limited number of third-party suppliers
“10-K Item 1A: 'We are dependent on a limited number of third-party suppliers, and the loss of any of these suppliers ... could harm our business'”
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The most significant concentration Globus Medical discloses is limited number of third-party suppliers, classified MEDIUM by disclosed size. Below: the full set from the latest 10-K — verbatim quotes, filing references, and a synthesis of what these exposures mean together.
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Source: Globus Medical’s SEC Form 10-K filed — view the filing on SEC EDGAR ↗
Each card carries a disclosed-size chip (HIGH / MEDIUM / LOW — how large the exposure is as a share of revenue, not how dangerous it is) and a nature tag: Built-in(the company’s own model, geography, or products) or Outside party (an external customer, supplier, or distributor it relies on).
“10-K Item 1A: 'We are dependent on a limited number of third-party suppliers, and the loss of any of these suppliers ... could harm our business'”
“10-K Item 1: 'international sales accounted for approximately 19.4% of our total sales'”
The company's concentration profile is narrow in scope, comprising a supplier dependency and a geographic exposure that are both well-contained. On the supply side, the filing notes dependence on a limited number of third-party suppliers for components and materials, a moderate-share dependency where the loss of any individual supplier could disrupt manufacturing and harm the business. The character is one of dependency — the exposure reflects reliance on specific vendor relationships rather than a structural feature of the end-market — and it warrants monitoring given the specialized nature of surgical implant components. The geographic exposure to international sales, at approximately 19.4% of total sales, is modest in share and structural in character: it reflects the natural expansion of the surgical implant customer base across international hospital systems and is not concentrated in any single disclosed country or region. As a smaller portion of the revenue base, it introduces currency and regulatory translation risk but does not create the kind of single-market dependency that could swing results materially in a given year. The two exposures sit on different dimensions and do not compound each other. There is no disclosed customer concentration, and the overall profile suggests a business whose principal idiosyncratic risk lies in the supply chain rather than in revenue geography. On balance, the disclosed concentration risks are limited in aggregate and unlikely on their own to move the investment thesis.
For the engine’s reasoning on GMED’s current verdict — including which dimensions drove the score — see the per-dimension breakdown.
| Symbol | Name | HIGH | MEDIUM | LOW | Total |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| AORT | Artivion, Inc. | 4 | 4 | 0 | 8 |
| ATEC | Alphatec Holdings, Inc. | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 |
| ABT | Abbott Laboratories | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| GMED● | Globus Medical, Inc. | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
| AXGN | AxoGen, Inc. | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| BIO | Bio-Rad Laboratories, Inc. | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Concentration counts reflect items disclosed in each peer’s most recent 10-K; disclosed-size classification uses TrendMatrix’s internal 10-K extraction taxonomy.