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The Company continually re-assesses the business risks, and as part of that process detailed a range of risk factors in the disclosures in American Vanguard’s Annual Report on Form 10-K for the fiscal year ended December 31, 2025, filed on March 16, 2026. There have been no material changes in our risk factors as of June 30, 2026, except as follows:
The war between the US and Iran coupled with instability among other nations within the Middle East may have an adverse effect upon the agricultural economy in general and the Company’s financial performance in particular. Military activity in and near Iran and the consequent blockade of the Strait of Hormuz are interfering with international shipping lanes for oil, fertilizer and other products which, in turn, are increasing grower costs. In addition, these activities could lead to counterterrorism and/or counterattacks that could put US persons and assets at risk. These factors are likely to further constrain grower liquidity and profitability, to affect growers’ procurement practices and lead to a reduction in demand for the Company’s products. There is no guarantee that the war will end any time soon or that the terms of its cessation will restore shipping lanes to pre-blockade status. In short, these factors could have a material adverse impact on the Company’s operations and/or financial performance.
The development of Agentic AI tools may overtake the efficacy of available cybersecurity defense tools and, as such, could put the Company’s computing systems at risk. Fueled by enormous investment and activity from competing global developers, agentic AI solutions are evolving at a rapid pace and becoming increasingly powerful. By contrast, cybersecurity defense tools are evolving at a slower rate and are largely configured to defend against traditional, pre-agentic AI threats. Thus, it is possible that the strength of existing defense tools will soon be exceeded by that of new, agentic AI tools. While the Company is taking extensive measures to ensure that its computing systems are well-defended, there is no guarantee that agentic AI tools, whether on their own or in the hands of threat actors, will not breach these systems, which, in turn, could have a material adverse effect upon the Company’s operations or financial performance.
The Company’s primary synthesis factories are dependent upon the continued provision of shared services from competitors. The Company’s manufacturing facilities in both Hannibal, Missouri and Axis, Alabama depend upon the provision of essential services (e.g., utilities, waste treatment) from competitors that are co-located with the Company on those sites. Further, while it owns the machinery and equipment at those sites, the Company is a tenant, and the competitors are landlords, as per the terms of ground leases. There is no guarantee that the landlords of either site will continue to be able to supply some or all shared services to the Company without interruption. Nor does the Company have any control over the disposition of the fee interest of the sites on which its operations are situated. Cessation of some or all shared services by the landlords without sufficient lead time could have a material adverse effect upon the Company’s ability to produce various high-margin products.