IQVIA Holdings Inc.: 10-K Risk Factor Changes

2026 vs 2025  ·  SEC EDGAR  ·  2026-10-16
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Six risk factors substantively modified; sustainability, technology deployment, and data privacy expectations evolved significantly.

Direction ↑ More concerning
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🟡 Modified Disclosure change7/10

The expectations and requirements of regulators and other key stakeholders on sustainability-related matters, continue to evolve and diverge, and our ability to meet these expectations and requirements could increase our costs, and inaction could harm our reputation and adversely impact our financial results.

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Sentence-level differences:

  • Reworded sentence: "We are subject to rapidly changing and varied expectations and requirements on sustainability-related issues, from a wide range of stakeholders, such as governmental and self-regulatory organizations, including the Securities and Exchange Commission, U.S."
  • Added sentence: "Furthermore, any actual or perceived failure to achieve our current and future sustainability goals, including those which result from customer expectations or requirements, or to act responsibly with respect to such matters or to effectively respond to new or additional sustainability-related legal or regulatory requirements, could result in adverse publicity and adversely affect our business and reputation."
  • Added sentence: "There is no assurance that we will be able to successfully achieve any sustainability-related goal or execute on any sustainability-related strategy, or adequately meet stakeholder expectations with respect to such matters."

Current (2026):

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There has been increasing public focus by investors, customers, environmental activists, the media, and governmental and nongovernmental organizations on a variety of environmental and sustainability matters. In light of the importance of this to our internal and external stakeholders, if we are not effective in addressing environmental and sustainability matters affecting our business, or setting and meeting relevant sustainability goals, our reputation and financial results may suffer. We may experience increased costs in order to execute upon our sustainability goals and measure achievement of those goals, which could have an adverse impact on our business and financial condition.

In addition, this emphasis on environmental and sustainability matters has resulted and may result in the adoption of new laws and regulations, including new reporting requirements (including, but not limited to the EU Corporate Sustainability Reporting Directive, the EU Taxonomy, and the EU Corporate Sustainability Due Diligence Directive). Such rules may require us to incur significant additional costs to comply, including the implementation of significant additional internal controls processes and procedures regarding matters that have not been subject to such controls in the past, and impose increased oversight obligations on our management and Board. If we fail to comply with new laws, regulations, or reporting requirements, our reputation and business could be adversely impacted. In addition, compliance with new laws, regulations, and reporting requirements may increase our costs, result in disclosures of potentially competitively sensitive information, or may cause us to be targeted by activists, regulators, or others who want us to take a different approach to such matters or increase our disclosures or commitments.

In addition, certain environmental and sustainability disclosures and commitments we make may be reliant in part or in whole on third party information, which we cannot verify the quality of, and third party performance, which we cannot guarantee. We may fail to meet our environmental and sustainability commitments either entirely or on the schedule we commit to.

🟡 Modified We may experience challenges with the acquisition, development, enhancement or deployment of technology necessary for our business. 🔒
🟡 Modified Data protection, privacy and similar laws and regulations in the United States and around the world restrict access, use and disclosure of personal information, and failure to comply with or adapt to changes in these laws could materially and adversely harm our business. 🔒
🟡 Modified Environmental events may have an impact on our business. 🔒

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