What Changed
Risk factors · Mar 3, 2025 → Mar 2, 202613 added · 8 removed between the two most recent 10-Ks. The risks a company starts — or stops — disclosing are often the story.
Newly disclosed
- Growth through acquisitions The Company’s historical growth has depended, and its future growth is likely to continue to depend, in part on its acquisition strategy and the successful integration of acquired businesses into existing operations.
- Impairment in the value of intangible assets, including goodwill The Company’s total assets reflect goodwill from acquisitions, representing the excess cost over the fair value of the identifiable net assets acquired, including other indefinite-lived and finite-lived intangible assets.
- The Company has been required to make such adjustments in prior periods, and, if such non-cash adjustments are necessary in future periods, they may negatively impact the Company’s operating results. 7 Table of Contents In 2025, the Company recorded pre-tax non-cash pension settlement charges of $1.2 million, driven by lump-sum distributions discussed above.
- Conditions in foreign countries in which the Company conducts business In 2025, 24% of the Company’s net sales were to customers outside the United States.
- If any one or more of the Company’s significant shareholders were to sell all or a portion of their holdings of Company common shares at once or within short periods of time, or there was an expectation that such a sale was imminent, then the market price of the Company’s common shares could be negatively affected.
- GENERAL RISK FACTORS Continuation of current and projected future business environment The overall pump industry is cyclical in nature, and some of its business activity is related to general business conditions in the durable goods and capital equipment markets.
- A change in the availability of, or increases in the costs associated with raw materials, parts and components or labor and workforce could affect our ability to fulfill our customer backlog and materially affect our business, financial condition, results of operations or cash flows.
- Cybersecurity threats Increased global information technology security threats and more sophisticated and targeted computer crime pose a risk to the security of Gorman-Rupp’s systems and networks and to the confidentiality, availability, and integrity of its data.
- U.S. trade policy, including the implementation of tariffs, could adversely affect the Company’s business and financial results The U.S. administration has implemented numerous tariffs on imported materials and products and, in response, various countries have imposed new, or increased existing, tariffs on imports.
- The ultimate impact of the announced tariffs and any future tariffs will depend on various factors, including the extent to which such tariffs are implemented, the timing of implementation and the amount, scope and nature of such tariffs.
- These tariffs, to the extent that they continue to be imposed, and any new or increased tariffs, may increase the cost of imported materials used by our suppliers and in our products.
- If we are unable to mitigate the impact of tariffs, including through product pricing and supply arrangements, our business and financial results could be adversely affected.
No longer disclosed
- Acquisition performance and integration The Company has historically made strategic acquisitions of businesses and may do so in the future in support of its strategy.
- In 2022, the Company recorded pre-tax non-cash pension settlement charges of $6.4 million, driven by lump-sum distributions discussed above.
- If any one or more of the Company’s significant shareholders were to sell all or a portion of their holdings of Company common shares at once or within short periods of time, or there was an expectation that such a sale was imminent, then the market price of the Company’s common shares could be negatively affected. 9 GENERAL RISK FACTORS Continuation of current and projected future business environment The overall pump industry is cyclical in nature, and some of its business activity is related to general business conditions in the durable goods and capital equipment markets.
- A change in the availability of, or increases in the costs associated with raw materials, parts and components or labor and workforce could affect our ability to fulfill our customer backlog and materially affect our business, financial condition, results of operations or cash flows. 10 Cybersecurity threats Increased global information technology security threats and more sophisticated and targeted computer crime pose a risk to the security of Gorman-Rupp’s systems and networks and to the confidentiality, availability, and integrity of its data.
- The Company has been required to make such adjustments in prior periods, and, if such non-cash adjustments are necessary in future periods, they may negatively impact the Company’s operating results.
- The success of past and future acquisitions is dependent on the Company’s ability to successfully integrate acquired and existing operations.
- If the Company is unable to integrate acquisitions successfully, its financial results could suffer.
- Highly competitive markets Gorman-Rupp sells its products in highly competitive markets.