Company: WCC
Filing Date: 2025-05-01
Form Type: 10-Q
Source: 0000929008-25-000012
Chunk: 64

Company: WESCO INTERNATIONAL INC
Filing Date: 2025-05-01
Form: 10-Q
Item: Item 1
Chunk 64
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 of $5.9 million associated with the non-service cost components of net periodic pension (benefit) cost for the three months ended March 31, 2025 and 2024, respectively.

The following table reconciles other non-operating (income) expense to adjusted other non-operating (income) expense, which is a non-GAAP financial measure, for the periods presented: 

Three Months EndedMarch 31, 2025March 31, 2024Adjusted Other (Income) Expense, net:(In millions)Other expense, net$0.2$21.6Loss on termination of business arrangement(1)(0.3)—Pension settlement cost(2)—(5.5)Adjusted other (income) expense, net$(0.1)$16.1

(1)    Loss on termination of business arrangement represents the loss recognized as a result of management's decision to terminate a business arrangement with a third party.

(2)    Pension settlement cost represents expense related to the final settlement of the Company's U.S. pension plan. 

Income Taxes

The provision for income taxes was $36.1 million for the first quarter of 2025 compared to $30.9 million for the corresponding quarter of the prior year, resulting in effective tax rates of 23.4% and 21.0%, respectively. The higher effective tax rate for the first quarter of 2025 is due to lower discrete income tax benefits resulting from the exercise and vesting of stock-based awards as compared to the prior year.

Net Income and Earnings per Share

Net income and earnings per diluted share attributable to common stockholders were $104.0 million and $2.10, respectively, for the first quarter of 2025 compared to $101.4 million and $1.95, respectively, for the first quarter of 2024. Adjusted for the non-GAAP adjustments above and the related income tax effects, net income and earnings per diluted share attributable to common stockholders were $109.6 million and $2.21, respectively, for the three months ended March 31, 2025 and $119.2 million and $2.30, respectively, for the three months ended March 31, 2024. 

The decrease in adjusted earnings per diluted share primarily reflects the increase in cost of goods sold as a percentage of net sales and increase in SG&A expenses, partially offset by decreases in interest expense and adjusted other expense, all of which are