Company: EVLVW
Filing Date: 2025-08-14
Form Type: 10-Q
Source: 0001805385-25-000009
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Company: Evolv Technologies Holdings, Inc.
Filing Date: 2025-08-14
Form: 10-Q
Item: Part I, Item 1
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 percentage obtained by dividing gross profit by our revenue. 

We expect our gross margins to fluctuate over time based on the following factors:

•Mix of sales between our pure subscription, purchase subscription, and distributor licensing models;

•Market conditions that may impact our pricing;

•Product mix changes between established products and new products;

•Our cost structure for manufacturing operations, including contract manufacturers, relative to volume, and our product support obligations;

•Our ability to maintain our costs on the components that go into the manufacture of our products; and

•Write-offs of inventory.

We regularly assess our sales and fulfillment models to ensure they align with customer preferences, operational scalability, and our long-term business objectives. We expect our gross profit and gross margin in any given fiscal period to be influenced by customer demand for our various sales and fulfillment models, as well as any future strategic management decisions affecting our sales and fulfillment models that may result from such assessments. We currently expect gross margins in the near term to decrease due to certain significant opportunities in our pipeline that are expected to be fulfilled through our purchase subscription model.

Research and Development

Our research and development expenses represent costs incurred to support activities that advance the development of innovative security screening technologies, new product platforms, as well as activities that enhance the capabilities of our existing product platforms. Our research and development expenses consist primarily of salaries and bonuses, employee benefits, stock-based compensation, prototypes, design expenses, and consulting and contractor costs. We expect our research and development costs will remain relatively consistent for the year ending December 31, 2025 compared to the year ended December 31, 2024 as we look to leverage previous investments made in people and processes.

Sales and Marketing

Sales and marketing expenses consist primarily of personnel related expenses associated with our sales and marketing, customer success, business development, and strategy functions, as well as costs related to trade shows and events, and stock-based compensation. We expect our sales and marketing costs will decrease for the year ending December 31, 2025 compared to the year ended December 31, 2024 as a result of certain cost cutting measures we have taken, including the reduction in force implemented in January 2025.

General and Administrative

General and administrative expenses consist primarily of personnel related expenses associated with our executive, finance, investor relations, legal, information technology, and human resources functions, as well as professional fees for legal, audit, accounting and other consulting services, stock-based compensation, and insurance, net of any probable and reasonably estimable insurance recoveries or received insurance