recorded an impairment charge related to a portion of our corporate office space. Refer to “Note 11 - Restructuring” for further details on the impairment charge.
Revenue Recognition
We generate revenue primarily from the sale of merchandise in a Fix or Freestyle. Clients create an online account on our website or mobile app, complete a style profile, and order a Fix or merchandise to be delivered on a specified date.
Each Fix represents an offer made by us to the client to purchase merchandise. The client is charged a nonrefundable upfront styling fee before the Fix is shipped. As an alternative to the styling fee, we offer select clients the option to purchase a Style Pass. Style Pass clients pay a nonrefundable annual fee for unlimited Fixes that is credited towards merchandise purchases. If the offer to purchase merchandise is accepted, we charge the client the order amount for the accepted merchandise, net of the upfront styling fee or Style Pass annual fee. For each Fix, acceptance occurs when the client checks out the merchandise on our website or mobile app. We offer a discount to clients who purchase all of the items in the Fix.
We recognize revenue through the following steps: (1) identification of the contract, or contracts, with the customer; (2) identification of the performance obligations in the contract; (3) determination of the transaction price; (4) allocation of the transaction price to the performance obligations in the contract; and (5) recognition of revenue when, or as, we satisfy a performance obligation.
Our styling fee and Style Pass arrangements represent the option to purchase merchandise. These fees and arrangements are not distinct within the context of the contract with our Fix customers and therefore do not give rise to separate performance
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obligations. Both the upfront styling fee and Style Pass annual fee are included in deferred revenue until the performance obligation is satisfied when the client exercises his or her option to purchase merchandise (i.e., upon checkout of a Fix) or when the option(s) to purchase merchandise expire(s).
Revenue is recognized when control of the promised goods is transferred to the client. For a Fix, control is transferred when the client accepts or rejects the offer to purchase merchandise. Upon acceptance by purchasing one or more items within the Fix at checkout, the total amount of the order, including the upfront styling fee, is recognized as revenue. If none of the items within the Fix are accepted at checkout, the upfront styling fee is recognized as revenue at that time. The Style Pass annual fee is recognized at the earlier of (i) the time at which a client accepts and applies the Style Pass fee to an offer to purchase merchandise or (ii) upon expiry of the annual period. Under Style Pass arrangements, if a client does not accept any items within the Fix, the annual fee will continue to be deferred until it is applied to a future purchase or upon expiry of the annual period. If a client would like to exchange an item, we recognize revenue at the time the exchanged item is shipped, which coincides with the transfer of control to the customer. For a Freestyle purchase, control is transferred and revenue is recognized upon shipment to the client.
We deduct discounts, sales tax, and estimated refunds to arrive at net revenue. Sales tax collected from clients is not considered revenue and is included in accrued liabilities until remitted to the taxing authorities. All shipping costs are accounted for in cost of goods sold and all handling costs are accounted for as fulfillment costs within selling, general, and administrative expense (“SG&A”), and are therefore not evaluated as a separate performance obligation. Discounts are recorded as a reduction to revenue when the order is accepted. We record a refund reserve based on our historical refund patterns. Our refund reserve, which is included in accrued liabilities in the condensed consolidated balance sheets, was $8.4 million and $10.3 million as of January 28, 2023, and July 30, 2022, respectively.
We have five types of contractual liabilities: (i) cash collections of upfront styling fees, which are included in deferred revenue and are recognized as revenue upon the consummationearlier of application to a merchandise purchase or expiry of the IPO,offer, (ii) cash collections of Style Pass annual fees, which became effectiveare included in deferred revenue and are recognized upon the earlier of application to a merchandise purchase or expiry of the Style Pass annual period, (iii) unredeemed gift cards, which are included in gift card liability and recognized as revenue upon usage or inclusion in gift card breakage estimates, (iv) referral credits, which are included in other current liabilities and are recognized as revenue when used, and (v) cash collections of Freestyle purchases, which are included in deferred revenue and are recognized as revenue upon shipment.
We sell gift cards to clients and establish a liability based upon the face value of such gift cards. We reduce the liability and recognize revenue upon usage of the gift card. If a gift card is not used, we will recognize estimated gift card breakage revenue proportionately to customer usage of gift cards over the expected gift card usage period, subject to requirements to remit balances to governmental agencies. All commissions paid to third parties upon issuance of gift cards are recognized in SG&A as incurred, as on November 16, 2017 (See Note 1).

average, gift cards are used within a one-year period. Similarly, referral credits that are considered incremental costs of obtaining a contract with a customer are recognized in SG&A when issued, as on average, referral credits are used within a one-year period.

We expect deferred revenue for upfront styling fees, Freestyle orders, and Style Pass annual fees to be recognized within one year. On average, gift card liability and other current liabilities are also recognized within one year.
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The following table summarizes the balances of contractual liabilities included in deferred revenue, gift card liability, and other current liabilities as of the dates indicated:
(in thousands)January 28, 2023July 30, 2022
Deferred revenue
Upfront styling fees$7,690 $8,422 
Style Pass annual fees4,359 4,337 
Freestyle orders1,379 1,682 
Total deferred revenue$13,428 $14,441 
Gift card liability$12,489 $10,551 
Other current liabilities
Referral credits$925 $684 
The following table summarizes revenue recognized during the six months ended January 28, 2023, that was previously included in deferred revenue, gift card liability, and other current liabilities at July 30, 2022:
(in thousands)Revenue Recognized From Amounts Previously Included in Deferred Balances at July 30, 2022
Upfront styling fees$8,321 
Style Pass annual fees2,874 
Freestyle orders1,160 
Gift card liability1,865 
Referral credits545 
Concentration of Credit Risks

We are subject to concentrations of credit risk principally from cash and cash equivalents and investment securities. The majority of our cash is held by threetwo financial institutions within the United States. Our cash balances held by these institutions may exceed federally insured limits. The associated risk of concentration for cash is mitigated by banking with credit-worthy institutions. The associated risk of concentration for cash equivalents and investments is mitigated by maintaining a diversified portfolio of highly rated instruments. 
No client accounted for greater than 10% of total revenue, net for the three and six months ended January 27, 201828, 2023, and January 28, 2017.

Recently Issued Accounting Pronouncements

In May 2014, the Financial Accounting Standards Board (“FASB”) issued Accounting Standards Update (“ASU”) No. 2014-09, Revenue from Contracts with Customers (Topic 606), or ASU 2014-09, which amended the existing FASB Accounting Standards Codification. ASU 2014-09 establishes a principle for recognizing revenue upon the transfer of promised goods or services to customers, in an amount that reflects the expected consideration received in exchange for those goods or services and also provides guidance on the recognition of costs related to obtaining and fulfilling customer contracts. The new guidance may be applied retrospectively to each prior period presented or retrospectively with the cumulative effect recognized as of the date of adoption (“modified retrospective method”). We plan to apply the modified retrospective method upon adoption in our first quarter of fiscal 2019. We do not anticipate the impact to be material to our consolidated financial statements.

In February 2016, the FASB issued ASU No. 2016-02, Leases (Topic 842), or ASU 2016-02, which requires lessees to record most leases on their balance sheets but recognize the expenses on their income statements in a manner similar to current practice. ASU 2016-02 states that a lessee would recognize a lease liability for the obligation to make lease payments and a right-to-use asset for the right to use the underlying asset for the lease term. We expect to adopt this standard in our first quarter of fiscal 2020. We are currently evaluating the impact that this standard will have on our consolidated financial statements but we expect that it will result in a substantial increase in our long-term assets and liabilities.

In October 2016, the FASB issued ASU No. 2016-16, Income Taxes: Intra-Entity Transfers of Assets Other Than Inventory (Topic 740), which amends existing guidance on the recognition of current and deferred income tax impacts for intra-entity asset transfers other than inventory. This amendment should be applied on a modified retrospective basis. We expect to adopt this standard in fiscal 2019 and are currently evaluating the impact that it will have on our consolidated financial statements.

29, 2022, respectively.

3.

Fair Value Measurements

3.    Fair Value Measurements
We disclose and recognize the fair value of our assets and liabilities using a hierarchy that prioritizes the inputs to valuation techniques used to measure fair value. Fair value is defined as the price that would be received to sell an asset or paid to transfer a liability (an exit price) in an orderly transaction between market participants at the measurement date. The guidance establishes three levels of the fair value hierarchy as follows:

Level 1: Inputs are unadjusted, quoted prices in active markets for identical assets or liabilities at the measurement date;

Level 2: Inputs are observable, unadjusted quoted prices in active markets for similar assets or liabilities, unadjusted quoted prices for identical or similar assets or liabilities in markets that are not active, or other inputs that are observable or can be corroborated by observable market data for substantially the full term of the related assets or liabilities; and


Level 3: Unobservable inputs that are significant to the measurement of thefair value of the assets or liabilities that are supported by little or no market data.

Our financial instruments consist of cash and cash equivalents, short-term and long-term investments, accounts payable, and accrued liabilities and the preferred stock warrant liability.liabilities. At January 27, 201828, 2023, and July 29, 2017,30, 2022, the carrying values of cash and cash equivalents, accounts payable, and accrued liabilities approximated fair value due to their short-term maturities. In November 2017, in connection with our IPO, all outstanding preferred stock warrants were automatically exercised into Class B common stock. As a result, we remeasured and reclassified the preferred stock warrant liability to additional paid-in capital upon the closing of the IPO. As of January 27, 2018, the Company did not have any financial instruments measured at fair value.

maturities.

The following table sets forth our financial instrumentscash equivalents, and short-term and long-term investments accounted for as available-for-sale securities that were measured at fair value on a recurring basis based on the fair value hierarchy as of January 28, 2023, and July 29, 2017 (in thousands):

30, 2022:

 

 

July 29, 2017

 

 

 

Level 1

 

 

Level 2

 

 

Level 3

 

 

Total

 

Financial Liabilities:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Preferred stock warrant liability

 

$

 

 

$

 

 

$

26,679

 

 

$

26,679

 

Total

 

$

 

 

$

 

 

$

26,679

 

 

$

26,679

 

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 January 28, 2023July 30, 2022
(in thousands)Level 1Level 2Level 3TotalLevel 1Level 2Level 3Total
Financial Assets:        
Cash equivalents:
Money market funds$11,658 $— $— $11,658 $16,267 $— $— $16,267 
Investments:
U.S. Treasury securities42,748 — — 42,748 42,260 — — 42,260 
Commercial paper— — — — — 2,985 — 2,985 
Corporate bonds— 42,160 — 42,160 — 54,517 — 54,517 
Total$54,406 $42,160 $— $96,566 $58,527 $57,502 $— $116,029 
There were no transfers of financial assets or liabilities into or out of Level 1, Level 2, or Level 3 for the three and six months ended January 27, 201828, 2023, and January 28, 2017. The key assumptions used in the Black-Scholes option-pricing model for the valuation of the preferred stock warrant liability upon remeasurement were as follows as of July 29, 2017:

2022.

 

 

July 29, 2017

 

Expected term (in years)

 

 

2.0

 

Fair value of underlying shares

 

$

25.09

 

Volatility

 

 

43.8

%

Risk free interest rate

 

 

1.3

%

Dividend yield

 

 

%

The following table sets forth the amortized cost, gross unrealized gains, gross unrealized losses and fair values of our short-term and long-term investments accounted for as available-for-sale securities as of January 28, 2023, and July 30, 2022:

January 28, 2023July 30, 2022
(in thousands)Amortized CostGross Unrealized GainsGross Unrealized LossesFair ValueAmortized CostGross Unrealized GainsGross Unrealized LossesFair Value
Financial Assets:
Investments:
U.S. Treasury securities$43,311 $— $(563)$42,748 $43,163 $— $(903)$42,260 
Commercial paper— — — — 2,985 — — 2,985 
Corporate bonds42,754 — (594)42,160 55,526 — (1,009)54,517 
Total$86,065 $— $(1,157)$84,908 $101,674 $— $(1,912)$99,762 
The following table shows fair value and gross unrealized losses, aggregated by security category and length of time that individual securities have been in a summarycontinuous unrealized loss position as of January 28, 2023:
Less Than 12 MonthsMore Than 12 MonthsTotal
(in thousands)Fair ValueUnrealized LossesFair ValueUnrealized LossesFair ValueUnrealized Losses
Financial Assets:
Investments:
U.S. Treasury securities$42,748 $(563)$— $— $42,748 $(563)
Corporate bonds16,592 (247)25,568 (347)42,160 (594)
Total$59,340 $(810)$25,568 $(347)$84,908 $(1,157)
Gross unrealized losses on our available-for-sale securities have decreased since July 30, 2022, due to maturities of our investments in the six months ended January 28, 2023, and approaching maturities of securities in our portfolio. We evaluate securities for expected credit losses on a quarterly basis with consideration given to the financial condition and near-term prospects of the changesissuer; whether we intend to sell the securities, and whether it is more likely than not that we will be required to sell the securities before recovery of their amortized cost basis.
As of January 28, 2023, the losses on our available-for-sale securities were considered to be a direct effect of the increase in interest rates and not the creditworthiness of the issuers. We have the current intent and ability to retain these securities until maturity or recovery of the amortized cost basis. Therefore, we did not recognize any expected credit losses as of January 28, 2023.
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The following table sets forth the fair value of the preferred stock warrant liability (in thousands):

available-for-sale securities by contractual maturity as of January 28, 2023 and July 30, 2022:

 

 

For the Six Months Ended

January 27, 2018

 

Balance at July 29, 2017

 

$

26,679

 

Change in fair value

 

 

(10,685

)

Reclassification of warrant liability to additional paid-in capital upon the initial public offering

 

 

(15,994

)

Ending Balance at January 27, 2018

 

$

 

January 28, 2023July 30, 2022
(in thousands)One Year or LessOver One Year Through Five YearsOver Five YearsTotalOne Year or LessOver One Year Through Five YearsOver Five YearsTotal
Financial Assets:
Investments:
U.S. Treasury securities$42,487 $261 $— $42,748 $35,473 $6,787 $— $42,260 
Commercial paper— — — — 2,985 — — 2,985 
Corporate bonds40,133 2,027 — 42,160 43,591 10,926 — 54,517 
Total$82,620 $2,288 $— $84,908 $82,049 $17,713 $— $99,762 

4.

Accrued Liabilities

4.    Accrued Liabilities
Accrued liabilities consisted of the following (in thousands):

following:
(in thousands)January 28, 2023July 30, 2022
Compensation and related benefits$24,604 $11,319 
Advertising7,603 15,579 
Sales taxes6,029 7,136 
Shipping and freight8,962 10,304 
Accrued accounts payable4,951 5,814 
Inventory purchases23,785 24,712 
Sales refund reserve8,385 10,314 
Other7,540 9,238 
Total accrued liabilities$91,859 $94,416 

 

 

January 27, 2018

 

 

July 29, 2017

 

Inventory purchases

 

$

12,633

 

 

$

11,186

 

Compensation and related benefits

 

 

9,615

 

 

 

9,632

 

Advertising

 

 

7,857

 

 

 

9,995

 

Shipping and freight

 

 

5,873

 

 

 

3,390

 

Sales taxes

 

 

4,786

 

 

 

3,702

 

Other

 

 

10,313

 

 

 

8,458

 

Total accrued liabilities

 

$

51,077

 

 

$

46,363

 

5.

Preferred Stock Warrant Liability

5.    Credit Agreement

In 2012

We are party to an amended and 2013,restated credit agreement, entered into June 2, 2021 and amended on July 29, 2022 (the “Amended Credit Agreement”) with Silicon Valley Bank and other lenders, to provide a revolving line of credit of up to $100.0 million, including a letter of credit sub-facility in connectionthe aggregate amount of $30.0 million, and a swingline sub-facility in the aggregate amount of $40.0 million. We also have the option to request an incremental facility of up to an additional $150.0 million from one or more of the lenders under the Amended Credit Agreement.
Under the terms of the Amended Credit Agreement, revolving loans may be either Secured Overnight Financing Rate (“SOFR”) Loans or ABR Loans. Outstanding SOFR Loans incur interest at the Adjusted Term SOFR, which is defined in the Amended Credit Agreement as Term SOFR plus the Term SOFR Adjustment), plus a margin of 2.25%. Outstanding ABR Loans incur interest at the highest of (a) the Prime Rate, as published by the Wall Street Journal, (b) the federal funds rate in effect for such day plus 0.50%, and (c) the Adjusted Term SOFR for a one-month tenor in effect on such day plus 1.00%, in each case plus a margin of 1.25%. We are charged a commitment fee of 0.25% for committed but unused amounts. The revolving line of credit under the Amended Credit Agreement will terminate on May 31, 2024, unless the termination date is extended at the election of the lenders.
Our obligations under the Amended Credit Agreement and any hedging or cash management agreements entered into with financing arrangements, we issued warrants to purchase sharesany lender thereunder are secured by substantially all of our convertible preferred stock. For onecurrent and future property, rights, and assets, including, but not limited to, cash, goods, equipment, contractual rights, financial assets, and intangible assets. The Amended Credit Agreement contains covenants limiting the ability under certain circumstances to, among other things, dispose of the financing arrangements, we issued warrantsassets, undergo a change in control, merge or consolidate, make acquisitions, incur debt, incur liens, pay dividends, repurchase stock, and make investments, in each case subject to purchase 375,230 shares of Series Seed convertible preferred


stock atcertain exceptions. The Amended Credit Agreement also contains financial covenants requiring us to maintain minimum free cash flow and an exercise price of $0.1066 per share and 66,265 shares of Series A convertible preferred stock at an exercise price of $0.22636 per share. For the second financing arrangement, we issued warrants for the purchase of,adjusted current ratio above specified levels, measured in each case at the warrant holder’s option, either (a) 624,730 sharesend of Series A-1 convertible preferred stock at an exercise priceeach fiscal quarter. The Amended Credit Agreement contains events of $0.2401 per sharedefault that include, among others, non-payment of principal, interest, or (b) 308,315 sharesfees, breach of Series B convertible preferred stock at an exercise pricecovenants, inaccuracy of $0.486516 per share. Priorrepresentations and warranties, cross defaults to their automatic exercisecertain other indebtedness, bankruptcy and insolvency events, and material judgments.

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As of January 28, 2023, we did not have any borrowings outstanding on the revolving line of credit under the Amended Credit Agreement, and we had $79.1 million in connectionborrowing capacity as reduced by outstanding letters of credit. As of January 28, 2023, we were in compliance with the IPO, as described below, the warrants were exercisable forall financial covenants.
6.    Commitments and expired ten years from the date of issuance. In November 2017, in connection with our IPO, the preferred stock warrants were automatically exercised into Class B common stock and the preferred stock warrant liability was reclassified to additional paid-in capital.

Contingencies

6.

Commitments and Contingencies

Contingencies

We record a loss contingency when it is probable that a liability has been incurred and the amount of the loss can be reasonably estimated. We also disclose material contingencies when we believe a loss is not probable but reasonably possible. Accounting for contingencies requires us to use judgment related to both the likelihood of a loss and the estimate of the amount or range of loss. Although we cannot predict with assurance the outcome of any litigation or tax matters, we do not believe there are currently any such actions that, if resolved unfavorably, would have a material impact on our operating results, financial position, and cash flows.

On August 26, 2022, a class action lawsuit alleging violations of federal securities laws was filed by certain of our stockholders in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California, naming as defendants us, certain of our officers and directors and certain of our affiliated stockholders. The lawsuit alleges violations of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended, by us and our officers for allegedly making materially false and misleading statements regarding our Freestyle offering between December 2020 and December 2021. The plaintiffs seek unspecified monetary damages and other relief. 
On October 11, 2018, October 26, 2018, November 16, 2018, and December 10, 2018, four putative class action lawsuits alleging violations of the federal securities laws were filed by certain of our stockholders in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California, naming as defendants us and certain of our officers. The four lawsuits each make the same allegations of violations of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended, by us and our officers for allegedly making materially false and misleading statements regarding our active client growth and strategy with respect to television advertising between June 2018 and October 2018. The plaintiffs seek unspecified monetary damages and other relief. The four lawsuits have been consolidated and a lead plaintiff has been appointed. On September 18, 2019, the lead plaintiff in the consolidated class action lawsuits (the “Class Action”) filed a consolidated complaint for violation of the federal securities laws. On October 28, 2019, we and other defendants filed a motion to dismiss the consolidated complaint. The lead plaintiff filed an opposition to the motion to dismiss on December 9, 2019, and we and the other defendants filed our reply in support of our motion to dismiss on December 30, 2019. The court granted our motion to dismiss on September 30, 2020 but allowed the lead plaintiff to file an amended complaint. On November 6, 2020, the lead plaintiff filed his amended complaint. We filed a motion to dismiss the amended complaint on December 7, 2020. The lead plaintiff filed an opposition to the motion to dismiss on January 8, 2021, and we filed our reply in support of our motion to dismiss on January 22, 2021. The court granted our motion to dismiss on October 1, 2021. On October 29, 2021, the lead plaintiff filed a notice of appeal to the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals. On October 19, 2022, the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit affirmed the district court's dismissal of the complaint. The lead plaintiff did not file a petition to the Supreme Court by the January 17, 2023 deadline.
On December 12, 2018, a derivative action was filed against our directors in the same court, alleging the same violations of securities laws as alleged in the Class Action and breach of fiduciary duties. On December 12, 2019, a second derivative action was filed against our directors in the same court, alleging the same violations of securities laws and breach of fiduciary duties as the other derivative action. The two derivative actions have been related to each other and to the Class Action, and all the related cases are now proceeding before a single judge in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California. The derivative actions were stayed pending resolution of the plaintiffs’ appeals of the dismissal of the Class Action pursuant to the parties’ stipulation. On February 15, 2023, the court entered orders dismissing both derivative actions without prejudice.
There have been no other material changes to our commitments and contingencies disclosed in our 2022 Annual Report.
Indemnifications

In the ordinary course of business, we may provide indemnifications of varying scope and terms to vendors, directors, officers and other parties with respect to certain matters. We have not incurred any material costs as a result of such indemnifications and have not accrued any liabilities related to such obligations in our condensed consolidated financial statements.

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7.    Accumulated Other Comprehensive Loss
The following tables present the changes in AOCI by component and, if applicable, the reclassifications out of AOCI for the periods presented:
For the Three Months Ended January 28, 2023For the Three Months Ended January 29, 2022
(in thousands)Available-for-sale SecuritiesForeign Currency TranslationTotalAvailable-for-sale Securities Foreign Currency TranslationTotal
Beginning balance$(2,526)$(2,799)$(5,325)$(605)$3,098 $2,493 
Other comprehensive income (loss) before reclassifications(1)
941 2,501 3,442 (654)(848)(1,502)
Net change in AOCI941 2,501 3,442 (654)(848)(1,502)
Ending balance$(1,585)$(298)$(1,883)$(1,259)$2,250 $991 
For the Six Months Ended January 28, 2023For the Six Months Ended January 29, 2022
(in thousands)Available-for-sale SecuritiesForeign Currency TranslationTotalAvailable-for-sale SecuritiesForeign Currency TranslationTotal
Beginning balance$(2,340)$(1,187)$(3,527)$(290)$3,701 $3,411 
Other comprehensive income (loss) before reclassifications(1)
773 889 $1,662 (969)(1,451)$(2,420)
Amounts reclassified from AOCI(18)— (18)— — — 
Net change in AOCI755 889 1,644 (969)(1,451)(2,420)
Ending balance$(1,585)$(298)$(1,883)$(1,259)$2,250 $991 

7.

Stock-Based Compensation

 (1) There was no associated income tax effect for gains/losses on available-for-sale securities for the three and six months ended January 28, 2023 or January 29, 2022, as we have recorded a valuation allowance against these deferred tax balances.
8.    Stock-Based Compensation
2011 Equity Incentive Plan

In 2011, we adopted the 2011 Equity Incentive Plan (the “2011 Plan”). The 2011 Plan provided for the grantinggrant of stock-based awards to employees, including directors, and non-employeesnonemployees under terms and provisions established by the boardBoard of directors.

Directors.

The 2011 Plan allowed for the grant of incentive stock options or nonqualified stock options as well as restricted stock units, restricted stock, and stock appreciation rights. As of January 27, 2018, we had only grantedOnly incentive and nonqualified stock options were granted under the 2011 Plan. Employee stock optionsoption awards generally vestvested 25% on the first anniversary of the grant date with the remaining shares subject to the option vesting ratably over the next three years.years subject to the employee’s continued service with the Company. Options generally expire after 10 years. Effective upon our IPO,initial public offering in 2017, the 2011 Equity Incentive Plan has beenwas replaced by the 2017 Incentive Plan.


2017 Incentive Plan

In November 2017, our boardBoard of directorsDirectors and stockholders adopted our 2017 Incentive Plan (the “2017 Plan”). The remaining shares available for issuance under theour 2011 Plan became reserved for issuance under the 2017 Plan.Plan. Our 2017 Plan provides for the grant of Class A incentive stock options to employees, including employees of any parent orour subsidiary, and for the grant of nonstatutorynonqualified stock options, stock appreciation rights, restricted stock awards, restricted stock unit awards (“RSU”), performance stock awards, performance cash awards, and other forms of stock awards to employees, directors, and consultants, including employees and consultants of our subsidiaries. Employee stock option awards generally begin to vest six months after the grant date with the remaining shares subject to the option vesting ratably over the next 30 months. Options generally expire after 10 years. RSU awards made to employees generally vest ratably on a quarterly basis subject to the employee’s continued service with the Company. The number of shares authorized for issuance under the 2017 Plan was 28,423,37438,257,771 shares of Class A common stock as of January 27, 2018,28, 2023.
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2019 Inducement Plan
In October 2019, our Board of which 6,038,778 were availableDirectors adopted our 2019 Inducement Plan (the “2019 Plan”). Our 2019 Plan provides for grant.

the grant of Class A nonqualified stock options and RSU awards to individuals who satisfy the standards for inducement grants under the relevant Nasdaq Stock Market rules. The number of shares authorized for issuance under the 2019 Plan was 10,750,000 shares of Class A common stock as of January 28, 2023.

Stock Options
Stock option activity under the 2011 Plan, 2017 Plan, and 2017 Plans2019 Plan is as follows:

 

Options Outstanding

 

 

Number of

Options

 

 

Weighted-

Average

Exercise

Price

 

 

Weighted-

Average

Remaining

Contractual

Life (in Years)

 

 

Aggregate

Intrinsic

Value

 

 Options Outstanding

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

(In thousands)

 

Number of
Options
Weighted-
Average
Exercise
Price
Weighted-
Average
Remaining
Contractual
Life (in Years)
Aggregate
Intrinsic
Value
(in thousands)

Balance – July 29, 2017

 

 

10,218,912

 

 

$

7.12

 

 

 

8.53

 

 

$

166,670

 

Balance – July 30, 2022Balance – July 30, 20224,703,564 $21.07 7.58$638 

Granted

 

 

1,608,698

 

 

$

20.81

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Granted1,486,774 3.79 

Exercised

 

 

(492,857

)

 

$

2.04

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Exercised(117,607)1.31 

Cancelled

 

 

(824,629

)

 

$

4.90

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Cancelled(871,361)26.93 

Balance – January 27, 2018

 

 

10,510,124

 

 

$

9.63

 

 

 

8.35

 

 

$

128,355

 

Balance – January 28, 2023Balance – January 28, 20235,201,370 $15.59 7.84$1,738 

The aggregate intrinsic value is the difference between the current fair value of the underlying common stock and the exercise price for in-the-money stock options.

Restricted Stock Units
The following table summarizes the restricted stock unit (RSU)RSU award activity under the 2017 IncentivePlan and 2019 Plan:

 

Class A Common Stock

 

 

Weighted-

Average

Grant Date

Fair Value

 

 

Unvested at July 29, 2017

 

$

 

 

$

 

 

Unvested RSUs
Class A Common StockWeighted-
Average
Grant Date
Fair Value
Unvested at July 30, 2022Unvested at July 30, 202219,217,622 $16.09 

Granted

 

 

426,056

 

 

$

18.87

 

 

Granted3,038,609 4.00 
VestedVested(3,099,038)14.25 

Forfeited

 

 

(6,000

)

 

$

15.00

 

 

Forfeited(5,411,847)15.36 

Unvested at January 27, 2018

 

$

420,056

 

 

$

18.92

 

 

Unvested at January 28, 2023Unvested at January 28, 202313,745,346 $14.12 

Performance-based Stock Awards
The Company incurs stock-based compensation expense under compensation arrangements with certain of its employees under which the Company will settle bonuses for a fixed dollar amount by issuing a variable number of restricted stock units. The number of restricted stock units issued will be based on the Company’s trailing seven-day average share price following the Company’s public release of fiscal 2023 financial results. The awards have both service and performance conditions.
These awards are classified as liability-based awards in accrued expenses in the accompanying condensed consolidated balance sheets, which are measured based on the fair value of the award at the end of each reporting period until settled. The Company records stock-based compensation related to accrued compensation in which it intends to settle in shares of the Company’s common stock. However, it is the Company’s discretion whether this compensation will ultimately be paid in stock or cash, as it has the right to dictate the form of these payments up until the date they are paid.
Stock-based compensation expense is recorded over the fiscal year in which performance is assessed. Forfeitures are recorded in the period in which they occur.
Stock-Based Compensation Expense

Stock-based compensation expense for employees was $3.1$25.9 million and $5.1$57.6 million for the three and six months ended January 27, 2018, respectively28, 2023 and $0.7$32.4 million and $1.2 $64.7 million for the three and six months endedended January 29, 2022. As a result of the January 2023 Reduction in Force, described in Note 11, stock-based compensation expense decreased by $4.4 million for the three months ended January 28, 2017, respectively.2023 due to forfeitures of previously granted awards above our estimate. Stock-based compensation expense is included in selling, general, and administrative expenses in our condensed consolidated statements of operations.

operations and comprehensive loss.

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As of January 28, 2023, the total unrecognized compensation expense related to unvested options and RSUs, net of estimated forfeitures, was $175.3 million, which we expect to recognize over an estimated weighted average period of 2.2 years. The weighted-average grant date fair value of options granted during the six months ended January 27, 201828, 2023, was $7.65 $2.42 per share. The weighted-average grant date fair value of options granted during the six months ended January 28, 2017 29, 2022, was $2.84 $9.11 per share. As of January 27, 2018, the total unrecognized compensation expense related to unvested options and RSU’s, net of estimated forfeitures, was $40.8 million which we expect to recognize over an estimated weighted average period of 3.49 years.


We record stock-based compensation of stock options granted to employees by estimating the fair value of stock-based awards using the Black-Scholes option pricing model and amortizing the fair value of the stock-based awards granted over the applicable vesting period of the awards on a straight-line basis. The fair value of stock options granted to employees was estimated at the grant date using the Black- ScholesBlack-Scholes option-pricing model with the following assumptions:

For the Three Months Ended

For the Six Months Ended

January 27, 2018

January 28, 2017

January 27, 2018

January 28, 2017

Expected term (in years)

5.4 - 6.6

5.5 - 6.1

5.4 - 6.6

5.4 - 6.5

Volatility

41.4 - 43.5%

42.7 - 42.8%

41.4 - 43.5%

44.4 - 46.0%

Risk free interest rate

2.1 - 2.5%

2.2 - 2.3%

1.9 - 2.5%

1.3 - 2.3%

Dividend yield

—%

—%

—%

—%

 For the Three Months EndedFor the Six Months Ended
 January 28, 2023January 29, 2022January 28, 2023January 29, 2022
Expected term (in years)3.2 - 5.53.2 - 5.53.2 - 5.53.2 - 5.5
Volatility87.3%62.1%87.3%62.1%
Risk free interest rate4.2% - 4.4%0.8% - 1.3%4.2% -4.4%0.8% - 1.3%
Dividend yield— %— %— %— %

In July 2017, we granted options to certain members of our executive management team to purchase an aggregate of 1,097,463 shares of Class B common stock which had both a service-based condition and a liquidity event-related performance condition. Such options vest ratably over the 24-month period following the fourth anniversary of the grant date, subject to an IPO occurring within 12 months of the grant date and the option holder’s continuous service through each vesting date. The aggregate grant-date fair value of such option awards was $14.0 million.

Since an IPO is not deemed probable until such event occurs, no compensation cost related to the performance condition was recognized prior to the consummation of our IPO in November 2017. Subsequently, we recorded stock based compensation expense of $0.5 million related to periods prior to the IPO.

8.

9.    Income Taxes

The following table summarizes our effective tax rate from income for the periods presented (in thousands):

presented:
 For the Three Months EndedFor the Six Months Ended
(in thousands)January 28, 2023January 29, 2022January 28, 2023January 29, 2022
Loss before income taxes$(65,352)$(30,572)$(120,993)$(32,197)
Provision for income taxes219 340 496 542 
Effective tax rate(0.3)%(1.1)%(0.4)%(1.7)%

 

 

For the Three Months Ended

 

 

For the Six Months Ended

 

 

 

January 27, 2018

 

 

January 28, 2017

 

 

January 27, 2018

 

 

January 28, 2017

 

Income before income taxes

 

$

17,244

 

 

$

(253

)

 

$

35,876

 

 

$

24,779

 

Provisions for income taxes

 

 

13,603

 

 

 

(486

)

 

 

18,747

 

 

 

11,303

 

Effective tax rate

 

 

78.9

%

 

 

192.1

%

 

 

52.3

%

 

 

45.6

%

On December 22, 2017, the U.S. enacted the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act (“Tax Act”), which significantly changed U.S. tax law. The Tax Act contains several key tax provisions including the reduction of the corporateWe are primarily subject to income tax rate from 35% to 21%, as well as a variety of other changes including the acceleration of expensing of certain business assets and reductionstaxes in the amount of executive pay that could qualify as aUnited States and the United Kingdom. Our effective tax deduction.  The Federal statutory tax rate reduction is effective January 1, 2018. The Company has a fiscal year end which subjects us to transitional tax rate rules.  In the three months ended January 27, 2018, we revised our estimated annual effective rate and applied a blended U.S. statutory rate of 26.96% due to the tax rate reduction.  Additionally, income tax expense for the three and six months ended January 28, 2017 was adjusted to reflect2023, differs from the discrete effects of the Tax Act and resulted in an increase infederal statutory income tax expense of $4.7 million, relatedrate primarily due to the remeasurement of existingfull valuation allowance recorded on our net federal and state deferred tax balances.  This discrete impact was considered a provisional amount underassets. The tax provision for the U.S. Securitiesthree and Exchange Commission Staff Accounting Bulletin No. 118.  

The Company remeasuredsix months ended January 28, 2023, is primarily comprised of state taxes and income taxes in foreign jurisdictions.

Our effective tax rate for the three and six months ended January 29, 2022, differed from the federal statutory income tax rate primarily due to the full valuation allowance recorded on our net federal and state deferred tax balances based onassets. The tax provision for the tax rates at which they are expected to reversethree and six months ended January 29, 2022, is comprised of state taxes and income taxes in the future. The Company will continue to refine provisional balances and adjustments may be made under SAB 118 during the measurement period as a result of future changes in interpretation, information available, assumptions made by the Company and/or issuance of additional guidance.

foreign jurisdictions.

We continue to monitor the progress of ongoing discussions with tax authorities and the impact, if any, of the expected expiration of the statute of limitations in various taxing jurisdictions.

9.

Earnings (Loss) Per Share Attributable to Common Stockholders  

10.    Net Loss Per Share Attributable to Common Stockholders
Basic and diluted net incomeloss per share attributable to common stockholders is presented in conformity with the two-class method required for participating securities. We consider convertible preferred stock and early exercised share options to be participating securities. In connection with the IPO, we established two classes of authorized common stock:securities: Class A common stock and Class B common stock. As a result, all then-outstanding shares of common stock were converted into shares of Class B common stock. The rights of the holders of Class A and Class B common stock are identical, except with respect to voting, conversion, and transfer rights. Each


share of Class A common stock is entitled to one vote per share and each share of Class B common stock is entitled to ten votes per share. Each share of Class B common stock is convertible at any time at the option of the stockholder into one share of Class A common stock.

Undistributed earnings allocated to participating securities are subtracted from net income in determining net income attributable to common stockholders.

Basic net incomeloss per share attributable to common stockholders is computed by dividing the net incomeloss attributable to common stockholders by the weighted-average number of common shares outstanding during the period. All participating securities are excluded from basic weighted-average common shares outstanding.

For the calculation of diluted earningsloss per share, (“EPS”), net incomeloss attributable to common stockholders for basic EPSloss per share is adjusted by the effect of dilutive securities. Diluted net incomeloss per share attributable to common stockholders is computed by dividing the net incomeloss attributable to common stockholders by the weighted-average number of common shares outstanding, including all potentially dilutive common shares. In periods of loss, there are no potentially dilutive common shares to add to the weighted-average number of common shares outstanding. The undistributed earnings are allocated based on the contractual participation rights of the Class A and Class B common shares as if the earningslosses for the year have been distributed. As the liquidation and dividend rights are identical, the undistributed earnings areloss is allocated on a proportionate basis. The computation
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In January 2022, the Company's Board of the diluted net income perDirectors authorized a share repurchase program to repurchase up to $150.0 million of our outstanding Class A common stock, assumeswith no expiration date (the “2022 Repurchase Program”). The actual timing, number and value of shares repurchased in the conversionfuture will be determined by the Company in its discretion and will depend on a number of Class Bfactors, including market conditions, applicable legal requirements, our capital needs, and whether there is a better alternative use of capital.
Repurchases during any given fiscal period under the 2022 Repurchase Program will reduce the number of weighted-average common stock, while diluted net income per share of Class B common stock does not assumeshares outstanding for the conversion of Class A common stock as Class A common stock is not convertible into Class B common stock.

period.

A reconciliation of the numerator and denominator used in the calculation of the basic and diluted EPSloss per share attributable to Class A and Class B common stockholders is as follows (in thousands except share and per share amounts):

 

 

For the Three Months Ended

 

 

For the Six Months Ended

 

 

 

January 27, 2018

 

 

January 28, 2017

 

 

January 27, 2018

 

 

January 28, 2017

 

 

 

Class A

 

 

Class B

 

 

Class B

 

 

Class A

 

 

Class B

 

 

Class B

 

Numerator:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Net income

 

$

312

 

 

$

3,329

 

 

$

233

 

 

$

1,114

 

 

$

16,015

 

 

$

13,476

 

Less: noncumulative dividends to preferred stockholders

 

 

(11

)

 

 

(122

)

 

 

(233

)

 

 

(50

)

 

 

(718

)

 

 

(1,270

)

Less: undistributed earnings to participating securities

 

 

(41

)

 

 

(431

)

 

 

 

 

 

(427

)

 

 

(6,140

)

 

 

(8,701

)

Net income attributable to common stockholders - basic

 

 

260

 

 

 

2,776

 

 

 

 

 

 

637

 

 

 

9,157

 

 

 

3,505

 

Less: change in fair value of preferred stock warrant liability

   (net of tax)

 

 

(1,614

)

 

 

(1,614

)

 

 

 

 

 

(10,685

)

 

 

(10,685

)

 

 

 

Add: adjustments to undistributed earnings to participating securities

 

 

231

 

 

 

211

 

 

 

 

 

 

4,421

 

 

 

4,133

 

 

 

443

 

Reallocation of undistributed earnings as a result of conversion of Class B to Class A shares

 

 

2,776

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

9,157

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Reallocation of undistributed earnings to Class B shares

 

 

 

 

 

147

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

719

 

 

 

 

Net income attributable to common stockholders - diluted

 

 

1,653

 

 

 

1,520

 

 

 

 

 

 

3,530

 

 

 

3,324

 

 

 

3,948

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Denominator:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Weighted-average shares of common stock - basic

 

 

7,075,605

 

 

 

75,363,746

 

 

 

24,742,682

 

 

 

3,537,803

 

 

 

50,839,664

 

 

 

24,546,556

 

Conversion of Class B to Class A common shares outstanding

 

 

75,363,746

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

50,839,664

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Effect of dilutive stock options and restricted stock units

 

 

5,295,401

 

 

 

5,271,550

 

 

 

 

 

 

5,584,167

 

 

 

5,581,484

 

 

 

4,588,173

 

Effect of potentially dilutive preferred stock warrants

 

 

219,904

 

 

 

219,904

 

 

 

 

 

 

637,934

 

 

 

637,934

 

 

 

 

Weighted-average shares of common stock - diluted

 

 

87,954,656

 

 

 

80,855,200

 

 

 

24,742,682

 

 

 

60,599,568

 

 

 

57,059,082

 

 

 

29,134,729

 

Earnings per share attributable to common stockholders:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Basic

 

$

0.04

 

 

$

0.04

 

 

0.00

 

 

$

0.18

 

 

$

0.18

 

 

$

0.14

 

Diluted

 

$

0.02

 

 

$

0.02

 

 

0.00

 

 

$

0.06

 

 

$

0.06

 

 

$

0.14

 

follows:

 For the Three Months EndedFor the Six Months Ended
(in thousands, except share and per share amounts)January 28, 2023January 29, 2022January 28, 2023January 29, 2022
Numerator: 
Net loss attributable to Class A and Class B common stockholders$(65,571)$(30,912)$(121,489)$(32,739)
Denominator:  
Weighted-average shares of common stock - basic113,928,081 109,178,086 113,143,991 108,776,998 
Weighted-average shares of common stock - diluted113,928,081 109,178,086 113,143,991 108,776,998 
Loss per share attributable to Class A and Class B common stockholders:  
Basic$(0.58)$(0.28)$(1.07)$(0.30)
Diluted$(0.58)$(0.28)$(1.07)$(0.30)

As the Company has reported net loss for each of the periods presented, all potentially dilutive securities were considered antidilutive. The following common stock equivalents were excluded from the computation of diluted earnings (loss)loss per share for the periods presented because including them would have been antidilutive:

 

 

For the Three Months Ended

 

 

For the Six Months Ended

 

 

 

January 27, 2018

 

 

January 28, 2017

 

 

January 27, 2018

 

 

January 28, 2017

 

Convertible preferred stock

 

 

 

 

 

59,511,055

 

 

 

 

 

 

59,511,055

 

Preferred stock warrants

 

 

 

 

 

1,066,225

 

 

 

 

 

 

1,066,225

 

Restricted stock units

 

 

177,180

 

 

 

 

 

 

276,769

 

 

 

 

Stock options to purchase Class B common stock

 

 

762,918

 

 

 

229,902

 

 

 

927,366

 

 

 

529,495

 

Total

 

 

940,098

 

 

 

60,807,182

 

 

 

1,204,135

 

 

 

61,106,775

 

 For the Three Months EndedFor the Six Months Ended
 January 28, 2023January 29, 2022January 28, 2023January 29, 2022
Restricted stock units that settle into Class A common stock13,745,346 10,341,380 13,745,346 10,341,380 
Stock options to purchase Class A common stock4,296,003 2,715,632 4,296,003 2,715,632 
Stock options to purchase Class B common stock905,367 1,184,895 905,367 1,184,895 
Total18,946,716 14,241,907 18,946,716 14,241,907 

10.Subsequent Events

On

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11.    Restructuring
We announced a restructuring plan on June 9, 2022, to reduce our future fixed and variable operating costs and allow us to centralize key capabilities, strengthen decision-making to drive efficiencies, and ensure we are allocating resources to our most critical priorities. This restructuring plan reduced our workforce by approximately 15% of salaried positions and represented approximately 4% of our roles in total. In the first quarter of fiscal 2023, we recorded $0.9 million of additional restructuring charges consisting of severance and employee-related benefits. These charges were recorded in selling, general, and administrative expenses on the condensed consolidated statements of operations and comprehensive loss.
In furtherance of and as an expansion of this restructuring plan, on January 5, 2023, the Company implemented a plan of termination (“January 2023 Reduction in Force”) that included the elimination of approximately 6% of the Company’s then-current employee workforce, including approximately 20% of employees in salaried positions. In connection with the Company’s January 2023 Reduction in Force, the Company’s Chief Executive Officer agreed that she would step down from her employment with the Company and from the Board of Directors, effective January 5, 2023. This plan also included the closure of our Salt Lake City fulfillment center. In the second quarter of fiscal 2023, we recorded $34.6 million of restructuring charges associated with this plan, $15.6 million of which will be paid in cash and relates to severance and employee-related benefits. We expect substantially all of these cash payments to be completed by the end of the quarter ending April 29, 2018,2023.
In connection with this plan, we executedalso recorded $16.9 million of impairment related to a portion of our corporate office space due to a change in the use of this space, and further deterioration in the San Francisco sublease market. This charge was allocated between operating lease right-of-use assets and property and equipment, net on the condensed consolidated balance sheets to record the corresponding assets at their estimated fair market value, with the expense being recorded within selling, general, and administrative expenses on the condensed consolidated statements of operations and comprehensive loss. The estimated fair value of the right-of-use asset and the property and equipment, net was determined using level 3 inputs and based on an amendmentincome approach using discounted future cash flows.
Due to the leaseclosure of our Salt Lake City fulfillment center, we recorded $1.8 million of accelerated depreciation expense on assets that will not be transferred to other fulfillment centers in our corporate headquarters. Beginning June 1, 2018, the amendment adds two additional floors of office space, provides for a ten-year lease termnetwork and which we do not have immediate plans to use.
The January 2023 Reduction in Force reduced stock-based compensation expense by $4.4 million for the additional space and extends our existing lease by four and a half years to be coterminous with the termthree months ended January 28, 2023. This impact is not included in restructuring charges.
The components of the additional space. restructuring charges are as follows:
For the Three Months EndedFor the Six Months Ended
(in thousands)January 28, 2023January 28, 2023
Severance and employee-related benefits$15,571 $16,498 
Asset impairments16,874 16,874 
Accelerated depreciation1,755 1,755 
Other367 367 
Total restructuring(1)
$34,567 $35,494 
(1) Recognized in selling, general, and administrative expenses.

The future minimum lease payments for our corporate headquarters increased from approximately $43.8 million to approximately $115.3 million over ten years. Our restricted cashfollowing table provides the components of and changes in the Company’s restructuring and related charges, included in accounts payable and accrued liabilities on the condensed consolidated balance increased by $3.7 million, representing an increase in collateral for letters of credit on our leased properties.


sheets:

ITEM 2.

Management’s Discussion

(in thousands)Severance and Analysis of Financial ConditionEmployee Related Benefits and Results of Operations

Other
Balance at July 30, 2022$290 
Charges incurred16,633 
Cash payments(2,434)
Balance at January 28, 2023$14,489 

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12.    Subsequent Events
On March 1, 2023, Dan Jedda, Chief Financial Officer of the Company, gave notice of his resignation, effective April 3, 2023.
On March 3, 2023, the Board of Directors of the Company appointed David Aufderhaar, SVP, Finance, as the Company’s Chief Financial Officer, effective April 3, 2023. Mr. Aufderhaar joined the Company in May of 2019. Previously, Mr. Aufderhaar was the VP, Corporate Finance and Financial Planning & Analysis at Twitter.
There are no related person transactions between the Company and Mr. Aufderhaar.
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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 our unaudited condensed consolidated financial statements and related notes thereto included in Part I, Item 1 of this report and with our audited consolidated financial statements and related notes theretoand our Annual Report on Form 10-K (the “2022 Annual Report”) for the year ended July 29, 2017, included in the final prospectus for our initial public offering (“IPO”), dated as of November 16, 2017, and30, 2022, filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission (“SEC”) pursuant to Rule 424(b)(4) on November 17, 2017 (File No. 333-221014) (the “Final Prospectus”). September 21, 2022. We use a 5252- or 53 week53-week fiscal year, with our fiscal year ending each year on the Saturday that is closest to July 31 of that year. Each fiscal year generallytypically consists of four 13-week fiscal quarters, with eachquarters. The fiscal quarteryear ending onJuly 29, 2023, and the Saturday that is closest to the last day of the last month of the quarter. The yearsfiscal year ended July 30, 2016 and July 29, 2017 included2022, include 52 weeks of operations. Throughout this Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q (this “Quarterly Report”), all references to quarters and years are to our fiscal quarters and fiscal years unless otherwise noted.

Special Note Regarding Forward-Looking Statements

This Quarterly Report contains forward-looking statements that involve risks, uncertainties, and assumptions that, if they never materialize or prove incorrect, could cause our results to differ materially from those expressed or implied by such forward-looking statements. The statements contained in this Quarterly Report that are not purely historical, including without limitation statements in the following discussion and analysis of financial condition and results of operations regarding our projected financial position and results, business strategy, plans, and objectives of our management for future operations, are forward-looking statements within the meaning of Section 27A of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended (the “Securities Act”), Section 21E of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended (the “Exchange Act”), and the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. AllForward-looking statements other thanare often identified by the use of words such as, but not limited to, “anticipate,” “believe,” “can,” “continue,” “could,” “estimate,” “expect,” “intend,” “may,” “might,” “plan,” “project,” “seek,” “should,” “target,” “will,” “would,” and similar expressions or variations intended to identify forward-looking statements. These statements of historical facts included in this Quarterly Report, including without limitation, statements inare based on the following discussionbeliefs and analysis of our financial condition and results of operations regarding our projected financial position and results, [estimated quantities and net present values of reserves], business strategy, plans and objectivesassumptions of our management, for future operationswhich are forward-looking statements. In some cases, forward-looking statements are identified by words such as “believe,” “will,” “may,” “estimate,” “continue,” “anticipate,” “intend,” “should,” “plan,” “expect,” “predict,” “could,” “potentially” or the negative of these terms or similar expressions. You should read these statements carefully because they discuss future expectations, contain projections of future results of operations or financial condition, or state other “forward-looking” information. These statements relatein turn based on information currently available to our future plans, objectives, expectations, intentions and financial performance and the assumptions that underlie these statements. Thesemanagement. Such forward-looking statements are subject to certain known and unknown risks, uncertainties, and other important factors that could cause our actual results performance or achievementsand the timing of certain events to differ materially from any future results performances or achievements anticipated, expressed or implied by thesuch forward-looking statements. Factors that mightcould cause or contribute to such a differencedifferences include, but are not limited to, those discussed in this Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q inthe section titled “Risk Factors” included under Part II, Item 1A — “Risk Factors,” and elsewhere in this Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q. Forward-lookingbelow. Furthermore, such forward-looking statements are based on our management’s beliefs and assumptions and on information currently available to our management. These statements, like all statements in this Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q, speak only as of theirthe date andof this Quarterly Report. Except as required by law, we undertake no obligation to update any forward-looking statements to reflect events or revise these statementscircumstances after the date of such statements.
Overview
Since our founding in light2011, we have helped millions of future developments. We caution investors that our businesswomen, men, and financial performance are subject to substantial riskskids discover and uncertainties.

Overview

Stitch Fix is transforming the way people findbuy what they love through personalized shipments of apparel, shoes, and accessories. Currently, clients can engage with us in one client at a timeof two ways that, combined, form an ecosystem of personalized experiences across styling, shopping, and one Fix at a time.

We are reinventing the shopping experienceinspiration: (1) by delivering one-to-one personalization to our clients through the combination of data science and human judgment. This combination drives a better client experience and a more powerful business model than either element could deliver independently. Our stylists hand select items from a broad selection of merchandise. Stylists pair their own judgment with our analysis of client and merchandise data to providereceiving a personalized shipment of apparel, shoesitems informed by our algorithms and accessories suited to each client’s needs. We call eachsent by a Stitch Fix stylist (a “Fix”); or (2) by purchasing directly from our website or mobile app based on a personalized assortment of these unique shipmentsoutfit and item recommendations (“Freestyle”). For a Fix. OurFix, clients maycan choose to schedule automatic shipments that arrive every two to three weeks or order on demand after they fill out a monthly, bi-monthlystyle profile on our website or quarterly cadence, or schedule a Fix on-demand. Clients can increase or decrease their desired Fix frequency at any time, and can select the exact date by which they want to receive a Fix.mobile app. After receiving a Fix, our clients purchase the items they want to keep and return the other items. Historically, we charged clients a $20 styling fee that is credited towards the merchandise purchased. If the client chooses to keep all items, in a Fix, she receives a 25% discount on her entire purchase.  

In December 2017, we launched Style Pass to provide our clients with an alternative to paying a $20 styling fee per Fix.  With Style Pass, clients pay a $49 annual fee for unlimited styling that is credited towards merchandise purchases.  In February 2018, we launched Extras, a new feature that allows clients to select items such as socks, bras, underwear, and other intimates that are then added to the five items their stylist selects for their Fix.

The very human experience that we deliver is powered by data science. Our data science capabilities consist of our rich data set and our proprietary algorithms, which fuel our business by enhancing the client experience and driving business model efficiencies. The vast majority of our client data is provided directly and explicitly by our clients, rather than inferred, scraped or obtained from other sources. We also gather extensive merchandise data, such as inseam, pocket shape, silhouette and fit.


This large and growing data set provides the foundation for proprietary algorithms that we use throughout our business, including those that predict purchase behavior, forecast demand, optimize inventory and enable us to design new apparel. We believe our data science capabilities give us a significant competitive advantage, and as our data set grows,if any. Freestyle utilizes our algorithms become more powerful.

Our stylists leverage our data science throughto recommend a custom-built, web-based styling application that providespersonalized assortment of outfit and item recommendations from our broad selection of merchandise. Our stylists then apply their judgment to select what they believe to be the best items for each Fix. Our stylists provide a personal touch, offer styling advice and context to each item selected, and help us develop long-term relationships with our clients. Our stylists are U.S.-based employees, most of whom work part-time and remotely.

We maintain a broad range of product offerings to serve our clients. We offer both merchandise sourced from brand partners and our own Exclusive Brands. We use our data to inform the merchandise we buy and develop that will best suit our clients.

We reach clients through a combination of word of mouth, referrals, advertisingupdate throughout the day and other marketing efforts. We invest in marketing with the goal of attracting new clients, improving engagement with current clients and expanding our client closet share over time. As wewill continue to expand our marketing efforts,evolve as we plan to remain disciplined in measuringlearn more about the return on advertising spend.

We believe our success in serving clients has resulted in our rapid and profitable growth. We have achieved positive cash flows from operations on an annual basis since 2014, while continuing to make meaningful investments to drive growth. client.

For the three and six months ended January 27, 201828, 2023, we reported $295.9 million and $591.5$412.1 million in net revenue, respectively, representing a year-over-year growthdecline of 24.4% and 24.8% from20.2% compared to the three and six months ended January 28, 2017, respectively.29, 2022. As of January 27, 201828, 2023, and January 28, 2017,29, 2022, we had 2,508,000 active clients3,574,000 and 1,920,0004,019,000 active clients, respectively, representing a year-over-year growthdecline of 30.6%11.1%.

Net income

During fiscal 2022, we experienced a decline in net revenue year-over-year primarily due to our challenges in acquiring new clients. This trend has continued in the first half of fiscal 2023, and we expect these challenges in acquiring active clients to have a negative compounding effect on net revenue for the threeremainder of fiscal 2023. We are continuing to navigate the uncertainties presented by the current macroeconomic environment and six months ended January 27, 2018 was $3.6 millionremain focused on retaining current clients, improving the conversion of new clients, and $17.1 million, respectively, an increase of $3.4 millionenhancing our overall client experience for new and $3.6 million, respectively, from a year ago. Included in net incomeexisting clients.
Net loss for the three and six months ended January 28, 20172023, was $65.6 million and $121.5 million, compared to a $21.3net loss of $30.9 million compensation expense related to certain stock sales by current and former employees. Included in net income$32.7 million for the three and six months ended January 27, 2018 was29, 2022.
We announced a $4.7restructuring plan on June 9, 2022, to reduce our future fixed and variable operating costs and allow us to centralize key capabilities, strengthen decision-making to drive efficiencies, and ensure we are allocating resources to our most critical priorities. This restructuring plan reduced our workforce by approximately 15% of salaried positions and represented approximately 4% of our roles in total. In connection with the restructuring plan, we incurred $0.9 million remeasurementin restructuring costs in the first quarter of fiscal 2023. We also incurred other one-time cash charges related to retention bonuses for continuing employees of $5.2 million in the first quarter of fiscal 2023. In furtherance of and as an expansion of this restructuring plan, on January 5, 2023, the Company implemented a plan of termination that included the elimination of approximately 6% of the
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Company’s then-current employee workforce, including approximately 20% of employees in salaried positions. In connection with the Company’s January 2023 Reduction in Force, the Company’s Chief Executive Officer agreed that she would step down from her employment with the Company and from the Board of Directors, effective January 5, 2023. This plan also included the closure of our Salt Lake City fulfillment center. We incurred restructuring costs of $15.6 million in severance and employee-related benefits, $16.9 million of impairment related to a portion of our corporate office space, $1.8 million of accelerated depreciation expense on assets, and $0.1 million of other one-time costs with this plan in the second quarter of fiscal 2023.
We are continuing to evaluate other fixed and variable operating costs, including further rationalizing our real estate footprint and continuing to optimize and be disciplined in our marketing strategy to better position ourselves for profitability. However, our future results of operations will depend on our ability to successfully navigate current business challenges and the overall macroeconomic environment.
For more information on the components of net deferred tax assets relatedloss for the three and six months ended January 28, 2023, refer to the Tax Cutssection titled “Results of Operations” below.
Key Financial and Jobs Act (“Tax Act”), which was enacted on December 22, 2017.

KeyOperating Metrics

Non-GAAP Financial Measures
We report our financial results in accordance with generally accepted accounting principles in the United States or GAAP.(“GAAP”). However, management believes that certain non-GAAP financial measures provide users of our financial information with additional useful information in evaluating our performance. Management believes that excluding certain items that may vary substantially in frequency and magnitude period-to-period from net income and earnings per share (“EPS”) provides useful supplemental measures that assist in evaluating our ability to generate earnings and to more readily compare these metrics between past and future periods. Management also believesWe believe that adjusted EBITDA is frequently used by investors and securities analysts in their evaluations of companies, and that suchthis supplemental measure facilitates comparisons between companies. We believe free cash flow is an important metric because it represents a measure of how much cash from operations we have available for discretionary and non-discretionary items after the deduction of capital expenditures. These non-GAAP financial measures may be different than similarly titled measures used by other companies. For instance, we do not exclude stock-based compensation expense from adjusted EBITDA or non-GAAP net income. Stock-based compensation is an important part of how we attract and retain our employees, and we consider it to be a real cost of running the business.

Our non-GAAP financial measures should not be considered in isolation from, or as substitutes for, financial information prepared in accordance with GAAP. There are several limitations related to the use of our non-GAAP financial measures as compared to the closest comparable GAAP measures. Some of these limitations include:

our non-GAAP net income, adjusted EBITDA and non-GAAP EPS – diluted measures exclude compensation expense that we recognized related to certain stock sales by current and former employees;

our non-GAAP netexcludes interest income and non-GAAP EPS – diluted measures exclude the impact of the remeasurementother income (expense), net, as these items are not components of our net deferred tax assets following the adoption of the Tax Act;

core business;

our non-GAAP net income, adjusted EBITDA and non-GAAP EPS – diluted measures exclude the remeasurement of the preferred stock warrant liability, which is a non-cash expense incurred in the periods prior to the completion of our IPO;


adjusted EBITDA also excludes the recurring, non-cash expenses of depreciation and amortization of property and equipment and, although these are non-cash expenses, the assets being depreciated and amortized may have to be replaced in the future;

adjusted EBITDA does not reflect our tax provision for income taxes, which reducesmay increase or decrease cash available to us;

adjusted EBITDA excludes the recurring, non-cash expenses of depreciation and

amortization of property and equipment and, although these are non-cash expenses, the assets being depreciated and amortized may have to be replaced in the future;
adjusted EBITDA excludes the non-cash expense of stock-based compensation, which has been, and will continue to be for the foreseeable future, an important part of how we attract and retain our employees and a significant recurring expense in our business; and

adjusted EBITDA excludes costs incurred related to discrete restructuring plans and other one-time costs that are fundamentally different in strategic nature and frequency from ongoing initiatives. We believe exclusion of these items facilitates a more consistent comparison of operating performance over time, however these costs do include cash outflows;

free cash flow does not represent the total residual cash flow available for discretionary purposes and does not reflect our future contractual commitments.

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Adjusted EBITDA

We define adjusted EBITDA as net loss excluding interest income, excluding other (income)income (expense), net, provision for income taxes, depreciation and amortization, the remeasurement of preferred stock warrant liability and, when present,stock-based compensation expense, related to certain stock sales by current and former employees.restructuring and other one-time costs. The following table presents a reconciliation of net income,loss, the most comparable GAAP financial measure, to adjusted EBITDA for each of the periods presented (in thousands):

presented:

 

 

For the Three Months Ended

 

 

For the Six Months Ended

 

 

 

January 27, 2018

 

 

January 28, 2017

 

 

January 27, 2018

 

 

January 28, 2017

 

Adjusted EBITDA reconciliation:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Net income

 

$

3,641

 

 

$

233

 

 

$

17,129

 

 

$

13,476

 

Add (deduct):

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Other income, net

 

 

(18

)

 

 

(6

)

 

 

(35

)

 

 

(13

)

Provision for income taxes

 

 

13,603

 

 

 

(486

)

 

 

18,747

 

 

 

11,303

 

Depreciation and amortization

 

 

2,618

 

 

 

1,924

 

 

 

4,888

 

 

 

3,385

 

Remeasurement of preferred stock warrant liability

 

 

(1,614

)

 

 

1,146

 

 

 

(10,685

)

 

 

2,649

 

Compensation expense related to certain stock sales by current and former employees

 

 

 

 

 

21,283

 

 

 

 

 

 

21,283

 

Adjusted EBITDA

 

$

18,230

 

 

$

24,094

 

 

$

30,044

 

 

$

52,083

 

 For the Three Months EndedFor the Six Months Ended
(in thousands)January 28, 2023January 29, 2022January 28, 2023January 29, 2022
Net loss$(65,571)$(30,912)$(121,489)$(32,739)
Add (deduct):
Interest income(706)(171)(1,479)(505)
Other (income) expense, net(652)45 632 154 
Provision for income taxes219 340 496 542 
Depreciation and amortization9,879 8,439 19,719 16,179 
Stock-based compensation expense25,867 32,390 57,581 64,713 
Restructuring and other one-time costs(1)
34,742 — 40,897 — 
Adjusted EBITDA$3,778 $10,131 $(3,643)$48,344 

Non-GAAP Net Income

We define non-GAAP net income as net income excluding

(1)For the remeasurement of preferred stock warrant liability and, when present, compensation expense related to certain stock sales by current and former employees, and their related tax impacts, if any, as well asthree months ended January 28, 2023, restructuring charges were $34.6 million described in “Note 11 - Restructuring” in the remeasurement of our net deferred tax assets in relationNotes to the adoption ofCondensed Consolidated Financial Statements in Item 1. Financial Statements, and other one-time costs were $0.1 million. For the Tax Act. The following table presents a reconciliation of net income, the most comparable GAAP financial measure, to non-GAAP net incomesix months ended January 28, 2023, restructuring charges were $35.5 million and other one-time costs were $5.4 million in retention bonuses for each of the periods presented (in thousands):

 

 

For the Three Months Ended

 

 

For the Six Months Ended

 

 

 

January 27, 2018

 

 

January 28, 2017

 

 

January 27, 2018

 

 

January 28, 2017

 

Non-GAAP net income (loss) reconciliation:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Net income

 

$

3,641

 

 

$

233

 

 

$

17,129

 

 

$

13,476

 

Add (deduct):

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Remeasurement of preferred stock warrant liability

 

 

(1,614

)

 

 

1,146

 

 

 

(10,685

)

 

 

2,649

 

Compensation expense related to certain stock sales by current and former employees

 

 

 

 

 

21,283

 

 

 

 

 

 

21,283

 

Tax impact of non-GAAP adjustments

 

 

 

 

 

(8,890

)

 

 

 

 

 

(8,890

)

Impact of Tax Act (1)

 

 

4,730

 

 

 

-

 

 

 

4,730

 

 

 

 

Non-GAAP net income

 

$

6,757

 

 

$

13,772

 

 

$

11,174

 

 

$

28,518

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

1) As discussed in Note 8 to the condensed consolidated financial statements included in this Quarterly Report, the U.S. government enacted comprehensive tax legislation in December 2017.  This resulted in a net charge of $4.7 million for the three and six months ended January 27, 2018, due to the remeasurement of our net deferred tax assets for the reduction in tax rate from 35% to 21%. The adjustment to non-GAAP net income only includes this transitional impact. It does not include the ongoing impacts of the lower U.S. statutory rate on current year earnings.

 

continuing employees.

Non-GAAP Earnings Per Share - Diluted

We define non-GAAP EPS as diluted EPS excluding the per share impact of the remeasurement of preferred stock warrant liability and, when present, compensation expense related to certain stock sales by current and former employees, and their related tax impacts, if any, as well as the per share impact of the remeasurement of our net deferred tax assets in relation to the adoption of the Tax Act. The following table presents a reconciliation of EPS attributable to common stockholders - diluted, the most comparable GAAP financial measure, to non-GAAP EPS attributable to common stockholders - diluted for each of the periods presented (in thousands):

 

 

For the Three Months Ended

 

 

For the Six Months Ended

 

 

 

January 27, 2018

 

 

January 28, 2017

 

 

January 27, 2018

 

 

January 28, 2017

 

Non-GAAP earnings per share - diluted reconciliation:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Earnings per share attributable to common stockholders - diluted

 

$

0.02

 

 

$

 

 

$

0.06

 

 

$

0.14

 

Per share impact of the remeasurement of preferred stock warrant

   liability(1)

 

$

 

 

$

0.04

 

 

$

 

 

$

0.08

 

Per share impact of compensation expense related to certain stock

   sales by current and former employees

 

$

 

 

$

0.66

 

 

$

 

 

$

0.61

 

Per share impact from tax effect of non-GAAP adjustments

 

$

 

 

$

(0.28

)

 

$

 

 

$

(0.26

)

Per share impact from Tax Act(2)

 

$

0.05

 

 

$

 

 

$

0.08

 

 

$

 

Non-GAAP earnings per share attributable to common stockholders - diluted

 

$

0.07

 

 

$

0.42

 

 

$

0.14

 

 

$

0.57

 

 

 

1) For the three and six months ended January 27, 2018, the preferred stock warrant liability was dilutive and included in earnings per share attributable to common stockholders - diluted. Therefore, it is not an adjustment to arrive at non-GAAP EPS - diluted.

 

2) As discussed in Note 8 to the condensed consolidated financial statements included in this Quarterly Report, the U.S. government enacted comprehensive tax legislation in December 2017.  This resulted in a net charge of $4.7 million for the three and six months ended January 27, 2018, due to the remeasurement of our net deferred tax assets for the reduction in tax rate from 35% to 21%. The adjustment to non-GAAP earnings per share attributable to common stockholders - diluted only includes this transitional impact. It does not include the ongoing impacts of the lower U.S. statutory rate on current year earnings.

 

Free Cash Flow

We define free cash flow as cash flow from operationsflows provided by operating activities reduced by purchases of property and equipment which isthat are included in cash flow fromflows used in investing activities. The following table presents a reconciliation of cash flows fromprovided by operating activities, the most comparable GAAP financial measure, to free cash flow for each of the periods presented (in thousands):

presented:

 

 

For the Six Months Ended

 

 

 

January 27, 2018

 

 

January 28, 2017

 

Free cash flow reconciliation:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Cash flows from operating activities

 

$

33,735

 

 

$

49,532

 

Deduct:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Purchase of property and equipment

 

 

(8,232

)

 

 

(11,367

)

Free cash flow

 

$

25,503

 

 

$

38,165

 

Cash flows from investing activities

 

$

(8,232

)

 

$

(11,367

)

Cash flows from financing activities

 

$

130,013

 

 

$

(2,635

)

 For the Six Months Ended
(in thousands)January 28, 2023January 29, 2022
Free cash flow reconciliation:  
Cash flows provided by operating activities$11,060 $124,932 
Deduct:  
Purchases of property and equipment(11,886)(30,900)
Free cash flow$(826)$94,032 
Cash flows provided by (used in) investing activities$3,210 $(27,633)
Cash flows used in financing activities$(6,932)$(32,003)


Operating Metrics
January 28, 2023October 29, 2022July 30, 2022April 30, 2022January 29, 2022
Active clients (in thousands)3,574 3,709 3,795 3,907 4,019 

Active Clients

We believe that the number of active clients is a key indicator of our growth and the overall health of our business. We define an active client as a client who checked out a Fix or was shipped an item via Freestyle in the preceding 12-month period,52 weeks, measured as of the last dateday of that period. A client checks out a Fix when she indicates what items she is keeping through our mobile application or on our website. We consider each Women’s, Men’s, or Kids account as a client, even if they share the same household. We had 2,508,0003,574,000 and 1,920,0004,019,000 active clients as of January 27, 201828, 2023, and January 28, 2017,29, 2022, respectively, representing a year-over-year growthdecline of 30.6%11.1%.

The decline in net active clients is due to the addition of fewer new clients, as well as clients becoming inactive, both of which we believe have been influenced by the macroeconomic environment.

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Net Revenue per Active Client
We believe that net revenue per active client is an indicator of client engagement and satisfaction. We calculate net revenue per active client based on net revenue over the preceding four fiscal quarters divided by the number of active clients, measured as of the last day of the period. Net revenue per active client was $516 and $549 as of January 28, 2023, and January 29, 2022, respectively, or a decline of 6.0% year over year, as we have observed clients spending less in recent periods, and we expect this to continue given the economic backdrop and the deep discounting we are seeing in the retail industry.
Factors Affecting Our Performance

Client Acquisition

Macroeconomic Environment
Our business and Engagement

To grow our business, we must continueoperating results are subject to acquire clientsnational and successfully engage them. We believe that implementing broad-based marketing strategies that increase our brand awareness hasglobal economic conditions and their impact on consumer discretionary spending. As the potential to strengthen Stitch Fix as a national consumer brand, help us acquire new clientsmacroeconomic environment is experiencing inflation, rising interest rates, recessionary concerns, tightening labor markets, and drive revenue growth. As our business has achieved a greater scalegeneral uncertainty regarding the overall future political and we are able to support a large and growing client base,economic environment, we have increased our investments in marketing to take advantage of more marketing channels to profitably acquire clients. For example, we recently significantly increased our advertising spend, from $10.2 millionseen and $25.5 million for the three and six months ended January 28, 2017 to $19.8 million and $48.0 million for the three and six months ended January 27, 2018, respectively, to support the growth of our business. We expect to continue to make significant marketing investments to growsee negative impacts on consumer confidence and consumer demand. As this challenging and uncertain economic environment continues, we cannot predict whether or when such circumstances may improve or worsen or what impact such circumstances could have on our business. We currently utilize both digital and offline channels to attract new visitors to our website or mobile app and subsequently convert them into clients. Our current marketing efforts include client referrals, affiliate programs, partnerships, display advertising, television, print, radio, video, content, direct mail, social media, email, mobile “push” communications, search engine optimization and keyword search campaigns.

To successfully acquire clients and increase engagement, we must also continue to improve the diversity of our offering. These efforts may include broadening our brand partnerships and expanding into new categories, product types, price points and geographies.

Investment in our Operations and Infrastructure

To grow our client base and enhance our offering, we will incur additional expenses. We intend to leverage our data science and deep understanding of our clients’ needs to inform investments in operations and infrastructure. We anticipate that our expenses will increase as we continue to hire additional personnel and further advance our technological and data science capabilities. Moreover, we intend to make capital investments in our inventory, fulfillment centers and office space and logistics infrastructure as we launch new categories, expand internationally and drive operating efficiencies. We expect to increase our spending on these investments in the future and cannot be certain that these efforts will grow our client base or be cost-effective. However, we believe these strategies will yield positive returns in the long term.

Inventory Management

We leverage our data science to buy and manage our inventory, including merchandise assortment and fulfillment center optimization. Because our merchandise assortment directly correlates to client success, we may at times optimize our inventory to prioritize long-term client success over short-term gross margin impact. To ensure sufficient availability of merchandise, we generally enter into purchase orders well in advance and frequently before apparel trends are confirmed by client purchases. As a result, we are vulnerable to demand and pricing shifts and to suboptimal selection and timingavailability of merchandise purchases.at time of purchase. We incur inventory write-offs and changes in inventory reserves that impact our gross margins. Because our merchandise assortment directly correlates to client success, we may at times optimize our inventory to prioritize long-term client success over short-term gross margin impact. Moreover, our inventory investments will fluctuate with the needs of our business.
Consistent with the trends in the second half of fiscal 2022, supply chain constraints and delays have continued to ease during the three months ended January 28, 2023, and the timing and amount of inventory receipts were not impacted by supply chain delays. As such, we are no longer ordering product in advance of our typical timelines.
Client Acquisition and Engagement
To grow our business, we must continue to acquire clients and successfully engage them. Our marketing strategy aims to preserve liquidity and achieve profitability, while simultaneously attracting long-term customers to fuel a return to growth. We utilize both digital and offline channels to attract new visitors to our website or mobile app and subsequently convert them into clients. Our marketing costs are largely composed of advertising, client referrals, and public relations expenses. At any given time, our advertising efforts may include, social media marketing, keyword search campaigns, affiliate programs, partnerships, campaigns with celebrities and influencers, display advertising, television, radio, video, content, direct mail, email, mobile “push” communications, SMS, and search engine optimization. Our marketing expenses have varied from period to period and we expect this trend to continue. We are evolving our marketing strategy and intend to reduce marketing spend for the remainder of fiscal 2023.
The largest component of our marketing spend is advertising, which was $21.0 million and $65.6 million, respectively, for the three and six months ended January 28, 2023, compared to $38.8 million and $93.7 million, respectively, for the three and six months ended January 29, 2022. Beginning in the second fiscal quarter of 2023, we began including costs for influencer campaigns in our advertising expense, and advertising expense for the three and six months ended January 29, 2022, reflects the inclusion of these costs.
Operations and Infrastructure
We intend to leverage our data science and deep understanding of our clients’ needs to make targeted investments in technology and product, and plan to prioritize investments with near-term positive returns. For example, entering new categories or adding newin the second quarter of fiscal 2023, we decided to close our Salt Lake City fulfillment centers will require additional investmentscenter in inventory.

order to optimize network capacity.

Merchandise Mix

We offer apparel, shoes, and accessories across categories, brands, product types, and price points. We currently serve our clients in the following categories: Women’s, Petite, Maternity, Men’s, Plus, and Plus.Kids. We also carry a mix of third-party branded merchandise, including premium brands, and our own Exclusive Brands. We also offer a wide variety of product types, including denim, dresses, blouses, skirts, shoes, jewelry, and handbags. We sell merchandise across a broad range of price points and may further broaden our price point offerings in the future.

While

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Historically, changes in our merchandise mix have not caused significant fluctuations in our gross margin to date,margin; however, categories, brands, product types, and price points do have a range of margin profiles. For example, our Exclusive Brands have generally contributed higher margin, and shoesmargins than our third-party brands, which have generally contributed lower margin.margins. We continue to evolve our merchandise mix to improve the client experience and attract new active clients. Shifts in merchandise mix driven by client demand maywill result in fluctuations in our gross margin from period to period.


Components of Results of Operations

Revenue

We generate revenue from the sale of merchandise. Wemerchandise, either through our Fix or Freestyle offerings. With our Fix offering, we charge a $20 nonrefundable upfront fee, referred to as a “styling fee,” that is credited towards any merchandise purchased in thepurchased. We offer Style Pass to provide select U.S. clients with an alternative to paying a styling fee per Fix. Style Pass clients pay a nonrefundable annual fee for unlimited styling that is credited towards merchandise purchases. We deduct discounts, sales tax, and estimated refunds to arrive at net revenue, which we refer to as revenue throughout the report. In December 2017, we launched Style Pass to provide our clients with an alternative to paying a $20 styling fee per Fix.  With Style Pass, clients pay a $49 annual fee for unlimited styling that is credited towards merchandise purchases. this Quarterly Report. We expect ouralso recognize revenue to increase in absolute dollars as we grow our business, although our revenue growth rate may continue to slow in future periods.

resulting from estimated breakage income on gift cards.

Cost of Goods Sold

Cost of goods sold consists of the costs of merchandise, expenses for inbound freight and shipping to and from clients, and inbound freight, inventory write-offs and changes in our inventory reserve, payment processing fees, and packaging materials costs.costs, offset by the recoverable cost of merchandise estimated to be returned. We expect our cost of goods sold to fluctuate as a percentage of revenue primarily due to how we manage our inventory and merchandise mix. Our classification of cost of goods sold may vary from other companies in our industry and may not be comparable.

Selling, General, and Administrative Expenses

Selling, general, and administrative expenses (“SG&A”) consist primarily of compensation and benefits costs, including stock-based compensation expense, for our employees including our stylist,stylists, fulfillment center operations, data analytics, merchandising, engineering, marketing, client experience, marketing and corporate personnel. Selling, general, and administrative expenses also include marketing and advertising costs, third-party logistics costs, facility costs for our fulfillment centers and offices, professional service fees, information technology costs, and depreciation and amortization expense. We expect our selling, general and administrative expenses to increase in absolute dollars and to fluctuate asAs a percentage of revenue due to the anticipated growthresult of our business, increased marketing investmentsrestructuring and additional costs associated with being a public company.cost reduction actions in the fourth quarter of fiscal 2022 and January 2023, we expect SG&A in fiscal 2023 to decrease year over year. Our classification of selling, general, and administrative expenses may vary from other companies in our industry and may not be comparable.

Remeasurement of Preferred Stock Warrant Liability

We estimate the fair value of the preferred stock warrant liability at the end of each reporting period

Interest Income
Interest income is generated from our cash equivalents and recognize changesinvestments in the fair value through our statement of operations. In connection with our IPO, all warrants were automatically exercised for no consideration, therefore we do not expect to have preferred stock warrant liability in future periods.

available-for-sale securities.

Provision for Income Taxes

Our provision for income taxes consists of an estimate of federal, state, and stateinternational income taxes based on enacted federal, state, and stateinternational tax rates, as adjusted for allowable credits, deductions, uncertain tax positions, and changes in the valuation allowance againstof our net federal and state deferred tax assets, as applicable.

assets.

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Results of Operations

Comparison of the Three and Six Months Ended January 27, 201828, 2023, and January 28, 2017

29, 2022

The following table sets forth our results of operations for the periods indicated (in thousands):

indicated:

 

 

For the Three Months Ended

 

 

%

 

 

For the Six Months Ended

 

 

%

 

 

 

January 27, 2018

 

 

January 28, 2017

 

 

Change

 

 

January 27, 2018

 

 

January 28, 2017

 

 

Change

 

Revenue, net

 

$

295,906

 

 

$

237,775

 

 

 

24.4

%

 

$

591,469

 

 

$

473,779

 

 

 

24.8

%

Cost of goods sold

 

 

168,523

 

 

 

131,053

 

 

 

28.6

%

 

 

335,071

 

 

 

256,979

 

 

 

30.4

%

Gross profit

 

 

127,383

 

 

 

106,722

 

 

 

19.4

%

 

 

256,398

 

 

 

216,800

 

 

 

18.3

%

Selling, general and administrative expenses

 

 

111,771

 

 

 

105,835

 

 

 

5.6

%

 

 

231,242

 

 

 

189,385

 

 

 

22.1

%

Operating income

 

 

15,612

 

 

 

887

 

 

 

1,660.1

%

 

 

25,156

 

 

 

27,415

 

 

 

(8.2

)%

Remeasurement of preferred stock warrant liability

 

 

(1,614

)

 

 

1,146

 

 

 

(240.8

)%

 

 

(10,685

)

 

 

2,649

 

 

 

(503.4

)%

Other income, net

 

 

(18

)

 

 

(6

)

 

 

200.0

%

 

 

(35

)

 

 

(13

)

 

 

169.2

%

Income (loss) before income taxes

 

 

17,244

 

 

 

(253

)

 

 

(6,915.8

)%

 

 

35,876

 

 

 

24,779

 

 

 

44.8

%

Provision for income taxes

 

 

13,603

 

 

 

(486

)

 

 

(2,899.0

)%

 

 

18,747

 

 

 

11,303

 

 

 

65.9

%

Net income

 

$

3,641

 

 

$

233

 

 

 

1,462.7

%

 

$

17,129

 

 

$

13,476

 

 

 

27.1

%

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 For the Three Months Ended%For the Six Months Ended%
(in thousands)January 28, 2023January 29, 2022ChangeJanuary 28, 2023January 29, 2022Change
Revenue, net$412,118 $516,724 (20.2)%$867,711 $1,097,968 (21.0)%
Cost of goods sold243,001 283,920 (14.4)%506,833 592,247 (14.4)%
Gross profit169,117 232,804 (27.4)%360,878 505,721 (28.6)%
Selling, general, and administrative expenses235,827 263,502 (10.5)%482,718 538,269 (10.3)%
Operating loss(66,710)(30,698)117.3 %(121,840)(32,548)274.3 %
Interest income706 171 312.9 %1,479 505 192.9 %
Other income (expense), net652 (45)*(632)(154)310.4 %
Loss before income taxes(65,352)(30,572)113.8 %(120,993)(32,197)275.8 %
Provision for income taxes219 340 (35.6)%496 542 (8.5)%
Net loss$(65,571)$(30,912)112.1 %$(121,489)$(32,739)271.1 %

* Not meaningful
The following table sets forth the components of our results of operations as a percentage of revenue:

 For the Three Months EndedFor the Six Months Ended
January 28, 2023January 29, 2022January 28, 2023January 29, 2022
Revenue, net100.0 %100.0 %100.0 %100.0 %
Cost of goods sold59.0 %54.9 %58.4 %53.9 %
Gross margin41.0 %45.1 %41.6 %46.1 %
Selling, general, and administrative expenses57.2 %51.0 %55.6 %49.0 %
Operating loss(16.2)%(5.9)%(14.0)%(2.9)%
Interest income0.2 %— %0.2 %— %
Other income (expense), net0.2 %— %(0.1)%— %
Loss before income taxes(15.9)%(5.9)%(13.9)%(2.9)%
Provision for income taxes0.1 %0.1 %0.1 %— %
Net loss(15.9)%(6.0)%(14.0)%(2.9)%

 

 

For the Three Months Ended

 

 

For the Six Months Ended

 

 

 

January 27, 2018

 

 

January 28, 2017

 

 

January 27, 2018

 

 

January 28, 2017

 

Revenue, net

 

 

100.0

%

 

 

100.0

%

 

 

100.0

%

 

 

100.0

%

Cost of goods sold

 

 

57.0

%

 

 

55.1

%

 

 

56.7

%

 

 

54.2

%

Gross margin

 

 

43.0

%

 

 

44.9

%

 

 

43.3

%

 

 

45.8

%

Selling, general and administrative expenses

 

 

37.8

%

 

 

44.5

%

 

 

39.1

%

 

 

40.0

%

Operating income

 

 

5.2

%

 

 

0.4

%

 

 

4.2

%

 

 

5.8

%

Remeasurement of preferred stock warrant liability

 

 

(0.6

)%

 

 

0.5

%

 

 

(1.8

)%

 

 

0.6

%

Other income, net

 

 

0.0

%

 

 

0.0

%

 

 

0.0

%

 

 

0.0

%

Income before income taxes

 

 

5.8

%

 

 

(0.1

)%

 

 

6.0

%

 

 

5.2

%

Provision for income taxes

 

 

4.6

%

 

 

(0.2

)%

 

 

3.1

%

 

 

2.4

%

Net income

 

 

1.2

%

 

 

0.1

%

 

 

2.9

%

 

 

2.8

%

Note: Due to rounding, percentages in this table may not sum to totals.
Revenue and Gross Margin

Revenue increaseddecreased by $58.1$104.6 million and $117.7$230.3 million, or 24.4%20.2% and 24.8%21.0%, respectively, during the three and six months ended January 27, 201828, 2023, compared withto the same periods last year. The increasedecrease in revenueboth periods was primarily attributabledue to a 30.6% increase 11.1% decline in active clients from January 28, 201729, 2022 to January 27, 2018,28, 2023, which drove increasedled to a decrease in sales of merchandise.

Additionally, we observed clients spending less in recent periods, and we expect this to continue given the economic backdrop and the deep discounting we are seeing in the retail industry.

Gross margin for the three months ended January 27, 201828, 2023, decreased by 1.9%410 basis points compared withto the same period last year. The decreaseyear, which was primarily attributable to investments indriven by higher product and transportation costs as a percentage of revenue, partially offset by lower inventory write-downs and expansion into new categories,clearance expense for slow moving inventory as well as an increase in inventory shrink. The grossa percentage of revenue. Gross margin for the six months ended January 27, 201828, 2023, decreased by 2.5%450 basis points, compared withto the same period last year. The decreaseyear, which was primarily attributable todriven by higher clearanceproduct and inventory shrink as well as an increase in merchandisetransportation costs as we expanded into new categories, and inventory obsolescence reserves.

a percentage of revenue.

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Selling, General, and Administrative Expenses

Selling, general and administrative expenses increased

SG&A decreased by $5.9$27.7 million and $41.9$55.6 million for the three and six months ended January 27, 2018,28, 2023, respectively, compared with the same periods last year. As a percentage of revenue, SG&A increased to 57.2% for the three months ended January 28, 2023, compared with 51.0% for the three months ended January 29, 2022, and increased to 55.6% for the six months ended January 28, 2023, compared with 49.0% for the six months ended January 29, 2022.
The decrease in 2017. SG&A expense in the three and six months ended January 28, 2023, compared to the three and six months ended January 29, 2022, was primarily related to lower compensation and benefits expense largely driven by our June 2022 restructuring plan, including lower stock-based compensation, and our decision to reduce advertising spend this fiscal year. The decrease was partially offset by restructuring and other one-time costs of $34.7 million recorded in the second quarter of fiscal 2023. The restructuring charges consist of $15.6 million in severance and employee-related benefits, $16.9 million of impairment related to a portion of our corporate office space, $1.8 million of accelerated depreciation expense on assets, and $0.4 million of other restructuring costs. Other one-time costs were $0.1 million in the second quarter of fiscal 2023.
The increase in both periods was primarily due to an increase in advertising spend of $9.6 million and $22.5 millionSG&A margin for the three and six months ended January 27, 2018, respectively, as we expanded


our television and online advertising initiatives. The increases were also due28, 2023, compared with the same period last year, was primarily related to higher compensation and benefits expense as we increased our headcount over the last year, partially offset by $21.3 million ina percentage of revenue, including higher stock-based compensation costs incurred in 2017 in connection with certain stock sales by currentas a percentage of revenue. The increase was also related to restructuring and former employees.

Remeasurement of Preferred Stock Warrant Liability

The changeother one-time recorded in the preferred stock warrant liability was due to a change in the underlying fair valuesecond quarter of our preferred stock until the conversion of our preferred stock warrants into Class B common stock as part of our IPO.

fiscal 2023.

Provision for Income Taxes

The following table summarizes our effective tax rate from income for the periods presented (in thousands):

presented:

 

 

For the Three Months Ended

 

 

For the Six Months Ended

 

 

 

January 27, 2018

 

 

January 28, 2017

 

 

January 27, 2018

 

 

January 28, 2017

 

Income before income taxes

 

$

17,244

 

 

$

(253

)

 

$

35,876

 

 

$

24,779

 

Provisions for income taxes

 

 

13,603

 

 

 

(486

)

 

 

18,747

 

 

 

11,303

 

Effective tax rate

 

 

78.9

%

 

 

192.1

%

 

 

52.3

%

 

 

45.6

%

 For the Three Months EndedFor the Six Months Ended
(in thousands)January 28, 2023January 29, 2022January 28, 2023January 29, 2022
Loss before income taxes$(65,352)$(30,572)$(120,993)$(32,197)
Provision for income taxes219 340 496 542 
Effective tax rate(0.3)%(1.1)%(0.4)%(1.7)%

We are primarily subject to income taxes in the United States.States and the United Kingdom. Our effective tax rate for the three and six months ended January 28, 20172023, differs from the federal statutory income tax rate primarily due to accounting for the effects of enactment of the Tax Act, certain nondeductible expenses, effect offull valuation allowance recorded on our net federal and state taxes, partially offset by the benefit from the non-includible gain on remeasurement of the preferred stock warrant liability.

In the three months ended January 27, 2018, we revised our estimated annual effective rate to reflect a change in the federal statutory rate from 35% to 21%, as a result of the enactment of the Tax Act on December 22, 2017.deferred tax assets. The Company has a fiscal year end which subjects us to transitional tax rate rules.  Therefore, a blended U.S. statutory rate of 26.96% was computed for our fiscal year 2018.  Income tax expenseprovision for the three and six months ended January 28, 2017 was adjusted to reflect the discrete effects2023, is primarily comprised of the Tax Actstate taxes and resultedincome taxes in an increase in income tax expense of $4.7 million related to the remeasurement of existing deferred tax balances.  This discrete impact was considered a provisional amount under the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission Staff Accounting Bulletin No. 118.  

foreign jurisdictions.

Our effective tax rate for the three and six months ended January 28, 2017 was based on the historic statutory tax rate of 35%. Our effective tax rate for the three and nine months ended January 28, 201729, 2022, differs from the federal statutory income tax rate primarily due to nondeductible lossthe full valuation allowance recorded on remeasurementour net federal and state deferred tax assets.
We continue to monitor the progress of ongoing discussions with tax authorities and the impact, if any, of the preferred stock warrant liability, effectexpected expiration of state taxes, certain other nondeductible expenses, partially offset by the benefits on certain stock-based compensation deductions.

statute of limitations in various taxing jurisdictions.

Liquidity and Capital Resources

Sources of Liquidity

Our principal sourcessource of liquidity since inception have beenis our cash, cash equivalents, and cash flows from operations, as well as the net proceeds we received through private sales of equity securities and our IPO. We have had positive and growing cash flows from operations since 2014. operations.
As of January 27, 2018,28, 2023, we had raised an aggregate of $169.6 million of equity capital including proceeds from our IPO. We had $266.4$139.0 million of cash and $9.1cash equivalents and $84.9 million of restricted cashinvestments. Our investment balance includes $82.6 million of short-term investments with contractual maturities of 12 months or less as of January 28, 2023.
We are party to a $100.0 million amended and restated credit agreement, entered into June 2, 2021 and amended on July 29, 2022 (the “Amended Credit Agreement”) with Silicon Valley Bank and other lenders. The Amended Credit Agreement includes a letter of credit sub-facility of $30.0 million and a swingline sub-facility of up to $40.0 million. As of January 28, 2023, we did not have any borrowings outstanding on the revolving line of credit under the Amended Credit Agreement and we had $79.1 million in borrowing capacity as reduced by outstanding letters of credit.
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Our obligations under the Amended Credit Agreement and any hedging or cash management agreements entered into with any lender thereunder are secured by substantially all of our current and future property, rights, and assets, including, but not limited to, cash, goods, equipment, contractual rights, financial assets, and intangible assets. The Amended Credit Agreement contains covenants limiting the ability to, among other things, dispose of assets, undergo a change in control, merge or consolidate, make acquisitions, incur debt, incur liens, pay dividends, repurchase stock, and make investments, in each case subject to certain exceptions. The Amended Credit Agreement also contains financial covenants requiring us to maintain minimum free cash flow and an adjusted current ratio above specified levels, measured in each case at the end of each fiscal quarter. The Amended Credit Agreement contains events of default that include, among others, non-payment of principal, interest, or fees, breach of covenants, inaccuracy of representations and warranties, cross defaults to certain other indebtedness, bankruptcy and insolvency events, and material judgments.
For information on the terms of the Amended Credit Agreement, please see “Credit Agreement” in Note 5 of the Notes to Condensed Consolidated Financial Statements included in this Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q at Item 1. Financial Statements.
Uses of Cash
Our primary use of cash includes operating costs such as merchandise purchases, lease obligations, compensation and benefits, marketing, and other expenditures necessary to support our business growth.business. We have been ablemay also use cash to fund these costs throughrepurchase shares of our cash flows from operations since 2014 and expect to continue to do so. common stock.
We believe our existing cash, cash equivalents, investment balances, and cash flows from operationsthe borrowing available under our Amended Credit Agreement, if needed, will be sufficient to meet our working capital and capital expenditure needs for at least the next 12 months.

months and beyond.

Share Repurchases

In January 2022, our Board of Directors authorized a share repurchase program to repurchase up to $150.0 million of our outstanding Class A common stock, with no expiration date (the “2022 Repurchase Program”). We may repurchase shares from time to time through open market repurchases, privately negotiated transactions, or other means, including through Rule 10b5-1 trading plans. The actual timing, number and value of shares repurchased in the future will be determined by the Company in its discretion and will depend on a number of factors, including price, trading volume, market conditions, and other general business conditions. Repurchases will be funded from the Company’s existing cash and cash equivalents or future cash flow. The repurchase program may be modified, suspended, or terminated at any time. During the three months ended January 28, 2023, the Company made no repurchases of Class A common stock. As of January 28, 2023, the Company has repurchased 2,302,141 shares of Class A common stock for $30.0 million under the 2022 Repurchase Program. We had $120.0 million remaining in share repurchase capacity as of January 28, 2023.
Cash Flows

The following table summarizes our cash flows for the periods indicated and our cash and working capital balances as of the end of the period (in thousands):

below:

 

 

For the Six Months Ended

 

 

 

January 27, 2018

 

 

January 28, 2017

 

Net cash provided by operating activities

 

$

33,735

 

 

$

49,532

 

Net cash used in investing activities

 

 

(8,232

)

 

 

(11,367

)

Net cash provided by (used in) financing activities

 

 

130,013

 

 

 

(2,635

)

Net increase in cash and restricted cash

 

$

155,516

 

 

$

35,530

 

 For the Six Months Ended
(in thousands)January 28, 2023January 29, 2022
Net cash provided by operating activities$11,060 $124,932 
Net cash provided by (used in) investing activities3,210 (27,633)
Net cash used in financing activities(6,932)(32,003)
Effect of exchange rate changes on cash and cash equivalents706 (1,203)
Net increase in cash and cash equivalents$8,044 $64,093 

Cash provided by operating activities

During the six months ended January 27, 2018,28, 2023, cash provided by operating activities was $33.7$11.1 million, which consisted of a net incomeloss of $17.1$121.5 million, adjusted by non-cash charges of $12.0$91.3 million and a change of $4.6$41.3 million in our net operating assets and liabilities. The non-cash charges were largelyprimarily driven by $7.0$57.6 million increaseof stock-based compensation expense, $22.1 million of depreciation, amortization, and accretion, and $16.9 million in asset impairment charges. The change in our net operating assets and liabilities was primarily due to a change of $44.9 million in our inventory reserve, a $5.5 million increase in deferred tax expense primarily relatedbalance due to a $4.7decline in inventory receipts and a cash inflow of $26.6 million remeasurementfrom income tax refunds, partially offset by a decrease of $42.5 million in accounts payable and accrued liabilities due to timing of payments.
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During the six months ended January 29, 2022, cash provided by operating activities was $124.9 million, which consisted of a net loss of $32.7 million, offset by non-cash charges of $82.5 million and by a change of $75.2 million in our net deferred taxoperating assets under the Tax Act, $5.1and liabilities. The non-cash charges were primarily driven by $64.7 million of stock-based compensation expense and $4.9$17.4 million of depreciation, amortization, and amortization, partially offset by $10.7 million related to the remeasurement of the preferred stock warrant liability.accretion. The change in our net operating assets and liabilities was primarily due to an increase of $15.3$47.0 million in accounts payable and accrued liabilities related to the increased business activity and a decrease of $5.1 million in prepaid and other assets due to timing of payments, substantially all offset by an increaseand a change of $19.5$28.1 million in our inventory balance primarily due to increaseda decline in inventory purchases to support our growth.

receipts from global supply chain delays.

Cash used in investing activities
During the six months ended January 28, 2017,2023, cash provided by operatinginvesting activities was $49.5 million, which consisted of net income of $13.5 million, adjusted by non-cash charges of $19.4 million and a change of $16.6 million in our net operating assets and liabilities. The non-cash charges were largely driven by $9.7 million in compensation expense related to certain stock sales by current and former employees, $3.4 million of depreciation and amortization, a $3.2 million increase in our inventory reserve, and $2.6 million related to the remeasurement of the preferred stock warrant liability. The change in our net operating assets and liabilities million. This was primarily due to an increasethe sales and maturities of $28.5available-for-sale securities of $15.4 million, in accounts payable and accrued liabilities, an increase of $3.6 million in gift card liability, and an increase of $3.1 million in other liabilities, primarily partially offset by an increasepurchases of $10.5 million in inventoryproperty and $9.4 million in prepaid expenses and other assets.

Cash used in investing activities

equipment of $11.9 million.

During the six months ended January 27, 2018 and January 28, 2017,29, 2022, cash used in investing activities was $8.2$27.6 million. This was primarily due to maturities and sales of available-for-sale securities of $76.1 million and $11.4$4.7 million, respectively, due to the purchasesubstantially offset by our investment of $77.5 million in available-for-sale securities and purchases of property and equipment primarily related to the expansion of our fulfillment centers and offices as well as continued investment$30.9 million.
Cash used in our proprietary systems.

Cash (used in) provided by financing activities

During the six months ended January 27, 2018 , cash provided by financing activities was $130.0 million, which was primarily due to the net proceeds from our IPO.

During the six months ended January 28, 2017, 2023, cash used in financing activities was $2.6 million, which$6.9 million. This was primarily due to payments for tax withholding related to vesting of restricted stock units.
During the repurchasesix months ended January 29, 2022, cash used in financing activities was $32.0 million. This was primarily due to payments for tax withholding related to vesting of restricted stock units and purchases of Class BA common stock relatedpursuant to early exercisedthe 2022 Repurchase Program, partially offset by proceeds from the exercise of stock options.

Contractual Obligations and Other Commitments

On January 29, 2018, subsequent to our quarter-end, we executed an amendment to the lease on our corporate headquarters, which increased the future minimum lease payments on our corporate headquarters to approximately $115.3 million over ten years.

There have been no other material changes to our contractual obligations and other commitments as disclosed in the Final Prospectus.

Off-Balance Sheet Arrangements

We have not entered any off-balance sheet arrangements and do not have any holdings in variable interest entities.

our 2022 Annual Report on Form 10-K.

Critical Accounting Policies and Estimates

Our unaudited condensed consolidated financial statements have been prepared in accordance with GAAP. The preparation of these unaudited condensed consolidated financial statements requires us to make estimates and judgments that affect the reported amounts of assets, liabilities, revenues, and expenses and the related disclosures. We base our estimates on historical experience and on other assumptions that we believe to be reasonable under the circumstances. These estimates and assumptions form the basis for making judgments about the carrying values of assets and liabilities that are not readily apparent from other sources. Actual results may differ from these estimates under different assumptions or conditions.

There have been no materialsignificant changes to our critical accounting policies as compared to the critical accounting policies and significant judgments and estimates as compared to the critical accounting policies and significant judgments and estimates disclosed in the Final Prospectus. For additional information, please refer to Note 2 of our condensed consolidated financial statements in this Quarterly2022 Annual Report on Form 10-Q.

10-K.

ITEM 3.

Quantitative and Qualitative Disclosures about

ITEM 3.    Quantitative and Qualitative Disclosures About Market Risk

We have operations both within the United States and in the UK, and we are exposed to market risks in the ordinary course of business. These risks primarily include interest rate risk, foreign currency risk and inflation risk.
Interest Rate Risk
We are primarily exposed to market risks through interest rate risk on our investments. As of January 28, 2023, we had $84.9 million in highly rated investments accounted for as available-for-sale securities, which are presented on our condensed consolidated balance sheets at their fair market value compared to $99.8 million as of July 30, 2022. These interest-earning instruments carry a degree of interest rate risk; however, a hypothetical 10% change in interest rates during the three and six months ended January 28, 2023, would not have had a material impact on our condensed consolidated financial statements.
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Foreign Currency Risk
As of January 28, 2023, our revenue was earned in U.S. dollars and British pound sterling. Our cash is depositedexpansion into the United Kingdom (“UK”) exposes us to fluctuations in checkingforeign currency exchange rates on our operating expenses. Fluctuations in foreign currency exchange rates may also result in transaction gains or losses on transactions in currencies other than the U.S. dollar or British pound sterling. For the three and savings accounts; therefore,six months ended January 28, 2023, a hypothetical 10% increase or decrease in current exchange rates would not have had a material impact on our condensed consolidated financial results.
InflationRisk
Our costs are subject to inflationary pressures, which we expect to continue, and if those pressures become significant, we may not be able to fully offset such higher costs through price increases. Our inability or failure to do so could harm our business, financial condition, and results of operations. The primary inflationary factors affecting our business are merchandise costs, shipping and freight costs, and labor costs. Additionally, although difficult to quantify, we believe we are relatively insensitiveinflation is having an adverse effect on our clients’ discretionary spending habits, which has impacted and may continue to interest rate changes.

impact net revenue.

ITEM 4.

ITEM 4.    Controls and Procedures

Evaluation of Disclosure Controls and Procedures

Our management, with the participation of our Chief Executive Officer and Chief Financial Officer, has evaluated the effectiveness of our disclosure controls and procedures (as defined in Rules 13a-15(e) and 15d-15(e) under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended)amended (the “Exchange Act”)), as of the end of the period covered by this Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q.

Annual Report.

Based on the evaluation of our disclosure controls and procedures as of January 27, 2018,28, 2023, our Chief Executive Officer and Chief Financial Officer concluded that our disclosure controls and procedures were effective as a result of a material weaknessJanuary 28, 2023.
Changes in Internal Control over Financial Reporting
There were no changes during the quarter ended January 28, 2023 in our internal control over financial reporting as previously disclosed in our Final Prospectus, our disclosure controls and procedures were not effective as of January 27, 2018.

Material Weakness in Internal Control Over Financial Reporting

In connection with the audit of our consolidated financial statements for the year ended July 29, 2017, we identified a material weakness in our internal control over financial reporting, as defined in the standards established by the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002, or the Sarbanes-Oxley Act. A material weakness is a deficiency, or a combination of deficiencies, in internal control over financial reporting such that there is a reasonable possibility that a material misstatement of our annual or interim financial statements will not be prevented or detected on a timely basis.  

Our management has determined that we had a material weakness in our internal control over financial reporting as of July 29, 2017, relating to the accounting and proprietary systems used in our financial reporting process not having the proper level of controls. Specifically, our systems lacked controls over access, program change management and computer operations that are needed to ensure access to financial data is adequately restricted to appropriate personnel.

Management’s Plan to Remediate the Material Weakness

As a result of this material weakness, we have initiated and will continue to implement remediation measures including, but not limited to, engaging external consultants to conduct a review of processes that involve financial data within our accounting and proprietary systems. This review includes identification of potential risks, documentation of processes and recommendations for improvement. We are still in the process of completing the remediation of the previously identified material weakness.

The initiatives we are implementing to remediate the material weakness are subject to continued management review supported by confirmation and testing, as well as audit committee oversight. We will continue to implement measures to remedy our internal control deficiencies in order to meet the deadline imposed by Section 404 of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act. However, we cannot be certain that the measures we have taken or may take in the future will ensure that we will establish and maintain adequate controls over our financial processes and reporting in the future.


Notwithstanding the material weakness, our management has concluded that the financial statements included elsewhere in this Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q present fairly, in all material respects, our financial position, results of operations and cash flows in conformity with GAAP.

If we fail to fully remediate this material weakness or fail to maintain effective internal controls in the future, it could result in a material misstatement of our financial statements that would not be prevented or detected on a timely basis, which could cause investors to lose confidence in our financial information or cause our stock price to decline. Our independent registered public accounting firm has not assessed the effectiveness of our internal control over financial reporting and, under the Jumpstart Our Business Startups Act of 2012, or the JOBS Act, will not be required to provide an attestation report on the effectiveness of our internal control over financial reporting so long as we qualify as an “emerging growth company,” which may increase the risk that weaknesses or deficiencies in our internal control over financial reporting go undetected.

Changes in Internal Control

Other than the changes intended to remediate the material weakness noted above, there were no changes in our internal control over financial reporting during the quarter ended January 27, 2018 that have materially affected, or are reasonably likely to materially affect, our internal control over financial reporting.

Inherent Limitations on Effectiveness of Controls and Procedures

In designing and evaluating

An effective internal control system, no matter how well designed, has inherent limitations, including the disclosurepossibility of human error or overriding of controls, and procedures andtherefore can provide only reasonable assurance with respect to reliable financial reporting. Because of its inherent limitations, our internal control over financial reporting management recognizes that anymay not prevent or detect all misstatements, including the possibility of human error, the circumvention or overriding of controls, and procedures, no matter how well designed and operated,or fraud. Effective internal controls can provide only reasonable assurance with respect to the preparation and fair presentation of achieving the desired control objectives. In addition, the design of disclosure controls and procedures and internal control over financial reporting must reflect the fact that there are resource constraints and that management is required to apply judgment in evaluating the benefits of possible controls and procedures relative to their costs.

statements.

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PART II. OTHER INFORMATION

ITEM 1.

ITEM 1.    LEGAL PROCEEDINGS

We are not party to any material legal proceedings at this time. From time to time, we may become involved

The information contained in various legal proceedings that arise“Note 6 - Commitments and Contingencies: Contingencies” in the ordinary course of business. We have inNotes to the past and may in the future become involved in private actions, collective actions, investigations and various other legal proceedingsCondensed Consolidated Financial Statements included within this Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q is incorporated herein by clients, employees, suppliers, competitors, government agencies or others. We evaluate any claims and lawsuits with respect to their potential merits, our potential defenses and counter claims, and the expected effect on us of defending the claims and a potential adverse result. However, the results of any litigation, investigations and other legal proceedings are inherently unpredictable and expensive. Any claims against us, whether meritorious or not, could be time consuming, result in costly litigation, damage our reputation, require significant amounts of management time and divert significant resources. If any legal proceedings were to be determined adversely to us, or we were to enter into a settlement arrangement, we could be exposed to monetary damages or limits on our ability to operate our business, which could have an adverse effect on our business, financial condition and operating results.

reference.

ITEM 1A.

ITEM 1A.    RISK FACTORS

RISK FACTOR SUMMARY
Our business is subject to numerous risks. The following summary highlights some of the risks you should consider with respect to our business and prospects. This summary is not complete and the risks summarized below are not the only risks we face. You should review and consider carefully the risks and uncertainties described in more detail in the “Risk Factors” below, which includes a more complete discussion of the risks summarized here.
Risks Relating to Our Business
Our growth depends on attracting new clients.
We may be unable to maintain a high level of engagement with our clients and increase their spending with us, which could harm our business, financial condition, or operating results.
We rely on paid marketing to help grow our business, but these efforts may not be successful or cost effective, and such expenses may vary from period to period.
If we are unable to manage our inventory effectively, our operating results could be adversely affected.
The COVID-19 pandemic has caused significant disruption to our operations and impacted our business, key financial and operating metrics, and results of operations in numerous ways that remain unpredictable.
Our failure to adequately and effectively staff our fulfillment centers and other operational constraints at our fulfillment centers could adversely affect our client experience and operating results.
Shipping is a critical part of our business and any changes in our shipping arrangements or any interruptions in shipping could adversely affect our operating results.
Our business, including our costs and supply chain, is subject to risks associated with the sourcing and pricing of merchandise and raw materials.
We may not be able to return to or sustain our revenue growth rate and we may not be profitable in the future.
If we fail to effectively manage our business, our financial condition and operating results could be harmed.
If we are unable to develop and introduce new offerings or expand into new markets in a timely and cost-effective manner, our business, financial condition, and operating results could be negatively impacted.
We have a short operating history in an evolving industry and, as a result, our past results may not be indicative of future operating performance.
Expansion of our operations internationally requires management attention and resources, involves additional risks, and may be unsuccessful.
Our business depends on a strong brand and we may not be able to maintain our brand and reputation.
If we fail to attract and retain key personnel, effectively manage succession, or hire, develop, and motivate our employees, our business, financial condition, and operating results could be adversely affected.
If we fail to effectively manage our stylists, our business, financial condition and operating results could be adversely affected.
If we are unable to acquire new merchandise vendors or retain existing merchandise vendors, our operating results may be harmed.
We may incur significant losses from fraud.
We are subject to payment-related risks.
Risks Relating to our Industry, the Market, and the Economy
We rely on consumer discretionary spending and may be adversely affected by economic downturns and other macroeconomic conditions or trends.
Our industry is highly competitive and if we do not compete effectively our operating results could be adversely affected.
Our operating results have been, and could be in the future, adversely affected by natural disasters, public health crises, political crises, or other catastrophic events.
Cybersecurity, Legal and Regulatory Risks
System interruptions that impair client access to our website or other performance failures in our technology infrastructure could damage our business.
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Compromises of our data security could cause us to incur unexpected expenses and may materially harm our reputation and operating results.
Some of our software and systems contain open source software, which may pose particular risks to our proprietary applications.
Adverse litigation judgments or settlements resulting from legal proceedings in which we are or may be involved could expose us to monetary damages or limit our ability to operate our business.
Any failure by us or our vendors to comply with product safety, labor, or other laws, or our standard vendor terms and conditions, or to provide safe factory conditions for our or their workers, may damage our reputation and brand, and harm our business.
Our use of personal information and other data subjects us to privacy laws and obligations, and our compliance with or failure to comply with such obligations could harm our business.
Unfavorable changes or failure by us to comply with evolving internet and eCommerce regulations could substantially harm our business and operating results.
If the use of “cookie” tracking technologies is further restricted, regulated, or blocked, or if changes in technology cause cookies to become less reliable or acceptable as a means of tracking consumer behavior, the amount or accuracy of internet user information we collect would decrease, which could harm our business and operating results.
If we cannot successfully protect our intellectual property, our business would suffer.
We may be accused of infringing intellectual property rights of third parties.
Risks Relating to Taxes
Changes in U.S. tax or tariff policy regarding apparel produced in other countries could adversely affect our business.
We could be required to collect additional sales taxes or be subject to other tax liabilities that may increase the costs our clients would have to pay for our offering and adversely affect our operating results.
Federal income tax reform could have unforeseen effects on our financial condition and results of operations.
We may be subject to additional tax liabilities, which could adversely affect our operating results.
Our ability to use our net operating loss carryforwards and certain other tax attributes may be limited.
Risks Relating to Ownership of Our Class A Common Stock
The market price of our Class A common stock may continue to be volatile or may decline steeply or suddenly regardless of our operating performance and we may not be able to meet investor or analyst expectations. You may lose all or part of your investment.
We cannot guarantee that our share repurchase program will be fully consummated or that it will enhance long-term stockholder value. Share repurchases could also increase the volatility of the trading price of our stock and could diminish our cash reserves.
Future sales of shares by existing stockholders could cause our stock price to decline.
The dual class structure of our common stock concentrates voting control with our executive officers, directors and their affiliates, and may depress the trading price of our Class A common stock.
We do not currently intend to pay dividends on our Class A common stock and, consequently, your ability to achieve a return on your investment will depend on appreciation of the value of our Class A common stock.
Delaware law and provisions in our amended and restated certificate of incorporation and amended and restated bylaws could make a merger, tender offer, or proxy contest difficult, thereby depressing the trading price of our Class A common stock.
Our amended and restated certificate of incorporation provides that the Court of Chancery of the State of Delaware and the federal district courts of the United States are the exclusive forums for substantially all disputes between us and our stockholders, which could limit our stockholders’ ability to obtain a favorable judicial forum for disputes with us or our directors, officers, or employees.
General Risk Factors
Future securities sales and issuances could result in significant dilution to our stockholders and impair the market price of our Class A common stock.
If we are unable to maintain effective internal control over financial reporting, investors may lose confidence in the accuracy of our reported financial information and this may lead to a decline in our stock price.
We may not be able to generate sufficient capital to support and grow our business, and this additional capital might not be available or may be available only by diluting existing stockholders.
If securities or industry analysts either do not publish research about us or publish inaccurate or unfavorable research about us, our business, or our market, or if they change their recommendations regarding our common stock adversely, the trading price or trading volume of our Class A common stock could decline.
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RISK FACTORS
Investing in our Class A common stock involves a high degree of risk. You should consider and read carefully all of the risks and uncertainties described below, as well as other information included in this Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q (this “Quarterly Report”), and in our other public filings.filings. The risks described below are not the only ones facing us. The occurrence of any of the following risks or additional risks and uncertainties not presently known to us or that we currently believe to be immaterial could materially and adversely affect our business, financial condition, or results of operations. In such case, the trading price of our Class A common stock could decline, and you may lose all or part of your original investment. This Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q also contains forward-looking statements and estimates that involve risks and uncertainties. Our actual results could differ materially from those anticipated in the forward-looking statements as a result of specific factors, including the risks and uncertainties described below. The risks relating
Risks Relating to our business set forth in our Final Prospectus, are set forth below and are unchanged substantively as of January 27, 2018, except for those risks designated by an asterisk (*).

Risks Related to ourOur Business

We have a short operating history in an evolving industry and, as a result, our past results may not be indicative of future operating performance.

We have a short operating history in a rapidly evolving industry that may not develop in a manner favorable to our business. Our relatively short operating history makes it difficult to assess our future performance. You should consider our business and prospects in light of the risks and difficulties we may encounter.

Our future success will depend in large part upon our ability to, among other things:

cost-effectively acquire new clients and engage with existing clients;

increase consumer awareness of our brand;

anticipate and respond to changing style trends and consumer preferences;

manage our inventory effectively;

successfully expand our offering and geographic reach;

compete effectively;

anticipate and respond to macroeconomic changes;

effectively manage our growth;

continue to enhance our personalization capabilities;

hire, integrate and retain talented people at all levels of our organization;

avoid interruptions in our business from information technology downtime, cybersecurity breaches or labor stoppages;

maintain the quality of our technology infrastructure;

develop new features to enhance the client experience; and

retain our existing merchandise vendors and attract new vendors.


If we fail to address the risks and difficulties that we face, including those associated with the challenges listed above as well as those described elsewhere in this “Risk Factors” section, our business and our operating results will be adversely affected.

If we fail to effectively manage our growth, our business, financial condition and operating results could be harmed.

To effectively manage our growth, we must continue to implement our operational plans and strategies, improve and expand our infrastructure of people and information systems and expand, train and manage our employee base. Since our inception, we have rapidly increased our employee headcount to support the growth of our business. We expect to add a significant number of employees during 2018. We have expanded across all areas of our business. To support continued growth, we must effectively integrate, develop and motivate a large number of new employees while maintaining our corporate culture. We face significant competition for personnel, particularly in the San Francisco Bay Area where our headquarters are located. To attract top talent, we have had to offer, and believe we will need to continue to offer, competitive compensation and benefits packages before we can validate the productivity of those employees. We may also need to increase our employee compensation levels in response to competition. The risks associated with a rapidly growing workforce will be particularly acute if we choose to expand into new merchandise categories and internationally.

Additionally, we may not be able to hire new employees quickly enough to meet our needs. If we fail to effectively manage our hiring needs or successfully integrate new hires, our efficiency, ability to meet forecasts and our employee morale, productivity and retention could suffer, which may have an adverse effect on our business, financial condition and operating results.

We are also required to manage numerous relationships with various vendors and other third parties. Further growth of our operations, vendor base, fulfillment centers, information technology systems or internal controls and procedures may not be adequate to support our operations. If we are unable to manage the growth of our organization effectively, our business, financial condition and operating results may be adversely affected.

Our continued growth depends on attracting new clients.

Our success depends on our ability to attract new clients in a cost-effective manner. To expand our client base, we must appeal to and acquire clients who have historically used other means to purchase apparel, shoes, and accessories, such as traditional brick-and-mortar apparel retailers or the websites of our competitors. We reachalso face competition for clients from other retailers who offer or plan to offer similar services as ours. We currently utilize both digital and offline channels to attract new clients through paidvisitors to our website or mobile app and subsequently convert them into clients. At any given time, our advertising efforts may include, social media marketing, referralkeyword search campaigns, affiliate programs, organic word of mouthpartnerships, campaigns with celebrities and other methods of discovery, such as mentions in the press or internetinfluencers, display advertising, television, radio, video, content, direct mail, email, mobile “push” communications, SMS, and search engine results. Starting in calendar year 2017,optimization. Our marketing expenses have varied from period to period, and we beganexpect this trend to continue as we evolve our marketing strategies and employ a disciplined approach to marketing spend. If we increase our paid marketing expenses by investing more in digital marketing and launching our first television advertising campaigns. We expect to increase our spending on these and other paid marketing channels in the future andspend, we cannot be certain that these effortsincreases will yield more clients, achieve meaningful payback on our investments, or be cost-effective.cost effective. We may also adjust our marketing strategy or decrease spend within a period if we are not achieving the intended results or if we believe the return-on-investment is not favorable, which may result in faster or slower rates of active client growth in any given period. For instance, in the fourth quarter of fiscal year 2021, we did not spend as much on marketing as anticipated as we waited to launch Freestyle to new-to-Stitch Fix customers. In the first and second fiscal quarters of fiscal year 2022, we spent less on marketing because we were experiencing weaker-than-expected conversion of new clients and decided to pull back to focus on evolving the Freestyle offering and refining the client onboarding experience. This negatively impacted our ability to acquire new clients, and in turn, our net revenue in subsequent quarters of fiscal year 2022. We also experienced weaker-than-expected conversion of new clients in the second and third quarters of fiscal 2022 driven by onboarding challenges and lower site traffic, due in part to the ongoing effects of Apple’s iOS privacy changes that require apps to get a user’s opt-in permission before tracking or sharing the user’s data across apps or websites owned by companies other than the app’s owner.
In addition, we seek to attract new clients by offering new products, services, and ways to engage with our platform, such as our Freestyle offering. If such new products or services are not timely or successfully launched or are not successful in attracting new clients, our results of operations may suffer. In fiscal year 2022, our results were below our expectations, in large part, because the initial launch of Freestyle did not drive as much new client growth as we anticipated. Moreover, new clients may not purchase from us as frequently or spend as much with us as existing clients, and the revenue generated from new clients may not be as high as the revenue generated from our existing clients. These factors may harm our growth prospects and our business could be adversely affected.

We expectmay be unable to maintain a high level of engagement with our clients and increase their spending with us, which could harm our business, financial condition, or operating results.
A high proportion of our revenue comes from repeat purchases by existing clients, especially those existing clients who are highly engaged and purchase a significant amount of merchandise from us. If existing clients no longer find our service and merchandise appealing or appropriately priced, they may make fewer purchases and may stop using our service. Even if our existing clients continue to find our service and merchandise appealing, they may decide to receive fewer Fixes or purchase fewer items from their Fixes or through Freestyle over time as their demand for new apparel declines or due to macroeconomic conditions or uncertainty. In addition, as we expand our assortment to include more products with lower price points, the amount clients spend with us may decrease. If clients who receive Fixes most frequently or purchase a significant amount of merchandise from us were to make fewer or lower priced purchases or stop using our service, our financial results could be negatively affected. We seek to attract high-quality clients who will remain clients for the long term, but our efforts may not be successful or produce the results we anticipate. For example, if we are not able to engage new Fix clients effectively so they continue receiving Fixes after their first few tries, our active client growth will suffer. In addition, in the fall of 2021, we launched Freestyle to new-to-Stitch Fix clients. We did not acquire as many new clients through Freestyle as we had hoped and we have less experience engaging with this new client base and developing high-quality relationships outside of our Fix offering. Our inability to attract and keep high-quality clients engaged, a decrease in our number of clients, or a decrease in
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client spending on the merchandise we offer could negatively affect our operating results. Further, we believe that our future success will depend in part on our ability to increase sales to our existing clients over time and, if we are unable to do so, our business may suffer.
We rely on paid marketing to help grow our business, but these efforts may not be successful or cost-effective.

cost effective, and such expenses may vary from period to period.

Promoting awareness of our service is important to our ability to grow our business, drive client engagement, and to attract new clients. We believe that much of the growth in our client base during our first five years was originated from referrals, organic word of mouth and other methods of discovery, asAt any given time, our marketing and advertising efforts and expenditures were relatively limited. More recently, we increased our paid marketing initiatives and intend to continue to do so. Our marketing efforts currentlymay include, client referrals, social media marketing, keyword search campaigns, affiliate programs, partnerships, campaigns with celebrities and influencers, display advertising, television, print, radio, video, content, direct mail, social media, email, mobile “push” communications, SMS, and search engine optimizationoptimization. External factors beyond our control, including general economic conditions and keyword search campaigns.decreased discretionary consumer spending, have impacted and may in the future impact the success of our marketing initiatives or how much we decide to spend on marketing in a given period. We also adjust our marketing activity from period to period or within a period as we launch new initiatives or offerings, such as Freestyle, run tests, or make decisions on marketing investments in response to anticipated rates of return, such as when we identify favorable cost per acquisition trends. For example, in the fourth quarter of fiscal year 2021, we did not spend as much on marketing as anticipated as we waited to launch Freestyle to new-to-Stitch Fix customers. In the first and second fiscal quarters of fiscal year 2022, we spent less on marketing because we were experiencing weaker-than-expected conversion of new clients and decided to pull back to focus on evolving the Freestyle offering and refining the client onboarding experience. This led to fewer clients being acquired, which negatively impacted our net revenue for the remainder of fiscal year 2022. We have limited experienceseen increased costs in certain digital marketing channels and our services using some of these methods. Our marketing initiatives may become increasingly expensive andexpensive; generating a meaningful return on those initiatives may be difficult. Even if we successfully increase revenue as a result of our paid marketing efforts, it may not offset the additional marketing expenses we incur.

We currently obtain a significant number of visits to our websites via organic search engine results. Search engines frequently change the algorithms that determine the ranking and display of results of a user’s search, which could reduce the number of organic visits to our websites, in turn reducing new client acquisition and adversely affecting our operating results.

Social networks are important as a source of new clients and as a means by which to connect with current clients, and suchtheir importance may be increasing. We may be unable to effectively maintain a presence within these networks, which could lead to lower than anticipated brand affinity and awareness, and in turn could adversely affect our operating results.


Further, mobile operating system and web browser providers, such as Apple and Google, have implemented product changes to limit the ability of advertisers to collect and use data to target and measure advertising. For example, Apple made a change in iOS 14 that required apps to get a user’s opt-in permission before tracking or sharing the user’s data across apps or websites owned by companies other than the app’s owner. Google intends to further restrict the use of third-party cookies in its Chrome browser in 2023, consistent with similar actions taken by the owners of other browsers, such as Apple in its Safari browser, and Mozilla in its Firefox browser. These changes have reduced and will continue to reduce our ability to efficiently target and measure advertising, in particular through online social networks, making our advertising less cost effective and successful. We expect to continue to be impacted by these changes.

With respect to our email marketing efforts, if we are unable to successfully deliver emails to our clients or if clients do not engage with our emails, whether out of choice, because those emails are marked as low priority or spam, or for other reasons, our business could be adversely affected.

If our marketing efforts are not successful in promoting awareness of our services, driving client engagement or attracting new clients, or if we are not able to cost-effectively manage our marketing expenses, our operating results will be adversely affected.

We may be unable to maintain a high level of engagement with our clients and increase their spending with us, which could harm our business, financial condition or operating results.

A high proportion of our revenue comes from repeat purchases by existing clients, especially those existing clients who are highly engaged and purchase a significant amount of merchandise from us. If existing clients no longer find our service and merchandise appealing, they may make fewer purchases and may stop using our service. Even if our existing clients find our service and merchandise appealing, they may decide to receive fewer Fixes and purchase less merchandise over time as their demand for new apparel declines. Additionally, if clients who receive Fixes most frequently and purchase a significant amount of merchandise from us were to make fewer purchases or stop using our service, then the aggregate amount clients spend with us would decline or grow more slowly. A decrease in the number of our clients or a decrease in their spending on the merchandise we offer could negatively impact our operating results. Further, we believe that our future success will depend in part on our ability to increase sales to our existing clients over time and, if we are unable to do so, our business may suffer.

We must successfully gauge apparel trends and changing consumer preferences.

Our success is, in large part, dependent upon our ability to identify apparel trends, predict and gauge the tastes of our clients and provide merchandise that satisfies client demand in a timely manner. However, lead times for many of our purchasing decisions may make it difficult for us to respond rapidly to new or changing apparel trends or client acceptance of merchandise chosen by our merchandising buyers. We generally enter into purchase contracts significantly in advance of anticipated sales and frequently before apparel trends are confirmed by client purchases. In the past, we have not always predicted our clients’ preferences and acceptance levels of our merchandise with accuracy. Further, we use our data science to predict our clients’ preferences and gauge demand for our merchandise, and there is no guarantee that our data science and algorithms will accurately anticipate client demand and tastes. To the extent we misjudge the market for the merchandise we offer or fail to execute on trends and deliver attractive merchandise to clients, our sales will decline and our operating results will be adversely affected.

If we are unable to manage our inventory effectively, our operating results could be adversely affected.

To ensure timely delivery of merchandise, we generally enter into purchase contracts well in advance of a particular season and frequentlyoften before apparel trends are confirmed by client purchases. As a result, we are vulnerable to demand and pricing shifts and to suboptimal selection and timing of merchandise purchases. In the past, we have not always predicted our clients’ preferences and acceptance levels of our trend items with accuracy, which has resulted in significant inventory write offs and lower gross margins.purchases. We rely on our merchandising team to order styles and products that our clients will purchase and we rely on our data science to inform the levelsdepth and breadth of inventory we purchase, including when to reorder items that are selling well and when to write off items that are not selling well. We have not always predicted our clients’ preferences with accuracy, which has negatively impacted revenue or resulted in significant write-offs when we have sub-optimal inventory assortment. In the fourth quarter of 2022, we experienced weaker consumer demand, which caused us to have higher inventory levels and increased inventory reserves that affected our financial results. Also, in response to the initial consumer reaction to COVID-19, we cancelled many inventory orders to be prepared for what we expected would be lower client demand. Consequently, when client demand increased, our inventory was not as optimized to meet the demand as we would have liked. Surges in cases of COVID-19 also impacted some of our vendors, who had delays in producing our orders. If our merchandise team doeswe do not predict client demand and tastes wellaccurately or if our algorithmswe do not help us reorder the right products or write off the right products in a timely manner, we maywill not effectively manage our inventory and may experience significant inventory write-offs or insufficient inventory to meet demand, which would adversely affect our operating results.
Our inventory levels also may be affected by product launch delays, consumer demand fluctuations due to macroeconomic factors, uncertainty or otherwise, disruptions in our systems due to upgrades, launches or otherwise, freight delays, vendor
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relationships, capacity constraints, and our inability to predict demand with respect to new categories or products. For example, freight delays caused by lockdowns due to COVID-19, port closures, port congestion, and shipping container and ship shortages affected us and caused us to experience delays in receiving inventory. Freight delays caused by these issues or new issues, including labor disruptions or shortages, may affect us in future quarters. Additionally, many of our inventory vendors utilize third-parties to provide financing that enables them produce and ship our items. While we do not manage the relationships with our vendors and their financial intermediaries, the tightening of credit markets, as well as our recent operating results, have put pressure on some of our vendors’ ability to secure that financing. This may impact our ability to receive inventory and manage our assortment. Also, in the past we have experienced challenges managing our inventory within the fulfillment centers given storage capacity constraints and challenges hiring fulfillment center employees. Any future such challenges could affect, the amount and types of inventory we have available to offer to clients, and therefore our operating results.
The COVID-19 pandemic has caused significant disruption to our operations and impacted our business, key financial and operating metrics, and results of operations in numerous ways that remain unpredictable.
Our business has been and may continue to be materially impacted by the effects of the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic. This pandemic and related measures taken to contain the spread of COVID-19, such as government-mandated business closures, office closures, state and local orders to “shelter in place,” and travel and transportation restrictions, have negatively affected the U.S. and global economies and disrupted global supply chains. There continues to be uncertainty around the COVID-19 pandemic, its duration, and its impact on U.S. and global economic activity and consumer behavior.
The COVID-19 pandemic and related measures resulted in significant disruption that negatively impacted and may in the future negatively impact our business. We experienced reduced capacity in the third quarter of fiscal year 2020 as we temporarily closed three of our fulfillment centers as we responded to the pandemic. We allowed employees to opt-in to work, provided them with four weeks of flexible paid time off, and implemented additional safety protocols. These efforts resulted in significantly less capacity in our fulfillment centers during the third quarter of fiscal year 2020, which resulted in delayed Fix shipments, a significant Fix backlog, delayed inventory and return processing, extended wait times for clients, and inventory management challenges. We also experienced intermittent and temporary closures in fiscal year 2021 and increases of COVID-19 cases in our fulfillment centers in connection with the increases of cases caused by both the Delta and Omicron variants. These increases in cases negatively affected operations at our fulfillment centers and any future surges in cases may negatively affect our operations in the future. Additionally, in fiscal year 2021, we experienced difficulty hiring employees in our fulfillment centers, which we attributed to both COVID-19 concerns and to increased competition and rising wages for eCommerce fulfillment center workers. Future capacity constraints in our fulfillment centers could cause delayed Fix shipments, delayed inventory and return processing, and inventory management challenges.
The duration of the pandemic’s effects remains uncertain. It will depend on factors such as the length of time the pandemic; the impact of variants that may emerge and the efficacy of the COVID-19 vaccines against those variants; the response by governmental bodies to reinstate mandated business closures, orders to “shelter in place,” and travel and transportation restrictions in the event of additional surges; the impact of the pandemic on the economy and consumer behavior, including the impacts of any recession or inflationary pressures resulting from the pandemic; and the effect on our clients, employees, vendors, and other partners. For example, we continue to work with our vendors to minimize inventory disruptions, but future delays and supply constraints may negatively affect our ability to obtain and manage inventory. We have experienced shipping delays to and from our customers as a result of our shipping vendors’ challenges fulfilling higher eCommerce shipping demand, which has impacted our results of operations. We also have been affected by, and may continue to be affected by, COVID-related freight delays and difficulties sourcing materials. Additionally, we may be negatively impacted if consumers shift back to traditional brick-and-mortar apparel retailers following the pandemic.
We re-opened our headquarters to employees in the third quarter of 2022, but most employees to continue to work in a remote capacity or a hybrid of in-person and remote work. Remote working environments present additional risks, uncertainties and costs that could affect our performance, including increased operational risk, uncertainty regarding office space needs, heightened vulnerability to cyber attacks due to increased remote work, potential reduced productivity, changes to our Company culture, potential strains to our business continuity plans, and increased costs to ensure our offices are safe and functional as hybrid offices that enable effective collaboration of both remote and in-person colleagues.
The COVID-19 pandemic and resulting economic disruption has also led to significant volatility in the capital markets. And while we have taken measures to preserve our access to liquidity, our cash generated from operations has been negatively impacted and future cash flows may be impacted by the development of the pandemic.
The impact of the COVID-19 pandemic may also exacerbate other risks discussed below, any of which could have a material effect on us. Though we continue to monitor the COVID-19 pandemic closely, the situation is continually evolving and additional impacts may arise that we are not aware of currently. In addition, if there are future resurgences of COVID-19, including of new strains or variants, the negative impacts on our business may be exacerbated.
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Our failure to adequately and effectively staff our fulfillment centers and other operational constraints at our fulfillment centers could adversely affect our client experience and operating results.
We currently receive and distribute merchandise at five fulfillment centers in the United States. We also have a fulfillment center in the UK, which is operated by a third party. During the third quarter of our 2020 fiscal year, in response to the COVID-19 pandemic, we temporarily closed three of our fulfillment centers, offered our fulfillment center employees four weeks of paid time off, and reduced the maximum number of employees in each fulfillment center in order to implement social distancing protocols. These changes resulted in operational constraints, which in turn temporarily reduced our ability to ship merchandise to clients and earn revenue during the third quarter of our 2020 fiscal year. In fiscal year 2021, we experienced smaller, intermittent interruptions in connection with temporary closures of fulfillment centers and experienced an increase of COVID-19 cases in our fulfillment centers. Any future surges of COVID-19 may cause increased cases among fulfillment center employees and negatively affect capacity at our fulfillment centers.
Additionally, we have in the past experienced difficulty hiring employees in our fulfillment centers, which we attribute to COVID-19 concerns and to increased competition and rising wages for eCommerce fulfillment center workers. To address this, we increased wages in our fulfillment centers and implemented other policies in order to be more competitive in hiring employees. These wage increases impacted our operating results. We may in the future have difficulty hiring employees in fulfillment centers due to increased competition or otherwise and we may have to increase wages for our fulfillment center employees, which would impact our operating results. These hiring difficulties have caused in the past and could in the future cause additional capacity constraints in our fulfillment centers. Capacity constraints in our fulfillment centers could affect the amount and types of inventory we have available to offer to clients, which will affect our results of operations. Additionally, if we or our third-party partner are unable to adequately staff our fulfillment centers to meet demand, or if the cost of such staffing is higher than projected due to competition, mandated wage increases, regulatory changes, international expansion, or other factors, our operating results will be further harmed.
Severe weather events, including earthquakes, hurricanes, tornadoes, floods, fires, storms, and other adverse weather events and climate conditions could also cause operational constraints or temporarily reduce our ability to ship merchandise to clients. For instance, the severe winter weather and temperatures experienced in Texas and other parts of the country in February 2021 caused us to temporarily close two of our fulfillment centers and affected the shipping of merchandise in and out of fulfillment centers. Future weather events, which we expect to become more frequent and more severe with the increasing effects of climate change, could have a significant impact on our operations and results of operations.
In addition, operating fulfillment centers comes with potential risks, such as workplace safety issues and employment claims for the failure or alleged failure to comply with labor laws or laws respecting union organizing activities. Furthermore, if we fail to comply with wage and hour laws for our nonexempt employees, many of whom work in our fulfillment centers, we could be subject to legal risk, including claims for back wages, unpaid overtime pay, and missed meal and rest periods, which could be on a class or representative basis. Any such issues may result in delays in shipping times, reduced packing quality, or costly litigation, and our reputation and operating results may be harmed.
Finally, by using a third-party operator for one of our fulfillment centers, we also face additional risks associated with not having complete control over operations at our UK fulfillment center. Any deterioration in the financial condition or operations of that third party, or the loss of the relationship with that third party, or any event or crisis that impacts the UK generally or the specific area where our fulfillment center is located, would have a significant impact on our operations.
Shipping is a critical part of our business and any changes in our shipping arrangements or any interruptions in shipping could adversely affected.

affect our operating results.

We currently rely on three major vendors for our shipping. If we are not able to negotiate acceptable pricing and other terms with these entities, shipping prices increase at unexpected levels, or our shipping vendors experience performance problems or other difficulties, it could negatively impact our operating results and our clients’ experience. In addition, our ability to receive inbound inventory efficiently, ship merchandise to clients, and receive returned merchandise from clients may be negatively affected by inclement weather, fire, flood, power loss, earthquakes, public health crises such as the COVID-19 pandemic, labor disputes, shortages, or strikes, acts of war or terrorism, periods of high e-commerce volume, such as holiday seasons, and similar factors. Due to our business model and the fact that we recognize revenue from Fixes when a client checks out items, rather than when Fixes are shipped, we may be impacted by shipping delays to a greater extent than our competitors. Additionally, delays in shipping may cause an auto-ship client’s subsequent Fixes to be scheduled for a later date, as their next Fix is not scheduled until their checkout is complete. In the second quarter of our 2021 fiscal year, we experienced carrier and client shipping delays due to the COVID-19 pandemic and the increased strain on our shipping partners during the holiday season. These delays affected our ability to recognize revenue within the quarter, and we may in the future experience these delays and the resulting impact to our financial results, including potentially during future holiday seasons. In the past, strikes at major international shipping ports have impacted our supply of inventory from our vendors and severe weather events have resulted in long delivery delays and Fix cancellations. Additionally, some of our merchandise may be damaged or lost during
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transit with our shipping vendors. If a greater portion of our merchandise is not delivered in a timely fashion or is damaged or lost during transit, it could adversely affect our operating results or could cause our clients to become dissatisfied and cease using our services, which would adversely affect our business.
Our inabilitybusiness, including our costs and supply chain, is subject to risks associated with the sourcing and pricing of merchandise and raw materials.
We currently source nearly all of the merchandise that we offer from third-party vendors, many of whom use manufacturers in the same geographic region, and as a result we may be subject to price increases or fluctuations, inflationary pressures, tariffs, demand disruptions, increased shipping or freight costs, or shipping delays in connection with our merchandise. Increased shipping or freights costs or shipping and freight delays could be caused or exacerbated by labor disputes, shortages, or strikes, inclement weather, fire, flood, power loss, earthquakes, public health crises such as the COVID-19 pandemic, acts of war or terrorism, and periods of high e-commerce volume. Our operating results are and have been negatively impacted by increases in the cost of our merchandise, and we have no guarantees that costs will not rise further or at increasing rates. In addition, as we expand into new categories, product types, and geographies, we expect that we may not have strong purchasing power in these new areas, which could lead to higher costs than we have historically seen in our current categories. We may not be able to pass increased costs on to clients, which could adversely affect our operating results.
The fabrics used by our vendors are made of raw materials including, but not limited to, petroleum-based products and cotton. Significant price increases or fluctuations, currency volatility or fluctuation, tariffs, shortages, increases in shipping or freight costs, or shipping delays of petroleum, cotton, or other raw materials could significantly increase our cost of goods sold or affect our operating results. The COVID-19 pandemic caused delays in some shipments from our suppliers and we have experienced delays in some shipments from our suppliers caused by lockdowns due to COVID-19, factory and port closures, port congestion, and shipping container and other shortages. Additionally, we have limited visibility into delays or control over shipping. These delays may occur or continue as long as COVID-19 continues to affect geographies around the world. We are also experiencing increased costs of goods due to these freight challenges, increases in the price of raw materials, inflationary pressures, rising fuel and other energy costs, and currency volatility, and we expect that prices may continue to increase in the near future and affect our operating results.
Other factors such as natural disasters have in the past increased raw material costs, impacted pricing with certain of our vendors, and caused shipping delays for certain of our merchandise. Also, the U.S. government’s ban on cotton imported from the Xinjiang region of China, the source of a large portion of the world’s cotton supply, may impact prices and the availability of cotton for our merchandise. Additionally, our products and materials (including potentially non-cotton materials) could be held for inspection by the United States Customs Border Protection (the “US CBP”), which would cause delays and unexpectedly affect our inventory levels. In addition, the labor costs to produce our products may fluctuate. In the event of a significant disruption in the supply of fabrics or raw materials used in the manufacture of the merchandise we offer, our vendors might not be able to locate alternative suppliers of materials of comparable quality at an acceptable price. Any delays, interruption, damage to, or increased costs in raw materials or the manufacture of the merchandise we offer could result in higher prices to acquire the merchandise, or non-delivery of merchandise altogether, and could adversely affect our operating results.
In addition, we cannot guarantee that merchandise we receive from vendors will be of sufficient quality or free from damage, or that such merchandise will not be damaged during shipping, while stored in one of our fulfillment centers, or when returned by customers. While we take measures to ensure merchandise quality and avoid damage, we cannot control merchandise while it is out of our possession or prevent all damage while in our fulfillment centers. We may incur additional expenses and our reputation could be harmed if clients and potential clients believe that our merchandise is not of high quality or may be damaged.
We may not be able to return to or sustain our revenue growth rate and we may not be profitable in the future.
Our past revenue growth and profitability should not be considered indicative of our future performance. Our revenue decreased by 21.0% in the six months ended January 28, 2023, compared to the six months ended January 29, 2022; decreased by 1.4% in fiscal 2022 compared to 2021; and increased by 22.8% in fiscal 2021 compared to fiscal 2020. Our revenue may continue to decline in future periods due to a number of factors, which may include general economic conditions, including a recession, decreased discretionary consumer spending, the short- and long-term impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic, decreases in marketing spend, slower client acquisition growth, slower demand for our merchandise and service, increased competition, decreases in the growth rate of our overall market, and our failure to capitalize on growth opportunities, as well as the maturation of our business.
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We announced a restructuring plan on June 9, 2022, intended to reduce our future fixed and variable operating costs. However, our restructuring plan may not adequately reduce expenses or impact our results as we anticipate. Moreover, our expenses may increase, particularly if we develop and introduce new merchandise offerings, need to hire and retain personnel, or invest in our marketing initiatives. We may not always pursue short-term profits but are often focused on long-term growth, which may impact our financial results. If our revenue does not increase to offset increases in our operating expenses, we may not be profitable in future periods.
If we fail to effectively manage our business, our financial condition and operating results could be harmed.
We must continue to implement our operational plans and strategies, and improve and expand our infrastructure of people and technology. Additionally, we may continue to introduce new offerings, business strategies or initiatives, or improve on existing offerings. Our operations, vendor base, fulfillment centers, information technology systems, or internal controls and procedures may not be adequate to support our changing operations. Any change or upgrade to our systems to support the increasing complexity of our business involves risk and we may experience problems or delays as we make upgrades or changes to our systems. For example, in the first quarter of fiscal year 2022, we experienced technical issues following a systems upgrade to our procure-to-pay processes which affected the transmission, receipt, and reconciliation of purchase orders and payments with many of our apparel and accessory vendors. The roll-out of new offerings and initiatives require investments of time and resources and may require changes in our website, mobile apps, information technology systems or processes, which involves inherent risk. These initiatives and changes also may not be rolled out as timely or effectively as we expect or may not produce the results we intend. If new offerings and initiatives are delayed, it could affect our inventory levels. If we are unable to manage the growth of our organization effectively, or if growth initiatives are not introduced timely, do not produce the anticipated results, or cause unanticipated issues, our business, financial condition, and operating results may be adversely affected.
If we are unable to develop and introduce new offerings or expand into new markets in a timely and cost-effective manner, may damage our business, financial condition, and operating results.

The largest portion ofresults could be negatively impacted.

Our initial merchandise offering was Women’s apparel, but since our revenue today comes from the sale of Women’s apparel. From 2015 to 2017,inception we expanded our merchandise offering into categories includingofferings to include Petite, Maternity, Men’s, Plus, Premium Brands, and Plus, began offering different product types including shoesKids and accessories and expanded the number of brands we offer. In 2018, we also launched our Premium Brandservice in the UK market. In June 2019, we introduced our direct-buy functionality (now called “Freestyle”) with Buy It Again allowing clients in the United States to buy previously purchased items in new colors, prints, and Extras offerings.sizes. We expanded direct buy with Complete Your Looks, which allows clients to discover and shop personalized outfits with new items that complement their prior purchases, Trending For You, which allows clients to shop personalized looks based on their style profiles, and Categories, a new way for clients to easily discover pieces within a range of categories based on occasion, brand, or item type. And, in August 2021, we opened up Freestyle to new-to-Stitch Fix clients who had never received a Fix from us previously. We continue to explore additional offerings to serve our existing clients, and to attract new clients. However, any newclients, and expand our geographic scope.
New offerings may not have the same success, or gain traction as quickly, as our current offerings. If the merchandise we offer isour new offerings are not accepted by our clients or doesdo not attract new clients, or if we are not able to attract clients in new markets, our sales may fall short of expectations, our brand and reputation could be adversely affected, and we may incur expenses that are not offset by sales. Developing new offerings requires significant investments of resources and time, and if a new offering is not successful, our business may not grow as anticipated. If the launch of a new category or offering or in a new geography requires investments greater than we expect, is delayed or is not executed well, our operating results could be adversely affected.negatively impacted. For example, in launching Freestyle to new customers during our fiscal 2022, we implemented client on-boarding changes in an effort to drive new clients to Freestyle. These changes resulted in lower conversion of new clients to our Fix offering, which impacted our operating results. Also, our business may be adversely affected if we are unable to attract brands and other merchandise vendors that produce sufficient high quality,high-quality, appropriately priced, and on-trend merchandise. For example, vendors in the UK may not be familiar with our company or brand, which may make it difficult for us to obtain the merchandise we seek or be able to purchase products at an appropriate price.
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Our current merchandise offerings have a range of margin profiles and we believe new offerings will also have a broad range of margin profiles that will affect our operating results.


For example, to date, our Exclusive Brands have New businesses generally contributed highercontribute lower margins and shoes, Men’s and Plus have generally contributedimported merchandise may be subject to tariffs or duties that lower margins. Additionally, as we enter into new categories and markets, we may not have as high of purchasing power as we do in our current offerings, which could increase our costs of goods sold and further reduce our margins. Expansion of our merchandise offerings and geographic scope may also strain our management and operational resources, specifically the need to hire and manage additional merchandise buyers to source new merchandise and to allocate new categories across our distribution network. We may also face greater competition in specific categories or regions from companies that are more focused on these new areas. For instance, our entry into the Kids category means we now compete with a number of additional companies that have been in the Kids category for a longer period of time and may have more experience in children’s clothing. If any of thesethe above were to occur, it could damage our reputation, limit our growth, and have an adverse effect on our operating results.

We have a short operating history in an evolving industry and, as a result, our past results may not be indicative of future operating performance.
We have a short operating history in a rapidly evolving industry that may not develop in a manner favorable to our business. Our industry is highly competitiverelatively short operating history makes it difficult to assess our future performance. You should consider our business and ifprospects in light of the risks and difficulties we do not compete effectively our operating results could be adversely affected.

The retail apparel industry is highly competitive. We compete with department stores, specialty retailers, discount chains, independent retail stores, the online offerings of these traditional retail competitors and eCommerce companies that market the same or similar merchandise and services that we offer. We believemay encounter.

Our future success will depend in large part upon our ability to, compete depends on many factors within and beyond our control, including:

among other things:

attractingcost-effectively acquire new clients and engagingengage with and retain existing clients;

our direct relationships with our clients and their willingness to share personal information with us;

overcome the impacts of the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic;

further developing our data science capabilities;

maintaining favorable brand recognitionadequately and effectively marketingstaff our servicesfulfillment centers;

manage our inventory effectively;
anticipate and respond to clients;

macroeconomic changes;

delivering merchandise that each client perceives as personalized to him or her;

increase our market share;

the amount, diversity and qualityincrease consumer awareness of brands and merchandise that we or our competitors offer;

our ability to expandbrand and maintain appealing Exclusive Brandsour reputation;

successfully expand our offering and exclusive to Stitch Fix merchandise;

geographic reach;

the price at which we are able to offer our merchandise;

the speedanticipate and cost at which we can deliver merchandise to our clients and the ease with which they can use our services to return merchandise; and

anticipating and quickly respondingrespond to changing apparelstyle trends and consumer shopping preferences.

preferences;
compete effectively;

Many

avoid interruptions in our business from information technology downtime, cybersecurity breaches, or labor stoppages;
effectively manage our growth;
continue to enhance our personalization capabilities;
hire, integrate, and retain talented people at all levels of our current competitors have,organization;
maintain the quality of our technology infrastructure;
develop new features to enhance the client experience; and potential competitors may have, longer operating histories, larger fulfillment infrastructures, greater technical capabilities, faster shipping times, lower-cost shipping, larger databases, greater financial, marketing, institutional
retain our existing merchandise vendors and other resources and larger customer bases than we do. These factors may allow our competitors to derive greater revenue and profits from their existing customer bases, acquire customers at lower costs or respond more quickly than we can toattract new or emerging technologies and changes in apparel trends and consumer shopping behavior. These competitors may engage in more extensive research and development efforts, enter or expand their presence in the personalized retail market, undertake more far-reaching marketing campaigns, and adopt more aggressive pricing policies, which may allow them to build larger customer bases or generate revenue from their existing customer bases more effectively than we do. vendors.
If we fail to execute on any ofaddress the risks and difficulties that we face, including those associated with the challenges listed above better thanas well as those described elsewhere in this “Risk Factors” section, our competitors,business and our operating results maywill be adversely affected.

Expansion of our operations internationally requires management attention and resources, involves additional risks, and may be unsuccessful.
In May 2019, we launched our service in the UK market, and we may choose to expand to other international markets in the future. Prior to launching in the UK, we had no experience operating internationally or selling our merchandise outside of the United States, and if we continue to expand internationally, we need to adapt to different local cultures, standards, laws, and policies. The business model we employ may not appeal as strongly to consumers in international markets. Furthermore, to succeed with clients in international locations, such as the UK, we will need to locate fulfillment centers in foreign markets and hire local employees, and we will have to invest in these facilities and employees before proving we can successfully run foreign operations. We may not be successful in expanding into additional international markets or in generating revenue from foreign operations for a variety of reasons, including:
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the need to localize our merchandise offerings, including translation into foreign languages and adaptation for local practices;
different consumer demand dynamics, which may make our model and the merchandise we offer less successful compared to the United States;
competition from local incumbents that understand the local market and may operate more effectively;
regulatory requirements, taxes, trade laws, trade sanctions and economic embargoes, tariffs, export quotas, custom duties, or other trade restrictions;
differing laws and regulations, including with respect to anti-bribery and anti-corruption compliance;
differing labor regulations where labor laws may be more advantageous to employees as compared to the United States and result in increased labor costs;
more stringent or differing regulations relating to privacy and data security and access to, or use of, commercial and personal information, particularly in Europe;
differing payment requirements and customer behavior relating to payments and fraud;
changes in a specific country’s or region’s political, economic, and public health conditions, or any geopolitical instability or threats or acts of war, such as the ongoing conflict between Ukraine and Russia; and
risks resulting from changes in currency exchange rates.
For example, clients in the UK are accustomed to more return shipping options than are typically offered in the United States, which required us to increase the number of shipping vendors we use in that market, increasing our costs. If we continue to invest substantial time and resources to establish and expand our operations internationally and are unable to do so successfully and in a timely manner, our operating results would suffer.
Our business depends on a strong brand and we may not be able to maintain our brand and reputation.

We believe that maintaining the Stitch Fix brand and reputation is critical to driving client engagement and attracting clients and merchandise vendors. Building our brand will depend largely on our ability to continue to provide our clients with an engaging and personalized client experience, including valued personal styling services, and high-quality merchandise, and appropriate price points, which we may not do successfully. Client complaints or negative publicity about our styling services, merchandise, delivery times, or client support, especially on social media platforms, could harm our reputation and diminish client use of our services, the trust that our clients place in Stitch Fix, and vendor confidence in us.

Our brand depends in part on effective client support, which requires significant personnel expense. Failure to manage or train our client support representatives properly or inability to handle client complaints effectively could negatively affect our brand, reputation, and operating results.

If we fail to cost-effectively promote and maintain the Stitch Fix brand, our business, financial condition, and operating results may be adversely affected.


We may not be able to sustain our revenue growth rate and we may not be profitable in the future.*

Our recent revenue growth and past profitability should not be considered indicative of our future performance. Our rate of revenue growth has slowed in recent periods. Specifically, our revenue increased by 24.4% and 24.8% for the three and six months ended January 27, 2018 compared to the three and six months ended January 28, 2017 which was significantly lower than our 35.3% and 42.8% revenue growth for the three and six months ended January 28, 2017 compared to the three and six months ended January 30, 2016. As we grow our business, we expect our revenue growth rates may continue to slow in future periods due to a number of reasons, which may include slowing demand for our merchandise and service, increasing competition, a decrease in the growth rate of our overall market, and our failure to capitalize on growth opportunities, as well as the maturation of our business.

Moreover, our expenses have increased in recent periods, and we expect expenses to increase substantially in the near term, particularly as we make significant investments in our marketing initiatives, expand our operations and infrastructure, develop and introduce new merchandise offerings and hire additional personnel. We may not always pursue short-term profits but are often focused on long-term growth, which may adversely impact our financial results. In addition, in connection with operating as a public company, we are incurring additional significant legal, accounting and other expenses that we did not incur as a private company. If our revenue does not increase to offset increases in our operating expenses, we may not be profitable in future periods.

We rely on consumer discretionary spending and may be adversely affected by economic downturns and other macroeconomic conditions or trends.

Our business and operating results are subject to global economic conditions and their impact on consumer discretionary spending. Some of the factors that may negatively influence consumer spending include high levels of unemployment, higher consumer debt levels, reductions in net worth and declines in asset values and related market uncertainty, home foreclosures and reductions in home values, fluctuating interest rates and credit availability, fluctuating fuel and other energy costs, fluctuating commodity prices and general uncertainty regarding the overall future political and economic environment. Economic conditions in certain regions may also be affected by natural disasters, such as hurricanes, tropical storms and wildfires. Consumer purchases of discretionary items, including the merchandise that we offer, generally decline during periods of economic uncertainty, when disposable income is reduced or when there is a reduction in consumer confidence.

Adverse economic changes could reduce consumer confidence, and thereby could negatively affect our operating results. In challenging and uncertain economic environments, we cannot predict when macroeconomic uncertainty may arise, whether or when such circumstances may improve or worsen or what impact such circumstances could have on our business.

If we fail to attract and retain key personnel, or effectively manage succession, or hire, develop, and motivate our employees, our business, financial condition, and operating results could be adversely affected.

Our success, including our ability to anticipate and effectively respond to changing style trends and deliver a personalized styling experience, depends in part on our ability to attract and retain key personnel on our executive team and in our merchandising, algorithms, engineering, marketing, styling, and other organizations. Competition forWe do not currently maintain key-person life insurance policies on any member of our senior management team or other key personnel is strong, especially in the San Francisco Bay Area where our headquarters are located, and we cannot be sure that we will be able to attract and retain a sufficient number of qualified personnel in the future, or that the compensation costs of doing so will not adversely affect our operating results. employees.
We do not have long-term employment or non-competition agreements with any of our personnel. SeniorWe have had senior employees have leftleave Stitch Fix in the past and others may in the future, which we cannot necessarily anticipate when this will happen and may notwhether we will be able to promptly replace. If we are unable to retain, attract and motivate talented employees with the appropriate skills at cost-effective compensation levels, or if changes to our business adversely affect morale or retention, we may not achieve our objectives and our business and operating results could be adversely affected. In addition, thereplace exiting employees. The loss of one or more of our key personnel or the inability to promptly identify a suitable successor to a key role could have an adverse effect on our business. In particular, our Founder
On January 4, 2023, the Company and Elizabeth Spaulding, the Company’s Chief Executive Officer, has uniqueagreed that she would step down from her employment with the Company and valuable experience leading our company from its inception through today.the Board of Directors, effective January 5, 2023. The Board of Directors appointed Katrina Lake, the Company’s Founder and Executive Chairperson of the Board of Directors, as Chief Executive Officer, effective January 5, 2023, to serve in an interim capacity until a successor is appointed. If she were to departthe search for and transition of a new chief executive officer is not managed successfully or otherwise reduce her focus on Stitch Fix,if it takes longer than expected, it could disrupt our business, may be disrupted. affect our Company culture, cause retention concerns with respect to our colleagues, and affect our financial condition and operating results.
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Additionally, on March 1, 2023, Dan Jedda, our Chief Financial Officer, gave notice of his resignation, effective April 3, 2023. On March 3, 2023, the Board of Directors appointed David Aufderhaar as the Company’s Chief Financial Officer, effective April 3, 2023. If this transition is not managed successfully, it could disrupt our operations, affect employee morale, or cause retention concerns.
We do not currently maintain key-person life insurance policies on any memberhave experienced increased employee turnover as a result of the general market conditions and a competitive talent market within the U.S., as well as Company-specific factors, such as share price decline, business performance, and leadership changes, and we expect to continue to experience increased employee turnover in the future. We announced a restructuring plan in June 2022 that reduced our workforce by 15% of salaried positions and represents 4% of our senior management teamroles in total, and other keyannounced a further reduction in force on January 5, 2023, affecting 6% of the Company’s then-current employee workforce, including approximately 20% of employees in salaried positions. This additional reduction in workforce may cause additional attrition and affect employee morale. Additionally, as we are operating our business with fewer employees, we face additional risk that we might not be able to execute on our strategic plans and product roadmap, which may have an adverse effect on our business, financial condition, and operating results.
We also face significant competition for personnel, particularly in our technology and product organizations. To attract top talent, we have had to offer, and believe we will need to continue to offer, competitive compensation and benefits packages before we can validate the productivity of those employees.

We also have in the past had difficulty hiring employees in fulfillment centers due to increased competition for distribution workers and rising wages and have increased our employee compensation levels in response to competition, as necessary.

We cannot be sure that we will be able to attract, retain, and motivate a sufficient number of qualified personnel in the future, or that the compensation costs of doing so will not adversely affect our operating results. Additionally, we may not be able to hire and train new employees quickly enough to meet our needs. If we fail to retain employees and effectively manage our hiring needs, our efficiency, ability to meet forecasts, employee morale, productivity, and the success of our strategic plans and product roadmap could suffer, which may have an adverse effect on our business, financial condition, and operating results.
If we fail to effectively manage our stylists, our business, financial condition and operating results could be adversely affected.

More than 3,500

As of January 28, 2023, approximately 2,900 of our employees arewere stylists, whomost of whom work remotely and on a part-time basis for us and are paid hourly. TheyThe stylists track and report the time they spend working for us. These employees are classified as nonexempt under federal and state law. If we fail to effectively manage our stylists, including by ensuring accurate tracking and reporting of their hours worked and proper processing of their hourly wages, then we may face claims alleging violations of wage and hour employment laws, including, without limitation, claims of back wages, unpaid overtime pay, and missed meal and rest periods. Any such employee litigation could be attempted on a


class or representative basis. SuchFor example, in August 2020, a representative action under California’s Private Attorneys General Act was filed against us alleging various violations of California’s wage and hour laws relating to our current and former non-exempt stylist employees. While we were able to settle this matter, future litigation canconcerning our styling employees could be expensive and time-consuming regardless of whether the claims against us are valid or whether we are ultimately determined to be liable, and could divert management’s attention from our business. We could also be adversely affected by negative publicity, litigation costs resulting from the defense of these claims, and the diversion of time and resources from our operations.

Compromises of our data security could cause us to incur unexpected expenses and may materially harm our reputation and operating results.

In the ordinary course of our business, we and our vendors collect, process and store certain personal information and other data relating to individuals, such as our clients and employees, including client payment card information. We rely substantially on commercially available systems, software, tools and monitoring to provide security for our processing, transmission and storage of personal information and other confidential information. There can be no assurance, however, that we or our vendors will not suffer a data compromise, that hackers or other unauthorized parties will not gain access to personal information or other data, including payment card data or confidential business information or that any such data compromise or access will be discovered in a timely fashion. The techniques used to obtain unauthorized access or to sabotage systems change frequently and generally are not identified until they are launched against a target, and we and our vendors may be unable to anticipate these techniques or to implement adequate preventative measures. In addition, our employees, contractors, vendors or other third parties with whom we do business may attempt to circumvent security measures in order to misappropriate such personal information, confidential information or other data, or may inadvertently release or compromise such data.

Compromise of our data security or of third parties with whom we do business, failure to prevent or mitigate the loss of personal or business information and delays in detecting or providing prompt notice of any such compromise or loss could disrupt our operations, damage our reputation and subject us to litigation, government action or other additional costs and liabilities that could adversely affect our business, financial condition and operating results.

Our use of personal information and other data subjects us to privacy laws and obligations, and our failure to comply with such obligations could harm our business.

We collect and maintain significant amounts of personal information and other data relating to our clients and employees. Numerous laws, rules and regulations in the United States and internationally govern privacy and the collection, use and protection of personal information, the scope of which is continually changing. These laws, rules and regulations evolve frequently and may be inconsistent from one jurisdiction to another or may be interpreted to conflict with our practices. Any failure or perceived failure by us or any third parties with which we do business to comply with these laws, rules and regulations, or with other obligations to which we may be or may become subject, may result in actions against us by governmental entities, private claims and litigations, fines, penalties or other liabilities. Any such action would be expensive to defend, would damage our reputation and adversely affect our business and operating results.

System interruptions that impair client access to our website or other performance failures in our technology infrastructure could damage our business.

The satisfactory performance, reliability and availability of our website, mobile application, internal applications and technology infrastructure are critical to our business. We rely on our website and mobile application to engage with our clients and sell them merchandise. We also rely on a host of internal custom-built applications to run critical business functions, such as styling, merchandise purchasing, warehouse operations and order fulfillment. In addition, we rely on a variety of third party, cloud-based solution vendors for key elements of our technology infrastructure. These systems are vulnerable to damage or interruption and we have experienced interruptions in the past. For example, in February 2017, as a result of an outage with Amazon Web Services, where much of our technology infrastructure is hosted, we experienced disruptions in applications that support our warehouse operations and order fulfillment that caused a temporary slowdown in the number of Fix shipments we were able to make. Interruptions may be caused by a variety of incidents, including human error, our failures to update or improve our proprietary systems, cyber-attacks, fire, flood, power loss or telecommunications failures. Any failure or interruption of our website, mobile application, internal business applications or our technology infrastructure could harm our ability to serve our clients, which would adversely affect our business and operating results.


Material weaknesses in our internal control over financial reporting may cause us to fail to timely and accurately report our financial results or result in a material misstatement of our financial statements.

In connection with the audit of our 2017 consolidated financial statements, we identified control deficiencies in the design and operation of our internal control over financial reporting that constituted a material weakness. A material weakness is a deficiency, or a combination of deficiencies, in internal control over financial reporting such that there is a reasonable possibility that a material misstatement of our financial statements will not be prevented or detected on a timely basis.

The material weakness identified in our internal control over financial reporting in 2017 primarily related to our accounting and proprietary systems used in our financial reporting process not having the proper level of controls. Specifically, our systems lacked controls over access, program change management and computer operations that are needed to ensure access to financial data is adequately restricted to appropriate personnel. As a result of this material weakness, we have initiated and will continue to implement remediation measures including, but not limited to, engaging external consultants to conduct a review of processes that involve financial data within our accounting and proprietary systems. This review, which is ongoing, includes the identification of potential risks, documentation of processes and recommendations for improvements.

We are still in the process of completing the remediation of the 2017 material weakness related to our accounting and proprietary systems. However, we cannot assure you that the steps we are taking will be sufficient to remediate our material weakness or prevent future material weaknesses or significant deficiencies from occurring.

If we identify future material weaknesses in our internal controls over financial reporting or fail to meet the demands that will be placed upon us as a public company, including the requirements of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act, we may be unable to accurately report our financial results or report them within the timeframes required by law or stock exchange regulations. Failure to comply with Section 404 of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act could also potentially subject us to sanctions or investigations by the SEC or other regulatory authorities. If additional material weaknesses exist or are discovered in the future, and we are unable to remediate any such material weakness, our reputation, financial condition and operating results could suffer.

Expansion of our operations internationally will require management attention and resources, involves additional risks and may be unsuccessful.

We have no experience with operating internationally or selling our merchandise outside of the United States, and if we choose to expand internationally we would need to adapt to different local cultures, standards and policies. The business model we employ and the merchandise we currently offer may not appeal to consumers outside of the United States. Furthermore, to succeed with clients in international locations, it likely will be necessary to locate fulfillment centers in foreign markets and hire local employees in those international centers, and we may have to invest in these facilities before proving we can successfully run foreign operations. We may not be successful in expanding into international markets or in generating revenue from foreign operations for a variety of reasons, including:

localization of our merchandise offerings, including translation into foreign languages and adaptation for local practices;

different consumer demand dynamics, which may make our model and the merchandise we offer less successful compared to the United States;

competition from local incumbents that understand the local market and may operate more effectively;

regulatory requirements, taxes, trade laws, trade sanctions and economic embargoes, tariffs, export quotas, custom duties or other trade restrictions or any unexpected changes thereto;

laws and regulations regarding anti-bribery and anti-corruption compliance;

differing labor regulations where labor laws may be more advantageous to employees as compared to the United States and increased labor costs;

more stringent regulations relating to privacy and data security and access to, or use of, commercial and personal information, particularly in Europe;

changes in a specific country’s or region’s political or economic conditions; and

risks resulting from changes in currency exchange rates.

If we invest substantial time and resources to establish and expand our operations internationally and are unable to do so successfully and in a timely manner, our operating results would suffer.


Our business, including our costs and supply chain, is subject to risks associated with sourcing, manufacturing and warehousing.

We currently source nearly all of the merchandise we offer from third-party vendors, and as a result we may be subject to price fluctuations or demand disruptions. Our operating results would be negatively impacted by increases in the prices of our merchandise, and we have no guarantees that prices will not rise. In addition, as we expand into new categories and product types, we expect that we may not have strong purchasing power in these news areas, which could lead to higher prices than we have historically seen in our current categories. We may not be able to pass increased prices on to clients, which could adversely affect our operating results. Moreover, in the event of a significant disruption in the supply of the fabrics or raw materials used in the manufacture of the merchandise we offer, the vendors that we work with might not be able to locate alternative suppliers of materials of comparable quality at an acceptable price. For example, natural disasters have in the past increased raw material costs, impacting pricing with certain of our vendors, and caused shipping delays for certain of our merchandise. Any delays, interruption, damage to or increased costs in the manufacture of the merchandise we offer could result in higher prices to acquire the merchandise or non-delivery of merchandise altogether, and could adversely affect our operating results.

In addition, we cannot guarantee that merchandise we receive from vendors will be of sufficient quality or free from damage, or that such merchandise will not be damaged during shipping, while stored in one of our distribution centers or when returned by customers. While we take measures to ensure merchandise quality and avoid damage, including evaluating vendor product samples, conducting inventory inspections and inspecting returned product, we cannot control merchandise while it is out of our possession or prevent all damage while in our distribution centers. We may incur additional expenses and our reputation could be harmed if clients and potential clients believe that our merchandise is not of high quality or may be damaged.

If we are unable to acquire new merchandise vendors or retain existing merchandise vendors, our operating results may be harmed.

We offer merchandise from hundreds of established and emerging brands. In order to continue to attract and retain quality merchandise brands, we must help merchandise vendors increase their sales and offer merchandise vendorsthem a high quality,high-quality, cost-effective fulfillment process.

If we do not continue to acquire new merchandise vendors or retain our existing merchandise vendors on acceptable commercial terms, we may not be able to maintain a broad selection of merchandise,products for our clients, and our operating results may suffer.

In addition, our Exclusive Brands are sourced from third-party vendors and contract manufacturers. The loss of one of our Exclusive Brand vendors for any reason, or our inability to source any additional vendors needed for our Exclusive Brands, could require us to source Exclusive Brand merchandise from another vendor or manufacturer, which could cause inventory delays, impact our clients’ experiences, and otherwise harm our operating results.

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We may incur significant losses from fraud.
We have in the past incurred and may in the future incur losses from various types of fraud, including stolen credit card numbers, claims that a client did not authorize a purchase, merchant fraud, and clients who have closed bank accounts or have insufficient funds in open bank accounts to satisfy payments. Our clients may re-use their login information (i.e., username and password combination) across multiple websites and, therefore, when a third-party website experiences a data breach, that information could be exposed to bad actors and be used to fraudulently access our clients’ accounts. In addition to the direct costs of such losses, if the fraud is related to credit card transactions and becomes excessive, it could result in us paying higher fees or losing the right to accept credit cards for payment. In addition, under current credit card practices, we are typically liable for fraudulent credit card transactions. Our failure by us or our vendors to comply with product safety, labor or other laws, or our standard vendor terms and conditions, or to provide safe factory conditions for our or their workers mayadequately prevent fraudulent transactions could damage our reputation, and brand and harm our business.

The merchandise we sell to our clients is subject to regulation by the Federal Consumer Product Safety Commission, the Federal Trade Commission and similar state and international regulatory authorities. As a result, such merchandise could be in the future subject to recalls and other remedial actions. Product safety, labeling and licensing concerns may require us to voluntarily remove selected merchandise from our inventory. Such recalls or voluntary removal of merchandise can result in among other things, lost sales, diverted resources, potential harm to our reputation and increased client service costs and legal expenses, which could have a material adverse effect on our operating results.

Some of the merchandise we sell may expose us to product liability claims and litigation or regulatory action, relating to personal injury or environmental or property damage. Although we maintain liability insurance, we cannot be certain that our coverage will be adequate for liabilities actually incurred or that insurance will continue to be available to us on economically reasonable terms or at all. In addition, some of our agreements with our vendors may not indemnify us from product liability for a particular vendor’s merchandise or our vendors may not have sufficient resources or insurance to satisfy their indemnity and defense obligations.

We purchase our merchandise from numerous domestic and international vendors. Our standard vendor terms and conditions require vendors to comply with applicable laws. We have hired independent firms that conduct social audits of the working conditions at the factories producing our Exclusive Brands. If an audit reveals potential problems, we require that the vendor institute corrective action plans to bring the factory into compliance with our standards, or we may discontinue our relationship with the vendor. Failure of our vendors to comply with applicable laws and regulations and contractual requirements could lead to litigation against us, resulting in increased legal expenses and costs. In addition, the failure of any such vendors to provide safe and humane factory conditions and oversight at their facilitiesthat could damage our reputation with clients or result in legal claims against us.


Shipping is a critical part of our business and any changes in our shipping arrangements or any interruptions in shipping could adversely affect our operating results.

We currently rely on two major vendors for our shipping. If we are not able to negotiate acceptable pricing and other terms with these entities or they experience performance problems or other difficulties, it could negativelysubstantially impact our operating results and our clients’ experience. In addition, our ability to receive inbound inventory efficiently and ship merchandise to clients may be negatively affected by inclement weather, fire, flood, power loss, earthquakes, labor disputes, acts of war or terrorism and similar factors. For example, strikes at major international shipping ports have in the past impacted our supply of inventory from our vendors. In addition, as a result of Hurricane Harvey in September 2017, one of our shipping vendors was unable to deliver Fixes to certain affected areas for several weeks, resulting in delivery delays and Fix cancellations. We are also subject to risks of damage or loss during delivery by our shipping vendors. If our merchandise is not delivered in a timely fashion or is damaged or lost during the delivery process, our clients could become dissatisfied and cease using our services, which would adversely affect our business and operating results.

We are subject to payment-related risks.

We accept payments online via credit and debit cards and online payment systems such as PayPal, which subjects us to certain regulations and fraud, and wefraud. We may in the future offer new payment options to clients that would be subject to additional regulations and risks. We pay interchange and other fees in connection with credit card payments, which may increase over time and adversely affect our operating results. While we use a third party to process payments, we are subject to payment card association operating rules and certification requirements, including the Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard and rules governing electronic funds transfers. If we fail to comply with applicable rules and regulations, we may be subject to fines or higher transaction fees and may lose our ability to accept online payments or other payment card transactions. If any of these events were to occur, our business, financial condition, and operating results could be adversely affected.

Risks Relating to our Industry, the Market, and the Economy
We rely on consumer discretionary spending and may be adversely affected by economic downturns and other macroeconomic conditions or trends.
Our business and operating results are subject to national and global economic conditions and their impact on consumer discretionary spending. Some of the factors that may negatively influence consumer spending include high levels of unemployment; higher consumer debt levels; reductions in net worth, declines in asset values, and related market and macroeconomic uncertainty; home foreclosures and reductions in home values; fluctuating interest rates, increased inflationary pressures and credit availability; rising fuel and other energy costs; rising commodity prices; and general uncertainty regarding the overall future political and economic environment. We have experienced many of these factors, including current inflationary pressures, and are experiencing negative impacts on client demand and discretionary spending as a result. Consumer purchases of discretionary items, including the merchandise that we offer, generally decline during recessionary periods or periods of economic uncertainty, when disposable income is reduced or when there is a reduction in consumer confidence. Furthermore, economic conditions in certain regions may also be affected by natural disasters, such as hurricanes, tropical storms, earthquakes, and wildfires; public health crises; and other major unforeseen events.
Adverse economic changes could reduce consumer confidence, and could thereby negatively affect our operating results. In challenging and uncertain economic environments, we cannot predict when macroeconomic uncertainty may arise, whether or when such circumstances may improve or worsen, or what impact such circumstances could have on our business. Additionally, the ongoing volatile and uncertain macroeconomic environment that we have been experiencing since the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic has likely reduced, and may continue to reduce, our ability to forecast our future operating results.
Our industry is highly competitive and if we do not compete effectively our operating results could be adversely affected.
The retail apparel industry is highly competitive. We compete with eCommerce companies that market the same or similar merchandise and services that we offer; local, national, and global department stores; specialty retailers; discount chains; independent retail stores; and the online offerings of these traditional retail competitors. Additionally, we experience competition for consumer discretionary spending from other product and experiential categories. We believe our ability to compete depends on many factors within and beyond our control, including:
effectively differentiating our service and value proposition from those of our competitors;
attracting new clients and engaging with and retaining existing clients;
our direct relationships with our clients and their willingness to share personal information with us;
further developing our data science capabilities;
maintaining favorable brand recognition and effectively marketing our services to clients;
delivering merchandise that each client perceives as personalized to him or her;
the amount, diversity, and quality of brands and merchandise that we or our competitors offer;
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our ability to expand and maintain appealing Exclusive Brands and exclusive-to-Stitch Fix merchandise;
the price at which we are able to offer our merchandise;
the speed and cost at which we can deliver merchandise to our clients and the ease with which they can use our services to return merchandise; and
anticipating and quickly responding to changing apparel trends and consumer shopping preferences.
Many of our current competitors have, and potential competitors may have, longer operating histories; larger fulfillment infrastructures; greater technical capabilities; faster shipping times; lower-cost shipping; larger databases; more purchasing power; higher profiles; greater financial, marketing, institutional, and other resources; and larger customer bases than we do. Mergers and acquisitions by these companies may lead to even larger competitors with more resources. These factors may allow our competitors to derive greater revenue and profits from their existing customer bases; acquire customers at lower costs; or respond more quickly than we can to new or emerging technologies, changes in apparel trends and consumer shopping behavior, and changes in supply conditions. These competitors may engage in more extensive research and development efforts, enter or expand their presence in the personalized retail market, undertake more far-reaching marketing campaigns, and adopt more aggressive pricing policies, which may allow them to build larger customer bases or generate revenue from their existing customer bases more effectively than we do. If we fail to execute on any of the above better than our competitors, our operating results may be adversely affected.
Our operating results have been, and could be in the future, adversely affected by natural disasters, public health crises, political crises, or other catastrophic events.
Natural disasters, such as earthquakes, hurricanes, tornadoes, floods, fires, and other adverse weather events and climate conditions, which may become more frequent and more severe with the increasing effects of climate change; unforeseen public health crises, such as the COVID-19 pandemic or other pandemics and epidemics; political crises, such as terrorist attacks, war, and other political instability, including the ongoing conflict between Ukraine and Russia; or other catastrophic events, whether occurring in the United States or internationally, could disrupt our operations in or cause us to close one or more of our offices and fulfillment centers or could disrupt, delay, or otherwise negatively impact the operations of one or more of our third-party providers or vendors. For instance, the severe winter weather and temperatures experienced in Texas and other parts of the country in February 2021 caused us to temporarily close two of our fulfillment centers and affected the shipping of merchandise in and out of fulfillment centers. Furthermore, these types of events could impact our merchandise supply chain, including our ability to ship merchandise to or receive returned merchandise from clients in the impacted region, and could impact our ability or the ability of third parties to operate our sites and ship merchandise. In addition, these types of events could negatively impact consumer spending in the impacted regions. In fact, the COVID-19 pandemic has: disrupted our operations in and previously caused us to temporarily close our offices and require that most of our employees work from home; disrupted our operations in and caused us to close three of our fulfillment centers; required us to implement various operational changes to ensure the health and safety of our employees; had a range of negative effects on the operations of our third-party providers and vendors, including our merchandise supply chain and shipping partners; and negatively impacted consumer spending and the economy generally. Because the COVID-19 pandemic has caused many of these factors to materialize, as described above and throughout these risk factors, it has adversely affected our business and operating results. The ongoing COVID-19 pandemic (including future resurgences of COVID-19 or new variants in the United States or internationally) or the occurrence of another natural disaster, pandemic, or crisis could recreate and/or exacerbate these effects.
Cybersecurity, Legal and Regulatory Risks
System interruptions that impair client access to our website or other performance failures in our technology infrastructure could damage our business.
The satisfactory performance, reliability, and availability of our website, mobile application, internal applications, and technology infrastructure are critical to our business. We rely on our website and mobile application to engage with our clients and sell them merchandise. We also rely on a host of internal custom-built applications to run critical business functions, such as styling, merchandise purchasing, warehouse operations, and order fulfillment. In addition, we rely on a variety of third-party, cloud-based solution vendors for key elements of our technology infrastructure. These systems are vulnerable to damage or interruption and we have experienced interruptions in the past. For example, in February 2017, as a result of an outage with Amazon Web Services, where much of our technology infrastructure is hosted, we experienced disruptions in applications that support our warehouse operations and order fulfillment that caused a temporary slowdown in the number of Fix shipments we were able to make. Additionally, the launch of a new category or new product offering requires investments in and the development of new technology, which may be more susceptible to performance issues or interruptions. Interruptions may also be caused by a variety of incidents, including human error, our failure to update or improve our proprietary systems, cyber attacks, fire, flood, earthquake, power loss, or telecommunications failures. These risks are exacerbated by our move to a more remote workforce. Any failure or interruption of our website, mobile application, internal business applications, or our
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technology infrastructure could harm our ability to serve our clients, which would adversely affect our business and operating results.
Compromises of our data security could cause us to incur unexpected expenses and may materially harm our reputation and operating results.
In the ordinary course of our business, we and our vendors collect, process, and store certain personal information and other data relating to individuals, such as our clients and employees, which may include client payment card information. We rely substantially on commercially available systems, software, tools, and monitoring to provide security for our processing, transmission, and storage of personal information and other confidential information. There can be no assurance, however, that we or our vendors will not suffer a data compromise, that hackers or other unauthorized parties will not gain access to personal information or other data, including payment card data or confidential business information, or that any such data compromise or unauthorized access will be discovered in a timely fashion. The techniques used to obtain unauthorized access or to sabotage systems change frequently and generally are not identified until they are launched against a target, and we and our vendors may be unable to anticipate these techniques or to implement adequate preventative measures. As we have moved to a more remote and hybrid work force, and as our vendors and other business partners have also moved to permanent or hybrid remote work as well, we and our partners may be more vulnerable to cyber attacks. In addition, our employees, contractors, vendors, or other third parties with whom we do business may attempt to circumvent security measures in order to misappropriate such personal information, confidential information, or other data, or may inadvertently release or compromise such data.
Compromise of our data security or of third parties with whom we do business, failure to prevent or mitigate the loss of personal or business information, and delays in detecting or providing prompt notice of any such compromise or loss could disrupt our operations, damage our reputation, and subject us to litigation, government action, or other additional costs and liabilities that could adversely affect our business, financial condition, and operating results.
Some of our software and systems contain open source software, which may pose particular risks to our proprietary applications.
We use open source software in the applications we have developed to operate our business and will use open source software in the future. We may incur significant lossesface claims from fraud.

third parties demanding the release or license of the open source software or derivative works that we developed from such software (which could include our proprietary source code) or otherwise seeking to enforce the terms of the applicable open source license. These claims could result in litigation and could require us to purchase a costly license, publicly release the affected portions of our source code, or cease offering the implicated solutions unless and until we can re-engineer them to avoid infringement. In addition, our use of open source software may present additional security risks because the source code for open source software is publicly available, which may make it easier for hackers and other third parties to determine how to breach our website and systems that rely on open source software. Any of these risks could be difficult to eliminate or manage and, if not addressed, could have an adverse effect on our business and operating results.

Adverse litigation judgments or settlements resulting from legal proceedings in which we are or may be involved could expose us to monetary damages or limit our ability to operate our business.
Currently, we are involved in various legal proceedings, including the securities litigation and other matters described elsewhere herein. We have in the past incurred and may in the future incur losses frombecome involved in other private actions, collective actions, investigations, and various typesother legal proceedings by clients, employees, suppliers, competitors, government agencies, stockholders, or others. The results of fraud, including stolen credit card numbers,any such litigation, investigations, and other legal proceedings are inherently unpredictable and expensive. Any claims thatagainst us, whether meritorious or not, could be time consuming, result in costly litigation, damage our reputation, require significant amounts of management time, and divert significant resources. If any of these legal proceedings were to be determined adversely to us, or we were to enter into a client did not authorizesettlement arrangement, we could be exposed to monetary damages or limits on our ability to operate our business, which could have an adverse effect on our business, financial condition, and operating results.
Any failure by us or our vendors to comply with product safety, labor, or other laws, or our standard vendor terms and conditions, or to provide safe factory conditions for our or their workers, may damage our reputation and brand, and harm our business.
The merchandise we sell to our clients is subject to regulation by the Federal Consumer Product Safety Commission, the Federal Trade Commission, and similar state and international regulatory authorities. As a purchase, merchant fraudresult, such merchandise could in the future be subject to recalls and clients who have closed bank accounts or have insufficient funds in open bank accounts to satisfy payments. In addition to the direct costs of such losses, if the fraud is related to credit card transactionsother remedial actions. Product safety, labeling, and becomes excessive, it could potentiallylicensing concerns may result in us paying higher feesvoluntarily removing selected merchandise from our inventory. Such recalls or losingvoluntary removal of merchandise can result in, among other things, lost sales, diverted resources, potential harm to our reputation, and increased client service costs and legal expenses, which could have a material adverse effect on our operating results.
Some of the rightmerchandise we sell, including the children’s merchandise sold through Stitch Fix Kids, may expose us to accept credit cardsproduct liability claims and litigation or regulatory action relating to personal injury or environmental or property damage. Although we
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maintain liability insurance, we cannot be certain that our coverage will be adequate for payment.liabilities actually incurred or that insurance will continue to be available to us on economically reasonable terms or at all. In addition, under current credit card practices,some of our agreements with our vendors may not indemnify us from product liability for a particular vendor’s merchandise or our vendors may not have sufficient resources or insurance to satisfy their indemnity and defense obligations.
We purchase our merchandise from numerous domestic and international vendors. Our standard vendor terms and conditions require vendors to comply with applicable laws. We have hired independent firms that conduct audits of the working conditions at the factories producing our Exclusive Brand products. If an audit reveals potential problems, we are liable for fraudulent credit card transactions becauserequire that the vendor institute corrective action plans to bring the factory into compliance with our standards, or we do not obtain a cardholder’s signature. Ourmay discontinue our relationship with the vendor. The loss of an Exclusive Brand vendor due to failure to adequately prevent fraudulent transactionscomply with our standards could cause inventory delays, impact our clients’ experiences, and otherwise harm our operating results. In addition, failure of our vendors to comply with applicable laws and regulations and contractual requirements could lead to litigation against us, resulting in increased legal expenses and costs. Furthermore, the failure of any such vendors to provide safe and humane factory conditions and oversight at their facilities could damage our reputation with clients or result in legal claims against us.
China’s Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region (the “XUAR”) is the source of large amounts of cotton and textiles for the global apparel supply chain. The United States Treasury Department placed sanctions on China’s Xinjiang Production and Construction Corporation (“XPCC”) for serious human rights abuses against ethnic minorities in XUAR. Additionally, the US’s Uyghur Forced Labor Prevention Act (“UFLPA”), empowers the US Customs and Border Protection Agency (the “US CBP”) to withhold release of items produced in whole or in part in the XUAR, or produced by companies included on a government-created UFLPA entity list, creating a presumption that such goods were produced using forced labor. XPCC controls many of the cotton farms and much of the textile industry in the region, and many large factories in XUAR product fabrics and yarn for apparel. Although we do not intentionally source any products or materials from the XUAR (either directly or indirectly through our suppliers), we have no known involvement with XPCC or its subsidiaries and affiliates, and we prohibit our apparel vendors from doing business with XPCC or using forced labor, we do not have the ability to completely map our product supply chain, and we could be subject to penalties, fines or sanctions if any of the vendors from which we purchase goods is found to have dealings, directly or indirectly, with XPCC or entities it controls. Additionally, our products or materials (including potentially non-cotton materials) could be held or delayed by the US CBP, which would cause delays and unexpectedly affect our inventory levels. Even if we were not subject to penalties, fines or sanctions, if products we source are linked in any way to XPCC, the XUAR, or an entity on the UFLPA entity list, our reputation could be damaged.
Our use of personal information and other data subjects us to privacy laws and obligations, and our compliance with or failure to comply with such obligations could harm our business.
We collect and maintain significant amounts of personal information and other data relating to our clients and employees. Numerous laws, rules, and regulations in the United States and internationally, including the European Union’s (“EU”) General Data Protection Regulation (the “GDPR”), California’s Consumer Privacy Act (the “CCPA”) and the UK’s Data Protection Act (the “UK GDPR”), govern privacy and the collection, use, and protection of personal information. These laws, rules, and regulations evolve frequently and may be inconsistent from one jurisdiction to another or may be interpreted to conflict with our practices. Any failure or perceived failure by us or any third parties with which we do business to comply with these laws, rules, and regulations, or with other obligations to which we may be or become subject, may result in actions against us by governmental entities, private claims and litigation, fines, penalties, or regulatoryother liabilities. Any such action would be expensive to defend, damage our reputation, and adversely affect our business and operating results. For example, the GDPR imposes more stringent data protection requirements and provides greater penalties for noncompliance than previous data protection laws. Further, the UK withdrew from the EU on January 31, 2020, subject to a transition period that ended on December 31, 2020 (“Brexit”). The UK GDPR, which regulates data protection in the UK since Brexit, has remained consistent with the EU GDPR in effect since 2018, but it may evolve and it is uncertain whether our operations in, and data transfers to and from, the UK can comply with any future changes in the law. Similarly, the State of California legislature passed the CCPA, which became effective on January 1, 2020. The CCPA requires us to make new disclosures to consumers about our data collection, use, and sharing practices. The CCPA also allows consumers to opt out of certain data sharing with third parties, and provides a new cause of action for data breaches with the possibility of significant statutory damage awards. The CCPA prohibits discrimination against individuals who exercise their privacy rights, provides for civil penalties for violations, and creates a private right of action for data breaches that is expected to increase data breach litigation. The CCPA itself will expand substantially when the California Privacy Rights Act of 2020 (the “CPRA”), which takes effect on January 1, 2023. The CPRA will, among other things, restrict use of certain categories of sensitive personal information that we handle; further restrict the sharing of personal information; establish restrictions on the retention of personal information; expand the types of data breaches subject to the private right of action; and establish the California Privacy Protection Agency to implement and enforce the new law, as well as impose administrative fines. Since the enactment of the CCPA, new privacy and data security laws have been proposed in more than half of the U.S. states and in the U.S. Congress, reflecting a trend toward more stringent privacy legislation in the U.S. Additionally, the Federal Trade Commission and many state attorneys general are interpreting federal and state consumer protection laws as imposing standards for the online collection, use, dissemination, and security of data.
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The costs of compliance with and other burdens imposed by privacy and data security laws and regulations may reduce the efficiency of our marketing, lead to expenses thatnegative publicity, make it more difficult or more costly to meet expectations of or commitments to clients, or lead to significant fines, penalties or liabilities for noncompliance, any of which could substantiallyharm our business. These laws could also impact our ability to offer our products in certain locations. The costs, burdens, and potential liabilities imposed by existing privacy laws could be compounded if other jurisdictions in the U.S. or abroad begin to adopt similar or more restrictive laws.
Even the perception that the privacy of personal information is not satisfactorily protected or does not meet regulatory requirements could inhibit clients’ use of our service or harm our brand and reputation.
Any of these matters could materially adversely affect our business, financial condition, or operating results.

Unfavorable changes or failure by us to comply with evolving internet and eCommerce regulations could substantially harm our business and operating results.

We are subject to general business regulations and laws as well as regulations and laws specifically governing the internet and eCommerce. These regulations and laws may involve taxes, privacy and data security, consumer protection, the ability to collect and/or share necessary information that allows us to conduct business on the internet, marketing communications and advertising, content protection, electronic contracts, or gift cards. Furthermore, the regulatory landscape impacting internet and eCommerce businesses is constantly evolving. For example, in 2010 California’s Automatic Renewal Law went into effect, requiringrequires companies to adhere to enhanced disclosure requirements when entering into automatically renewing contracts with consumers. As a result, a wave of consumer class action lawsuits was brought against companies that offer online products and services on a subscription or recurring basis. Any failure, or perceived failure, by us to comply with any of these laws or regulations could result in damage to our reputation, a loss inlost business, and proceedings or actions against us by governmental entities or others, which could impact our operating results.

If the use of “cookie” tracking technologies is further restricted, regulated, or blocked, or if changes in technology cause cookies to become less reliable or acceptable as a means of tracking consumer behavior, the amount or accuracy of internet user information we collect would decrease, which could harm our business and operating results.
Cookies are small data files that are sent by websites and stored locally on an internet user's computer or mobile device. We, and third parties who work on our behalf, collect data via cookies that is used to track the behavior of visitors to our sites, to provide a more personal and interactive experience, and to increase the effectiveness of our marketing. However, internet users can easily disable, delete, and block cookies directly through browser settings or through other software, browser extensions, or hardware platforms that physically block cookies from being created and stored.
Privacy regulations restrict how we deploy our cookies and this could potentially increase the number of internet users that choose to proactively disable cookies on their systems. In the EU, the Directive on Privacy and Electronic Communications requires users to give their consent before cookie data can be stored on their local computer or mobile device. Users can decide to opt out of nearly all cookie data creation, which could negatively impact our operating results. We may have to develop alternative systems to determine our clients’ behavior, customize their online experience, or efficiently market to them if clients block cookies or regulations introduce additional barriers to collecting cookie data.
If we cannot successfully protect our intellectual property, our business would suffer.

We rely on trademark, copyright, trade secrets, patents, confidentiality agreements, and other practices to protect our brands, proprietary information, technologies, and processes. Our principal trademark assets include the registered trademarks “Stitch Fix” and “Fix,” multiple private label clothing and accessory brand names, and our logos and taglines. Our trademarks are valuable assets that support our brand and consumers’ perception of our services and merchandise. We also hold the rights to the “stitchfix.com” internet domain name and various other related domain names, which are subject to internet regulatory bodies and trademark and other related laws of each applicable jurisdiction. If we are unable to protect our trademarks or domain names in the United States, the UK, or in other jurisdictions in which we may ultimately operate, our brand recognition and reputation would suffer, we would incur significant expense establishing new brands and our operating results would be adversely impacted.


We currently have one patent issued and seven patent applications pendingThe patents we own in the United States. We also have four patent applications filedStates and those that may be issued in the United States, in the UK, in Europe and in the People’s Republic of China. The patent we own and those that may be issuedChina in the future may not provide us with any competitive advantages or may be challenged by third parties, and our patent applications may never be granted. Even if issued, there can be no assurance that these patents will adequately protect our intellectual property or survive a legal challenge, as the legal standards relating to the validity, enforceability, and scope of protection of patent and other intellectual property rights are uncertain. Our limited patent protection may restrict our ability to protect our technologies and processes from competition. We primarily rely on trade secret laws to protect our technologies and processes, including the algorithms we use throughout our business. Others may independently develop the same or similar technologies and processes, or may improperly acquire and use information about

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our technologies and processes, which may allow them to provide a service similar to ours, which could harm our competitive position.

We may be required to spend significant resources to monitor and protect our intellectual property rights, and the efforts we take to protect our proprietary rights may not be sufficient.


We may be accused of infringing intellectual property rights of third parties.

We are also at risk of claims by others that we have infringed their copyrights, trademarks, or patents, or improperly used or disclosed their trade secrets. The costs of supporting any litigation or disputes related to these claims can be considerable, and we cannot assure you that we will achieve a favorable outcome of any such claim. If any such claims are valid, we may be compelled to cease our use of such intellectual property and pay damages, which could adversely affect our business. Even if such claims wereare not valid, defending them could be expensive and distracting, adversely affecting our operating results.

Risks Relating to Taxes
Changes in U.S. tax or tariff policy regarding apparel produced in other countries could adversely affect our business.
A predominant portion of the apparel we sell is originally manufactured in countries other than the United States. International trade disputes that result in tariffs and other protectionist measures could adversely affect our business, including disruption and cost increases in our established patterns for sourcing our merchandise and increased uncertainties in planning our sourcing strategies and forecasting our margins. For example, in recent years, the U.S. government imposed significant new tariffs on China related to the importation of certain product categories, including apparel, footwear, and other goods. A substantial portion of our products are manufactured in China. As a result of these tariffs, our cost of goods imported from China increased slightly. Although we continue to work with our vendors to mitigate our exposure to current or potential tariffs, there can be no assurance that we will be able to offset any increased costs. Other changes in U.S. tariffs, quotas, trade relationships, or tax provisions could also reduce the supply of goods available to us or increase our cost of goods. Although such changes would have implications across the entire industry, we may fail to effectively adapt to and manage the adjustments in strategy that would be necessary in response to those changes. In addition to the general uncertainty and overall risk from potential changes in U.S. laws and policies, as we make business decisions in the face of such uncertainty, we may incorrectly anticipate the outcomes, miss out on business opportunities, or fail to effectively adapt our business strategies and manage the adjustments that are necessary in response to those changes. These risks could adversely affect our revenues, reduce our profitability, and negatively impact our business.
We could be required to collect additional sales taxes or be subject to other tax liabilities that may increase the costs our clients would have to pay for our offering and adversely affect our operating results.

An increasing number

In general, we have not historically collected state or local sales, use, or other similar taxes in any jurisdictions in which we do not have a tax nexus, in reliance on court decisions and/or applicable exemptions that restrict or preclude the imposition of obligations to collect such taxes with respect to the online sales of our products. In addition, we have not historically collected state or local sales, use, or other similar taxes in certain jurisdictions in which we do have a physical presence, in reliance on applicable exemptions. On June 21, 2018, the U.S. Supreme Court decided, in South Dakota v. Wayfair, Inc., that state and local jurisdictions may, at least in certain circumstances, enforce a sales and use tax collection obligation on remote vendors that have no physical presence in such jurisdiction. As of June 30, 2021, all states have considered or adopted laws that attemptenacted legislation to imposebegin, requiring sales and use tax collection obligations on out-of-state retailers. A successful assertion by remote vendors and/or by online marketplaces. The details and effective dates of these collection requirements vary from state to state. While we now collect, remit, and report sales tax in all states that impose a sales tax, it is still possible that one or more states requiring us to collect taxes wherejurisdictions may assert that we presently do not do so, or to collect more taxes in a jurisdiction inhave liability from previous periods for which we currently dodid not collect somesales, use, or other similar taxes, and if such an assertion or assertions were successful it could result in substantial tax liabilities, including taxes onfor past sales as well astaxes and penalties and interest. The imposition by state governments of salesinterest, which could materially adversely affect our business, financial condition, and operating results.
Federal income tax collection obligations on out-of-state retailersreform could also create additional administrative burdens for us, put us at a competitive disadvantage if they do not impose similar obligationshave unforeseen effects on our competitorsfinancial condition and decrease our future sales,results of operations.
New income or other tax laws or regulations could be enacted at any time, which could have a material adverse impact onadversely affect our business operations and operating results.

Changes in U.S.financial performance. Further, existing tax laws and regulations could impact our business

Thebe interpreted, modified, or applied adversely to us. For example, the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act or the(the “Tax Act” was) and CARES Act enacted on December 22, 2017 and contains many significant changes to the U.S. Federal tax laws. TheFuture guidance from the IRS and other tax authorities with respect to the Tax Act requires complex computations that were not previously provided for under U.S. tax law.  The Company has provided for an estimated effectand CARES Act may affect us, and certain aspects of the Tax Act and CARES Act could be repealed or modified in its financial statements.  The Tax Act requires significant judgmentsfuture legislation. Further regulatory or legislative developments may also arise. We are currently unable to be made in interpretation ofpredict whether such changes will occur and, if so, the law and significant estimates in the calculation of the provision for income taxes.  However, additional guidance may be issued by the IRS, Department of the Treasury, or other governing body that may significantly differ from the Company’s interpretation of the law, which may result in a material adverse effectultimate impact on our business. To the extent that such changes have a negative impact on us, our suppliers or our customers, including as a result of related uncertainty, these changes may materially and adversely impact our business, cash flow,financial condition, results of operations or financial conditions. As we complete our analysis of the 2017 Tax Act, we may make adjustments to provisional amounts that we have recorded that may materially impact our provision for income taxes in the period in which the adjustments are made.

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We may experience fluctuations in ourbe subject to additional tax obligations and effective tax rate,liabilities, which could adversely affect our operating results.

We are subject to income- and non-income-based taxes in the United States. We recordStates under federal, state, and local jurisdictions and in the UK. The governing tax expense based on currentlaws and applicable tax liabilitiesrates vary by jurisdiction and our estimates of future tax liabilities, which may include reserves for estimates of probable settlements of tax audits. At any one time, multiple tax years are subject to audit by various taxing jurisdictions. The results of these audits and negotiations with taxinginterpretation. Various tax authorities may affectdisagree with tax positions we take and if any such tax authorities were to successfully challenge one or more of our tax positions, the results could have a material effect on our operating results. Further, the ultimate settlementamount of these issues. As a result, we expect that throughout the year there could be ongoing variability in our quarterly tax rates as taxable events occur and exposures are re-evaluated. Further, our effective tax ratepayable in a given financial statement period may be materially impacted by sudden or unforeseen changes in tax laws, changes in the mix and level of earnings by taxing jurisdictions, or changes to existing accounting rules or regulations. FluctuationsThe determination of our overall provision for income and other taxes is inherently uncertain as it requires significant judgment around complex transactions and calculations. As a result, fluctuations in our ultimate tax obligations may differ materially from amounts recorded in our financial statements and effective tax rate could adversely affect our business, financial condition, and operating results.

results in the periods for which such determination is made.

We may require additional capitalOur ability to support business growth,use our net operating loss carryforwards and this capital might not be available orcertain other tax attributes may be available only by diluting existing stockholders.

We intendlimited.

As of July 30, 2022, we had federal and state net operating loss carryforwards of $165.3 million and $256.0 million, respectively. The federal net operating loss carryforwards may be carried forward indefinitely; state net operating loss carryforwards will expire, if not utilized, beginning in 2025. The ability to continue making investmentsuse our net operating loss carryforwards depends on the availability of future taxable income. In addition, as of July 30, 2022, we had federal and California research and development tax credit carryforwards of $38.7 million and $21.4 million, respectively. The federal research and development credits will begin to support our business growthexpire in 2036, if not utilized; California research and may require additional funds to support this growth and respond to business challenges, including the need to develop our services, expand our inventory, enhance our operating infrastructure, expand the markets in which we operate and potentially acquire complementary businesses and technologies. Accordingly, we may need to engage in equity or debt financings to secure additional funds. If we raise additional funds through further issuances of equity or convertible debt securities, our existing stockholders could suffer significant dilution, and any new equity securities we issue coulddevelopment credits do not have rights, preferences and privileges superior to those of holdersan expiration date. A portion of our Class A common stock. Any debt financing secured by us in the future could involve restrictive covenants relatingtax attributes are subject to our capital-raising activitiesSections 382 and other financial and operational matters, which may make it more difficult for us to obtain additional capital and to pursue business opportunities. In addition, we may not be able to obtain additional financing on terms favorable to us, if at all. If we are unable to obtain adequate financing or financing on terms satisfactory to us, when we require it, our ability to continue to support our business growth and to respond to business challenges could be significantly limited, and our business and prospects could fail or be adversely affected.

Our failure to adequately and effectively staff our fulfillment centers, through third parties or with our own employees, could adversely affect our client experience and operating results.

We currently receive and distribute merchandise at five fulfillment centers in the United States, one of which is operated by a third party. If we or our third-party partner are unable to adequately staff our fulfillment centers to meet demand or if the cost of such staffing is higher than historical or projected costs due to mandated wage increases, regulatory changes, international expansion or other factors, our operating results could be harmed. In addition, operating fulfillment centers comes with potential risks, such as workplace safety issues and employment claims for the failure or alleged failure to comply with labor laws or laws respecting union organizing activities. Any such issues may result in delays in shipping times or packing quality, and our reputation and operating results may be harmed.

By using a third-party operator for one of our fulfillment centers, we also face additional risks associated with not having complete control over operations at that fulfillment center. Any deterioration in the financial condition or operations of that operator, or the loss of that operator, would have significant impact on our operations.

Some of our software and systems contain open source software, which may pose particular risks to our proprietary applications.

We use open source software in the applications we have developed to operate our business and will use open source software in the future. We may face claims from third parties demanding the release or license383 of the open source software or derivative works that we developedInternal Revenue Code and similar state provisions, which sets limitations arising from such software (which could include our proprietary source code) or otherwise seeking to enforce the terms of the applicable open source license. These claims could result in litigation and could require us to purchase a costly license, publicly release the affected portions of our source code, or cease offering the implicated solutions unless and until we can re-engineer them to avoid infringement. In addition, our use of open source software may also present additional security risks because the source code for open source software is publicly available, which may make it easier for hackers and other third parties to determine how to breach our website and systems that rely on open source software.ownership changes. Any of these risks could be difficult to eliminate or manage and, if not addressed, could have an adverse effect on our business and operating results.

Adverse litigation judgments or settlements resulting from legal proceedings in which we may be involved could expose us to monetary damages or limit our ability to operate our business.

We have in the past and may in the future become involved in private actions, collective actions, investigations and various other legal proceedings by clients, employees, suppliers, competitors, government agencies or others. The results of any such litigation, investigations and other legal proceedings are inherently unpredictable and expensive. Any claims against us, whether meritorious or not, could be time consuming, result in costly litigation, damage our reputation, require significant amounts of management time and divert significant resources. If any of these legal proceedings were to be determined adversely to us, or we were to enter into a settlement arrangement, we could be exposed to monetary damages or limitspotential limitations on our ability to operateoffset future income with our business, whichtax attributes could have an adverse effect on our business, financial condition and operating results.


If we are unableresult in increased future tax liability to make acquisitions and investments, or successfully integrate them into our business, our business could be harmed.

As part of our business strategy, we may acquire other companies or businesses. However, we may not be able to find suitable acquisition candidates, and we may not be able to complete acquisitions on favorable terms, if at all. Acquisitions involve numerous risks, any of which could harm our business and negatively affect our operating results, including:

difficulties in integrating the technologies, operations, existing contracts and personnel of an acquired company;

us.

difficulties in supporting and transitioning clients and suppliers, if any, of an acquired company;

diversion of financial and management resources from existing operations or alternative acquisition opportunities;

failure to realize the anticipated benefits or synergies of a transaction;

failure to identify all of the problems, liabilities or other shortcomings or challenges of an acquired company or technology, including issues related to intellectual property, regulatory compliance practices, revenue recognition or other accounting practices, or employee or client issues;

risks of entering new markets in which we have limited or no experience;

potential loss of key employees, clients, vendors and suppliers from either our current business or an acquired company’s business;

inability to generate sufficient revenue to offset acquisition costs;

additional costs or equity dilution associated with funding the acquisition; and

possible write-offs or impairment charges relating to acquired businesses.

Our operating results could be adversely affected by natural disasters, public health crises, political crises or other catastrophic events.

Our principal offices and one of our fulfillment centers are located in the San Francisco Bay Area, an area which has a history of earthquakes, and are thus vulnerable to damage. We also operate offices and fulfillment centers in other cities and states. Natural disasters, such as earthquakes, hurricanes, tornadoes, floods and other adverse weather and climate conditions; unforeseen public health crises, such as pandemics and epidemics; political crises, such as terrorist attacks, war and other political instability; or other catastrophic events, whether occurring in the United States or internationally, could disrupt our operations in any of our offices and fulfillment centers or the operations of one or more of our third-party providers or vendors. In particular, these types of events could impact our merchandise supply chain, including our ability to ship merchandise to clients from or to the impacted region, and could impact our ability or the ability of third parties to operate our sites and ship merchandise. In addition, these types of events could negatively impact consumer spending in the impacted regions. To the extent any of these events occur, our business and operating results could be adversely affected.

Risks Relating to Ownership of Our Class A Common Stock

The market price of our Class A common stock may continue to be volatile or may decline steeply or suddenly regardless of our operating performance and we may not be able to meet investor or analyst expectations. You may lose all or part of your investment.*

The market price of our Class A common stock may fluctuate or decline significantly in response to numerous factors, many of which are beyond our control, including:

actual or anticipated fluctuations in our client base, the level of client engagement and client acquisition, revenue, or other operating results;

variations between our actual operating results and the expectations of securities analysts, investors, and the financial community;

any forward-looking financial or operating information we may provide to the public or securities analysts, any changes in this information, or our failure to meet expectations based on this information;

actions of securities analysts who initiate or maintain coverage of us, changes in financial estimates by any securities analysts who follow our company, or our failure to meet these estimates or the expectations of investors;

repurchases of our Class A common stock pursuant to our share repurchase program, which could also cause our stock price to be higher that it would be in the absence of such a program and could potentially reduce the market liquidity for our stock;

whether investors or securities analysts view our stock structure unfavorably, particularly our dual- classdual-class structure and the significant voting control of our directors, executive officers, directors and their affiliates;


additional shares of our Class A common stock being sold into the market by us or our existing stockholders, or the anticipation of such sales;

additional shares of our Class A common stock being sold into the market by us or our existing stockholders, or the anticipation of such sales, including if existing stockholders sell shares into the market when applicable “lock-up” periods end;

announcements by us or our competitors of significant products or features, technical innovations, acquisitions, strategic partnerships, joint ventures, or capital commitments;

changes in operating performance and stock market valuations of companies in our industry, including our vendors and competitors;

price and volume fluctuations in the overall stock market, including as a result of trends in the economy as a whole;

targeted efforts of social media or other groups to transact in and affect the price of Stitch Fix stock, such as the activity in early 2021 targeting GameStop Corp and others;

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developments in new legislation and pending lawsuits or regulatory actions, including interim or final rulings by judicial or regulatory bodies; and

other events or factors, including those resulting from war or incidents of terrorism, public health crises such as the COVID-19 pandemic, or responses to these events.

In addition, extreme price and volume fluctuations in the stock markets have affected and continue to affect many eCommerce and other technology companies’ stock prices. Often, their stock prices have fluctuated in ways unrelated or disproportionate to the companies’ operating performance. In the past, stockholders have filed securities class action litigation following periods of market volatility. IfFor example, beginning in October 2018, we and certain of our directors and officers were to become involvedsued in putative class action and derivative lawsuits alleging violations of the federal securities laws for allegedly making materially false and misleading statements. And on August 26, 2022, a class action lawsuit alleging violations of federal securities laws was filed by certain of our stockholders naming as defendants us, certain of our officers and directors and certain of our affiliated stockholders for allegedly making materially false and misleading statements regarding our Freestyle offering. We may be the target of additional litigation of this type in the future as well. Such securities litigation it could subject us to substantial costs, divert resources and the attention of management from our business, and seriously harm our business.

Moreover, because of these fluctuations, comparing our operating results on a period-to-period basis may not be meaningful. You should not rely on our past results as an indication of our future performance. This variability and unpredictability could also result in our failing to meet the expectations of industry or financial analysts or investors for any period. If our revenue or operating results fall below the expectations of analysts or investors or below any forecasts we may provide to the market, or if the forecasts we provide to the market are below the expectations of analysts or investors, the price of our Class A common stock could decline substantially. Such a stock price decline could occur even when we have met any previously publicly stated revenue or earnings forecasts that we may provide.

An active

We cannot guarantee that our share repurchase program will be fully consummated or that it will enhance long-term stockholder value. Share repurchases could also increase the volatility of the trading market forprice of our stock and could diminish our cash reserves.
In January 2022, our Board of Directors authorized a share repurchase program to repurchase up to $150.0 million of our outstanding Class A common stock, with no expiration date. Although our Board of Directors has authorized this repurchase program, the program does not obligate us to repurchase any specific dollar amount or to acquire any specific number of shares. The actual timing and amount of repurchases remain subject to a variety of factors, including stock price, trading volume, market conditions and other general business considerations. In addition, the terms of our amended and restated credit agreement with Silicon Valley Bank and other lenders impose limitations on our ability to repurchase shares. The share repurchase program may not be sustained.*

Our Class A common stock is currently listed onmodified, suspended, or terminated at any time, and we cannot guarantee that the Nasdaq Global Select Market, or Nasdaq, under the symbol “SFIX” and trades on that market and others. We cannot assure you that an active trading market for our Class A common stockprogram will be sustained.  Accordingly, we cannot assure you offully consummated or that it will enhance long-term stockholder value. The program could affect the liquidity of any trading market, your ability to sell your sharesprice of our Class A common stock when desired, orand increase volatility, and any announcement of a termination of this program may result in a decrease in the prices that you may obtain for your shares.

trading price of our stock. In addition, this program could diminish our cash and cash equivalents and marketable securities.

Future sales of shares by existing stockholders could cause our stock price to decline.*

If our existing stockholders including employees and service providers who obtain equity, sell, or indicate an intention to sell, substantial amounts of our Class A common stock in the public market, after the lock-up and other legal restrictions on resale lapse,then the trading price of our Class A common stock could decline. As of March 9, 2018, we had outstanding a total of 17,256,799 shares of Class A common stock and 79,931,282 shares of Class B common stock. Each of our directors, executive officers and other holders of substantially all our outstanding shares have entered into lock-up agreements with the underwriters that restrict their ability to sell or transfer their shares for a period of 180 days after November 16, 2017; provided that such restricted period will end with respect to 35% of the shares subject to each lock-up agreement if at any time beginning 90 days after November 16, 2017 (i) we have filed at least one quarterly report on Form 10-Q or annual report on Form 10-K and (ii) the last reported closing price of our Class A common stock is at least 25% greater than the initial public offering price of our Class A common stock for 10 out of any 15 consecutive trading days, including the last day, ending on or after the 90th day after November 16, 2017 (the “Early Release Conditions”); provided, further that if such restricted period ends during a trading black-out period, the restricted period will end one business day following the date that we announce our earnings results for the previous quarter. On February 14, 2018, the Early Release Conditions were satisfied and, in accordance with the lock-up agreements, the restricted period for the eligible 35% of the shares subject to each lock-up agreement will end and up to approximately 37.7 million shares of Class A common stock and Class B common stock will become eligible for immediate sale in the public market at the open of trading on March 14, 2018 (subject to trading limitations on shares held by affiliates of the Company and subject to continued vesting of any unvested equity awards as of such date). In addition, Goldman Sachs & Co. LLC and J.P. Morgan Securities LLC may, in their sole discretion, waive the contractual lock-up restrictions with respect to the remaining shares before the lock-up agreements expire. After the lock-up agreements expire, all 97,188,081 shares outstanding as of March 9, 2018 will be eligible for sale in the public market, of which 62,907,703 shares are held by directors, executive officers and other affiliates and will be subject to volume limitations under Rule 144 of the Securities Act of 1933, as


amended, or the Securities Act, and various vesting agreements. Sales of a substantial number of such shares upon expiration of the lock-up and market stand-off agreements, the perception that such sales may occur or early release of these agreements, could cause our market price to fall or make it more difficult for you to sell your Class A common stock at a time and price that you deem appropriate.

In addition, shares underlying any outstanding options and restricted stock units will become eligible for sale if exercised or settled, as applicable, and to the extent permitted by the provisions of various vesting agreements, the lock-up agreements and Rule 144 of the Securities Act. All the shares of Class A and Class B common stock subject to stock options and restricted stock units outstanding and reserved for issuance under our 2011 Equity Incentive Plan, as amended, our 2017 Incentive Plan, and 2017our 2019 Inducement Plan (our “Incentive Plans”) have been registered on Form S-8 under the Securities Act and such shares will beare eligible for sale in the public markets, subject to Rule 144 limitations applicable to affiliates and the lock-up agreement described above.affiliates. If these additional shares are sold, or if it is perceived that they will be sold in the public market, the trading price of our Class A common stock could decline.

The dual class structure of our common stock concentrates voting control with our executive officers, directors and their affiliates, and may depress the trading price of our Class A common stock.

Our Class B common stock has ten votes per share and our Class A common stock has one vote per share. As a result, the holders of our Class B common stock, including our directors, and executive officers, and their affiliates, will beare able to exercise considerable influence over matters requiring stockholder approval, including the election of directors and approval of significant corporate transactions, such as a merger or other sale of our company or our assets, even if their stock holdings represent less than 50% of the outstanding shares of our capital stock. As of March 3, 2023, 28,650,507 of our 112,507,435 shares outstanding were held by our directors, executive officers, and their affiliates, and 25,033,910 of such shares held by our directors, executive officers, and their affiliates were shares of Class B common stock. This concentration of ownership will limit the ability of other stockholders to influence corporate matters and may cause us to make strategic decisions that could
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involve risks to you or that may not be aligned with your interests. This control may adversely affect the market price of our Class A common stock.

In addition, in July 2017, FTSE Russell and Standard & Poor’s announced that they would cease to allow most newly public companies utilizing dual or multi-class capital structures to be included in their indices. Affected indices include the Russell 2000 and the S&P 500, S&P MidCap 400, and S&P SmallCap 600, which together make up the S&P Composite 1500. Under the announced policies, our dual class capital structure currently makes us ineligible for inclusion in any of theseStandard & Poor’s indices and, as a result, mutual funds, exchange-traded funds, and other investment vehicles that attempt to passively track thesethe S&P indices will not be investing in our stock. These policies are new and itIt is unclear what effect, if any, they willthese policies have had or may have on the valuations of publicly traded companies excluded from the indices, but it is possible that they may depress these valuations compared to those of other similar companies that are included.

We do not currently intend to pay dividends on our Class A common stock and, consequently, your ability to achieve a return on your investment will depend on appreciation of the value of our Class A common stock.
We have never declared or paid cash dividends on our capital stock. We currently intend to retain any future earnings to finance the operation and expansion of our business, and we do not expect to pay any cash dividends on our Class A common stock in the foreseeable future. As a result, any investment return our Class A common stock will depend upon increases in the value for our Class A common stock, which is not certain.
Delaware law and provisions in our amended and restated certificate of incorporation and amended and restated bylaws could make a merger, tender offer, or proxy contest difficult, thereby depressing the trading price of our Class A common stock.
Our amended and restated certificate of incorporation and amended and restated bylaws contain provisions that could depress the trading price of our Class A common stock by acting to discourage, delay, or prevent a change of control of our company or changes in our management that the stockholders of our company may deem advantageous. These provisions include the following:
establish a classified Board of Directors so that not all members of our board of directors are elected at one time;
permit the Board of Directors to establish the number of directors and fill any vacancies and newly created directorships;
provide that directors may only be removed for cause;
require super-majority voting to amend some provisions in our certificate of incorporation and bylaws;
authorize the issuance of “blank check” preferred stock that our board of directors could use to implement a stockholder rights plan;
eliminate the ability of our stockholders to call special meetings of stockholders;
prohibit stockholder action by written consent, which requires all stockholder actions to be taken at a meeting of our stockholders;
provide that the board of directors is expressly authorized to make, alter, or repeal our bylaws;
restrict the forum for certain litigation against us to Delaware;
reflect the dual class structure of our common stock; and
establish advance notice requirements for nominations for election to our board of directors or for proposing matters that can be acted upon by stockholders at annual stockholder meetings.
Any provision of our amended and restated certificate of incorporation or amended and restated bylaws 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 Class A common stock.
Our amended and restated certificate of incorporation provides that the Court of Chancery of the State of Delaware and the federal district courts of the United States are the exclusive forums for substantially all disputes between us and our stockholders, which could limit our stockholders’ ability to obtain a favorable judicial forum for disputes with us or our directors, officers, or employees.
Our amended and restated certificate of incorporation provides that the Court of Chancery of the State of Delaware is the exclusive forum for the following types of actions or proceedings under Delaware statutory or common law:
any derivative action or proceeding brought on our behalf;
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any action asserting a breach of fiduciary duty;
any action asserting a claim against us arising under the Delaware General Corporation Law, our amended and restated certificate of incorporation, or our amended and restated bylaws; and
any action asserting a claim against us that is governed by the internal-affairs doctrine.
This provision would not apply to suits brought to enforce a duty or liability created by the Exchange Act. Furthermore, Section 22 of the Securities Act creates concurrent jurisdiction for federal and state courts over all such Securities Act actions. Accordingly, both state and federal courts have jurisdiction to entertain such claims. To prevent having to litigate claims in multiple jurisdictions and the threat of inconsistent or contrary rulings by different courts, among other considerations, our amended and restated certificate of incorporation further provides that the federal district courts of the United States are the exclusive forum for resolving any complaint asserting a cause of action arising under the Securities Act. While the Delaware courts have determined that such choice of forum provisions are facially valid, a stockholder may nevertheless seek to bring a claim in a venue other than those designated in the exclusive forum provisions. In such instance, we would expect to vigorously assert the validity and enforceability of the exclusive forum provisions of our amended and restated certificate of incorporation. This may require significant additional costs associated with resolving such action in other jurisdictions and there can be no assurance that the provisions will be enforced by a court in those other jurisdictions.
These exclusive forum provisions may limit a stockholder’s ability to bring a claim in a judicial forum that it finds favorable for disputes with us or our directors, officers, or other employees, which may discourage lawsuits against us and our directors, officers and other employees. If a court were to find either exclusive-forum provision in our amended and restated certificate of incorporation to be inapplicable or unenforceable in an action, we may incur additional costs associated with resolving the dispute in other jurisdictions, which could seriously harm our business.
General Risk Factors
Future securities sales and issuances could result in significant dilution to our stockholders and impair the market price of our Class A common stock.
We may issue additional equity securities in the future. We also issue awards for Class A common stock to our existing and new employees and others under our Incentive Plans. The number of shares subject to such awards is typically based on target dollar values, and therefore the number of shares increases as our stock price decreases. Future issuances of shares of our Class A common stock or the conversion of a substantial number of shares of our Class B common stock, or the perception that these sales or conversions may occur, could depress the market price of our Class A common stock and result in dilution to existing holders of our Class A common stock. Also, to the extent outstanding options to purchase shares of our Class A common stock or Class B common stock are exercised or options or other stock-based awards are issued or become vested, there will be further dilution. The amount of dilution could be substantial depending upon the size of the issuances or exercises and our stock price. Furthermore, we may issue additional equity securities that could have rights senior to those of our Class A common stock. As a result, holders of our Class A common stock bear the risk that future issuances of debt or equity securities may reduce the value of our Class A common stock and further dilute their ownership interest.
If we are unable to maintain effective internal control over financial reporting, investors may lose confidence in the accuracy of our reported financial information and this may lead to a decline in our stock price.
We are required to comply with Section 404 of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002 (the “Sarbanes-Oxley Act”). Specifically, the Sarbanes-Oxley Act requires management to assess the effectiveness of our internal controls over financial reporting and to report any material weaknesses in such internal control. We have experienced material weaknesses and significant deficiencies in our internal controls, including for our fiscal year ended August 3, 2019. Management has concluded that our internal control over financial reporting was effective as of July 30, 2022. However, our testing, or the subsequent testing by our independent public accounting firm, may reveal deficiencies in our internal control over financial reporting that are deemed to be material weaknesses. If we or our accounting firm identify deficiencies in our internal control over financial reporting that are deemed to be material weaknesses, it could harm our operating results, adversely affect our reputation, or result in inaccurate financial reporting. Furthermore, should any such deficiencies arise we could be subject to lawsuits, sanctions or investigations by regulatory authorities, including SEC enforcement actions and we could be required to restate our financial results, any of which would require additional financial and management resources.
Even if we do not detect deficiencies, our internal control over financial reporting will not prevent or detect all errors and fraud, and individuals, including employees and contractors, could circumvent such controls. Because of the inherent limitations in all control systems, no evaluation of controls can provide absolute assurance that misstatements due to error or fraud will not occur or that all control issues and instances of fraud will be detected.
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In addition, we may encounter difficulties in the timely and accurate reporting of our financial results, which would impact our ability to provide our investors with information in a timely manner. Should we encounter such difficulties, our investors could lose confidence in the reliability of our reported financial information and trading price of our common stock. could be negatively impacted.
We may not be able to generate sufficient capital to support and grow our business, and additional capital might not be available or may be available only by diluting existing stockholders.
We require sufficient cash and liquidity to run our business, finance our operations, and pay for capital expenditures. We may not be able to generate sufficient cash to fund our working capital and capital expenditures needs. We also may require additional funds to support growth or respond to business challenges. We are party to an amended and restated credit agreement with Silicon Valley Bank and other lenders, but a deterioration in our capital structure or the quality of our earnings could result in noncompliance with our debt covenants, which would limit our ability to utilize our credit facility.
We also may want or need to engage in equity or debt financings to secure additional funds. The capital market environment, including market disruptions, limited liquidity, or interest rate fluctuations, may increase the cost of financing or restrict access to a potential source of liquidity. Additionally, if we raise additional funds through further issuances of equity or convertible debt securities, our existing stockholders could suffer significant dilution, and any new equity securities we issue could have rights, preferences, and privileges superior to those of holders of our Class A common stock.
Our credit agreement also contains covenants limiting our ability to, among other things, dispose of assets, undergo a change in control, merge or consolidate, make acquisitions, incur debt, incur liens, pay dividends, repurchase stock, and make investments, in each case subject to certain exceptions, and contains financial covenants requiring us to maintain minimum free cash flow and an adjusted current ratio above specified levels, measured in each case at the end of each fiscal quarter. The restrictive covenants of this or any future debt financing secured may make it more difficult for us to obtain capital and to pursue business opportunities. Any debt financing secured by us in the future could involve restrictive covenants relating to our capital-raising activities and other financial and operational matters, which may make it more difficult for us to obtain additional capital and to pursue business opportunities. In addition, we may not be able to obtain additional financing on terms favorable to us, if at all. If we are unable to generate sufficient capital or obtain adequate financing or financing on terms satisfactory to us, when we require it, our ability to continue to support our business and to respond to business challenges could be significantly limited, and our business and prospects could fail or be adversely affected.
If securities or industry analysts either do not publish research about us or publish inaccurate or unfavorable research about us, our business, or our market, or if they change their recommendations regarding our common stock adversely, the trading price or trading volume of our Class A common stock could decline.

The trading market for our Class A common stock will beis influenced in part by the research and reports that securities or industry analysts may publish about us, our business, our market, or our competitors. If one or more of the analysts initiate research with an unfavorable rating or downgrade our Class A common stock, provide a more favorable recommendation about our competitors, or publish inaccurate or unfavorable research about our business, our Class A common stock price would likely decline. If any analyst who may cover us were to cease coverage of us or fail to regularly publish reports on us, we could lose visibility in the financial markets, which in turn could cause the trading price or trading volume of our Class A common stock to decline.

We are an emerging growth company, and any decision on our part to comply only with certain reduced reporting and disclosure requirements applicable to emerging growth companies could make our Class A common stock less attractive to investors.

We are an emerging growth company and, for as long as we continue to be an emerging growth company, we may choose to take advantage of exemptions from various reporting requirements applicable to other public companies but not to “emerging growth companies,” including:

not being required to have our independent registered public accounting firm audit our internal control over financial reporting under Section 404 of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act;

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reduced disclosure obligations regarding executive compensation in our periodic reports and annual report on Form 10-K; and


exemptions from the requirements of holding non-binding advisory votes on executive compensation and stockholder approval of any golden parachute payments not previously approved.


We could be an emerging growth company for up to five years following the completion of our initial public offering, although we expect to not be an emerging growth company sooner. Our status as an emerging growth company will end as soon as any of the following takes place:

the last day of the fiscal year in which we have more than $1.07 billion in annual revenue;

the date we qualify as a “large accelerated filer,” with at least $700 million of equity securities held by non-affiliates;

the date on which we have issued, in any three-year period, more than $1.0 billion in non-convertible debt securities; or

the last day of the fiscal year ending after the fifth anniversary of the completion of our initial public offering.

We cannot predict if investors will find our Class A common stock less attractive if we choose to rely on any of the exemptions afforded emerging growth companies. If some investors find our Class A common stock less attractive because we rely on any of these exemptions, there may be a less active trading market for our Class A common stock and the market price of our Class A common stock may be more volatile.

Under the JOBS Act, “emerging growth companies” can also delay adopting new or revised accounting standards until such time as those standards apply to private companies. We have irrevocably elected not to avail ourselves of this accommodation and, therefore, we will be subject to the same new or revised accounting standards as other public companies that are not emerging growth companies.

We do not currently intend to pay dividends on our Class A common stock and, consequently, your ability to achieve a return on your investment will depend on appreciation of the value of our Class A common stock.

We have never declared or paid cash dividends on our capital stock. We currently intend to retain any future earnings to finance the operation and expansion of our business, and we do not expect to pay any cash dividends on our Class A common stock in the foreseeable future. As a result, any investment return our Class A common stock will depend upon increases in the value for our Class A common stock, which is not certain.

Future securities issuances could result in significant dilution to our stockholders and impair the market price of our Class A common stock.

Future issuances of shares of our Class A common stock or the conversion of a substantial number of shares of our Class B common stock, or the perception that these sales or conversions may occur, could depress the market price of our Class A common stock and result in dilution to existing holders of our Class A common stock. Also, to the extent outstanding options to purchase our shares of our Class A or Class B common stock are exercised or options or other stock-based awards are issued or become vested, there will be further dilution. The amount of dilution could be substantial depending upon the size of the issuances or exercises. Furthermore, we may issue additional equity securities that could have rights senior to those of our Class A common stock. As a result, holders of our Class A common stock bear the risk that future issuances of debt or equity securities may reduce the value of our Class A common stock and further dilute their ownership interest.

The requirements of being a public company may strain our resources, result in more litigation and divert management’s attention.*

As a public company, we are subject to the reporting requirements of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended, or the Exchange Act, the Sarbanes-Oxley Act, the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act, or the Dodd-Frank Act, the listing requirements of the Nasdaq and other applicable securities rules and regulations. Complying with these rules and regulations has increased and will continue to increase our legal and financial compliance costs, make some activities more difficult, time consuming or costly and increase demand on our systems and resources. To address these challenges, we recently expanded our finance and accounting teams. The Exchange Act requires, among other things, that we file annual, quarterly and current reports with respect to our business and operating results. The Sarbanes-Oxley Act requires, among other things, that we maintain effective disclosure controls and procedures and internal control over financial reporting. We are required to disclose changes made in our internal control and procedures on a quarterly basis. In order to maintain and, if required, improve our disclosure controls and procedures and internal control over financial reporting to meet this standard, significant resources and management oversight may be required. As a result, management’s attention may be diverted from other business concerns, which could adversely affect our business and operating results. We may need to hire additional employees or engage outside consultants to comply with these requirements, which will increase our costs and expenses.


In addition, changing laws, regulations and standards relating to corporate governance and public disclosure are creating uncertainty for public companies, increasing legal and financial compliance costs and making some activities more time consuming. These laws, regulations and standards are subject to varying interpretations, in many cases due to their lack of specificity, and, as a result, their application in practice may evolve over time as new guidance is provided by regulatory and governing bodies. This could result in continuing uncertainty regarding compliance matters and higher costs necessitated by ongoing revisions to disclosure and governance practices. We intend to invest resources to comply with evolving laws, regulations and standards, and this investment may result in increased general and administrative expenses and a diversion of management’s time and attention from revenue-generating activities to compliance activities. If our efforts to comply with new laws, regulations and standards differ from the activities intended by regulatory or governing bodies due to ambiguities related to their application and practice, regulatory authorities may initiate legal proceedings against us and our business may be adversely affected.

These new rules and regulations may make it more expensive for us to obtain director and officer liability insurance and, in the future, we may be required to accept reduced coverage or incur substantially higher costs to obtain coverage. These factors could also make it more difficult for us to attract and retain qualified members of our board of directors, particularly to serve on our audit committee and compensation committee, and qualified executive officers.

By disclosing information in filings required of a public company, our business and financial condition are more visible, which we believe may result in threatened or actual litigation, including by competitors and other third parties. If those claims are successful, our business could be seriously harmed. Even if the claims do not result in litigation or are resolved in our favor, the time and resources needed to resolve them could divert our management’s resources and seriously harm our business.

Delaware law and provisions in our amended and restated certificate of incorporation and amended and restated bylaws could make a merger, tender offer or proxy contest difficult, thereby depressing the trading price of our Class A common stock.*

Our amended and restated certificate of incorporation and amended and restated bylaws contain provisions that could depress the trading price of our Class A common stock by acting to discourage, delay or prevent a change of control of our company or changes in our management that the stockholders of our company may deem advantageous. These provisions include the following:

establish a classified board of directors so that not all members of our board of directors are elected at one time;

permit the board of directors to establish the number of directors and fill any vacancies and newly- created directorships;

provide that directors may only be removed for cause;

require super-majority voting to amend some provisions in our certificate of incorporation and bylaws;

authorize the issuance of “blank check” preferred stock that our board of directors could use to implement a stockholder rights plan;

eliminate the ability of our stockholders to call special meetings of stockholders;

prohibit stockholder action by written consent, which requires all stockholder actions to be taken at a meeting of our stockholders;

provide that the board of directors is expressly authorized to make, alter or repeal our bylaws;

restrict the forum for certain litigation against us to Delaware;

reflect the dual class structure of our common stock; and

establish advance notice requirements for nominations for election to our board of directors or for proposing matters that can be acted upon by stockholders at annual stockholder meetings.

Any provision of our amended and restated certificate of incorporation or amended and restated bylaws 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 Class A common stock.


Our amended and restated certificate of incorporation provides that the Court of Chancery of the State of Delaware and the federal district courts of the United States are the exclusive forums for substantially all disputes between us and our stockholders, which could limit our stockholders’ ability to obtain a favorable judicial forum for disputes with us or our directors, officers or employees.*

Our amended and restated certificate of incorporation provides that the Court of Chancery of the State of Delaware is the exclusive forum for:

any derivative action or proceeding brought on our behalf;

any action asserting a breach of fiduciary duty;

any action asserting a claim against us arising under the Delaware General Corporation Law, our amended and restated certificate of incorporation or our amended and restated bylaws; and

any action asserting a claim against us that is governed by the internal-affairs doctrine.

Our amended and restated certificate of incorporation further provides that the federal district courts of the United States will be the exclusive forum for resolving any complaint asserting a cause of action arising under the Securities Act.

These exclusive-forum provisions may limit a stockholder’s ability to bring a claim in a judicial forum that it finds favorable for disputes with us or our directors, officers or other employees, which may discourage lawsuits against us and our directors, officers and other employees. If a court were to find either exclusive-forum provision in our amended and restated certificate of incorporation to be inapplicable or unenforceable in an action, we may incur additional costs associated with resolving the dispute in other jurisdictions, which could seriously harm our business.

ITEM 2.

ITEM 2.    UNREGISTERED SALES OF EQUITY SECURITIES AND USE OF PROCEEDS

(a) Recent Sales

In January 2022, our Board of Unregistered Securities

The following sets forth information regarding all unregistered securities sold from July 30, 2017 through January 27, 2018:

(1) From October 29, 2017 through January 27, 2018, we grantedDirectors authorized a share repurchase program to our directors, employees, consultants and other service providers optionsrepurchase up to purchase 1,166,869 shares$150.0 million of our outstanding Class A common stock, with no expiration date (the “2022 Repurchase Program”). We may repurchase shares from time to time through open market repurchases, privately negotiated transactions, or other means, including through Rule 10b5-1 trading plans. The actual timing, number and value of shares repurchased in the future will be determined by the Company in its discretion and will depend on a per share exercisenumber of factors, including price, ranging from $15.00 to $23.34 and granted 426,056 restricted stock units under our 2017 Plan.

(2) From October 29, 2017 through January 27, 2018, we issued to our directors, employees, consultantstrading volume, market conditions, and other service providers an aggregategeneral business conditions. During the second quarter of 280,1382023, we did not repurchase any shares of our Class B common stock at perand we had $120.0 million remaining in share purchase prices ranging from $0.064 to $16.98 pursuant to exercisesrepurchase capacity as of options granted under our 2011 Plan.

None of the foregoing transactions involved any underwriters, underwriting discounts or commissions, or any public offering. Unless otherwise specified above, we believe these transactions were exempt from registration under the Securities Act in reliance on Section 4(2) of the Securities Act (and Regulation D or Regulation S promulgated thereunder) or Rule 701 promulgated under Section 3(b) of the Securities Act as transactions by an issuer not involving any public offering or under benefit plans and contracts relating to compensation as provided under Rule 701. The recipients of the securities in each of these transactions represented their intentions to acquire the securities for investment only and not with a view to or for sale in connection with any distribution thereof, and appropriate legends were placed on the share certificates issued in these transactions. All recipients had adequate access, through their relationships with us, to information about us. The sales of these securities were made without any general solicitation or advertising.

(b) Use of Proceeds from Registered Securities

On November 16, 2017, our registration statement on Form S-1 (File No. 333-221014) relating to our IPO of Class A common stock became effective. We received net proceeds from the IPO of $127.1 million, after deducting the underwriting discount and offering-related expenses. There has been no material change in the planned use of proceeds from the IPO from that described in the Final Prospectus.

January 28, 2023.

ITEM 3.

ITEM 3.    DEFAULTS UPON SENIOR SECURITIES

None.


ITEM 4.

MINE SAFETY DISCLOSURES

None.

Not applicable.

ITEM 4.    MINE SAFETY DISCLOSURES
None.

ITEM 5.

ITEM 5.    OTHER INFORMATION

None.

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ITEM 6.

ITEM 6.    EXHIBITS

Exhibit

Number

  

Description of Document

 

Incorporation By Reference

 

 

 

Form

 

Sec File No.

 

Exhibit

 

Filing Date

 

Filed Herewith

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

    3.1

 

Amended and Restated Certificate of Incorporation of Stitch Fix, Inc.

 

8-K

 

001-38291

 

3.1

 

11/21/2017

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

    3.2

 

Amended and Restated Bylaws of Stitch Fix, Inc.

 

8-K

 

001-38291

 

3.2

 

11/21/2017

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

    4.1

 

Form of Class A Common Stock Certificate

 

S-1/A

 

333-221014

 

4.1

 

11/6/2017

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

    4.2

 

Form of Class B Common Stock Certificate

 

S-8

 

333-221650

 

4.6

 

11/17/2017

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

  10.1

 

First Amendment to Original Office Lease, executed February 22, 2016, between Stitch Fix, Inc. and Post-Montgomery Associates

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

X

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

  10.2

 

Second Amendment to Original Office Lease, executed September 6, 2017, between Stitch Fix, Inc. and Post-Montgomery Associates

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

X

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

  10.3

 

Third Amendment to Original Office Lease, executed January 29, 2018, between the Company and Post-Montgomery Associates

 

8-K

 

001-38291

 

10.1

 

2/2/2018

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

  31.1

 

Certification of Principal Executive Officer Pursuant to Rules 13a-14(a) and 15d-14(a) under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as Adopted Pursuant to Section 302 of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

X

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

  31.2

 

Certification of Principal Financial Officer Pursuant to Rules 13a-14(a) and 15d-14(a) under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as Adopted Pursuant to Section 302 of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

X

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

  32.1*

 

Certification of Principal Executive Officer and Principal Financial Officer Pursuant to 18 U.S.C. Section 1350, as Adopted Pursuant to Section 906 of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

X

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

101.INS

 

XBRL Instance Document

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 


Exhibit
Number
DescriptionIncorporation By Reference 
FormSEC File No.ExhibitFiling DateFiled or Furnished Herewith
3.18-K001-382913.111/21/2017
3.28-K001-382913.211/21/2017
10.1X
10.2X
10.3X
31.1    X
31.2    X
32.1*    X
101.INSInline XBRL Instance Document (the instance document does not appear in the Interactive Data File because its XBRL tags are embedded within the Inline XBRL document).    X
101.SCHInline XBRL Taxonomy Extension Schema Document    X
101.CALInline XBRL Taxonomy Extension Calculation Linkbase Document    X
101.DEFInline XBRL Taxonomy Extension Definition Linkbase Document    X
101.LABInline XBRL Taxonomy Extension Label Linkbase Document    X
101.PREInline XBRL Taxonomy Extension Presentation Linkbase Document    X
104Cover Page Interactive Data File (the cover page interactive data file does not appear in the Interactive Data File because its XBRL tags are embedded within the Inline XBRL document).
+Indicates management contract or compensatory plan.
*The certification attached as Exhibit 32.1 accompanying this Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q is not deemed filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission and is not to be incorporated by reference into any filing of Stitch Fix, 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.

Exhibit

Number

Description of Document

Incorporation By Reference

Form

Sec File No.

Exhibit

Filing Date

Filed Herewith

101.SCH

XBRL Taxonomy Extension Schema Document

101.CAL

XBRL Taxonomy Extension Calculation Linkbase Document

101.DEF

XBRL Taxonomy Extension Definition Linkbase Document

101.LAB

XBRL Taxonomy Extension Label Linkbase Document

101.PRE

XBRL Taxonomy Extension Presentation Linkbase Document

*

The certifications furnished in Exhibit 32.1 hereto are deemed to accompany this Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q and will not be deemed “filed” for purposes of Section 18 of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended, except to the extent that the registrant specifically incorporates them by reference.


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SIGNATURES



SIGNATURES
Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, the registrant has duly caused this Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned thereunto duly authorized.

Stitch Fix, Inc.

Date:

March 8, 2023

By:/s/ Dan Jedda

Date: 13 March, 2018

By:

/s/ Katrina Lake

Dan Jedda

Katrina Lake

Founder, Chief Executive Officer and Director

(Principal Executive Officer)

Stitch Fix, Inc.

Date: 13 March, 2018

By:

/s/ Paul Yee

Paul Yee

Chief Financial Officer

(Principal Financial andOfficer)

By:/s/ Sarah Barkema
Sarah Barkema
Chief Accounting Officer
(Principal Accounting Officer)

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