This report includes information that does not conform to U.S. GAAP and are considered non-GAAP measures. These measures include operating EBITDA. Management uses these measures internally for planning and forecasting, including allocating resources and evaluating incentive compensation. Management believes that these non-GAAP measures best reflect the ongoing performance of the Company during the periods presented and provide more relevant and meaningful information to investors as they provide insight with respect to ongoing operating results of the Company and a more useful comparison of year-over-year results. These non-GAAP measures supplement the Company’s U.S. GAAP disclosures and should not be viewed as an alternative to U.S. GAAP measures of performance. Furthermore, such non-GAAP measures may not be consistent with similar measures provided or used by other companies. Reconciliations for these non-GAAP measures to U.S. GAAP are provided below.
Non-GAAP calculation of Corteva operating EBITDA
12 months ended December 31, 2024 (in millions $) | |
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Income (loss) from continuing operations after income taxes | 863 |
Provision for (benefit from) income taxes on continuing operations | 412 |
Income (loss) from continuing operations before income taxes (GAAP) | 1,275 |
+ Depreciation and amortization | 1,227 |
- Interest income | (132) |
+ Interest expense | 233 |
+/- Exchange (gains) losses – net | 284 |
+/- Non-operating (benefits) costs – net | 174 |
+/- Mark-to-market (gains) losses on certain foreign currency contracts not designated as hedges | – |
+/- Significant items (benefit) charge | 315 |
Corteva operating EBITDA (non-GAAP)1 | 3,376 |
- Operating EBITDA is defined as earnings (loss) (i.e., income (loss) from continuing operations before income taxes) before interest, depreciation, amortization, non-operating benefits (costs), foreign exchange gains (losses), and net unrealized gain or loss from mark-to-market activity for certain foreign currency derivative instruments that do not qualify for hedge accounting, excluding the impact of significant items. Non-operating benefits (costs) consists of non-operating pension and OPEB credits (costs), tax indemnification adjustments, and environmental remediation and legal costs associated with legacy businesses and sites. Tax indemnification adjustments relate to changes in indemnification balances, as a result of the application of the terms of the Tax Matters Agreement, between Corteva and Dow and/or DuPont that are recorded by the company as pre-tax income or expense. Net unrealized gain or loss from mark-to-market activity for certain foreign currency derivative instruments that do not qualify for hedge accounting represents the non-cash net gain (loss) from changes in fair value of certain undesignated foreign currency derivative contracts. Upon settlement, which is within the same calendar year of execution of the contract, the realized gain (loss) from the changes in fair value of the non-qualified foreign currency derivative contracts will be reported in the relevant non-GAAP financial measures, allowing quarterly results to reflect the economic effects of the foreign currency derivative contracts without the resulting unrealized mark to fair value volatility.