POWER INTEGRATIONS INC - Quarter Report: 2024 September (Form 10-Q)

ITEM 2. MANAGEMENT’S DISCUSSION AND ANALYSIS OF FINANCIAL CONDITION AND RESULTS OF OPERATIONS

The following discussion and analysis has been prepared as an aid to understanding our financial condition and results of operations. It should be read in conjunction with the condensed consolidated financial statements and the notes to those statements included elsewhere in this Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q, and with the consolidated financial statements and management’s discussion and analysis of our financial condition and results of operations in our Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2023, filed with the SEC on February 12, 2024. This discussion contains forward-looking statements that involve risks and uncertainties. Our actual results could differ materially from those contained in these forward-looking statements due to a number of factors, including those discussed under the caption “Risk Factors” in our Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2023, and in Part II, Item 1A - “Risk Factors” and elsewhere in this report. See also “Cautionary Note Regarding Forward-Looking Statements” at the beginning of this report.

Overview

We design, develop and market analog and mixed-signal integrated circuits (“ICs”) and other electronic components and circuitry used in high-voltage power conversion. Our products are used in power converters that convert electricity from a high-voltage source to the type of power required for a specified downstream use. In most cases, this conversion entails, among other functions, converting alternating current (“AC”) to direct current (“DC”) or vice versa, reducing or increasing the voltage, and regulating the output voltage and/or current according to the customer’s specifications.

A large percentage of our products are ICs used in AC-DC power supplies, which convert the high-voltage AC from a wall outlet to the low-voltage DC required by most electronic devices. Power supplies incorporating our products are used with all manner of electronic products including appliances, computing and networking equipment, mobile phones, electronic utility meters, battery-powered tools, industrial controls, and “home-automation,” or “internet of things” applications such as networked thermostats, power strips and security devices. Variations of our power-supply ICs are used for high-voltage power conversion in electric vehicles (“EVs”). We also supply high-voltage LED drivers, which are AC-DC ICs specifically designed for lighting applications that utilize light-emitting diodes, and motor-driver ICs for brushless DC (“BLDC”) motors used in consumer appliances, HVAC systems, ceiling fans and a variety of industrial applications.

We also offer high-voltage gate drivers—either standalone ICs or circuit boards containing ICs, electrical isolation components and other circuitry—used to operate high-voltage switches such as insulated-gate bipolar transistors (“IGBTs”) and silicon-carbide (“SiC”) MOSFETs. These combinations of switches and drivers are used for power conversion in high-power applications (i.e., power levels ranging from approximately 100 kilowatts up to gigawatts) such as industrial motors, solar- and wind-power systems, locomotives, EVs and high-voltage DC transmission systems.

Our power-conversion products are distinguished by their “system-level” nature; that is, they incorporate into a single product numerous elements of a power-conversion system including a high-voltage transistor, drivers, advanced control circuitry and, in some cases, a communication link connecting the primary (i.e., input) and secondary (i.e., output) sides of the power converter while maintaining safety isolation to protect the end user from exposure to high voltage. Alternatively, a power converter can be designed and assembled using discrete components purchased from a variety of suppliers.

Our system-level products offer a number of important benefits compared with discrete designs, including: reduced design complexity; smaller size; lower component count, which in turn results in higher reliability and easier sourcing of components; reduced time-to-market; and more efficient use of engineering resources. Our products also reduce the energy consumption of power converters during normal use and in “standby” operation, when the end product is not in use. In addition to the environmental and economic benefits of reduced energy usage, our energy-saving technologies provide a number of benefits to our customers; these include helping them meet the increasingly stringent efficiency standards now in effect for many electronic products, and enabling the elimination of bulky, costly heatsinks used to dissipate the heat produced by wasted electricity. By reducing component count, circuit-board size and the need for heatsinks, our products also contribute to a reduction in materials usage and electronic waste.

While the size of our addressable market fluctuates with changes in macroeconomic and industry conditions, the market has generally exhibited a modest growth rate over time as growth in the unit volume of power converters has been offset to a large degree by reductions in the average selling price of components in this market. Therefore, the growth of our business depends largely on increasing our penetration of the markets that we serve and on further expanding our addressable market. Our growth strategy includes the following elements:

Also contributing to our SAM expansion has been the emergence of new applications within the power ranges that our products can address. For example, applications such as “smart” utility meters, battery-powered lawn equipment and bicycles, and USB power receptacles (often installed alongside traditional AC wall outlets) can incorporate our products. The increased use of connectivity, LED lighting and other power-consuming electronic features in consumer appliances has also enhanced our SAM.

We have also expanded our SAM through the development of technologies and architectures that increase the value (and therefore the average selling prices) of our products. For example, our InnoSwitch™ ICs integrate circuitry from the secondary, or low-voltage, side of AC-DC power supplies,

whereas earlier product families integrated circuitry only on the primary, or high-voltage side. Our InnoMux™ IC families provide up to three DC outputs, eliminating the need for additional power-management circuitry in certain end products requiring multiple voltages while significantly increasing efficiency. In 2019 we began incorporating our proprietary GaN transistors in some of our products, enabling a higher level of energy efficiency than ICs with silicon transistors. Since then, we have introduced a variety of new products utilizing GaN technology, as well as new generations of our GaN technology capable of supporting higher voltages (as high as 1700 volts). We are currently developing new products incorporating these technologies, which we believe will enable us to address higher-power applications than we address with our current range of products and therefore further expand our SAM.

We intend to continue expanding our SAM in the years ahead through all of the means described above.

Our quarterly operating results are difficult to predict and subject to significant fluctuations. We plan our production and inventory levels based on internal forecasts of projected customer demand, which are highly unpredictable and can fluctuate substantially. Customers typically may cancel or reschedule orders on short notice without significant penalty and, conversely, often place orders with very short lead times to delivery. Also, external factors such as supply-chain dynamics, widespread health emergencies like the COVID-19 pandemic, and macroeconomic conditions including inflation, fluctuations in interest and exchange rates and bank failures, have caused and can continue to cause our operating results to be volatile. Furthermore, because our industry is intensely price-sensitive, our gross margin (gross profit divided by net revenues) is subject to change based on the relative pricing of solutions that compete with ours. Variations in product mix, end-market mix and customer mix can also cause our gross margin to fluctuate. Because we purchase a large percentage of our silicon wafers from foundries located in Japan, our gross margin is influenced by fluctuations in the exchange rate between the U.S. dollar and the Japanese yen. Changes in the prices of raw materials used in our products, such as copper and gold, can also affect our gross margin. Although our wafer fabrication and assembly operations are outsourced, as are most of our test operations, a portion of our production costs are fixed in nature. As a result, our unit costs and gross margin are impacted by the volume of units we produce.

Recent Results

Our net revenues were $115.8 million and $125.5 million in the three months ended September 30, 2024 and 2023, respectively, and $313.7 million and $355.0 million in the nine months ended September 30, 2024 and 2023, respectively. The decrease in net revenues for the three-month period was driven primarily by lower sales of our products for use in smartphone chargers, reflecting greater use of Chinese-made components in chargers manufactured for Chinese smartphone vendors, as well as increased decoupling of handsets and chargers. These decreases were partially offset by higher sales into the consumer and computer end-markets reflecting, respectively, the depletion of excess inventories related to the appliance market and the increased use of our products in chargers for notebook computers and other mobile devices. For the nine-month period ended September 30, 2024, revenues for all but the consumer end-market category decreased compared to the corresponding prior-year period.

In general, we believe that demand for our products has been negatively affected in recent periods by macroeconomic and geopolitical factors including reduced consumer spending and a reduction in home sales in response to inflation and higher interest rates, general economic weakness in China, weaker industrial activity and the conflicts in Ukraine and the Middle East. We believe these factors have exacerbated the effects of a cyclical downturn in the semiconductor industry; such downturns are commonly experienced following periods of strong growth during which supply-chain participants tend to accumulate excess inventories.

Our top ten customers, including distributors that resell to OEMs and merchant power supply manufacturers, accounted for 78% of net revenues for both the three and nine months ended September 30, 2024, and 83% and 81% in the corresponding periods of 2023. International sales accounted for 98% of our net revenues for both the three and nine months ended September 30, 2024, and 98% in both the corresponding periods of 2023.

Our gross margin was 55% and 53% for the three months ended September 30, 2024 and 2023, respectively, and 53% and 52% for the corresponding nine-month periods. The increase in gross margin was primarily due to favorable end-market mix, with a greater percentage of revenues coming from the higher-margin industrial and consumer end-markets, and the favorable impact of the dollar/yen exchange rate on our wafer costs.

Total operating expenses were $51.6 million and $48.2 million for the three months ended September 30, 2024 and 2023, respectively, and $153.5 million and $146.6 million for the nine months ended September 30, 2024 and 2023,

respectively. The increase in operating expenses for the three- and nine-month periods was primarily due to higher stock-based compensation expense related to performance-based awards, and higher salaries and related expenses driven by higher headcount and annual salary increases. Partially offsetting these increases for the nine-month period were decreased product-development expenses. In addition, we recognized a credit in the three months ended September 30, 2024 related to the recovery of bad debt.

Critical Accounting Policies and Estimates

The preparation of financial statements and related disclosures in conformity with accounting principles generally accepted in the United States of America (“U.S. GAAP”) requires management to make estimates and assumptions that affect the reported amounts of assets and liabilities and disclosures of contingent assets and liabilities at the date of the financial statements and the reported amounts of revenues and expenses during the reporting period. On an ongoing basis, we evaluate our estimates, including those listed below. We base our estimates on historical facts and various other assumptions that we believe to be reasonable at the time the estimates are made. Actual results could differ from those estimates.

Critical accounting policies are important to the portrayal of our financial condition and results of operations and require us to make judgments and estimates about matters that are inherently uncertain. There have been no material changes to our critical accounting policies and estimates disclosed in “Item 7. Management’s Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations – Critical Accounting Policies and Estimates” and Note 2, Significant Accounting Policies and Recent Accounting Pronouncements, in each case in our Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2023, filed with the SEC on February 12, 2024. Currently, our only critical accounting policies relate to revenue recognition and estimating write-downs for excess and obsolete inventory.

Results of Operations

The following table sets forth certain operating data as a percentage of net revenues for the periods indicated:

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Comparison of the three and nine months ended September 30, 2024 and 2023

Net revenues. Net revenues consist of revenues from product sales, which are calculated net of returns and allowances. Net revenues for the three and nine months ended September 30, 2024 were $115.8 million and $313.7 million, respectively, and $125.5 million and $355.0 million, in the corresponding periods of 2023. The decrease in net revenues for the three-month period was driven primarily by lower sales of our products for use in smartphone chargers, reflecting greater use of Chinese-made components in chargers manufactured for Chinese smartphone vendors, as well as increased decoupling of handsets and chargers. These decreases were partially offset by higher sales into the consumer and computer end-markets reflecting, respectively, the depletion of excess inventories related to the appliance market and increased use of our products in chargers for notebook computers and other mobile devices. For the nine-month period ended September 30, 2024, revenues for all but the consumer end-market category decreased compared to the corresponding prior-year period.

Our revenue mix by end market for the three and nine months ended September 30, 2024 and 2023 was as follows:

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International sales, consisting of sales outside of the United States of America based on “bill to” customer locations, were $114.1 million and $308.7 million in the three and nine months ended September 30, 2024, respectively, and $123.3 million and $348.1 million in the corresponding periods of 2023. Although power converters using our products are distributed to end markets worldwide, most are manufactured in Asia. As a result, sales to this region represented 85% and 84% of our net revenues in the three and nine months ended September 30, 2024, respectively, and 84% in both the corresponding periods of 2023. We expect international sales, and sales to the Asia region in particular, to continue to account for a large portion of our net revenues in the future.

Sales to distributors accounted for 70% of our net revenues in both the three and nine months ended September 30, 2024 and 74% and 67% in the corresponding periods of 2023. Direct sales to OEMs and power-supply manufacturers accounted for the remainder.

The following customers represented 10% or more of our net revenues for the respective periods:

*Total customer revenue was less than 10% of net revenues.

No other customers accounted for 10% or more of our net revenues in these periods.

Gross profit. Gross profit is net revenues less cost of revenues. Our cost of revenues consists primarily of the purchase of wafers from our contracted foundries, the assembly, packaging and testing of our products by sub-contractors, product testing performed in our own facility, overhead associated with the management of our supply chain. Gross margin is gross profit divided by net revenues. The following table compares gross profit and gross margin for the three and nine months ended September 30, 2024 and 2023:

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The increase in gross margin was primarily due to favorable end-market mix, with a greater percentage of revenues coming from the higher-margin industrial and consumer end-markets, and the favorable impact of the dollar/yen exchange rate on our wafer costs.

Research and development expenses. Research and development (“R&D”) expenses consist primarily of employee-related expenses, including stock-based compensation, and expensed material and facility costs associated with the development of new technologies and products. We also record R&D expenses for prototype wafers related to new products until such products are released to production. The table below compares R&D expenses for the three and nine months ended September 30, 2024 and 2023:

R&D expenses increased for the three and nine months ended September 30, 2024 compared to the corresponding periods of 2023. The increase for the three-month period was primarily due to higher salaries and related expenses driven by higher headcount and annual salary increases, as well as increased product-development expenses. The increase for the nine-month period was primarily due to higher stock-based compensation expense related to performance-based awards, as well as higher salaries and related expenses driven by higher headcount and annual salary increases. These increases were partially offset by decreased product-development expenses.

Sales and marketing expenses. Sales and marketing (“S&M”) expenses consist primarily of employee-related expenses, including stock-based compensation, commissions to sales representatives, amortization of intangible assets and facilities expenses, including expenses associated with our regional sales and support offices. The table below compares S&M expenses for the three and nine months ended September 30, 2024 and 2023:

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S&M expenses increased for the three and nine months ended September 30, 2024 compared to the corresponding periods of 2023, primarily due to higher stock-based compensation expense related to performance-based awards, as well as higher salaries and related expenses driven by higher headcount and annual salary increases.

General and administrative expenses. General and administrative (“G&A”) expenses consist primarily of employee-related expenses, including stock-based compensation expense, for administration, finance, human resources and general management, as well as consulting, professional services, legal and audit expenses. The table below compares G&A expenses for the three and nine months ended September 30, 2024 and 2023:

G&A expenses increased for the three and nine months ended September 30, 2024 compared to the corresponding periods of 2023, primarily due to higher stock-based compensation expense related to performance-based awards, as well as higher salaries and related expenses due to annual salary increases. The increase was partially offset for the three months due to a credit related to the recovery of bad debt.

Other income. Other income consists primarily of interest income earned on cash and cash equivalents, marketable securities and other investments, and the impact of foreign exchange gains or losses. The table below compares other income for the three and nine months ended September 30, 2024 and 2023:

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Other income decreased for the three months ended September 30, 2024 compared to the corresponding period of 2023, as higher interest income driven by higher rates on investments was offset by the unfavorable impact of foreign exchange rates during the period. Other income increased for the nine months ended September 30, 2024 compared to the corresponding period of 2023, primarily due to higher interest income.

Provision for income taxes. Provision for income taxes represents federal, state and foreign taxes. The table below compares income-tax expense for the three and nine months ended September 30, 2024 and 2023:

Income-tax expense includes a provision for federal, state and foreign taxes based on the annual estimated effective tax rate applicable to us and our subsidiaries, adjusted for certain discrete items which are fully recognized in the period in which they occur. Accordingly, the interim effective tax rate may not be reflective of the annual estimated effective tax rate.

Our effective tax rates for the three and nine months ended September 30, 2024 were 0.3% and 1.5%, respectively, as compared to 5.1% in both the corresponding periods of 2023. The effective tax rate in these periods was lower than the statutory federal income-tax rate of 21% due to the geographic distribution of our world-wide earnings in lower-tax jurisdictions and the impact of federal research tax credits. Additionally, in the nine months ended September 30, 2024, our effective tax rate was also favorably impacted by the recognition of excess tax benefits related to share-based payments and by discrete items associated with the release of unrecognized tax benefits. In the three and nine months ended September 30, 2023, our effective tax rate was favorably impacted by a discrete item associated with recognition of excess tax benefits related to share-based payments. In the nine months ended September 30, 2023, our effective tax rate was also favorably impacted by discrete items associated with the release of unrecognized tax benefits. These benefits were partially offset by U.S. tax on foreign income, known as global intangible low-taxed income. The primary jurisdiction from which our foreign earnings are derived is the Cayman Islands, which is a non-taxing jurisdiction. Income earned in other foreign jurisdictions was not material. We have not been granted any incentivized tax rates and do not operate under any tax holidays in any jurisdiction.

Liquidity and Capital Resources

As of September 30, 2024, we had $303.8 million in cash, cash equivalents and short-term marketable securities, a decrease of $7.8 million from $311.6 million as of December 31, 2023. As of September 30, 2024, we had working capital, defined as current assets less current liabilities, of $457.1 million, a decrease of approximately $5.6 million from $462.7 million as of December 31, 2023.

We have a credit agreement with Wells Fargo Bank, National Association (the "Credit Agreement") that provides us with a $75.0 million revolving line of credit to use for general corporate purposes with a $20.0 million sub-limit for the issuance of standby and trade letters of credit. The Credit Agreement was amended on June 7, 2021, to provide an alternate borrowing rate as a replacement for LIBOR and extend the termination date from April 30, 2022, to June 7, 2026, with all other terms remaining the same. The Credit Agreement was amended with an effective date of June 28, 2023 to include the Secured Overnight Financing Rates (“SOFR”) as interest rate benchmark rates, with all other terms remaining the same. Our ability to borrow under the revolving line of credit is conditioned upon our compliance with specified covenants, including reporting and financial covenants, primarily a minimum liquidity measure and a debt to earnings ratio, with which we are currently in compliance. The Credit Agreement terminates on June 7, 2026; any advances under the

revolving line of credit would become due on such date, or earlier in the event of a default. No advances were outstanding under the agreement as of September 30, 2024.

Cash from Operating Activities

Operating activities generated $66.5 million of cash in the nine months ended September 30, 2024. Net income for this period was $23.1 million; we also incurred non-cash stock-based compensation expense, depreciation, increase in deferred tax assets, accretion of discount on marketable securities, and amortization of intangibles of $25.8 million, $25.6 million, $8.7 million, $1.3 million and $1.1 million, respectively. Sources of cash included a $5.6 million decrease in prepaid expenses and other assets and an increase of $1.9 million in accounts payable. These sources of cash were partially offset by a $4.5 million increase in inventories and a $1.5 million increase in accounts receivable due to timing of customer payments.

Operating activities generated $49.5 million of cash in the nine months ended September 30, 2023. Net income for this period was $41.5 million; we also incurred depreciation, non-cash stock-based compensation expense, increase in deferred tax assets and amortization of intangibles of $26.3 million, $21.0 million, $10.0 million and $1.6 million, respectively. Sources of cash were partially offset by a $14.8 million increase in inventories reflecting a slowdown in sales driven by factors described above, a $7.2 million increase in accounts receivable, a $5.0 million decrease in taxes payable and accrued liabilities primarily due to timing of customer rebate payments, a $2.9 million decrease in accounts payable (excluding payables related to property and equipment) due to timing of payments and a $0.8 million increase in prepaid expenses and other assets primarily due to federal income tax prepayments.

Cash from Investing Activities

Our investing activities in the nine months ended September 30, 2024 resulted in a $17.5 million net use of cash, primarily consisting of $14.2 million used for purchases of property and equipment (primarily production-related machinery and equipment) and $9.5 million for the Odyssey acquisition, partially offset by $6.2 million of proceeds from sales and maturities of marketable securities, net of purchases.

Our investing activities in the nine months ended September 30, 2023 resulted in $25.9 million net use of cash, primarily consisting of $11.1 million used for purchases of marketable securities net of proceeds from sales and maturities, and $14.7 million used for purchases of property and equipment, primarily production-related machinery and equipment.

Cash from Financing Activities

Our financing activities in the nine months ended September 30, 2024 resulted in a $54.4 million net use of cash, consisting of $34.1 million for the payment of dividends to stockholders and $26.0 million for the repurchase of our common stock, partially offset by proceeds of $5.7 million from the issuance of shares through our employee stock purchase plan.

Our financing activities in the nine months ended September 30, 2023 resulted in a $34.3 million net use of cash, consisting of $32.7 million for the payment of dividends to stockholders and $7.8 million for the repurchase of our common stock, partially offset by $6.2 million from the issuance of shares through our employee stock purchase plan.

Dividends

In February 2023, our board of directors declared dividends of $0.19 per share to be paid to stockholders of record at the end of each quarter in 2023. In October 2023, our board of directors raised the quarterly cash dividend with the declaration of five cash dividends of $0.20 per share to be paid at the end of the fourth quarter of 2023 (in lieu of the previously declared dividend of $0.19 per share) and at the end of each quarter in 2024. In October 2024, our board of directors raised the quarterly cash dividend again with the declaration of five cash dividends of $0.21 per share to be paid at the end of the fourth quarter of 2024 (in lieu of the previously declared dividend of $0.20 per share) and at the end of each quarter in 2025.

Dividend payouts of $11.4 million occurred on March 28, 2024, June 28, 2024 and September 30, 2024. The declaration of any future cash dividend is at the discretion of the board of directors and will depend on our financial condition, results of operations, capital requirements, business conditions and other factors, as well as a determination that cash dividends are in the best interests of our stockholders.

Stock Repurchases

As of December 31, 2023, we had $26.0 million remaining under our stock-repurchase program. We exhausted this authorization in the nine months ended September 30, 2024, purchasing approximately 371,000 shares of our common stock for $26.0 million. In October 2024, our board of directors authorized the use of $50.0 million for the repurchase of our common stock, with repurchases to be executed according to pre-defined price/volume guidelines. The program has no expiration date. Authorization of future repurchase programs is at the discretion of our board of directors and will depend on our financial condition, results of operations, capital requirements, business conditions and other factors.

Contractual Commitments

As of September 30, 2024, there were no material changes in our contractual commitments from those reported in our Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2023.

Other Information

Our cash, cash equivalents and investment balances may change in future periods due to changes in our planned cash outlays, including changes in incremental costs such as direct and integration costs related to future acquisitions. Current U.S. tax laws generally allow companies to repatriate accumulated foreign earnings without incurring additional U.S. federal taxes. Accordingly, as of September 30, 2024, our worldwide cash and marketable securities are available to fund capital allocation needs, including capital and internal investments, acquisitions, stock repurchases and/or dividends without incurring additional U.S. federal income taxes.

If our operating results deteriorate in future periods, either as a result of a decrease in customer demand or pricing pressures from our customers or our competitors, or for other reasons, our ability to generate positive cash flow from operations may be jeopardized. In that case, we may be forced to use our cash, cash equivalents and short-term investments, use our current financing or seek additional financing from third parties to fund our operations. We believe that cash generated from operations, together with existing sources of liquidity, will satisfy our projected working capital and other cash requirements for at least the next 12 months. Our uses of cash beyond the next 12 months will depend on many factors, including the general economic environment in which we operate and our ability to generate cash flow from operations, which are uncertain but include funding our operations and additional capital expenditures.

Recent Accounting Pronouncements

Information with respect to this item may be found in Note 2, Significant Accounting Policies and Recent Accounting Pronouncements, in our Notes to Unaudited Condensed Consolidated Financial Statements included in Part I, Item 1, of this Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q, which information is incorporated herein by reference.

ITEM 3. QUANTITATIVE AND QUALITATIVE DISCLOSURES ABOUT MARKET RISK

There have been no material changes to our interest rate risk and foreign currency exchange risk during the first nine months of 2024. For a discussion of our exposure to interest rate risk and foreign currency exchange risk, refer to our market risk disclosures set forth in Part II, Item 7A, “Quantitative and Qualitative Disclosures About Market Risk” of the 2023 Form 10-K.

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ITEM 4. CONTROLS AND PROCEDURES

Limitation on Effectiveness of Controls

Any control system, no matter how well designed and operated, can provide only reasonable assurance as to the tested objectives. The design of any control system is based in part upon certain assumptions about the likelihood of future events, and there can be no assurance that any design will succeed in achieving its stated goals under all potential future conditions, regardless of how remote. The inherent limitations in any control system include the realities that judgments related to decision-making can be faulty, and that reduced effectiveness in controls can occur because of simple errors or mistakes. Due to the inherent limitations in a cost-effective control system, misstatements due to error may occur and may not be detected.

Evaluation of Disclosure Controls and Procedures

Management is required to evaluate our disclosure controls and procedures, as defined in Rules 13a-15(e) and 15d-15(e) under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 (the “Exchange Act”). Disclosure controls and procedures are controls and other procedures designed to provide reasonable assurance that information required to be disclosed in our reports filed under the Exchange Act, such as this Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q, is recorded, processed, summarized and reported within the time periods specified in the Securities and Exchange Commission’s rules and forms. Disclosure controls and procedures include controls and procedures designed to provide reasonable assurance that such information is accumulated and communicated to our management, including our Chief Executive Officer and Chief Financial Officer as appropriate to allow timely decisions regarding required disclosure. Based on our management’s evaluation (with the participation of our principal executive officer and principal financial officer), our principal executive officer and principal financial officer have concluded that our disclosure controls and procedures (as defined in Rules 13a-15(e) and 15d-15(e) under the Exchange Act) were effective as of the end of the period covered by this report.

Changes in Internal Control over Financial Reporting

There were no changes in our internal control over financial reporting during the quarter ended September 30, 2024, that have materially affected or are reasonably likely to materially affect our internal control over financial reporting.

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PART II. OTHER INFORMATION

ITEM 1. LEGAL PROCEEDINGS

Information with respect to this item may be found in Note 12, Legal Proceedings and Contingencies, in our Notes to Unaudited Condensed Consolidated Financial Statements included in Part I, Item 1, of this Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q, which information is incorporated herein by reference.

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ITEM 1A. RISK FACTORS

As of the date of this filing, the risk factors have not changed materially from those disclosed in Part I Item 1A in our Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2023, which risk factors are incorporated herein by reference in this report from Item 1A of our Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2023 filed with the SEC on February 12, 2024.

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ITEM 5. OTHER INFORMATION

Rule 10b5-1 Trading Plans

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During the three months ended September 30, 2024, of our directors or executive officers (as defined in Rule 16a-1(f) under the Exchange Act) any contract, instruction or written plan for the purchase or sale of our securities that was intended to satisfy the affirmative defense conditions of Rule 10b5-1(c) under the Exchange Act or any “non-Rule 10b5-1 trading arrangement” as defined in Item 408(c) of Regulation S-K.

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ITEM 6. EXHIBITS

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All references in the table above to previously filed documents or descriptions are incorporating those documents and descriptions by reference thereto.

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SIGNATURES

Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, the registrant has duly caused this report to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned thereunto duly authorized.

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