What Vertiv Holdings Co told the SEC could break it.

Vertiv explicitly flags China's potential controls on rare earth elements as a regulatory risk that could increase costs and restrict business; as a manufacturer of data center power and cooling equipment, rare earth availability is material to its electronics supply chain.

“Changes in import and export control or trade sanctions laws, the imposition of tariffs on certain U.S. trading partners, the potential for or imposition of retaliatory tariffs, or the potential for or imposition of additional tariffs or other trade restrictions, including potential control from China on rare earth elements, may increase our costs, and may restrict our business practices, including cessation of business activities in sanctioned countries or with sanctioned entities.”

Tariff-related cost inflation was explicitly identified as the primary offset to Vertiv's FY2025 volume and pricing gains, keeping gross margin flat despite $1.4B higher revenues; ongoing US trade policy uncertainty creates continued exposure.

“Margin was relatively flat as benefits from higher sales volume and improved price realization were offset by cost inflation, particularly related to tariffs.”

Vertiv faces commodity risk on steel, copper, aluminum, and electronic components; copper and aluminum are partially hedged (10% price swing = ~$15.8M gain / $13.2M loss on hedge position), while steel and electronics remain unhedged.

“Commodity Risk We are subject to commodity risk from fluctuating prices of certain raw materials, steel, copper and aluminum and electronic components. To partially mitigate this exposure, we enter into economic hedges for copper and aluminum. Based on the outstanding economic hedges for a hypothetical 10% increase and decrease in commodity prices, the Company would experience a gain of $15.8 and a loss of $13.2, respectively.”