sole or limited source suppliers
“10-K Item 1A: 'our reliance upon sole or limited sources of supply for certain materials, components and services has in the past, and could in the future, cause production interruptions'”
Updated
The most significant concentration Vontier 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: Vontier’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: 'our reliance upon sole or limited sources of supply for certain materials, components and services has in the past, and could in the future, cause production interruptions'”
The company's only disclosed concentration is a supply-chain dependency on sole or limited sources of supply for certain materials, components, and services. The exposure is high-share by disclosed size and dependency in character. The filing notes that this reliance has caused production interruptions in the past and could do so in the future — making it not a hypothetical risk but a demonstrated operational vulnerability. The dependency nature of this exposure distinguishes it from structural concentrations that move with broad market cycles. Sole-source relationships are idiosyncratic: a single supplier's decision to exit, face capacity constraints, raise prices, or experience quality issues can create a supply gap that cannot be immediately remedied through an alternative source. For a technology and industrial company, such interruptions can cascade into customer delivery delays, program penalties, and longer-term reputational effects with large end-customers. There is no disclosed customer, geographic, or product concentration layered alongside this supply-chain exposure. On balance, the concentration profile is singular and focused on the supply side. The high-share, dependency character of the sole-source supplier risk makes it the primary variable to track — specifically, the breadth of the company's qualified supplier base, its progress in dual-sourcing critical components, and any disclosed changes to supplier contracts or program terms that would reduce single-point-of-failure risk in the supply chain.
For the engine’s reasoning on VNT’s current verdict — including which dimensions drove the score — see the per-dimension breakdown.
| Symbol | Name | HIGH | MEDIUM | LOW | Total |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| BMI | Badger Meter, Inc. | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| ESE | ESCO Technologies Inc. | 1 | 1 | 2 | 4 |
| COHR | Coherent Corp. | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 |
| FTV | Fortive Corporation | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| VNT● | Vontier Corporation | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| CGNX | Cognex Corporation | 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.