CDW 10-Q 2026-03-31

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UNITED STATES

SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION

Washington, D.C. 20549

FORM 10-Q

(Mark One)

☒ QUARTERLY REPORT PURSUANT TO SECTION 13 OR 15(d) OF THE SECURITIES EXCHANGE ACT OF 1934

For the quarterly period ended March 31, 2026

or

☐ TRANSITION REPORT PURSUANT TO SECTION 13 OR 15(d) OF THE SECURITIES EXCHANGE ACT OF 1934

For the transition period from to

Commission File Number: 001-35985

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CDW CORPORATION

(Exact name of registrant as specified in its charter)

Delaware26-0273989
(State or other jurisdiction of incorporation or organization)(I.R.S. Employer Identification No.)
200 N. Milwaukee Avenue
Vernon Hills, Illinois60061
(Address of principal executive offices)(Zip Code)

(847) 465-6000

(Registrant’s telephone number, including area code)

None

(Former name, former address and former fiscal year, if changed since last report)

Securities registered pursuant to Section 12(b) of the Act:

Title of each classTrading Symbol(s)Name of each exchange on which registered
Common stock, par value $0.01 per shareCDWNasdaq Global Select Market

Indicate by check mark whether the registrant (1) has filed all reports required to be filed by Section 13 or 15(d) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 during the preceding 12 months (or for such shorter period that the registrant was required to file such reports), and (2) has been subject to such filing requirements for the past 90 days. ☒ Yes ☐ No

Indicate by check mark whether the registrant has submitted electronically every Interactive Data File required to be submitted pursuant to Rule 405 of Regulation S-T (§232.405 of this chapter) during the preceding 12 months (or for such shorter period that the registrant was required to submit such files). ☒ Yes ☐ No

Indicate by check mark whether the registrant is a large accelerated filer, an accelerated filer, a non-accelerated filer, a smaller reporting company, or an emerging growth company. See the definitions of “large accelerated filer,” “accelerated filer,” “smaller reporting company,” and “emerging growth company” in Rule 12b-2 of the Exchange Act:

Large accelerated filer☒Accelerated filer☐
Non-accelerated filer☐Smaller reporting company☐
Emerging growth company☐
If an emerging growth company, indicate by check mark if the registrant has elected not to use the extended transition period for complying with any new or revised financial accounting standards provided pursuant to Section 13(a) of the Exchange Act.☐

Indicate by check mark whether the registrant is a shell company (as defined in Rule 12b-2 of the Exchange Act). ☐ Yes ☒ No

As of May 1, 2026, there were 127,753,451 shares of common stock, $0.01 par value, outstanding.

CDW CORPORATION AND SUBSIDIARIES

FORM 10-Q

TABLE OF CONTENTS

Page
PART IFINANCIAL INFORMATION
Item 1.Financial Statements:
Consolidated Balance Sheets as of March 31, 2026 and December 31, 20253
Consolidated Statements of Operations for the Three Months Ended March 31, 2026 and 20254
Consolidated Statements of Comprehensive Income for the Three Months Ended March 31, 2026 and 20255
Consolidated Statements of Cash Flows for the Three Months Ended March 31, 2026 and 20256
Consolidated Statements of Stockholders’ Equity for the Three Months Ended March 31, 2026 and 20257
Notes to Consolidated Financial Statements8
Item 2.Management’s Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations19
Item 3.Quantitative and Qualitative Disclosures About Market Risk30
Item 4.Controls and Procedures30
PART IIOTHER INFORMATION
Item 1.Legal Proceedings31
Item 1A.Risk Factors31
Item 2.Unregistered Sales of Equity Securities and Use of Proceeds31
Item 3.Defaults Upon Senior Securities31
Item 4.Mine Safety Disclosures31
Item 5.Other Information31
Item 6.Exhibits32
SIGNATURES33

PART I—FINANCIAL INFORMATION

Item 1. Financial Statements

CDW CORPORATION AND SUBSIDIARIES CONSOLIDATED BALANCE SHEETS (dollars and shares in millions, except per share amounts)
March 31, 2026December 31, 2025
Assets(unaudited)
Current assets:
Cash and cash equivalents$578.6$618.7
Accounts receivable, net of allowance for credit losses of $66.4 and $65.2, respectively6,468.46,312.4
Merchandise inventory820.6563.4
Miscellaneous receivables583.4554.0
Prepaid expenses and other514.2452.0
Total current assets8,965.28,500.5
Operating lease right-of-use assets130.4136.7
Property and equipment, net172.2171.5
Goodwill4,651.14,662.3
Other intangible assets, net1,137.41,186.4
Accounts receivable and other assets, noncurrent1,397.11,370.8
Total Assets$16,453.4$16,028.2
Liabilities and Stockholders’ Equity
Current liabilities:
Accounts payable-trade$4,561.5$4,220.1
Accounts payable-inventory financing355.6352.6
Current maturities of long-term debt1,005.91,007.5
Contract liabilities597.3534.0
Accrued expenses and other current liabilities:
Compensation249.7318.8
Advertising237.2176.1
Sales and income taxes166.682.9
Other524.7534.1
Total current liabilities7,698.57,226.1
Long-term liabilities:
Debt4,635.14,622.3
Deferred income taxes167.2171.8
Operating lease liabilities149.7157.8
Accounts payable and other liabilities1,247.51,244.1
Total long-term liabilities6,199.56,196.0
Commitments and contingencies (Note 10)
Stockholders’ equity:
Preferred stock, $0.01 par value, 100.0 shares authorized; no shares issued or outstanding for both periods——
Common stock, $0.01 par value, 1,000.0 shares authorized; 128.0 and 129.4 shares outstanding, respectively1.21.3
Paid-in capital4,008.93,978.5
Accumulated deficit(1,334.6)(1,273.9)
Accumulated other comprehensive loss(120.1)(99.8)
Total stockholders’ equity2,555.42,606.1
Total Liabilities and Stockholders’ Equity$16,453.4$16,028.2

The accompanying notes are an integral part of the Consolidated Financial Statements.

CDW CORPORATION AND SUBSIDIARIES CONSOLIDATED STATEMENTS OF OPERATIONS (dollars and shares in millions, except per share amounts) (unaudited)
Three Months Ended March 31,
20262025
Net sales$5,679.8$5,199.1
Cost of sales4,489.84,076.8
Gross profit1,190.01,122.3
Selling and administrative expenses814.0760.9
Operating income376.0361.4
Interest expense, net(55.3)(57.1)
Other income (expense), net(1.7)(0.3)
Income before income taxes319.0304.0
Income tax expense(83.6)(79.1)
Net income$235.4$224.9
Net income per common share:
Basic$1.82$1.70
Diluted$1.82$1.69
Weighted-average common shares outstanding:
Basic129.0132.5
Diluted129.5133.5

The accompanying notes are an integral part of the Consolidated Financial Statements.

CDW CORPORATION AND SUBSIDIARIES CONSOLIDATED STATEMENTS OF COMPREHENSIVE INCOME (dollars in millions) (unaudited)
Three Months Ended March 31,
20262025
Net income$235.4$224.9
Other comprehensive income (loss), net of tax:
Unrealized gain (loss) from cash flow hedge—(1.8)
Reclassification of cash flow hedge to net income0.20.2
Foreign currency translation adjustments(20.5)18.8
Other comprehensive income (loss), net of tax(20.3)17.2
Comprehensive income$215.1$242.1

The accompanying notes are an integ

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Item 2. Management’s Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations

Unless otherwise indicated or the context otherwise requires, as used in this “Management’s Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations,” the terms “we,” “us,” “the Company,” “our,” “CDW,” and similar terms refer to CDW Corporation and its subsidiaries. “Management’s Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations” should be read in conjunction with the unaudited interim Consolidated Financial Statements and the related notes included elsewhere in this report and with the audited Consolidated Financial Statements and the related notes included in the Company’s Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2025. This discussion contains forward-looking statements that are subject to numerous risks and uncertainties. Actual results may differ materially from those contained in any forward-looking statements. See “Forward-Looking Statements” at the end of this discussion.

Overview

CDW Corporation (“Parent”), a Fortune 500 company and member of the S&P 500 Index, is a leading multi-brand provider of information technology (“IT”) solutions to business, government, education, and healthcare customers in the United States (“US”), the United Kingdom (“UK”), and Canada. Our broad array of offerings ranges from discrete hardware and software products to integrated IT solutions and services that include on-premise and cloud capabilities across hybrid infrastructure, digital experience, and security.

Effective January 1, 2026, we realigned our customer-facing sales organization to better meet the evolving needs of our customer end markets. As a result, we have the following three reportable segments: Commercial, Government, and Education. Our Commercial reportable segment primarily serves corporate, financial services, and healthcare customers in the US, each of which represents a unique customer channel. Customers previously included in the Small Business segment are included across the customer channels within our Commercial reportable segment. Our Government reportable segment primarily serves federal, state, and local agencies in the US, along with certain private sector business customers that primarily support or interact with government agencies. The Education reportable segment primarily serves primary, secondary, and higher education institutions in the US. CDW UK and CDW Canada remain unchanged in this reporting structure, in an all other category (“Other”).

We are vendor, technology, and consumption model unbiased, with a solutions portfolio including more than 100,000 products and services from more than 1,000 leading and emerging brands. Our solutions are delivered in physical, virtual, and cloud-based environments through approximately 10,400 customer-facing coworkers, including sellers, highly-skilled specialists, and engineers. We are a leading sales channel partner for many original equipment manufacturers (“OEMs”), software publishers, and cloud providers (collectively, our “vendor partners”), and wholesale distributors, whose products we sell or include in the solutions we offer. We provide our vendor partners with a cost-effective way to reach customers and deliver a consistent brand experience through our established end-market coverage, technical expertise, and extensive customer access.

We may sell all or only select products that our vendor partners offer. Each vendor partner agreement provides for specific terms and conditions, which may include one or more of the following: product return privileges, price protection policies, purchase discounts, and vendor incentive programs, such as purchase or sales rebates and cooperative advertising reimbursements. We also resell software for major software publishers. Our agreements with software publishers allow the end-user customer to acquire software or licensed products and services. In addition to helping our customers determine the best software solutions for their needs, we help them manage their software agreements, including warranties and renewals. A significant portion of our advertising and marketing expenses are reimbursed through cooperative advertising programs with our vendor partners. These programs are at the discretion of our vendor partners and are typically tied to sales or other commitments to be met by us within a specified period of time.

Trends and Key Factors Affecting our Financial Performance

We believe the following key factors may have a meaningful impact on our business performance, influencing our ability to generate sales and achieve our targeted financial and operating results:

*•*General economic conditions are a key factor affecting our results as they can impact our customers’ willingness and ability to spend on IT. The prevailing economic conditions remain challenging, largely due to ongoing uncertainty surrounding evolving global trade policies and geopolitical conditions, along with other drivers. These dynamics may continue to influence supply chains, drive inflationary pressures, and affect interest rates. The uncertainty in the current economic environment has impacted and may continue to impact the timing of our customers’ investments in technology.

  • Customers are evaluating the complex technology landscape in order to balance priorities and focus on solutions that lead to business optimization, cost management, and security risk management, among other factors, resulting in a

more measured approach to their IT spending. We have orchestrated solutions that leverage security, software, artificial intelligence (“AI”), and hybrid and cloud offerings to help customers achieve their objectives.

  • Changes and uncertainty related to spending policies, budget priorities, timing, and funding levels are key factors influencing the purchasing levels of government, healthcare, and education customers. As the duration and ongoing impact of current economic conditions remain uncertain, including any US government shutdowns, current and future budget priorities and funding levels for government, healthcare, and education customers may be adversely affected, leading to lower IT spend.

  • Technology trends drive customer purchasing behaviors in the market. Current technology trends are focused on delivering greater flexibility and efficiency, as well as designing and managing IT securely, while balancing product availability, which is currently creating an inflationary environment. These trends are driving customer adoption of cloud, AI, software defined architectures, and hybrid on-premise and off-premise combinations. The trends are further driven by the evolution of the IT consumption model to more “as a service” solutions, including software as a service and infrastructure as a service, in addition to ongoing managed and professional service arrangements. Technology trends are likely to evolve and customers will prioritize spend that will produce the most important outcomes for their business.

Key Business Metrics

We monitor a number of financial and non-financial measures and ratios on a regular basis in order to track the progress of our business and make adjustments as necessary. Financial measures are presented both in accordance with the accounting principles generally accepted in the United States of America (“GAAP”), and non-GAAP, which excludes or includes amounts that are not normally included or excluded in the most directly comparable measure calculated and presented in accordance with GAAP. We believe that the most important of these measures and ratios include Gross profit, Gross profit margin, Operating income, Operating income margin, Non-GAAP operating income, Non-GAAP operating income margin, Net income, Non-GAAP net income, Net income per diluted share, Non-GAAP net income per diluted share, Average daily sales, Net cash provided by operating activities, Adjusted free cash flow, Cash conversion cycle, and Net debt. These me

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Item 3. Quantitative and Qualitative Disclosures About Market Risk

See “Quantitative and Qualitative Disclosures of Market Risks” in the Company’s Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2025. As of March 31, 2026, there have been no material changes in this information.

Item 4. Controls and Procedures

Evaluation of Disclosure Controls and Procedures

The Company’s management, with the participation of the Company’s Chief Executive Officer and Chief Financial Officer, has evaluated the effectiveness of the Company’s disclosure controls and procedures (as such term is defined in Rule 13a-15(e) or Rule 15d-15(e) under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended (the “Exchange Act”)) as of the end of the period covered by this report. Based on such evaluation, the Company’s management, including the Company’s Chief Executive Officer and Chief Financial Officer, has concluded that, as of the end of such period, the Company’s disclosure controls and procedures were effective in recording, processing, summarizing, and reporting, on a timely basis, information required to be disclosed by the Company in the reports that it files or submits under the Exchange Act, and that information is accumulated and communicated to the Company’s management, including the Company’s Chief Executive Officer and Chief Financial Officer, as appropriate to allow timely discussions regarding required disclosure.

Changes in Internal Control over Financial Reporting

There have been no changes in our internal control over financial reporting during the three months ended March 31, 2026 that have materially affected, or are reasonably likely to materially affect, our internal control over financial reporting.

PART II—OTHER INFORMATION

Item 1. Legal Proceedings

The information set forth in Note 10 (Commitments and Contingencies) to the accompanying Consolidated Financial Statements included in “Part I, Item 1. Financial Statements” of this report is incorporated herein by reference.

Item 1A. Risk Factors

See “Risk Factors” in the Company’s Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2025. There have been no material changes to our risk factors during the three months ended March 31, 2026.

Item 2. Unregistered Sales of Equity Securities and Use of Proceeds

Unregistered Sales of Equity Securities

None.

Issuer Purchases of Equity Securities

Information relating to the Company’s purchases of its common stock during the three months ended March 31, 2026 is as follows:

PeriodTotal Number of Shares Purchased (in millions)Average Price Paid per ShareTotal Number of Shares Purchased as Part of a Publicly Announced Plan or Program (in millions)Approximate Dollar Value of Shares that May Yet be Purchased Under the Plans or Programs**(1)** (in millions)
January 1 through January 31, 20260.1$130.040.1$667.2
February 1 through February 28, 20260.8129.340.8568.6
March 1 through March 31, 20260.7120.130.7483.6
Total1.61.6

(1)The amounts presented in this column are the remaining total authorized value to be spent after each month’s repurchases.

Pursuant to a program authorized by our Board of Directors, we may repurchase shares of our common stock from time to time in privately negotiated transactions, open market purchases, or other transactions as permitted by securities laws and other legal requirements. The timing and amounts of any purchases will be based on market conditions and other factors including but not limited to share price, regulatory requirements, and capital availability. The program does not require the purchase of any minimum dollar amount or number of shares, and the program may be modified, suspended, or discontinued at any time. As of March 31, 2026, the Company has approximately $484 million remaining under the program.

Item 3. Defaults Upon Senior Securities

None.

Item 4. Mine Safety Disclosures

Not applicable.

Item 5. Other Information

None.

Item 6. Exhibits

ExhibitDescription
31.1*Certification of Chief Executive Officer Pursuant to Rule 13a-14(a) or Rule 15d-14(a) under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934.
31.2*Certification of Chief Financial Officer Pursuant to Rule 13a-14(a) or Rule 15d-14(a) under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934.
32.1**Certification of Chief Executive Officer Pursuant to 18 U.S.C. 1350.
32.2**Certification of Chief Financial Officer Pursuant to 18 U.S.C. 1350.
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  • Filed herewith

** These items are furnished and not filed.

SIGNATURES

Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, the registrant has duly caused this report to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned thereunto duly authorized.

CDW CORPORATION
Date:May 6, 2026By:/s/ Albert J. Miralles
Albert J. Miralles
Chief Financial Officer and Executive Vice President, Enterprise Business Operations
(Duly authorized officer and principal financial officer)