← Back to ALLT filing summaryOriginal filing text · Part I
Item 11 — Quantitative and Qualitative Disclosures About Market Risk
Allot Ltd. · 20-F · FY 2025 · Period ended Dec 31, 2025
View complete filing on SEC EDGAR ↗This is the extracted source text from the SEC filing. Formatting may differ from the original document.
About Market Risk
We are exposed to a variety of market risks, including foreign currency exchange fluctuations,
changes in interest rates and inflation. We regularly assess currency, interest rate and inflation risks to minimize any adverse effects
on our business as a result of those factors.
Risk of Interest Rate Fluctuation
The primary objectives of our investment activities are to preserve principal, support
liquidity requirements, and maximize income without significantly increasing risk. Our investments are subject to market risk due to changes
in interest rates, which may affect our interest income and fair market value of our investments.
To minimize this risk, we maintain our portfolio of cash, cash equivalents and short
and long-term investments in a variety of securities, including U.S. government and agency securities, and corporate debt securities.
We do not have any long-term borrowings. We have a significant amount of cash that is currently invested primarily in interest bearing
investment such as bank time deposits, money market funds and available for sale marketable securities. These investments expose us to
risks related to changes in interest rates. If interest rates decline, our results of operations may be adversely affected due to lower
interest income from these investments. We do not believe that a 10% increase or decrease in interest rates would have a material impact
on our operating results, cash flows or the fair value of our portfolio. The primary objective of our investment activities is to preserve
principal while maximizing the income that we receive from our investments without significantly increasing risk and loss. Our investments
are exposed to market risk due to fluctuation in interest rates, which may affect our interest income and the fair market value of our
investments. We manage this exposure by performing ongoing evaluations of our investments. Due to the short- and medium-term maturities
nature of our investments to date, their carrying value approximates the fair value. We generally hold investments to maturity in order
to limit our exposure to interest rate fluctuations.
Foreign Currency Exchange Risk
Our foreign currency exposures give rise to market risk associated with exchange rate
movements of the U.S. dollar, our functional and reporting currency, mainly against the ILS. In 2025, we derived a substantial part of
our revenues in U.S. dollars and also a substantial portion in Euros and other currencies. Although a substantial part of our expenses
were denominated in U.S. dollars, a significant portion of our expenses were denominated in ILS and to a lesser extent in Euros and other
currencies. Our ILS-denominated expenses consist principally of salaries and related personnel expenses. We monitor foreign currency exposure
and, from time to time, may use various instruments to preserve the value of sales transactions and commitments; however, this cannot
assure our protection against risks of currency fluctuations. Any strengthening or weakening in the value of the ILS against the U.S.
dollar is being partially mitigated using hedging transactions and therefore, though we cannot provide any assurance that such transaction
will fully mitigate the effect on our net income, it is not likely that such effect will be material in the upcoming year.
In the event of a 10% hypothetical strengthening or weakening in the value of the
Euro against the U.S. dollar, we may be able to mitigate the effect of such currency exchange fluctuation by adapting our pricing. However,
in the event that market conditions will limit our ability to adjust our pricing, we might not be able to fully mitigate the adverse effect
of such currency fluctuation. We estimate that in such event, the impact on our net income in 2025 did not exceed $2 million. For more
information regarding foreign currency related risks, see “ITEM 3: Key Information-Risk Factors-Our international operations expose
us to the risk of fluctuations in currency exchange rates.”
We use currency derivatives contracts primarily to hedge payments in ILS, EUR, AUD
and CAD against USD. These transactions constitute a future cash flow hedge. As of December 31, 2025, we had outstanding derivatives contracts
in the amount of $16.2 million, net. These transactions were for a period of up to twelve months. As of December 31, 2025, the fair value
of the above-mentioned foreign currency derivative contracts was $2.6 million.
94