Company: CSTL
Filing Date: 2025-11-03
Form Type: 10-Q
Source: 0001628280-25-048254
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Company: CASTLE BIOSCIENCES INC
Filing Date: 2025-11-03
Form: 10-Q
Item: Item 1A
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From time to time, we may consider strategic opportunities and engage in transactions such as acquisitions of businesses, assets, products or technologies, as well as technology licenses or investments in complementary businesses. For example, in December 2021, April 2022, and May 2025 we completed the acquisitions of Cernostics, AltheaDx, and Capsulomics, respectively. These and any other strategic acquisition transactions may entail numerous operational and financial risks, including:

•delays, difficulties and higher than expected costs associated with integration activities, such as those involving operational processes, regulatory and licensure compliance, personnel and information technology systems;

•difficulties in scaling and growing the operations of acquired businesses in a cost-efficient manner;

•disruption of our existing business operations and diversion of management’s time, focus and attention;

•decreases in our liquidity and operating cash flows, increases in our overall operating costs, substantial amounts of amortization expense, increased capital expenditure requirements and non-recurring charges, including possible impairments of acquired assets and losses on the remeasurement of contingent consideration;

•incurrence of substantial debt or dilutive issuances of equity securities, the assumption of additional liabilities, exposure to unknown liabilities and being subject to disputes with former owners of acquired businesses;

•inability to retain key personnel of any acquired businesses; and

•failure to realize any of the anticipated revenues, synergies, efficiencies or other benefits of a transaction within our estimated time frame or at all.

Any acquisition, integration or expansion of our business may cause actual results to differ materially from our plans and expectations. Further, there are inherent execution and business risks associated with managing the integration and growth objectives of more than one acquisition, integration, and growth strategy at the same time and such circumstances may have the effect of heightening the operational and financial risks related to acquisitions noted above and the other risks described in this “Risk Factors” section.

For example, we began offering the TissueCypher test following our acquisition of Cernostics and the IDgenetix test following our acquisition of AltheaDx, and we have experienced certain challenges related to those tests. See “—We may be unable to manage our future growth effectively, which could make it difficult to execute our business strategy.”

We are unable to predict the timing, size or nature of any future transactions, whether they will be completed or financed on favorable terms, if at all, or what the impact of those transactions might be on our financial results, including if such transactions