Company: DBRG
Filing Date: 2025-04-17
Form Type: DEF 14A
Source: 0001558370-25-004974
Chunk: 85

Company: DigitalBridge Group, Inc.
Filing Date: 2025-04-17
Form: DEF 14A
Chunk 85
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 provides definitions for these measures and metrics and reconciliations to GAAP measures.

We report the following non-GAAP financial measures attributable to the Operating Company: Fee Related Earnings (“FRE”) and Distributable Earnings (“DE”). FRE and DE are common metrics utilized in the investment management sector.

We present FRE and DE at the DigitalBridge Operating Company, LLC level, that is, net of amounts attributed to noncontrolling interests, which include (i) carried interest allocations to certain senior executives of the Company and a third-party investor; (ii) equity interests held by current and former employees and a third-party investor in general partner entities of the Company's sponsored funds; and (iii) limited partners of consolidated funds.

We believe the non-GAAP financial measures of FRE and DE supplement and enhance the overall understanding of our underlying financial performance and trends, and facilitate comparison among current, past and future periods and to other companies in similar lines of business. We use FRE and DE in evaluating the Company’s ongoing business performance and in making operating decisions. For the same reasons, we believe FRE and DE are useful financial measures to the Company’s investors and analysts.

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EXHIBIT A: DIGITALBRIDGE GROUP, INC. 2024 OMNIBUS STOCK INCENTIVE PLAN

As we evaluate profitability based upon continuing operations, these non-GAAP measures exclude results from discontinued operations. DE presented for the 2023 comparative period has been recast to exclude the Operating segment which qualified as discontinued operations on December 31, 2023.

These non-GAAP financial measures should be considered as a supplement to and not an alternative or in lieu of GAAP net income (loss) as measures of operating performance, or to cash flows from operating activities as indicators of liquidity. Our calculation of these non-GAAP measures may differ from methodologies utilized by other companies for similarly titled performance measures and, as a result, may not be fully comparable to those calculated by our peers.

Distributable Earnings (DE)

DE generally represents net realized earnings of the Company and is an indicative measure used by the Company to assess ongoing operating performance and in making decisions related to distributions and reinvestments. Accordingly, we believe DE provides investors and analysts transparency into the measure of performance used by the Company in its decision making.

DE is an after-tax measure that reflects the ongoing operating performance of the Company’s core business by including earnings that are realized and generally excluding non-cash expenses, other income