Company: SUZ
Filing Date: 2025-04-28
Form Type: 20-F
Source: 0001628280-25-020368
Chunk: 46

Company: Suzano S.A.
Filing Date: 2025-04-28
Form: 20-F
Item: Item 3
Chunk 46
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 financial measure that is presented other than in accordance with all relevant IFRS Accounting Standards. We disclose our EBITDA and Adjusted EBITDA in this annual report, which are considered to be non-IFRS financial measures. EBITDA is calculated as Net income (loss) plus Net financial result, Income and social contribution taxes, and Depreciation, amortization and depletion. Our Adjusted EBITDA is defined as EBITDA as further adjusted to add or exclude the following items, as specifically indicated in the table further below:

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(i) Exceptional adjustments, such as penalties for termination of a specific barge contract with Norsul; and

(ii) Other non-cash adjustments or specific adjustments that by their nature and scope, do not reflect our operational performance for the specific period, in our management’s view. This includes (a) Fair Value Update - Biological Asset, (b) results from sale and disposal of property, plant and equipment and biological assets, (c) Accrual (reversal) of losses on ICMS credits, and (d) other items indicated in the table below.

The non-IFRS financial measures described in this annual report are not a substitute for the IFRS Accounting Standards measures of net income or other performance measures. Our management believes that disclosure of our EBITDA and Adjusted EBITDA provide useful information to investors, financial analysts and the public in their review of our operating performance and their comparison of our operating performance to the operating performance of other companies in the same industry and other industries. For example, interest expense is dependent on the capital structure and credit rating of a company. However, debt levels, credit ratings and, therefore, the impact of interest expense on earnings vary significantly between companies. Similarly, the tax positions of individual companies can vary because of their differing abilities to take advantage of tax benefits and the differing jurisdictions in which they transact business. Finally, companies differ in the age and method of acquisition of productive assets, and thus the relative costs of those assets, as well as in the depreciation method (straight-line, accelerated or units of production), which can result in considerable variation in depreciation and amortization expenses between companies. Therefore, for comparison purposes, our management believes that our EBITDA and Adjusted EBITDA are useful measures of operating profitability because they exclude these elements of earnings that do not provide information about the current operations of existing assets.

Other companies may calculate EBITDA and Adjusted EBITDA differently