Company: YEXT
Filing Date: 2025-06-09
Form Type: 10-Q
Source: 0001614178-25-000077
Chunk: 165

Company: Yext, Inc.
Filing Date: 2025-06-09
Form: 10-Q
Item: Part II, Item 1A
Chunk 165
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 stock after price appreciation as the only way to realize any future gains on their investment.

Share repurchases could affect our stock price and increase its volatility and will diminish our cash reserves.

In March 2022, we announced a program to repurchase up to $100.0 million of our common stock, which was increased by an additional $50.0 million in September 2023 and an additional $50.0 million in March 2025. Such repurchases may be made from time to time subject to pre-determined price and volume guidelines. As of April 30, 2025, we repurchased 23,986,081 shares for $145.8 million. Repurchases pursuant to our share repurchase program could affect our stock price and increase its volatility and will reduce the market liquidity for our stock. These activities may have the effect of maintaining the market price of our common stock or slow down a decline in the market price of the common stock, and, as a result, the price of our common stock may be higher than the price that otherwise might exist in the open market. Additionally, these repurchases will diminish our cash reserves, which could impact our ability to pursue possible future strategic opportunities and acquisitions and result in lower overall returns on our cash balances.

Delaware law and provisions in our amended and restated certificate of incorporation and amended and restated bylaws could make a merger, tender offer or proxy contest difficult, thereby depressing the trading price of our common stock.

Our status as a Delaware corporation may discourage, delay or prevent a change in control, even if a change of control would be beneficial to our existing stockholders. In addition, our amended and restated certificate of incorporation and amended and restated bylaws contain provisions that may make the acquisition of our company more difficult, including the following:

•a classified board of directors with three-year staggered terms, which could delay the ability of stockholders to change the membership of a majority of our Board of Directors;

•a prohibition on cumulative voting in the election of our directors;

•the requirement that our directors may only be removed for cause;

•the ability of our Board of Directors to issue shares of preferred stock and to determine the price and other terms of those shares, including preferences and voting rights, without stockholder approval, which could be used to significantly dilute the ownership of a hostile acquirer;

•the right of our Board of Directors to elect a director to fill a vacancy created by the expansion of our Board of Directors or the resignation,