Company: DHR
Filing Date: 2025-10-21
Form Type: 10-Q
Source: 0000313616-25-000182
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Company: DANAHER CORP /DE/
Filing Date: 2025-10-21
Form: 10-Q
Item: Item 1
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 and other strategic relationships can also negatively impact our business and financial statements and our indemnification rights may not fully protect us from liabilities related thereto.

•Divestitures or other dispositions could negatively impact our business, and contingent liabilities from businesses that we or our predecessors have previously disposed could adversely affect our business and financial statements.  For example, we could incur significant liability if any of the split-off or spin-off transactions we have previously consummated are determined to be a taxable transaction or otherwise pursuant to our indemnification obligations with respect to such transactions.

Operational Risks

•Significant disruptions in, or breaches in security of, our information technology (“IT”) systems or data; data privacy violations; other losses or disruptions to facilities, supply chains, distribution systems or IT systems due to catastrophe; and labor disputes can all adversely affect our business and financial statements. 

•Defects, manufacturing problems and unanticipated use or inadequate disclosure with respect to our products or services, or allegations thereof, can adversely affect our business and financial statements.

•Climate change, legal or regulatory measures to address climate change and other sustainability topics and any inability to address regulatory requirements or stakeholder expectations with respect to climate change and other sustainability topics, may negatively affect our business and financial statements.

•Our financial results are subject to fluctuations in the cost and availability of the supplies we use in, and the labor we need for, our operations, as well as adverse changes with respect to key distributors and channel partners.

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•Our success depends on our ability to recruit, retain and motivate talented employees.

•Our restructuring actions can have long-term adverse effects on our business and financial statements.

Intellectual Property Risks

•Any inability to adequately protect or avoid third-party infringement of our intellectual property, and third-party claims we are infringing intellectual property rights, can adversely affect our business and financial statements.

•The U.S. government has certain rights with respect to incremental production capacity attributable to, and/or the intellectual property we have developed using, government financing.  In addition, in times of national emergency the U.S. government could also control our allocation of manufacturing capacity.

Financial and Tax Risks

•From time to time our outstanding debt has increased significantly as a result of acquisitions and other factors, and we may incur additional debt.  Such indebtedness may limit our operations and use of cash flow and negatively impact our credit ratings; and failure to comply with our indebtedness-related covenants could adversely affect our business and financial statements.

•Our business and financial statements