Exhibit 99.1
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Symbotic Provides Update to Restatement of Fiscal Year 2024 Financial Results and First Quarter of Fiscal Year 2025 Outlook
Symbotic to Delay Form 10-K Filing for Fiscal Year 2024
Wilmington, Massachusetts (November 27, 2024) — Symbotic Inc. (Nasdaq: SYM), a leader in A.I.-enabled robotics technology for the supply chain, today announced that it has filed a Notification of Late Filing on Form 12b-25 with respect to the Annual Report on Form 10-K for the fiscal year ended September 28, 2024.
Symbotic has determined that it is unable to file its Annual Report on Form 10-K for the fiscal year ended September 28, 2024 by the prescribed filing due date, without unreasonable effort or expense, because the Company requires additional time to complete its assessment of the financial impacts of correcting an error related to system revenue recognition and the impacts of that error on internal controls over financial reporting.
Management has identified in its preliminary assessment of internal control over financial reporting for the fiscal year ended September 28, 2024 certain material weaknesses. The Company is implementing measures designed to improve internal control over financial reporting to remediate these material weaknesses.
As disclosed on November 18, 2024 in its earnings press release, as Symbotic was reviewing its business processes and preparing its full year financial statements, the company identified occurrences during fiscal year 2024 where goods and services, primarily relating to specific milestone achievements, were expensed prior to the time that the corresponding milestones were achieved. This resulted in the acceleration of the recognition of cost of revenue. Given that Symbotic recognizes revenue on a percentage of completion basis, this resulted in the acceleration of recognition of revenue. As a result of identifying these occurrences, Symbotic’s earnings press release included restated financial results for the interim quarters of fiscal year 2024.
Subsequently, on November 25, 2024, Symbotic identified errors in its revenue recognition related to cost overruns that will not be billable on certain deployments, which additionally impacted system revenue recognized in the second, third, and fourth quarters of fiscal year 2024. As a result, gross profit, income (loss) before income tax, net income (loss) and adjusted EBITDA1 were also impacted. The company estimates the total impact of correcting these errors will be to lower system revenue, system gross profit, income (loss) before income tax, and adjusted EBITDA1 by $30 million to $40 million for fiscal year 2024 compared to the financial results released on November 18, 2024.
Additionally, Symbotic is also revising its outlook for the first quarter of fiscal year 2025 based on its analysis of these deployments. Symbotic now expects revenue of $480 million to $500 million, and adjusted EBITDA2 of $12 million to $16 million.