Sylvamo Corp

NOTE 17 FINANCIAL INFORMATION BY BUSINESS SEGMENT AND GEOGRAPHIC AREA

The Company’s business segments, Europe, Latin America and North America, are organized by geography. These segments are consistent with the internal structure used to manage these businesses. Each of our segments derive their revenue from the manufacture and sale of paper and pulp products. As discussed in Note 8 Divestiture and Impairment of Business, the Company’s Russian operations have been classified as discontinued operations and as a result are no longer reported within the Europe business segment for any periods presented.

Business segment operating profits are used by the Company’s management to measure the earnings performance of its businesses. Management believes that business segment operating profit provides investors and analysts useful insights into our operating performance. We define business segment operating profit as our income from continuing operations before income taxes calculated in accordance with GAAP, excluding net interest expense (income) and net business special items and net corporate special items.

The chief operating decision maker uses business segment operating profit to allocate resources (primarily capital spending) for each segment predominantly during the annual strategic planning, budgeting and forecasting processes. The chief operating decision maker also considers actual performance variances in business segment operating profits on a monthly basis to assess the performance of the segments. The Company’s chief operating decision maker is the Chairman and Chief Executive Officer.

Sales by business segment are determined using a management approach and include intersegment sales (which are eliminated in consolidation). External sales in the External Net Sales table are defined as those that are made to parties outside the Company’s combined group.

INFORMATION BY BUSINESS SEGMENT

Net Sales and Business Segment Operating Profit

2024:

(a) Other special items, net in the period presented primarily include legal fees related to the Brazil Tax Dispute, a loss related to forest fires in Brazil, certain severance costs related to our salaried workforce, and integration costs related to the Nymölla acquisition.

2023:

(a) Other special items, net in the period presented primarily include foreign VAT refunds, transaction and integration costs related to the Nymölla acquisition, the impact of the step-up of acquired Nymölla inventory sold during the first quarter of 2023, and certain severance costs related to our salaried workforce.

2022:

(a) Other special items, net in the period presented primarily include one-time costs associated with the spin-off and transaction and integration costs associated with the Nymölla acquisition.

Note: Cost of products sold and other in each of the tables above includes costs directly related to the manufacture of our products and taxes other than payroll and income taxes but excludes costs directly attributable to maintenance outages and unabsorbed costs due to economic downtime. Costs of products sold and other also excludes depreciation, amortization and cost of timber harvested which is presented separately.

The Company had one customer within our North America business segment that represented approximately 13%,14% and 13% of our consolidated net sales for the years ended December 31, 2024, 2023 and 2022, respectively.

Assets

(a) Includes corporate assets.

Capital Spending

INFORMATION BY GEOGRAPHIC AREA

External Net Sales (a)

(a)Net sales are attributed to countries based on the location of the seller.

Long-Lived Assets