WEX Inc
For the period ended Dec 31, 2024. Filed Feb 20, 2025.
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FY2024 · Filed Feb 20, 2025
WEX$180.51-1.1%Stored close · as of Nov 10, 2026
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Acronyms and Abbreviations
The acronyms and abbreviations identified below are used in this Annual Report including the accompanying consolidated financial statements and the notes thereto. The following is provided to aid the reader and provide a reference point when reviewing the Annual Report:
| 2017 Tax Act | Tax Cuts and Jobs Act of 2017 |
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| Adjusted free cash flow | A non-GAAP measure calculated as cash flows from operating activities, adjusted for net purchases of current investment securities, capital expenditures, net Funding Activity, changes in WEX Bank cash balances and certain other adjustments. |
| Adjusted net income or ANI | A non-GAAP measure that adjusts net income (loss) attributable to shareholders to exclude all items excluded in segment adjusted operating income except unallocated corporate expenses, further excluding unrealized gains and losses on financial instruments, net foreign currency gains and losses, debt issuance cost amortization, tax related items and certain other non-operating items, as applicable depending on the period presented. |
| Credit Agreement | Amended and Restated Credit Agreement entered into on April 1, 2021 (as amended from time to time) by and among the Company and certain of its subsidiaries, as borrowers, and Bank of America, N.A., as administrative agent on behalf of the lenders. |
| Ascensus Acquisition | The acquisition from Ascensus, LLC of certain entities, which comprised the health and benefits business of Ascensus. |
| ASC | Accounting Standards Codification |
| ASR | Accelerated Share Repurchase |
| ASU | Accounting Standards Update |
| Average number of SaaS accounts | Represents the average number of active consumer-directed health, COBRA, and billing accounts on our SaaS platforms. HSA accounts for which WEX Inc. serves as the non-bank custodian under designation by the U.S. Department of Treasury are included in this average. |
| B2B | Business-to-Business |
| benefitexpress | Benefit Express Services, LLC, a provider of highly configurable, cloud-based benefits administration technologies and services, and its indirect and direct parents, which were acquired on June 1, 2021 and merged into WEX Health, Inc. on April 30, 2022. |
| BTFP | The Federal Reserve Bank Term Funding Program, which provides liquidity to U.S. depository institutions. |
| CDH | Consumer directed healthcare |
| CFPB | Consumer Financial Protection Bureau |
| CODM | Chief Operating Decision Maker |
| Company | WEX Inc. and all entities included in the consolidated financial statements. |
| Consolidated EBITDA | A non-GAAP measure calculated in accordance with the terms of the Company’s Credit Agreement. |
| Convertible Notes | Convertible senior unsecured notes due on July 15, 2027 in an aggregate principal amount of $310.0 million with a 6.5 percent interest rate, issued July 1, 2020, which were repurchased by the Company and canceled by the trustee at the instruction of the Company on August 11, 2023. |
| Corporate Cash | Calculated in accordance with the terms of our consolidated leverage ratio in the Company’s Credit Agreement. |
| COVID-19 | An infectious disease caused by the SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus. The World Health Organization declared the coronavirus outbreak a global pandemic on March 11, 2020. |
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| DCFM | Discounted Cash Flow Method of valuation |
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| Discovery Benefits | Discovery Benefits, LLC, which was subsequently merged with and into WEX Health as of March 31, 2021. |
| DSUs | Deferred Stock Units held by non-employee directors. |
| EFS | Electronic Funds Source, LLC, a provider of customized corporate payment solutions for fleet and corporate customers with a focus on large and mid-sized over-the-road fleets. |
| eNett | eNett International (Jersey) Limited |
| EVs | Electric Vehicles |
| FASB | Financial Accounting Standards Board |
| FCPA | U.S. Foreign Corrupt Practices Act |
| FDIC | Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation |
| Federal Reserve Bank Discount Window | Monetary policy that allows WEX Bank to borrow funds on a short-term basis to meet temporary shortages of liquidity caused by internal or external disruptions. |
| FHLB | Federal Home Loan Bank |
| FinCEN | Financial Crimes Enforcement Network of the U.S. Department of the Treasury |
| FleetOne | FleetOne Holdings, LLC and its direct and indirect subsidiaries |
| FRA | Federal Reserve Act |
| FSA | Flexible Spending Accounts |
| Funding Activity | Includes the change in net deposits, net advances from the FHLB, changes in participation debt, and changes in borrowings under the BTFP and borrowed federal funds, which are all used as part of WEX Bank’s accounts receivable funding strategy. |
| GAAP | Generally Accepted Accounting Principles in the United States |
| GILTI | Global Intangible Low Taxed Income |
| GPCM | Guideline Public Company Method of valuation |
| GPCs | Guideline Public Companies |
| HRA | Health Reimbursement Arrangements |
| HSA | Health Savings Account |
| ICE | Internal Combustion Engine |
| MSUs | Market share units |
| NAV | Net Asset Value |
| Net interchange rate | Represents the percentage of the dollar value of each payment processing transaction that WEX records as revenue from merchants, less certain discounts given to customers and network fees. |
| Net late fee rate | Net late fee rate represents late fee revenue as a percentage of fuel purchased by fleets that have a payment processing relationship with WEX. |
| Net payment processing rate | The percentage of each payment processing $ of fuel that the Company records as revenue from merchants less certain discounts given to customers and network fees. |
| NYSE | New York Stock Exchange |
| OFAC | The United States Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control |
| Operating cash flow | Net cash provided by (used for) operating activities |
| Operating interest | Interest expense incurred on the operating debt obtained to provide liquidity for the Company’s short-term receivables or used for investing purposes in fixed income debt securities. |
| Optal | Optal Limited |
| OTA | Online travel agency |
| Over-the-road | Typically, heavy trucks traveling long distances. |
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| Payment processing $ of fuel | Total dollar value of the fuel purchased by fleets that have a payment processing relationship with WEX. |
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| Payment processing transactions | Total number of purchases made by fleets that have a payment processing relationship with the Company where the Company maintains the receivable for the total purchase. |
| PBRSUs | Performance-based restricted stock units |
| PO Holding | PO Holding, LLC, a wholly-owned subsidiary of WEX Inc. and the direct parent of WEX Health. |
| Processing costs | Expenses related to processing transactions, servicing customers and merchants and costs of goods sold related to hardware and other product sales. |
| Purchase volume | Purchase volume in the Corporate Payments segment represents the total dollar value of all WEX-issued transactions that use WEX corporate card products and virtual card products. Purchase volume in the Benefits segment represents the total dollar value of all transactions where interchange is earned by WEX. |
| Redeemable non-controlling interest | The portion of net assets owned by a non-controlling interest holder, SBI, prior to the March 7, 2022 acquisition of SBI’s remaining interest in PO Holding. |
| Revolving Credit Facility | The Company’s secured revolving credit facility under the Credit Agreement. |
| RSUs | Restricted stock units |
| SaaS | Software-as-a-Service |
| SBI | SBI Investments, Inc., which is owned by State Bankshares, Inc., and was a minority interest holder in PO Holding, LLC. |
| SEC | Securities and Exchange Commission |
| Total segment adjusted operating income | A non-GAAP measure that adjusts operating income to exclude specified items that the Company’s management excludes in evaluating segment performance, including unallocated corporate expenses, acquisition-related intangible amortization, other acquisition and divestiture related items, debt restructuring costs, stock-based compensation, other costs and certain non-recurring or non-cash operating charges that are not core to our operations, as applicable depending on the period presented. |
| Service fees | Costs incurred from third-party networks utilized to deliver payment solutions and other third-parties utilized in performing services directly related to generating revenue. |
| SOFR | Secured Overnight Financing Rate |
| SPE | Wholly-owned special purpose entity |
| Topic 310 | Accounting Standards Codification Section 310, Receivables |
| Topic 320 | Accounting Standards Codification Section 320, Debt Securities |
| Topic 606 | Accounting Standards Codification Section 606, Revenue from Contracts with Customers |
| Total volume | Includes purchases on WEX-issued accounts as well as purchases issued by others, but using a WEX platform. |
| TSR | Total shareholder return |
| UDFI | Utah Department of Financial Institutions |
| VIE | Variable interest entity |
| VCN | Virtual card number |
| WACC | Weighted Average Cost of Capital |
| WEX | WEX Inc., and all of its subsidiaries that are consolidated under accounting principles generally accepted in the United States, unless otherwise indicated or required by the context. |
| WEX Australia | WEX Card Holdings Australia Pty Ltd and its subsidiaries |
| WEX Bank | An industrial bank organized under the laws of the State of Utah, and wholly owned subsidiary of WEX Inc. |
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| WEX Europe Services | WEX Europe Service Limited, a European Mobility business |
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| WEX Health | WEX Health, Inc., the Company’s healthcare technology and administration solutions provider/business. |
| WEX Payments | WEX Payments Inc. (formerly known as Noventis, Inc.) |
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