Company: NGVT
Filing Date: 2025-02-19
Form Type: 10-K
Source: 0001653477-25-000015
Chunk: 227

Company: Ingevity Corp
Filing Date: 2025-02-19
Form: 10-K
Item: Item 5
Chunk 227
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 earnings per share as their inclusion would have an anti-dilutive effect.Pension and postretirement benefits: We provide both qualified and non-qualified pension and postretirement benefit plans to our employees. The expense related to the current employees, as well as the expense related to retirees, are included within the Consolidated Financial Statements. The costs (or benefits) and obligations related to these benefits reflect key assumptions related to general economic conditions, including interest (discount) rates, healthcare cost trend rates, and expected return on plan assets. The costs (or benefits) and obligations for these benefit programs are also affected by other assumptions, such as average retirement age, mortality rates, employee turnover, and plan participation. To the extent our plans' actual experience, as influenced by changing economic and financial market conditions or by changes to our own plans' demographics, differs from these assumptions, the costs and obligations for providing these benefits, as well as the plans' funding requirements, could increase or decrease. When actual results differ from our assumptions, the difference is typically recognized over future periods. In addition, the unrealized gains and losses related to our pension and postretirement benefit obligations may also affect periodic benefit costs (or benefits) in future periods. Share-based compensation: We recognize compensation expense within our Consolidated Financial Statements for all share-based compensation arrangements. Share-based compensation cost is measured at the date of grant, based on the fair value of the award, and expense is recognized over the grantee's requisite service period; forfeitures are recognized as they occur. We calculate the fair value of our stock options using the Black-Scholes option pricing model. The fair value of restricted stock units ("RSUs"), non-employee director deferred stock units ("DSUs"), and performance-based restricted stock units ("PSUs") is determined using our closing stock price on the date of the grant. Beginning in 2023, certain granted PSUs include a market condition, relative total shareholder return ("rTSR"), which requires that the fair value of the award be calculated using a Monte Carlo simulation. Substantially all compensation expense related to share-based awards is recorded as a component of Selling, general and administrative expenses within the consolidated statements of operations. Operating segments: Our operating segments are Performance Materials, Performance Chemicals, and Advanced Polymer Technologies. Our operating segments were determined based upon the nature of the products produced, the nature of 

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IndexIngevity CorporationNotes to the Consolidated Financial StatementsDecember 31, 2024

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