Broadcom (AVGO) 8-K Broadcom Inc. Announces First Quarter Fiscal Year 2019 Financial Results and Quarterly Dividend

UNITED STATES

SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION

Washington, DC 20549

FORM8-K

CURRENT REPORT

PURSUANT TO SECTION 13 OR 15(d)

OF THE SECURITIES EXCHANGE ACT OF 1934

Date of Report (Date of earliest event reported): March 13, 2019

BROADCOM INC.

(Exact Name of Registrant as Specified in Charter)

Delaware	001-38449	35-2617337
(State or other jurisdiction of incorporation)	(Commission File Number)	(IRS Employer Identification No.)
1320 Ridder Park Drive, San Jose, California		95131
(Address of principal executive offices)		(Zip Code)

(408)433-8000

(Registrant’s telephone number, including area code)

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Item 2.02 Results of Operations and Financial Condition

On March 14, 2019, Broadcom Inc. (“Broadcom” or the “Company”) issued a press release announcing its unaudited financial results for the first fiscal quarter ended February 3, 2019. The Company will host an investor conference call on March 14, 2019 at 2:00 p.m. Pacific Time to discuss these results.

The foregoing description is qualified in its entirety by reference to the press release dated March 14, 2019, a copy of which is attached hereto as Exhibit 99.1.

Item 5.05 Amendment to the Registrant’s Code of Ethics, or Waiver of a Provision of the Code of Ethics.

On March 13, 2019, the Board of Directors of the Company (the “Board”) approved amendments to the Company’s Code of Ethics and Business Conduct (the “Code of Conduct”), which applies to all directors, officers and employees of the Company and its controlled subsidiaries. The following is a summary of the substantive amendments to the Code of Conduct:

(i) a new section describing legal restrictions and compliance requirements applicable to persons lobbying or conducting business on behalf of the Company with government agencies, and

(ii) a new section that reinforces the Company’s commitment to human rights by clarifying that suppliers are expected to acknowledge and implement the Broadcom Supplier Environmental and Social Responsibility Code of Conduct (which provides clarity with respect to the Company’s expectations of its suppliers’ labor, health and safety, and environmental practices), or a code with substantially equivalent terms, and affirms that the Company’s government contractors comply with U.S. Federal government requirements against trafficking in persons.

The amendments took effect upon adoption by the Board.

The foregoing summary of the amendments to the Code of Conduct is qualified in its entirety by reference to the full text of the Code of Conduct, as so amended, which is available in the “Investors Center – Governance” section of our website at www.broadcom.com.

Item 8.01. Other Events.

On March 14, 2019, the Company announced that the Board has declared a quarterly cash dividend on the Company’s common stock of $2.65 per share. The dividend is payable on March 29, 2019 to stockholders of record at the close of business (5:00 p.m.), Eastern Time, on March 21, 2019.

Item 9.01 Financial Statements and Exhibits.

(d) Exhibits

Exhibit No.	Description
99.1	Press release, dated March 14, 2019, entitled “Broadcom Inc. Announces First Quarter Fiscal Year 2019 Financial Results and Quarterly Dividend”

The information contained in Items 2.02 of this report, including Exhibit 99.1, shall not be incorporated by reference into any filing of the registrant, whether made before or after the date hereof, regardless of any general incorporation language in such filing, unless expressly incorporated by specific reference to such filing. The information in this report, including the exhibit hereto, shall not be deemed to be “filed” for purposes of Section 18 of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended, or otherwise subject to the liabilities of that section.

Cautionary Note Regarding Forward-Looking Statements

This report contains forward-looking statements (including within the meaning of Section 21E of the United States Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended, and Section 27A of the United States Securities Act of 1933, as amended) concerning Broadcom. These statements include, but are not limited to, statements that address our expected future business and financial performance and other statements identified by words such as “will”, “expect”, “believe”, “anticipate”, “estimate”, “should”, “intend”, “plan”, “potential”, “predict” “project”, “aim”, and similar words, phrases or expressions. These forward-looking statements are based on current expectations and beliefs of the management of Broadcom, as well as assumptions made by, and information currently available to, such management, current market trends and market conditions and involve risks and uncertainties, many of which are outside the Company’s and management’s control, and which may cause actual results to differ materially from those contained in forward-looking statements. Accordingly, you should not place undue reliance on such statements.

Particular uncertainties that could materially affect future results include risks associated with: our acquisition of CA, Inc., or CA, including (1) potential difficulties in employee retention, (2) unexpected costs, charges or expenses, and (3) our ability to successfully integrate CA’s business and achieve the anticipated benefits of the transaction; any loss of our significant customers and fluctuations in the timing and volume of significant customer demand; our dependence on contract manufacturing and outsourced supply chain; any other acquisitions we may make, including integrating acquired companies with our existing businesses and our ability to achieve the benefits, growth prospects and synergies expected by such acquisitions; our ability to accurately estimate customers’ demand and adjust our manufacturing and supply chain accordingly; our significant indebtedness and the need to generate sufficient cash flows to service and repay such debt; our dependency on a limited number of suppliers; dependence on and risks associated with distributors of our products; dependence on senior management and our ability to attract and retain qualified personnel; global economic conditions and concerns; quarterly and annual fluctuations in operating results; the amount and frequency of our stock repurchases; cyclicality in the semiconductor industry or in our target markets; our competitive performance and ability to continue achieving design wins with our customers, as well as the timing of any design wins; prolonged disruptions of our or our contract manufacturers’ manufacturing facilities or other significant operations; our ability to improve our manufacturing efficiency and quality; our dependence on outsourced service providers for certain key business services and their ability to execute to our requirements; our ability to maintain or improve gross margin; our ability to protect our intellectual property and the unpredictability of any associated litigation expenses; compatibility of our software products with operating environments, platforms or third-party products; our ability to enter into satisfactory software license agreements; sales to our government clients; availability of third party software used in our products; use of open source code sources in our products; any expenses or reputational damage associated with resolving customer product warranty and indemnification claims; our ability to sell to new types of customers and to keep pace with technological advances; market acceptance of the end products into which our products are designed; our ability to protect against a breach of security systems; changes in accounting standards; fluctuations in foreign exchange rates; our provision for income taxes and our overall cash tax costs, legislation that may impact our overall cash tax costs and our ability to maintain tax concessions in certain jurisdictions; and other events and trends on a national, regional and global scale, including those of a political, economic, business, competitive and regulatory nature.

Our filings with the SEC, which you may obtain for free at the SEC’s website at http://www.sec.gov, discuss some of the important risk factors that may affect our business, results of operations and financial condition. Actual results may vary from the estimates provided. We undertake no intent or obligation to publicly update or revise any of the estimates and other forward-looking statements made in this report, whether as a result of new information, future events or otherwise, except as required by law.

SIGNATURE

Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, the registrant has duly caused this report to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned, hereunto duly authorized.

	BROADCOM INC.
Date: March 14, 2019	By:	/s/ Thomas H. Krause, Jr.
		Name: Thomas H. Krause, Jr.
		Title:   Chief Financial Officer