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Ross Stores removed its COVID-19 pandemic risk disclosure in 2024, reflecting the normalization of pandemic-related business disruptions. The company substantively modified five risk factors, with notable revisions to its liquidity discussion emphasizing capital allocation priorities including dividends and buybacks, and to its macroeconomic risk disclosure expanding coverage of inflation and supply chain impacts alongside geopolitical conditions. The overall risk factor framework remained relatively stable with 16 unchanged risks, indicating consistent operational and market concerns.
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The COVID-19 pandemic may continue to adversely affect our business, operations, and financial performance and condition.
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OPERATIONAL RISKS
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To support our continuing operations, our new store and distribution center growth plans and other capital investment plans, our quarterly dividends, our debt repayments, and our stock repurchase program, we must maintain sufficient liquidity.
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We are subject to impacts from the macroeconomic environment, financial and credit markets, and geopolitical conditions that affect consumer confidence and consumer disposable income, and also increase our costs. Inflation, supply chain disruptions, and other accompanying economic impacts from geopolitical conflicts, public health crises (such as pandemics), or other external events may continue to have significant negative effects on our costs and on consumer confidence, shopping behavior, and spending, which may adversely affect our sales and profitability.
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Information or data security breaches, including cyberattacks on our transaction processing and computer information systems (including malware intrusion, data exfiltration, identity theft, and other types of cybersecurity threats), could disrupt our operations, result in theft or unauthorized disclosure of our confidential and valuable business information or credit card and other customer information, and could adversely affect our business, disrupt our operations, damage our reputation, increase our costs, and create significant legal exposure.
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A pandemic, or natural or man-made disaster in a region where we have a concentration of stores, offices, or a distribution center could harm our business.
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