Salesforce Inc.: 10-K Risk Factor Changes

2026 vs 2025  ·  SEC EDGAR  ·  2026-07-05
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🟡 Modified Severity7/10Det 7

Climate change may have an impact on our business.

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Sentence-level differences:

  • Reworded sentence: "While we seek to mitigate our business risks associated with climate change by establishing appropriate environmental programs and partnering with organizations who are focused on mitigating their own climate-related risks, there are inherent climate-related risks where our business is conducted."
  • Reworded sentence: "For example, our offices globally are projected to continue to experience climate-related events at increased frequency, including drought, water scarcity, heat waves, cold waves, flooding, wildfires and resultant air quality impacts and power shutoffs."
  • Reworded sentence: "Changing market dynamics, global policy developments and the increasing frequency and impact of extreme weather events on critical infrastructure in the United States and elsewhere have the potential to disrupt our business, as well as the business of the companies we invest in, third-party providers or suppliers that we rely on, and our customers, and may cause us to experience higher attrition, losses and additional costs to maintain or resume operations."

Current (2026):

While we seek to mitigate our business risks associated with climate change by establishing appropriate environmental programs and partnering with organizations who are focused on mitigating their own climate-related risks, there are inherent climate-related risks where our…

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While we seek to mitigate our business risks associated with climate change by establishing appropriate environmental programs and partnering with organizations who are focused on mitigating their own climate-related risks, there are inherent climate-related risks where our business is conducted. In particular, increased energy consumption, including as a result of AI-related growth, climate-related events, energy market volatility, and power grid disruptions, may increase the operational costs related to inputs across our value chain, including for data centers. Any of our primary locations may be vulnerable to the adverse effects of climate change. For example, our offices globally are projected to continue to experience climate-related events at increased frequency, including drought, water scarcity, heat waves, cold waves, flooding, wildfires and resultant air quality impacts and power shutoffs. These events in turn have impacts on inflation risks, the cost and availability of insurance, food security, water security (including for water availability for data center cooling), energy security and on our employees’ health, productivity and well-being. Changing market dynamics, global policy developments and the increasing frequency and impact of extreme weather events on critical infrastructure in the United States and elsewhere have the potential to disrupt our business, as well as the business of the companies we invest in, third-party providers or suppliers that we rely on, and our customers, and may cause us to experience higher attrition, losses and additional costs to maintain or resume operations. 30 30 30 30 30 30 Table of Contents Table of Contents Table of Contents

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While we seek to mitigate our business risks associated with climate change by establishing appropriate environmental programs and partnering with organizations who are also focused on mitigating their own climate-related risks, there are inherent climate-related risks where our business is conducted. Any of our primary locations may be vulnerable to the adverse effects of climate change. For example, our offices globally have historically experienced, and are projected to continue to experience, climate-related events at an increasing frequency, including drought, water scarcity, heat waves, cold waves, flooding, wildfires and resultant air quality impacts and power shutoffs associated with climate-related events. These events in turn have impacts on inflation risks, the cost and availability of insurance, food security, water security (including for water availability for data center cooling), energy security and on our employees’ health, productivity and well-being. Furthermore, it is more difficult to mitigate the impact of these events on our employees working remotely or at client sites. Changing market dynamics, global policy developments and the increasing frequency and impact of extreme weather events on critical infrastructure in the United States and elsewhere have the potential to disrupt our business, the business of companies we invest in, the business of third-party providers or suppliers that we rely on to conduct our business and the business of our customers, and may cause us to experience higher attrition, losses and additional costs to maintain or resume operations. In particular, climate-related events, energy market volatility, and power grid disruptions may increase the operational costs related to inputs across our value chain, including for data centers. Perceived associations with data centers’ growing energy demand or data center/AI-related changes to existing environmental pledges in certain jurisdictions may also result in increased targeting of our sites and operations by activists. Additionally, failure to uphold, meet or make timely forward progress against our public commitments and goals related to climate action could adversely impact the resilience of our business to the impacts of climate-related events. 31 31 31 31 31 31 Table of Contents Table of Contents Table of Contents

🟡 Modified Operational and Execution Risks 🔒
🟡 Modified Any interruptions or delays in services from third parties, including data center hosting facilities, cloud computing platform providers and other hardware and software vendors, as well as Internet infrastructure, or from our inability to adequately plan for and manage service interruptions or infrastructure capacity requirements, could impair the delivery of our services and harm our business. 🔒
🟡 Modified As we acquire companies or technologies, we may not realize the expected business or financial benefits and the acquisitions could prove difficult to integrate, disrupt our business, dilute stockholder value and adversely affect our operating results and the market value of our common stock. 🔒
🟡 Modified Privacy concerns and laws as well as evolving regulation of cloud computing, AI services, cross-border data transfers and other domestic or foreign regulations may limit the use and adoption of our services and adversely affect our business. 🔒
🟡 Modified Geopolitical crises, natural disasters and other catastrophic events beyond our control have in the past and may in the future materially adversely affect us. 🔒
🟡 Modified Our quarterly results are likely to fluctuate, which may cause the value of our common stock to decline substantially. 🔒
🟡 Modified Sales to larger enterprise customers may involve more time-consuming and expensive sales cycles, pricing pressure and implementation and configuration challenges, and, for some complex transactions, delayed revenue recognition, all of which could harm our business and operating results. 🔒
🟡 Modified Social, ethical, and regulatory issues, including the development, deployment, use or capabilities of AI in our offerings, may result in reputational harm, legal liability and increased compliance costs. 🔒
🟡 Modified Our stock price is likely to be volatile and could subject us to litigation. 🔒
🟡 Modified Sales to customers outside the United States expose us to risks inherent in international operations. 🔒
🟡 Modified If our customers do not renew their subscriptions or if they reduce subscriptions at renewal, our revenue and current remaining performance obligation could decline and our business may suffer. If customer usage of consumption-based offerings is below expected levels, our revenue could decline. If we cannot accurately predict subscription renewals or upgrade rates or optimal pricing for consumption-based contracts, we may not meet our revenue targets, which may adversely affect our stock price. 🔒
🟡 Modified Operational and Execution Risks 🔒
🟡 Modified We may be subject to risks related to government contracts and related procurement regulations. 🔒
🟡 Modified Supporting our existing and growing customer base could strain our personnel resources and infrastructure, and if we are unable to scale our operations and increase productivity, we may not be able to successfully implement our business plan. 🔒
🟡 Modified Unanticipated changes in our effective tax rate and additional tax liabilities and global tax developments may impact our financial results. 🔒
🟡 Modified If we experience significant fluctuations in our rate of anticipated growth and fail to balance our expenses with our revenue forecasts, our business could be harmed and our stock price could decline. 🔒
🟡 Modified Defects or disruptions in our services could diminish demand for our services and subject us to substantial liability. 🔒
🟡 Modified The evolving landscape related to environmental, social and governance matters may expose us to risks that could adversely affect our reputation and performance. 🔒
🟡 Modified Strategic and Industry Risks 🔒
🟡 Modified Provisions in our governing documents and Delaware law might discourage, delay or prevent a change of control of the Company or changes in our management and, therefore, depress our stock price. 🔒
🟡 Modified Risks Related to Owning Our Common Stock 🔒
🟡 Modified There can be no assurance that we will continue to declare cash dividends in any particular amounts, or at all. 🔒
🟡 Modified If third-party developers and vendors do not continue to embrace our technology delivery model and enterprise cloud computing services, or if our customers seek warranties from us for third-party applications, integrations, data and content, our business could be harmed. 🔒
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