Company: GEHC
Filing Date: 2025-02-13
Form Type: 10-K
Source: 0001932393-25-000005
Chunk: 32

Company: GE HealthCare Technologies Inc.
Filing Date: 2025-02-13
Form: 10-K
Item: Item 1A
Chunk 32
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 apply to products, software, and technology. If the sanctions, restrictions, and other retaliatory measures imposed by the global community change, we may be required to cease or suspend our operations in the region or we may voluntarily elect to do so. Additionally, elections in various countries may further exacerbate geopolitical and geoeconomic tensions and market instability. The lead up to these elections and their outcomes could result in sharp shifts in domestic, economic, and foreign policy approaches or even result in new or deepening geopolitical conflicts. We are continuously monitoring economic, political, and geopolitical developments to assess any potential future impact that may arise. 

The impact of geopolitical and economic developments globally will depend on a number of factors, including the effectiveness of measures by central banks and financial authorities. Such developments may also result in or coincide with reduced budgets for capital equipment and services, particularly if it becomes more difficult for our customers to accurately forecast and plan future business activities. This, in turn, could cause our customers to reduce, delay, or abandon purchases of our offerings. An uncertain economic environment may also adversely affect our customers’ budgets and may result in pricing pressure, requests for extended warranty provisions, cancellation of service contracts, and could make it more difficult for us to collect outstanding receivables, especially in emerging markets.  Any of these risks could have a material adverse effect on our business results, cash flows, financial condition, prospects, and the market price of our securities. 

Public health crises, epidemics, and pandemics, such as the COVID-19 pandemic, have had and in the future may have a material adverse impact on our business, as well as on the operations and financial performance of some of the customers and suppliers in industries that we serve.

Our operations and financial performance have been, and in the future may be, negatively impacted by public health crises, epidemics, and pandemics, such as the COVID-19 pandemic, which have in the past caused, and may in the future cause, a slowdown of economic activity (including volatility in demand for our products, services, and solutions), disruptions in global supply chains, and significant volatility in financial markets. Additionally, as a result of such events, we have in the past experienced, and may in the future experience, operational challenges from the need to protect employee health and safety; site shutdowns; workplace disruptions; restrictions on the movement of people, raw materials, and goods (both at our own facilities and at those of our customers and suppliers); global supply chain disruptions; and price inflation. We also