Company: IOT
Filing Date: 2025-03-25
Form Type: 10-K
Source: 0001642896-25-000022
Chunk: 94

Company: Samsara Inc.
Filing Date: 2025-03-25
Form: 10-K
Item: Item 1A
Chunk 94
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 of large blocks of our Class A common stock, including sales by our executive officers and directors or distributions by our early investors, as well as sales in connection with our RSU settlements to cover tax withholding and remittance obligations;

•actual or perceived privacy or security incidents affecting our solution or otherwise affecting us;

•lawsuits threatened or filed against us;

•anticipated or actual changes in laws, regulations, or government policies applicable to our business or our customers’ businesses;

•changes in the anticipated future size or growth rate of our addressable markets;

•changes in our capital structure, such as future issuances of debt or equity securities;

•short sales, hedging, and other derivative transactions involving our capital stock, and the publication of short seller and similar reports;

•general economic conditions, including economic slowdowns, the occurrence or expectation of recessions, financial distress caused by bank failures, elevated inflation and interest rates, and tightening of credit markets;

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•other events or factors, including those resulting from geopolitical disputes (including but not limited to the ongoing conflict between Russia and Ukraine, the conflict in the Middle East, and geopolitical tensions involving China), public health crises, incidents of terrorism, or responses to any of these events; and

•the other factors described in this “Risk Factors” section and the section titled “Special Note Regarding Forward-Looking Statements” of this Annual Report on Form 10-K.

The stock market experiences extreme price and volume fluctuations from time to time. The market prices of securities of companies, particularly technology companies, have experienced fluctuations that have often been unrelated or disproportionate to their results of operations. Market fluctuations could result in extreme volatility in the price of shares of our Class A common stock, which could cause a decline in the value of our common stock. Price volatility may be greater if the public float and trading volume of shares of our Class A common stock remain low, including as a result of the concentration of ownership of our outstanding common stock among our existing executive officers, directors, and principal stockholders. Furthermore, in the past, stockholders have sometimes instituted securities class action litigation against companies following periods of volatility in the market price of their securities. Any similar litigation against us could result in substantial costs, divert management’s attention and resources, and harm our business, financial condition, and results of operations. In addition, because we award RSUs to our employees as part of their total compensation package, and the value of those RSUs depends directly on our stock price, a sharp or prolonged decline in