Company: ISRG
Filing Date: 2025-01-31
Form Type: 10-K
Source: 0001035267-25-000017
Chunk: 193

Company: INTUITIVE SURGICAL INC
Filing Date: 2025-01-31
Form: 10-K
Item: Item 1A
Chunk 193
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 where the lease payments are based on their usage of the systems. If customers do not perform a sufficient number of procedures on our systems leased under usage-based arrangements, it could impact our profitability on those arrangements and our overall results of operations. Moreover, the usage of those systems and related billings could vary from quarter to quarter, which could result in higher variability in our revenue under those arrangements, including a significant reduction in revenue if the usage ends, fluctuations in our gross profit margins if utilization is different than our expectations, and unpredictable cash flows. Moreover, there is risk in forecasting future utilization of a system and, therefore, we may not set our usage-based rates high enough to maintain our gross profit margins. Additionally, certain of our leasing arrangements allow customers to cancel, return, or upgrade the systems leased prior to the end of the lease term without incurring a financial penalty, which could have a material adverse effect on our business, financial condition, or results of operations. If systems that are not fully depreciated are returned, we could also incur additional losses, as we may not be able to recover the remaining value of those returned assets, thereby negatively impacting our financial results.

While leases, including usage-based arrangements, enable our customers to upgrade and get access to new technologies faster, it may also enable competitors to more easily induce customers to switch to such competitors’ systems. Furthermore, depending on the timing and terms of the upgrade transaction, the amount of revenue generated on the initial and upgraded lease arrangements may not, in the aggregate, generate the same amount of revenue that a traditional sale and trade-in transaction would.

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OUR RELIANCE ON SOLE- AND SINGLE-SOURCED SUPPLIERS AND ABILITY TO PURCHASE AT ACCEPTABLE PRICES A SUFFICIENT SUPPLY OF MATERIALS COULD HARM OUR ABILITY TO MEET PRODUCT DEMAND IN A TIMELY MANNER OR WITHIN BUDGET.

Some of the components necessary for the assembly of our products are currently provided to us by sole-sourced suppliers or single-sourced suppliers. We generally purchase components through purchase orders rather than long-term supply agreements and generally do not maintain large volumes of components within our inventory. While alternative suppliers exist and could be identified for single-sourced components, the disruption or termination of the supply of components, or inflationary pressure in our supply chain, could cause a significant increase in the costs of these components, which could affect our operating results. Certain of our sole-sourced suppliers or single-sourced suppliers could be adversely affected by the macroeconomic