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Roku discloses it has $487 million in deposits at failed Silicon Valley Bank. That’s 26% of its cash.

Lakshmi Varanasi   

Roku discloses it has $487 million in deposits at failed Silicon Valley Bank. That’s 26% of its cash.
Finance1 min read
    • Roku said in an SEC filing Friday that it held $487 million of cash at Silicon Valley Bank.
    • That's 26% of the company's cash, which Roku disclosed was largely uninsured.

Streaming company Roku disclosed Friday that it had $487 million parked in now-failed Silicon Valley Bank— that's 26% of the company's cash.

The disclosure only adds to the alarm surrounding tech companies that do business with SVB after regulators shut down Silicon Valley Bank on Friday, marking it as the largest bank failure in the US since the 2008 recession.

Roku said in its disclosure to the SEC that approximately 26% of the $1.9 billion in total cash and cash equivalents it has as of Friday were held at SVB.

According to the FDIC's statement, when the bank opens on Monday, March 13, all insured depositors will have access to their insured deposits. However, Roku noted in the filing that its deposits with SVB are largely uninsured.

"At this time, the Company does not know to what extent the Company will be able to recover its cash on deposit at SVB," Roku said in the filing.

Still Roku said in the filing that its "existing cash and cash equivalents balance and cash flow from operations will be sufficient to meet its working capital, capital expenditures, and material cash requirements from known contractual obligations for the next twelve months and beyond."

Roku's remaining $1.4 billion in cash and cash equivalents have been distributed across "multiple large financial institutions" the company said in the filing.

The company's stock has dropped almost 4% in recent after-hours trading, according to Yahoo Finance.

A spokesperson for Roku told Insider by email, "As stated in our 8-K, we expect that Roku's ability to operate and meet its contractual obligations will not be impacted and we continue to have access to $1.4 billion in cash and cash equivalents which are distributed across multiple, large financial institutions."


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