Company: CPSS
Filing Date: 2025-03-12
Form Type: 10-K
Source: 0001683168-25-001548
Chunk: 47

Company: CONSUMER PORTFOLIO SERVICES, INC.
Filing Date: 2025-03-12
Form: 10-K
Item: Item 1
Chunk 47
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 recorded value, an adjustment would be required. If actual credit losses were to exceed
our estimates, or if the actual amortization and prepayments of the receivables were to be materially different from our estimates, we
might be required to adjust the recorded value of such receivables. A downward readjustment in recorded value would correspondingly reduce
our income and book value for and as of the end of the related quarter.

If Actual Market Conditions Indicate That the Amount a Market
Participant Would Pay for Our Receivables is Materially Lower Than Our Recorded Value, We May Be Required to Reduce the Recorded Value
for Some or All of the Receivables Measured at Fair Value.

The
fair value of an asset is, by definition, the exchange price in an orderly transaction between market participants. Receivables such as
ours are not regularly traded on exchanges where we can observe prices for exchanges of similar assets. We may therefore rely on estimates
of what a market participant would pay for our receivables. If such estimated value were to be materially different from our recorded
value, we might be required to adjust the recorded value of our receivables. A downward readjustment in recorded value would correspondingly
reduce our income and book value.

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Risks Related to General Factors

If The Economy of All or Certain Regions of the United States
Falls into Recession, Our Results of Operations May Be Impaired.

Our business is directly related
to sales of new and used automobiles, which are sensitive to employment rates, prevailing interest rates and other domestic economic conditions.
Delinquencies, repossessions and losses generally increase during economic slowdowns or recessions. Because of our focus on sub-prime
customers, the actual rates of delinquencies, repossessions and losses on our automobile contracts could be higher under adverse economic
conditions than those experienced in the automobile finance industry in general, particularly in the states of California, Texas, Ohio,
Illinois and Florida, states in which our automobile contracts are geographically concentrated. Any sustained period of economic slowdown
or recession could adversely affect our ability to acquire suitable automobile contracts, or to securitize pools of such automobile contracts.
The timing of any economic changes is uncertain, and weakness in the economy could have an adverse effect on our business and that of
the dealers from which we purchase automobile contracts and result in reductions in our revenues or the cash flows available to us.

A Pandemic or Other Public Health Emergency Could Have Adverse