Company: QXO-PB
Filing Date: 2025-11-06
Form Type: 10-Q
Source: 0001628280-25-050298
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Company: QXO, Inc.
Filing Date: 2025-11-06
Form: 10-Q
Item: Part I, Item 1
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-date income, and adjusted for the tax effects of any discrete items. The Company’s effective tax rate for the nine months ended September 30, 2025, excluding discrete items, was 14.1%, compared to 25.9% for the nine months ended September 30, 2024. The Company’s effective tax rates for the nine months ended September 30, 2025 and 2024 were based on the U.S. federal statutory tax rate of 21% and state jurisdictional income tax rates, adjusted for permanent items including compensation above $1 million, inclusive of equity awards, paid to covered employees under Internal Revenue Code Section 162(m) and non-deductible transaction costs due to the Beacon Acquisition, coupled with the pre-tax loss during the nine months ended September 30, 2025.

Benefits for income taxes consists of federal and state taxes in the United States and income in certain foreign jurisdictions, as well as deferred income taxes and changes in valuation allowance, reflecting net tax effects of temporary differences between carrying amounts of assets and liabilities for financial reporting purposes and the amounts used for income tax purposes.

Realization of our deferred tax assets depends on the generation of future taxable income. In considering our need for a valuation allowance, we consider our historical and future projected taxable income, as well as other objectively verifiable evidence, including our realization of tax attributes and utilization of net operating loss carryforwards.

We believe that it is at least more likely than not that the benefit of the year-to-date losses will be realized in future periods. However, our future effective tax rate may be affected by our ongoing assessment of the need for a valuation allowance on our deferred tax assets or liabilities, or changes in tax laws, regulations, or accounting principles, tax planning initiatives, as well as certain discrete items.

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Non-GAAP Financial Measures

To provide investors with additional information regarding our financial results, we have disclosed here and elsewhere in this Quarterly Report Adjusted Gross Profit, Adjusted Gross Margin, Adjusted Net Income (Loss), Adjusted Diluted Earnings (Loss) per Common Share (“Adjusted Diluted EPS”), Adjusted EBITDA and Adjusted EBITDA Margin, which represent non-GAAP financial measures.

We calculate Adjusted Gross Profit as gross profit excluding inventory fair value adjustments, and we calculate Adjusted Gross Margin as Adjusted Gross Profit divided by net sales. We calculate Adjusted Net Income (Loss) as net income (loss) excluding amortization; stock-based compensation; loss on debt