Company: SREA
Filing Date: 2025-02-25
Form Type: 10-K
Source: 0001032208-25-000012
Chunk: 186

Company: SEMPRA
Filing Date: 2025-02-25
Form: 10-K
Item: Item 1
Chunk 186
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 contributions to its subsidiaries, which are not required to be repaid and are structurally subordinated to claims by creditors of the applicable subsidiary.

Our investments in businesses we do not control expose us to risks.

We have investments in businesses we do not control or manage or in which we share control. In some cases, we engage in arrangements with or for these businesses that could expose us to risks in addition to our investment, including guarantees, indemnities and loans. For businesses we do not control, we are subject to the decisions of others, which may be adverse to our interests. When we share control of a business with other owners, any disagreements among the owners about strategy, financial, operational, transactional or other important matters could hinder the business from moving forward with key initiatives or taking other actions and could negatively affect the relationships among the owners and the efficient functioning of the business. In addition, irrespective of whether we control these businesses, we could be responsible for liabilities or losses related to these businesses or elect to make capital contributions to these businesses. Any such circumstance could materially adversely affect our results of operations, financial condition, cash flows and/or prospects. We discuss these investments in Note 5 of the Notes to Consolidated Financial Statements.

Our business could be negatively affected by activist shareholders.

We have been and may in the future be subject to activist shareholder attention. Activist shareholders may engage in proxy solicitations, advance shareholder proposals or otherwise attempt to effect changes in or assert influence on our board of directors and management. In taking these steps, activist shareholders could seek to acquire our capital stock, in spite of the provisions of our articles of incorporation and bylaws that could have the effect of delaying, deterring or preventing a change of control or other takeover of our company, even when our shareholders might consider such a change of control to be in their best interests. At certain ownership levels, these acquisitions of our common stock could threaten our ability to use some or all of our NOL or tax credit carryforwards if our corporation experiences an “ownership change” under applicable tax rules. Responding to activist 

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shareholders can be costly and time-consuming and requires time and attention by our board of directors and management, diverting their attention from our business strategies. 

Any actual or perceived instability in our future direction, inability to execute our strategies, or changes in our board of directors or management team arising from activist shareholder campaigns could be exploited by our competitors and/or other activist shareholders, result in the loss of