Risks Related to Our Common Stock The trading price of our common stock has been and may continue to be highly volatile, and an active, liquid, and orderly market for our common stock may not be sustained. The trading price of our common stock has been, and will likely continue to be, highly volatile. Since shares of our common stock were sold in our initial public offering in October 2015 at a price of $17.00 per share, our closing stock price has ranged from $8.76 to $28.90, through March 18, 2021. Some of the factors, many of which are beyond our control, affecting our volatility may include: • price and volume fluctuations in the overall stock market from time to time; • significant volatility in the market price and trading volume of technology companies in general and of companies in our industry; • actual or anticipated changes in our results of operations or fluctuations in our operating results; • whether our operating results meet the expectations of securities analysts or investors; • issuance or new or updated research or reports by securities analysts, including the publication of unfavorable reports or change in recommendation or downgrading of our common stock; • actual or anticipated developments in our competitors’ businesses or the competitive landscape generally; • litigation involving us, our industry or both; • general economic conditions and trends, including the impact of the COVID pandemic; • major catastrophic events; • sales of large blocks of our stock; or • departures of key personnel. In several recent situations where the price of a stock has been volatile, holders of that stock have instituted securities class action litigation against the company that issued the stock. If any of our stockholders were to bring a lawsuit against us, the defense and disposition of the lawsuit could be costly and divert the time and attention of our management and harm our business, operating results and financial condition. We cannot guarantee that our share repurchase program will enhance shareholder value, and share repurchases could affect the price of our common stock. In August 2019, our board of directors authorized a $150.0 million share repurchase program, which is being funded from available working capital. The currently authorized program has been substantially completed as of the end of fiscal 2021 and in February 2021 our board of directors authorized a $200.0 million share repurchase program. The repurchase authorization has no fixed end date. Although our board of directors has authorized a share repurchase program, this program does not obligate us to repurchase any specific dollar amount or to acquire any specific number of shares. The share repurchase program could affect the price of our common stock, increase volatility and diminish our cash reserves. If securities analysts do not publish research or reports about our business, or if they downgrade our stock, the price of our stock could decline. The trading market for our common stock will likely be influenced by research and reports that securities or industry analysts publish about us or our business. If one or more of these analysts downgrades our stock, lowers their price target, or publishes unfavorable or inaccurate research about our business, our stock price would likely decline. If one or more of these analysts ceases coverage of our company or fails to publish reports on us regularly, demand for our stock could decrease, which could cause our stock price and trading volume to decline. 29
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