Company: PRMB
Filing Date: 2025-02-27
Form Type: 10-K
Source: 0002042694-25-000003
Chunk: 43

Company: Primo Brands Corp
Filing Date: 2025-02-27
Form: 10-K
Item: Item 1A
Chunk 43
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 in financial estimates or ratings by any securities analysts who follow our Class A common stock, our failure to meet such estimates or failure of those analysts to initiate or maintain coverage of our Class A common stock;

•downgrades in our credit ratings or the credit ratings of our competitors;

•the sustainability of an active trading market for our Class A common stock;

•investor perceptions of the investment opportunity associated with our Class A common stock relative to other investment alternatives;

•the inclusion, exclusion, or deletion of our Class A common stock from any trading indices;

•future sales of our Class A common stock by our officers, directors, and significant stockholders, including the selling stockholders;

•other events or factors, including those resulting from system failures and disruptions, hurricanes, pandemics, wars, acts of terrorism, other natural disasters, or responses to such events;

•changes in financial markets or general economic conditions, including, for example, due to the effects of recession or slow economic growth in the US and abroad, interest rates, fuel prices, international currency fluctuations, corruption, political instability, acts of war, including the conflict involving Russia and Ukraine, acts of terrorism, and pandemics or other public health crises;

•price and volume fluctuations in the overall stock market, including as a result of trends in the economy as a whole; and

•changes in accounting principles.

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The market price also may decline if we do not achieve the perceived benefits of the Transaction as rapidly or to the extent anticipated by financial or industry analysts or if the effect of the Transaction on our financial position, results of operations, or cash flows is not consistent with the expectations of financial or industry analysts. These and other factors may lower the market price of our Class A common stock, regardless of our actual operating performance. As a result, our Class A common stock may trade at prices significantly below the price at which shares were purchased.

In addition, the stock markets, including the NYSE, have experienced extreme price and volume fluctuations that have affected and continue to affect the market prices of equity securities of many companies. In the past, stockholders have instituted securities class action litigation following periods of market volatility. If we were to become involved in securities litigation, we could incur substantial costs and our resources and the attention of management could be diverted from our business.

If securities analysts publish inaccurate or unfavorable research or reports about our business, or if they downgrade our stock or our sector, our stock price and trading volume could decline.

The trading market for our Class A common stock depends in part