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Trade and Tariffs Update: On February 20, 2026, the United States Supreme Court issued a ruling striking down certain tariffs previously imposed under the International Emergency Economic Powers Act (“IEEPA”). The ultimate availability, timing, and amount of any potential refunds of such tariffs remain highly uncertain and are subject to further legal, regulatory, and administrative developments. Following the Supreme Court’s decision, the U.S. presidential administration announced its intention to invoke other laws to collect tariffs and announced new tariffs on imports from all countries, in addition to any existing non-IEEPA tariffs. There remains substantial uncertainty regarding the duration of existing and newly announced tariffs, potential changes or pauses to such tariffs, tariff levels, and whether further additional tariffs or other retaliatory actions may be imposed, modified, or suspended, and the impacts of such actions on our business. We continue to monitor and evaluate these developments and assess their potential impact on our business, financial condition, and results of operations.
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On February 20, 2026, the United States Supreme Court issued a ruling striking down certain tariffs previously imposed under the International Emergency Economic Powers Act (“IEEPA”). The ultimate availability, timing, and amount of any potential refunds of such tariffs remain highly uncertain and are subject to further legal, regulatory, and administrative developments. Following the Supreme Court’s decision, the U.S. presidential administration announced its intention to invoke other laws to collect tariffs and announced new tariffs on imports from all countries, in addition to any existing non-IEEPA tariffs. There remains substantial uncertainty regarding the duration of existing and newly announced tariffs, potential changes or pauses to such tariffs, tariff levels, and whether further additional tariffs or other retaliatory actions may be imposed, modified, or suspended, and the impacts of such actions on our business. We continue to monitor and evaluate these developments and assess their potential impact on our business, financial condition, and results of operations.
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Macroeconomic Uncertainty: The evolving macroeconomic environment has been impacting industry-wide demand, as customers have been taking longer to work through prior orders and continue to adopt a more strategic approach to discretionary IT spending. While this dynamic has been easing, it has, at times, resulted in uneven demand across our portfolio and geographies, particularly for certain of our hardware offerings, as customers have focused investments on modernizing infrastructure, such as migrating to cloud-based offerings. Additionally, there continues to be significant uncertainty surrounding the tariff environment and import/export regulations due to numerous factors, including but not limited to tariff imposition delays, changes to tariff rates and policies, tariff repeals and refunds, and enactment of reciprocally restrictive trade measures around the world. These have enhanced global trade uncertainty and contributed to higher prices of components and end products and services. While we have sought to mitigate these adverse impacts by relying on our global supply chain, implementing pricing measures, and securing sufficient supply in advance of orders, we nevertheless expect the current macroeconomic environment to continue with the potential to impact revenue and margin growth in the near term.
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• local content and manufacturing requirements and trade protection measures such as import tariffs or import or export restrictions, which have impacted, and could further impact, our ability to sell into those markets;
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Macroeconomic Uncertainty: The evolving macroeconomic environment has impacted industry-wide demand, as customers have been taking longer to work through prior orders and continue to adopt a more strategic approach to discretionary IT spending. While this dynamic has been easing, it has resulted in uneven demand across our portfolio and geographies, particularly for certain of our hardware offerings, as customers have focused investments on modernizing infrastructure, such as migrating to cloud-based offerings. Additionally, there continues to be significant uncertainty surrounding the tariff environment and import/export regulations due to numerous factors, including but not limited to tariff imposition delays, changes to tariff rates and policies, and enactment of reciprocally restrictive trade policies and measures around the world. These have enhanced global trade uncertainty and contributed to higher prices of components and end products and services. While we have sought to mitigate these adverse impacts by relying on our global supply chain and implementing pricing measures, we expect the current macroeconomic environment to continue with the potential to impact revenue and margin growth in the near term.
Read in the filing ↗ Also in 10-Q of Jun 2, 2026, 10-Q of Sep 4, 2025, 10-K of Dec 18, 2025
During the second quarter of fiscal 2025, the macroeconomic environment experienced a rapid deterioration, primarily driven by the announcement and subsequent modifications of international tariffs, an escalation in global trade tensions, and increasing geopolitical uncertainty. These events contributed to significant movement in inputs used to determine the weighted-average cost of capital. As of April 30, 2025, we determined that an indicator of potential impairment existed to require an interim quantitative goodwill impairment test for its reporting units.
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Other Trends and Uncertainties: The impacts of trade protection measures, including increases in tariffs and trade barriers, changes in government policies and international trade arrangements, geopolitical volatility (including the ongoing conflict in the Middle East), and global macroeconomic challenges (including the relationship between China and the U.S.), may impact our operations, financial performance, and ability to conduct business in some non-U.S. markets. We monitor and seek to mitigate these risks with adjustments to our manufacturing, supply chain, and distribution networks.
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Our business and financial performance also could be adversely affected by changes in U.S. trade policy, U.S. export controls and sanctions, and U.S. regulations concerning imports, as well as international laws and regulations relating to global trade. Current U.S. government trade policy includes the imposition of tariffs on certain foreign goods, including information and communication technology products. These measures have materially increased costs for certain goods imported into the United States. As a result, our business has in the past been impacted by forced material price increases, which in turn resulted
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Our financial results could be adversely affected due to distribution channel conflicts, if the financial conditions of our channel partners were to weaken, if we experience the loss or deterioration of any alliance or distribution arrangement, or if our wholesale distributors are not able to withstand changes in business conditions, including economic weakness, industry consolidation, tariffs, and/or market trends. Considerable trade receivables that are not covered by collateral or credit insurance are outstanding with our distribution channel partners. Revenue from indirect sales could suffer, and we could experience disruptions in distribution, if our distributors’ financial conditions, abilities to borrow funds in the credit markets, or operations weaken.
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• impact of ongoing uncertainties as a result of instability or changes in geopolitical tensions, including trade protection measures, such as import tariffs or import or export restrictions (which may limit our access to raw material and/or components for our products); the revocation or material modification of trade agreements; and political and armed conflicts, such as those caused by the ongoing conflict between Russia and Ukraine or the continuous geopolitical instability in the Middle East (the potential escalation or geographic expansion of which could heighten other risks identified in this report), or the relationship between China and the U.S. (which could, among other things, impact trade dynamics and the enforceability of certain contracts or the timing and form of certain payments);
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… regulations concerning imports, tariffs, and resultant retaliatory countermeasures from other countries, as well as international laws and regulations relating to global trade and access to global markets. As a result, our business has, from time to time, been impacted by forced price increases of materials and higher barriers and costs to import and export certain components and/or our products …
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… an extended closure of, or any slowdown at our suppliers' plants or shipping delays; market shortages due to the surge in demand from other purchasers for critical components; increases in prices (including fuel prices and increases in prices due to inflation); the imposition of regulations, quotas, embargoes, or tariffs on components; labor stoppages; transportation delays, including due to labor strikes …
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Our worldwide operations and supply chain could be disrupted by natural or human-induced events including, but not limited to, earthquakes; tsunamis; floods; hurricanes, cyclones or typhoons; fires; other extreme weather conditions; power or water shortages; telecommunications failures; materials scarcity and price volatility; terrorist acts, civil unrest, conflicts or wars; trade tensions, tariffs, quotas, or import or export restrictions, and changes thereto, which are difficult to accurately predict; and health epidemics or pandemics. The impacts and frequency of any of the above could be further exacerbated by climate change, particularly in countries where we operate that have limited infrastructure and disaster recovery resources. While we are predominantly self-insured to mitigate the impact of most catastrophic events, the occurrence of business disruptions could, among other impacts, harm our revenue, profitability, and financial condition; cause derivative impacts on our employees; adversely affect our competitive position; increase our costs and expenses; make it difficult or impossible to provide our offerings to our customers or to receive components from our suppliers; create delays and inefficiencies in our supply chain; or
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Our backlog is impacted by many factors, including but not limited, to the global trade landscape and our demand profile. We are facing challenges in global logistics due to uncertainty around tariffs and geopolitical tensions. Our overall demand pipeline is stable, although demand across our AI product portfolio, including for high performance graphics and accelerated processing units, continues to be somewhat uneven due to the lumpiness of deals that have caused, and may continue to cause, fluctuations quarter-to-quarter. AI systems demand in the midst of persisting data center space availability constraints continued to drive significant AI backlog. The supply and demand environment for GPUs continues to remain uneven as the market navigates transition to next generation GPUs. These dynamics have resulted in our inventory levels being elevated at times during fiscal 2025 as compared to prior periods, and we will continue to closely monitor inventory levels. For further discussion on the risks and uncertainties related to backlog, see the section entitled “Risk Factors” in Item 1A of Part I of this Annual Report on Form 10-K.
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Our inventory management is complex, as we continue to sell a significant mix of products through distributors. We must manage both owned and channel inventory effectively, particularly with respect to sales to distributors, which involves forecasting demand and meeting pricing challenges. Our distributors may adjust orders during periods of product shortages, cancel orders if their inventory is too high, or delay orders in anticipation of new products. They may also adjust their orders in response to the supply of our products and the products of our competitors and seasonal fluctuations in end-user demand. As a result of these considerations, we have experienced, and may in the future again experience, abnormally high inventory levels. When we have excess or obsolete inventory, which we have experienced from time to time, we may have to reduce our prices and/or write down inventory, either of which may adversely impact our gross margin and our results of operations. These dynamics are accentuated for larger orders, including some orders for our AI systems, and particularly so if they are delayed or cancelled. Moreover, our use of indirect distribution channels may limit our willingness or ability to adjust prices quickly and otherwise to respond to pricing changes or tariffs.
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In addition, economic weakness, tariffs, and geopolitical uncertainty have, at times caused, and could, in the future cause our financial performance to vary materially from our expectations. Turmoil affecting the financial markets or any significant financial services institution failures could negatively impact our treasury operations. Interest and other expenses have varied, and could continue to vary, materially from expectations depending on changes in borrowing costs, currency exchange rates, costs of hedging activities, and the fair value of derivative instruments. It is difficult to predict the impact of such events on us, our third-party partners, our customers, or economic markets more broadly, which have been and will continue to be highly dependent upon the actions of governments and businesses in response to macroeconomic events, and the effectiveness of those actions. Such actions have impacted, and may further impact our ability, desire, or the timing of funding decisions for various investment opportunities. Further, reduced spending by governments and their agencies may limit demand for our products, services, and solutions from such entities, as well as organizations that receive funding from such governments, around the world, and could negatively affect macroeconomic conditions in the countries which we operate, which could further reduce demand for our products, services, and solutions.
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Q3 Networking Litigation. On September 21 and September 22, 2020, Q3 Networking LLC filed complaints against HPE, Aruba Networks, Commscope and Netgear in the United States District Court for the District of Delaware and the United States International Trade Commission (“ITC”). Both complaints allege infringement of four patents, and the ITC complaint defines the “accused products” as “routers, access points, controllers, network management servers, other networking products, and hardware and software components thereof.” The ITC action was instituted on October 23, 2020. The District of Delaware action has been stayed pending resolution of the ITC action. On December 7, 2021, the Administrative Law Judge issued his initial determination finding no violation of section 337 of the Tariff Act. On May 3, 2022, the ITC issued its Notice of Final Determination, affirming the initial determination and terminating the investigation. On June 18, 2022, Q3 Networking filed a petition for review of the ITC ruling with the United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit. On May 10, 2024, the United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit affirmed the ITC’s ruling in favor of HPE and Aruba Networks. Q3 Networking has not sought further review of the Federal Circuit’s ruling and HPE considers the matter closed.
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… or component availability, including excess product component or obsolescence charges; issues relating to the distribution of our products and provision of our services; or the impact of trade policies, tariffs, or other trade restrictions. In addition, entry into new markets may be relatively less profitable, due to high upfront investments associated with entering those markets and the need to operate …
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… In addition, economic and/or geopolitical instability or uncertainty resulting from inflationary pressures, recessionary risks, tariffs and other trade restrictions in the U.S. and internationally, trade conflicts, the effects of global health emergencies, the ongoing conflict between Russia and Ukraine, the continuous geopolitical instability in the Middle East, and efforts of governments to stimulate or stabilize the economy have …
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… Additionally, other macroeconomic developments, such as efforts of governments to stimulate or stabilize the economy, international conflicts, trade disputes, sanctions, increased tariffs internationally, including between the United States and China and on imports into the United States from various countries, have at times impacted, and may in the future impact our business in an adverse manner, whether directly or indirectly …
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