sole or limited source suppliers
“10-K Item 1: 'for certain components we have sole or limited source supply arrangements'”
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The most significant concentration Lumentum Holdings discloses is sole or limited source suppliers, classified HIGH 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: Lumentum Holdings’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 1: 'for certain components we have sole or limited source supply arrangements'”
The company's sole disclosed concentration risk is on the supply side: for certain components it has sole or limited source supply arrangements. By disclosed size this is a high-share exposure with a dependency character, meaning that for a meaningful portion of its bill of materials the company relies on suppliers for whom no qualified backup exists. A disruption at any of those sole or limited sources — whether from a manufacturing failure, natural disaster, financial distress, or export control action — could halt production of the affected components and delay shipments to customers. The dependency character is the defining feature of this risk. Unlike a structural geographic or product concentration, sole-source component reliance creates an idiosyncratic vulnerability tied to specific external parties whose operational reliability is outside the company's direct control. Qualifying alternative sources typically requires extensive testing and, in certain industries, regulatory re-qualification, limiting the company's near-term ability to substitute if a disruption occurs. No customer, geographic, product, or counterparty concentration is separately disclosed alongside the supply chain exposure. The concentration profile is therefore narrow in its disclosed dimensions: a single category of supply-side dependency on sole and limited source arrangements. The key variable for investors to monitor is the company's progress in qualifying alternative suppliers or building safety stock for the most critical single-sourced components, as this represents the primary idiosyncratic supply chain risk disclosed in the filing.
For the engine’s reasoning on LITE’s current verdict — including which dimensions drove the score — see the per-dimension breakdown.
| Symbol | Name | HIGH | MEDIUM | LOW | Total |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| AAOI | Applied Optoelectronics, Inc. | 2 | 1 | 0 | 3 |
| CSCO | Cisco Systems, Inc. | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| LITE● | Lumentum Holdings Inc. | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| CIEN | Ciena Corporation | 0 | 2 | 2 | 4 |
| BDC | Belden Inc | 0 | 2 | 1 | 3 |
| ASTS | AST SpaceMobile, 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.