SMCI — what changed in the latest 10-K
A section-by-section comparison of SMCI's newest periodic SEC filing (10-K/10-Q) against the prior same-form filing: paragraphs added and removed per section, with verbatim excerpts. Purely a deterministic text diff — no similarity scores, no directional read, not investment advice.
Comparing 10-K · 2026-08-31 vs the prior 10-K · 2025-08-28
| Section | Outcome | Added | Removed | Minor | Unchanged |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Business | Text added/removed | +28 | −32 | ~23 | 31 |
| Risk factors | Text added/removed | +63 | −67 | ~41 | 123 |
| Legal proceedings | Text added/removed | 0 | 0 | ~1 | 1 |
| MD&A | Text added/removed | +55 | −49 | ~25 | 9 |
| Market risk (Item 7A) | Text added/removed | +1 | −1 | ~3 | 0 |
Counts are paragraphs; added/removed means text added or removed vs the prior filing — no direction or judgement implied.
Representative excerpts
Up to 5 excerpts of about 300 characters per section, quoted verbatim from the two SEC filings.
Business
Text added vs the prior filing · source: 10-K · 2026-08-31
During the fiscal year ended June 30, 2026, we continued to expand our worldwide capacity, including a significant expansion of our Silicon Valley operations, including the on-going construction of a new state-of-the-art business complex and additional property leases to support our DCBBS campus nea…
•We delivered a comprehensive portfolio of AI-focused solutions specifically designed to support the latest AI workloads, including products compatible with NVIDIA's Blackwell and Blackwell Ultra generation platforms, such as the NVIDIA GB300 NVL72, GB200 NVL72, and HGX B300 and B200 systems, in air…
•We continued to scale our DCBBS, which simplify the deployment of liquid-cooled AI factories by integrating all critical infrastructure components—servers, storage, networking, racks, liquid cooling infrastructure, power distribution, software, services, and support. In approximately one year, our …
•We announced support for, and expanded rack-scale manufacturing and liquid-cooling capacity for, the upcoming NVIDIA Vera Rubin platform, including the NVIDIA Vera Rubin NVL72 and NVIDIA HGX Rubin NVL8 systems, and introduced DCBBS Blueprints for these platforms designed to scale AI data centers fr…
•We introduced new products supporting Intel Xeon 6 and Intel Xeon 6+ processors, AMD EPYC processors, and AMD Instinct™ MI350 series GPUs (MI350X and MI355X), and expanded our portfolio with Arm®-based platforms and additional Open Compute Project (“OCP”) ORv3-compliant systems;
Text removed vs the prior filing · source: 10-K · 2025-08-28
We conduct our operations principally from our Silicon Valley headquarters and facilities in Taiwan and the Netherlands. Additionally as part of our efforts to expand our capacities, we added a new facility in Malaysia during the fiscal year ended June 30, 2025. Our sales and marketing activities op…
•We delivered a comprehensive portfolio of AI-focused solutions, specifically designed to support the latest AI workloads, including products compatible with NVIDIA’s Hopper (H100/H200) and Blackwell (GB200/B200/RTX Pro 6000) generation platforms;
•We launched our Data Center Building Block Solutions (“DCBBS”), an integrated offering that simplifies the deployment of liquid-cooled AI factories. This solution includes all critical infrastructure components - servers, storage, networking, racks, liquid cooling infrastructure, software, services…
•We introduced new products supporting Intel® Xeon® 6900 Series processors and Intel® Xeon® 6 data center CPUs, as well as AMD EPYC™ 9005 Series CPUs and AMD Instinct™ MI350/355 Series GPUs;
•We expanded our edge and IoT portfolio with a variety of new systems designed for low-power environments that require compact, efficient compute solutions; and
Risk factors
Text added vs the prior filing · source: 10-K · 2026-08-31
•We may be unable to secure additional financing on favorable terms, or at all, which in turn could impair the rate of our growth, and any financing that we do obtain may dilute our stockholders, restrict our growth, or contain other unfavorable terms;
•Climate change may have a long-term impact on our business;
•We were delinquent in certain SEC reporting obligations in prior fiscal years, which may increase the risk of SEC enforcement actions, damage investor confidence, and require significant resources to correct. We have since implemented enhanced compliance controls to prevent recurrence;
•We previously identified material weaknesses in our internal control over financial reporting, which could, if not remediated, adversely affect our ability to report our financial condition and results of operations in a timely and accurate manner. We are implementing measures to remediate these ma…
•We are subject to complex laws, rules, regulations, and political and other actions, including restrictions on the export of our products, which may adversely impact our business;
Text removed vs the prior filing · source: 10-K · 2025-08-28
Risks Related to Previously being Delinquent in SEC Reporting Obligations
•We face risks related to previously being delinquent in our SEC reporting obligations;
•We have incurred and expect to continue to incur significant expenses related to the circumstances discussed in Item 9. “Changes in and Disagreements with Accountants on Accounting and Financial Disclosure” section in this Annual Report, the remediation of deficiencies in our internal control over …
•Matters relating to or arising from the circumstances discussed in Item 9. “Changes in and Disagreements with Accountants on Accounting and Financial Disclosure” section in this Annual Report, including adverse publicity and potential concerns from our customers, have had and could continue to have…
•We have identified material weaknesses in our internal control over financial reporting, which could, if not remediated, adversely affect our ability to report our financial condition and results of operations in a timely and accurate manner.
MD&A
Text added vs the prior filing · source: 10-K · 2026-08-31
•Net sales increased by 77.8% in fiscal year 2026, as compared to fiscal year 2025, primarily driven by fulfillment and shipment of orders to support our customers' data center deployment, including large design wins from a few customers. The strong year-on-year growth was driven by our product mix,…
•Net income increased to $2,230.5 million in fiscal year 2026, as compared to $1,048.9 million in fiscal year 2025, as the increase in net sales was greater than the increase in operating costs, and was also sufficient to offset the decline in gross margin percentage.
We apply judgment in determining the transaction price as we may be required to estimate variable consideration when determining the amount of revenue to recognize. We include estimated variable consideration in the transaction price only to the extent it is probable that a significant reversal of c…
Other Income (Expense), Net, Interest Income, and Interest Expense
Other income (expense), net, interest income, and interest expense consists primarily of interest earned on our investments and cash balances, interest incurred on our debt, and foreign exchange gains and losses.
Text removed vs the prior filing · source: 10-K · 2025-08-28
•Net sales increased by 46.6% in fiscal year 2025 as compared to fiscal year 2024. driven by an increase in demand from customers for GPU servers, HPC and rack-scale solutions which have higher average selling prices, primarily due to large enterprise and data center customers from the United States…
•Net income decreased to $1,048.9 million in fiscal year 2025 as compared to $1,152.7 million in fiscal year 2024, which was primarily due to decrease in gross profit and increase in operating and other expenses partially, offset by the increase in net sales in fiscal year 2025 as compared to fiscal…
We apply judgment in determining the transaction price as we may be required to estimate variable consideration when determining the amount of revenue to recognize. As part of determining the transaction price in contracts with customers, we estimate reserves for future sales returns based on our hi…
We receive various rebate incentives from certain suppliers based on our contractual arrangements, including volume-based rebates. The rebates earned are recognized as a reduction of cost of inventories and reduce the cost of sales in the period when the related inventory is sold.
Other income, net and interest expense consists of interest earned on our investments and cash balances, interest incurred on our debt, and foreign exchange gains and losses.
Market risk (Item 7A)
Text added vs the prior filing · source: 10-K · 2026-08-31
We are exposed to interest rate risk related to our fixed-rate investment portfolio and outstanding debt.
Text removed vs the prior filing · source: 10-K · 2025-08-28
We are exposed to interest rate risk related to our fixed-rate investment portfolio and outstanding debt. The investment portfolio is managed consistent with our overall liquidity strategy in support of both working capital needs and growth of our businesses.
How to read Risk Factors (Item 1A) in a 10-Q
A 10-Q risk-factor section usually takes one of three forms; this page classifies it as one of:
- Pointer — the filer states there have been no material changes and points back to the annual 10-K risk factors; there is no own risk text to compare this quarter.
- Partial update — the filer carves out specific updated risks ("except as set forth below"); the excerpts show exactly what is new this quarter.
- Restated in full — the quarter carries the complete risk-factor text. When the prior quarter was only a pointer there is no prior full text to diff against, so the page flags the section as restated instead.
This describes the filing structure only — it is never a judgement on whether risk went up or down.
Source: text-level diff of the two SEC EDGAR filings · deterministic (no AI-generated content) · for reference only · not investment advice