SOLVSolventum
- Employees
- 10,000
- Headquarters
- Eagan, MN
- CEO
- Bryan C. Hanson
- Next results
- around Feb 25, 2027
What the 10-K filed 2026-02-27 says about risks that are not on the face of the balance sheet, from the notes to the financial statements, Legal Proceedings and the MD&A (and, for big customers and key suppliers, Business and Risk Factors). Tickdelta picks sentences with specifics (amounts, accruals, covenant ratios) and quotes them as filed. New marks a sentence with nothing like it in the 10-K filed 2025-02-28.
Big customers
1 newCustomers the company names as a large share of revenue or receivables (it must name any worth 10% of revenue).
“No customer accounted for more than 10% of the Company’s revenues for the years ended December 31, 2025, 2024, or 2023.”
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New “Additionally, no customers accounted for more than 10% of accounts receivable as of December 31, 2025 and 2024.”
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Key suppliers
Parts or manufacturing that depend on one or a few suppliers.
“In addition, some of Solventum’s suppliers are limited- or sole-source suppliers, and Solventum’s ability to meet its obligations to customers depends on the performance, product quality and stability of such suppliers and Solventum’s ability to source alternatives in a cost effective manner.”
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“3M is the sole source of supply for raw materials used in certain of our products and our business will be harmed if 3M does not satisfy our requirements.”
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“3M is the sole source of supply for certain chemical materials and inputs used in our products (including transparent IV film dressings, biological indicators for sterilization assurance, medical securement tapes and dental composites and cements) that, as of the Spin-Off, accounted for approximately $3 billion of our revenue for fiscal year 2025, including a material with a manufacturing process proprietary to 3M that is used in our products accounting for approximately $2 billion of our revenue for fiscal year 2025.”
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Lawsuits and legal claims
Pending cases, settlements and what the company has set aside for them.
“Such requests can also lead to the assertion of claims or the commencement of administrative, civil, or criminal legal proceedings against Solventum and others, as well as to settlements.”
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“Many lawsuits and claims involve highly complex issues relating to causation, scientific evidence, and alleged actual damages, all of which are otherwise subject to substantial uncertainties.”
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“As a result, the current accruals and/or estimates of loss and the estimates of the potential impact on the Company’s consolidated financial position, results of operations and cash flows for the legal proceedings and claims pending against the Company will likely change over time.”
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“During 2025 and 2024, the Company made payments of $16 million and $6 million, respectively, related to a legal settlement, which reduced the accrued litigation balance.”
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“At December 31, 2025 and December 31, 2024, accrued litigation costs were $31 million and $25 million, respectively.”
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Guarantees and indemnities
Promises to pay someone else's debts or losses if they cannot.
“The Company had approximately $82 million in bank guarantees, surety bonds, and other similar instruments issued and outstanding at December 31, 2025.”
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“The Company had approximately $82 million and $40 million in bank guarantees, surety bonds, and other similar instruments issued and outstanding at December 31, 2025 and 2024, respectively.”
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Debt covenants
1 newConditions in loan agreements that, if broken, can make debt due early.
New “The Company is in compliance with all covenants related to the Senior Notes.”
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Commitments off the balance sheet
1 newContracts the company must pay for later: purchase obligations, take-or-pay deals.
New “As of December 31, 2025, unconditional purchase obligations aggregated to approximately $330 million over the next five years, primarily comprised of IT-related obligations.”
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Sentences are chosen by their words, not read by AI, so some can be off topic. Always check the filing. Open the 10-K ↗
Work on SOLV in a spreadsheet:
Excel workbook (a sheet per section, ten years by column, charts, links to the filings) ·
CSV.
For a Google Sheet that stays up to date, paste =IMPORTDATA("https://tickdelta.com/company/SOLV/export.csv") into a cell.