Company: GFS
Filing Date: 2025-03-20
Form Type: 20-F
Source: 0001709048-25-000024
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Company: GLOBALFOUNDRIES Inc.
Filing Date: 2025-03-20
Form: 20-F
Item: Item 11
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ITEM 11. QUANTITATIVE AND QUALITATIVE DISCLOSURES ABOUT MARKET RISKS

We are exposed to market risks in the ordinary course of our business. Market risk represents the risk of loss that may impact our financial position due to adverse changes in financial market prices and rates. Our market risk exposure is primarily the result of fluctuations in interest rates and foreign currency exchange rates. SeeNote 29. Financial Risk Management Objectives and Policies to our Annual Consolidated Financial Statements for additional details.

Foreign Currency Risk - As a result of foreign operations, we have costs, assets and liabilities denominated in foreign currencies, primarily the Euro, the Singapore dollar and the Japanese yen. Therefore, movements in exchange rates could cause foreign currency-denominated expenses to increase as a percentage of net revenue, which are denominated in U. S. dollars, affecting profitability and cash flows. We use foreign currency forward contracts to reduce exposure to foreign currency fluctuations. We also incur a certain portion of our interest expenses in Euro and Singapore Dollar, exposing us to exchange rate fluctuations between U. S. dollar and Euro and Singapore Dollar. We use cross currency swaps to reduce our exposure to variability from foreign exchange impacting cash flows arising from our foreign currency-denominated debt cash flows to the extent that it is practicable and cost effective to do so. As of December 31, 2024, we do not believe that a hypothetical 10% change in the relative value of the U. S. dollar to currencies other than the Euro, Japanese Yen, and Singapore Dollar would have a material effect on our operating results.

Interest Rate Risk - The Company’s exposure to market risk for changes in interest rates relates primarily to interest-earning financial assets and interest-bearing financial liabilities. The Company’s interest-earning financial assets are mostly highly liquid investments and includes money market funds, marketable securities and time deposits. As these financial assets have weighted-average maturity of less than one year with majority of the assets in fixed-rate instruments, the Company’s exposure to interest risk is not material. The Company’s interest-bearing financial liabilities include fixed and floating rate loans and lease obligations. Floating rate loans bear interest at Base Rate SOFR or EURIBOR plus a premium, which is fixed. The Company uses pay-fixed / receive-float interest rate swaps to protect the Company against adverse fluctuations in interest rates and to reduce its exposure to variability in cash flows on the Company’s forecasted floating-rate debt facility to the extent that it is practicable and cost effective to do so. As of