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Disclosure Risk Audit

SNBR

Sleep Number Corp
ELEVATED risk band

Audit period: Most recent 12 months (4 quarters) of SEC filings

Prepared: June 26, 2026

Methodology: FilingFirehose proprietary disclosure-risk taxonomy

Confidentiality: Prepared at the request of the company. Not for external distribution.

Prepared by: FilingFirehose · filingfirehose.com/audit

Executive Summary

This audit covers eight 8-K filings over the trailing window and surfaces a concentrated cluster of disclosure events that sophisticated outside readers will read as a single connected narrative: a June 12, 2026 8-K (accession 0000950103-26-008891) carrying Items 1.01, 1.03, 2.04, 7.01 and 9.01 simultaneously, followed by a June 16 financing/material agreement filing (0000950103-26-009081) and a June 17 Item 3.01 listing-standard notice (0000827187-26-000053). Layered on top is a three-filing sequence of Item 5.02 officer/director events on May 27, June 2 and June 10 (accessions 0000827187-26-000045, -000048, -000050), which outside readers will characterize as departure clustering regardless of the underlying cause. Your buried_json field also shows Item 1.03 (bankruptcy/receivership) content tagged inside the 1.01, 2.04 and 7.01 items of the June 12 filing, which short-side readers specifically scan for. The combination of a 3.01 listing notice with concurrent 5.02 churn is the single highest-priority item for your board call. Because the dataset is limited to 8-Ks (no 10-Q, 10-K, DEF 14A or Form 4 data was provided), several common confirmatory signals could not be tested and severity is calibrated accordingly. Treat this brief as a disclosure-language read, not a financial or going-concern conclusion.

Overall Risk Posture

The filing cadence in late May and June 2026 shows a dense cluster of governance, financing and listing-standard items that, taken together, exceed normal disclosure tempo for a company your size. Individually most items have benign readings; collectively they form a pattern outside desks will flag.

Trajectory: worsening — The April 28 8-K (0000827187-26-000035) was a routine 1.01/2.03/9.01 financing-style filing, but by mid-June the cadence accelerated into 5.02 officer items, an Item 1.03 reference embedded in the June 12 filing (0000950103-26-008891), and an Item 3.01 listing notice on June 17 (0000827187-26-000053).

Signal Breakdown

Item 3.01 listing standard / transfer notice

HIGH

Your June 17, 2026 8-K is a standalone Item 3.01 filing, which is the notice category used for notification of delisting, failure to satisfy a continued listing rule, or transfer of listing. Standalone 3.01 filings are uncommon and are the first item outside readers screen for.

8-K · 2026-06-17 · accession 0000827187-26-000053
“Item 3.01 filer item with buried_json reference to Item 1.03 content”
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How outside readers see this: A short-side analyst will pair this 3.01 with the prior 5.02 cluster and the June 12 1.03 reference and build a single 'listing risk plus governance churn' narrative. Even if the underlying 3.01 is procedural, the standalone filing format invites that read.

Embedded Item 1.03 (bankruptcy/receivership) language in June 12 filing

HIGH

The June 12 8-K (0000950103-26-008891) carries a primary Item 1.03 alongside 1.01, 2.04, 7.01 and 9.01, and our parse shows 1.03 content tagged inside the 2.04 and 7.01 sections as well. Item 2.04 (triggering events accelerating a financial obligation) co-filed with 1.03 is a high-signal combination.

8-K · 2026-06-12 · accession 0000950103-26-008891
“Filer items 1.01, 1.03, 2.04, 7.01, 9.01; buried_json: {"1.03": ["1.01"], "2.04": ["1.03"], "7.01": ["1.03"], "9.01": ["1.01"]}”
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How outside readers see this: Outside risk desks key on the 1.03 + 2.04 pairing because it suggests a covenant or obligation event coincided with a bankruptcy-category disclosure. They will quote the exact item-mix in any note they publish.

Item 5.02 officer/director event clustering

HIGH

Three separate 8-Ks within a 14-day window (May 27, June 2, June 10) all carry Item 5.02. Three 5.02 filings inside two weeks is the textbook definition of departure or appointment clustering, regardless of whether the underlying events are resignations, appointments, or compensation arrangements.

8-K · 2026-05-27 · accession 0000827187-26-000045
“Items 5.02, 5.07, 8.01, 9.01 - annual meeting plus officer/director matters”
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8-K · 2026-06-02 · accession 0000827187-26-000048
“Items 5.02, 9.01”
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8-K · 2026-06-10 · accession 0000827187-26-000050
“Item 5.02 standalone filing”
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How outside readers see this: Even if one of the three is a post-annual-meeting director-class disclosure and another is a routine compensation matter, the cadence on a calendar chart looks like governance instability and is the type of pattern that triggers automated screens at risk desks.

Material agreement and off-balance-sheet obligation pairing

MEDIUM

Two filings (April 28 and June 16) carry the 1.01 + 2.03 combination, which signals entry into a material agreement coupled with creation of a direct financial obligation. The June 16 filing (0000950103-26-009081) immediately precedes the June 17 Item 3.01.

8-K · 2026-04-28 · accession 0000827187-26-000035
“Items 1.01, 2.03, 9.01 - material agreement and direct financial obligation”
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8-K · 2026-06-16 · accession 0000950103-26-009081
“Items 1.01, 2.03, 9.01; buried_json shows 1.03 content tagged inside 1.01”
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How outside readers see this: Readers will sequence these chronologically: April financing, June financing, June listing notice. The narrative they build is that financing actions and listing-standard issues are temporally linked, regardless of the actual cause-and-effect.

Item 1.03 references embedded in non-1.03 items (buried-content pattern)

MEDIUM

The June 16 filing's buried_json shows 1.03 content tagged inside its Item 1.01 section, and the June 17 filing shows 1.03 content tagged inside the Item 3.01 section. This is a borderline signal because tagging-engine inference can over-call 1.03 language, but the pattern is what outside parsers will see.

8-K · 2026-06-16 · accession 0000950103-26-009081
“buried_json: {"1.01": ["1.03"]}”
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8-K · 2026-06-17 · accession 0000827187-26-000053
“buried_json: {"3.01": ["1.03"]}”
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How outside readers see this: Automated filing-scrape systems used by short desks will surface these as 'unreported 1.03 language' even when the language is contextual rather than substantive. Flag this defensively before someone else does.

Item 5.07 annual meeting results co-filed with 5.02

LOW

The May 27 filing combines Item 5.07 (shareholder vote results) with Item 5.02 (officer/director matters) and Item 8.01. This is a common and largely benign post-annual-meeting filing pattern, but readers will examine the vote tallies for director against-votes or say-on-pay weakness.

8-K · 2026-05-27 · accession 0000827187-26-000045
“Items 5.02, 5.07, 8.01, 9.01”
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How outside readers see this: Low signal on its own. Becomes meaningful only if vote-against percentages on any director or on say-on-pay exceed typical thresholds. Worth pre-checking the underlying vote tallies before the board call.

Earnings release without follow-on operational 8-K

LOW

The May 12 Item 2.02 earnings release (0000827187-26-000039) was not followed by an Item 7.01 or 8.01 operational update before the late-May governance cluster began. This is borderline and only meaningful in context.

8-K · 2026-05-12 · accession 0000827187-26-000039
“Items 2.02, 9.01 - quarterly results”
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How outside readers see this: Most readers will not flag this in isolation. We include it only because it bookends the period before the governance and financing cluster, and analysts may ask why the operational cadence shifted to governance disclosures after the May 12 print.

Pre-Call Brief

The following questions an analyst is most likely to raise on the next earnings call, with framing suggestions. Each is rooted in a specific filing in the audit window.

Q: Can you walk us through the Item 3.01 notice filed on June 17 and confirm whether it relates to a continued listing standard, a transfer, or something else?
Rooted in: 0000827187-26-000053 (June 17, 2026, standalone Item 3.01)
Suggested framing: State the specific subsection of the 3.01 trigger plainly, the date of any exchange notice received, the cure period if applicable, and the company's intended response. Avoid characterizing the notice as 'routine' if it is in fact a deficiency notice; readers will check.
Q: The June 12 8-K carries Items 1.03 and 2.04 together. Is there an acceleration event under a credit agreement or indenture, and what is the affected obligation amount?
Rooted in: 0000950103-26-008891 (June 12, 2026)
Suggested framing: Identify the obligation, the trigger, whether a waiver or forbearance is in place, and the path to resolution. Be precise about whether 1.03 is being used in its bankruptcy-category sense or as a receivership-adjacent procedural reference.
Q: Three Item 5.02 filings in fourteen days - who left, who arrived, and was any departure tied to disagreement with the company on operations, policy, or controls?
Rooted in: 0000827187-26-000045, -000048, -000050
Suggested framing: Walk through each 5.02 by name and role. If any departure required the Item 5.02(a) disagreement disclosure, address that head-on. If all three are appointment or compensation matters, say so explicitly to retire the 'clustering' narrative.
Q: How do the April 28 and June 16 financing arrangements relate to the June 17 listing notice, if at all?
Rooted in: 0000827187-26-000035 and 0000950103-26-009081
Suggested framing: Sequence the events on a clean timeline, identify the counterparty and purpose of each financing, and state whether either is connected to the 3.01 trigger. Readers will build this timeline themselves; controlling the narrative is preferable.

Board / Audit Committee Brief

Audit committee implications

The audit committee should be aware that within a single quarter the company has filed an Item 1.03-referenced 8-K, an Item 2.04 obligation-acceleration item, an Item 3.01 listing notice, and three Item 5.02 governance items. Each is individually defensible, but the committee should understand that external risk desks aggregate these without context. The committee should confirm that disclosure controls and procedures captured each event within the four-business-day window and that legal review of the buried 1.03 language was performed before the June 16 and June 17 filings. The committee should also review whether any departing officer was involved in financial reporting or internal controls during the period covered. Finally, the committee should be briefed on whether the 3.01 trigger has any interaction with the financing agreements in the April 28 and June 16 8-Ks.

Documentation recommendations

Board minutes should record that management presented a disclosure-risk review covering the eight 8-Ks filed between April 28 and June 17, 2026, and identify by accession number the 3.01, 1.03/2.04, and 5.02 cluster items. The risk register should include a specific entry for listing-standard compliance with the cure timeline and milestones. A separate entry should track the obligation referenced in the Item 2.04 filing, the relevant covenant or agreement, and any waiver status. Documentation should also reflect the audit committee's review of disclosure controls effectiveness for the period, and any legal opinion supporting the choice to file the June 17 Item 3.01 as a standalone notice rather than combined with the underlying business event.

What Was NOT Found

The audit window contains no Item 4.01 (auditor change), no Item 4.02 (non-reliance on previously issued financials), and no Item 8.01 disclosure of a government or regulatory investigation. We also did not find evidence of an ATM facility, sales-agent arrangement, or shelf takedown in the parsed fields - the is_atm and shelf_size_usd fields are null across all filings. Finally, because only 8-Ks were provided, we did not test for proxy-statement red flags, 10-Q going-concern language, or Section 16 insider selling patterns; absence here is absence of data, not absence of signal.

Methodology Note

Severity is assigned on a three-band scale (high/medium/low) using a disclosure-language taxonomy built around 8-K item-code combinations, item-cadence clustering, and parser-detected content embedded inside non-matching item sections (the buried_json field). High severity is reserved for items that automated short-side screens specifically target: standalone 3.01, 1.03/2.04 pairings, and 5.02 clustering within a rolling 30-day window. Inputs are limited to the eight 8-Ks supplied for the trailing window; no 10-Q, 10-K, DEF 14A, Form 4, or other form types were available. This audit explicitly does not incorporate stock price action, short interest data, options activity, analyst notes, news flow, or any non-filings source. The output is a disclosure-language read intended to anticipate what an outside reader of the same filings would surface, not a financial, accounting, or going-concern conclusion.