Company: WCC
Filing Date: 2025-02-14
Form Type: 10-K
Source: 0000929008-25-000005
Chunk: 66

Company: WESCO INTERNATIONAL INC
Filing Date: 2025-02-14
Form: 10-K
Item: Item 7
Chunk 66
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 across commercial and industrial businesses, contractors, government agencies, educational institutions, telecommunications providers, utilities, and technology companies. Our innovative value-added solutions include supply chain management, logistics and transportation, procurement, warehousing and inventory management, as well as kitting and labeling, limited assembly of products and installation enhancement. We operate more than 700 sites, including distribution centers, fulfillment centers, and sales offices, in approximately 50 countries, providing a local presence for customers and a global network to serve multi-location businesses and global corporations.

We have operating segments comprising three strategic business units consisting of Electrical & Electronic Solutions (“EES”), Communications & Security Solutions (“CSS”) and Utility & Broadband Solutions (“UBS”). These operating segments are equivalent to our reportable segments. See Item 1, “Business” in this Annual Report on Form 10-K for a description of each of our reportable segments and their business activities.

Overall Financial Performance

Our financial results for 2024 compared to 2023 reflect a single-digit decline in sales driven by a decrease in volume partially offset by the benefits of price inflation in certain segments. Additionally, financial results were impacted by higher facilities costs, a loss on abandonment of assets, and higher IT costs, partially offset by the gain recognized on the divestiture of our WIS business, as well as lower professional services and consulting fees.

Net sales for 2024 decreased $566.4 million, or 2.5%, over the prior year. The decrease reflects estimated volume decline of approximately 2% driven primarily by a decrease in volume for the UBS segment, with a less significant decrease in the EES segment, partially offset by an increase in the CSS segment. The reduction also includes the effect of the divestiture of the Wesco Integrated Supply (“WIS”) business of 2.6% and the negative impact of fluctuations in foreign exchange rates of 0.2%. These negative factors were partially offset by the estimated impact of changes in price of approximately 1%, the favorable impact from the number of workdays of 0.8%, and the increase from the acquisition of Ascent, LLC (“Ascent”) of 0.1%. Cost of goods sold as a percentage of net sales was 78.4% for the current and prior year.

Income from operations was $1.2 billion for 2024, compared to $1.4 billion for 2023, a decrease of 13.0%. Income from operations as a percentage of net sales was 5