What dominates the section
- Talent retention and replacing consulting engagements are central to revenue, service quality, and growth.
- Technology outages could disrupt increasingly complex online products and services.
- Liquidity, leased-office commitments, and expanding data-protection rules create significant operational and financial exposure.
The risks most specific to Gartner
- Strategic and Operational Risks
A material decline in our ability to replace consulting engagements will have an adverse impact on our revenues and our financial condition
Failure to replace consulting engagements or retain senior managers, analysts, consultants, and other key personnel could reduce revenue and service quality.
- Strategic and Operational Risks
Any of the foregoing may have a material adverse effect on our business, operating results and financial condition
Online-service or information-system outages could disrupt operations as user traffic and product complexity increase computing demands.
- Strategic and Operational Risks
strategic acquisitions, loss of key employees or customers, and exposure to unanticipated liabilities or ongoing obligations to support the businesses following such dispositions, and other adverse financial impacts. The realization of any of these risks could adversely affect our business
Leased-office consolidations could create costs or obligations if Gartner cannot secure suitable subtenants on appropriate sublease terms.
- Strategic and Operational Risks
amount of cash or additional credit available to us, which could restrain our ability to expand or enhance products and services, respond to competitive pressures or pursue future business opportunities requiring substantial investments of additional capital
Insufficient cash or credit could limit product investment, acquisitions, stock repurchases, debt repayment, and responses to competitive pressure.
- Legal and Regulatory Risks
unfounded, that we have violated or are responsible for violations of these laws, even if inadvertent, could be costly and disrupt our business, which could have a material adverse effect on our business, results of operations, financial condition, liquidity and cash flows, as well as on our reputation
Violations or alleged violations of GDPR, CCPA, CPRA, LGPD, Chinese data laws, and other evolving privacy rules could impose costly disruption.
All 5 risk factors
Headings as the filing states them, in filing order.
Strategic and Operational Risks
- 01A material decline in our ability to replace consulting engagements will have an adverse impact on our revenues and our financial condition
- 02Any of the foregoing may have a material adverse effect on our business, operating results and financial condition
- 03strategic acquisitions, loss of key employees or customers, and exposure to unanticipated liabilities or ongoing obligations to support the businesses following such dispositions, and other adverse financial impacts. The realization of any of these risks could adversely affect our business
- 04amount of cash or additional credit available to us, which could restrain our ability to expand or enhance products and services, respond to competitive pressures or pursue future business opportunities requiring substantial investments of additional capital
Legal and Regulatory Risks
- 05unfounded, that we have violated or are responsible for violations of these laws, even if inadvertent, could be costly and disrupt our business, which could have a material adverse effect on our business, results of operations, financial condition, liquidity and cash flows, as well as on our reputation
Other Gartner 10-Ks
- 2026 10-K risk factors
8 risks. Gartner faces major risks from rapid technological shifts like artificial intelligence, substantial debt obligations, and government contract dependencies.
Filed Feb 12, 2026
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Item 1A of the 10-K on EDGAR was split into its risk factors and, where the company's previous 10-K is on file, each heading was matched to last year's and the text compared word for word. The headings are the filing's own. The one-line readings and the overview were written by a language model from the text of the new, dropped, and rewritten risks; they refer to risks by position and cannot misquote a heading.