Bill.com Holdings (0M5) Risk Analysis
Risk Overview Q2, 2026
Source: the company's latest filing for the period ended Jun 30, 2026, filed Aug 20, 2026
Risk Change Over Time
- Accounting & Financial Operations - Risk 1If our estimates or judgments relating to our critical accounting policies prove to be incorrect, or if changes to such policies are not well-understood, our operating results could be adversely affected and the trading price of our common stock could decline.
The preparation of financial statements in conformity with GAAP requires management to make estimates and assumptions that affect the amounts reported in the consolidated financial statements and accompanying notes. We base our estimates on historical experience and on various other assumptions that we believe to be reasonable under the circumstances, as provided in the section titled "Management's Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Operating Results-Critical Accounting Estimates." The results of these estimates form the basis for making judgments about the carrying values of assets, liabilities, and equity, and the amount of revenue and expenses that are not readily apparent from other sources. Significant estimates and judgments may involve the variable consideration used in revenue recognition for certain contracts, determination of useful lives of long-lived intangible assets, present value estimation of operating lease liabilities, the estimate of expected credit losses on accounts receivable, acquired card receivables and loans held for investment, accrual for rewards, inputs used to value certain stock-based compensation awards, benefit period to amortize deferred costs and valuation of income taxes. Our operating results may be adversely affected if our assumptions change or if actual circumstances differ from those in our assumptions, which could cause our operating results to fall below the expectations of securities analysts and investors, resulting in a decline in the trading price of our common stock. We may also choose to modify our accounting policies from time to time to better reflect management's view of our business operations, our assessment of comparable policies adopted by other companies in our industry, and evolving investor expectations. In the event of significant changes in our accounting policies, the presentation of our operating results or financial condition could materially change, and any such changes could be viewed negatively or misunderstood by analysts and investors, which could cause volatility in the trading price of our common stock. Moreover, if regulators disagree with or challenge such changes, our business, operating results and financial condition could be adversely affected.
- Corporate Activity and Growth - Risk 2Our risk management efforts may not be effective to prevent fraudulent activities by our customers, subscribers, spending businesses, or their counterparties, or other third parties which, potentially augmented by AI, could expose us to material financial losses and liabilities and otherwise harm our business.
We offer software that digitizes and automates financial operations for a large number of customers and executes payments to their vendors or from their clients. We are responsible for verifying the identity of our customers and their users, and monitoring transactions for fraud. We have been in the past and will continue to be targeted by parties who seek to commit acts of financial fraud using stolen identities and bank accounts, compromised business email accounts, employee or insider fraud, account takeover, false applications, check fraud, and stolen cards or card account numbers. We may suffer losses from acts of financial fraud committed by our customers and their users, our employees, or third parties. In addition, our customers or spending businesses may suffer losses from acts of financial fraud by third parties posing as our company through account takeover, credential harvesting, use of stolen identities, and various other techniques, which could harm our reputation or prompt us to reimburse our customers for such losses in order to maintain customer and spending business relationships. Finally, we are dependent to a certain degree upon the fraud controls implemented by our card-issuing bank and processing partners in connection with our BILL Spend and Expense products, but bear the risk of fraud losses under such partnerships. Accordingly, we may at times experience losses related to these products due to fraudulent activity with limited ability to directly strengthen relevant controls. The techniques that may be used to perpetrate fraud on our platform are continually evolving, and we expend considerable resources to continue to monitor and combat them. The recent and widespread adoption of AI tools increases the risk of fraudulent activity or other incidents instigated by malicious third parties on our platform and on those of our partners. In addition, when we introduce new products and functionality, or expand existing products, we may not be able to identify all risks created by such new products or functionality. Our risk management policies, procedures, techniques, and processes may not be sufficient to identify all of the risks to which we are exposed, to enable us to prevent or mitigate the risks we have identified, or to identify additional risks to which we may become subject in the future. Such policies, procedures, techniques, and processes may also contain errors, or our employees or agents may commit mistakes or errors in judgment as a result of which we may suffer large financial losses. The software-driven and highly automated nature of our platform could enable criminals and those committing fraud to steal significant amounts of money from businesses like ours. Our current business and anticipated growth will continue to place significant demands on our risk management efforts, and we will need to continue developing and improving our existing risk management infrastructure, policies, procedures, techniques, and processes. As techniques used to perpetrate fraud on our platform become more sophisticated with the use of AI, our teams must similarly evolve to combat such techniques, and we may need to modify our products or services to mitigate fraud risks. As our business grows and becomes more complex, we may be less able to forecast and carry appropriate reserves in our books for fraud-related losses. Further, these types of fraudulent activities on our platform can also expose us to civil and criminal liability and governmental and regulatory sanctions as well as potentially cause us to be in breach of our contractual obligations to our third-party partners.
Risk Highlights Q2, 2026
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Risk Factors Full Breakdown - Total Risks 64
- Share Price & Shareholder Rights - Risk 1Our business could be negatively affected as a result of actions by or proposals from activist stockholders, and such activism could impact the trading value of our securities and harm our business, financial condition and results of operations.
We have been and may continue to be subject to actions by or proposals from activist stockholders or others that may not align with our business strategies or the interests of our other stockholders. Responding to these actions or proposals can be costly and time consuming, disrupt our business and operations, and divert the attention of our Board of Directors, management and employees. For example, we have been and may continue to retain the services of various professionals to advise us on stockholder activism matters, including legal, financial and communications advisers, the costs of which may negatively impact our future financial results. Activist stockholders may create perceived uncertainties as to our future direction which may be exploited by our competitors and may make it more difficult to attract and retain qualified personnel and potential customers and partners and may affect our relationships with current customers, partners, vendors, investors and other third parties. In addition, actions of activist stockholders may cause periods of fluctuation in our stock price based on temporary or speculative market perceptions or other factors that do not necessarily reflect the underlying fundamentals and prospects of our business.
- Share Price & Shareholder Rights - Risk 2The stock price of our common stock has been, and will likely continue to be volatile, and you may lose part or all of your investment.
The market for our common stock has been, and will likely continue to be, volatile. In addition to the factors discussed in this report, the market price of our common stock may fluctuate significantly in response to numerous factors, many of which are beyond our control, including: - overall performance of the equity markets;- actual or anticipated fluctuations in our revenue and other operating results;- changes in the financial projections we may provide to the public or our failure to meet these projections;- changes in financial estimates by any securities analysts who follow our company, or our failure to meet these estimates or the expectations of investors;- recruitment or departure of key personnel;- the economy as a whole and market conditions in our industry, such as inflation and high interest rate and recessionary environments;- negative publicity related to the real or perceived quality of our platform, as well as the failure to timely launch new products and services that gain market acceptance;- rumors and market speculation involving us or other companies in our industry;- announcements by us or our competitors of new products or services, commercial relationships, or significant technical innovations, including with respect to our and our competitors' agentic and other AI offerings;- acquisitions, partnerships, joint ventures, capital commitments, or other strategic transactions;- new laws or regulations or new interpretations of existing laws or regulations applicable to our business;- lawsuits threatened or filed against us, litigation involving our industry, or both;- developments or disputes concerning our or other parties' products, services, or intellectual property rights;- changes in accounting standards, policies, guidelines, interpretations, or principles;- interpretations of any of the above or other factors by trading algorithms, including those that employ natural language processing and related methods to evaluate our public disclosures;- other events or factors, including those resulting from war or other geopolitical conflicts, incidents of terrorism, or responses to these events;- actual or perceived instability in the U.S. and global banking systems; and - sales of shares of our common stock by us or our stockholders. In addition, the stock markets have experienced extreme price and volume fluctuations that have affected and continue to affect the market prices of equity securities of many companies. Stock prices of many companies, and technology companies in particular, have fluctuated in a manner unrelated or disproportionate to the operating performance of those companies. In the past, stockholders have instituted securities class action litigation following periods of market volatility. If we were to become involved in securities litigation, it could subject us to substantial costs, divert resources and the attention of management from our business, and adversely affect our business. Further, volatility or a lack of positive performance in our stock price may adversely affect our ability to retain key employees, many of whom have been granted equity incentive awards.
- Share Price & Shareholder Rights - Risk 3Anti-takeover provisions in our charter documents and under Delaware law could make an acquisition of our company more difficult, limit attempts by our stockholders to replace or remove our current management, and affect the market price of our common stock.
Provisions in our amended and restated certificate of incorporation and second amended and restated bylaws may have the effect of delaying or preventing a change of control or changes in our management. Our amended and restated certificate of incorporation and second amended and restated bylaws include provisions that: - authorize our board of directors to issue, without further action by the stockholders, shares of undesignated preferred stock with terms, rights, and preferences determined by our board of directors that may be senior to our common stock;- require that any action to be taken by our stockholders be affected at a duly called annual or special meeting and not by written consent;- specify that special meetings of our stockholders can be called only by our board of directors, the chairperson of our board of directors, or our chief executive officer;- establish an advance notice procedure for stockholder proposals to be brought before an annual meeting, including proposed nominations of persons for election to our board of directors;- establish that our board of directors is divided into three classes, with each class serving three-year staggered terms;- prohibit cumulative voting in the election of directors;- provide that our directors may be removed for cause only upon the vote of sixty-six and two-thirds percent (66 2/3%) of our outstanding shares of common stock;- provide that vacancies on our board of directors may be filled only by a majority vote of directors then in office, even though less than a quorum; and - require the approval of our board of directors or the holders of at least sixty-six and two-thirds percent (66 2/3%) of our outstanding shares of common stock to amend our bylaws and certain provisions of our certificate of incorporation. In addition, our amended and restated certificate of incorporation and our second amended and restated bylaws provide that the Court of Chancery of the State of Delaware, to the fullest extent permitted by law, will be the exclusive forum for any derivative action or proceeding brought on our behalf, any action asserting a breach of fiduciary duty, any action asserting a claim against us arising pursuant to the Delaware General Corporation Law (the DGCL), our amended and restated certificate of incorporation, or our second amended and restated bylaws, or any action asserting a claim against us that is governed by the internal affairs doctrine. These choice of forum provisions may limit a stockholder's ability to bring a claim in a judicial forum that it finds favorable for disputes with us or any of our directors, officers, or other employees, which may discourage lawsuits against us and our directors, officers, and other employees. These exclusive forum provisions will not apply to claims that are vested in the exclusive jurisdiction of a court or forum other than the Court of Chancery of the State of Delaware, or for which the Court of Chancery of the State of Delaware does not have subject matter jurisdiction. For instance, these provisions would not preclude the filing of claims brought to enforce any liability or duty created by the Exchange Act or Securities Act of 1933, as amended (the Securities Act), or the rules and regulations thereunder in federal court. Moreover, Section 203 of the DGCL may discourage, delay, or prevent a change in control of our company. Section 203 imposes certain restrictions on mergers, business combinations, and other transactions between us and holders of 15% or more of our common stock.
- Share Price & Shareholder Rights - Risk 4If securities or industry analysts do not publish research or publish unfavorable or inaccurate research about our business, our stock price and trading volume could decline.
Our stock price and trading volume is heavily influenced by the way analysts and investors interpret our financial information and other disclosures. If securities or industry analysts do not publish research or reports about our business, downgrade our common stock, or publish negative reports about our business, our stock price would likely decline. If one or more of these analysts cease coverage of us or fail to publish reports on us regularly, demand for our common stock could decrease, which might cause our stock price to decline and could decrease the trading volume of our common stock.
- Share Price & Shareholder Rights - Risk 5Sales of substantial amounts of our common stock in the public markets, particularly sales by our directors, executive officers, and significant stockholders, or the perception that these sales could occur, could cause the market price of our common stock to decline and may make it more difficult for you to sell your common stock at a time and price that you deem appropriate.
The market price of our common stock could decline as a result of sales of a large number of shares of our common stock in the market. The perception that these sales might occur may also cause the market price of our common stock to decline. We had a total of 92,062,867 shares of our common stock outstanding as of June 30, 2026. All shares of our common stock are either freely tradable, generally without restrictions or further registration under the Securities Act, or have been registered for resale under the Securities Act by us, subject to certain exceptions for shares held by our "affiliates" as defined in Rule 144 under the Securities Act. In addition, we have filed registration statements on Form S-8 to register shares reserved for future issuance under our equity compensation plans. Subject to the satisfaction of vesting conditions, the shares issued upon exercise of outstanding stock options or settlement of outstanding restricted stock units will be available for immediate resale in the United States in the open market. In addition, we have in the past, and may in the future, issue our shares of common stock or securities convertible into or exercisable for our common stock from time to time in connection with financings, acquisitions, investments, partnerships or otherwise. We also expect to grant additional equity awards to employees and directors under our 2019 Equity Incentive Plan and rights to purchase our common stock under our 2019 Employee Stock Purchase Plan. Any such issuances could result in substantial dilution to our existing stockholders and cause the trading price of our common stock to decline.
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