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The passages do not establish a wide moat, demonstrated network effects or a durable AI advantage.","advantages":[{"mechanism":"switching_costs","claim":"QuickBooks integrates accounting, payment reconciliation and bill-payment workflows, while ProAdvisor training and certification embed product-specific expertise among accountants. Replacing these connected workflows and learned practices creates credible operational switching friction. Reported customer growth alongside higher effective prices corroborates commercial strength, although migration costs are not measured.","durability":"Integrations and accountant expertise were disclosed across successive filings, while higher effective prices and customer growth persisted through fiscal 2026. This supports a current advantage with plausible persistence, but the evidence cannot establish exceptional longevity or equivalent protection across every Intuit business.","risks":"Free and low-cost alternatives and AI-enabled competitors could reduce workflow differentiation or migration effort. Online Ecosystem paying-customer growth slowed from 6% in fiscal 2024 to 5% in 2025 and 3% in 2026. Fewer TurboTax federal units demonstrate weakness in part of the consumer business, rather than proving QuickBooks erosion. Competitive risk disclosures otherwise describe possibilities, not realized displacement.","invalidation":"The thesis would weaken materially if successive reporting periods showed declining paying customers and payment engagement alongside price concessions, or if disclosed migrations demonstrated that customers and accountants could replace connected QuickBooks workflows with little disruption. Persistent customer losses following higher prices would invalidate the inference that switching friction supports pricing power.","competitors":[],"evidenceIds":["q125","q127","q804","q33","q1061","q220","q223","q226"],"counterEvidenceIds":["q157","q159","q209","q1063","q847","q226","q552"]}],"evidence":[{"id":"q125","sourceId":"filing-1","location":"Business / payment processing integration","excerpt":"Through seamless onboarding and automated transaction reconciliation, our payment processing solutions are deeply integrated into our QuickBooks Online, Desktop, and Intuit Enterprise Suite offerings."},{"id":"q127","sourceId":"filing-1","location":"Business / Bill Pay workflows and reconciliation","excerpt":"Bill Pay. QuickBooks Online and Intuit Enterprise Suite allow small and mid-market businesses to manage their accounts payable through efficient bill ingestion, bill payment, custom workflows, and vendor management, automatically reconciling with their books."},{"id":"q804","sourceId":"filing-4","location":"Business / ProAdvisor accountant network, training and certification","excerpt":"To enable our network of hundreds of thousands of accountants, we offer memberships to the QuickBooks ProAdvisor program, which provides accountants access to QuickBooks Online Accountant, technical support, training, product certification, marketing tools, and discounts on Intuit products and services purchased on behalf of clients."},{"id":"q33","sourceId":"filing-1","location":"Business / ProAdvisor program","excerpt":"To enable our large network of accountants, we offer memberships to the QuickBooks ProAdvisor program, which provides accountants with access to QuickBooks Online Accountant, technical support, 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which we define as the sum of all QuickBooks Online paying customers, QuickBooks Time customers, Mailchimp paying customers, and customers who subscribe to standalone services outside of QuickBooks Online, increased 3% as of July 31, 2026 compared with July 31, 2025."},{"id":"q1063","sourceId":"filing-5","location":"MD&A / fiscal 2024 Online Ecosystem paying customers","excerpt":"Online ecosystem paying customers, which we define as the sum of all QuickBooks Online customers, QuickBooks Time customers, Mailchimp paying customers, and customers who subscribe to standalone services outside of their QuickBooks Online experience, increased 6% as of July 31, 2024 compared with July 31, 2023."},{"id":"q847","sourceId":"filing-4","location":"MD&A / fiscal 2025 Online Ecosystem paying customers","excerpt":"Online ecosystem paying customers, which we define as the sum of all QuickBooks Online customers, QuickBooks Time customers, Mailchimp paying customers, and customers who subscribe to 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benchmarks, as measured by internal surveys administered by an independent employee engagement analytics firm •Ranked #78 in Fortune magazine’s list of “100 Best Companies to Work For” Customers •Increase the number of active customers •Improve customer retention •Delight customers more than alternatives •Continued opportunity to drive growth in number of customers •Opportunity to improve customer satisfaction, as measured by net promoter scores and product recommendation scores Communities •Create jobs through Prosperity Hubs •Better prepare people for jobs •Make a positive impact on climate •Supported over 19,000 seasonal and year-round jobs in underserved communities, exceeding our fiscal 2025 goal to support 18,000 jobs •On a cumulative basis since fiscal 2020, better prepared over 9.3 million individuals for jobs, exceeding our fiscal 2025 cumulative goal of 6.2 million students •Reduced greenhouse gas emissions intensity in our value chain, but did not meet our interim fiscal 2025 goal of an absolute reduction of 10,000 metric tonnes Stockholders •Grow revenue by double digits •Increase average revenue per customer (“ARPC”) •Generate operating income growth •Grew overall revenue by 16% to $18.8 billion •Grew revenue by 16% in the Global Business Solutions Group, 10% in the Consumer Group, 4% in the ProTax Group, and 32% in Credit Karma •Grew combined platform revenue, which includes Global Business Solutions Group Online Ecosystem, TurboTax Online, and Credit Karma, by 19% to $14.9 billion •Grew online ecosystem ARPC by 14% •Grew GAAP operating income 36% to $4.9 billion and non-GAAP operating income 18% to $7.6 billion 44 INTUIT 2026 Proxy Statement CD&A Components of Compensation Table of Contents Actual Named Executive Officer bonus awards are determined."},{"id":"q107","sourceId":"filing-1","location":"Financial statements / three-year segment results and consolidated operating income reconciliation","excerpt":"Twelve Months Ended July 31, (In millions) 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selling and marketing, direct costs associated with our product and service offerings, certain data science and analytics related costs and certain design and product management related costs."},{"id":"q213","sourceId":"filing-1","location":"MD&A / fiscal 2026 expense increases","excerpt":"Total expenses increased due to higher outside services (which include hosting), staffing, restructuring, marketing, QuickBooks Capital cost of revenue due to increased loan volume, share-based compensation, SaaS subscriptions and licenses, and online payment cost of revenue."},{"id":"q1087","sourceId":"filing-5","location":"Accounting policies / implemented payroll and payments contract changes","excerpt":"In the first quarter of fiscal 2024, we updated our terms of service and end user license agreements related to our payroll and payments offerings to reflect a change in our obligations with respect to funds we transmit on behalf of our customers."},{"id":"q166","sourceId":"filing-1","location":"Risk factors / third-party platform control of distribution terms","excerpt":"However, the platform owners have wide discretion to change the pricing structure, terms of service and other policies or practices that can affect the visibility or the availability of our offerings."},{"id":"q359","sourceId":"filing-2","location":"Liquidity / nine-month operating cash flow and uses of cash","excerpt":"Nine Months Ended (In millions) April 30, 2026 April 30, 2025 $ Change Net cash provided by (used in): Operating activities $ 7,507 $ 5,826 $ 1,681 Investing activities (1,100) (1,093) (7) Financing activities (3,983) (1,652) (2,331) Effect of exchange rates on cash, cash equivalents, restricted cash, and restricted cash equivalents 9 4 5 Net increase in cash, cash equivalents, restricted cash, and restricted cash equivalents $ 2,433 $ 3,085 $ (652) Intuit Q3 Fiscal 2026 Form 10-Q 44 Table of Contents Our primary sources and uses of 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• Sales of notes receivable originally classified as held for investment • Issuance of common stock under employee stock plans Uses of cash: • Purchases of notes receivable held for investment • Repurchases of shares of our common stock • Payment of cash dividends and dividend rights • Payments for employee taxes withheld upon vesting of restricted stock units • Net purchases of corporate and customer fund investments • Payment of accrued bonuses and restructuring for fiscal 2024 Stock Repurchase Programs, Treasury Shares, and Dividends on Common Stock As described in Note 10 to the condensed consolidated financial statements in Part I, Item 1 of this Quarterly Report, during the first nine months of fiscal 2026, we repurchased 6.6 million shares of our common stock under repurchase programs that our Board of Directors has authorized."},{"id":"q309","sourceId":"filing-2","location":"Statements of stockholders' equity / repurchases, issuance, dividends and 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Source dates are filing dates: filing-1 September 9, 2026; filing-2 May 20, 2026; filing-3 November 26, 2025; filing-4 September 3, 2025; filing-5 September 4, 2024. They are not retrieval dates.","Competitive passages identify generic categories without naming competing entities. Competitor arrays are empty; named payment services, distributors, lenders and auditors are not established as competitors.","Integration and accountant-network descriptions are issuer disclosures. Switching friction is an economic inference; migration costs, cohort retention, market shares and competitor migration outcomes are absent.","ARPC combines prices, product mix, service adoption and other revenue drivers. Higher effective prices are demonstrated, but their isolated contribution and effect on customer cohorts are not quantified.","The evidence best supports QuickBooks. It does not establish equivalent advantages for TurboTax, Credit Karma or Mailchimp, nor demonstrated network effects, relative cost superiority, efficient scale or durable AI differentiation.","The supplied proxy describes actual fiscal 2025 arrangements and governance practices. Later ownership compliance and reelection outcomes are absent; conditional future leadership appointments are not treated as completed events."],"qualityAssessments":[{"category":"moat","checks":[{"criterion":"structural_advantage","grade":3,"rationale":"Connected accounting, payments and bill-pay workflows plus product-specific accountant training establish meaningful embeddedness. Customer growth and realized higher effective prices corroborate the advantage; its strength relative to named rivals is untested.","evidenceIds":["q125","q127","q804","q33","q220","q226"]},{"criterion":"durability","grade":2,"rationale":"Successive filings show continuity of the accountant ecosystem and pricing-supported growth. 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