Company: GEF
Filing Date: 2025-02-27
Form Type: 10-Q
Source: 0000043920-25-000009
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Company: GREIF, INC
Filing Date: 2025-02-27
Form: 10-Q
Item: Part I, Item 1
Chunk 43
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3 million for the first quarter of 2024. The $4.9 million decrease in gross profit was primarily due to the Delta Divestiture. Gross profit margin was 27.4 percent and 29.7 percent for the first quarter of 2025 and 2024, respectively. The decrease in gross profit margin was primarily due to the Delta Divestiture.

Operating profit was $4.9 million for the first quarter of 2025 compared with operating profit of $12.1 million for the first quarter of 2024. The $7.2 million decrease was primarily due to the same factors that impacted gross profit and lower gains on disposal of properties, plants and equipment, net. Adjusted EBITDA was $8.9 million for the first quarter of 2025 compared with $13.5 million for the first quarter of 2024. The $4.6 million decrease in Adjusted EBITDA was primarily due to the same factors that impacted gross profit.

Income Tax Expense

Our quarterly income tax expense was computed in accordance with Accounting Standards Codification (“ASC”) 740-270, "Income Taxes - Interim Reporting." In accordance with this accounting standard, annual estimated tax expense is computed based on forecasted annual earnings and other forecasted annual amounts, including, but not limited to items such as uncertain tax positions and withholding taxes. Additionally, losses from jurisdictions for which a valuation allowance has been provided 

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have not been included in the annual estimated tax rate. Income tax expense each quarter is provided for on a current year-to-date basis using the annual estimated tax rate, adjusted for discrete taxable events that occur during the interim period.

A number of countries have enacted legislation to implement the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development’s global minimum tax regime of 15% of reported profits (the “Pillar 2 taxes”). During 2023 and 2024, many countries began to incorporate the Pillar 2 tax model rule concepts into their domestic laws. Although the model rules provide a framework for applying the minimum tax, countries may enact the Pillar 2 taxes slightly differently than the model rules and on different timelines and may adjust domestic tax incentives in response to the Pillar 2 taxes. We do not expect these changes to have a material impact on our consolidated financial statements for 2025. We continue to evaluate the impacts of proposed and enacted legislation with respect to the global minimum tax regime in the jurisdictions in which we operate. Our effective tax rate and cash tax payments could