EDGAR 10-K Filing

Company CIK: 1974138
Filing Year: 2025
Filename: 1974138_10-K_2025_0001974138-25-000016.json

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ITEM 1. BUSINESS
Item 1. BUSINESS
General
General Development of the Business
NCR Atleos Corporation (“Atleos,” the “Company,” “we,” “us,” and “our”) is an industry-leading financial technology company providing self-directed banking solutions to a global customer base including financial institutions, merchants, manufacturers, retailers and consumers. Self-directed banking is a rapidly growing, secular trend that allows banking customers to transact seamlessly between various channels all for the same transaction. Our comprehensive solutions enable the acceleration of self-directed banking through automated teller machine (“ATM”) and interactive teller machine (“ITM”) technology, including software, services, hardware and our proprietary Allpoint network. While we provide all our solutions on a modular basis, we have also assembled these capabilities into a turnkey, end-to-end platform which we have branded “ATM as a Service.” On October 16, 2023, we completed our separation from NCR Corporation (now known as NCR Voyix Corporation or “Voyix” and referred to as “NCR” prior to the Separation) and launched as an independent publicly-traded company (the “Separation” or “Spin-off”). Additional information about the Separation can be found in Note 1, “Basis of Presentation and Significant Accounting Policies”, in Part II, Item 8 of this Annual Report on Form 10-K.
As ATM technology has evolved in recent years, the substantial majority of banking transactions can now be completed at the ATM, including cash deposits, withdrawals and other account services, as well as the origination of payments transactions such as bill payments and money transfer. In addition, the development of ITMs, which utilize remote bank employees to provide customer support and servicing via interactive video, enable customers to complete more complex transactions such as account opening, card issuance and replacement, and loan applications. We believe that ATMs and ITMs are increasingly the delivery channel of choice where transactions cannot be completed digitally, and for this reason, are critical to a broader strategy to provide convenient access for consumers.
The secular nature of the growth in self-directed banking is in large part responsive to how financial institutions interact with their customers and the ensuing implications to the traditional branch banking operational model. With retail banking customers increasingly receptive to engagement outside the traditional branch banking environment, financial institutions are investing in non-branch channels to foster enhanced engagement with their customers. As such, ATMs and ITMs represent an increasing share of transactions relative to the legacy branch infrastructure.
These shifts in engagement have meaningful operating implications, particularly in the face of sustained margin pressure across the banking industry. We believe that self-service banking capabilities, and self-directed banking more broadly, represent an opportunity for financial institutions to rationalize legacy branch networks and instead invest in omni-channel engagement models, often in partnership with third party providers as part of a comprehensive and more cost-effective solution.
Our solutions are designed to enable the acceleration of digital transformation through software, services, and hardware, creating meaningful operating efficiencies while offering differentiated user experiences to their end consumers. ATM and ITM channels allow financial institutions to transform the traditional branch banking model and offer a more robust, efficient, and convenient banking experience to their customers.
Our solutions also offer distinct and powerful advantages to retailers and consumers. Through our ATMs and ITMs, retailers can create everyday banking destinations within their store footprints, driving new and repeat foot traffic and increased in-store spending while reducing the high labor costs associated with maintaining in-store financial services desks. Consumers benefit from increased convenience and connectivity through proximity to our network of approximately 78,000 self-service banking terminal locations, including the Allpoint network, which we believe is the largest retail surcharge-free independent network of ATMs in the U.S.
We believe our comprehensive capabilities differentiate us in the marketplace for self-directed banking technology. Historically, banks and retailers would negotiate with a wide array of third-party technology and service providers, pairing disparate systems with internally developed technologies to assemble a disjointed self-directed banking offering. Our customers, in contrast, benefit from a comprehensive outsourced solution to a single vendor, improving the functionality and availability of a self-directed banking network and the predictability of the cost to operate.
Given the demands of our customers, we are continuing our transition to software-led solutions. Today, our software platform, which runs in the cloud and includes microservices and application programming interfaces (“APIs”) that integrate with our customers’ systems, and our ATM as a Service solutions, bring together all our capabilities and competencies to power the technology to run our customers’ self-directed banking networks, at the same time allowing us to earn a greater proportion of recurring revenues.
We have grown organically, as well as through acquisitions, to add software, services and other capabilities that complement or enhance our existing portfolio. We intend to continue pursuing opportunities to win new customers, expand our footprint and drive more transactions and foot traffic for our customers.
By delivering mission-critical solutions to a durable customer base under long term contracts, we generate diversified and largely recurring revenues across contracted software, services and predictable transactional revenue streams. We believe our scale, operational expertise and efficient use of capital, as a percentage of revenues, allows us to deliver meaningful free cash flows, with opportunities for further expansion as we pursue our growth objectives, undertake strategic acquisitions and return capital to our stockholders.
NCR Atleos Corporation’s common stock is listed on the New York Stock Exchange (“NYSE”) and trades under the symbol “NATL.”
Operating Segments
We manage our operations in the following segments: Self-Service Banking, Network, and Telecommunications & Technology (“T&T”).
•Self-Service Banking - Offers solutions to enable customers in the financial services industry to reduce costs, generate new revenue streams and enhance customer loyalty. These solutions include a comprehensive line of ATM hardware and software, and related installation, maintenance, and managed and professional services. We also offer an ATM as a service (“ATMaaS”) solution to manage and run the ATM channel end-to-end for financial institutions that include back office, cash management, software management and ATM deployment, among others.
•Network - Provides a cost-effective way for financial institutions, financial technology companies (“fintechs”), neobanks, and retailers to reach and serve their customers through our network of ATMs and multi-functioning financial services kiosks. We offer credit unions, banks, digital banks, fintechs, stored-value debit card issuers, and other consumer financial services providers access to our ATM network, including our proprietary Allpoint network, providing convenient and fee-free cash withdrawal and deposit access to their customers and cardholders as well as the ability to convert a digital value to cash, or vice versa, via ReadyCode (formerly Pay360). We also provide ATM branding solutions to financial institutions, ATM management and services to retailers and other businesses, and our LibertyX solution gives consumers the ability to buy and sell Bitcoin.
•T&T - Offers managed network and infrastructure services to enterprise clients across all industries via direct relationships with communications service providers and technology manufacturers. Our customers rely on us as a strategic partner to help them reduce complexity, improve cost efficiency, and enable global geographical reach. We deliver expert professional, field, and remote services for modern network technologies including Software-Defined Wide Area Networking, Network Functions Virtualization, Wireless Local Area Networks, Optical Networking, and Edge Networks.
Our Strategy
Our business strategy and growth roadmap are defined by the following:
•Increase transaction levels at existing locations: We believe there are opportunities to increase the number of transactions that occur at our existing ATM locations. In addition to our current initiatives that tend to drive additional transaction volumes to our ATMs, such as bank-branding and network-branding, we have developed and are continuing to develop new initiatives to drive incremental transactions to our existing ATM locations. These initiatives may include incentives to cardholders, such as coupons and rewards, which incentivize customers to visit our ATMs. We also continue to invest in data analytics to better understand our ATM usage patterns to help us identify growth opportunities.
•Win more customers and expand our footprint: We have a long history and association with branch transformation through generations of products and thousands of customers, many of whom we have served for decades. We will continue to invest in the sales and customer success teams required to win and retain new customers and expand our ATM footprint with both retailers and banks. Our targeted customer acquisition strategy varies by customer type:
◦Retail: We believe the retail channel is substantially underpenetrated and an actionable opportunity to grow our network. The value proposition through retail partnerships is multi-faceted, most importantly driving increased foot traffic and sales velocity. We are investing in initiatives to more proactively help drive traffic and marketing for our retail partners, by for instance drawing cardholders to retail ATM locations in exchange for incentives and other retail offers.
◦Bank: We will continue to invest in winning more banks and credit unions, primarily seeking to deploy our ATMaaS model but also traditional company- and bank-owned models. Critically, we will continue to invest in our value proposition, ensuring that we allow our financial institution customers to offer a premier end-consumer experience at a material savings as compared to an internally developed ATM network.
•Invest in the FinTech channel: We intend to invest to expand relationships with fintechs and card issuers, such as reloadable stored-value debit card issuers, digital-only balances held by consumers, and alternative payment networks, which are seeking an extensive and convenient ATM network to complement their card offerings and electronic-based accounts. Many leading fintechs and challenger digital banks and providers of consumer financial services that lack a physical branch or ATM network of their own have partnered with us to provide their customers with convenient and surcharge-free access to ATM services. We have seen strong transaction growth with this customer type, as many of these businesses promote the convenience of our Allpoint network as a value point to their customers and an integral part of their solution.
•Shift traditional ATM business to recurring ATM as a Service model: We intend to continue investing to win new ATMaaS customers as well as convert existing customers operating under a traditional model. We estimate that the contractual ATMaaS model doubles recurring revenue as compared to a traditional ATM hardware and maintenance contract of comparable size, expanding our total addressable market. This is because historically certain of our customers would purchase some of the components that make up our ATMaaS offering from third-parties. By combining all of these components into one ATMaaS offering, the Company expects to expand its opportunities and expects to capture additional revenues. With an as a service model, we have an opportunity to win incremental market share by improving the utility of our customers’ self-directed banking solutions, driving retention.
•Grow the Allpoint network: As banks reduce physical footprints and digitize existing branches, and credit unions seek to expand with limited physical points of presence, our value proposition is only magnified, and our sales pipeline reflects this secular trend. We will continue to invest in bringing financial institutions and retailers to the Allpoint network to drive high margin incremental transaction volumes while allowing us to continue to re-invest in expanding and improving the network, reinforcing our competitive advantage. We believe the addition of deposit accepting functionality in the Allpoint network significantly expands the value proposition to our customers, allowing them to offer near branch functionality in secure convenient retail locations that their customers are in every day.
•Expand Total Addressable Market through product development: We see an opportunity to expand our addressable market by extending the breadth of our capabilities. For example, we are investing to introduce cashless card access and Bitcoin capabilities, extending ATM capabilities beyond cash access and balance inquiries. As another example, we are introducing cash deposit functionality specifically targeting retailers executing prepaid reloads, billpay and other cash-to-card consumer transactions which generate substantial daily cash balances.
•International Expansion: We intend to continue investing in international expansion. As of December 31, 2024, we have ATM networks in 12 countries and service ATMs in 65 countries and, in 2024, we generated 55% of our revenue outside of the United States. We will focus our expansion and investment on high cash jurisdictions, such as Italy and other European Union countries and beyond, where we believe we have an opportunity to build Allpoint-like networks in partnership with broader, country-level banking systems.
•Select M&A: We intend to continue to complement and accelerate our organic growth strategies through acquisitions. As historical operating businesses within NCR, we have a successful record of identifying, executing, and integrating acquisitions, and we intend to continue to pursue acquisitions where they can accelerate our growth objectives and are strategically and financially accretive.
Our business strategy and growth roadmap allow us to remain on the leading edge of secular trends driving self-directed banking, be efficient and have widespread availability of financial services and financial inclusion more broadly.
Products and Services
The comprehensive set of products and capabilities we deliver can be flexibly constructed into a solution to meet the needs of the customer. The flexibility of our model is well suited both for customers who are interested in a completely outsourced, turnkey solution and for those customers who prefer to integrate our products into their existing infrastructure. Our solutions consist of self-service software, self-service hardware, our global services network, ATM network, and managed services:
•Software: We develop, install, support and run software, which we brand as AMP (ATM Management Platform), to power a modern user experience for our proprietary and third-party hardware units. Select functionality includes device management, endpoint security, ATM marketing, cash management, transaction processing, personalization and application software. We have developed our software expressly to foster the digital first strategies of customers, including the requisite flexibility to enable seamless add-ons, upgrades, maintenance and security. We can earn revenue on a recurring, subscription basis based on multi-year contracts. Our software strategy is the driving factor behind the evolution of our financial profile to a more recurring, lower capital model.
•Hardware: We develop, assemble, distribute and maintain a variety of ATM hardware units. We can assemble and sell an ATM or ITM with or without embedding our own hardware-agnostic software. Our hardware products include multi-function ATMs, ITMs, cash dispensers and cash recycling ATMs. The breadth of our hardware offerings ensures that we can address the increasingly diverse use cases that financial services kiosks serve today, offering a valuable on-ramp to broader software and managed services offerings.
•Global Services Network: Underlaying our self-service software and hardware solutions is our global service network that enables us to install, maintain, and repair our own units or third-party units. Hardware and software service support is offered on a stand-alone basis, as part of self-service solutions, or bundled with other managed services. The scale and global reach of our service network differentiates us from our competitors.
•ATM Network: The ATMs and ITMs we deploy are operated under either Company-owned, customer-owned, or partner-owned models, depending on the customer need and delivery model selected. The majority of the kiosks we serve are ATMs, however financial institutions and retailers are increasingly looking to video teller solutions to offer more self-service options to their customers, and we are well positioned to serve these needs.
In a Company-owned arrangement, we place ATMs generally at well-known retailers such as Circle K, Costco, CVS, Kroger, Target, and Walgreens. We also service and operate ATM networks on behalf of financial institutions, independent operators (ISOs) or program managers in either a Company-owned or customer-owned model, with services directed by the customer. We are typically responsible for the majority of the aspects of the ATM’s operations. Services can include transaction processing, managing cash and cash delivery, supplies, and telecommunications, as well as routine and technical maintenance. We typically earn revenue on a per transaction basis from the surcharge fees accepted by cardholders for the convenience of using our ATMs and from interchange fees paid by cardholders’ financial institutions when processing the transactions conducted on our ATMs, or on a fixed monthly recurring fee. In a customer-owned or partner-owned model, the bank, retail merchant or independent distributor owns the ATM and is usually responsible for providing cash and performing simple maintenance tasks, while we generally provide processing only services or various managed services solutions.
With Company-owned ATMs we have an opportunity to augment revenue streams through branding arrangements, specifically by attaching customer logos to our ATMs and transactions both physically and digitally. These bank-branding arrangements allow a financial institution or fintech to expand geographically for less than the cost of building a branch location or placing a stand-alone ATM or advertising through costly media channels. Under these arrangements, the financial institution’s or fintech’s customers have surcharge-free access to do everyday banking at the branded ATMs. In return, we may receive branding fees from the financial institution or fintech while retaining our base revenue for non-branded cardholders using the branded ATMs. When the brand of a financial services provider is placed on an ATM, volumes typically increase which contributes to base revenue production through interchange and other applicable fees.
We offer credit unions, banks, digital banks, fintechs, stored-value debit card issuers, and other consumer financial services providers access to Allpoint, our retail-based ATM network, providing convenient and surcharge-free cash withdrawal and deposit access to end consumers and cardholders as well as the ability to convert a digital value to cash, or vice versa, via ReadyCode. Additionally, our LibertyX platform gives enrolled LibertyX users the ability to buy and sell Bitcoin.
•Managed Services: Our managed services, including ATMaaS solutions, help retailers, financial institutions, and ATM distributors run their end-to-end ATM channel by relying on us to handle some or all of the operational aspects associated
with operating and maintaining ATMs, typically in exchange for a monthly service fee, a fee per transaction, or a fee per service provided. As part of this suite of services, we offer a full line of software such as multi-vendor ATM management systems software application suite and related hardware including multi-function ATMs, ITMs, thin-client ATMs, cash dispensers, and cash recycling ATMs. Additionally, we offer back office, cash management and delivery, software management, transaction management, ATM deployment, and routine and technical maintenance, among other related services. Each managed service arrangement is a customized ATM management solution that can include any combination of the services we offer.
Sales and Marketing
We have a sales and marketing team of approximately 565 people around the globe focused on developing and managing our relationships with financial institutions and retail customers. We typically organize our sales and marketing teams by customer type across retail and financial customers. Our sales and marketing teams focus on understanding customer needs and market or competitor dynamics, product development planning and market sizing, project lifecycle management and development, and analysis to evaluate if our services are meeting customer needs. Our product lifecycle approach ensures we have high-quality products that are launched consistently in a customer-centric manner. In addition to targeting new business opportunities, our sales and marketing teams support our customer retention and growth initiatives by building and maintaining relationships with our existing customers. We maintain sales teams for each of the geographic markets in which we currently operate.
We seek to identify growth opportunities and have also worked to simplify and streamline our sales and marketing processes to maintain our high quality and consistent experience for customers.
Customers
We have built a global network and serve banks and credit unions of varying sizes in over 140 countries.
In our retail channel, we operate under long-term contracts with major national and regional merchants including convenience stores, gas stations, grocery stores, pharmacies, and other high-traffic locations. Our merchant-owned ATMs are typically deployed under arrangements with smaller independent merchants.
Competition
We believe that we are well-positioned to offer a comprehensive self-directed banking solution with our breadth of services, in-house expertise, and network of existing locations, that can leverage the economies of the physical services required to operate an ATM portfolio. However, there are several large financial services companies, equipment manufacturers, and service providers that currently offer some of the services we provide, with whom we compete directly in this area. Our competition consists of global ATM software, services and hardware companies including Fiserv, Euronet, Cord Financial, Brinks, Hyosung, and Diebold Nixdorf. Within our Allpoint network, historically, we have competed with financial institutions and other independent ATM deployers (commonly referred to as “IADs”) for additional ATM placements, new merchant accounts, branding, and acquisitions.
Research and Development
We remain focused on designing and developing solutions that anticipate our customers’ changing technological needs as well as consumer preferences. Our expenses for research and development were $66 million in 2024, $77 million in 2023, and $64 million in 2022. We anticipate that we will continue to have significant research and development expenditures in the future in order to provide a continuing flow of innovative, high-quality products and services and to help maintain and enhance our competitive position. Information regarding the accounting and costs included in research and development activities is included in Note 1, “Basis of Presentation and Significant Accounting Policies”, of the Notes to Consolidated Financial Statements in Item 8 of Part II of this Report under “Research and Development Costs,” and is incorporated herein by reference. We also continue to evaluate emerging technologies, such as machine learning and generative artificial intelligence, for incorporation into our business to augment our products and services.
Intellectual Property, including Patents and Trademarks
Intellectual property is of significant importance to us. We maintain a broad portfolio of intellectual property rights, including patents, copyrights, trademarks and trade secret rights. We use intellectual property rights, nondisclosure agreements, assignment agreements and other measures to protect and establish our intellectual property rights and ownership of our intellectual property. In many cases, we own the intellectual property relevant to or used by our business, but in other cases, we obtain licenses, including in supply arrangements, to access and use other parties’ intellectual property, including that of Voyix. Although in the aggregate our
intellectual property is materially important to Atleos and our business, we do not consider any single piece of technology, patent, copyright, trade secret or license to it to be of material importance to our business as a whole.
We believe we have and will continue to take reasonable measures to protect our intellectual property and build our portfolio of intellectual property rights, but we cannot be assured that any of our intellectual property rights or other intellectual property may not be challenged, found unenforceable or invalid, or used, copied, otherwise infringed or misappropriated by others. From time to time, we take actions to protect our business by asserting our intellectual property rights against third-party infringers or those who misappropriate our trade secrets.
We seek patent protection for our innovations, creations and developments, and other technology (including software) along with improvements to them, our hardware, products, services and solutions, especially where such protection is likely to provide strategic value to us. Atleos owns approximately 500 patents in the United States and various other patents in foreign countries. The foreign patents are generally counterparts of our United States patents. Many of the patents owned by Atleos are licensed to others, and Atleos is licensed under certain patents owned by others. We also have numerous patent applications pending in the United States and in foreign countries. Our portfolio of patents and patent applications is of significant value and importance to us. As appropriate, we may look to monetize our patents and certain technology and other intellectual property rights to drive additional value from our intellectual property portfolio.
We have registered, and most likely will continue to register, certain trademarks in the United States and foreign countries. We consider the “NCR Atleos” and NCR Atleos logo marks, as well as our certain other trademarks to have significant value to us. Our right to use NCR in our name and associated trademarks is licensed to us by Voyix. We expect to maintain our rights in and to the NCR Atleos and other trademark including NCR for years to come.
Seasonality
Our sales have been historically seasonal, with lower revenue in the first quarter of each year. Transaction volumes at ATMs in regions affected by strong winter weather patterns typically experience declines in volume during winter months as a result of decreases in the amount of consumer traffic through such locations. We usually see an increase in transactions in the warmer summer months, which are also aided by increased vacation and holiday travel. We expect these fluctuations in transaction volumes to continue in the future. In addition, other factors, such as a recessionary economic environment or real, or potential health emergencies such as the widespread outbreak of contagious diseases, could hinder travel, reduce the use of cash and may have a negative impact on transaction levels. Such seasonality also causes our working capital cash flow requirements to vary from quarter to quarter depending on variability in the volume, timing and mix of sales. However, with the transition of our revenue mix to comprise a higher mix of recurring software and services revenue, we expect that our sales will continue to become more linear over time.
Manufacturing and Raw Materials
In most cases, there are a number of vendors providing the services and producing the parts and components that we utilize. However, there are some services and components that are purchased from single sources due to price, quality, technology or other reasons. In the past, we have been able to obtain an adequate supply of raw materials and components for virtually all materials used in the production process. We currently believe we have adequate resources of raw materials and components and that our portfolio of vendors providing services and producing parts has the resources and facilities to overcome most unforeseen interruptions of supply.
Atleos leverages a global network of internal and third-party partner facilities to manufacture its products. As of December 31, 2024, our primary internal manufacturing facility is in Chennai, India and we leverage additional partner facilities located in Budapest, Hungary, and Chihuahua, Mexico.
Further information regarding the potential impact of these relationships on our business operations, and regarding sources and availability of raw materials, is also included in Item 1A of this Report under the caption “Business Operations,” and is incorporated herein by reference.
Backlog
Backlog includes orders confirmed for products scheduled to be shipped as well as certain professional and transaction services to be provided. Although we believe that the orders included in the backlog are firm, we may allow some orders to be canceled by the customer without penalty. Even when penalties for cancellation are provided for in a customer contract, we may elect to permit cancellation of orders without penalty where management believes it is in our best interests to do so. Further, we have a significant
portion of product revenue derived from term-based software license arrangements that include customer termination rights and services revenue that is recurring or transaction-based business, for which backlog information has not historically been measured. Therefore, we do not believe that our backlog, as of any particular date, is necessarily indicative of revenue for any future period. However, backlog is included as a component of our remaining performance obligation to the extent we determine that the orders are non-cancelable. Refer to Note 1, “Basis of Presentation and Significant Accounting Policies”, of the Notes to Consolidated Financial Statements in Item 8 of Part II of this Report for additional information on remaining performance obligations.
Risk Management
Oversight. Atleos is committed to a strong oversight mechanism of material risks. The Atleos Board of Directors (the “Board”) has oversight of executive management’s responsibilities to design, implement and maintain an effective enterprise risk management (“ERM”) framework for our overall operational, information security, strategic, reputational, technology, sustainability, and other risks, including matters relating to, environment, health and safety, business continuity planning (“BCP”), third-party risk management (“TPRM”), and the security of our personnel and physical assets. In particular, the Audit Committee of the Board (the “Audit Committee”) will assist the Board in its oversight of risk management. Atleos’ management is responsible for developing and managing formal programs designed to identify, assess and respond to material and emerging risks and opportunities that may impact the achievement of Atleos’ strategic objectives.
Our Chief Risk Officer has primary oversight for the Company’s ERM programs, including BCP and TPRM, details of which are reported to the Audit Committee. Atleos’ ERM programs support the Company’s strategic objectives and corporate governance responsibilities. The ERM programs include the following primary objectives:
•Establish a standard risk framework and supporting policies and processes to identify, assess, respond to, and report on business risks and opportunities
•Establish clear roles and responsibilities in support of the Company’s risk management activities
•Ensure appropriate independent oversight of business risks and opportunities and the impacts of related business decisions on the Company’s risk profiles and tolerances
•Ensure appropriate communication and reporting of business risks and opportunities including related response strategies and controls to Atleos’ executive leadership and Board
•Provide relevant training to executives, managers and employees.
In addition to the Chief Risk Officer, our Chief Compliance Officer has a direct channel to the Board. Our Chief Compliance Officer is responsible for oversight of compliance with local regulatory and business-specific requirements including those related to anti-money laundering (“AML”) and anti-bribery/anti-corruption (“ABAC”) laws globally. Additionally, our Chief Compliance Officer oversees investigations pertaining to fraud, conflicts of interest, violations of laws, and other similar matters, and reports on those activities to one or more Committees of the Board. All of these channels to the Board are designed to prevent risks and initiatives from being siloed into one channel and provide a clear and accurate picture of the Company’s evolving risk landscape.
Business Ethics and Integrity. Our Code of Conduct sets forth standards designed to uphold our values and foster integrity in our relationships with one another and our valued stakeholders. Our Code of Conduct is available at https://www.ncratleos.com/corporate-governance-docs/ncr-atleos_atleos-code-of-conduct.pdf.
Everyone at Atleos is required to annually take our Code of Conduct training, available in 13 languages. Training is updated annually, taking into account the recent compliance matters and the Company’s compliance risk profile. Our Ethics and Compliance Team is responsible for managing the Company’s adherence to the Code of Conduct. In 2024, 100% of active Atleos employees and each member of the Board of Directors completed our annual Code of Conduct training.
Data Protection, Privacy and Security. Atleos’ data protection, cybersecurity, and privacy program initiatives receive oversight from the Audit Committee, as well as from several members of our Executive Leadership Team including the Chief Operating Officer, General Counsel, and Chief Information & Technology Officer. Atleos’ Chief Information & Technology Officer, Chief Information Security Officer (“CISO”) and Chief Privacy Officer are responsible for management of these programs. Additional support is provided by our Chief Risk Officer and our Chief Compliance Officer.
Atleos supports certain privacy protections for those with whom we interact. Under the direction of Atleos’ Chief Privacy Officer, Atleos’ privacy professionals offer advice and guidance on practices such as: complying with privacy laws and regulations; designing solutions with privacy in mind; implementing contracts governing intracompany activities; minimizing the collection of data; providing meaningful notice and choice; and safeguarding information. The privacy program is supported by dedicated privacy attorneys, privacy program managers within the business, and data protection officers in various locations internationally. Many of
these privacy professionals have industry recognized privacy certifications from the International Association of Privacy Professionals.
Under the direction of Atleos’ CISO, the Global Information Security organization is responsible for implementing and maintaining an information security program designed to protect information technology resources and protect the confidentiality and integrity of data gathered on our people, partners, customers, and business assets. Also, we employ various information technology and protection methods designed to promote data security, including firewalls, intrusion prevention systems, denial of service detection, anomaly-based detection, anti-virus/anti-malware, endpoint encryption and detection and response software, Security Information and Event Management system, identity management technology, security analytics, multi-factor authentication and encryption.
To further our commitment to data privacy and cybersecurity:
•Atleos maintains the ISO 27001 certification for certain locations throughout the United States, Europe, and India;
•Third-party audits for PCI-DSS, PA-DSS and SSAE-18 SOC2 are conducted for certain service offerings;
•Atleos maintains an information security awareness and training program. Employees and contingent workers are required to complete training within 30 days of hire, as well as an annual refresher course. Additionally, Atleos performs regular testing designed to educate employees to identify email “phishing” attacks;
•Atleos’ corporate insurance policies include certain information security risk policies that cover network security, privacy and cyber events; and
•Our Atleos Privacy Policy can be found on the Company website for further viewing at https://www.ncratleos.com/privacy.
Environmental Management. We are committed to managing our environmental footprint and protecting the global communities in which we operate. We strive to minimize the environmental impact of our products and operations while also delivering innovative technologies and solutions designed to support businesses and consumers in their efforts to operate responsibly. For example, Atleos uses remote sensing technology to solve customer equipment issues, which reduces the number of maintenance visits and reduces our carbon footprint. We complete the annual CDP climate change questionnaire and evaluate our environmental management progress annually to better understand our areas of opportunity to make a true impact.
Product Innovation and Management. Delivering solutions and services that provide value to our customers in an environmentally responsible way is critical to Atleos’ ongoing success. As such, we strive to develop and recycle our products in a responsible way. One example of how we are already doing this is that certain of our applications, such as Intelligent Deposit and Self-Service Diagnostic Gateway (SSDG), enable our SelfServ ATM customers to better manage an increasing volume of transactions and related maintenance activities - cutting down on costs, fuel and materials required to operate and maintain their ATMs throughout the lifecycle.
Supplier Responsibility. We believe in creating positive change responsibly, and our supplier partners play a critical role in bringing that vision to life. We not only expect high quality products and services from our suppliers, we also expect them to conduct their businesses consistent with our Supplier Code of Conduct. Our Supplier Code of Conduct, available at https://www.ncratleos.com/suppliers/manuals-forms-and-templates, sets forth our expectation that our suppliers will meet ethical standards consistent with Atleos’ Code of Conduct and policies.
As part of our overall ERM approach, our TPRM program is designed to enable proper risk identification and oversight of Atleos’ vendors and includes the following objectives:
•Perform risk-based segmentation and prioritization of all existing and new Atleos vendors
•Perform sanctions screenings on all vendors and ABAC screenings on applicable vendors
•Perform extended due diligence on identified high risk vendors to include responsible sourcing, business continuity, information security, data privacy, and other reviews as applicable
•Perform Financial Risk Assessment on identified high risk vendors
Additionally, we take a risk-based approach to supply chain due diligence. We engage with the majority of our largest suppliers on a quarterly basis to identify potential risk exposure. As part of our supplier partner onboarding process, supplier partners are required to certify compliance with International Electrotechnical Commission 62474 standards. Atleos requires its supplier partners to maintain compliance with the Restriction of Hazardous Substances (RoHS) Directive, Registration, Evaluation, Authorization and Restriction of Chemicals (REACH) Regulation, and other applicable regulations.
Human Capital Resources
On December 31, 2024, Atleos had approximately 20,000 employees worldwide. Given the multinational nature of our business, we monitor our global employment footprint. As of December 31, 2024, our employees by geographic region included approximately: 26% in the Asia Pacific region; 40% in the Europe, Middle East and Africa region; 17% in the Americas, excluding the United States; and 17% in the United States.
Atleos has taken the opportunity to review, revamp and establish the programs necessary to drive a successful future for our employees and our company. Atleos continues to prioritize investment and focus on its human capital resources.
Our progress to date includes:
•Established a university hiring program and welcomed 200 intern and graduate hires in our inaugural year;
•Enhanced various Total Rewards programs, such as short-term incentive plans with common measures that reinforce commitment to operational excellence and align with external commitments;
•Introduced NCR Atleos Core Values;
•Improved strategy-sharing and goal-setting process and resources to more effectively cascade and embed understanding of our strategy throughout the organization, as well as drive accountability;
•Launched training and development resources via Linkedin Learning and NCRA U (NCR Atleos University);
•Enhanced performance lifecycle by incorporating mid-year reviews and mandatory self-assessments to better manage, engage and reward our employees;
•Creation of our Site Leader Alliance to enhance multi-site collaboration and sharing of employee engagement opportunities and best practices, driving engagement at the regional and site levels;
•Deployed Front-line Leadership program for increased development opportunity at the manager/senior manager level;
•Simplified job profiles to create better line of sight for career paths and improve overall organizational health; and
•Piloted an enhanced onboarding experience that drives a more engaging employee experience and better sets employees up for success.
Our current roadmap for future programs to invest in our people includes:
•Up and right-skilling talent in support of our ‘prioritize service’ focus;
•Reinforce and build upon our company culture, employee engagement, and employee value proposition;
•Continue to expand internal talent development programs and opportunities to enhance engagement and retention;
•Further embed our core values of accountability, collaboration, and innovation within the employee experience;
•Enhancing our Business Resource Group program to support inclusion, boost engagement and increase development and networking opportunities;
•Expand university, military, and related programs to attract, hire, and grow diverse talent; and
•Embrace simplicity by investing in our people, platforms and processes.
Government Regulations
We are subject to a variety of evolving government laws and regulations, including those related to environmental protection, in the various jurisdictions in which we operate or our products are sold, or where our offerings are used, including, for example, privacy and data protection laws, regulations and directives, and anti-corruption laws such as the United States Foreign Corrupt Practices Act and the United Kingdom Bribery Act. In addition, though not material to our business taken as a whole, certain parts of our operating segments are subject to industry-specific laws and regulations. For example, the ATM business is subject to the Electronic Fund Transfer Act which governs the rights, obligations and liabilities of participants in Electronic Fund Transfer Systems (including ATMs); portions of our payments-related business are subject to or contractually obligated to comply with certain anti-money laundering laws and regulations such as the Bank Secrecy Act and their international counterparts; portions of certain businesses are customer-facing and may be subject to certain consumer protection requirements such as oversight by the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (“CFPB”) and Federal Trade Commission (“FTC”) and similar state or foreign agencies in the jurisdictions where they operate; and portions of certain businesses are subject to a number of foreign, federal and state licensing requirements including money transmission, money services and virtual currency, which may be subject to regulatory changes in the future in the jurisdictions where they operate.
Our LibertyX business is subject to specific government laws and regulations. As a Bitcoin reseller, the LibertyX business must obtain money transmitter licenses in those states that have deemed the direct sale of Bitcoin to be “money transmission” in their state money transmitter regulations. Additionally, we must obtain a virtual currency license in New York and Louisiana because those states have developed a specific license requirement for companies that engage in virtual currency business activity. While we have wound down the LibertyPay business operations, we continue to maintain its associated money transmitter licenses. These licenses may be used in the future to support other Company initiatives that may require such licensure. While we believe that the Company has obtained the licenses necessary for its businesses to operate lawfully in the jurisdictions in which it operates, it is possible that jurisdictions may require new or modified licenses due to evolving regulation in this space. As a money service business, LibertyX must register with Financial Crimes Enforcement Network and comply with AML regulations, including the Bank Secrecy Act, the USA Patriot Act, and Office of Foreign Assets Control (“OFAC”) regulations. The business is required to maintain customer identification and transaction monitoring programs, including, but not limited to, collection and verification of know your customer information, OFAC and politically exposed person screening, customer due diligence/enhanced due diligence processes, and currency transaction records and suspicious activity filings. LibertyX must also comply with the consumer protection regulations under 12 CFR Part 1005 (Regulation E). We monitor the evolving regulatory environment closely, because it could
result in changes to our businesses. For example, states may enact legislation relating to virtual currency kiosks that could limit our ability to operate.
Although we do not currently expect that compliance with government laws and regulations, including environmental regulations and those designated to address climate risk, will have a material effect on the capital expenditures, cash flow, financial condition, earnings and competitive position of the Company or its segments, it is possible that such compliance could have a material adverse impact on our capital expenditures, cash flow, financial condition, earnings or competitive position, including, but, not limited to, as our Self-Service Banking, Network or T&T businesses grow or change. Further, while we do not currently expect to incur material capital expenditures related to compliance with such laws and regulations, it is possible that environmental matters will lead to a material adverse impact on our capital expenditures, earnings or competitive position. A detailed discussion of the current estimated impacts of compliance relating to environmental regulations, particularly the Kalamazoo River matter, is reported in Item 8 of Part II of this Report as part of Note 10, “Commitments and Contingencies”, of the Notes to Consolidated Financial Statements and is incorporated here by reference. Further information regarding the potential impact of compliance with governmental laws and regulations is also included in Item 1A of this Report and is also incorporated here by reference.
Information about our Executive Officers
The Executive Officers of Atleos (as of March 3, 2025) are as follows:
Name Age Position and Offices Held
Timothy C. Oliver 56 President and Chief Executive Officer
Andrew Wamser 51 Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer
Stuart Mackinnon 53 Executive Vice President and Chief Operating Officer
Andrea Burson 46 Executive Vice President and Chief Human Resources Officer
Ricardo J. Nuñez 60 Executive Vice President, General Counsel, Chief Compliance Officer and Secretary
Andrew R. Duvall 47 Chief Accounting Officer
Set forth below is a description of the background of each of the Executive Officers.
Timothy (Tim) C. Oliver is the President and Chief Executive Officer of Atleos, a position he has held since October 16, 2023. Most recently, Tim served as Chief Financial Officer for NCR, from July 13, 2020 to October 16, 2023, and was responsible for all aspects of its financial stewardship, compliance and balance sheet management, working with the investor community and partnering with the business units to ensure customer success and profitability. Mr. Oliver served as President and Chief Financial Officer of Spring Window Fashions, LLC, a consumer goods company, and a member of the company’s leadership team from 2019 to July of 2020. In this role he focused on, among other things, aligning the company’s business portfolio and growth initiatives with its finance strategy. From 2011 to 2019, he served as Chief Financial Officer of the Goldstein Group Inc. (GGI), a privately held conglomerate, and President and Chief Financial Officer of its subsidiary, Alter Trading Corporation (Alter), a privately held metal recycler and broker company. Mr. Oliver also served as President during the last three months in his role at Alter. Before joining GGI and Alter, he was the Senior Vice President and Chief Financial Officer of MEMC Electronic Materials, Inc., a publicly held technology company (now SunEdison, Inc.), from 2009 to 2011, and Senior Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer of Metavante Technologies, Inc., a publicly held bank technology processing company, from 2007 to 2009. He also previously served as Vice President and Treasurer of Rockwell Automation, Inc. (Rockwell Automation), an industrial automation and digital transformation company, from 2005 to 2007. Before joining Rockwell Automation, he was Vice President for Investor Relations and Financial Planning at Raytheon Company. Mr. Oliver became a director of Atleos on October 16, 2023.
Andrew Wamser is the Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer for Atleos, a position he has held since January 27, 2025. Prior to joining Atleos, Mr. Wamser served as Senior Vice President and Chief Financial Officer of BlueLinx Holdings Inc., a wholesale distributor of building and industrial products, from July 2023 to January 2025. From February 2018 to April 2023, Mr. Wamser served as Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer of Mativ Holdings, a global specialty materials company, where he was responsible for financial planning and analysis, tax, treasury, accounting, investor relations, and strategy / M&A. From August 2014 to January 2018, Mr. Wamser served as Vice President, Finance, Treasurer and Investor Relations, at AutoNation, Inc. Earlier in his career, Mr. Wamser held investment banking roles at Barclays Capital and at UBS, where he was a Managing Director that supported clients in the Global Industrials Group. Mr. Wamser has a Master of Business Administration from Washington University in St. Louis and Bachelor of Arts from Miami University (Ohio).
Stuart Mackinnon is the Executive Vice President and Chief Operating Officer of Atleos, a position he has held since October 16, 2023. Most recently, Mr. Mackinnon served as the Executive Vice President of Network Global Technology of NCR, a role he held from August 2021 to October 16, 2023. As Executive Vice President of Network Global Technology of NCR, Mr. Mackinnon was responsible for the strategy and implementation of NCR’s global ATM technology and operations, including ensuring around-the-
clock operational status, performance monitoring, cash management, technical and call center support, and field operations. He was directly responsible for developing innovative technology solutions with a focus on efficiency and service. Before joining NCR in June 2021 in connection with the acquisition of Cardtronics plc (“Cardtronics”), Mr. Mackinnon served as Executive Vice President of Technology and Chief Information Officer at Cardtronics, in which position he continued to serve through August 2021. He joined Cardtronics after the company acquired Columbus Data Services, the largest ATM processor in North America, where he held the position of President for five years. Mr. Mackinnon has also held senior technology roles at Threshold Financial Technologies and Choice Hotels in Canada.
Andrea Burson is the Executive Vice President and Chief Human Resources Officer of Atleos, a position she has held since January 27, 2025. Previously, she was the acting Chief Human Resources Officer from July 2024 to January 2025. In her position, Ms. Burson oversees all aspects of human resources, including talent acquisition and development, compensation and benefits programs, and employee and labor relations. Ms. Burson has held several HR leadership roles at Atleos and NCR, including Vice President of Global Talent Acquisition and Global Executive HR Business Partner for various functions, including sales, product, professional services, and customer support. She joined NCR in June 2021 following its acquisition of Cardtronics, where she was Vice President of Human Resources. During her 10 years in progressive leadership roles at Cardtronics, she was instrumental in driving HR strategy in alignment with corporate objectives. Her experience extends to positions at Dassault Systèmes and Maersk Inc. Ms. Burson holds a Bachelor of Science degree from the University of Florida and is industry-certified as a Professional in Human Resources (PHR) and SHRM-Certified Professional (SHRM-CP).
Ricardo J. Nuñez is the Executive Vice President, General Counsel, Secretary and Chief Compliance Officer of Atleos, a position he has held since October 16, 2023. Mr. Nunez was hired by NCR pre-separation on September 18, 2023. From 2016 to 2023, Mr. Nuñez served as Chief Legal Officer, Chief Compliance Officer and Corporate Secretary of Mativ Holdings, Inc. (formerly SWM International, Inc.), a global specialty materials company where he was responsible for the legal, risk and internal audit functions. From 2007 to 2015, Mr. Nunez served as General Counsel, Corporate Secretary and Chief Compliance Officer of HD Supply, Inc., a spin-off from The Home Depot, where he co-led the subsequent initial public offering. From 2005-2007, Mr. Nunez served as Vice President, Legal of The Home Depot. From 1996 - 2005 Mr. Nunez served in positions of increasing responsibility at General Electric Company and began his legal career in private practice at Steel Hector & Davis (now Squire Patton & Boggs). Mr. Nunez received a Bachelor of Science in Economics from The Wharton School of Business and his Juris Doctor from Columbia University School of Law.
Andrew R. DuVall is the Chief Accounting Officer of Atleos, a position he has held since October 16, 2023. Prior to the separation of Atleos from NCR on October 16, 2023, he served as the Vice President, Assistant Controller, of NCR from June of 2021 through September of 2023. From 2019 to 2021 he was the Executive Director of Financial Planning and Analysis for the Banking Software Business. Mr. Duvall joined NCR in 2012 and held various roles including the Corporate Revenue Controller and Americas Region Controller. Mr. Duvall began his career at PricewaterhouseCoopers (“PwC”) and spent 12 years in various positions on software and technology clients including 3 years as a Senior Manager on PwC’s largest client in Finland. He completed his undergraduate studies at Mercer University and graduated with his Master in Accountancy from USC Marshall School of Business. He is a registered Certified Public Accountant (CPA) in the State of Georgia.
Available Information
Atleos makes available through its website at http://investor.ncratleos.com, free of charge, the reports it files with the Securities and Exchange Commission (the “SEC”), including its Annual Report on Form 10-K, Quarterly Reports on Form 10-Q, definitive proxy statements on Schedule 14A and Current Reports on Form 8-K, and all amendments to such reports and schedules, as soon as reasonably practicable after these reports are electronically filed or furnished to the SEC pursuant to Section 13(a) or 15(d) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 (the “Exchange Act”). The SEC also maintains a website (http://www.sec.gov) that contains the reports, proxy statements and information statements, and other information regarding issuers that file or furnish electronically with the SEC. Atleos will furnish, without charge to a security holder upon written request, the Notice of Meeting and Proxy Statement for the 2025 Annual Meeting of Stockholders (the 2025 Proxy Statement), portions of which are incorporated herein by reference. Atleos also will furnish its Code of Conduct at no cost and any other exhibit at cost. Document requests are available by calling or writing to:
NCR Atleos-Investor Relations
864 Spring Street NW
Atlanta, GA 30308
Phone: 832-308-4999
E-Mail: investor.relations@ncratleos.com
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Atleos’ website, www.ncratleos.com, contains a significant amount of information about Atleos, including financial and other information for investors. Atleos encourages investors to visit its website regularly, as information may be updated and new information may be posted at any time. The contents of Atleos’ website are not incorporated by reference into this Form 10-K and shall not be deemed “filed” under the Exchange Act.

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ITEM 1A. RISK FACTORS
Item 1A. RISK FACTORS
The risks and uncertainties described below could materially and adversely impact our business, financial condition, results of operations, could cause actual results to differ materially from our expectations and projections, and could cause the market value of our stock to decline. You should consider these risk factors when evaluating us and our common stock and when reading the rest of this Annual Report on Form 10-K, including the sections entitled “Business” and “Management’s Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations” and our financial statements and related notes included elsewhere in this document. These risk factors may not include all of the important factors that could affect our business or our industry or that could cause our future financial results to differ materially from historic or expected results or cause the market price of our common stock to fluctuate or decline. Additional risks and uncertainties not currently known to us or that we currently believe are immaterial also may impair our business, including our results of operations, liquidity and financial condition.
RISK FACTOR SUMMARY
The following is a summary of the risks and uncertainties that could materially and adversely affect our business, financial condition, and results of operations. You should read this summary together with the more detailed description of each risk factor contained below.
Risks Associated with our Strategy & Technology
•If we are unsuccessful in growing our business, our results could be negatively impacted.
•If we do not develop and introduce new solutions in the competitive, rapidly changing environment in which we do business, our business results may be impacted.
•If we do not compete effectively within the technology industry, we will not be successful.
•If we do not successfully integrate acquisitions or effectively manage alliance activities, we may not drive future growth.
•Our multinational operations, including in new and emerging markets, expose us to business and legal risks.
Risks Associated with our Business Operations
•Our business may be adversely impacted by domestic and global economic and credit conditions.
•Tariffs and other trade measures could adversely affect our results of operations, financial position and cash flows.
•We are subject to significant risks and uncertainties from the payments-related business and industry.
•We maintain a significant amount of vault cash, which is necessary to operate our business, involves risk of loss and is subject to cost fluctuations based on interest rate movements.
•If we do not retain key employees, or attract quality new and replacement employees, we may not meet our business objectives.
•Defects, errors, installation difficulties or development delays could negatively impact our business.
•If third party suppliers upon which we rely are not able to fulfill our needs, our ability to timely bring products to market could be affected.
•A major natural disaster or catastrophic event could have a materially adverse effect on our business.
•Our historical and ongoing manufacturing activities subject us to environmental exposures.
•Climate change could negatively impact our business long-term.
•Data protection, cybersecurity and data privacy issues could adversely impact our business.
Risks Associated with our Finance & Accounting
•The degree to which we are leveraged may materially and adversely impact our business, financial condition and results of operations.
•The terms of the documents governing our indebtedness include financial and other covenants that could restrict or limit our financial and business operations.
•Despite our current levels of debt, we may still incur substantially more debt, including secured debt, and similar liabilities, which would increase the risks described in these risk factors relating to indebtedness.
•If we are unable to continue to access or renew financing sources and obtain capital, our ability to maintain and grow our business may be adversely impaired.
•Our cash flows may be insufficient to service our indebtedness, and if we are unable to satisfy our obligations, we may be required to seek other financing alternatives, which may not be successful.
•The agreements governing certain of our indebtedness provide that our borrowings will bear interest at a variable rate which subjects us to interest rate risk.
•The terms governing our trade receivables facility, and obligations to remit collections on the sold receivables, could restrict or otherwise limit our financial and business operations.
•A lowering or withdrawal of the ratings assigned to our debt securities by rating agencies may increase our future capital costs and reduce our access to capital.
•Our pension liabilities could adversely impact our liquidity and financial condition.
•We may be required to write down the value of certain significant assets, adversely impacting our operating results.
Risks Associated with Law & Compliance
•Failure to protect intellectual property may have an adverse effect on our business.
•Changes to our tax rates and additional income tax liabilities could impact profitability.
•We face uncertainties with regard to regulations, lawsuits and other related matters.
•Changes to cryptocurrency regulations could impact profitability.
Risks Associated with the Spin-Off
•If Atleos is unable to satisfy the requirements of Section 404 of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act, or its internal control over financial reporting is not effective, the reliability of Atleos’ financial statements may be questioned and Atleos’ stock price may suffer.
•Voyix may fail to perform under various transaction agreements that were executed as a part of the spin-off or Atleos may fail to have necessary systems and services in place when Voyix is no longer obligated to provide services under the various agreements.
•Under applicable tax law, Atleos may be liable for certain tax liabilities of Voyix following the spin-off if Voyix were to fail to pay such taxes.
•In connection with the spin-off, Voyix has and will indemnify Atleos for certain liabilities. However, there can be no assurance that the indemnity will be sufficient to insure Atleos against the full amount of such liabilities, or that Voyix’s ability to satisfy its indemnification obligation will not be impaired in the future.
•In connection with our separation, Atleos has and will assume, and indemnify Voyix for, certain liabilities. If we are required to make payments pursuant to these indemnities to Voyix, we would need to meet those obligations and our financial results could be adversely impacted.
•If the distribution of shares of Atleos, together with certain related transactions, does not qualify as a reorganization within the meaning of sections 368(a)(1)(D) and 355 of the IRS Code that is generally tax-free for U.S. federal income tax purposes, you and Voyix could be subject to significant U.S. federal income tax liability and, in certain circumstances, Atleos could be required to indemnify Voyix for material taxes pursuant to indemnification obligations under the tax matters agreement.
•To preserve the tax-free treatment to Voyix and its stockholders of the distribution and certain related transactions, under the tax matters agreement, Atleos is restricted from taking certain actions after the distribution that could adversely impact the intended U.S. federal income tax treatment of the distribution and such related transactions.
•The spin-off and related internal restructuring transactions may expose Atleos to potential liabilities arising out of state and federal fraudulent conveyance laws and legal dividend requirements.
•Certain of Atleos’ executive officers and directors may have actual or potential conflicts of interest because of their previous positions at NCR.
•Some contracts and other assets transferred or assigned from NCR or its affiliates to Atleos in connection with Atleos’ spin-off from NCR may require the consent of a third party. If such consent is not given, Atleos may not be entitled to the benefit of such contracts and other assets in the future, which could adversely impact Atleos’ financial condition and future results of operations.
Risks Associated with Atleos Common Stock
•Atleos’ stock price may fluctuate significantly.
•Any sales of substantial amounts of shares of Atleos common stock in the public market or the perception that such sales might occur, may cause the market price of Atleos common stock to decline.
•Atleos cannot guarantee the timing, amount or payment of dividends on its common stock.
•Your percentage of ownership in Atleos may be diluted in the future.
•Certain provisions in Atleos’ charter and bylaws, and of Maryland law, may prevent or delay an acquisition of Atleos, which could decrease the trading price of the common stock.
•Atleos’ bylaws contains an exclusive forum provision that could limit a stockholder’s ability to bring a claim in a judicial forum that the stockholder believes is favorable for such disputes and may discourage lawsuits against Atleos and any of our directors, officers or other employees.
•We may be subject to actions or proposals from stockholders that do not align with our business strategies or the interests of our other stockholders.
STRATEGY AND TECHNOLOGY
If we are unsuccessful in growing our business, our operating results could be adversely impacted.
In recent years, we have shifted our business model to become a software- and services-led enterprise provider, focusing on increased software and services revenue, as well as recurring revenue, to enable Atleos to become an as-a-Service company. Activating our strategy to create ATM as a Service could adversely impact our revenue and margin as we shift toward increasing recurring revenue. We expect to continue to spend and may increase our capital expenditures to support our shift to ATM as a
Service with the focus on our strategic growth platforms, which are the offerings with the highest growth potential to accelerate the shift. Our success depends on the return on investment generated from the capital expenditures and our ability to continue to execute these strategies, while improving the Company’s cost structure. Successful execution of our strategy and the businesses associated with the strategic growth platforms depends on a number of different factors including, among others, developing, deploying and supporting the next generation of digital first software and cloud solutions for the industries we serve; market acceptance of our new and existing software and cloud solutions; successfully expanding the payment processing market; enabling our sales force to use a consultative selling model that better incorporates our comprehensive and new solutions; improving our service performance, capabilities and coverage to improve efficiency, incorporate remote diagnostic and other technologies and align with and support our new solutions; managing professional services and other costs associated with large solution roll-outs; and integrating, developing and supporting software gained through acquisitions. In addition, we continue to pursue initiatives to expand our customer base by increasing our use of indirect sales channels, and by developing, marketing and selling solutions aimed at the small- to medium-business market. It is not yet certain whether these initiatives will yield the anticipated benefits, or whether our solutions will be compelling and attractive to small- and medium-sized businesses. If we are not successful in growing software and services and expanding our customer base at the rate that we anticipate, implementing and managing these various initiatives and minimizing any resulting loss in productivity, or if the costs to complete these initiatives is higher than anticipated, we may not meet our growth and gross margin projections or expectations, and operating results could be adversely impacted.
If we do not develop and introduce new solutions in the competitive, rapidly changing environment in which we do business, our business results may be impacted.
The development process for our solutions requires high levels of innovation from our product development teams and suppliers of the components embedded or incorporated in our solutions. We expect to continue to spend and may increase our capital expenditures and allocate these expenditures primarily to our strategic growth platforms. In addition, certain of our solutions, including our cloud solutions, may require us to build, lease or expand, and maintain, infrastructure (such as hosting centers) to support them. The development process can be lengthy and costly, and requires us to commit a significant amount of resources to bring our business solutions to market. In addition, our success may be impacted by safety and security technology and industry standards. We may not be able to anticipate our customers’ needs and technological and industry trends accurately, or to complete development of new solutions efficiently, including with respect to rapid technological developments and innovations in artificial intelligence. In addition, contract terms, market conditions or customer preferences may affect our ability to limit, sunset or end-of-life our older products in a timely or cost-effective fashion. New regulations could also negatively impact our ability to develop and introduce new solutions. The global regulatory landscape is constantly evolving, with numerous new regulations issued annually. New regulations, including those related to artificial intelligence, could lead to longer new product development cycle times or cause rework which would delay product launches and lead to increased product development and manufacturing costs. If any of these risks materialize, we may be unable to introduce new solutions into the market on a timely basis, if at all, and our business and operating results could be materially impacted. Likewise, we sometimes make assurances to customers regarding the operability and specifications of new technologies, and our results could be impacted if we are unable to deliver such technologies, or if such technologies do not perform as planned. Once we have developed new solutions, if we cannot successfully market and sell those solutions, our business and operating results could be adversely impacted.
If we do not compete effectively within the technology industry, we will not be successful.
We operate in the intensely competitive technology industry. This industry is characterized by rapidly changing technology, disruptive technological innovation, evolving industry standards, frequent new product introductions, price and cost reductions, and increasingly greater commoditization of products making differentiation difficult. Our competitors include other large companies in the information technology industry, as well as, independent ATM companies and financial institutions, such as Fidelity National Information Services Inc., Fiserv, Inc., Visa Inc., Mastercard Inc., Infosys Ltd., Diebold Nixdorf, Inc., Hyosung TNS Inc., and ACI Worldwide, Inc., many of which have more financial and technical resources, or more widespread distribution and market penetration for their platforms and service offerings, than we do.
Our competitors could prevent us from obtaining or maintaining desirable locations for our ATMs, cause us to reduce the revenue generated by transactions at our ATMs, or cause us to pay higher merchant fees, thereby reducing our profits. In addition to our current competitors, new and less traditional competitors may enter the market. Vertically integrated competitors, such as expanded product and service offerings by cash-in-transit providers, may offer comprehensive bundled product and service offerings, or we may face additional competition associated with the creation, integration, and consolidation of competitors through transactions as well as the introduction of alternative payment mechanisms, such as Venmo, Zelle, Square’s Cash App, Facebook Messenger Payments, Apple Pay, virtual currencies such as Bitcoin and other emerging payment technology. Increased competition could result in reduced usage of our ATMs, transaction fee reductions, reduced gross margins, and loss of market share. In addition, our customers sometimes finance our product sales through third-party financing companies, and in the case of customer default, these financing companies may be forced to resell the equipment at discounted prices, competing with us and impacting our ability to sell incremental units. As a result, the failure to effectively adapt our organization, products, and services to the market, the entrance of new competitors into the market, or the innovation or growth of existing competitors could significantly reduce market share of our
offerings, decrease demand for our solutions, significantly reduce our revenue, increase our operating costs, or otherwise adversely impact our business, operations, cash flows, operating profits and financial conditions.
Our future competitive performance and market position depend on a number of factors, including our ability to:
•execute our ATM as a Service strategy to grow our software and services revenue, as well as our recurring revenue;
•improve margin expansion while successfully reacting to competitive product and pricing pressures;
•mitigate increases in labor costs, component parts, freight, services and interest rates with price increases;
•penetrate and meet the changing competitive requirements and deliverables in developing and emerging markets;
•retain our existing key customers and add new customer relationships;
•cross-sell additional products and service to our existing customer base;
•rapidly and continually design, develop and market, to otherwise maintain and introduce innovative solutions and related products and services for our customers that are competitive in the marketplace;
•react on a timely basis to shifts in market demands and technological innovations, including shifts toward the desire of banks to provide digital-first experience to their customers in transactions and payments.
•reduce costs, including the capital costs of financing ATM deployments and the cash costs of filling them with bailment cash, without creating operating inefficiencies or impairing product or service quality;
•maintain competitive operating margins;
•improve product and service delivery quality; and
•effectively market and sell all of our solutions.
If we do not successfully integrate acquisitions or effectively manage alliance activities, we may not drive future growth.
As part of our overall solutions strategy, we have made, and intend to continue to make, investments in companies, solutions, services and technologies, either through acquisitions, investments, joint ventures or strategic alliances. These activities allow us to further our company strategy and provide us access to new technology or solutions that expand our offerings. Acquisitions and alliance activities inherently involve risks. The risks we may encounter include those associated with:
•disruption to our business and the continued successful execution of our company strategy, goals and responsibilities, including but not limited to disruption of the Company’s growth, its ongoing shift to software and services, the work to increase recurring revenue and Adjusted free cash flow-unrestricted, and growth of our ATM as a Service model;
•increased capital and research and development expenses and resource allocation;
•assimilation and integration of different business operations, corporate cultures, personnel, infrastructures (such as data centers) and technologies or solutions acquired or licensed, while maintaining quality, and designing and implementing appropriate risk management measures;
•retention of key employees and talent associated with the acquired or combined business;
•the incurrence of significant transaction fees and costs;
•the potential for unknown liabilities within the acquired or combined business that we may not become aware of until after the completion of the acquisition; and
•the possibility of conflict with joint venture or alliance partners regarding strategic direction, prioritization of objectives and goals, governance matters or operations.
There is risk that the integration, new technology or solutions, including, but not limited to expanded payment processing and entry into ATM as a Service, may not perform as anticipated, may take longer than anticipated and may not meet estimated growth projections or expectations, or investment recipients may not successfully execute their business plans. Further, we may not achieve the projected efficiencies and synergies once we have integrated the business into our operations, which may lead to the impairment or write down of assets, and other additional costs not anticipated at the time of acquisition. In the event that these risks materialize, we may not be able to fully realize the benefit of our investments, and our operating results could be adversely impacted.
Our multinational operations, including in new and emerging markets, expose us to business and legal risks.
For the years ended December 31, 2024, 2023, and 2022, the percentage of our revenue from outside of the United States was 55%, and we expect our percentage of revenue generated outside the United States to continue to be significant. In addition, we continue to seek to further penetrate existing international markets, and to identify opportunities to enter into or expand our presence in developing and emerging markets. While we believe that our geographic diversity may help to mitigate some risks associated with geographic concentrations of operations, our ability to sell our solutions and manufacture internationally, including in new and emerging markets, is subject to risks, which include, among others:
•the impact of ongoing and future economic and credit conditions on the stability of national and regional economies and industries within those economies;
•political conditions and local regulations that could adversely impact demand for our solutions, our ability to access funds and resources, or our ability to sell products in these markets;
•disruptions in transportation and shipping infrastructure;
•the impact of natural disasters, catastrophic events, civil unrest, war and terrorist activity on supply chains, the economy or markets in general, or on our ability, or that of our suppliers, to meet commitments and, otherwise, continue to conduct our business in certain countries;
•the impact of a downturn in the global economy, or in regional economies, on demand for our products;
•competitive labor markets and increasing wages in markets that we operate in;
•currency exchange rate fluctuations that could result in lower demand for our products as well as generate currency translation losses;
•limited availability of local currencies to pay vendors, employees and third parties and to distribute funds outside of the country;
•changes to global or regional trade agreements that could limit our ability to sell products in these markets;
•the imposition of import or export tariffs, taxes, trade policies or import and export controls that could increase the expense of, or limit demand for our products;
•changes to and compliance with a variety of laws and regulations that may increase our cost of doing business or otherwise prevent us from effectively competing internationally;
•government uncertainty or limitations on the ability to enforce legal rights and remedies, including as a result of new, or changes to, laws and regulations;
•intellectual property rights of third parties, and our intellectual property rights and scope of protection afforded by it in different countries;
•implementing and managing systems, procedures and controls to monitor our operations in foreign markets;
•changing competitive requirements and deliverables in developing and emerging markets;
•longer collection cycles and the financial viability and reliability of contracting partners and customers; and
•managing a geographically dispersed workforce, work stoppages and other labor conditions or issues.
In addition, as a result of our revenue generated outside of the United States, the amount of cash and cash equivalents that is held by our foreign subsidiaries continues to be significant. After the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act of 2017, in general we will not be subject to additional United States taxes if cash and cash equivalents and short-term investments held outside the United States are distributed to the United States in the form of dividends or otherwise. However, we may be subject to foreign withholding taxes, which could be significant.
BUSINESS OPERATIONS
Our business may be adversely impacted by domestic and global economic and credit conditions.
Our business is sensitive to the strength of domestic and global economic and credit conditions, particularly as they affect, either directly or indirectly, the financial sector of the economy. Economic and credit conditions are influenced by a number of factors, including political conditions, consumer confidence, unemployment levels, interest rates, tax rates, commodity prices and government actions to stimulate economic growth. The imposition or threat of protectionist trade policies or import or export tariffs, global and regional market conditions and spending trends in the financial and payment industries, new tax legislation across multiple jurisdictions, modified or new global or regional trade agreements, uncertainty over further potential changes in Eurozone participation and fluctuations in oil and commodity prices, among other things, have created a challenging and unpredictable environment in which to market the products and services of our various businesses across our different geographies and industries. A negative or unpredictable economic climate could create uncertainty or financial pressures that impact the ability or willingness of our customers to make capital expenditures, thereby affecting their decision to purchase or roll out our products or services or, especially with respect to smaller customers, to pay accounts receivable owed to Atleos. Additionally, if customers respond to a negative or unpredictable economic climate by consolidation, it could reduce our base of potential customers. Negative or unpredictable global economic conditions also may have an adverse effect on our customers’ ability to obtain financing for the purchase of our products and services from third-party financing companies or on the number of payment processing transactions which could adversely impact our operating results.
The bank failures, such as those in 2023 and 2024, in addition to other global macroeconomic conditions, have from time to time caused a degree of uncertainty in the investor community and among bank customers, and could significantly impact the national, regional and local banking industry and the global business environment in which Atleos operates. The Company does not believe that the circumstances of these bank failures are indicators of broader issues within the banking system. However, if there is a severe or prolonged economic downturn, it could result in a variety of risks to our business, including driving banking customers to tighten budgets and curtail spending, which would negatively impact our sales and business.
Tariffs and other trade measures could adversely affect our results of operations, financial position and cash flows.
Our material input costs are adversely affected by tariffs imposed by the U.S. government on products imported into the United States and by trade restrictions imposed on business dealings with particular entities and/or individuals. Further trade restrictions,
retaliatory trade measures and additional tariffs could result in higher input costs for our products, disrupt our supply chain and logistics, cause adverse financial impacts due to volatility in foreign exchange rates and interest rates, inflationary pressures on raw materials and energy, and heighten cybersecurity threats and other restrictions. We may not be able to fully mitigate the impact of these increased costs or pass price increases on to our customers. We cannot predict future developments, and such existing or future tariffs could have a material adverse effect on our results of operations, financial position and cash flows.
We are subject to certain significant risks and uncertainties from the payments-related business and industry, including the loss of revenue from decreased usage of our ATMs by users for their financial transactions or changes in the fees charged in connection with such transactions.
As a part of our overall strategy related to our payments-related business we may be subject to the following risks:
The proliferation of payment options and increasingly frictionless methods of payment other than cash, including credit cards, debit cards, stored-value debit cards, contactless, and mobile payments options, could result in a reduced need for cash in the marketplace and a resulting decline in the usage of our ATMs. The continued growth in electronic payment methods, such as mobile phone payments, contactless payments and card only self-service order and payment terminals could result in a reduced need for cash in the marketplace and ultimately, a decline in the usage of ATMs. Payment technologies, such as Venmo, Zelle, Square’s Cash App, Facebook Messenger Payments, Apple Pay, virtual currencies such as Bitcoin or other new payment method preferences by consumers could reduce the general population’s need or demand for cash and adversely impact our ATM transaction volumes in the future.
Atleos derives a significant portion of its revenues from ATM and financial services transaction fees, which could be reduced by a decline in the usage of ATMs, the ability to charge cardholders fees to use ATMs and the level of transaction fees received, or a decline in the number of ATMs that are operated by us, whether as a result of changes in consumer spending preferences, global economic conditions, or otherwise. Additionally, should banks or other ATM operators decrease or eliminate the fees they charge to users of their ATMs or otherwise offer free access to their networks, such action would make transactions at our ATMs comparatively more expensive to consumers and could adversely impact transaction volumes and revenue.
The majority of the electronic debit networks over which transactions are conducted require sponsorship by a bank, and the loss of any sponsors and/or the inability to find a replacement may cause disruptions to our operations. In each of the geographic markets, bank sponsorship is required in order to process transactions over certain networks. In all of the markets we serve, ATMs are connected to financial transaction switching networks operated by organizations such as Visa and MasterCard. The rules governing these switching networks require any company sending transactions through these networks to be a bank or a technical service processor that is approved and monitored by a bank. As a result, the operation of the ATM network in all of the markets we serve depends on the ability to secure these “sponsor” arrangements with financial institutions.
Non-compliance with established Electronic Funds Transfer (“EFT”) network rules and regulations could expose Atleos to fines, penalties or other liabilities and could adversely impact results of operations. Additionally, new EFT network rules and regulations could require significant amounts of capital to remain in compliance with such rules and regulations. Transactions are routed over various EFT networks to obtain authorization for cash disbursements and to provide account balances. These networks primarily include Star, Pulse, NYCE, Cirrus (MasterCard), and Plus (Visa) in the United States, and LINK in the United Kingdom, among other networks. EFT networks set the interchange fees that they charge to the financial institutions, as well as the amounts paid to Atleos. Interchange fees may be lowered in some cases at the discretion of the various EFT networks through which transactions are routed, or through potential regulatory changes, thus reducing future revenues and operating profits. Future changes in interchange rates, some of which we have minimal or no control over, could have a material adverse impact on business operations, cash flows and financial conditions. Additionally, EFT networks, including MasterCard and Visa, establish rules and regulations that ATM providers must comply with in order for member cardholders to use those ATMs. Failure to comply with such rules and regulations could result in penalties and/or fines, which could adversely impact our financial results.
The election by our merchant customers not to participate in the surcharge-free network offerings could impact the effectiveness of those offerings, which would adversely impact our financial results. Financial institutions that are members of the Allpoint network pay a fee in exchange for allowing their cardholders to use selected Atleos-owned, managed and/or participating ATMs on a surcharge-free basis. The success of the Allpoint network is dependent upon the participation by our merchant customers in that network. In the event a significant number of our merchants elect not to participate in the Allpoint network, the benefits and effectiveness of the network would be diminished, thus potentially causing some of the participating financial institutions to not renew their agreements, terminate early, and/or trigger financial penalties, thereby having a negative impact on our business.
Errors or omissions in the settlement of merchant funds or in the vault cash reconciliations could damage relationships with customers and vault cash providers, respectively, and expose Atleos to liability. Atleos is responsible for maintaining accurate bank account information for certain merchant customers, financial institution customers and vault cash providers and accurate settlements of funds into these accounts based on the underlying transaction activity.
We maintain a significant amount of vault cash, which is necessary to operate our business, involves risk of loss and is subject to cost fluctuations based on interest rate movements.
There is a significant amount of vault cash within our ATMs, which is subject to potential loss due to theft, civil unrest or other events, including natural disasters. Any loss of vault cash from our ATMs is generally our responsibility. Third parties are also relied upon in the various regions to provide Atleos with the cash required to operate many of the ATMs. If these third parties were unable or unwilling to provide the necessary cash to operate the ATMs, there would be a need to identify alternative sources of cash to operate the ATMs or we would not be able to operate this business. The willingness of financial institutions to provide vault cash to us depends, in part, on the capital classification given to such cash by regulators, any change to which may increase the cost of the vault cash or disincentivize financial institutions from cash rental products. Our existing vault cash rental agreements expire at various times, however, each provider has the right to demand the return of all or any portion of its cash at any time upon the occurrence of certain events. If our vault cash providers were to demand return of their cash or terminate their arrangements with us and remove their cash from our ATMs, or if they fail to provide us with cash as and when we need it for our operations, our ability to operate our ATMs would be jeopardized, and we would need to locate alternative sources of vault cash or potentially suffer significant downtime of our ATMs or significantly increased costs as a result of more frequent replenishments. In the event this was to happen, the terms and conditions of the new or renewed agreements could potentially be less favorable to us, which would adversely impact our results of operations. Furthermore, restrictions on access to cash to fill our ATMs could severely restrict our ability to keep our ATMs operating and could subject us to performance penalties under our contracts with our customers. A significant reduction in access to the necessary cash to operate our ATMs could have a material adverse impact on our business operations, cash flows and financial conditions.
Our vault cash rental expense is based primarily on floating interest rates. As a result, our vault cash rental costs are sensitive to changes in interest rates. Although we currently hedge a portion of our vault cash interest exposure by using interest rate swaps, we may not be able to enter into similar arrangements for similar amounts in the future. Our currently high rental cash expense and any significant increases in interest rates could have a negative impact on our earnings and cash flow by increasing our operating costs and expenses.
In addition, the cash-in-transit business exposes Atleos to risks beyond those experienced from the ownership and operation of ATMs. The cash-in-transit operation in the United Kingdom delivers cash to and collects residual cash from ATMs in that market. The cash-in-transit business exposes Atleos to significant risks, including the potential for cash-in-transit losses, employee theft, as well as claims for personal injury, wrongful death, worker’s compensation, punitive damages, and general liability. While we maintain insurance coverage, there can be no assurance that our insurance coverage will be adequate to cover potential liabilities related to our cash-in-transit business or that insurance coverage will remain available at costs that are acceptable to us. The availability of quality and reliable insurance coverage is an important factor in our ability to successfully operate this aspect of our operations. A loss claim for which insurance coverage is denied or that is in excess of our insurance coverage could have a material adverse effect on our business, financial condition and results of operations and cash flows.
If we do not retain key employees, or attract quality new and replacement employees, we may not be able to meet our business objectives.
Our employees are vital to our success, including the successful transformation of the Company into a software- and services-led business. Therefore, our ability to retain our key business leaders and our highly skilled software development, technical, sales, consulting and other key personnel, including key personnel of acquired businesses, is critical. Maintaining an inclusive culture and work environment is an important factor in attracting employees and retention. The market for highly skilled workers and leaders in our industry is extremely competitive, and we may need to invest significant amounts of cash and equity to attract and retain new employees. We may never realize returns on these investments. Key employees may decide to leave Atleos for other opportunities or may be unavailable for health or other reasons. Changes of key business leaders could be disruptive to our business or delay the execution of our strategy, and as a result could cause fluctuation in our stock price. In addition, as our business model evolves, we may need to attract employees with different skill sets, experience and attributes to support that evolution. If we are unable to retain our key personnel, or we are unable to attract highly qualified new and replacement employees by offering competitive compensation, secure work environments, and leadership opportunities now and in the future, our business and operating results could be adversely impacted.
Defects, errors, installation difficulties or development delays could expose us to potential liability, harm our reputation and adversely impact our business.
Many of our products are sophisticated and complex and may incorporate third-party hardware and software. Despite testing and quality control, we cannot be certain that defects or errors will not be found in our products. If our products contain undetected defects or errors, or otherwise fail to meet our customers’ expectations, we could face the loss of customers, liability exposure and additional development costs. If defects or errors delay product installation or make it more difficult, we could experience delays in customer acceptance, or if our products require significant amounts of customer support, it could result in incremental costs to us. In
addition, our customers who license and deploy our software may do so in both standard and non-standard configurations in different environments with different computer platforms, system management software and equipment and networking configurations, which may increase the likelihood of technical difficulties. Our products may be integrated with other components or software, and, in the event that there are defects or errors, it may be difficult to determine the origin of such defects or errors. Additionally, damage to, or failure or unavailability of, any significant aspect of our cloud hosting facilities could interrupt the availability of our cloud offerings, which could cause disruption for our customers, and, in turn, their customers, and expose us to liability. If any of these risks materialize, they could result in additional costs and expenses, exposure to liability claims, diversion of technical and other resources to engage in remediation efforts, loss of customers or negative publicity, each of which could adversely impact our business operations, cash flows and financial conditions.
If third-party suppliers upon which we rely are not able to fulfill our needs, our ability to timely bring our products to market could be affected.
There are a number of vendors providing the services and producing the parts and components that we utilize in or in connection with our products. However, there are some services and components that are licensed or purchased from single sources due to price, quality, technology, functionality or other reasons. For example, we depend on transaction processing services from Accenture, computer chips and microprocessors from Intel and operating systems from Microsoft. Certain parts and components used in the manufacturing of our ATMs and the manufacturing process of ATMs themselves are supplied by single sources. In addition, there are a number of key suppliers for our businesses that provide us with critical products for our solutions. If we were unable to secure the necessary services or maintain current demand, including contract manufacturing, parts, software, components or products from a particular vendor, and we had to find an alternative supplier, our new and existing product shipments and solution deliveries, or the provision of contracted services, could be delayed, adversely impacting our business and operating results.
We have, from time to time, formed alliances with third parties that have complementary products, software, services and skills. These alliances represent many different types of relationships, such as outsourcing arrangements to manufacture hardware and subcontract agreements with third parties to perform services and provide products and software to our customers in connection with our solutions. For example, we rely on third parties for cash replenishment services for our ATM products. These alliances introduce risks that we cannot control, such as nonperformance by third parties and difficulties with or delays in integrating elements provided by third parties into our solutions. Lack of information technology infrastructure, shortages in business capitalization, and manual processes and data integrity issues, particularly with smaller suppliers can also create product time delays, inventory and invoicing problems, and staging delays, as well as other operating issues. The failure of third parties to provide high-quality products or services that conform to required specifications or contractual arrangements could impair the delivery of our solutions on a timely basis, create exposure for non-compliance with our contractual commitments to our customers and impact our business and operating results. Also, some of these third parties have access to confidential Atleos and customer data, personal data, and sensitive data, the integrity and security of which are of significant importance to the Company.
A major natural disaster or catastrophic event could have a materially adverse effect on our business, financial condition and results of operations, or have other adverse consequences.
Our business, financial condition, results of operations, access to capital markets and borrowing costs may be adversely impacted by technical or labor difficulties, labor shortages, transportation-related shortages, supply chain constraints, a major natural disaster or catastrophic event, including civil unrest, geopolitical instability, war, terrorist attack, pandemics or other (actual or threatened) public health emergencies, and the conflicts in Ukraine and Middle East and the related global response, or other events beyond our control, and measures taken in response thereto. Our Company and many of our suppliers have faced challenges with workforce safety and availability, labor and wage inflation, a changing workforce, and component availability and supply cost escalations, including materials, labor and freight.
Our historical and ongoing manufacturing activities subject us to environmental exposures.
Our facilities and operations are subject to a wide range of environmental protection laws, and we have investigatory and remedial activities underway at a number of facilities that we currently own or operate, or formerly owned or operated, to comply, or to determine compliance, with such laws. In addition, our products are subject to environmental laws in a number of jurisdictions. Given the uncertainties inherent in such activities, there can be no assurances that the costs required to comply with applicable environmental laws will not impact future operating results. Voyix has also been identified as a potentially responsible party in connection with certain environmental matters, including the Kalamazoo River matter, as discussed further in Note 10, “Commitments and Contingencies”, of Part II, Item 8 of this Form 10-K. Pursuant to the separation and distribution agreement, a portion of the liabilities for these and other environmental matters will be shared between Voyix and Atleos. A potential increase in the liabilities of Voyix with respect to such matters, or any separate finding of liability of Atleos with respect to environmental protection laws, could adversely impact our cash flows and results of operations, and such impacts may be material.
Climate change could adversely impact our business long-term.
Global climate change may have an increasingly adverse impact on Atleos’ business continuity and our ability to keep our employees safe and provide for our customers. Atleos considers potential risks related to weather as part of its operations strategy and has business continuity and disaster recovery plans in place.
However, they may not adequately protect us from serious disasters and adverse impacts. In addition, climate change events could have an impact on critical infrastructure in the United States and internationally, which has the potential to disrupt our business, our third-party suppliers, or the business of our customers and partners. They may also cause us to experience higher losses, attrition and additional costs to maintain or resume operations.
We have operations all over the world and our sites in California, Texas, Florida, and India are particularly vulnerable to climate change effects. The west coast of the United States, and Los Angeles in particular, recently experienced historic wildfires; hurricanes in Texas and Florida led to massive power outages; multiple hurricanes formed over the gulf coast as well as a typhoon in the Philippines; and the Appalachian region suffered historic floods-all of which caused significant destruction to the affected regions. We anticipate that similar weather events will continue to bring significant annual destruction in vulnerable areas. In India, extreme temperatures and increased cyclones’ frequency could interrupt our business continuity arrangements. The long-term effects of climate change could have significant repercussions for the global economy and cause significant financial and physical damages to Atleos.
Climate change is also driving new regulations and customer requirements. Our vehicle fleet is a significant contributor to our overall carbon footprint. Several jurisdictions have set sunset dates for combustion engine vehicles and some customers are asking us to transition our fleet to Electric Vehicles (EVs). However, due to technology and infrastructure constraints, an EV is not suitable for all applications. Additionally, we project that increased use of EVs is likely to lead to increased capital expenditures and higher leasing and insurance costs, or in some cases an inability to obtain insurance due to flood risk from hurricanes and other natural disasters in certain regions.
Heightened demand for low-carbon technology may lead to an insufficient supply of critical minerals, such as copper and lithium which are essential for ATM manufacturing, leading to increased costs, longer production timeline and reduced profitability. Because there is concern about future availability of these materials - due to the transition to a lower carbon economy and potentially reduced availability due to geopolitical tensions - certain jurisdictions are enacting legislation to increase capture and recycling rates. This may result in higher product development costs to redesign components for increase recyclability, as well as end-of-life costs as some jurisdictions prohibit passing on recycling and waste disposal costs to customers.
Europe has implemented a Cross Border Adjustment Mechanism (CBAM) for embodied carbon for certain categories of materials, with the intent to add additional materials in the future. Regulations like CBAM and governmental goals may drive the development of new low-carbon steel and aluminum production processes, like electrolytic hydrogen, which may cause cascading price increases for ATM components, leading to higher supply chain costs and lower profit margins.
Data protection, cybersecurity and data privacy issues could adversely impact our business.
Our products and services, including our cloud and hosted solutions as well as our payments and networking solutions, facilitate financial and other transactions for the customers in the industries we serve. As a result, we collect, use, transmit and store certain of the transaction, Bitcoin, cardholder information, private keys, and personal data of our customers and end-users. We also have access to transaction and personal data of our customers and their customers through or in the course of servicing our products or third-party products. Additionally, we collect, use and store personal data of our employees and the personnel of our business partners, such as resellers, suppliers and contractors, in the ordinary course of business. While we have programs and measures in place designed to protect and safeguard this data, and while we have implemented access controls designed to limit the risk of unauthorized use or disclosure by employees and contractors, the techniques used to obtain unauthorized access to this data are complex and changing, as are the underlying objectives of the attacker, like targeted business disruption, financial impact, intellectual property theft and unauthorized use, political motives, or sophisticated nation-state sponsored and organized cyber-criminal activity, and may be difficult to detect for long periods of time. An attack, disruption, intrusion, denial of service, theft or other breach, or an inadvertent act by an employee or contractor, could result in unauthorized access to, or disclosure of, this data, resulting in claims, costs and reputational harm that could adversely impact our operating results. We may also detect, or may receive notice from third parties (including governmental agencies) regarding, potential vulnerabilities in our information technology systems, our products, or third-party products used in conjunction with our products or our business. In the course of our business activities, Atleos contracts with numerous suppliers, vendors and resellers who may experience a cybersecurity, data protection or privacy issue that could adversely impact our operating results. Even if these potential vulnerabilities do not result in a data breach, their existence can adversely impact marketplace confidence and reputation. To the extent such vulnerabilities require remediation, such remedial measures could require significant resources and may not be implemented before such vulnerabilities are
exploited. As the landscape evolves, we may also find it necessary to make significant further investments to protect information and infrastructure.
Like most companies, Atleos is regularly the subject of attempted cyberattacks, which may involve personal data. Most such attacks are detected and prevented by the Company’s various information technology and data protections, including but not limited to firewalls, intrusion prevention systems, denial of service detection, anomaly-based detection, anti-virus/anti-malware, endpoint encryption and detection and response software, Security Information and Event Management system, identity management technology, security analytics, multi-factor authentication and encryption. There can be no assurance that our protections will always be successful and any failure could result in loss, disclosure, theft, destruction or misappropriation of, or access to, our confidential information and cause disruption of our business, damage to our reputation, legal exposure and financial losses. Further, cyberattacks are becoming more frequent and sophisticated, including through emerging artificial intelligence technologies, which may intensify or exacerbate cybersecurity risks or introduce new risks.
The Company has established relationships with cybersecurity firms and internal cybersecurity experts, which it engages in connection with certain suspected incidents. The costs arising from those engagements, which depending on the incident may include both investigatory and remedial efforts, have not to date been material to the Company. The Company also regularly undergoes evaluation of its protections against incidents, including both self-assessments and expert third-party assessments, and it regularly enhances those protections, both in response to specific threats and as part of the Company’s efforts to stay current with advances in cybersecurity defense. When the Company experiences a confirmed cybersecurity incident it generally performs root cause analyses and in appropriate instances will implement additional controls based on those analyses. There can be no assurance that the Company or its cybersecurity consultants will be able to prevent or remediate all future incidents or that the cost associated with responding to any such incident will not be significant.
The personal information and other data that we process and store also are subject to data security and data privacy obligations and laws of many jurisdictions, which are growing in complexity and sophistication as data becomes more enriched and technology and the global data protection landscape evolves. These laws may provide a private right of action for individuals alleging a breach of privacy rights, including, for example, the Illinois Biometric Information Privacy Act (“BIPA”). These laws may also conflict with one another, and many of them are subject to frequent modification and differing interpretations. The laws impose a significant compliance burden and include, for example, the European Union’s (“EU”) General Data Protection Regulation (“GDPR”), the California Consumer Privacy Act and the Brazilian General Data Protection Law. Complying with these evolving and varying standards could require significant expense and effort and could require us to change our business practices or the functionality of our products and services in a manner adverse to our customers and our business. In addition, violations of these laws can result in significant fines, penalties, claims by regulators or other third-party lawsuits alleging significant damages, and damage to our brand and business. The GDPR, for example, includes fines of up to €20 million or up to 4% of the annual global revenues of the infringer for failure to comply, and grants corrective powers to supervisory authorities including the ability to impose a limit on processing of personal data. The laws also cover the transfer of personal, financial and business information, including transfers of employee information between us and our subsidiaries, across international borders. As another example, the Illinois BIPA provides aggrieved plaintiffs the ability to recover $1,000 for each unauthorized scan of biometric data, and $5,000 for each scan found to be in willful disregard of the statute.
FINANCE & ACCOUNTING
The degree to which we are leveraged may materially and adversely impact our business, financial condition and results of operations.
Atleos has approximately $2,994 million of indebtedness outstanding with an additional $350 million of borrowings available under a senior secured revolving credit facility. Atleos may also incur additional indebtedness in the future. This significant amount of debt could:
•require us to dedicate a substantial portion of our cash flow to the payment of principal and interest, thereby reducing the funds available for operations and future business opportunities;
•make it more difficult for us to satisfy our obligations with respect to our outstanding debt, including any obligations to repurchase such debt under any indentures following the occurrence of certain changes in control;
•limit our ability to borrow money or otherwise enter into financing arrangements that would provide us with additional capital if needed for other purposes, including working capital, capital expenditures, debt service requirements, acquisitions and general corporate purposes, on satisfactory or favorable terms or at all;
•limit our ability to adjust to changing economic, business and competitive conditions;
•place us at a competitive disadvantage with competitors who may have less indebtedness or greater access to financing or access to financing on preferential terms;
•make us more vulnerable to an increase in interest rates, a downturn in our operating performance or a decline in the credit and financial markets, general economic, business and other conditions; and
•make us more susceptible to adverse changes in our credit ratings, which could impact our ability to obtain financing in the future and increase the cost of such financing.
If compliance with our obligations under our debt and other financing agreements materially limits our financial or operating activities, or hinders our ability to adapt to changing industry conditions, we may lose market share, our revenue may decline and our operating results may be adversely impacted.
In addition, Atleos’ actual cash requirements in the future may be greater than expected, requiring it to incur additional debt or raise additional funds. However, debt or equity financing may not be available to Atleos on terms acceptable or favorable to Atleos, if at all, and will depend on a number of factors, many of which are beyond Atleos’ control, such as the state of the credit and financial markets and other economic, financial and geopolitical factors.
Atleos’ ability to make payments on and to refinance any indebtedness, if applicable, will depend on its ability to generate cash in the future from operations, financings or asset sales. Atleos’ ability to generate cash is subject to general economic, financial, competitive, legislative, regulatory and other factors that are beyond Atleos’ control. The capital markets have experienced a period of increased volatility, which could impact any refinancing efforts or the terms thereof. If Atleos is not able to repay or refinance its debt as it becomes due, Atleos may be forced to sell assets or take other actions. In addition, Atleos’ ability to withstand competitive pressures and react to changes in Atleos’ industry could be impaired by its debt service obligations. Upon the occurrence of certain events of default under any agreements governing Atleos’ indebtedness, the holders of such debt may, in some cases, elect to accelerate amounts due thereunder, which could potentially trigger a default or acceleration of Atleos’ other debt.
The terms of the documents governing our indebtedness include financial and other covenants that could restrict or limit our financial and business operations.
Our credit agreement governing the senior secured facilities and the indentures for our senior secured notes include restrictive covenants that, subject to certain exceptions and qualifications, restrict or otherwise limit our ability and the ability of our subsidiaries to, among other things:
•incur additional indebtedness;
•create liens on, sell or otherwise dispose of, our assets;
•engage in certain fundamental corporate changes or changes to our business activities;
•make certain investments or material acquisitions;
•engage in sale-leaseback or hedging transactions;
•repurchase our common stock, pay dividends or make similar distributions on our capital stock;
•repay certain indebtedness;
•engage in certain affiliate transactions; and
•enter into agreements that restrict our ability to create liens, pay dividends or make loan repayments.
The senior secured credit agreement and the indentures for our senior secured notes also contain certain affirmative covenants, and the senior secured credit agreement requires us to comply with a leverage ratio that measures our debt relative to our Consolidated EBITDA (as defined in the senior secured credit agreement).
These covenants and restrictions could affect our ability to operate our business and may limit our ability to react to market conditions or take advantage of potential business opportunities as they arise. Additionally, our ability to comply with these covenants may be affected by events beyond our control, including general economic and credit conditions and industry downturns.
If we fail to comply with these covenants and are unable to obtain a waiver or amendment from the applicable debt holders, an event of default would result under the applicable agreements and under other agreements containing related cross-default provisions.
•Upon an event of default under the senior secured credit agreement, the administrative agent or the required lenders could, among other things, declare outstanding amounts due and payable, refuse to lend additional amounts to us, or require us to deposit cash collateral in respect of outstanding letters of credit. If we were unable to repay or pay the amounts due, the administrative agent or the lenders could, among other things, proceed against the collateral granted to them to secure such indebtedness, which includes certain of our domestic assets and the equity interests of certain of our domestic and foreign subsidiaries.
•Upon an event of default under the indentures for our senior secured notes, the related trustee or the holders of our senior secured notes could declare all outstanding amounts immediately due and payable.
Despite our current levels of debt, we may still incur substantially more debt, including secured debt, and similar liabilities, which would increase the risks described in these risk factors relating to indebtedness.
Although the agreements governing our debt include restrictions on our ability to incur additional debt, those agreements do not prohibit us from incurring additional debt or pursuing other financing arrangements. As a result, the amount of additional debt and other obligations that we could incur could be substantial. In addition, certain types of liabilities are not considered “Indebtedness”
under agreements governing our debt. Accordingly, to the extent permitted under our agreements governing our debt, we could incur significant additional debt, liabilities or similar obligations in the future, some of which could constitute secured debt (such as additional debt under any credit agreement). In addition, if we form or acquire any subsidiaries in the future, those subsidiaries also could incur debt or similar liabilities. If new debt or similar liabilities are added to our current debt levels, the related risks that we now face could increase.
We may, from time to time, seek to opportunistically refinance, amend, reprice and/or otherwise replace any of our debt, obtain additional debt financing or enter into other financing arrangements, reduce or extend our debt, lower our interest payments or the cost of capital available to us under certain types of financing arrangements, or otherwise seek to improve our financial position or the terms of our debt or other financing agreements. These actions may include open market debt repurchases, negotiated repurchases, or other repayments, redemptions or retirements of our debt or other financing arrangements. The amount of debt that may be borrowed or issued, refinanced, and/or repurchased, repaid, redeemed or otherwise retired, if any, will depend on market conditions, trading levels of our debt, our cash position, compliance with our debt covenants and other considerations. Any such actions could impact our financial condition or results of operations.
If we are unable to continue to access or renew financing sources and obtain capital, our ability to maintain and grow our business may be adversely impaired.
We plan to use debt and other sources of financing to maintain and grow our business. There can be no assurance that we will be able to enter into or renew our credit facilities after their maturity dates on acceptable terms, or at all, or that we will be able to obtain additional or replacement financing on acceptable terms or at all. The availability of additional financing will depend on a variety of factors such as market conditions, the general availability of credit, our financial position, our results of operations, and the capacity for additional borrowing or other forms of financing under our existing financing arrangements. If our various financing alternatives were to become limited or unavailable, we may be unable to maintain or grow our business and our operations could be materially adversely impacted.
Our cash flows may not be sufficient to service our indebtedness, and if we are unable to satisfy our obligations under our indebtedness, we may be required to seek other financing alternatives, which may not be successful.
Our ability to make timely payments of principal and interest on our debt obligations depends on our ability to generate positive cash flows from operations, which is subject to general economic conditions, competitive pressures and certain financial, business and other factors, which may include factors beyond our control. If our cash flows and capital resources are insufficient to make these payments, we may be required to seek additional financing sources, reduce or delay capital expenditures, sell assets or operations or refinance our indebtedness. These actions could have an adverse effect on our business, financial condition and results of operations. In addition, we may not be able to take any of these actions, and, even if successful, these actions may not permit us to meet our scheduled debt service obligations. Our ability to restructure or refinance our outstanding indebtedness will depend on, among other things, the condition of the capital markets and our financial condition at such time. There can be no assurance that we will be able to restructure or refinance any of our indebtedness on commercially reasonable terms or at all. If we cannot make scheduled payments on our debt, we will be in default and the outstanding principal and interest on our debt could be declared to be due and payable, in which case we could be forced into bankruptcy or liquidation or required to substantially restructure or alter our business operations or debt obligations.
The agreements governing certain of our indebtedness provide that our borrowings will bear interest at a variable rate which subjects us to interest rate risk, which could cause our debt service obligations or other costs of capital to increase significantly.
Our borrowings under certain of the agreements governing our debt are priced using variable rates of interest and expose us to interest rate risk. Market interest rates have increased over the past several years and may continue to increase as a result of action by the U.S. Federal Reserve and other factors, and as a result, variable-rate debt will create higher debt service requirements, which would adversely affect our cash flow. If interest rates increase, our debt service obligations on this variable rate indebtedness would increase even if the amount borrowed were to remain the same. Although we may enter into interest rate swaps or similar instruments to reduce interest rate volatility in connection with our variable rate financing arrangements, we cannot provide assurances that we will be able to do so or that such swaps or instruments will be effective.
The terms governing our trade receivables facility, including the length of term, financial and other covenants, and obligations to remit collections on the sold receivables, could restrict or otherwise limit our financial and business operations.
We are a party to a trade receivables facility to allow, among other things, one of our wholly-owned, bankruptcy remote special purposes entities (an “SPE”) to sell to PNC Bank, National Association and other participating financial institutions an undivided ownership interest in a portion of the trade receivables owned by such SPE, in an amount not to exceed approximately $166 million at any point in time. The trade receivables facility has a term of two years and contains customary termination events, including termination events that are based on the performance of the pool of receivables, including the pool’s satisfaction of certain financial tests relating to the three-month rolling average ratios of defaults, delinquencies, dilution and days’ sales outstanding. If in the future
we fail to renew our trade receivable facility or if a termination event occurs and we are unable to obtain a waiver or amendment from the applicable purchasers, we would be required to continue remitting collections to the purchasers until the facility was terminated, and we would no longer benefit from the liquidity provided to us by the ability to sell our receivables. Such a result could adversely impact the cash that we have available to use in our financial and business operations. A termination event under the trade receivables facility may also result in an event of default or a termination event under other agreements containing related cross-default provisions.
A lowering or withdrawal of the ratings assigned to our debt securities by rating agencies may increase our future capital costs and reduce our access to capital.
Any rating assigned to our debt could be lowered or withdrawn entirely by a rating agency if, in that rating agency’s judgment, future circumstances relating to the basis of the rating, such as adverse changes, so warrant. Any future lowering of our ratings likely would make it more difficult or more expensive for us to obtain additional debt financing or capital from other financing arrangements.
Our pension liabilities could adversely impact our liquidity and financial condition.
Pursuant to the employee matters agreement, Atleos assumed sponsorship of the NCR United States (“U.S.”) pension plan and assumed or retained certain other non-U.S. pension plans (which are not fully-funded). In connection with Atleos’ assumption or retention of the NCR pension plans, as applicable, Atleos is responsible for the funding of all benefit obligations under the plans, including the obligation to make any cash contributions required by law. As of December 31, 2024, the funded status of the U.S. pension plan was an underfunded position of $279 million, and the funded status of the non-U.S. pension plans was a funded position of $162 million. Although NCR has previously taken several actions to improve the funded status of benefit obligations under the pension plans (including rebalancing the United States and international plan assets in order to reduce volatility, making several discretionary contributions to the pension plans and, from time to time, taking de-risking actions, such as plan settlements), the remaining underfunded pension obligation continues to require ongoing cash contributions, which will be the responsibility of Atleos going forward. The underfunded pension obligation also may be affected by future asset transfers and settlements relating to the pension plans.
In addition, certain of the pension plan assets remain subject to financial market risk, and our actuarial and other assumptions underlying the expected future benefit payments, long-term expected rate of return and future funding expectations for the pension plans depend on, among other things, interest rate levels and trends and capital market expectations. Further volatility in the performance of financial markets, changes in any of these actuarial assumptions or changes in regulations regarding minimum funding requirements could require material increases to our expected cash contributions to the pension plans in future years.
We may be required to write down the value of certain significant assets, which would adversely impact our operating results.
We have a number of significant assets on our balance sheet as of December 31, 2024 and the value of these assets can be adversely impacted by factors related to our business and operating performance, as well as factors outside of our control. We recognize deferred tax assets and liabilities based on the differences between the financial statement carrying amounts and the tax basis of assets and liabilities. See Note 7, “Income Taxes”, to the Consolidated Financial Statements set forth herein. Our deferred tax assets, net of valuation allowances, totaled approximately $424 million and $431 million as of December 31, 2024 and 2023, respectively. We regularly review our deferred tax assets for recoverability and establish a valuation allowance if it is more likely than not that some portion or all of a deferred tax asset will not be realized. If we are unable to generate sufficient future taxable income, if there is a material change in the actual effective tax rates or if there is a change to the time period within which the underlying temporary differences become taxable or deductible, then we could be required to increase our valuation allowance against our deferred tax assets, which could result in a material increase in our effective tax rate.
Atleos has previously recorded valuation allowances related to certain deferred tax assets due to the uncertainty of the ultimate realization of the future benefits from those assets. The recorded valuation allowances cover deferred tax assets, primarily tax loss carryforwards in tax jurisdictions where there is uncertainty as to the ultimate realization of those tax losses. If we are unable to generate sufficient future taxable income of the proper source in the time period within which the temporary differences underlying our deferred tax assets become deductible, or before the expiration of our loss additional valuation allowances could be required in the future.
LAW & COMPLIANCE
A failure or inability to protect our intellectual property, and other issues related to our and third-party intellectual property, especially third-party intellectual property infringement claims, could have a material and adverse effect on our business, results of operations and financial condition.
Our continuing ability to be a leading provider in our industry could be adversely impacted if we do not protect our intellectual property. It is critical to our strategy, and the benefits provided by our innovations and technologies, that we protect and can leverage and rely on our intellectual property, including our intellectual property rights. We protect our intellectual property, including our innovations and technologies, through intellectual property rights, including patents, copyrights, trademarks and trade secret rights. While we have numerous patents which cover various areas, we are not able to patent all of our innovations and technologies. In addition, it can take multiple years to receive a patent. We primarily rely on our copyrights and trade secret rights, provided under the laws of the U.S. and internationally, to protect our innovations and technologies.
Despite our efforts to protect our innovations and technologies through intellectual property rights and our processes and procedures, such laws, processes and procedures may be insufficient, breached or otherwise fail to prevent unauthorized use, infringement, misappropriation or disclosure of our intellectual property, and such laws, processes and procedures may not provide adequate protection or remedies. It is also possible that third parties can independently develop, obtain or use similar innovations and technologies. To the extent we are not successful in protecting our intellectual property or such protection is insufficient, our business could be adversely impacted.
Protecting our intellectual property through patents and other intellectual property rights is expensive and time-consuming, which can impact our ability to obtain such protection by certain of those rights, for example, through patents. As such, we may not be able to obtain protection, including through certain such rights, for some of our intellectual property. Where we are successful, it is expensive to maintain certain intellectual property rights, such as in the case of patents, which may impact our ability to maintain them, and they can be more limited than desired. Current and possible future changes to U.S. or foreign intellectual property laws and regulations, or interpretations of them, may harm our ability to obtain protection of our intellectual property, impact, or jeopardize the enforceability, validity or scope of our intellectual property rights. This along with other legal and business reasons could result in our inability to enforce, or impact the enforcement of, our intellectual property rights (including in view of the patent portfolio of third parties). We may be unable to obtain trademark protection, including trademark registrations, for our products or services and associated brands, and our existing and future trademarks may not provide us with competitive advantages or distinguish our products or services from those of our competitors. In addition, our trademarks, including registrations and applications to register them, may be contested or found to be weak, unenforceable or invalid, and we may not be able to prevent third parties from using, infringing or otherwise violating them.
We will not always be able to ensure we have sufficient protection for, or sufficiently protect, our intellectual property where, for example, we fail to expect or detect unauthorized use of our intellectual property. Intellectual property protection may not be available in every country in which we do business, and the laws and regulations in countries outside of the U.S. where we do business or may do business in the future may not recognize intellectual property rights or protect them as would be done under the laws and regulations of the U.S.
Various factors outside our control pose a threat to our intellectual property. We may fail to obtain or be able to maintain effective or sufficient intellectual property protection, and some of our intellectual property rights may be challenged, resulting in reduced protection or being declared unenforceable or invalid. The time and cost required to defend our intellectual property rights can be substantial. There can be no assurance our intellectual property rights will be sufficient to prevent third parties from offering competitive products or services or that unauthorized third parties will not attempt to copy them or our intellectual property, including our innovations or technologies, or use, misappropriate or disclose information that we consider confidential or proprietary. It is possible for third parties, including our competitors, to obtain patents relating to products, services, innovations and technologies that overlap or compete with ours and for such third parties to assert, and third parties have in the past asserted, that our products, services, innovations and technologies infringe their patents. Even though we may hold patents covering our products, services, innovations and technologies, it is possible for such third-party patents to effectively block the use of our products, services, innovations and technologies. In such cases, those third parties can seek to charge us a licensing fee or preclude the use of our products or services and file suit against us. Additionally, unauthorized third parties may try to copy or reverse engineer our products, services or intellectual property or otherwise obtain, misappropriate or use our intellectual property and other information that we regard as confidential or proprietary to create products and services that compete with ours.
Failure to obtain or maintain protection of our confidential information (including know-how and trade secrets), for example, through public disclosure (including by third parties), could harm our competitive position and materially and adversely impact our business, results of operations and financial condition. Given the importance and our reliance on our intellectual property and its protection, we also rely in part on non-disclosure or confidentiality agreements with parties who have access to our confidential information, including employees, contractors and other third parties, which place restrictions on the disclosure and use of our intellectual property. We also enter into intellectual property assignment agreements with our employees, contractors and
consultants. We cannot guarantee that we have entered into such agreements with all parties necessary to protect our intellectual property or that they will adhere to our confidentiality agreements. Individuals not subject to intellectual property assignments or other agreements assigning intellectual property to us may make adverse ownership claims to our intellectual property. Additionally, these agreements may be insufficient, limited or, even, declared invalid by certain current or future laws or regulations, or breached, or this intellectual property may be disclosed or become known to third parties, including our competitors, which could cause the loss of this intellectual property. We may not be able to obtain adequate remedies for such disclosure or breaches. The loss of trade secret and other confidential information protection could make it easier for third parties to compete with our products and services by copying our innovations and technologies, including features and functionality. To the extent our employees, contractors or other third parties with whom we do business use intellectual property owned by others in their work for us, disputes may arise as to our rights in such intellectual property (including our rights to use such intellectual property) or our rights in related or resulting intellectual property, including innovations, technologies and know-how.
To address infringement or misappropriation of our intellectual property, we may need to file lawsuits, which can be expensive, time consuming and distracting to management and the business. Our efforts to enforce our intellectual property rights in this manner may be met with defenses, counterclaims and countersuits attacking the enforceability and validity of our intellectual property rights. Furthermore, because of the substantial amount of discovery required in connection with intellectual property litigation, there is a risk that some of our confidential information could be compromised by disclosure during this type of litigation. From time to time, we receive notices and other communications from third parties, including our customers, regarding third-party claims of infringement of patents or other intellectual property rights. In response to those notices, in appropriate situations, we may have to use our patents (or, potentially, other intellectual property rights) in our defense of such claims, subjecting them to the foregoing risks.
A large number of patents and other intellectual property rights exist in our industry. As a result, allegations and disputes related to these rights are asserted by, or arise in conjunction with, both practicing and non-practicing entities (often referred to as “patent trolls”) and other individuals or entities who claim to own intellectual property rights alleged to cover our products or services. As such, such individuals and entities may bring associated intellectual property infringement claims and lawsuits against us. Because we provide specific indemnification to our customers with respect to claims of intellectual property infringement against the products and services we provide to them, we also (i) receive demands by our customers to defend and indemnify them with respect to intellectual property infringement claims and lawsuits brought by a third party involving our products or services, and (ii) defend ourselves in connection with such demands from our customers. The frequency of these claims and lawsuits could increase. While we have a significant patent portfolio that might prove effective in deterring intellectual property infringement claims and lawsuits brought against us by practicing entities, including competitors, that portfolio may provide little deterrence against intellectual property infringement claims and lawsuits brought by non-practicing entities. This risk may be amplified if the frequency of intellectual property infringement claims and lawsuits brought by non-practicing entities increases.
Whether intellectual property infringement claims, including by customers for indemnification, have merit or not, they may require significant resources and expenses to analyze, address and defend, and can be disruptive to our business. We may not prevail in a dispute or litigation related to an intellectual property infringement claim, and damages in a successful intellectual property infringement case (including resulting from an indemnity claim from one of our customers) can be significant and can be trebled if the infringement is found to be willful. In certain circumstances, we could be subject to an injunction that might adversely impact our business. In particular, an injunction could limit our ability to provide one or more of our products and services to the extent we are unable to develop non-infringing alternatives or obtain, if available at all, a license for them. It could lead us to having to enter into a fee bearing, such as a royalty bearing, licensing agreement that we would not normally find reasonable or acceptable; cause a delay to the development of our products or services; require us to stop selling all or a portion of our products and services; require us to redesign at least certain products or services or components of them using alternative non-infringing technologies, processes or practices, which could require significant effort and expense. Accordingly, an adverse outcome in an intellectual property infringement case (including one resulting from our indemnification of one of our customers) may expose us to a loss of our competitive position or expose us to significant liabilities (including costs and damages). Any of the foregoing could materially and adversely impact our business, results of operations and financial condition.
Many of our offerings rely on innovations and technologies developed by third parties. If we are unable to continue to obtain licenses and rights for such innovations and technologies or substitutes for them, our business could be adversely impacted.
Changes to our tax rates and additional income tax liabilities could impact profitability.
We are a United States based multinational company subject to income taxes in the United States and a significant number of foreign jurisdictions. Our domestic and international tax liabilities are dependent on the distribution of our earnings across different jurisdictions, and our provision for income taxes and cash tax liability could be adversely impacted if the distribution of earnings is higher than expected in jurisdictions with higher statutory tax rates.
In addition, changes in United States or foreign tax laws and regulations, which have become more frequent in recent years, or tax rulings could affect our financial position and results of operations. For example, in light of continuing global fiscal challenges,
various levels of government and international organizations such as the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (“OECD”) and EU are increasingly focused on tax reform and other legislative or regulatory action to increase tax revenue and establish minimum levels of corporate income tax. These tax reform efforts, such as the OECD-led Base Erosion and Profit Shifting project (“BEPS”), are designed to ensure that corporate entities are taxed on a larger percentage of their earnings. Although some countries have passed tax laws based on findings from the BEPS project, the final nature, timing and extent of any such tax reforms or other legislative or regulatory actions is unpredictable, and it is difficult to assess their overall effect. Additionally, tax law changes that could significantly reduce or limit our ability to utilize our deferred tax assets could have a material impact on our tax rate and cash tax payments. Any of these potential changes could increase our effective tax rate, increase cash tax payments and adversely impact our financial results.
We are also subject to ongoing audits of our income tax returns in various jurisdictions both in the United States and internationally and could be subject to additional audits focusing on transfer pricing. While we believe that our tax positions will be sustained, the outcomes of such audits could result in the assessment of additional taxes, which could adversely impact our cash flows and financial results.
In the normal course of business, we are subject to proceedings, lawsuits, claims and other matters, the outcomes of which are not predictable and could result in material and adverse impacts on our operating results and financial position; we are also subject to diverse and complex laws and regulations which are rapidly changing and subject to many possible changes in the future and may create a substantial burden on us, and substantially increase costs to our organization or could have an impact on our future operating results.
In the normal course of business, we are subject to proceedings, lawsuits, claims and other matters, including, for example, those that relate to the environment, health and safety, labor and employment, employee benefits, import/export compliance, intellectual property, data privacy and security, payments services (including payment processing and settlement services), cryptocurrency, product liability, commercial disputes and regulatory compliance, among others. Because such matters are subject to many uncertainties, their outcomes are not predictable and we must make certain estimates and assumptions in our financial statements. Additionally, we are subject to diverse and complex laws and regulations, including those relating to corporate governance, public disclosure and reporting, environmental safety and the discharge of materials into the environment, product safety, import and export compliance, data privacy and security, antitrust and competition, government contracting, anti-corruption, and labor and human resources, which are rapidly changing and subject to many possible changes in the future. Compliance with these laws and regulations, including changes in accounting standards, taxation requirements, and federal securities laws among others, may create a substantial burden on us, and substantially increase costs to our organization or could have an impact on our future operating results.
Atleos businesses that are customer-facing also expose the Company to additional compliance risks because we may be subject to certain consumer protection requirements such as oversight by the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (“CFPB”) and Federal Trade Commission (“FTC”) and similar state or foreign agencies in the jurisdictions where they operate. The Company will also be exposed to additional compliance risks in scope and geography as our payments-related offers expand into new markets, each with their own consumer protection requirements. In addition, the customer-facing nature of our payments-related business subjects the Company to increased risks of disputes with consumers, including litigation and class action litigation, and significant costs to address such matters. The volatility of cryptocurrency markets and the level of consumer understanding of cryptocurrencies may cause this risk to be greater than in more traditional customer-facing businesses. The Company also faces additional risks related to uncertainty in potential future regulation and legal oversight of markets and businesses engaged in products and services relating to blockchain technology, virtual currencies or cryptocurrencies.
We expect new environmental, health, and safety laws and regulations that may affect us, our suppliers, and our customers. Climate change regulation in particular has been the subject of federal and state regulation in the United States as well as in other jurisdictions around the world. In particular, many of these regulations, including those related to climate disclosures, change frequently and may conflict among the various jurisdictions and countries in which we provide services. The pace of regulatory change in these areas has accelerated in recent years, and many regulatory developments are subject to increased challenge and uncertainty of application or implementation. For instance, the Corporate Sustainability Reporting Directive (“CSRD”) in Europe, the SEC’s recently adopted, but currently stayed, climate disclosure rules, and the California Climate Corporate Data Accountability Act and Climate-Related Financial Risk Act, among other similar laws, have resulted, and will continue to result, in increased compliance costs, and the failure to comply with these laws can result in significant monetary penalties. We anticipate that the direct costs associated with the various new sustainability-related regulations will be material. Additionally, we anticipate indirect costs due to regulation driven customer requirements and increased supplier costs that are passed through the value change, which may have an impact on our future operating results.
Additionally, doing business on a worldwide basis requires us and our subsidiaries to comply with the laws and regulations of the U.S. government and various international jurisdictions. For example, our international operations are subject to United States and foreign anti-corruption laws and regulations, such as the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act, which generally prohibits U.S. companies or agents acting on behalf of such companies from making improper payments to foreign officials for the purpose of obtaining or keeping business. Our international operations are also subject to economic sanction programs administered by the U.S. Treasury
Department’s Office of Foreign Assets Control. If we are not in compliance with such laws and regulations, we may be subject to criminal and civil penalties, which may cause harm to our reputation and to our brand and could have an adverse effect on our business, financial condition and results of operations.
Changes to cryptocurrency regulations could impact profitability.
The regulation of cryptocurrency is still an evolving area both domestically and internationally, and we expect that we could become subject to additional regulations and licensing requirements, including as a result of the expansion of our Bitcoin offerings and the increasing number of jurisdictions in which we provide these offerings. The evolving regulatory landscape may require us to make product changes, restrict product offerings in certain jurisdictions, or implement additional and potentially costly controls. If we fail to comply with regulations, requirements, or prohibitions applicable to us, we could face regulatory or other enforcement actions and potential fines and other consequences.
RISKS RELATED TO THE SPIN-OFF
If Atleos is unable to satisfy the requirements of Section 404 of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act, or its internal control over financial reporting is not effective, the reliability of Atleos’ financial statements may be questioned and Atleos’ stock price may suffer.
Section 404 of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act requires any company subject to the reporting requirements of the U.S. securities laws to do a comprehensive evaluation of its and its consolidated subsidiaries’ internal control over financial reporting. To comply with this statute, Atleos is required, as of December 31, 2024, to document and test its internal control procedures, its management is required to assess and issue a report concerning its internal control over financial reporting and its independent auditors are required to issue an opinion on Atleos’ internal control over financial reporting. The rules governing the standards that must be met for management to assess Atleos’ internal control over financial reporting are complex and require significant documentation, testing and possible remediation to meet the detailed standards under the rules. During the course of its testing, Atleos’ management may identify material weaknesses or deficiencies which may not be remedied in time to meet the deadline imposed by the Sarbanes-Oxley Act. If Atleos’ management concludes that Atleos’ internal control over financial reporting is not effective, or its auditors identify material weaknesses in Atleos’ internal controls, investor confidence in Atleos’ financial results may weaken, and Atleos’ stock price may suffer.
Voyix may fail to perform under various transaction agreements that were executed as part of the spin-off or Atleos may fail to have necessary systems and services in place when Voyix is no longer obligated to provide services under the various agreements.
Atleos and NCR entered into certain agreements, such as the separation and distribution agreement, a transition services agreement, a tax matters agreement, certain intellectual property agreements, an employee matters agreement, the commercial agreements and other agreements, which provide for the performance by each company for the benefit of the other for a period of time after the spin-off. If Voyix is unable to satisfy its obligations under these agreements, including its indemnification obligations in favor of Atleos, we could incur operational difficulties or losses.
If Atleos does not have in place its own systems and services, and does not have agreements with other providers of these services when the transitional or other agreements terminate, or if Atleos does not implement the new systems or replace Voyix’s services successfully, Atleos may not be able to operate its business effectively, which could disrupt its business and have a material adverse effect on its business, financial condition and results of operations. These systems and services may also be more expensive to install, implement and operate, or less efficient than the systems and services Voyix is expected to provide during the transition period.
Under applicable tax law, Atleos may be liable for certain tax liabilities of Voyix following the spin-off if Voyix were to fail to pay such taxes.
After the spin-off, there is the possibility that certain liabilities of Voyix could become Atleos’ obligations. For example, under the Code and the related rules and regulations, each corporation that was a member of the NCR United States consolidated group during a taxable period or portion of a taxable period ending on or before the effective time of the distribution is jointly and severally liable for the United States federal income tax liability of the entire NCR United States consolidated group for that taxable period. Consequently, if Voyix is unable to pay the consolidated United States federal income tax liability for a prior period, Atleos could be required to pay the entire amount of such tax which could be substantial and in excess of the amount which may be allocated to it under the tax matters agreement that we entered into with NCR. For a discussion of the tax matters agreement, see the section of the Company’s information statement, which is included as Exhibit 99.1 to Atleos’ Current Report on Form 8-K that was furnished with the SEC on August 15, 2023 (the “Information Statement”), entitled “Certain Relationships and Related Transactions-Agreements with NCR-Tax Matters Agreement”; other provisions of federal law establish similar liability for other matters.
In connection with Atleos’ spin-off from NCR, Voyix has and will indemnify Atleos for certain liabilities. However, there can be no assurance that the indemnity will be sufficient to insure Atleos against the full amount of such liabilities, or that Voyix’s ability to satisfy its indemnification obligation will not be impaired in the future.
Voyix has agreed to indemnify Atleos for certain liabilities as discussed further in the section of the Information Statement entitled “Certain Relationships and Related Transactions-Agreements with NCR.” However, third parties could also seek to hold Atleos responsible for liabilities that Voyix has agreed to retain, and there can be no assurance that the indemnity from Voyix will be sufficient to protect Atleos against the full amount of such liabilities, or that Voyix will be able to fully satisfy its indemnification obligations. In addition, Voyix’s insurers may attempt to deny coverage to Atleos for liabilities associated with certain occurrences of indemnified liabilities prior to the spin-off.
In connection with our separation, Atleos has and will assume, and indemnify Voyix for, certain liabilities. If we are required to make payments pursuant to these indemnities to Voyix, we would need to meet those obligations and our financial results could be adversely impacted.
Atleos has assumed and agreed to indemnify Voyix for certain liabilities as discussed further in the section of the Information Statement entitled “Certain Relationships and Related Transactions-Agreements with NCR.” Payments pursuant to these indemnities may be significant and could adversely impact our business, financial condition, results of operations and cash flows, particularly indemnities relating to our actions that could impact the tax-free nature of the distribution or relating to environmental matters.
If the distribution of shares of Atleos, together with certain related transactions, does not qualify as a reorganization within the meaning of sections 368(a)(1)(D) and 355 of the Code that is generally tax-free for U.S. federal income tax purposes, you and Voyix could be subject to significant U.S. federal income tax liability and, in certain circumstances, Atleos could be required to indemnify Voyix for material taxes pursuant to indemnification obligations under the tax matters agreement.
It was a condition to the distribution of shares of Atleos that Voyix receive an opinion of each of Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP (“Skadden”), tax counsel to Voyix, and Ernst & Young LLP (“EY”), tax advisor to Voyix (the “Tax Opinions”), substantially to the effect that, among other things, the distribution, together with certain related transactions, qualified as a reorganization within the meaning of sections 368(a)(1)(D) and 355 of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 (the “Code”). The Tax Opinions relied on certain facts, assumptions, representations and undertakings from Voyix and Atleos, including those regarding the past and future conduct of the companies’ respective businesses and other matters. Notwithstanding the Tax Opinions, the IRS could determine that the distribution or any such related transaction is taxable if it determines that any of these facts, assumptions, representations or undertakings are not correct or have been violated, or that the distribution should be taxable for other reasons, including if the IRS were to disagree with the conclusions in the Tax Opinions. For more information regarding the Tax Opinions, see the section of the Information Statement entitled “United States Federal Income Tax Consequences of the Distribution.”
If the distribution or any of the above referenced related transactions is determined to be taxable for U.S. federal income tax purposes, a stockholder of Voyix that has received shares of Atleos common stock in the distribution and Voyix could each incur significant U.S. federal income tax liabilities. In addition, Voyix and we could incur significant U.S. federal income tax obligations, whether under applicable law or under the tax matters agreement that we entered into with Voyix. For a discussion of the tax consequences of the distribution, together with certain related transactions, please refer to the section of the Information Statement entitled “United States Federal Income Tax Consequences of the Distribution.”
To preserve the tax-free treatment to Voyix and its stockholders of the distribution and certain related transactions, under the tax matters agreement, Atleos is restricted from taking certain actions after the distribution that could adversely impact the intended U.S. federal income tax treatment of the distribution and such related transactions.
To preserve the tax-free treatment to Voyix and its stockholders of the distribution and certain related transactions, under the tax matters agreement that Atleos entered into with NCR, Atleos is restricted from taking certain actions after the distribution that could adversely impact the intended U.S. federal income tax treatment of the distribution, together with certain related transactions. Failure to adhere to any such restrictions, including in certain circumstances that may be outside of our control, could result in tax being imposed on Voyix for which we could bear responsibility and for which we could be obligated to indemnify Voyix. In addition, even if we are not responsible for tax liabilities of Voyix under the tax matters agreement, we nonetheless could potentially be liable under applicable tax law for such liabilities if Voyix were to fail to pay such taxes.
The terms of the tax matters agreement may, furthermore, restrict us from taking certain actions, particularly for the two years following the spin-off, including (among other things) the ability to freely issue stock, to make acquisitions and to raise additional equity capital. Any such restrictions could impair our ability to implement strategic initiatives. Also, any indemnity obligation to Voyix might discourage, delay or prevent a change of control that we or our stockholders may consider favorable. These restrictions may limit Atleos’ ability to pursue certain strategic transactions or other transactions that it may believe to be in the best interests of its stockholders or that might increase the value of its business. In addition, under the tax matters agreement, Atleos is required to
indemnify Voyix against certain tax liabilities as a result of the acquisition of Atleos’ stock or assets, even if Atleos did not participate in or otherwise facilitate the acquisition. For a discussion of the tax matters agreement, see the section of the Information Statement entitled “Certain Relationships and Related Transactions-Agreements with NCR-Tax Matters Agreement.”
The spin-off and related internal restructuring transactions may expose Atleos to potential liabilities arising out of state and federal fraudulent conveyance laws and legal dividend requirements.
The spin-off could be challenged under various state and federal fraudulent conveyance laws. Fraudulent conveyances or transfers are generally defined to include (a) transfers made or obligations incurred with the actual intent to hinder, delay, or defraud current or future creditors or (b) transfers made or obligations incurred for less than reasonably equivalent value when the debtor was insolvent, or that rendered the debtor insolvent, inadequately capitalized or unable to pay its debts as they become due. A creditor or an entity acting on behalf of a creditor (including, without limitation, a trustee or debtor-in-possession in a bankruptcy by Voyix or Atleos or any of their respective subsidiaries) may bring a lawsuit alleging that the spin-off or any of the related transactions constituted a fraudulent conveyance. If a court accepts these allegations, it could impose a number of remedies, including, without limitation, voiding the distribution and returning Atleos’ assets or Atleos’ shares and subjecting Voyix and/or Atleos to liability.
The distribution of Atleos common stock is also subject to state corporate distribution statutes. Under the Maryland General Corporation Law (“MGCL”), a Maryland corporation, including Voyix, generally may not pay a dividend if, after giving effect to the dividend, the corporation would not be able to pay its debts as such debts become due in the ordinary course of business or, except as provided in the next sentence, the corporation’s total assets would be less than the sum of its total liabilities plus, unless the corporation’s charter permits otherwise, the amount that would be needed, if the corporation were dissolved at the time of the dividend, to satisfy the preferential rights upon dissolution of stockholders whose preferential rights are superior to those receiving the dividend which, in Voyix’s case, includes the Series A Convertible Preferred Stock. Even if a Maryland corporation does not satisfy the second prong of the distribution test, a Maryland corporation may pay dividends to its stockholders from: (i) the net earnings of the corporation for the fiscal year, or preceding fiscal year, in which the distribution is made or (ii) the sum of the net earnings of the corporation for the preceding eight fiscal quarters. Although Voyix made the distribution of Atleos common stock in accordance with the MGCL, neither Atleos nor Voyix can ensure that a court would reach the same conclusion in determining the satisfaction of the distribution tests for the separation and the distribution to Voyix’s stockholders.
Certain of Atleos’ executive officers and directors may have actual or potential conflicts of interest because of their previous positions at NCR.
Because of their current or former positions with NCR, certain of Atleos’ executive officers and directors own equity interests in Voyix. Following the spin-off, even though the Atleos Board of Directors consists of a majority of directors who are independent, and any of Atleos’ executive officers who were employees of NCR ceased to be employees of NCR upon the spin-off, some of Atleos’ executive officers and directors will continue to have a financial interest in shares of Voyix common stock and equity awards. Continuing ownership of shares of Voyix common stock and equity awards could create, or appear to create, potential conflicts of interest if Atleos and Voyix pursue the same corporate opportunities or face decisions that could have different implications for Atleos and Voyix.
Some contracts and other assets transferred or assigned from NCR or its affiliates to Atleos in connection with Atleos’ spin-off from NCR may require the consent of a third party. If such consent is not given, Atleos may not be entitled to the benefit of such contracts and other assets in the future, which could adversely impact Atleos’ financial condition and future results of operations.
The separation and distribution agreement and various local transfer agreements will provide that in connection with Atleos’ spin-off from NCR, a number of contracts with third-parties and other assets are to be transferred or assigned from Voyix or its affiliates to Atleos or its subsidiaries. However, the transfer or assignment of certain of these contracts or assets may require the consent of a third party to such a transfer or assignment. Similarly, in some circumstances, Atleos and another business unit of Voyix are joint beneficiaries of contracts, and Atleos will need to enter into a new agreement with the third-party to replicate the existing contract or be assigned the portion of the existing contract related to Atleos’ business. It is possible that some parties may use the requirement of a consent or the fact that the spin-off is occurring to seek more favorable contractual terms from Atleos, to terminate the contract or, to otherwise request additional accommodations, commitments or other agreements from Atleos. If Atleos is unable to obtain such consents on commercially reasonable and satisfactory terms or if the contracts are terminated, Atleos may be unable to obtain the benefits, assets and contractual commitments which are intended to be allocated to Atleos as part of Atleos’ spin-off from NCR. The failure to timely complete the assignment of existing contracts or assets, or the negotiation of new arrangements, or a termination of any of those arrangements, could have a material adverse impact on Atleos’ financial condition and future results of operations. To the extent Atleos requires a specific arrangement and agrees to less favorable terms in connection with obtaining any consent to retain that arrangement, the basis for that arrangement may be less favorable than currently held by Voyix and could adversely impact Atleos’ financial conditions and future results of operations. In addition, where Atleos did not obtain, or does not intend to obtain, consent from third-party counterparties based on Atleos’ belief that no consent is required, the third-party counterparties may challenge a transfer of assets on the basis that the terms of the applicable commercial arrangements require the
third-party counterparties’ consent. Atleos may incur substantial litigation and other costs in connection with any such claims and, if Atleos does not prevail, Atleos’ ability to use these assets could be materially and adversely impacted.
RISKS RELATED TO ATLEOS COMMON STOCK
Atleos’ stock price may fluctuate significantly.
The market price of Atleos common stock may fluctuate significantly due to a number of factors, some of which may be beyond Atleos’ control, including:
•Atleos’ quarterly or annual earnings, or those of other companies in its industry;
•the failure of securities analysts to cover Atleos common stock;
•actual or anticipated fluctuations in Atleos’ operating results;
•changes in earnings estimates by securities analysts or Atleos’ ability to meet those estimates;
•Atleos’ ability to meet its forward looking guidance;
•the operating and stock price performance of other comparable companies;
•overall market fluctuations and domestic and worldwide economic conditions; and
•other factors described in these “Risk Factors.”
Stock markets in general have experienced volatility that has often been unrelated to the operating performance of a particular company. Broad market and industry factors may materially harm the market price of Atleos’ common stock, regardless of Atleos’ operating performance. In the past, following periods of volatility in the market price of a company’s securities, shareholder derivative lawsuits and/or securities class action litigation has often been instituted against such company. Such litigation, if instituted against us, could result in substantial costs and a diversion of management’s attention and resources.
In addition, investors may have difficulty accurately valuing Atleos common stock. Investors often value companies based on the stock prices and results of operations of other comparable companies. Investors may find it difficult to find comparable companies and to accurately value Atleos common stock, which may cause the trading price of Atleos common stock to fluctuate.
Any sales of substantial amounts of shares of Atleos common stock in the public market or the perception that such sales might occur may cause the market price of Atleos common stock to decline.
Atleos’ shares are freely tradeable without restriction or further registration under the United States Securities Act of 1933, as amended (the “Securities Act”), unless the shares are owned by one of Atleos’ “affiliates,” as that term is defined in Rule 405 under the Securities Act.
Atleos is unable to predict if and when large amounts of its common stock may be sold in the open market. Atleos is also unable to predict whether a sufficient number of buyers would be in the market at that time. In this regard, a portion of Atleos common stock is held by index funds tied to stock indices. If Atleos is not included in these indices, these index funds may be required to sell Atleos common stock. Whether related to the foregoing or otherwise, sales of substantial amounts of shares of Atleos common stock in the public market, or the perception that such sales might occur, may cause the market price of Atleos common stock to decline.
Atleos cannot guarantee the timing, amount or payment of dividends on its common stock.
The timing, declaration, amount and payment of future dividends to Atleos’ stockholders will fall within the discretion of the Atleos Board of Directors. The Atleos Board of Directors’ decisions regarding the authorization of dividends will depend on many factors, such as Atleos’ financial condition, earnings, capital requirements, debt service obligations, industry practice, legal requirements, regulatory constraints and other factors that the Atleos Board of Directors deems relevant. Atleos’ ability to pay dividends will depend on its ongoing ability to generate cash from operations and access to the capital markets. Atleos cannot guarantee that it will pay a dividend in the future or continue to pay any dividend if Atleos commences paying dividends.
Your percentage of ownership in Atleos may be diluted in the future.
Your percentage ownership in Atleos may be diluted because of equity issuances for acquisitions, capital market transactions or otherwise, including, without limitation, equity awards that Atleos may grant to its directors, officers and employees.
In addition, Atleos’ charter authorizes Atleos to issue, without the approval of Atleos’ stockholders, one or more classes or series of preferred stock having such designation, powers, preferences, and relative, participating, optional and other special rights, including preferences over Atleos common stock respecting dividends and distributions, as the Atleos Board of Directors generally may determine. The terms of one or more classes or series of preferred stock could dilute the voting power or reduce the value of Atleos common stock. For example, Atleos could grant the holders of preferred stock the right to elect some number of Atleos’ directors in all events or on the happening of specified events or to veto specified transactions. Similarly, the repurchase or redemption rights or liquidation preferences Atleos could assign to holders of preferred stock could affect the residual value of Atleos common stock.
Certain provisions in Atleos’ charter and bylaws, and of Maryland law, may prevent or delay an acquisition of Atleos, which could decrease the trading price of the common stock.
Atleos’ charter and bylaws contain, and Maryland law contains, provisions that are intended to deter coercive takeover practices and inadequate takeover bids by making such practices or bids unacceptably expensive to the bidder and to encourage prospective acquirers to negotiate with the Atleos Board of Directors rather than to attempt a hostile takeover. With respect to the charter and bylaws, these provisions include, among others:
•Authority of the Atleos Board of Directors to issue capital stock, including to issue a class or series of preferred stock with such preferences, conversion or other rights, voting powers, restrictions, limitations as to dividends or other distributions, qualifications or terms or conditions of redemption of such class or series as the Atleos Board of Directors so determines;
•Members of the Atleos Board of Directors may be removed at any time, but only for cause, and then only by the affirmative vote of the holders of a majority of the voting power of all outstanding shares then entitled to vote at an election of directors, voting together as a single class; and
•Advance notice required for stockholder nominations of individuals for election to the Atleos Board of Directors and stockholder proposals of other business to be considered by the stockholders at an annual meeting of stockholders of not earlier than the 120th day, and not later than 5:00 p.m., eastern time, on the 90th day prior to the first anniversary of the proxy statement for the preceding year’s annual meeting, which shall set forth the information required by the bylaws.
In addition, Atleos, as a Maryland corporation, is subject to various Maryland laws that may have the effect of discouraging offers to acquire Atleos and increasing the difficulty of consummating any such offers. These include:
•Maryland Business Combination Act: The Maryland Business Combination Act provides that, subject to certain exceptions and limitations, certain business combinations between a Maryland corporation and an “interested stockholder” (defined generally as any person who beneficially owns 10% or more of the voting power of our outstanding voting stock or an affiliate or associate of ours who, at any time within the two-year period immediately prior to the date in question, was the beneficial owner of 10% or more of the voting power of our then outstanding shares of stock) or an affiliate of any interested stockholder are prohibited for five years after the most recent date on which the stockholder becomes an interested stockholder, and thereafter imposes two super-majority stockholder voting requirements on these combinations, unless, among other conditions, our common stockholders receive a minimum price, as defined in the MGCL, for their shares of stock and the consideration is received in cash or in the same form as previously paid by the interested stockholder for its shares of stock.
•Maryland Control Share Acquisition Act: The Maryland Control Share Acquisition Act provides that, subject to certain exceptions, holders of “control shares” (defined as voting shares that, when aggregated with all other shares controlled by the stockholder, entitle the stockholder to exercise one of three increasing ranges of voting power in electing directors) acquired in a “control share acquisition” (defined as the direct or indirect acquisition of ownership or control of issued and outstanding “control shares”) have no voting rights except to the extent approved by our stockholders by the affirmative vote of at least two-thirds of all the votes entitled to be cast on the matter, excluding shares owned by the acquirer, by our officers, or by our employees who are also directors of Atleos. Atleos’ bylaws contain a provision exempting acquisitions of shares of Atleos’ stock from the Maryland Control Share Acquisition Act. There can be no assurance that this provision will not be amended or eliminated at any time in the future.
•Title 3, Subtitle 8 of the MGCL: These provisions of the MGCL will permit the Atleos Board of Directors, without stockholder approval and regardless of what is provided in our charter or bylaws, to implement certain takeover defenses, including adopting a classified board or increasing the vote required to remove a director.
Additionally, the MGCL provides, among other things, that the Atleos Board of Directors has broad discretion in adopting stockholders’ rights plans and has the sole power to fix the record date, time, and place for special meetings of the stockholders. To date, Atleos does not intend to adopt a stockholders’ rights plan.
Atleos believes these provisions protect its stockholders from coercive or otherwise unfair takeover tactics by requiring potential acquirers to negotiate with the Atleos Board of Directors and by providing the Atleos Board of Directors with more time to assess any acquisition proposal. These provisions are not intended to make Atleos immune from takeovers. However, these provisions will apply even if the offer may be considered beneficial by some stockholders and could delay or prevent an acquisition that the Atleos Board of Directors determines is not in the best interests of Atleos and its stockholders. These provisions may also prevent or discourage attempts to remove and replace incumbent directors.
Atleos’ bylaws contain an exclusive forum provision that could limit a stockholder’s ability to bring a claim in a judicial forum that the stockholder believes is favorable for such disputes and may discourage lawsuits against Atleos and any of our directors, officers or other employees.
Atleos’ bylaws provide that, unless Atleos’ Board of Directors otherwise determines, the Circuit Court for Baltimore City, Maryland, or, if that court does not have jurisdiction, the U.S. District Court for the District of Maryland, Northern Division, is the sole and exclusive forum for (a) any Internal Corporate Claim, as such term is defined in the MGCL, other than any action asserting only claims arising under federal securities laws, including, without limitation, (i) any derivative action or proceeding brought on behalf of Atleos other than any action asserting solely claims under federal securities laws, (ii) any action asserting a claim of breach of any duty owed by any director or officer or other employee of Atleos to Atleos or to the stockholders of Atleos or (iii) any action asserting a claim against Atleos or any director or officer or other employee of Atleos arising pursuant to any provision of the MGCL, the charter or the bylaws of Atleos, or (b) any other action asserting a claim against Atleos or any director or officer or other employee of Atleos that is governed by the internal affairs doctrine. Any person or entity purchasing or otherwise acquiring any interest in shares of our stock is deemed to have notice of and consented to the provisions of our bylaws, including the exclusive forum provisions. This exclusive forum provision may limit a stockholder’s ability to bring a claim in a judicial forum that the stockholder believes is favorable for such disputes and may discourage lawsuits against us and any of our directors, officers or other employees. We believe that requiring these claims to be filed in a single court in Maryland is advisable because (i) litigating these claims in a single court avoids unnecessarily redundant, inconvenient, costly and time-consuming litigation in multiple forums and (ii) Maryland courts are authoritative on matters of Maryland law and Maryland judges have more experience in dealing with issues of Maryland corporate law than judges in any other state.
We could be subject to actions or proposals from stockholders that do not align with our business strategies or the interests of our other stockholders.
While we seek to actively engage with stockholders and consider their views on business, strategy, and environmental, social and governance issues, responding to these stockholders could be costly and time-consuming, disrupt our business and operations, and divert the attention of our Board of Directors and senior management. Uncertainties associated with such activities could interfere with our ability to effectively execute our strategic plan, impact customer retention and long-term growth, and limit our ability to hire and retain personnel. In addition, actions of these stockholders may cause periods of fluctuation in our stock price based on temporary or speculative market perceptions or other factors that do not necessarily reflect the underlying fundamentals and prospects of our business.

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ITEM 1B. UNRESOLVED STAFF COMMENTS
Item 1B. UNRESOLVED STAFF COMMENTS
None.

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ITEM 2. PROPERTIES
Item 2. PROPERTIES
As of December 31, 2024, Atleos operated 306 facilities consisting of approximately 3.2 million square feet in 56 countries throughout the world, which are generally used by all of Atleos’ operating segments. On a square footage basis, 8% of these facilities are owned and 92% are leased. Within the total facility portfolio, Atleos operates three research and development and manufacturing facilities totaling 0.4 million square feet, 69% of which is leased. The remaining 2.8 million square feet of space includes office, repair, and warehousing space and other miscellaneous sites, and is 95% leased.
Atleos is headquartered in Atlanta, Georgia, USA. Our address at our corporate headquarters is 864 Spring Street Northwest, Atlanta, Georgia, 30308 USA.

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ITEM 3. LEGAL PROCEEDINGS
Item 3. LEGAL PROCEEDINGS
Information regarding legal proceedings is included in Item 8 of Part II of this Report as part of Note 10, “Commitments and Contingencies”, of the Notes to Consolidated Financial Statements and is incorporated herein by reference.

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ITEM 4. MINE SAFETY DISCLOSURE
Item 4. MINE SAFETY DISCLOSURES
Not applicable.
PART II

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ITEM 5. MARKET FOR REGISTRANT'S COMMON EQUITY
Item 5. MARKET FOR THE REGISTRANT’S COMMON EQUITY, RELATED STOCKHOLDER MATTERS AND ISSUER PURCHASES OF EQUITY SECURITIES
Market Information
Atleos’ common stock is listed on the NYSE and trades under the symbol “NATL.” There were approximately 61,619 holders of Atleos common stock as of February 21, 2025.
Dividends
Atleos did not pay cash dividends in 2024. The declaration of dividends has certain restrictions under our senior secured credit facility and the terms of the indentures for our senior secured notes and is further subject to the discretion of Atleos’ Board of Directors.
Stock Performance Graph
The following graph compares the relative investment performance of Atleos stock, the Russell 2000 Stock Index, Standard & Poor’s Composite 1500 Transaction & Payment Processing Services Index and the Standard & Poor’s 500 Stock Index. This graph covers the period from October 17, 2023, the first trading day of Atleos common stock following the separation from NCR Corporation, through December 31, 2024. In each case, the graph assumes a $100 investment on October 17, 2023, and reinvestment of all dividends, if any.
Company / Index 10/23 12/23 12/24
NCR Atleos Corporation $ 100 $ 114 $ 159
S&P 500 Stock Index $ 100 $ 109 $ 137
Russell 2000 Index $ 100 $ 115 $ 129
S&P Composite 1500 Transaction & Payment Processing Services Index $ 100 $ 108 $ 136
Purchase of Company Common Stock
The Company’s repurchase of its common stock has certain restrictions under our senior secured credit facility and the terms of the indentures for our senior secured notes and is further subject to the discretion of Atleos’ Board of Directors.

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ITEM 6. SELECTED FINANCIAL DATA
Item 6. [Reserved]
Index to Management’s Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations (MD&A)
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Overview
Business Overview
Strategic Initiatives and Trends
Impacts from Geopolitical and Macroeconomic Challenges
Results of Operations
Financial Condition, Liquidity and Capital Resources
Critical Accounting Estimates
Recently Issued Accounting Pronouncements

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ITEM 7. MANAGEMENT'S DISCUSSION AND ANALYSIS
Item 7. MANAGEMENT’S DISCUSSION AND ANALYSIS OF FINANCIAL CONDITION AND RESULTS OF OPERATIONS (MD&A)
This section should be read in conjunction with the audited Consolidated Financial Statements and related Notes included in Item 8 of Part II of this Report. Management’s Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations contains forward-looking statements. See sections entitled “Forward-Looking Statements” and “Risk Factors” in Item 1A of this Annual Report for a discussion of the uncertainties, risks and assumptions associated with these forward-looking statements that could cause future results to differ materially from those reflected in this section.
Our discussion within MD&A is organized as follows:
•Overview. This section contains background information on our company, summary of significant themes and events during the year as well as strategic initiatives and trends in order to provide context for management’s discussion and analysis of our financial condition and results of operations.
•Results of operations. This section contains an analysis of our results of operations presented in the accompanying Consolidated Statements of Operations by comparing the results for the year ended December 31, 2024 to the results for the year ended December 31, 2023. Refer to the section below entitled “Spin-off from NCR” for additional information regarding the basis of presentation for the year ended December 31, 2023.
•Liquidity and capital resources. This section provides an analysis of our cash flows and a discussion of our contractual obligations at December 31, 2024.
•Critical accounting estimates. This section contains a discussion of the accounting policies that we believe are important to our financial condition and results of operations and that require judgment and estimates on the part of management in their application. In addition, all of our significant accounting policies, including critical accounting policies, are summarized in Note 1, “Basis of Presentation and Significant Accounting Policies”, in the Notes to Consolidated Financial Statements in Item 8 of Part II of this Report.
For management’s discussion of our consolidated results for the year ended December 31, 2023 in comparison with the year ended December 31, 2022, and other financial information related to fiscal year 2022, refer to Item 7 “Management’s Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations”, included in our 2023 Annual Report on Form 10-K filed with the SEC on March 26, 2024 (“2023 Form 10-K”).
OVERVIEW
BUSINESS OVERVIEW
Atleos is an industry-leading financial technology company providing self-directed banking solutions to a global customer base including financial institutions, merchants, manufacturers, retailers and consumers. Self-directed banking is a rapidly growing, secular trend that allows banking customers to transact seamlessly between various channels all for the same transaction. Our comprehensive solutions enable the acceleration of self-directed banking through automated teller machine (“ATM”) and interactive teller machine (“ITM”) technology, including software, services, hardware and our proprietary Allpoint network. While we provide all our solutions on a modular basis, we have also assembled these capabilities into a turnkey, end-to-end platform which we have branded “ATM as a Service.”
Atleos operates two leading business segments focused on facilitating self-service banking through ATMs supported by a shared set of tools, systems and platforms. In addition, we operate a Telecommunications and Technology (“T&T”) segment offering managed network and infrastructure services to enterprise clients across all industries via direct relationships with communications service providers and technology manufacturers.
We manage our operations in the following segments: Self-Service Banking, Network, and T&T.
•Self-Service Banking - Offers solutions to enable customers in the financial services industry to reduce costs, generate new revenue streams and enhance customer loyalty. These solutions include a comprehensive line of ATM hardware and software, and related installation, maintenance, and managed and professional services. We also offer an ATM as a service (“ATMaaS”) solution to manage and run the ATM channel end-to-end for financial institutions that include back office, cash management, software management and ATM deployment, among others.
•Network - Provides a cost-effective way for financial institutions, fintechs, neobanks, and retailers to reach and serve their customers through our network of ATMs and multi-functioning financial services kiosks. We offer credit unions, banks, digital banks, fintechs, stored-value debit card issuers, and other consumer financial services providers access to our ATM network, including our proprietary Allpoint network, providing convenient and fee-free cash withdrawal and deposit access to their customers and cardholders as well as the ability to convert a digital value to cash, or vice versa, via ReadyCode (formerly Pay360). We also provide ATM branding solutions to financial institutions, ATM management and services to retailers and other businesses, and our LibertyX solution gives consumers the ability to buy and sell Bitcoin.
•T&T - Offers managed network and infrastructure services to enterprise clients across all industries via direct relationships with communications service providers and technology manufacturers. Our customers rely on us as a strategic partner to help them reduce complexity, improve cost efficiency, and enable global geographical reach. We deliver expert professional, field, and remote services for modern network technologies including Software-Defined Wide Area Networking, Network Functions Virtualization, Wireless Local Area Networks, Optical Networking, and Edge Networks.
Spin-off from NCR
On September 15, 2022, NCR Corporation (now known as NCR Voyix Corporation or “Voyix,” and referred to as “NCR” prior to the Separation), announced its plan to separate its businesses into two distinct, publicly traded companies, whereby NCR would execute a Spin-off to NCR stockholders of its self-service banking, network, and telecommunications and technology businesses (the “Spin-off” or “Separation”). On September 22, 2023, the Board of Directors of NCR authorized the Spin-off of Atleos, which was completed on October 16, 2023.
The Spin-off was achieved by means of a pro-rata distribution of all of Atleos’ common stock to Voyix’s stockholders at the close of business on October 2, 2023 (“Record Date”) (collectively, the “Distribution”). Each holder of NCR’s common stock received one share of Atleos’ common stock for every two shares of NCR common stock held as of the Record Date. Upon completion of the Distribution, on October 17, 2023, the Company commenced trading as an independent public company under the ticker symbol “NATL” on the NYSE. Following the Distribution, Voyix does not beneficially own any shares of Atleos common stock and will no longer consolidate Atleos results with any Voyix results.
In connection with the Spin-off, we have incurred and expect to incur in the future one-time separation costs, which include one-time and non-recurring expenses associated with the Spin-off and stand up of functions required to operate as a stand-alone public entity. These non-recurring costs primarily relate to system implementation costs, business and facilities separation, applicable employee related costs, development of our brand and other matters. We expect the separation-related costs will continue through at least fiscal year 2025 but will be lower as compared to 2023 and 2024.
Periods prior to Separation
On October 16, 2023, the Company became a standalone publicly traded company, and its financial statements are now presented on a consolidated basis. Prior to the Separation, the Company’s historical combined financial statements were prepared on a standalone basis and were derived from NCR’s consolidated financial statements and accounting records. The financial statements for all periods presented, including the historical results of the Company prior to October 16, 2023, are now referred to as “Consolidated Financial Statements”, and have been prepared in accordance with accounting principles generally accepted in the United States of America (“GAAP”).
Prior to the Separation, the Consolidated Statements of Operations include all revenues and costs directly attributable to Atleos, including costs for facilities, functions and services used by Atleos. Atleos’ businesses have historically functioned together with the other businesses controlled by NCR. Accordingly, Atleos relied on NCR’s corporate overhead and other support functions for its business. Therefore, certain corporate overhead and shared costs have been allocated to Atleos including (i) certain general and administrative expenses related to NCR support functions that are provided on a centralized basis within NCR (e.g., expenses for corporate facilities, executive oversight, treasury, finance, legal, human resources, compliance, information technology, employee benefit plans, stock compensation plans, and other corporate functions) and (ii) certain operations support costs incurred by NCR, including product sourcing, maintenance and support services, and other supply chain functions. These expenses have been specifically identified, when possible, or allocated based on revenues, headcount, usage or other allocation methods that are considered to be a reasonable reflection of the utilization of services provided or benefit received. Management considers that such allocations have been made on a reasonable basis consistent with benefits received but may not necessarily be indicative of the costs that would have been incurred if Atleos had been operated on a standalone basis for the periods presented. All charges and allocations for facilities, functions and services performed by NCR have been deemed settled in cash by Atleos to NCR in the period in which the cost was recorded in the Consolidated Statements of Operations.
Prior to the Separation, NCR’s external debt and related interest expense had not been attributed to the Company for the periods presented because NCR’s borrowings were neither directly attributable to the Company nor was the Company the legal obligor of such borrowings.
Prior to the Separation, the aggregate net effect of related party transactions historically settled in cash between the Company and NCR are reflected in the Consolidated Statements of Cash Flows as Related party receivables and payables within operating activities, Amounts advanced for or Repayments received from related party notes receivable in investing activities, or Proceeds from or payments on related party borrowings within financing activities. Other balances between the Company and NCR were considered to be effectively settled in the Consolidated Financial Statements at the time the transactions were recorded. The aggregate net effect of transactions between the Company and NCR that were not historically settled in cash had been reflected in the Consolidated Statements of Cash Flows as Net transfers from (to) NCR Corporation within financing activities.
Prior to the Separation, income tax expense and tax balances were calculated on a separate tax return basis. The separate tax return method applies the accounting guidance for income taxes to the standalone financial statements as if the Company was a separate taxpayer and a standalone company even though the Company filed as part of NCR’s tax group in certain jurisdictions prior to Separation. The Company’s portion of income tax expense for domestic, and certain jurisdictions outside the United States (“U.S.”), were deemed to have been settled in the period the related tax expense was recorded.
Periods Post Separation
For the periods subsequent to October 16, 2023, as a standalone publicly traded company, Atleos presents its financial statements on a consolidated basis. The Consolidated Financial Statements in Item 8 of this Annual Report on Form 10-K have been prepared in accordance with GAAP.
In connection with the Spin-off, we entered into a Separation and Distribution Agreement and various other agreements with Voyix. These agreements provide a framework for our relationship with Voyix and govern various interim and ongoing relationships between Atleos and Voyix. These agreements with Voyix are described in the section of the Information Statement titled “Certain Relationships and Related Transactions-Agreements with NCR.” Following the Separation, certain functions continue to be provided by or for Voyix under the Transition Services Agreements or are being performed using Atleos’ own resources or third-party service providers. Additionally, certain maintenance services, manufacturing services, product resale and other support services and supply chain operations will continue to be provided by or to Voyix under the Commercial Agreements. On August 6, 2024, Voyix announced its intention to move the manufacturing services to another party and to further reduce the maintenance services that are being performed under the Commercial Agreements. Manufacturing services provided to Voyix were completed in the fourth quarter of 2024.
STRATEGIC INITIATIVES AND TRENDS
Atleos is expected to be a cash-generative business positioned to focus on delivering ATMaaS to a large, installed customer base across banks and retailers. We believe it will build on our leadership in self-service banking and ATM networks to meet global demand for ATM access and leverage new ATM transaction types, including digital currency solutions, to drive market growth. Atleos is expected to also continue shifting to a highly recurring revenue model to drive stable cash flow and capital returns to stockholders.
We are continuing our transition to software-led solutions. Today, our software platform, which runs in the cloud and includes microservices and application programming interfaces (“APIs”) that integrate with our customers’ systems, and our ATMaaS solutions, bring together all our capabilities and competencies to power the technology to run our customers’ self-directed banking networks, at the same time allowing us to earn a greater proportion of recurring revenues.
We have grown organically, as well as through acquisitions, to add software, services and other capabilities that complement or enhance our existing portfolio. We intend to continue pursuing opportunities to win new customers, expand our footprint and drive more transactions and foot traffic for our customers. We also plan to continue to improve our execution to drive solid returns and to transform our business to enhance value for all stockholders.
Impacts from Geopolitical and Macroeconomic Challenges
We continue to be exposed to macroeconomic pressures such as higher interest rates, increased logistics costs, and foreign currency fluctuations as a result of geopolitical challenges, including those due to various conflicts in and around the Red Sea region. We continue to navigate through these challenges with a sharp focus on and goal of safeguarding our employees, helping our customers
and managing impacts to the business. Despite the rapidly changing environment, our teams are executing at a high level and we are advancing our strategy.
In addition to the global macroeconomic conditions, bank failures in 2023 have caused a degree of uncertainty in the investor community and among bank customers, and could significantly impact the national, regional and local banking industry and the global business environment in which Atleos operates. The Company does not believe that the circumstances of these bank failures are indicators of broader issues within the banking system. However, if there is a severe or prolonged economic downturn, it could result in a variety of risks to our business, including driving banking customers to tighten budgets and curtail spending, which would negatively impact our sales and business.
We expect that these factors may continue to negatively impact our business at least in the short-term. The ultimate impact on our overall financial condition and operating results will depend on the duration and severity of these geopolitical and macroeconomic pressures and any governmental and public actions taken in response. We continue to evaluate the long-term impact that these may have on our business model, however, there can be no assurance that the measures we have taken or will take will completely offset the negative impact.
For further information on the risks posed to our business from geopolitical and macroeconomic factors, refer to Part I, Item 1A “Risk Factors”, of this Form 10-K, including the risk factor titled, “A major natural disaster or catastrophic event could have a materially adverse effect on our business, financial condition and results of operations, or have other adverse consequences.” For further information on exposures to interest rate and foreign exchange risk, refer to Item 7A, “Quantitative and Qualitative Disclosures about Market Risk”, in this Form 10-K.
Impacts from Seasonality and Tourism
Our business is generally seasonal, with lower revenue and fewer transactions occurring in the first quarter of each year. Transaction volumes at our ATMs located in regions affected by strong winter weather patterns typically experience declines in volume during winter months due to decreases in the amount of consumer traffic through such locations. We usually have an increase in transaction volume during the warmer summer months, aided by increased vacation and holiday travel. Such seasonality causes our working capital cash flow requirements to vary from quarter to quarter depending on variability in the volume, timing and mix of sales. We expect the fluctuations in transaction volume to continue. For further information on the seasonality of our business, refer to Part I, Item 1 “Business - Seasonality” of this Form 10-K.
RESULTS OF OPERATIONS
Key Strategic Financial Metrics
The following tables show our key strategic financial metrics for the years ended December 31, the relative percentage that those amounts represent to total revenue, and the change in those amounts year-over-year.
Recurring revenue as a percentage of total revenue
Percentage of Total Revenue Increase (Decrease)
In millions 2024 2023 2022 2024 2023 2022 2024 v 2023
2023 v 2022
Recurring revenue (1)
$ 3,136 $ 2,982 $ 2,795 72.6 % 71.2 % 67.7 % 5 % 7 %
All other products and services 1,181 1,209 1,336 27.4 % 28.8 % 32.3 % (2) % (10) %
Total Revenue $ 4,317 $ 4,191 $ 4,131 100.0 % 100.0 % 100.0 % 3 % 1 %
(1) Refer to our definition of Recurring revenue in the section entitled “Non-GAAP Financial Measures and Use of Certain Terms” below.
Net income (loss) attributable to Atleos and Adjusted EBITDA(2) as a percentage of total revenue
Percentage of Total Revenue Increase (Decrease)
In millions 2024 2023 2022 2024 2023 2022 2024 v 2023
2023 v 2022
Net income (loss) attributable to Atleos $ 91 $ (134) $ 108 2.1 % (3.2) % 2.6 % 168 % (224) %
Adjusted EBITDA (2)
$ 781 $ 732 $ 685 18.1 % 17.5 % 16.6 % 7 % 7 %
(2) Refer to our definition of Adjusted EBITDA in the section entitled “Non-GAAP Financial Measures and Use of Certain Terms” below.
Other performance metrics
In millions, unless otherwise noted 2024 2023 2022
Self-Service Banking
Annualized recurring revenue(1)
$ 1,685 $ 1,532 $ 1,430
ATM as a Service units(1) (in thousands)
28.4 20.4 14.3
Revenue from ATM as a Service arrangements $ 194 $ 153 $ 79
Network
LTM ARPU(1) (in thousands)
$ 16.1 $ 15.1 $ 14.1
Network Managed Units(1) (in thousands)
77.8 83.0 84.1
(1) Refer to our definitions of Annualized recurring revenue, ATM as a Service units, LTM ARPU and Network Managed Units in the section entitled “Non-GAAP Financial Measures and Use of Certain Terms.”
Non-GAAP Financial Measures and Use of Certain Terms:
Non-GAAP Financial Measures
Adjusted Earnings Before Interest, Taxes, Depreciation and Amortization (“Adjusted EBITDA”) Atleos’ management uses the non-GAAP measure Adjusted EBITDA because it provides useful information to investors as an indicator of performance of the Company’s ongoing business operations. Atleos determines Adjusted EBITDA based on GAAP Net income (loss) attributable to Atleos plus interest expense, net; plus income tax expense (benefit); plus depreciation and amortization; plus acquisition-related costs; plus pension mark-to-market adjustments, pension settlements, pension curtailments and pension special termination benefits; plus separation-related costs; plus transformation and restructuring charges (which includes integration, severance and other exit and disposal costs); plus stock-based compensation expense; plus Voyix legal and environmental indemnification expense; plus other special (expense) income items. These adjustments are considered non-operational or non-recurring in nature and are excluded from the Adjusted EBITDA metric utilized by our chief operating decision maker (“CODM”) in evaluating segment performance and are separately delineated to reconcile back to total reported income attributable to Atleos. This format is useful to investors because it allows analysis and comparability of operating trends. It also includes the same information that is used by Atleos management to make decisions regarding our segments and to assess our financial performance. Refer to the table below for the reconciliations of Net income (loss) attributable to Atleos (GAAP) to Adjusted EBITDA (non-GAAP).
Adjusted gross margin as a percentage of revenue (non-GAAP), Adjusted selling, general and administrative expenses as a percentage of revenue (non-GAAP) and Adjusted research and development expenses as a percentage of revenue (non-GAAP). Atleos’ Adjusted gross margin rate (non-GAAP), Adjusted selling, general and administrative expenses as a percentage of revenue (non-GAAP) and Adjusted research and development expenses as a percentage of revenue (non-GAAP) are determined by excluding, as applicable: acquisition-related costs; pension settlements, pension curtailments and pension special termination benefits; separation-related costs; amortization of acquisition-related intangibles; stock-based compensation expense; transformation and restructuring charges (which includes integration, severance and other exit and disposal costs); and other special (expense) income items from Atleos’ GAAP gross margin, selling, general and administrative expenses, and research and development expenses, respectively. Due to the nature of these special items, Atleos’ management uses these non-GAAP measures to evaluate year-over-year operating performance. Atleos believes these measures are useful for investors because they may provide a more complete understanding of Atleos’ underlying operational performance, as well as consistency and comparability with Atleos’ past reports of financial results.
Special Item Related to Russia The war in Eastern Europe and related sanctions imposed on Russia and related actors by the United States and other jurisdictions required us to commence the orderly wind down of our operations in Russia beginning in the first quarter of 2022. We have ceased operations in Russia and have completed the liquidation of our only subsidiary in Russia. As a result, our presentation of segment revenue and Adjusted EBITDA for the year ended December 31, 2022, excludes the immaterial impact of our operating results in Russia, as well as the impact of impairments taken to write down the carrying value of assets and liabilities, severance charges, and the assessment of collectability on revenue recognition. We consider this to be a non-recurring special item and management has reviewed the results of its business segments excluding these impacts.
Atleos’ definitions and calculations of these non-GAAP measures may differ from similarly-titled measures reported by other companies and cannot, therefore, be compared with similarly-titled measures of other companies. These non-GAAP measures should not be considered as substitutes for, or superior to, results determined in accordance with GAAP.
Use of Certain Terms
Recurring revenue: All revenue streams from contracts where there is a predictable revenue pattern that will occur at regular intervals with a relatively high degree of certainty. This includes hardware and software maintenance revenue, processing revenue, interchange and network revenue, Bitcoin related revenue, and certain professional services arrangements, as well as term-based software license arrangements that include customer termination rights.
Annualized Recurring Revenue (“ARR”): Recurring revenue, excluding software licenses sold as a subscription, for the last three months times four, plus the rolling four quarters for term-based software license arrangements that include customer termination rights. Atleos believes this metric may be useful to investors in evaluating the Company’s achievement of strategic goals related to the conversion of the self-service banking business to recurring revenue streams over time. ARR is an operating metric and does not necessarily reflect the pattern of revenue recognition in accordance with GAAP and should not be considered a substitute for GAAP revenue. ARR does not have a uniform definition and, therefore, Atleos’ definitions may differ from other companies’ definitions of this measure.
ATM as a Service Units: The number of ATMs as of period end that are deployed under our ATMaaS offering. ATMaaS refers to our turnkey, end-to-end ATM platform solution, whereby we provide comprehensive managed services solutions to financial institutions. Atleos believes this metric may be useful to investors in measuring the Company’s achievement of strategic goals related to growth of the ATMaaS business over time.
Last twelve months average revenue per unit (“LTM ARPU”): For the Network segment, total segment revenue for the previous twelve months divided by the average Network Managed Units for the previous twelve months. Atleos believes this metric may be useful to investors in evaluating the Company’s achievement of strategic goals related to the improved monetization of our ATM fleet over a specified period, excluding the impact of seasonality. LTM ARPU is an operating metric and does not represent revenue generated solely by our Network Managed Units, as total Network segment revenue includes revenue generated from other sources besides the Network Managed Units. LTM ARPU does not have a uniform definition and, therefore, Atleos’ definitions may differ from other companies’ definitions of this measure.
Network Managed Units: All transacting ATMs as of period end, whether Company-owned or Merchant-owned, other than those for which we only provide third party processing services and those under legacy managed services arrangements. This metric is used in the calculation of Network segment LTM ARPU.
Reconciliation of Net income (loss) attributable to Atleos (GAAP) to Adjusted EBITDA (Non-GAAP)
In millions 2024 2023 2022
Net income (loss) attributable to Atleos (GAAP) $ 91 $ (134) $ 108
Interest expense, net(1)
309 90 31
Interest income (7) (5) -
Income tax expense 47 239 50
Depreciation and amortization expense 176 151 159
Acquisition-related amortization of intangibles 95 98 100
Stock-based compensation expense 38 68 66
Separation costs 19 170 -
Acquisition-related costs (5) - 8
Transformation and restructuring costs 22 28 63
Loss on debt extinguishment 20 - -
Pension mark-to-market adjustments (38) 27 78
Voyix environmental indemnification expense 14 - -
Russia operations - - 22
Adjusted EBITDA (Non-GAAP) $ 781 $ 732 $ 685
(1) Includes Related party interest expense, net, as presented in the Consolidated Statements of Operations for the years ended December 31, 2023 and 2022.
Reconciliation of Gross Margin Rate (Gross Margin as a Percentage of Revenue) (GAAP) to Adjusted Gross Margin Rate (Adjusted Gross Margin as a Percentage of Revenue) (Non-GAAP)
2024 2023 2022
Gross Margin Rate (GAAP) 23.9 % 22.3 % 22.2 %
Plus: Special Items
Acquisition-related amortization of intangibles 1.9 % 1.5 % 1.5 %
Stock-based compensation expense 0.1 % 0.5 % 0.7 %
Separation costs - % 1.2 % - %
Transformation and restructuring 0.2 % - % 0.4 %
Russia operations - % - % 0.2 %
Adjusted Gross Margin Rate (Non-GAAP) 26.1 % 25.5 % 25.0 %
Reconciliation of Selling, General and Administrative Expenses (“SG&A”) as a Percentage of Revenue (GAAP) to Adjusted SG&A as a Percentage of Revenue (Non-GAAP)
2024 2023 2022
SG&A as a percentage of revenue (GAAP) 12.0 % 14.0 % 14.2 %
Plus: Special Items
Acquisition-related amortization of intangibles (0.4) % (0.8) % (1.0) %
Stock-based compensation expense (0.7) % (1.1) % (0.8) %
Separation costs (0.4) % (2.3) % - %
Acquisition-related costs - % - % (0.2) %
Transformation and restructuring (0.2) % (0.2) % (0.9) %
Russia operations - % - % (0.1) %
Adjusted SG&A as a percentage of revenue (Non-GAAP) 10.3 % 9.6 % 11.2 %
Reconciliation of Research and Development Expenses (“R&D”) as a Percentage of Revenue (GAAP) to Adjusted R&D as a Percentage of Revenue (Non-GAAP)
2024 2023 2022
R&D as a percentage of revenue (GAAP) 1.5 % 1.8 % 1.5 %
Plus: Special Items
Stock-based compensation expense - % (0.1) % (0.1) %
Separation costs - % (0.1) % - %
Transformation and restructuring (0.1) % - % (0.1) %
Adjusted R&D as a percentage of revenue (Non-GAAP) 1.4 % 1.6 % 1.3 %
Consolidated Results
The following table shows our results for the years December 31, the relative percentage that those amounts represent to revenue, and the change in those amounts year-over-year.
Percentage of Revenue (1)
Increase (Decrease)
In millions 2024 2023 2022 2024 2023 2022 2024 v 2023
2023 v 2022
Product revenue $ 995 $ 1,030 $ 1,098 23.0 % 24.6 % 26.6 % (3) % (6) %
Service revenue 3,322 3,161 3,033 77.0 % 75.4 % 73.4 % 5 % 4 %
Total revenue 4,317 4,191 4,131 100.0 % 100.0 % 100.0 % 3 % 1 %
Product gross margin 156 184 126 15.7 % 17.9 % 11.5 % (15) % 46 %
Service gross margin 877 749 793 26.4 % 23.7 % 26.1 % 17 % (6) %
Total gross margin 1,033 933 919 23.9 % 22.3 % 22.2 % 11 % 2 %
Selling, general and administrative expenses 518 585 586 12.0 % 14.0 % 14.2 % (11) % - %
Research and development expenses 66 77 64 1.5 % 1.8 % 1.5 % (14) % 20 %
Income from operations 449 271 269 10.4 % 6.5 % 6.5 % 66 % 1 %
Loss on extinguishment of debt (20) - - (0.5) % - % - % n/m n/m
Interest expense (309) (77) - (7.2) % (1.8) % - % 301 % n/m
Related party interest expense, net - (13) (31) - % (0.3) % (0.8) % (100) % (58) %
Other (expense) income, net 19 (74) (81) 0.4 % (1.8) % (2.0) % (126) % (9) %
Income before income taxes 139 107 157 3.2 % 2.6 % 3.8 % 30 % (32) %
Income tax expense 47 239 50 1.1 % 5.7 % 1.2 % (80) % 378 %
Net income (loss) $ 92 $ (132) $ 107 2.1 % (3.1) % 2.6 % 170 % (223) %
(1) The percentage of revenue is calculated for each line item divided by total revenue, except for product gross margin and service gross margin, which are divided by the related component of revenue.
Revenue
Percentage of Total Revenue Increase (Decrease)
In millions 2024 2023 2022 2024 2023 2022 2024 v 2023
2023 v 2022
Product revenue $ 995 $ 1,030 $ 1,098 23.0 % 24.6 % 26.6 % (3) % (6) %
Service revenue 3,322 3,161 3,033 77.0 % 75.4 % 73.4 % 5 % 4 %
Total revenue $ 4,317 $ 4,191 $ 4,131 100.0 % 100.0 % 100.0 % 3 % 1 %
Product revenue includes our hardware and software license revenue streams as well as Bitcoin-related revenues. Service revenue includes hardware and software maintenance revenue, implementation services revenue, cloud revenue, payments processing revenue, interchange and network revenue, as well as professional services revenue.
Revenue results for the twelve months ended December 31, 2024 were negatively impacted by the delayed transfer of seven legal entities to Atleos following our separation from Voyix, due to local processes of setting up Atleos legal entities. Prior to the Separation, the operating results of each of these entities were included within Atleos’ results under carve-out methodology as all entities were dedicated to the Atleos business. Of these seven legal entities, five transferred during 2024. The remaining two entities are expected to transfer in the first quarter of 2025. We estimate the delayed transfer of these entities resulted in an approximately $22 million decline in revenue in 2024 compared to the prior year period.
Total revenue increased 3% for the year ended December 31, 2024 compared to the year ended December 31, 2023, primarily driven by the growth of recurring service revenue streams in our core business as well as revenue recognized pursuant to our commercial agreements with Voyix.
Product revenue decreased 3% for the year ended December 31, 2024 compared to the year ended December 31, 2023 due to declines in non-core commerce related revenues of approximately $30 million related to the wind down of that business, ATM and other hardware revenue of approximately $21 million and Bitcoin-related revenues of approximately $26 million, partially offset by an increase of approximately $33 million of product revenues earned under the commercial agreements with Voyix and a $6 million increase in software license revenue. The decline in ATM hardware revenue is partially due to the shift in the business from one-time hardware sales to recurring ATMaaS subscriptions as well as a $5 million reduction due to the delayed legal entities described above. The decline in Bitcoin-related revenue is due to a decrease in transaction volumes.
Service revenue increased 5% for the year ended December 31, 2024 compared to the year ended December 31, 2023, driven primarily by 6% total growth in our core self-service banking and network offerings. Services revenue benefited from increases of approximately $39 million of transaction processing services revenue, $25 million in hardware maintenance and installation revenue, $41 million in ATMaaS revenue as well as $57 million in other software-related revenues. The increase in transaction processing services revenue was driven by an increase in withdrawal transaction volumes and the favorable mix of payments transactions year-over-year, while the growth in ATMaaS revenue and other software-related revenues was due to the continued growth in our ATMaaS offering, whereby we own the ATMs and charge per ATM for the service, as well as the shift to recurring software subscriptions. The increase in hardware maintenance and installation revenue was primarily due to an increase in the core business of approximately $14 million and a $12 million increase in revenue earned under the commercial agreements with Voyix. Included in the activity described above, the delayed transfer of legal entities resulted in a reduction of hardware maintenance and installation revenue and other software-related services revenue of approximately $11 million and $6 million, respectively.
Gross Margin
Percentage of Revenue (1)
Increase (Decrease)
In millions 2024 2023 2022 2024 2023 2022 2024 v 2023
2023 v 2022
Product gross margin $ 156 $ 184 $ 126 15.7 % 17.9 % 11.5 % (15) % 46 %
Service gross margin 877 749 793 26.4 % 23.7 % 26.1 % 17 % (6) %
Total gross margin $ 1,033 $ 933 $ 919 23.9 % 22.3 % 22.2 % 11 % 2 %
(1) The percentage of revenue is calculated for each line item divided by the related component of revenue.
Gross margin as a percentage of revenue was 23.9% in 2024 compared to 22.3% in 2023, primarily due to the impact of higher margin recurring revenue streams as well as higher separation-related costs and stock-based compensation expense in the prior year period. These improvements are partially offset by the impact of lower margins recognized on products and services provided under the commercial agreements with Voyix as well as an increase in amortization of acquisition-related intangible assets and transformation and restructuring costs in the current year. Our services gross margin was also impacted by increased interest rates driving $11 million of higher rental costs on our vault cash agreements. Gross margin for the year ended December 31, 2024 included $80 million of amortization of acquisition-related intangible assets, $7 million of transformation and restructuring costs, and $5 million of stock-based compensation expense. Gross margin for the year ended December 31, 2023 included $51 million of reserves on net assets transferred and incremental retention costs paid out as part of the Spin-off from Voyix, $65 million related to amortization of acquisition-related intangible assets, $20 million of stock-based compensation expense, and $1 million related to transformation and restructuring costs. Adjusted gross margin as a percentage of revenue (non-GAAP) increased from 25.5% to 26.1% due to the improved mix of higher margin recurring revenue streams, partially offset by the impact of lower margins recognized under the commercial agreements with Voyix and vault cash rental costs described above.
Selling, General and Administrative Expenses
Percentage of Total Revenue Increase (Decrease)
In millions 2024 2023 2022 2024 2023 2022 2024 v 2023
2023 v 2022
Selling, general and administrative expenses $ 518 $ 585 $ 586 12.0 % 14.0 % 14.2 % (11) % - %
Selling, general, and administrative expenses were $518 million in 2024, compared to $585 million in 2023. As a percentage of revenue, selling, general and administrative expenses decreased to 12.0% in 2024 compared to 14.0% in 2023, primarily driven by higher separation-related costs, amortization of acquisition-related intangible assets and stock-based compensation expense in the prior year period. In 2024, selling, general and administrative expenses included $8 million of transformation and restructuring costs, $31 million of stock-based compensation expense, $15 million of acquisition-related amortization of intangibles and $18 million of separation-related costs. In 2023, selling, general and administrative expenses included $8 million of transformation and restructuring costs, $43 million of stock-based compensation expense, $33 million of acquisition-related amortization of intangibles, and $97 million in IT separation, consulting, audit, legal, and incremental retention costs related to the Company’s Spin-off from Voyix. The beneficial impact of these cost changes compared to prior year was partially offset by lower costs allocated to Atleos under carve-out accounting methodologies in the prior year period, compared to operations as a stand-alone company in 2024, which include cost dis-synergies and higher employee benefit-related costs. Adjusted selling, general and administrative expenses as a percentage of revenue (non-GAAP) increased from 9.6% in 2023 to 10.3% in 2024, due to differences in cost allocations, separation cost dis-synergies and employee-benefit related costs described above.
Research and Development Expenses
Percentage of Total Revenue Increase (Decrease)
In millions 2024 2023 2022 2024 2023 2022 2024 v 2023
2023 v 2022
Research and development expenses $ 66 $ 77 $ 64 1.5 % 1.8 % 1.5 % (14) % 20 %
Research and development expenses were $66 million in 2024, compared to $77 million in 2023. As a percentage of revenue, research and development costs decreased to 1.5% in 2024 compared to 1.8% in 2023 due to separation-related costs incurred in the prior year period and higher costs allocated to Atleos under carve-out accounting methodologies in the prior year period, compared to operations as a stand-alone company in 2024. In 2024, research and development expenses included $2 million of stock-based compensation expense and $3 million of transformation and restructuring costs. In 2023, research and development expenses included $5 million of stock-based compensation expense and $3 million of costs related to the Company’s separation from Voyix. Adjusted research and development expenses as a percentage of revenue (non-GAAP) decreased from 1.6% in 2023 to 1.4% in 2024 due to the differences in cost allocations discussed above.
Loss on Extinguishment of Debt
Increase (Decrease)
In millions 2024 2023 2022 2024 v 2023
2023 v 2022
Loss on extinguishment of debt $ 20 $ - $ - n/m n/m
On October 17, 2024, Atleos entered into an Amended Credit Agreement and completed financing transactions that included the refinancing of the Term Loan B Facility. In connection with the transactions, Atleos recorded a loss on extinguishment of debt of $20 million in 2024, including the write-off of discount and deferred financing fees of $13 million and a cash redemption premium of $7 million. Refer to Note 5, “Debt Obligations”, for further details on the financing transactions.
Interest Expense and Related Party Interest Expense, Net
Increase (Decrease)
In millions 2024 2023 2022 2024 v 2023
2023 v 2022
Interest expense $ 309 $ 77 $ - 301 % n/m
Related party interest expense, net $ - $ 13 $ 31 (100) % (58) %
Interest expense was $309 million in 2024, compared to $77 million in 2023. The significant increase in interest expense in 2024 is due to a full year of interest incurred on external debt. Interest expense is primarily related to the Company’s senior secured notes
and borrowings under the Company’s senior secured credit facility entered into on September 27, 2023 and amended on October 17, 2024. Refer to Note 5, “Debt Obligations”, for further details regarding the issuance of debt.
Related party interest expense, net was $13 million in 2023. Related party interest expense, net is primarily related to certain related party borrowings during the period prior to the Separation.
Other (Expense) Income, net
Other (expense) income, net was income of $19 million in 2024 and expense of $74 million in 2023, with the components reflected in the following table:
In millions 2024 2023 2022
Interest income $ 7 $ 5 $ -
Foreign currency fluctuations and foreign exchange contracts (21) (33) (9)
Bank-related fees (15) (14) -
Employee benefit plans 60 (22) (63)
Voyix environmental indemnification expense (14) - -
Other, net 2 (10) (9)
Other (expense) income, net $ 19 $ (74) $ (81)
Employee benefit plans within Other (expense) income, net includes the components of pension, postemployment and postretirement expense, other than service cost, as well as actuarial gains and losses from the annual pension mark-to-market adjustment. In 2024, there was a net actuarial gain of $38 million compared to a net actuarial loss of $27 million in 2023. The net actuarial gain in 2024 was primarily due to an increase in discount rates in measuring the benefit obligations as well as the favorable impact from an update to the mortality tables, partially offset by the impact of the increase in inflation rates. The net actuarial loss in 2023 was primarily due to a decrease in discount rates in measuring the benefit obligation, partially offset by the impact of economic improvements on the value of plan assets.
The Company incurred bank-related fees of $15 million and $14 million in 2024 and 2023, respectively, related to certain structuring and commitment fees as a result of the financing transactions entered into in connection with the Separation and the Amended Credit Agreement in 2024. Bank-related fees also includes fees incurred under the trade receivable facility entered into on October 16, 2023.
Voyix environmental indemnification expense represents Atleos’ indemnification of certain costs shared with Voyix, related to investigatory and remedial activities, and related litigation, at facilities formerly owned or operated by Voyix to comply, or determine compliance, with environmental laws. Refer to Note 10, “Commitments and Contingencies”, for further details on the Shared Environmental Matters.
Income Taxes
Increase (Decrease)
In millions 2024 2023 2022 2024 v 2023
2023 v 2022
Income tax expense $ 47 $ 239 $ 50 (80) % 378 %
Our effective tax rate was 34% in 2024 and 223% in 2023. In 2024, our tax rate benefited from $17 million Foreign Derived Intangible Income deduction and $17 million provision to return adjustments, of which $11 million is classified as U.S. tax impact on foreign income. Additionally, our tax rate was impacted by increasing the valuation allowance on U.S. interest expense disallowance carryforward by $31 million. In 2023, the Company completed certain internal restructuring transactions in connection with the Spin-off, resulting in a net of $120 million discrete tax expenses.
While we are subject to numerous federal, state and foreign tax audits, we believe that appropriate reserves exist for issues that might arise from these audits. Should these audits be settled, the resulting tax effect could impact the tax provision and cash flows in future periods. During 2025, the Company may resolve certain tax matters in foreign jurisdictions that could have an impact on the effective tax rate in 2025.
We regularly review our deferred tax assets for recoverability and establish a valuation allowance if it is more likely than not that some portion or all of a deferred tax asset will not be realized. The determination as to whether a deferred tax asset will be realized is made on a jurisdictional basis and is based on the evaluation of positive and negative evidence. This evidence includes historical taxable income/loss, projected future taxable income, the expected timing of the reversal of existing temporary differences and the implementation of tax planning strategies.
Revenue and Adjusted EBITDA by Segment
The Company manages and reports its businesses in the following segments: Self-Service Banking, Network and Technology & Telecommunications (T&T). Segments are measured for profitability by the Company’s chief operating decision maker (CODM) based on revenue and segment Adjusted EBITDA. Refer to the section above entitled “Non-GAAP Financial Measures and Use of Certain Terms” for our definition of Adjusted EBITDA and the reconciliation of Net income (loss) attributable to Atleos (GAAP) to Adjusted EBITDA (non-GAAP).
The following table shows our segment revenue and Adjusted EBITDA for the years ended December 31, the relative percentage that those amounts represent to revenue, and the change in those amounts year-over-year.
Percentage of Revenue (1)
Increase (Decrease)
In millions 2024 2023 2022 2024 2023 2022 2024 v 2023
2023 v 2022
Revenue
Self-Service Banking $ 2,696 $ 2,581 $ 2,582 62.5 % 61.6 % 62.5 % 4 % - %
Network 1,285 1,267 1,198 29.8 % 30.2 % 29.0 % 1 % 6 %
T&T 194 196 219 4.4 % 4.7 % 5.3 % (1) % (11) %
Total Segment Revenue $ 4,175 $ 4,044 $ 3,999 96.7 % 96.5 % 96.8 % 3 % 1 %
Other (2)
142 147 123 3.3 % 3.5 % 3.0 % (3) % 20 %
Other adjustment (3)
- - 9 - % - % 0.2 % - % (100) %
Consolidated Revenue $ 4,317 $ 4,191 $ 4,131 100.0 % 100.0 % 100.0 % 3 % 1 %
Adjusted EBITDA by segment
Self-Service Banking $ 640 $ 630 $ 549 23.7 % 24.4 % 21.3 % 2 % 15 %
Network $ 404 $ 379 $ 352 31.4 % 29.9 % 29.4 % 7 % 8 %
T&T $ 35 $ 33 $ 47 18.0 % 16.8 % 21.5 % 6 % (30) %
(1) The percentage of revenue is calculated for each line item divided by total revenue, except for Adjusted EBITDA, which are divided by the related component of revenue.
(2) Other immaterial business operations, including commerce-related operations in countries that Voyix exited that are aligned to Atleos, that do not represent a reportable segment. For periods after the Separation, Other also includes revenues from commercial agreements with Voyix.
(3) Other adjustment reflects the revenue attributable to the Company’s operations in Russia that were excluded from management’s measure of revenue due to our announcement in Q1 of 2022 to suspend sales to Russia and anticipated orderly wind down of our operations in the country.
Segment Revenue
For the year ended December 31, 2024 compared to the year ended December 31, 2023
Self-Service Banking revenue increased 4% for the year ended December 31, 2024 compared to the prior year period. For the year ended December 31, 2024, ATMaaS revenue increased $41 million, software-related revenue increased approximately $79 million, hardware maintenance and installation revenue increased $19 million, and ATM hardware revenue decreased $25 million compared to the prior year period. Revenue results for the period were primarily due to the shift from non-recurring revenues to recurring ATMaaS arrangements whereby we own the ATMs and charge per ATM for the service, as well as the shift to recurring software subscriptions. Included in the results described above, the delayed transfer of legal entities drove a reduction of approximately $22 million for the year ended December 31, 2024 compared to the prior year period. Software and services revenue as a percent of total Self-Service Banking segment revenue were 72% and 70% in the twelve months ended December 31, 2024 and 2023, respectively.
Network revenue increased 1% for the year ended December 31, 2024 compared to the prior year period. The increase in revenue was due to an approximately $39 million increase in transaction processing services revenue primarily driven by an increase in higher value ATM transactions and a $5 million increase in other software-related revenue. These revenue improvements were
partially offset by reductions related to a decrease in Bitcoin related-related revenue of approximately $26 million primarily due to a decrease in transaction volumes, as well as reductions in transaction processing services revenues due to the planned removal of underperforming machines from our network managed unit fleet and store closures at our retail partners.
T&T revenue decreased 1% for the year ended December 31, 2024 compared to the prior year period due to a decrease in hardware maintenance and installation revenue partially offset by one-time hardware sales.
Segment Adjusted EBITDA
For the year ended December 31, 2024 compared to the year ended December 31, 2023
Self-Service Banking Adjusted EBITDA increased 2% for the year ended December 31, 2024 compared to the prior year period due to an increase in revenue. The contribution of favorable ATMaaS revenue margins as well as an increase in other higher margin recurring revenue streams and cost optimization initiatives were offset by dis-synergies causing higher employee benefit-related costs, the impact of one-time hardware sales shifting to ATMaaS arrangements that are amortized over the contract period, and the delayed transfer of legal entities described above.
Network Adjusted EBITDA increased by 7% for the year ended December 31, 2024 compared to the prior year period due to increases in withdrawal transaction volumes, the mix of higher margin transaction revenue, and cost optimization initiatives. These improvements were partially offset by higher interest rates on our vault cash agreements driving additional cost of $11 million, as well as higher cash-in-transit costs driven by the higher volume of cash dispensed in the period, and an increase in employee benefit-related costs.
T&T Adjusted EBITDA increased 6% for the year ended December 31, 2024 compared to the prior year period due to cost optimization initiatives and one-time hardware sales.
FINANCIAL CONDITION, LIQUIDITY AND CAPITAL RESOURCES
Our primary liquidity needs in the ordinary course of business are to: (i) fund normal operating expenses; (ii) meet the interest and principal requirements of our outstanding indebtedness, including finance leases; (iii) fund capital expenditures and operating lease payments; (iv) fund indemnification payments related to legal and environmental matters; (v) meet our expected pension, postretirement and postemployment plan contributions; and (vi) fund payments related to transformation and restructuring initiatives. Our principal sources of cash are generated from operations, borrowings under our revolving credit facility and issuances of debt. We continually evaluate our liquidity requirements in light of our operating needs, growth initiatives and capital resources.
Atleos’ management uses a non-GAAP measure called “Adjusted free cash flow-unrestricted” to assess the financial performance and liquidity of Atleos. We define Adjusted free cash flow-unrestricted as net cash provided by operating activities less capital expenditures for property, plant and equipment, less additions to capitalized software, plus/minus the change in restricted cash settlement activity, plus/minus net reductions or reinvestment in the trade receivables facility established in the fourth quarter of 2023 due to fluctuations in the outstanding balance of receivables sold, plus/minus financing payments/receipts of owned ATM capital expenditures, plus pension contributions and settlements, and plus legal and environmental indemnification payments made to Voyix. Restricted cash settlement activity represents the net change in amounts collected on behalf of, but not yet remitted to, certain of the Company’s merchant customers or third-party service providers that are pledged for a particular use or restricted to support these obligations. These amounts can fluctuate significantly period to period based on the number of days for which settlement to the merchant has not yet occurred or day of the week on which a reporting period ends. We believe Adjusted free cash flow-unrestricted information is useful for investors because it indicates the amount of cash available after these adjustments for, among other things, investments in Atleos’ existing businesses, strategic acquisitions, and repayment of debt obligations. Adjusted free cash flow-unrestricted does not represent the residual cash flow available, since there may be other non-discretionary expenditures that are not deducted from the measure. Adjusted free cash flow-unrestricted does not have a uniform definition under GAAP, and therefore Atleos’ definition may differ from other companies’ definitions of this measure. This non-GAAP measure should not be considered a substitute for, or superior to, cash flows from operating activities under GAAP.
Summarized cash flow information for the twelve months ended December 31 is as follows:
In millions 2024 2023 2022
Net cash provided by operating activities $ 344 $ 355 $ 274
Net cash used in investing activities $ (135) $ (316) $ (417)
Net cash provided by (used in) financing activities $ (134) $ 31 $ 183
Cash provided by operating activities was $344 million in 2024 compared to cash provided by operating activities of $355 million in 2023. The decrease in cash provided by operating activities of $11 million in 2024 was primarily driven by the unfavorable movement in net working capital accounts of $162 million and a decrease in non-cash charges of $73 million partially offset by an increase in net income of $224 million. The unfavorable movement in net working capital accounts in 2024 compared to 2023 is primarily driven by $235 million of additional cash interest payments on long term borrowings entered into in connection with the Spin-off.
Investing activities for the year ended December 31, 2024 primarily include capital expenditures for property, plant and equipment of $87 million and additions to capitalized software of $39 million. Investing activities for the year ended December 31, 2023 primarily include capital expenditures for property, plant and equipment of $108 million, additions to capitalized software of $24 million, amounts advanced for related party notes receivable of $217 million and repayments received from related party notes receivable of $44 million.
Our financing activities for 2024 include borrowing and repayments of credit facilities and term loans, including the activities related to the Amended Credit Agreement. Financing activities for the year ended December 31, 2024 also included tax withholding payments on behalf of employees for stock-based awards that vested of $14 million, acquisition holdback payments of $5 million, and proceeds from employee stock plans of $4 million. See Note 5, “Debt Obligations”, of the Notes to Consolidated Financial Statements included in Item 8 of Part II of this Report for further information on the Amended Credit Agreement and the senior secured notes.
Financing activities for 2023 primarily include financing arrangements entered into in connection with the Spin-off. On September 27, 2023, the Company issued $1,350 million of senior secured 9.50% notes due in 2029. In addition to the senior secured notes, the Company entered into a senior secured $835 million Term Loan A due in 2028, a senior secured $750 million Term Loan B facility due in 2029 and a $500 million senior secured revolving credit facility, of which $155 million was drawn as of December 31, 2023. Prior to the Spin-off, financing activities also include short-term borrowings with, and transfers to and from, NCR, consisting of, among other things, cash transfers and changes in receivables and payables and other transactions between Atleos and NCR. See Note 12, “Related Parties”, in the Notes to Consolidated Financial Statements for further discussion on transactions with NCR.
The table below reconciles net cash provided by operating activities, the most directly comparable GAAP measure, to Atleos’ non-GAAP measure of Adjusted free cash flow-unrestricted for the years ended December 31:
In millions 2024 2023 2022
Net cash provided by operating activities (GAAP) $ 344 $ 355 $ 274
Capital expenditures for property, plant and equipment (87) (108) (58)
Additions to capitalized software (39) (24) (39)
Change in restricted cash settlement activity 21 (27) 27
Initial sale of trade account receivables - (166) -
Pension contributions 3 154 4
Adjusted free cash flow-unrestricted (non-GAAP) $ 242 $ 184 $ 208
Long Term Borrowings The Senior Secured Credit Facility consists of term loan facilities in an aggregate principal amount of $1,580 million, of which $1,413 million was outstanding as of December 31, 2024. Additionally, the Senior Secured Credit Facility provides for a five-year Revolving Credit Facility with an aggregate principal amount of $600 million, of which $225 million was outstanding as of December 31, 2024. The Revolving Credit Facility also contains a sub-facility to be used for letters of credit, and as of December 31, 2024, there were $25 million letters of credit outstanding.
As of December 31, 2024, we had outstanding $1,350 million in aggregate principal balance of 9.500% senior secured notes due in 2029.
On October 17, 2024, Atleos entered into the First Amendment (the “First Amendment”) to the Credit Agreement, dated as of September 27, 2023. See Note 5, “Debt Obligations”, of the Notes to Consolidated Financial Statements included in Item 8 of Part II of this Report for further information on our debt transactions.
Employee Benefit Plans The Company made no contributions to the U.S. pension plan in 2024 and contributed $3 million to its international pension plans, $21 million to the postemployment plan and none to the postretirement plan in 2024. In 2025, the Company expects to contribute $30 million to its U.S. pension plan, $1 million to the international pension plans, $23 million to the postemployment plan and $1 million to the postretirement plan. See Note 9, “Employee Benefit Plans”, of the Notes to Consolidated Financial Statements included in Item 8 of Part II of this Report for additional discussion on our pension, postemployment and postretirement plans.
Cash and Cash Equivalents Held by Foreign Subsidiaries Cash and cash equivalents held by the Company’s foreign subsidiaries were $329 million and $285 million at December 31, 2024 and 2023, respectively. Under current tax laws and regulations, if cash and cash equivalents and short-term investments held outside the U.S. are distributed to the U.S. in the form of dividends or otherwise, we may be subject to additional U.S. income taxes and foreign withholding taxes, which could be significant.
Summary As of December 31, 2024, our cash and cash equivalents totaled $419 million and our total debt was $2,994 million. Our borrowing capacity under our senior secured credit facility was $350 million at December 31, 2024.
Our ability to generate positive cash flows from operations is dependent on general economic conditions, and the competitive environment in our industry, and is subject to the business and other risk factors described in Item 1A of Part I of this Report. If we are unable to generate sufficient cash flows from operations, or otherwise comply with the terms of our credit facilities, we may be required to seek additional financing alternatives. However, we cannot assure that we will be able to obtain additional debt or equity financing on acceptable terms in the future.
Management believes that our cash balances and funds provided by operating activities, along with our borrowing capacity under the senior secured credit facility and access to capital markets, taken as a whole, provide (i) adequate liquidity to meet all of our current and long-term (i.e., beyond December 31, 2025) material cash requirements when due, including third-party debt, (ii) adequate liquidity to fund capital expenditures and (iii) flexibility to meet investment opportunities that may arise. We expect to utilize our cash flows to continue to invest in our business, growth strategies, people and the communities we operate in as well as to repay our indebtedness over time.
Material Cash Requirements from Contractual and Other Obligations In the normal course of business, we enter into various contractual obligations that impact, or could impact, the liquidity of our operations. The following table and discussion outlines our material obligations as of December 31, 2024 on an undiscounted basis, with projected cash payments in the years shown:
In millions Total Amounts 2025 2026-2027 2028-2029 2030 & Thereafter
Debt obligations $ 2,994 $ 81 $ 174 $ 2,739 $ -
Interest on debt obligations 1,016 240 464 312 -
Lease obligations 180 41 58 34 47
Purchase obligations 917 892 6 6 13
Voyix environmental indemnification obligations 14 14 - - -
Total obligations $ 5,121 $ 1,268 $ 702 $ 3,091 $ 60
For purposes of this table, we used interest rates as of December 31, 2024 to estimate the future interest on debt obligations outstanding as of December 31, 2024 and have assumed no voluntary prepayments of existing debt. See Note 5, “Debt Obligations”, of the Notes to Consolidated Financial Statements included in Item 8 of Part II of this Report for additional disclosure related to our debt obligations and the related interest rate terms.
Our lease obligations are primarily for future rental amounts for our corporate offices, as well as for certain sales and manufacturing facilities in various domestic and international locations and leases related to equipment and vehicles.
Purchase obligations represent committed purchase orders and other contractual commitments for goods or services. The purchase obligation amounts were determined through information in our procurement systems and payment schedules for significant contracts, including the Commercial Agreements with Voyix.
We have a liability related to our uncertain tax positions. Due to the nature of the underlying liabilities and the extended time often needed to resolve income tax uncertainties, we cannot make reliable estimates of the amount or timing of cash payments that may be required to settle these liabilities. For additional information, refer to Note 7, “Income Taxes”, of the Notes to Consolidated Financial Statements included in Item 8 of Part II of this Report.
Voyix environmental indemnification obligations represent Atleos’s obligations pursuant to the Separation and Distribution Agreement whereby Atleos will indemnify Voyix for retained environmental remediation obligations. The above table includes only amounts communicated to Atleos by Voyix pursuant to the protocols set forth in the Separation and Distribution Agreement for the year ended December 31, 2025. Atleos’ obligations regarding these environmental remediation matters are subject to significant uncertainties, which are out of Atleos’ control and will not be resolved for many years. As such, we are not able to estimate our future contractual obligation with respect to these obligations. For additional information, refer to Note 10, “Commitments and Contingencies”, of the Notes to Consolidated Financial Statements included in Item 8 of Part II of this Report.
Our U.S. and international employee benefit plans, which are described in Note 9, “Employee Benefit Plans”, of the Notes to Consolidated Financial Statements included in Item 8 of Part II of this Report, could require significant future cash payments. In 2024, we did not contribute to our U.S. pension plan. We expect a mandatory contribution of $30 million in 2025. We do not expect further mandatory contributions until 2026 based on current funding requirements and assuming the Company does not complete any further actions, including, but not limited to, a further pre-fund or de-risking action. The funded status of Atleos’ U.S. pension plan is an underfunded position of $279 million as of December 31, 2024. The Company’s international pension plans were in a net funded position of $162 million as of December 31, 2024, and contributions to these international plans of $3 million were made in 2024.
Our senior secured credit facility and the indenture for our senior secured notes include affirmative and negative covenants that restrict or limit our ability to, among other things, incur indebtedness; create liens on assets; engage in certain fundamental corporate changes or changes to our business activities; make investments; sell or otherwise dispose of assets; engage in sale-leaseback or hedging transactions; pay dividends or make similar distributions; repay other indebtedness; engage in certain affiliate transactions; or enter into agreements that restrict our ability to create liens, pay dividends or make loan repayments. Our senior secured credit facility also includes financial covenants that require us to maintain a consolidated leverage ratio not to exceed 4.50 to 1.00 on the last day of any fiscal quarter ending on or prior to September 30, 2025.
CRITICAL ACCOUNTING ESTIMATES
Our Consolidated Financial Statements are prepared in accordance with GAAP. In connection with the preparation of these financial statements, we are required to make assumptions, estimates and judgments that affect the reported amounts of assets, liabilities, revenue, expenses and the related disclosure of contingent liabilities. These assumptions, estimates and judgments are based on historical experience and are believed to be reasonable at the time. However, because future events and their effects cannot be determined with certainty, the determination of estimates requires the exercise of judgment. Our critical accounting policies are those that require assumptions to be made about matters that are highly uncertain. Different estimates could have a material impact on our financial results. Judgments and uncertainties affecting the application of these policies and estimates may result in materially different amounts being reported under different conditions or circumstances. Our management continually reviews these assumptions, estimates and judgments to ensure that our financial statements are presented fairly and are materially correct.
In many cases, the accounting treatment of a particular transaction is specifically dictated by GAAP and does not require significant management judgment in its application. There are also areas in which management’s judgment in selecting among available alternatives would not produce a materially different result. The significant accounting policies are discussed in Note 1, “Basis of Presentation and Significant Accounting Policies”, of the Notes to Consolidated Financial Statements in Item 8 of Part II of this Report, which contains additional information regarding our accounting policies and other disclosures required by GAAP. The estimates that we believe are the most critical to aid in fully understanding and evaluating our reported financial results are discussed in the paragraphs below.
Revenue Recognition We enter into contracts to sell our products and services, which may be sold separately or bundled with other products and services. As a result, interpretation and judgment are sometimes required to determine the appropriate accounting for these transactions, including: (i) whether performance obligations are considered distinct that should be accounted for separately versus together, how the price should be allocated among the performance obligations, and when to recognize revenue for each performance obligation; (ii) developing an estimate of the stand-alone selling price, or SSP, of each distinct performance obligation; (iii) combining contracts that may impact the allocation of the transaction price between product and services; and (iv) estimating
and accounting for variable consideration, including rights of return, rebates, expected penalties or other price concessions as a reduction of the transaction price.
Our estimates of SSP for each performance obligation require judgment that considers multiple factors, including, but not limited to, historical discounting trends for products and services, pricing practices in different geographies and industries, gross margin objectives, and internal costs. Our estimates for rebates are based on specific criteria outlined in customer contracts or rebate agreements, and other factors known at the time. Our estimates for expected penalties and other price concessions are based on historical trends and expectations regarding future occurrence.
Changes in judgments with respect to these assumptions and estimates could impact the timing or amount of revenue recognition. Additional information regarding our revenue recognition policy is included in Note 1, “Basis of Presentation and Significant Accounting Policies”, in the Notes to Consolidated Financial Statements.
Inventory Valuation We assess the valuation of our inventory on a periodic basis and make adjustments to the value to properly provide for potential exposure due to slow-moving, excess, obsolete or unusable inventory. Inventories are written down to net realizable value based on forecasted usage of parts, sales orders, technological obsolescence and inventory aging. These factors can be impacted by market conditions, technology changes, changes in strategic direction, and customer demand and require estimates and management judgment that may include elements that are uncertain. On a quarterly basis, we review the current net realizable value of inventory and adjust for any inventory exposure due to age, obsolescence, or excess of cost over net realizable value.
Goodwill Atleos tests goodwill at the reporting unit level for impairment on an annual basis during the fourth quarter or more frequently if certain events occur indicating that the carrying value of goodwill may be impaired. A significant amount of judgment is involved in determining if an indicator of impairment has occurred. Such indicators may include a decline in expected cash flows, a significant adverse change in legal factors or in the business climate, a decision to sell a business, unanticipated competition, or slower growth rates, among others.
In the evaluation of goodwill for impairment, we have the option to perform a qualitative assessment to determine whether further impairment testing is necessary or to perform a quantitative assessment by comparing the fair value of a reporting unit to its carrying amount, including goodwill. Under the qualitative assessment, an entity is not required to calculate the fair value of a reporting unit unless the entity determines that it is more likely than not that its fair value is less than its carrying amount. If under the quantitative assessment the fair value of a reporting unit is less than its carrying amount, then the amount of the impairment loss, if any, is determined based on the amount by which the carrying amount exceeds the fair value up to the total value of goodwill assigned to the reporting unit. Fair values of the reporting units are estimated using a weighted methodology considering the output from both the income and market approaches. The income approach incorporates the use of a discounted cash flow (“DCF”) analysis. A number of significant assumptions and estimates are involved in the application of the DCF model to forecast operating cash flows, including revenue growth rates, EBITDA margins and discount rates. Several of these assumptions vary among reporting units. The cash flow forecasts are generally based on approved strategic operating plans. The market approach is performed using the Guideline Public Companies (“GPC”) method which is based on earnings multiple data. We perform a reconciliation between our market capitalization and our estimate of the aggregate fair value of the reporting units, including considerations of a control premium.
Some of the inherent estimates and assumptions used in determining fair value of the reporting units are outside the control of management, including interest rates, cost of capital, tax rates, market revenue and EBITDA comparables and credit ratings. While we believe we have made reasonable estimates and assumptions to calculate the fair value of the reporting units, it is possible a material change could occur. If our actual results are not consistent with our estimates and assumptions used to calculate fair value, it could result in material impairments of our goodwill.
Valuation of Long-lived Assets and Amortizable Other Intangible Assets We perform impairment tests for our long-lived assets if an event or circumstance indicates that the carrying amount of our long-lived assets may not be recoverable. In response to changes in industry and market conditions, we may also strategically realign our resources and consider restructuring, disposing of, or otherwise exiting businesses. Such activities could result in impairment of our long-lived assets or other intangible assets. We also are subject to the possibility of impairment of long-lived assets arising in the ordinary course of business. We consider the likelihood of impairment if certain events occur indicating that the carrying value of the long-lived assets may be impaired and we may recognize impairment if the carrying amount of a long-lived asset or intangible asset is not recoverable from its undiscounted cash flows. Impairment is measured as the difference between the carrying amount and the fair value of the asset. We use both the income approach and market approach to estimate fair value. Our estimates of fair value are subject to a high degree of judgment since they include a long-term forecast of future operations. Accordingly, any value ultimately derived from our long-lived assets may differ from our estimate of fair value.
We make strategic acquisitions that may have a material impact on our consolidated results of operations or financial position. We allocate the purchase price of acquired businesses to the assets acquired and liabilities assumed in the transaction at their estimated fair values. The estimates used to determine the fair value of long-lived assets, such as intangible assets, can be complex and require significant judgments. We use information available to us to make fair value determinations and engage independent valuation specialists, when necessary, to assist in the fair value determination of significant acquired long-lived assets. The determination of fair value requires estimates about cash flow forecasts, discount rates, revenue growth rates, EBITDA margin, customer attrition rate, and other future events that are judgmental in nature. While we use our best estimates and assumptions as a part of the purchase price allocation process, our estimates are inherently uncertain and subject to refinement. As a result, during the measurement period, which may be up to one year from the acquisition date, we may record adjustments to the assets acquired and liabilities assumed, with the corresponding offset to goodwill. Any adjustments subsequent to the measurement period are recorded to our consolidated statements of income. We are also required to estimate the useful lives of intangible assets to determine the amount of acquisition-related intangible asset amortization expense to record in future periods. Additional information regarding our acquisitions is included in Note 2, “Business Combinations”, in the Notes to Consolidated Financial Statements.
Pension, Postemployment and Postretirement Benefits We sponsor domestic and foreign defined benefit pension and postemployment plans as well as domestic postretirement plans. As a result, we have significant pension, postemployment and postretirement benefit costs, which are developed from actuarial valuations. Actuarial assumptions attempt to anticipate future events and are used in calculating the expense and liability relating to these plans. These factors include assumptions we make about interest rates, expected investment return on plan assets, involuntary turnover rates, and rates of future compensation increases. In addition, our actuarial consultants advise us about subjective factors such as withdrawal rates and mortality rates to use in our valuations. We generally review and update these assumptions on an annual basis at the end of each fiscal year. We are required to consider current market conditions, including changes in interest rates, in making these assumptions. The actuarial assumptions that we use may differ materially from actual results due to changing market and economic conditions, higher or lower withdrawal rates, or longer or shorter life spans of participants. These differences may result in a significant impact to the amount of pension, postemployment and postretirement benefits expense we have recorded or may record. Ongoing pension, postemployment and postretirement expense impacts all of our segments. Pension mark-to-market adjustments, settlements, curtailments and special termination benefits are excluded from our segment results as those items are not included in the evaluation of segment performance. See Note 4, “Segment Information and Concentrations”, in the Notes to Consolidated Financial Statements in Item 8 of Part II of this Report for a reconciliation of our segment results to Net income (loss) attributable to Atleos.
The key assumptions used in developing our 2024 expense were discount rates of 5.0% and an expected return on assets assumption of 7.5% for our U.S. pension plan. The U.S. plan represented 70% of the pension obligation as of December 31, 2024. Holding all other assumptions constant, a 0.25% change in the discount rate used for the U.S. pension plan would have increased or decreased 2024 ongoing pension expense by approximately $2 million. A 0.25% change in the expected rate of return on plan assets assumption for the U.S. pension plan would have increased or decreased 2024 ongoing pension expense by approximately $3 million. Our expected return on plan assets has historically been and will likely continue to be material to net income. For 2025, we intend to use a discount rate of 5.5% in determining the U.S. pension expense. We intend to use an expected rate of return on assets assumption of 7.0% for the U.S. pension plan.
We recognize additional changes in the fair value of plan assets and net actuarial gains or losses of our pension plans upon remeasurement, which occurs at least annually in the fourth quarter of each year. The remaining components of pension expense, primarily net service cost, interest cost, and the expected return on plan assets, are recorded on a quarterly basis as ongoing pension expense. While it is required that we review our actuarial assumptions each year at the measurement date, we generally do not change them between measurement dates. We use a measurement date of December 31 for all of our plans. Changes in assumptions or asset values may have a significant effect on the annual measurement of expense or income in the fourth quarter.
The most significant assumption used in developing our 2024 postemployment plan expense is the assumed rate of involuntary turnover of 3.8%. The involuntary turnover rate is based on historical trends and projections of involuntary turnover in the future. A 0.25% change in the rate of involuntary turnover would have increased or decreased 2024 expense by an immaterial amount. The sensitivity of the assumptions described above is specific to each individual plan and not to our pension, postemployment and postretirement plans in the aggregate. We intend to use an involuntary turnover assumption of 5.0% in determining the 2025 postemployment expense.
Income Taxes We recognize deferred tax assets and liabilities based on the differences between the financial statement carrying amounts and the tax basis of assets and liabilities. The deferred tax assets and liabilities are determined based on the enacted tax rates expected to apply in the periods in which the deferred tax assets or liabilities are anticipated to be settled or realized.
We regularly review our deferred tax assets for recoverability and establish a valuation allowance if it is more likely than not that some portion or all of a deferred tax asset will not be realized. The determination as to whether a deferred tax asset will be realized is made on a jurisdictional basis and is based on the evaluation of positive and negative evidence. This evidence includes historical taxable income, projected future taxable income, the expected timing of the reversal of existing temporary differences and the implementation of tax planning strategies. Projected future taxable income is based on our expected results and assumptions as to the jurisdiction in which the income will be earned. The expected timing of the reversals of existing temporary differences is based on current tax law and our tax methods of accounting. As a result of this determination, we had valuation allowances of $264 million and $263 million as of December 31, 2024 and 2023, respectively, related to certain deferred income tax assets, primarily tax loss carryforwards, in jurisdictions where there is uncertainty as to the ultimate realization of a benefit from those tax assets.
If we are unable to generate sufficient future taxable income, or if there is a material change in the actual effective tax rates or the time period within which the underlying temporary differences become taxable or deductible, or if the tax laws change unfavorably, then we could be required to increase our valuation allowance against our deferred tax assets, resulting in an increase in our effective tax rate.
The Company recognizes the tax benefit from an uncertain tax position only if it is more likely than not that the tax position will be sustained on examination by the taxing authorities, based on the technical merits of the position. The tax benefits recognized in the Consolidated Financial Statements from such a position are measured based on the largest benefit that has a greater than fifty percent likelihood of being realized upon settlement. Interest and penalties related to uncertain tax positions are recognized as part of the provision for income taxes and are accrued beginning in the period that such interest and penalties would be applicable under relevant tax law until such time that the related tax benefits are recognized.
Income taxes as presented in the Consolidated Financial Statements of the Company for periods prior to the Separation attribute current and deferred income taxes of NCR to the Company’s stand-alone financial statements in a manner that is systematic, rational and consistent with the asset and liability method prescribed by Financial Accounting Standards Board Accounting Standards Codification Topic 740: Income Taxes (“ASC 740”). Accordingly, the Company’s income tax provision for periods prior to the Separation was prepared following the separate return method. The separate return method applies ASC 740 to the stand-alone financial statements of each member of the consolidated group as if the group members were a separate taxpayer and a stand-alone enterprise. The calculation of our income taxes on a separate return basis requires a considerable amount of judgment and use of both estimates and allocations. As a result, actual transactions included in the Consolidated Financial Statements of NCR may not be included in the Consolidated Financial Statements of the Company. Similarly, the tax treatment of certain items reflected in the Consolidated Financial Statements of the Company may not be reflected in the Consolidated Financial Statements and tax returns of NCR. Therefore, such items as net operating losses, credit carry-forwards and valuation allowances may exist in the stand-alone financial statements that may or may not exist in NCR’s Consolidated Financial Statements. As such, the income taxes of the Company as presented in the Consolidated Financial Statements prior to the Separation may not be indicative of the income taxes that the Company will report in the future.
The provision for income taxes may change period-to-period based on non-recurring events, such as the settlement of income tax audits and changes in tax laws, as well as recurring factors including the geographic mix of income before taxes, state and local taxes and the effects of various global income tax strategies. We maintain certain strategic management and operational activities in overseas subsidiaries and our foreign earnings are taxed at rates that are generally lower than in the United States. As of December 31, 2024, we did not provide for U.S. federal income taxes or foreign withholding taxes on approximately $3.7 billion of undistributed earnings of our foreign subsidiaries as such earnings are expected to be reinvested indefinitely. The amount of unrecognized deferred tax liability associated with these indefinitely reinvested earnings is approximately $130 million.
Refer to Note 7, “Income Taxes”, in the Notes to Consolidated Financial Statements in Item 8 of Part II of this Report for disclosures related to foreign and domestic pretax income, foreign and domestic income tax (benefit) expense and the effect foreign taxes have on our overall effective tax rate.
Cost Allocations For periods prior to the Separation from Voyix, the Consolidated Financial Statements include certain overhead and shared costs allocated to Atleos including: (i) certain general and administrative expenses related to NCR support functions that are provided on a centralized basis within NCR, including expenses for corporate facilities, executive oversight, treasury, finance, legal, human resources, compliance, information technology, employee benefit plans, stock compensation plans, and other corporate functions and (ii) certain operations support costs incurred by NCR, including professional services, product maintenance and services, product sourcing, warehousing, distribution and other supply chain support functions. These expenses have been allocated to Atleos based on a specific identification basis or, when specific identification is not practicable, a proportional cost allocation method primarily based on sales, directly identifiable actual costs, headcount, usage or other allocation methods that are considered to be a reasonable reflection of the utilization of services provided or benefit received by Atleos during the periods presented, depending on the nature of the services received.
RECENTLY ISSUED ACCOUNTING PRONOUNCEMENTS
A discussion of recently issued accounting pronouncements is described in Note 1, “Basis of Presentation and Significant Accounting Policies”, of the Notes to Consolidated Financial Statements in Item 8 of Part II of this Report, and we incorporate by reference such discussion in this MD&A.

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ITEM 7A. QUANTITATIVE AND QUALITATIVE DISCLOSURES ABOUT MARKET RISK
Item 7A. QUANTITATIVE AND QUALITATIVE DISCLOSURES ABOUT MARKET RISK
Foreign Exchange Risk
Since a substantial portion of our operations and revenue occur outside the United States, and in currencies other than the U.S. Dollar, our results can be significantly impacted by changes in foreign currency exchange rates. We have exposure to approximately 40 functional currencies and are exposed to foreign currency exchange risk with respect to our sales, profits and assets and liabilities denominated in currencies other than the U.S. Dollar. Although we use financial instruments to hedge certain foreign currency risks, we are not fully protected against foreign currency fluctuations and our reported results of operations could be affected by changes in foreign currency exchange rates. To manage our exposures and mitigate the impact of currency fluctuations on the operations of our foreign subsidiaries, we hedge our main transactional exposures through the use of foreign exchange contracts. This is primarily done through the hedging of foreign currency denominated intercompany inventory purchases by the marketing units and the foreign currency denominated inputs to our manufacturing units. If these contracts are designated as highly effective cash flow hedges, the gains or losses are deferred into Accumulated other comprehensive income (loss) (“AOCI”). The gains or losses from derivative contracts that are designated as highly effective cash flow hedges related to inventory purchases are recorded in cost of products when the inventory is sold to an unrelated third party. Otherwise, the gains or losses from these contracts are recognized in earnings as exchange rates change. We also use derivatives not designated as hedging instruments consisting primarily of forward contracts to hedge foreign currency denominated balance sheet exposures. For these derivatives we recognize gains and losses in the same period as the remeasurement losses and gains of the related foreign currency-denominated exposures.
We utilize non-exchange traded financial instruments, such as foreign exchange forward and option contracts, that we purchase exclusively from highly rated financial institutions. We record these contracts on our balance sheet at fair market value based upon market price quotations from the financial institutions. We do not enter into non-exchange traded contracts that require the use of fair value estimation techniques, but if we did, they could have a material impact on our financial results.
For purposes of analyzing potential risk, we use sensitivity analysis to quantify potential impacts that market rate changes may have on the fair values of our hedge portfolio related to firmly committed or forecasted transactions. The sensitivity analysis represents the hypothetical changes in value of the hedge position and does not reflect the related gain or loss on the forecasted underlying transaction. A 10% appreciation in the value of the U.S. Dollar against foreign currencies from the prevailing market rates would have resulted in a corresponding decrease in the fair value of the hedge portfolio of $7 million as of December 31, 2024. A 10% depreciation in the value of the U.S. Dollar against foreign currencies from the prevailing market rates would have resulted in a corresponding increase in the fair value of the hedge portfolio of $7 million as of December 31, 2024. The Company expects that any increase or decrease in the fair value of the portfolio would be substantially offset by increases or decreases in the underlying exposures being hedged.
Interest Rate Risk
We are subject to interest rate risk principally in relation to variable-rate debt. Approximately 45% of our borrowings were on a fixed rate basis as of December 31, 2024. The increase in pre-tax interest expense for the twelve months ended December 31, 2024 from a hypothetical 100 basis point increase in variable interest rates would be approximately $16 million, including the impact from outstanding interest rate swap agreements on our variable rate debt.
Additionally, as our ATM vault cash rental expense is based on market rates of interest, it is sensitive to changes in applicable interest rates in the respective countries in which we operate. We pay a monthly fee on the average outstanding vault cash balances in our ATMs under floating rate formulas based on a spread above various interbank offered rates. ATM vault cash rental expense is reflected in Cost of Services in our Consolidated Statements of Operations. The increase in vault cash rental expense for the twelve months ended December 31, 2024 from a hypothetical 100 basis point increase in variable interest rates would be approximately $40 million, excluding the impact from outstanding interest rate swap agreements related to our vault cash.
We utilize interest rate swap contracts to add stability to interest cost and to manage exposure to interest rate movements as part of our interest rate risk management strategy. Payments and receipts related to interest rate swap contracts are included in cash flows
from operating activities in the Consolidated Statements of Cash Flows. Refer to Note 14, “Derivatives and Hedging Instruments”, in Item 8 of Part II of this Report for further information on our interest rate derivative contracts in effect as of December 31, 2024.
Concentrations of Credit Risk
We are potentially subject to concentrations of credit risk on accounts receivable and financial instruments, such as hedging instruments and cash and cash equivalents. Credit risk includes the risk of nonperformance by counterparties. The maximum potential loss may exceed the amount recognized on the balance sheet. Exposure to credit risk is managed through credit approvals, credit limits, selecting major international financial institutions as counterparties to hedging transactions, and monitoring procedures. Our business often involves large transactions with customers for which we do not require collateral. If one or more of those customers were to default on its obligations under applicable contractual arrangements, we could be exposed to potentially significant losses. Moreover, a prolonged downturn in the global economy could have an adverse impact on the ability of our customers to pay their obligations on a timely basis. We believe that the reserves for potential losses are adequate. As of December 31, 2024, we did not have any significant concentration of credit risk related to financial instruments.
Index to Financial Statements and Supplemental Data
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Report of Independent Registered Public Accounting Firm [PCAOB ID 238]
Consolidated Statements of Operations
Consolidated Statements of Comprehensive Income (Loss)
Consolidated Balance Sheets
Consolidated Statements of Cash Flows
Consolidated Statements of Changes in Stockholders’ Equity
Notes to Consolidated Financial Statements
Note 1. Basis of Presentation and Significant Accounting Policies
Note 2. Business Combinations
Note 3. Goodwill and Purchased Intangible Assets
Note 4. Segment Information and Concentrations
Note 5. Debt Obligations
Note 6. Trade Receivable Facility
Note 7. Income Taxes
Note 8. Stock Compensation Plans
Note 9. Employee Benefit Plans
Note 10. Commitments and Contingencies
Note 11. Leasing
Note 12. Related Parties
Note 13. Earnings Per Share
Note 14. Derivatives and Hedging Instruments
Note 15. Fair Value of Assets and Liabilities
Note 16. Accumulated Other Comprehensive Income
Note 17. Supplemental Financial Information
Note 18. Quarterly Information (Unaudited)

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ITEM 8. FINANCIAL STATEMENTS AND SUPPLEMENTARY DATA
Item 8. FINANCIAL STATEMENTS AND SUPPLEMENTAL DATA
Report of Independent Registered Public Accounting Firm
To the Board of Directors and Stockholders of NCR Atleos Corporation
Opinions on the Financial Statements and Internal Control over Financial Reporting
We have audited the accompanying consolidated balance sheets of NCR Atleos Corporation and its subsidiaries (the “Company”) as of December 31, 2024 and 2023, and the related consolidated statements of operations, of comprehensive income (loss), of changes in stockholders’ equity and of cash flows for each of the three years in the period ended December 31, 2024, including the related notes and financial statement schedule listed in the index appearing under Item 15(a)(2) (collectively referred to as the “consolidated financial statements”). We also have audited the Company’s internal control over financial reporting as of December 31, 2024, based on criteria established in Internal Control - Integrated Framework (2013) issued by the Committee of Sponsoring Organizations of the Treadway Commission (COSO).
In our opinion, the consolidated financial statements referred to above present fairly, in all material respects, the financial position of the Company as of December 31, 2024 and 2023, and the results of its operations and its cash flows for each of the three years in the period ended December 31, 2024 in conformity with accounting principles generally accepted in the United States of America. Also in our opinion, the Company maintained, in all material respects, effective internal control over financial reporting as of December 31, 2024, based on criteria established in Internal Control - Integrated Framework (2013) issued by the COSO.
Basis for Opinions
The Company’s management is responsible for these consolidated financial statements, for maintaining effective internal control over financial reporting, and for its assessment of the effectiveness of internal control over financial reporting, included in Management’s Report on Internal Control over Financial Reporting appearing under Item 9A. Our responsibility is to express opinions on the Company’s consolidated financial statements and on the Company’s internal control over financial reporting based on our audits. We are a public accounting firm registered with the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board (United States) (PCAOB) and are required to be independent with respect to the Company in accordance with the U.S. federal securities laws and the applicable rules and regulations of the Securities and Exchange Commission and the PCAOB.
We conducted our audits in accordance with the standards of the PCAOB. Those standards require that we plan and perform the audits to obtain reasonable assurance about whether the consolidated financial statements are free of material misstatement, whether due to error or fraud, and whether effective internal control over financial reporting was maintained in all material respects.
Our audits of the consolidated financial statements included performing procedures to assess the risks of material misstatement of the consolidated financial statements, whether due to error or fraud, and performing procedures that respond to those risks. Such procedures included examining, on a test basis, evidence regarding the amounts and disclosures in the consolidated financial statements. Our audits also included evaluating the accounting principles used and significant estimates made by management, as well as evaluating the overall presentation of the consolidated financial statements. Our audit of internal control over financial reporting included obtaining an understanding of internal control over financial reporting, assessing the risk that a material weakness exists, and testing and evaluating the design and operating effectiveness of internal control based on the assessed risk. Our audits also included performing such other procedures as we considered necessary in the circumstances. We believe that our audits provide a reasonable basis for our opinions.
Definition and Limitations of Internal Control over Financial Reporting
A company’s internal control over financial reporting is a process designed to provide reasonable assurance regarding the reliability of financial reporting and the preparation of financial statements for external purposes in accordance with generally accepted accounting principles. A company’s internal control over financial reporting includes those policies and procedures that (i) pertain to the maintenance of records that, in reasonable detail, accurately and fairly reflect the transactions and dispositions of the assets of the company; (ii) provide reasonable assurance that transactions are recorded as necessary to permit preparation of financial statements in accordance with generally accepted accounting principles, and that receipts and expenditures of the company are being made only in accordance with authorizations of management and directors of the company; and (iii) provide reasonable assurance regarding prevention or timely detection of unauthorized acquisition, use, or disposition of the company’s assets that could have a material effect on the financial statements.
Because of its inherent limitations, internal control over financial reporting may not prevent or detect misstatements. Also, projections of any evaluation of effectiveness to future periods are subject to the risk that controls may become inadequate because of changes in conditions, or that the degree of compliance with the policies or procedures may deteriorate.
Critical Audit Matter
The critical audit matter communicated below is a matter arising from the current period audit of the consolidated financial statements that was communicated or required to be communicated to the audit committee and that (i) relates to accounts or disclosures that are material to the consolidated financial statements and (ii) involved our especially challenging, subjective, or complex judgments. The communication of critical audit matters does not alter in any way our opinion on the consolidated financial statements, taken as a whole, and we are not, by communicating the critical audit matter below, providing a separate opinion on the critical audit matter or on the accounts or disclosures to which it relates.
Revenue Recognition
As described in Note 1 to the consolidated financial statements, services revenue includes professional consulting and managed services, payment processing services, installation services and maintenance support services, while product revenue includes hardware and software products. The Company’s total revenue was $4,317 million for the year ended December 31, 2024. Management records revenue when, or as, performance obligations are satisfied by transferring control of a promised good or service to the customer, in an amount that reflects the consideration the Company expects to be entitled to in exchange for products and services. Management evaluates the transfer of control primarily from the customer’s perspective where the customer has the ability to direct the use of and obtain substantially all the remaining benefits from that good or service.
The principal consideration for our determination that performing procedures relating to revenue recognition is a critical audit matter is a high degree of auditor effort in performing procedures related to recognition of the Company’s product and service revenues.
Addressing the matter involved performing procedures and evaluating audit evidence in connection with forming our overall opinion on the consolidated financial statements. These procedures included testing the effectiveness of controls relating to the revenue recognition process. These procedures also included, among others (i) evaluating the Company’s accounting policies related to the recognition of revenue; (ii) testing the revenue recognized for a sample of product and service revenue transactions by obtaining and inspecting source documents, such as executed contracts, invoices, evidence of products delivered or services provided, and evidence of customer remittance of payment; and (iii) testing the completeness and accuracy of data provided by management.
/s/ PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP
Atlanta, Georgia
March 3, 2025
We have served as the Company’s auditor since 2023.
NCR Atleos Corporation
Consolidated Statements of Operations
For the years ended December 31, (in millions, except per share amounts) 2024 2023 2022
Product revenue $ 995 $ 1,030 $ 1,098
Service revenue 3,322 3,161 3,033
Total revenue 4,317 4,191 4,131
Cost of products 839 846 972
Cost of services 2,445 2,412 2,240
Selling, general and administrative expenses 518 585 586
Research and development expenses 66 77 64
Total operating expenses 3,868 3,920 3,862
Income from operations 449 271 269
Loss on extinguishment of debt (20) - -
Interest expense (309) (77) -
Related party interest expense, net - (13) (31)
Other (expense) income, net 19 (74) (81)
Income before income taxes 139 107 157
Income tax expense 47 239 50
Net income (loss) 92 (132) 107
Net income (loss) attributable to noncontrolling interests 1 2 (1)
Net income (loss) attributable to Atleos $ 91 $ (134) $ 108
Net income (loss) per share attributable to Atleos common stockholders:
Net income (loss) per common share
Basic $ 1.26 $ (1.90) $ 1.53
Diluted $ 1.23 $ (1.90) $ 1.53
Weighted average common shares outstanding
Basic 72.2 70.6 70.6
Diluted 74.2 70.6 70.6
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The accompanying notes are an integral part of the Consolidated Financial Statements.
NCR Atleos Corporation
Consolidated Statements of Comprehensive Income (Loss)
For the years ended December 31 (in millions) 2024 2023 2022
Net income (loss) $ 92 $ (132) $ 107
Other comprehensive income (loss):
Currency translation adjustments
Currency translation adjustments gain (loss) (55) 197 (52)
Derivatives
Unrealized gain on derivatives 49 7 117
Loss (gain) on derivatives arising during the period (82) (78) (9)
Less income tax 6 17 (24)
Employee benefit plans
Net (loss) gain arising during the period (27) (7) -
Less income tax 4 - -
Other comprehensive income (loss) (105) 136 32
Total comprehensive income (loss) (13) 4 139
Less comprehensive income (loss) attributable to noncontrolling interests:
Net income (loss) 1 2 (1)
Currency translation adjustments - 2 (3)
Amounts attributable to noncontrolling interests 1 4 (4)
Comprehensive income (loss) attributable to Atleos common stockholders $ (14) $ - $ 143
The accompanying notes are an integral part of the Consolidated Financial Statements.
NCR Atleos Corporation
Consolidated Balance Sheets
As of December 31 (in millions except per share amounts) 2024 2023
Assets
Current assets
Cash and cash equivalents $ 419 $ 339
Accounts receivable, net of allowances of $15 and $14 as of December 31, 2024 and 2023, respectively
588 710
Inventories 307 333
Restricted cash 210 238
Other current assets 242 254
Total current assets 1,766 1,874
Property, plant and equipment, net 474 468
Goodwill 1,950 1,952
Intangibles, net 550 635
Operating lease right of use assets 144 144
Prepaid pension cost 227 219
Deferred income tax assets 285 254
Other assets 156 169
Total assets $ 5,552 $ 5,715
Liabilities and stockholders’ equity
Current liabilities
Short-term borrowings $ 81 $ 76
Accounts payable 562 505
Payroll and benefits liabilities 147 149
Contract liabilities 315 325
Settlement liabilities 156 218
Other current liabilities 441 486
Total current liabilities 1,702 1,759
Long-term borrowings 2,855 2,938
Pension and indemnity plan liabilities 343 389
Postretirement and postemployment benefits liabilities 81 60
Income tax accruals 37 36
Operating lease liabilities 110 109
Deferred income tax liabilities 40 34
Other liabilities 120 141
Total liabilities 5,288 5,466
Commitments and Contingencies (Note 10)
Stockholders’ equity
Atleos stockholders’ equity
Preferred stock: par value $0.01 per share, 50.0 shares authorized, no shares issued
- -
Common stock: par value $0.01 per share, 350.0 shares authorized, 72.7 and 70.9 shares issued and outstanding as of December 31, 2024 and 2023, respectively
1 1
Paid-in capital 47 12
Retained earnings 231 147
Accumulated other comprehensive income (loss) (19) 86
Total Atleos stockholders’ equity 260 246
Noncontrolling interests in subsidiaries 4 3
Total stockholders’ equity 264 249
Total liabilities and stockholders’ equity $ 5,552 $ 5,715
The accompanying notes are an integral part of the Consolidated Financial Statements.
NCR Atleos Corporation
Consolidated Statements of Cash Flows
For the years ended December 31 (in millions) 2024 2023 2022
Operating activities
Net income (loss) $ 92 $ (132) $ 107
Adjustments to reconcile net income (loss) to net cash provided by operating activities:
Depreciation expense 139 126 127
Amortization expense 148 128 132
Stock-based compensation expense 38 68 66
Deferred income taxes (19) 74 (28)
Loss on disposal of property, plant and equipment and other assets 2 3 -
Bargain purchase gain from acquisition (5) - -
Loss from equity investments 3 - -
Loss on debt extinguishment 20 - -
Changes in assets and liabilities:
Receivables 102 (52) (78)
Related party receivables and payables - (22) (26)
Inventories (77) 53 (10)
Settlement assets 14 (7) (10)
Current payables and accrued expenses 100 140 (78)
Contract liabilities (6) - 44
Employee benefit plans (69) (170) 62
Other assets and liabilities (138) 146 (34)
Net cash provided by operating activities $ 344 $ 355 $ 274
Investing activities
Expenditures for property, plant and equipment $ (87) $ (108) $ (58)
Additions to capitalized software (39) (24) (39)
Business acquisitions, net of cash acquired - (1) (78)
Purchases of investments (1) (10) -
Proceeds from sale of investments 5 - -
Purchase of intellectual property (13) - -
Proceeds from divestiture 1 - -
Amounts advanced for related party notes receivable - (217) (274)
Repayments received from related party notes receivable - 44 32
Other investing activities, net (1) - -
Net cash used in investing activities $ (135) $ (316) $ (417)
Financing activities
Proceeds from related party borrowings $ - $ 412 $ 68
Payments on related party borrowings - (314) (604)
Proceeds from issuance of senior secured notes - 1,333 -
Proceeds from borrowings on term credit facilities 300 1,561 -
Payments on term credit facilities (473) - -
Borrowings on revolving credit facilities 1,104 330 -
Payments on revolving credit facilities (1,034) (175) -
Payments on other financing arrangements (3) (1) -
Debt issuance costs (2) (51) -
Call premium paid on debt extinguishments (7) - -
Principal payments for finance lease obligations (4) (1) (2)
Tax withholding payments on behalf of employees (14) (7) -
Proceeds from employee stock plans 4 - -
Payments on acquisition holdback (5) - -
Net transfers from (to) NCR Corporation - (60) 721
Consideration paid to NCR Corporation in connection with the Separation - (2,996) -
Net cash provided by (used in) financing activities $ (134) $ 31 $ 183
Effect of exchange rate changes on cash, cash equivalents and restricted cash (20) 17 (11)
Increase (decrease) in cash, cash equivalents and restricted cash 55 87 29
Cash, cash equivalents and restricted cash at beginning of period 586 499 470
Cash, cash equivalents and restricted cash at end of period $ 641 $ 586 $ 499
The accompanying notes are an integral part of the Consolidated Financial Statements.
NCR Atleos Corporation
Consolidated Statements of Changes in Stockholders’ Equity
Atleos Stockholders
Common Stock Accumulated Other Comprehensive Income (Loss) Noncontrolling Interests in Subsidiaries
In millions Shares Amount Paid-in Capital Retained Earnings Net Investment from NCR Corporation Total
December 31, 2021 - $ - $ - $ - $ 2,431 $ (98) $ 3 $ 2,336
Comprehensive income (loss):
Net income (loss) - - - - 108 - (1) 107
Other comprehensive income (loss) - - - - - 35 (3) 32
Total comprehensive income (loss) - - - - 108 35 (4) 139
Net transfers from NCR Corporation - - - - 787 - - 787
December 31, 2022 - $ - $ - $ - $ 3,326 $ (63) $ (1) $ 3,262
Comprehensive income (loss):
Net income (loss) - - - (138) 4 - 2 (132)
Other comprehensive income (loss) - - - - - 134 2 136
Total comprehensive income (loss) - - - (138) 4 134 4 4
Net transfers from NCR Corporation - - - - (48) - - (48)
Accumulated other comprehensive income transferred from NCR Corporation - - - - - 15 - 15
Consideration paid to NCR Corporation in connection with the Separation - - - - (2,996) - - (2,996)
Issuance of Common Stock in connection with Separation and reclassification of Net investment from NCR Corporation 71 1 - 285 (286) - - -
Stock compensation plans - - 12 - - - - 12
December 31, 2023 71 $ 1 $ 12 $ 147 $ - $ 86 $ 3 $ 249
Comprehensive income (loss):
Net income (loss) - - - 91 - - 1 92
Other comprehensive income (loss) - - - - - (105) - (105)
Total comprehensive income (loss) - - - 91 - (105) 1 (13)
Net transfers from Voyix - - - (7) - - - (7)
Stock compensation plans 2 - 35 - - - - 35
December 31, 2024 73 $ 1 $ 47 $ 231 $ - $ (19) $ 4 $ 264
The accompanying notes are an integral part of the Consolidated Financial Statements.
NCR Atleos Corporation
Notes to Consolidated Financial Statements
1. BASIS OF PRESENTATION AND SIGNIFICANT ACCOUNTING POLICIES
Background
NCR Atleos Corporation (“Atleos,” the “Company,” “we,” or “our”) is an industry-leading financial technology company providing self-directed banking solutions to a global customer base, including financial institutions, retailers and consumers. The Company’s comprehensive solutions enable the acceleration of self-directed banking through automated teller machine (“ATM”) and interactive teller machine (“ITM”) technology, including software, services, hardware and our proprietary Allpoint network. Atleos is a global company that is headquartered in Atlanta, Georgia.
On September 15, 2022, NCR Corporation (now known as NCR Voyix Corporation or “Voyix,” and referred to as “NCR” prior to the Separation), announced its plan to separate its businesses into two distinct, publicly traded companies, whereby NCR would execute a spin-off to NCR stockholders of its self-service banking, network, and telecommunications and technology businesses (previously referred to as NCR Atleos or NCR ATMCo), (the “Spin-off” or “Separation”). On September 22, 2023, the Board of Directors of NCR authorized the Spin-off of Atleos, which was completed on October 16, 2023. Prior to October 16, 2023, the Company was wholly owned by NCR.
On September 27, 2023, and in connection with the Spin-off, the Company executed senior secured notes and term loan facilities and used the aggregate proceeds of $2,894 million received from the issuance of the senior secured notes and the term loan facilities, as well as cash on-hand, to make a net distribution payment of $2,996 million to Voyix in consideration for the net assets contributed to Atleos. Refer to Note 5, “Debt Obligations”, for additional information on our current outstanding debt.
The Spin-off was achieved by means of a pro-rata distribution of all of Atleos’ common stock to Voyix’s stockholders at the close of business on October 2, 2023 (“Record Date”) (collectively, the “Distribution”). Each holder of Voyix’s common stock received one share of Atleos’ common stock for every two shares of Voyix’s common stock held as of the Record Date. Upon completion of the Distribution, on October 17, 2023, the Company commenced trading as an independent public company under the ticker symbol “NATL” on the New York Stock Exchange (“NYSE”). Following the Distribution, Voyix does not beneficially own any shares of Atleos common stock and no longer consolidates Atleos with Voyix’s financial results.
In preparation for the Spin-off, NCR transferred certain assets and liabilities to Atleos, including, but not limited to, the United States pension, postemployment, and postretirement plans. Additionally, the Company entered into agreements that provide a framework for the relationship between Atleos and Voyix, including, a Separation and Distribution Agreement, a Transition Services Agreement, a Tax Matters Agreement, an Employee Matters Agreement, a Patent and Technology Cross-License Agreement, a Trademark License and Use Agreement, a Masters Services Agreement, and a Manufacturing Services Agreement (collectively, the “Separation Agreements”). Atleos also entered into a Trade Receivable Facility agreement, various sublease agreements, and established a stock compensation incentive plan in connection with the Spin-off.
Additionally, outstanding restricted stock units and stock options previously granted by NCR were adjusted to maintain the economic value of those awards before and after the Spin-off. Generally, continuing Atleos employees had their outstanding restricted stock units, held as of the Spin-off, converted solely into equivalent restricted stock units of Atleos, and any outstanding NCR restricted stock units held as of the Spin-off were cancelled, while continuing Voyix employees retained the number of outstanding restricted stock units held as of the Spin-off and received additional Voyix restricted stock units to reflect the Spin-off. Outstanding stock options at the time of the Spin-off, regardless of the holder, were converted into stock options of both Atleos and Voyix. In addition, outstanding restricted stock units held by certain key equity holders as of the Spin-off (including former Voyix directors and certain former Voyix employees) were converted into restricted stock units of both Atleos and Voyix.
Basis of Presentation
On October 16, 2023, the Company became a standalone publicly traded company, and its financial statements are now presented on a consolidated basis. Prior to the Separation, the Company’s historical combined financial statements were prepared on a standalone basis and were derived from NCR’s consolidated financial statements and accounting records. The financial statements for all periods presented, including the historical results of the Company prior to October 16, 2023, are now
referred to as “Consolidated Financial Statements”, and have been prepared in accordance with accounting principles generally accepted in the United States of America (“GAAP”).
All intracompany accounts and transactions within the Company have been eliminated in the preparation of the Consolidated Financial Statements.
Unless otherwise noted, all figures within the Consolidated Financial Statements are stated in U.S. Dollars (USD) and millions.
Periods Prior to Separation
Prior to the Separation, the Consolidated Statements of Operations include all revenues and costs directly attributable to the Company, including costs for facilities, functions and services used by or for the benefit of the Company. The Company had historically functioned together with the other businesses controlled by NCR. Accordingly, the Company relied on NCR’s corporate overhead and other support functions for its business. Therefore, certain corporate overhead and shared costs had been allocated to the Company, including: (i) certain general and administrative expenses related to NCR support functions that were provided on a centralized basis within NCR (e.g., expenses for corporate facilities, executive oversight, treasury, finance, legal, human resources, compliance, information technology, employee benefit plans, stock compensation plans, and other corporate functions) and (ii) certain operations support costs incurred by NCR, including product sourcing, maintenance and support services, and other supply chain functions. These expenses had been specifically identified, when possible, or allocated based on revenues, headcount, usage or other allocation methods that were considered to be a reasonable reflection of the utilization of services provided or benefits received. All charges and allocations for facilities, functions and services performed by NCR had been deemed settled in cash by Atleos to NCR in the period in which the cost was recorded in the Consolidated Statements of Operations. Management considers that such allocations had been made on a reasonable basis consistent with benefits received but may not necessarily be indicative of the costs that would have been incurred if the Company had been operated on a standalone basis for the periods presented prior to Separation. The amounts that would have been, or are currently being incurred, on a stand-alone basis could materially differ from the amounts allocated due to economies of scale, a requirement for more or fewer employees, or other factors. Management did not believe, however, that it was practicable to estimate what these expenses would have been for the periods presented had the Company operated as an independent entity, prior to Separation, including any expenses associated with obtaining any of these services from unaffiliated entities.
Prior to the Separation, NCR utilized a centralized approach to managing its treasury operations. The cash and cash equivalents held by NCR at the corporate level were not specifically identifiable to Atleos; and therefore, had not been reflected in the Company’s Consolidated Balance Sheets prior to Separation. Cash and cash equivalents and restricted cash in the Consolidated Balance Sheets prior to Separation represent cash and cash equivalents and restricted cash held by legal entities of the Company that were specifically attributable to the Company.
Prior to the Separation, NCR’s external debt and related interest expense had not been attributed to the Company for the periods presented because NCR’s borrowings were neither directly attributable to the Company nor was the Company the legal obligor of such borrowings.
Prior to the Separation, the aggregate net effect of related party transactions historically settled in cash between the Company and NCR are reflected in the Consolidated Statements of Cash Flows as Related party receivables and payables within operating activities, Amounts advanced for or Repayments received from related party notes receivable in investing activities, or Proceeds from or Payments on related party borrowings within financing activities. Other balances between the Company and NCR were considered to be effectively settled in the Consolidated Financial Statements at the time the transactions were recorded. The aggregate net effect of transactions between the Company and NCR that were not historically settled in cash had been reflected in the Consolidated Statements of Cash Flows as Net transfers from (to) NCR Corporation within financing activities.
Prior to the Separation, income tax expense and tax balances were calculated on a separate tax return basis. The separate tax return method applies the accounting guidance for income taxes to the standalone financial statements as if the Company was a separate taxpayer and a standalone company even though the Company filed as part of NCR’s tax group in certain jurisdictions prior to Separation. The Company’s portion of income tax expense for domestic, and certain jurisdictions outside the United States (“U.S.”), were deemed to have been settled in the period the related tax expense was recorded.
Periods Post Separation
Following the Separation, certain functions continue to be provided by or for Voyix under the Transition Services Agreements or are being performed using Atleos’ own resources or third-party service providers. Additionally, certain maintenance services, manufacturing services, product resale and other support services and supply chain operations will continue to be provided by
or to Voyix under the Commercial Agreements. On August 6, 2024, Voyix announced its intention to move the manufacturing services to another party and to further reduce the maintenance services that are being performed under the Commercial Agreements. Manufacturing services provided to Voyix were completed in the fourth quarter of 2024.
The Company incurred certain costs in its establishment as a standalone public company and expects to incur ongoing additional costs associated with operating as an independent, publicly traded company.
Summary of Significant Accounting Policies
Use of Estimates The preparation of financial statements in accordance with GAAP requires management to make estimates and judgments that affect the reported amounts of assets and liabilities, the disclosure of contingent assets and liabilities at the date of the financial statements, and revenue and expenses during the periods reported. Estimates are used when accounting for receivable and inventory reserves, depreciation and amortization of long-lived assets, employee benefit plan obligations, asset retirement obligations, product liabilities, income and withholding taxes, contingencies, valuation of business combinations, and allocations of cost and expenses from NCR prior to Separation.
Although our estimates contemplate current and expected future conditions, as applicable, it is reasonably possible that actual conditions could differ from our expectations, which could materially affect our results of operations and financial position. In particular, a number of estimates have been and will continue to be affected by macroeconomic pressures and geopolitical challenges. The ultimate impact on our overall financial condition and operating results will depend on the duration and severity of supply chain challenges and cost escalations including materials, interest, labor and freight, and any additional governmental and public actions taken in response. As a result, our accounting estimates and assumptions may change over time as a consequence of these external factors. Such changes could result in future impairments of goodwill, intangible assets, long-lived assets, incremental credit losses on accounts receivable and decreases in the carrying amount of our tax assets.
Evaluation of Subsequent Events The Company evaluated subsequent events through the date that our Consolidated Financial Statements were issued. Other than the items discussed within the Notes to Consolidated Financial Statements, no matters were identified that required adjustment of the Consolidated Financial Statements or additional disclosure.
Prior Period Financial Statement Revision In connection with the preparation of the Company’s interim and annual 2024 financial statements, management identified errors pertaining to the Separation-related accounting entries recorded in the fourth quarter of 2023, which impacted the December 31, 2023 balance sheet and statement of changes in stockholders’ equity. In order to correctly state December 31, 2023 equity to reflect the impact of the Separation transaction, management has revised the December 31, 2023 Consolidated Balance Sheet and Consolidated Statement of Changes in Stockholders’ Equity to reflect the impact of the errors. The cumulative adjustments have no impact on operating results or cash flows. The Company evaluated the impact of the adjustments and concluded they were not material to any previously issued annual consolidated financial statements. The accompanying footnotes have also been adjusted to reflect such correction.
The following table reflects the impact of the revision to the specific line items presented in the Company’s previously reported Consolidated Balance Sheet as of December 31, 2023.
In millions As Reported Adjustments As Revised
Current assets
Accounts receivable, net $ 714 $ (4) $ 710
Other current assets 271 (17) 254
Total current assets 1,895 (21) 1,874
Property, plant and equipment, net 470 (2) 468
Prepaid pension cost 218 1 219
Other assets 173 (4) 169
Total assets $ 5,741 $ (26) $ 5,715
Current liabilities
Accounts Payable 500 5 505
Payroll and benefits liabilities 151 (2) 149
Other current liabilities 477 9 486
Total current liabilities 1,747 12 1,759
Total liabilities $ 5,454 $ 12 $ 5,466
Atleos stockholders’ equity
Paid-in capital 16 (4) 12
Retained earnings 181 (34) 147
Total Atleos stockholders’ equity 284 (38) 246
Total stockholders’ equity 287 (38) 249
Total liabilities and stockholders’ equity $ 5,741 $ (26) $ 5,715
As it relates to the Statement of Changes in Stockholders’ Equity for the year ended December 31, 2023, the revision adjustment increases the “Net transfers from NCR Corporation” within Net Investment from NCR Corporation from $(14) million, as previously reported, to $(48) million and decreases the activity presented as “Issuance of Common Stock in connection with Separation and reclassification of Net investment from NCR Corporation” within Net Investment from NCR Corporation and Retained earnings by $34 million, resulting in the revision to retained earnings as summarized in the table above. The revision also decreases the “Stock compensation plans” line in the aforementioned statement from $16 million, as previously reported, to $12 million (reflecting the $4 million adjustment in the table above to “Paid-in capital”).
Basis of Consolidation The Consolidated Financial Statements include the accounts of Atleos and its majority-owned subsidiaries. Long-term investments in affiliated companies in which Atleos owns between 20% and 50%, and therefore, exercises significant influence, but which it does not control, are accounted for using the equity method. Investments in which Atleos does not exercise significant influence (generally, when Atleos has an investment of less than 20% and no significant influence, such as representation on the investee’s board of directors) are accounted for using the cost method. All significant intercompany transactions and accounts have been eliminated. In addition, the Company is required to determine whether it is the primary beneficiary of economic income or losses that may be generated by variable interest entities in which the Company has such an interest. In circumstances where the Company determined it is the primary beneficiary, consolidation of that entity would be required. For the periods presented, no variable interest entities have been consolidated.
Revenue Recognition The Company records revenue, net of sales tax, when the following five steps have been completed:
•Identification of the contract(s) with a customer
•Identification of the performance obligation(s) in the contract
•Determination of the transaction price
•Allocation of the transaction price to the performance obligations in the contract
•Recognition of revenue when, or as, we satisfy performance obligations
The Company records revenue when, or as, performance obligations are satisfied by transferring control of a promised good or
service to the customer, in an amount that reflects the consideration we expect to be entitled to in exchange for products and services. The Company evaluates the transfer of control primarily from the customer’s perspective where the customer has the ability to direct the use of and obtain substantially all of the remaining benefits from that good or service. The Company does not adjust the transaction price for taxes collected from customers, as those amounts are netted against amounts remitted to government authorities.
The Company enters contracts that include multiple distinct performance obligations, including hardware, software, professional consulting and managed services, payment processing services, installation services and maintenance support services. A promise to a customer is considered distinct when the product or service is both capable of being distinct, and distinct in the context of the contract. For these arrangements, the Company allocates the transaction price, at contract inception, to each distinct performance obligation on a relative standalone selling price basis. The primary method used to estimate standalone selling price is the price that the Company charges for that good or service when the Company sells it separately in similar circumstances to similar customers.
For hardware products, control is generally transferred when the customer has the ability to direct the use of and obtain substantially all of the remaining benefits of the products, which generally coincides with when the customer has assumed title and risk of loss of the goods sold. In certain instances, customer acceptance is required prior to the passage of title and risk of loss of the delivered products. In such cases, revenue is not recognized until the customer acceptance is obtained. Delivery, acceptance, and transfer of title and risk of loss generally occur in the same reporting period. Hardware products may also be included in an ATM as a service (“ATMaaS”) package and sold in a bundle with managed services. In these ATMaaS contracts, title to the hardware is not transferred to the customer and there is considered to be an embedded lease in the contract. The ATMaaS packages are not separated into lease and non-lease components and the revenue for the entire ATMaaS contract qualifies for accounting and disclosure as a services contract that is recognized over time as services are performed.
Software products may be sold as perpetual licenses or term-based licenses. Perpetual license revenue is recognized at a point in time when control transfers to the customer and is reported within product revenue. Control is typically transferred when the customer takes possession of, or has access to, the software. Term-based license revenue is recognized at a point in time upon the commencement of the committed term of the contract, concurrent with the possession of the license, and reported within product revenue. The committed term of the contract is typically one to two years due to customer termination rights. If the amount of consideration the Company expects to be paid in exchange for the licenses depends on customer usage, revenue is recognized when the usage occurs.
Services revenue includes professional consulting and managed services, payment processing services, installation services and maintenance support services.
Professional consulting primarily consists of software implementation, integration, customization and optimization services. Revenue from professional consulting contracts is recognized when the services are completed or customer acceptance of the service is received, if required.
Under our managed service agreements, the Company provides various forms of services, including monitoring, cash management, cash delivery, customer service, on-screen advertising, processing and other services, under one contract package. The Company typically receives a monthly service fee, fee per transaction, or fee per service provided in return for providing the agreed-upon services. The managed services fees are recognized as the related services are provided to the customers.
Payment processing services include surcharge and other fees paid by cardholders and/or the cardholder’s financial institutions for the use of processing services. Surcharge revenues are recognized daily as the associated transactions are processed. In addition, relative to ATM transactions, the Company typically receives a majority of the interchange fee paid by the cardholder’s financial institution, net of the amount retained by the payment network, and recognizes the net amount received from the network as revenue. Relative to credit card processing, revenue is comprised of fees charged to the Company’s customers, net of interchange fees and assessments charged by the credit card associations and payment networks, which are pass-through charges collected on behalf of the card issuers and payment networks.
For installation services and maintenance services, control is transferred as the services are provided or ratably over the service period, or, if applicable, after customer acceptance of the service. For recurring services that we perform over a contract term, we analyze if the services are performed evenly throughout the term for fixed consideration. If so, we ratably recognize the corresponding consideration over the committed term. Otherwise, we apply the ‘as invoiced’ practical expedient, for performance obligations satisfied over time, if the amount we may invoice corresponds directly with the value to the customer of the Company’s performance to date. This expedient permits us to recognize revenue in the amount we invoice the customer.
The Company also recognizes revenue related to branding arrangements and providing access to the Company’s surcharge-free network and equipment. Customers may be charged on a per transaction basis or a fixed monthly fee. Under these
arrangements, the Company is providing a series of distinct services with similar patterns of transfer to the customer. As a result, these arrangements create performance obligations that are satisfied over-time for which the Company has a right to consideration that corresponds directly with the value of the Company’s performance completed to date. In conjunction with these arrangements, the Company recognizes revenue in the amount that it has a right to receive using the ‘as invoiced’ practical expedient described above. Revenues are generally recognized on a ratable basis over the contract term beginning on the date that our service is made available to the customer, except for transaction-based fee arrangements which are recognized daily as the transactions are processed. Any up-front fees associated with these arrangements are recognized ratably over the life of the arrangement.
Payment terms with our customers are established based on industry and regional practices and generally do not exceed 30 days. We do not typically include extended payment terms in our contracts with customers. As a practical expedient, we do not adjust the promised amount of consideration for the effects of a significant financing component when we expect, at contract inception, that the period between our transfer of a promised product or service to a customer and when the customer pays for that product or service will be one year or less. If the period between transfer of the promised product or service and payment is more than one year, the Company analyzes whether a significant financing component is present. If so, the Company adjusts the total consideration to reflect the significant financing component.
We account for shipping and handling activities related to contracts with customers as costs to fulfill our promise to transfer the associated products, rather than as a separate performance obligation. Accordingly, we record amounts billed for shipping and handling costs as a component of product revenue, and classify such costs as a component of cost of products.
In addition to the standard product warranty, the Company periodically offers extended warranties to its customers in the form of product maintenance services. For maintenance contracts that have been combined with product contracts, the Company defers revenue at an amount based on the relative standalone selling price, and recognizes the deferred revenue over the service term. For non-combined maintenance contracts, the Company defers the stated amount of the separately priced service and recognizes the deferred revenue over the service term.
Remaining Performance Obligations Remaining performance obligations represent the transaction price of contracts for which products have not been delivered or services have not been performed. As of December 31, 2024, the aggregate amount of the transaction price allocated to remaining performance obligations was approximately $2.0 billion. The Company expects to recognize revenue on approximately three-quarters of the remaining performance obligations over the next 12 months, with the remainder recognized thereafter. The majority of our professional services are expected to be recognized over the next 12 months but this is contingent upon a number of factors, including customers’ needs and schedules.
The Company has made three elections which affect the value of remaining performance obligations described above. We do not disclose remaining performance obligations for contracts where variable consideration is directly allocated based on usage or when the original expected duration is one year or less. Additionally, we do not disclose remaining performance obligations for contracts where we recognize revenue from the satisfaction of the performance obligation in accordance with the ‘right to invoice’ practical expedient.
Warranty Provisions for product warranties are recorded in the period in which Atleos becomes obligated to honor the related right, which generally is the period in which the related product revenue is recognized. The Company accrues warranty reserves based upon historical factors such as labor rates, average repair time, travel time, number of service calls per machine and cost of replacement parts. When a sale is consummated, a warranty reserve is recorded based upon the estimated cost to provide the service over the warranty period. As of December 31, 2024 and 2023, the Company had total warranty reserves of $5 million and $9 million, respectively, recorded within Other current liabilities and Other liabilities in the Consolidated Balance Sheets.
Research and Development Costs Research and development costs primarily include payroll and benefit-related costs, contractor fees, facilities costs, infrastructure costs, and administrative expenses directly related to research and development support and are expensed as incurred, except certain software development costs are capitalized after technological feasibility of the software is established.
Advertising Advertising costs are recognized in selling, general and administrative expenses when incurred.
Stock-based Compensation Stock-based compensation awards, classified as equity awards, are measured at grant date, based on the estimated fair value of the award to be recognized over the requisite service period. Forfeitures are recognized as they occur. Prior to the Separation, the Consolidated Statements of Operations include all stock-based compensation expenses directly attributable to Atleos employees, as well as an allocation of any stock-based compensation expenses related to NCR corporate and other shared employees. See Note 8, “Stock Compensation Plans”, for further information.
Income Taxes Income tax expense is provided based on income before income taxes. We recognize deferred tax assets and liabilities based on the differences between the financial statement carrying amounts and the tax basis of assets and liabilities. The deferred tax assets and liabilities are determined based on the enacted tax rates expected to apply in the periods in which the deferred tax assets or liabilities are anticipated to be settled or realized.
We regularly review our deferred tax assets for recoverability and establish a valuation allowance if it is more likely than not that some portion or all of a deferred tax asset will not be realized. The determination as to whether a deferred tax asset will be realized is made on a jurisdictional basis and is based on the evaluation of positive and negative evidence. This evidence includes historical taxable income, projected future taxable income, the expected timing of the reversal of existing temporary differences and the implementation of tax planning strategies. Projected future taxable income is based on our expected results and assumptions as to the jurisdiction in which the income will be earned. The expected timing of the reversals of existing temporary differences is based on current tax law and our tax methods of accounting.
If we are unable to generate sufficient future taxable income, or if there is a material change in the actual effective tax rates or the time period within which the underlying temporary differences become taxable or deductible, or if the tax laws change unfavorably, then we could be required to increase our valuation allowance against our deferred tax assets, resulting in an increase in our effective tax rate.
The Company recognizes the tax benefit from an uncertain tax position only if it is more likely than not that the tax position will be sustained on examination by the taxing authorities, based on the technical merits of the position. The tax benefits recognized in the Consolidated Financial Statements from such a position are measured based on the largest benefit that has a greater than fifty percent likelihood of being realized upon settlement. Interest and penalties related to uncertain tax positions are recognized as part of the provision for income taxes and are accrued beginning in the period that such interest and penalties would be applicable under relevant tax law until such time that the related tax benefits are recognized.
Segment Reporting The Company evaluated segment reporting in accordance with ASC 280, Segment Reporting, and concluded that Atleos is comprised of three operating segments. This conclusion is based on the discrete operating results regularly reviewed by the chief operating decision maker (“CODM”) to assess the performance of the business and to make resource allocations. These three operating segments also represent our three reportable segments: (i) Self-Service Banking, (ii) Network and (iii) Telecommunications & Technology (“T&T”). See Note 4, “Segment Information and Concentrations”, for further information.
Cash, Cash Equivalents, and Restricted Cash All short-term, highly liquid investments having original maturities of three months or less, including time deposits, are considered to be cash equivalents. As of December 31, 2024, the Company has restricted cash on deposit with a bank as collateral for letters of credit as well as cash included in settlement processing assets.
The reconciliation of cash, cash equivalents and restricted cash in the Consolidated Statements of Cash Flows is as follows:
In millions Balance Sheet Location December 31, 2024 December 31, 2023 December 31, 2022
Cash and cash equivalents Cash and cash equivalents $ 419 $ 339 $ 293
Short term restricted cash Restricted cash - 7 -
Long term restricted cash Other assets 12 9 2
Cash included in settlement processing assets Restricted cash 210 231 204
Total cash, cash equivalents and restricted cash $ 641 $ 586 $ 499
Supplemental cash flow information External interest paid in cash was $271 million and $36 million for fiscal years 2024 and 2023, respectively. Related party interest paid in cash was $36 million and $55 million for fiscal years 2023 and 2022, respectively. Income taxes paid in cash were $54 million, $69 million, and $32 million for fiscal years 2024, 2023, and 2022, respectively.
ATM Cash Management Program Our business includes the operation of ATMs under Company-owned ATM placements, merchant-owned ATM placements, and managed services. The Company relies on arrangements with various banks to provide the cash that it uses to fill its Company-owned, and in some cases merchant-owned and managed services ATMs. The Company
refers to such cash as “vault cash.” The Company pays a monthly rental fee based on the average outstanding vault cash balance, as well as fees related to the bundling and preparation of such cash prior to it being loaded in the ATMs. At all times, beneficial ownership of the cash is retained by the vault cash providers and the Company has no right or access to the cash except for the ATMs that are serviced by the Company’s wholly-owned cash-in-transit operations in the United Kingdom. While the United Kingdom cash-in-transit operations have physical access to the cash loaded in the ATMs, beneficial ownership of that cash remains with the vault cash provider at all times. The Company’s vault cash arrangements expire at various times through March 2029. Based on the foregoing, the ATM vault cash, and the related obligations, are not reflected in the Consolidated Financial Statements. The average outstanding vault cash balance in the Company’s ATMs for the year ended December 31, 2024 was approximately $4.0 billion.
Accounts Receivable, net Accounts receivable, net includes amounts billed and currently due from customers as well as amounts unbilled that typically result from sales under contracts where revenue recognized exceeds the amount billed to the customer and where the Company has an unconditional right to consideration. The amounts due are stated at their net estimated realizable value.
The components of accounts receivable are summarized as follows:
In millions December 31, 2024 December 31, 2023
Accounts receivable
Trade $ 529 $ 635
Other 74 89
Accounts receivable, gross 603 724
Less: allowance for credit losses (15) (14)
Total accounts receivable, net $ 588 $ 710
Allowance for Credit Losses on Accounts Receivable Allowances for credit losses on accounts receivable are recognized when reasonable and supportable forecasts affect the expected collectability. This requires us to make our best estimate of the current expected losses inherent in our accounts receivable at each balance sheet date. These estimates require consideration of historical loss experience, adjusted for current conditions, forward looking indicators, trends in customer payment frequency and judgments about the probable effects of relevant observable data, including present and future economic conditions and the financial health of specific customers and market sectors. This policy is applied consistently among all of our operating segments. We continue to evaluate our reserves in light of the age and quality of our outstanding accounts receivable as well as risks to specific industries or countries and adjust the reserves accordingly.
The allowance for credit losses as of December 31, 2024 and 2023 was $15 million and $14 million, respectively. For the years ending December 31, 2024, 2023, and 2022, the Company recorded expenses of none, $2 million, and $8 million, respectively. For the years ending December 31, 2024, 2023, and 2022, the Company recorded immaterial write-offs against the allowance. Additionally, the allowance for credit losses as of December 31, 2024 includes approximately $3 million related to other accounts receivable balances not transferred to Atleos as of December 31, 2023 due to delays in local processes of setting up certain Atleos legal entities. These entities were legally transferred to the Company during the first quarter of 2024. Prior to the Separation, this amount was included within Atleos’ allowance for credit losses under carve-out methodology.
Inventories Inventories are stated at the lower of cost or net realizable value, using the average cost method. Cost includes materials, labor and manufacturing overhead related to the purchase and production of inventories. Service parts are included in inventories and include reworkable and non-reworkable service parts. The Company regularly reviews inventory quantities on hand, future purchase commitments with suppliers and the estimated utility of inventory. If the review indicates a reduction in utility below carrying value, inventory is reduced to a new cost basis. Excess and obsolete write-offs are established based on forecasted usage, orders, technological obsolescence and inventory aging. In connection with the Spin-off, management re-evaluated these assumptions, recording an increase to the inventory reserves of $41 million as of December 31, 2023 to adjust the value of inventory.
Contract Assets and Liabilities Contract assets include unbilled amounts where the right to payment is not solely subject to the passage of time. Amounts may not exceed their net realizable value. Contract liabilities consist of advance payments, billings in excess of revenue recognized and deferred revenue.
Our contract assets and liabilities are reported in a net position on a contract-by-contract basis at the end of each reporting period. If the net position is a contract asset, the current portion is included in Other current assets and the non-current portion is
included in Other assets in the Consolidated Balance Sheets. If the net position is a contract liability, the current portion is included in Contract liabilities and the non-current portion is included in Other liabilities in the Consolidated Balance Sheets. As of December 31, 2024 and 2023, no contracts were in a net asset position.
The following table presents the net contract liability balances as of December 31, 2024 and 2023:
In millions Location in the Consolidated Balance Sheet December 31, 2024 December 31, 2023
Current portion of contract liabilities Contract liabilities $ 315 $ 325
Non-current portion of contract liabilities Other liabilities $ 29 $ 29
During the twelve months ended December 31, 2024, 2023, and 2022, the Company recognized $259 million, $245 million, and $251 million, respectively, in revenue that was included in contract liabilities as of December 31, 2023, 2022, and 2021, respectively.
Deferred Commissions Our incremental costs of obtaining a contract, which consist of certain sales commissions, are deferred and amortized on a straight-line basis over the period of expected benefit. We determined the period of expected benefit by taking into consideration customer contracts, the estimated life of the customer relationship, including renewals when the renewal commission is not commensurate with the initial commission, the expected life of the underlying technology and other factors. We classify deferred commissions as current or non-current based on the timing of when we expect to recognize the expense. The current and non-current portions of deferred commissions are included in Other current assets and Other assets, respectively, in the Consolidated Balance Sheets. Amortization of deferred commissions is included in Selling, general and administrative expenses in the Consolidated Statements of Operations.
Settlement Processing Assets and Obligations Funds settlement refers to the process of transferring funds for sales and credits between card issuers and merchants or financial institutions. The debit network is used to transfer the information and funds in either direction between the sponsoring bank and card issuing bank to complete the link between merchants or financial institutions and card issuers. In certain of our processing arrangements, merchant funding occurs after the sponsoring bank or the Company receives the funds from the card issuer through the card networks, creating a settlement obligation to the merchant or financial institution on the Company’s Consolidated Balance Sheets. In a limited number of other arrangements, the sponsoring bank funds the merchants before it receives the net settlement funds from the card networks, creating a settlement asset on the Company’s Consolidated Balance Sheets.
Settlement processing assets consist of settlement assets due from customers and receivables from merchants corresponding to the discount fee related to reimbursement of the interchange expense, our receivables from the processing bank or Electronic Funds Transfer (“EFT”) network for transactions that have occurred and have been funded to merchants or financial institutions in advance of receipt of card association funding, restricted cash balances that are not yet due to merchants or financial institutions, merchant reserves held, sponsoring bank reserves and exception items, such as customer chargeback amounts receivable from merchants. Settlement processing obligations consist primarily of merchant reserves, our liability to the processing bank or merchant for transactions for which we have received funding from the members or networks but have not funded merchants or financial institutions as well as certain exception items. Settlement processing assets other than restricted cash are recorded within Other current assets and settlement processing liabilities are recorded within Settlement liabilities in the Consolidated Balance Sheets. Cash related to settlement processing is recorded within Restricted cash in the Consolidated Balance Sheets. As of December 31, 2024 and 2023, settlement processing assets were $235 million and $271 million, respectively, including restricted cash of $210 million and $231 million, respectively, and settlement processing liabilities were $156 million and $218 million, respectively.
Capitalized Software Certain direct development costs associated with internal-use software are capitalized within Other assets and amortized over the estimated useful lives of the resulting software. Atleos typically amortizes capitalized internal-use software on a straight-line basis over three to seven years beginning when the asset is substantially ready for use, as this is considered to approximate the usage pattern of the software. When it becomes probable that internal-use software being developed will not be completed or placed into service, the internal-use software is reported at the lower of the carrying amount or fair value.
Costs incurred for the development of software that will be sold, leased or otherwise marketed are capitalized when technological feasibility has been established. These costs are included within Other assets and are amortized on a sum-of-the-years’ digits or straight-line basis over the estimated useful lives ranging from three to five years, using the method that most
closely approximates the sales pattern of the software. Amortization begins when the product is available for general release. Costs capitalized include direct labor and related overhead costs. Costs incurred prior to technological feasibility or after general release are expensed as incurred. The Company performs periodic reviews to ensure that unamortized program costs remain recoverable from future revenue. If future revenue does not support the unamortized program costs, the amount by which the unamortized capitalized cost of a software product exceeds the net realizable value is written off.
The following table identifies the activity relating to total capitalized software which primarily relate to software that will be sold, leased or otherwise marketed:
In millions 2024 2023 2022
Beginning balance as of January 1 $ 76 $ 69 $ 62
Capitalization 39 24 39
Amortization (38) (28) (32)
Assets transferred from Voyix - 11 -
Ending balance as of December 31 $ 77 $ 76 $ 69
Goodwill and Other Intangible Assets Goodwill represents the excess of purchase price over the fair value of the net tangible and identifiable intangible assets of businesses acquired. Goodwill is tested at the reporting unit level for impairment on an annual basis during the fourth quarter or more frequently if certain events occur indicating that the carrying value of goodwill may be impaired. A significant amount of judgment is involved in determining if an indicator of impairment has occurred. Such indicators may include a decline in expected cash flows, a significant adverse change in legal factors or in the business climate, a decision to sell a business, unanticipated competition, or slower growth rates, among others.
In the evaluation of goodwill for impairment, we have the option to perform a qualitative assessment to determine whether further impairment testing is necessary or to perform a quantitative assessment by comparing the fair value of a reporting unit to its carrying amount, including goodwill. Under the qualitative assessment, an entity is not required to calculate the fair value of a reporting unit unless the entity determines that it is more likely than not that its fair value is less than its carrying amount. If, under the quantitative assessment, the fair value of a reporting unit is less than its carrying amount, then the amount of the impairment loss, if any, is determined based on the amount by which the carrying amount exceeds the fair value up to the total value of goodwill assigned to the reporting unit. Fair values of the reporting units are estimated using a weighted methodology considering the output from both the income and market approaches. The income approach incorporates the use of discounted cash flow (“DCF”) analysis. A number of significant assumptions and estimates are involved in the application of the DCF model to forecast operating cash flows, including revenue growth rates, earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation, and amortization (“EBITDA”) margin and discount rates. Several of these assumptions vary among reporting units. The cash flow forecasts are generally based on approved strategic operating plans. The market approach is performed using the Guideline Public Companies (“GPC”) method which is based on earnings multiple data. We perform a reconciliation between our market capitalization and our estimate of the aggregate fair value of the reporting units, including consideration of a control premium. Refer to Note 3, “Goodwill and Purchased Intangible Assets”, for further information.
Acquired intangible assets other than goodwill are amortized over their weighted average amortization period unless they are determined to be indefinite. Acquired intangible assets are carried at cost, less accumulated amortization. For intangible assets purchased in a business combination, the estimated fair values of the assets received are used to establish the carrying value. The fair value of acquired intangible assets is determined using common techniques, and the Company employs assumptions developed using the perspective of a market participant. The Company makes judgments about the recoverability of intangible assets whenever events or changes in circumstances indicate that impairment may exist. If such facts and circumstances exist, the Company assess the recoverability by comparing projected undiscounted net cash flows associated with the related asset or group of assets over their remaining lives against their respective carrying amounts. Impairments, if any, are based on the excess of the carrying amount over the fair value of those assets. If the useful life is shorter than originally estimated, the Company would accelerate the rate of amortization and amortize the remaining carrying value over the new shorter useful life. For further discussion of identified intangible assets, see Note 3, “Goodwill and Purchased Intangible Assets”.
Through the acquisition of Moon Inc., dba LibertyX, the Company began buying and selling Bitcoin. The Company records owned Bitcoin as an indefinite lived intangible in accordance with ASC 350, Intangibles - Goodwill and Other.
Property, Plant and Equipment, net Property, plant and equipment, net are stated at cost less accumulated depreciation. Depreciation is computed over the estimated useful lives of the related assets primarily on a straight-line basis. Buildings are
depreciated over 25 to 45 years, machinery and other equipment are depreciated over 3 to 20 years, and leasehold improvements are depreciated over the life of the lease or the asset, whichever is shorter. Upon retirement or disposition of property, plant and equipment, the related cost and accumulated depreciation or amortization are removed from the Company’s accounts, and a gain or loss is recorded. For the years ending December 31, 2024, 2023 and 2022, the Company recognized $139 million, $126 million, and $127 million, respectively, in depreciation expense related to property, plant and equipment.
Also reported in property and equipment are ATMs and the associated equipment the Company has acquired for future installation or has temporarily removed from service and plans to re-deploy. Significant refurbishment costs that extend the useful life of an asset, or enhance its functionality, are capitalized and depreciated over the estimated remaining life of the improved asset. Maintenance costs are expensed as incurred.
Valuation of Long-Lived Assets Long-lived assets such as property, plant and equipment and finite-lived intangible assets are reviewed for impairment when events or changes in circumstances indicate that the carrying amount of the assets may not be recoverable or in the period in which the held for sale criteria are met. For assets held and used, this analysis consists of comparing the asset’s carrying value to the expected future cash flows to be generated from the asset on an undiscounted basis. If the carrying amount of the asset is determined not to be recoverable, a write-down to fair value is recorded. Fair values are determined based on quoted market values, discounted cash flows, or external appraisals, as applicable. Long-lived assets are reviewed for impairment at the individual asset or the asset group level for which the lowest level of independent cash flows can be identified. Refer to Note 3, “Goodwill and Purchased Intangible Assets”, for further information.
Leasing The Company determines whether an arrangement is a lease at the inception of the arrangement based on the terms and conditions in the contract. A contract contains a lease if there is an identified asset and the Company has the right to control the asset.
Lessee We lease property, vehicles and equipment under operating and financing leases. For leases with terms greater than twelve months, we record the related asset and obligation at the present value of lease payments over the term. We determine the lease term by assuming the exercise of renewal options that are reasonably certain. Leases with a lease term of twelve months or less at inception are not recorded on our Consolidated Balance Sheets and are expensed on a straight-line basis over the lease term in our Consolidated Statements of Operations. Our leases may include rental escalation clauses, renewal options and/or termination options that are factored into our determination of lease payments when appropriate. When available, we use the rate implicit in the lease to discount lease payments to present value; however, most of our leases do not provide a readily determinable implicit rate. Therefore, we must estimate our incremental borrowing rate to discount the lease payments based on information available at lease commencement. Our incremental borrowing rate is based on a credit-adjusted risk-free rate at commencement date, which best approximates a secured rate over a similar term of lease. Additionally, we do not separate lease and non-lease components for any asset classes, except for those leases embedded in certain service arrangements. Fixed and in-substance fixed payments are included in the recognition of the operating and financing assets and lease liabilities, however, variable lease payments, other than those based on a rate or index, are recognized in the Consolidated Statements of Operations in the period in which the obligation for those payments is incurred. The Company’s variable lease payments generally relate to payments tied to various indices, non-lease components and payments above a contractual minimum fixed payment.
Lessor We have arrangements for various international office and warehouse spaces under which we are lessor. These leases meet the criteria for operating lease classification. Lease income associated with these leases is not material.
Sublease Agreements The Company entered into various sublease agreements with Voyix and others for corporate offices including, but not limited to, Atleos Headquarters in Atlanta, Georgia. Lease income associated with these subleases is not material.
Pension, Postemployment and Postretirement Benefits Certain of the Company’s employees, former employees, and retirees participate in pension, postretirement and postemployment plans sponsored by the Company. Prior to Separation, these plans were sponsored by NCR (“Shared Plans”) or the Company (“Dedicated Plans”); however, before the Spin-off, NCR transferred certain assets and liabilities to Atleos, including, but not limited to, the United States pension, postemployment, and postretirement plans.
Pension, postemployment and postretirement benefit costs are developed from actuarial valuations. Actuarial assumptions are established to anticipate future events and are used in calculating the expense and liabilities relating to these plans. These factors include assumptions the Company makes about interest rates, expected investment return on plan assets, rate of increase in healthcare costs, involuntary turnover rates, and rates of future compensation increases. In addition, subjective factors, such
as withdrawal rates and mortality rates are used to develop the plan’s valuations. These assumptions are reviewed and updated on an annual basis. The actuarial assumptions used may differ materially from actual results due to changing market and economic conditions, higher or lower withdrawal rates, or longer or shorter life spans of participants. These differences may result in a significant impact to the amount of pension, postemployment and postretirement benefits expense, and the related assets and liabilities, the Company has recorded or may record.
Prior to the Spin-off, the Company accounted for the Shared Plans as multiemployer plans and therefore the related assets and liabilities were not reflected in the Consolidated Balance Sheets. The 2023 and 2022 Consolidated Statements of Operations reflects a proportional allocation of service costs for the Shared Plans associated with the Company. These costs are considered to have been settled with NCR at the time of allocation of these expenses to the Company.
Following the transfer of these plans to Atleos in connection with the Spin-off, all pension, postemployment, and postretirement plans are considered Dedicated Plans whereby the Company accounts for the Dedicated Plans as single employer plans with the net funded status of the plans recognized as an asset or liability on the Consolidated Balance Sheets.
Legal Contingencies In the normal course of business, we are subject to various proceedings, lawsuits, claims and other matters, including, for example, those that relate to the environment and health and safety, labor and employment, employee benefits, import/export compliance, patents or other intellectual property, data privacy and security, product liability, commercial disputes and regulatory compliance, among others. Additionally, we are subject to diverse and complex laws and regulations, including those relating to corporate governance, public disclosure and reporting, environmental safety and the discharge of materials into the environment, product safety, import and export compliance, data privacy and security, antitrust and competition, government contracting, anti-corruption, and labor and human resources, which are rapidly changing and subject to many possible changes in the future. Compliance with these laws and regulations, including changes in accounting standards, taxation requirements and federal securities laws, among others, may create a substantial burden on, and substantially increase costs to us or could have a material adverse effect on our consolidated results of operations, capital expenditures, competitive position, financial condition or cash flows and there can be no assurances that the actual amounts required to comply with applicable laws and regulations will not exceed the amounts reflected in our Consolidated Financial Statements set forth herein. The Company has reflected all liabilities when a loss is considered probable and reasonably estimable in the Consolidated Financial Statements. Any costs that may be incurred in excess of those amounts provided as of December 31, 2024 cannot currently be reasonably determined or are not currently considered probable. Legal fees and expenses related to loss contingencies are typically expensed as incurred.
Asset Retirement Obligations (“ARO”) The Company estimates the fair value of future ARO expenditures associated with the costs to deinstall its ATMs, and in some cases, restore the ATM sites to their original condition. ARO estimates are based on a number of assumptions, including: (i) the types of ATMs that are installed, (ii) the relative mix where the ATMs are installed (i.e., whether such ATMs are located in single-merchant locations or in locations associated with large, geographically-dispersed retail chains), (iii) whether the Company will ultimately be required to refurbish the merchant store locations upon the removal of the related ATMs, and (iv) the timing of the estimated ARO payments. The Company recognizes the fair value of future ARO expenditures as a liability on a pooled basis based on the estimated deinstallation dates in the period in which it is incurred and can be reasonably estimated. The Company’s fair value estimates for ARO related liabilities generally involves discounting expected future cash flows based on the historical experience of deinstallation. ARO costs are capitalized as part of the carrying amount of the related long-lived asset and depreciated over the asset’s estimated useful life, which is based on the average time period that an ATM is installed in a location before being deinstalled. Subsequent to recognizing the initial liability, the Company recognizes an ongoing expense for changes in such liabilities due to the passage of time (i.e., accretion expense), which is recorded in Cost of services in the Consolidated Statements of Operations. As the liability is not revalued on a recurring basis, it is periodically reviewed for reasonableness based on current machine count and updated cost estimates to deinstall ATMs. Upon settlement of the liability, the Company recognizes a gain or loss for any difference between the settlement amount and the liability recorded, which is recorded in Cost of services in the Consolidated Statements of Operations. As of December 31, 2024 and 2023, the Company had total ARO of $68 million and $73 million, respectively, recorded within Other liabilities in the Consolidated Balance Sheets.
Foreign Currency For many of the Company’s international operations, the local currency is designated as the functional currency. Accordingly, assets and liabilities are translated into U.S. Dollars at year-end exchange rates, and revenue and expenses are translated at average exchange rates prevailing during the year. Currency translation adjustments from local functional currency countries resulting from fluctuations in exchange rates are recorded in Other comprehensive income (loss). Remeasurement adjustments are recorded in Other (expense) income, net in the Consolidated Statements of Operations.
Derivative Instruments In the normal course of business, the Company enters into various financial instruments, including derivative financial instruments. The Company accounts for derivatives as either assets or liabilities in the Consolidated Balance Sheets at fair value and recognizes the resulting gains or losses as adjustments to earnings or other comprehensive
income (loss). For derivative instruments that are designated and qualify as hedging instruments, the Company formally documents the relationship between hedging instruments and hedged items, as well as the risk management objective and strategy for undertaking various hedge transactions. Hedging activities are transacted only with highly rated institutions, reducing exposure to credit risk in the event of nonperformance. Additionally, the Company completes assessments related to the risk of counterparty nonperformance on a regular basis.
The accounting for changes in fair value of a derivative instrument depends on whether it has been designated and qualifies as part of a hedging relationship, and further, on the type of hedging relationship. For those derivative instruments that are designated and qualify as hedging instruments, the Company has designated the hedging instrument, based on the exposure being hedged, as a fair value hedge, a cash flow hedge or a hedge of a net investment in a foreign operation. For derivative instruments designated as fair value hedges, the effective portion of the hedge is recorded as an offset to the change in the fair value of the hedged item, and the ineffective portion of the hedge, if any, is recorded in the Consolidated Statements of Operations. For derivative instruments designated as cash flow hedges and determined to be highly effective, the gains or losses are deferred in Other comprehensive income (loss) and recognized in the determination of income as adjustments of carrying amounts when the underlying hedged transaction is realized, canceled or otherwise terminated. When hedging certain foreign currency transactions of a long-term investment nature (net investments in foreign operations), gains and losses are recorded in the currency translation adjustment component of Accumulated other comprehensive income (loss) (“AOCI”). Gains and losses on foreign exchange contracts that are not used to hedge currency transactions of a long-term investment nature, or that are not designated as cash flow or fair value hedges, are recognized in Other (expense) income, net in the Consolidated Statements of Operations as exchange rates change.
Fair Value of Assets and Liabilities Fair value is defined as an exit price, representing an amount that would be received to sell an asset or the amount paid to transfer a liability in an orderly transaction between market participants at the measurement date. As such, fair value is a market-based measurement determined based on assumptions that market participants would use in pricing an asset or liability. As a basis for considering such assumptions, the accounting guidance prioritizes the inputs used to measure fair value into the following three-tier fair value hierarchy:
•Level 1: Unadjusted quoted prices in active markets for identical assets or liabilities
•Level 2: Unadjusted quoted prices in active markets for similar assets or liabilities, unadjusted quoted prices for identical or similar assets or liabilities in markets that are not active or inputs, other than quoted prices in active markets, that are observable either directly or indirectly
•Level 3: Unobservable inputs for which there is little or no market data
Assets and liabilities are classified based on the lowest level of input that is significant to the fair value measurements. The Company reviews the fair value hierarchy classification on a quarterly basis. Changes to the observability of valuation inputs may result in a reclassification of levels for certain securities within the fair value hierarchy.
The Company measures its financial assets and financial liabilities at fair value based on one or more of the following three valuation techniques:
•Market approach: Prices and other relevant information generated by market transactions involving identical or comparable assets or liabilities.
•Cost approach: Amount that would be required to replace the service capacity of an asset (replacement cost).
•Income approach: Techniques to convert future amounts to a single present amount based upon market expectations (including present value techniques, option pricing and excess earnings models).
We regularly review our investments to determine whether a decline in fair value, if any, below the cost basis is other than temporary. If the decline in the fair value is determined to be other than temporary, the cost basis of the security is written down to fair value and the amount of the write-down is included in the Consolidated Statements of Operations. For qualifying investments in debt or equity securities, a temporary impairment charge would be recognized in Other comprehensive income (loss).
Noncontrolling Interests in Subsidiaries Ownership interests in the Company’s subsidiaries held by parties other than us are presented separately as Noncontrolling interests within equity on the Consolidated Balance Sheets. The amount of net income attributable to the Company and the noncontrolling interests are both presented on the Consolidated Statements of Operations. The activity attributable to noncontrolling interests for the years ended December 31, 2024, 2023 and 2022 are presented in the Consolidated Statements of Changes in Stockholders’ Equity.
Recent Accounting Pronouncements
Adoption of New Accounting Pronouncements in fiscal 2024
In January 2025, the SEC staff issued Staff Accounting Bulletin No. 122 (“SAB 122”), which rescinds the interpretive guidance in the Staff Accounting Bulletin No. 121 (“SAB 121”) for reporting entities that have an obligation to safeguard customers’ crypto assets. Under SAB 121, entities were required to recognize both a liability and a corresponding asset for their safeguarding obligations. With the new guidance, an entity that has a safeguarding obligation should assess whether it has any loss contingencies under ASC 450, Contingencies. SAB 122 must be applied retrospectively for annual periods beginning after December 15, 2024, with an early adoption permitted in any interim or annual financial statement filed with the SEC on or after January 30, 2025. The Company is not currently offering digital asset safeguarding services to its customers and the adoption of this new guidance did not have an impact on its net income, cash flows, earnings per share or financial condition.
In November 2023, the FASB issued ASU 2023-07, Segment Reporting (Topic 280): Improvements to Reportable Segment Disclosures, which is intended to improve reportable segment disclosure requirements, primarily through additional disclosures about significant segment expenses on an interim and annual basis. Additionally, it requires a public entity to disclose the title and position of the chief operating decision maker. The new standard is effective for fiscal years beginning after December 15, 2023, and interim periods within fiscal years beginning after December 15, 2024, with early adoption permitted. The amendments should be applied retrospectively to all prior periods presented in the financial statements unless impracticable. The adoption of this accounting standards update did not have an effect on the Company’s net income, cash flows or financial condition.
Adoption of New Accounting Pronouncements in fiscal 2023
In October 2021, the Financial Accounting Standards Board (“FASB”) issued accounting standards update (“ASU”) 2021-08, Business Combinations (Topic 805): Accounting for Contract Assets and Contract Liabilities from Contracts with Customers, with new guidance for contract assets and contract liabilities acquired in a business combination. The new guidance requires contract assets and contract liabilities, such as deferred revenue, acquired in a business combination to be recognized and measured by the acquirer on the acquisition date in accordance with ASC 606, Revenue from Contracts with Customers. Prior to the issuance of this guidance, contract assets and contract liabilities were recognized by the acquirer at fair value on the acquisition date. The accounting standards update is effective for fiscal years, and interim periods within those fiscal years, beginning after December 15, 2022, with early adoption permitted and should be applied prospectively to acquisitions occurring on or after the effective date. The adoption of this accounting standards update did not have a material effect on the Company’s net income, cash flows or financial condition.
Although there are several other new accounting pronouncements issued by the FASB and adopted by or effective for the Company, the Company does not believe any of these accounting pronouncements had a material impact on its Consolidated Financial Statements.
Accounting Pronouncements Issued But Not Yet Adopted
In November 2024, the FASB issued ASU 2024-03, Income Statement - Reporting Comprehensive Income - Expense Disaggregation Disclosures (Subtopic 220-40). This ASU requires disclosure in the notes to financial statements, at each interim and annual reporting period, of specified information about certain costs and expenses including purchases of inventory, employee compensation, depreciation, and intangible asset amortization included in each relevant expense caption. Also required is a qualitative description of the amounts remaining in relevant expense captions that are not separately disaggregated. This ASU is effective for all public entities for fiscal years beginning after December 15, 2026, and interim periods beginning after December 15, 2027, with early adoption permitted. The disclosure requirements will be applied on a prospective basis, with the option to apply them retrospectively. The Company is in the process of evaluating these new disclosure requirements and the impact of adoption.
In December 2023, the FASB issued ASU 2023-08, Intangibles-Goodwill and Other-Crypto Assets (Subtopic 350-60): Accounting for and Disclosure of Crypto Assets, which requires entities that hold crypto assets to subsequently measure such assets at fair value with changes recognized in net income each reporting period. The guidance also requires crypto assets measured at fair value to be presented separately from other intangible assets on the balance sheet and changes in the fair value measurement of crypto assets to be presented separately on the income statement from changes in the carrying amounts of other intangible assets. The new standard is effective for fiscal years beginning after December 15, 2024, including interim periods
within those fiscal years, with early adoption permitted. The Company does not expect the adoption of this ASU to have a material impact on its Consolidated Financial Statements and related disclosures as the Company generally does not carry a material amount of Bitcoin or other forms of crypto assets.
In December 2023, the FASB issued ASU 2023-09, Income Taxes (Topic 740): Improvements to Income Tax Disclosures, which requires more detailed income tax disclosures. The guidance requires entities to disclose disaggregated information about their effective tax rate reconciliation as well as expanded information on income taxes paid by jurisdiction. The disclosure requirements will be applied on a prospective basis, with the option to apply them retrospectively. The new standard is effective for annual periods beginning after December 15, 2024, with early adoption permitted. The Company is in the process of evaluating the impact of the new standard on the related disclosures.
Although there are several other new accounting pronouncements issued by the FASB and not yet adopted by or effective for the Company, the Company does not believe any of these accounting pronouncements will have a material impact on its Consolidated Financial Statements.
2. BUSINESS COMBINATIONS
2023 ACQUISITION
Acquisition of AMS
On July 1, 2023, the Company completed its acquisition of the AMS Banking Business (“AMS”) from Altron TMT Proprietary Limited for cash consideration of approximately $1 million. Consistent with the requirements of ASC 805, Business Combinations, the Company assessed whether all assets acquired and liabilities assumed have been appropriately identified, measured and recognized, and performed re-measurements to verify that the consideration paid, assets acquired and liabilities assumed have been properly valued. After applying the requirement of ASC 805-30-25-4, the Company recognized a gain on bargain purchase for the year ended December 31, 2024 as the estimated fair value of the identifiable net assets acquired exceeded the purchase consideration transferred by approximately $5 million, reflected in Other income (expense), net in the Consolidated Statements of Operations. The acquisition did not have a material impact on the Consolidated Financial Statements nor did the Company incur material transaction costs.
2022 ACQUISITION
Acquisition of LibertyX
On January 5, 2022, the Company completed its acquisition of Moon Inc., dba LibertyX, a leading cryptocurrency software provider, with the goal of enabling Atleos to provide digital currency solutions, including the ability to buy and sell Bitcoin, and conduct cross-border remittance. All of the outstanding shares of LibertyX were purchased for $1 million cash consideration and approximately 1.4 million shares of NCR’s common stock at a price of $42.13 per share. Also, approximately 0.2 million outstanding unvested LibertyX option awards were converted into NCR awards pursuant to an exchange ratio as defined in the acquisition agreement. LibertyX stock option awards were converted into NCR stock option awards with an exercise price per share for option awards equal to the exercise price per share of such stock option award immediately prior to the completion of the acquisition divided by the exchange ratio, and vested immediately. The value of the option awards was deemed attributable to services already rendered and was included as a portion of the purchase price. Total purchase consideration for the LibertyX acquisition was approximately $69 million.
Recording of Assets Acquired and Liabilities Assumed The fair value of consideration transferred was allocated to the identifiable assets acquired and liabilities assumed based upon their estimated fair values as of the date of the acquisition as set forth below. The amounts for intangible assets are based on third-party valuations performed. The final allocation of the purchase price is as follows:
In millions Fair Value
Cash acquired $ 2
Tangible assets acquired 3
Acquired intangible assets other than goodwill 38
Acquired goodwill 40
Deferred tax liabilities (10)
Liabilities assumed (4)
Total purchase consideration $ 69
The Company utilized various methods of the income, cost, and market approaches depending on the asset or liability being fair valued to determine the allocation of purchase price. The estimation of fair value required significant judgment related to future net cash flows (including revenue growth rate, EBITDA margins, and customer attrition), discount rates reflecting the risk inherent in each cash flow stream, competitive trends, market comparables, and other factors. Inputs were generally determined by taking into account historical data (supplemented by current and anticipated market conditions) and growth rates.
Direct customer relationships and technology software were valued using an excess earnings method. Significant assumptions used in the discounted cash flow analysis for (i) direct customer relationships were the revenue growth rate, customer attrition rate, and discount rate, and (ii) technology software were the revenue growth rate, EBITDA margins, and discount rate.
Goodwill represents the future economic benefits arising from other assets acquired that could not be individually separately recognized. The goodwill arising from the acquisition consists of revenue and cost synergies expected from combining the operations of Atleos and LibertyX and is not deductible for tax purposes. The goodwill arising from the LibertyX acquisition has been allocated to our Network segment. Refer to Note 3, “Goodwill and Purchased Intangible Assets”, for the carrying amounts of goodwill by segment.
The following table sets forth the components of the intangible assets acquired as of the acquisition date:
Fair Value Weighted Average Amortization Period (1)
(In millions) (In years)
Direct customer relationships $ 5 10
Technology - Software 30 13
Non-compete 1 1
Tradenames 2 2
Total acquired intangible assets $ 38
(1) Determination of the weighted average period of the individual categories of intangible assets was based on the nature of applicable intangible asset and the expected future cash flows to be derived from the intangible asset. Amortization of intangible assets with definite lives is recognized over the period of time the assets are expected to contribute to future cash flows.
The operating results of LibertyX have been included within the Company’s results since the closing date of the acquisition. Supplemental pro forma information and actual revenue and earnings since the acquisition date have not been provided as the acquisition did not have a material impact on the Company’s Consolidated Financial Statements.
In connection with the closing of the LibertyX acquisition, the Company did not incur material transaction costs.
Acquisition of FIS Payment Solutions
On July 1, 2022, the Company completed its acquisition of the India ATM business of FIS Payment Solutions & Services Private Limited for consideration of $19 million, of which $12 million was paid in cash in 2022. The remaining consideration,
net of working capital adjustments, was paid in 2024. The India ATM business acquisition did not have a material impact on the Company’s Consolidated Financial Statements.
In connection with the closing of the FIS Payment Solutions acquisition, the Company did not incur material transaction costs.
3. GOODWILL AND PURCHASED INTANGIBLE ASSETS
Goodwill by Segment The carrying amounts of goodwill by segment as of December 31 are included in the table below. Foreign currency fluctuations are included within other adjustments.
December 31, 2022 December 31, 2023 December 31, 2024
In millions Goodwill Additions Other Goodwill Additions Other Total
Network $ 1,695 $ - $ 1 $ 1,696 $ - $ (1) $ 1,695
Self-Service Banking(1)
254 - 2 256 - (1) 255
Total goodwill $ 1,949 $ - $ 3 $ 1,952 $ - $ (2) $ 1,950
(1) The carrying amount of goodwill for the Self-Service Banking segment is presented net of accumulated impairment losses of $16 million as of each period end.
As discussed in Note 1, “Basis of Presentation and Significant Accounting Policies”, management completed the annual goodwill impairment test during the fourth quarter of 2024. The Company elected to perform a qualitative assessment for the Self-Service Banking reporting unit and a quantitative assessment for the Network reporting unit.
The qualitative assessment included, but was not limited to, our consideration of macroeconomic conditions such as the conflicts in and around the Red Sea region, higher interest rates, foreign currency fluctuations, and significant cost inflation to the current year cash flows, the potential impacts to future cash flows as well as the excess of the fair value over the carrying value from the assessment performed during the fourth quarter of 2023. Based on the qualitative assessment completed for the annual goodwill impairment test of the Self-Service Banking reporting unit, it was determined that it was more likely than not that the fair value of this reporting unit was in excess of its carrying value. However, if the actual results differ from our expectations, there is a possibility we would have to perform an interim test in 2025, which could lead to an impairment of goodwill for the Self-Service Banking reporting unit.
For the quantitative assessment, the fair value of the Network reporting unit was estimated using a weighted methodology considering the output from both the income and market approaches. The income approach incorporates the use of discounted cash flow analysis. A number of significant assumptions and estimates are involved in the application of the discounted cash flow model to forecast operating cash flows, including revenue growth rates, EBITDA margin and discount rates. The market approach is performed using the guideline public company method which is based on earnings multiple data of peer companies.
Based on the quantitative assessment completed for the annual goodwill impairment test of the Network reporting unit, the Company determined the fair value of this reporting unit was greater than its carrying value by more than 20%. Assumptions used in the quantitative impairment testing are made at a point in time and require significant judgment; therefore, they are subject to change based on the facts and circumstances present at each annual and interim impairment test date. Additionally, these assumptions are generally interdependent and do not change in isolation. Some of the inherent estimates and assumptions used in determining fair value of the reporting units are outside the control of management, including interest rates, cost of capital, tax rates, market revenue and EBITDA comparables and credit ratings. While we believe we have made reasonable estimates and assumptions to calculate the fair value of the reporting unit, it is possible a material change could occur. If our actual results are not consistent with our estimates and assumptions used to calculate fair value, it could result in material impairment of goodwill for the Network reporting unit.
Identifiable Intangible Assets The Company’s purchased intangible assets, reported in Intangibles, net in the Consolidated Balance Sheets, were specifically identified when acquired, and are deemed to have finite lives. The gross carrying amount and accumulated amortization for the Company’s identifiable intangible assets were as set forth in the table below.
Amortization
Period
(in Years) December 31, 2024 December 31, 2023
In millions Gross Carrying Amount Accumulated Amortization Gross Carrying Amount Accumulated Amortization
Identifiable intangible assets
Direct customer relationships 1 - 15
$ 390 $ (109) $ 392 $ (84)
Technology-software 3 - 8
504 (244) 495 (185)
Tradenames 1 - 10
50 (41) 50 (33)
Total identifiable intangible assets $ 944 $ (394) $ 937 $ (302)
Amortization expense related to identifiable intangible assets was $95 million, $98 million, and $100 million for the years ended December 31, 2024, 2023, and 2022, respectively.
The aggregate estimated amortization expense for identifiable intangible assets for the following periods is:
For the years ended December 31 (estimated)
In millions 2025 2026 2027 2028 2029
Amortization expense $ 93 $ 86 $ 77 $ 74 $ 50
4. SEGMENT INFORMATION AND CONCENTRATIONS
The Company is organized primarily based on its operating model, management structure and organizational responsibilities. The Company manages and reports its operations in the following three segments: Self-Service Banking, Network, and Telecommunications & Technology (“T&T”). Resources are allocated and segment performance is assessed by our President and Chief Executive Officer, whom we have determined to be our Chief Operating Decision Maker (“CODM”). The following is a description of our reportable segments:
•Self-Service Banking-Offers solutions to enable customers in the financial services industry to reduce costs, generate new revenue streams and enhance customer loyalty. These solutions include a comprehensive line of ATM hardware and software, and related installation, maintenance, and managed and professional services. We also offer an ATM as a service (“ATMaaS”) solution to manage and run the ATM channel end-to-end for financial institutions that include back office, cash management, software management and ATM deployment, among others.
•Network-Provides a cost-effective way for financial institutions, fintechs, neobanks, and retailers to reach and serve their customers through our network of ATMs and multi-functioning financial services kiosks. We offer credit unions, banks, digital banks, fintechs, stored-value debit card issuers, and other consumer financial services providers access to our ATM network, including our proprietary Allpoint network, providing convenient and fee-free cash withdrawal and deposit access to their customers and cardholders as well as the ability to convert a digital value to cash, or vice versa, via ReadyCode (formerly Pay360). We also provide ATM branding solutions to financial institutions, ATM management and services to retailers and other businesses, and our LibertyX solution gives consumers the ability to buy and sell Bitcoin.
•T&T-Offers managed network and infrastructure services to enterprise clients across all industries via direct relationships with communications service providers and technology manufacturers. Our customers rely on us as a strategic partner to help them reduce complexity, improve cost efficiency, and enable global geographical reach. We deliver expert professional, field, and remote services for modern network technologies including Software-Defined Wide Area Networking, Network Functions Virtualization, Wireless Local Area Networks, Optical Networking, and Edge Networks.
Corporate income and expenses not allocated to segments includes income and expenses related to corporate functions and certain allocations from NCR prior to Separation that are not specifically attributable to an individual reportable segment. Other
income and expenses not allocated to segments includes certain other immaterial business operations, including commerce-related operations in countries that Voyix exited that are aligned to Atleos, that do not represent a reportable segment. For periods after the separation from Voyix, Other also includes revenues from commercial agreements with Voyix.
These segments represent components of the Company for which separate financial information is available that is utilized on a regular basis by the CODM in assessing segment performance and in allocating the Company’s resources. Management evaluates the performance of the segments and allocates resources to them based on revenue and Adjusted EBITDA. Atleos determines Adjusted EBITDA based on GAAP net income (loss) attributable to Atleos plus interest expense, net; plus income tax expense (benefit); plus depreciation and amortization; plus acquisition-related costs; plus pension mark-to-market adjustments, pension settlements, pension curtailments and pension special termination benefits; plus separation-related costs; plus transformation and restructuring charges (which includes integration, severance and other exit and disposal costs); plus stock-based compensation expense; plus Voyix legal and environmental indemnification expense; plus other special (expense) income items. These adjustments are considered non-operational or non-recurring in nature and are excluded from the Adjusted EBITDA metric utilized by our CODM in evaluating segment performance.
The CODM uses segment Adjusted EBITDA in the annual budgeting and forecasting process for all segments. The CODM considers budget-to-actual variances on a monthly basis for its profit measure when making decisions about allocating capital and personnel to the segments.
Assets are not allocated to segments, and thus are not included in the assessment of segment performance. Consequently, we do not disclose total assets by reportable segment.
The accounting policies used to determine the results of the operating segments are the same as those utilized for the Consolidated Financial Statements as a whole. Inter-segment sales and transfers are not material.
Special Item Related to Russia The war in Eastern Europe and related sanctions imposed on Russia and related actors by the United States and other jurisdictions required us to commence the orderly wind down of our operations in Russia beginning in the first quarter of 2022. We ceased operations in Russia in 2022 and have completed the liquidation of our only subsidiary in Russia. As a result, for the year ended December 31, 2022, our presentation of segment revenue and Adjusted EBITDA excludes the immaterial impact of our operating results in Russia, as well as the impact of impairments taken to write down the carrying value of assets and liabilities, severance charges, and the assessment of collectability on revenue recognition. We consider this to be a non-recurring special item and management has reviewed the results of its business segments excluding these impacts.
The following tables present revenue, significant segment expenses and Adjusted EBITDA by segment for the years ended December 31, 2024, 2023, and 2022.
For the year ended December 31, 2024
In millions Self-Service Banking Network T&T Total
Segment Revenue $ 2,696 $ 1,285 $ 194 $ 4,175
Other (1)
Consolidated Revenue $ 4,317
Less:
Adjusted cost of products (2)
654 56 11 721
Adjusted cost of services (2)
1,261 826 128 2,215
Adjusted SG&A and R&D expenses (2)
196 105 21 322
Other segment items (3)
(55) (106) (1) (162)
Total Segment Adjusted EBITDA $ 640 $ 404 $ 35 $ 1,079
Reconciliation of Segment Adjusted EBITDA to Net Income (loss) attributable to Atleos
Segment Adjusted EBITDA $ 1,079
Less unallocated amounts
Corporate income and expenses not allocated to segments 306
Other income and expenses not allocated to segments (8)
Interest expense 309
Interest income (7)
Income tax expense 47
Depreciation and amortization expense 176
Acquisition-related amortization of intangibles 95
Stock-based compensation expense 38
Separation costs 19
Acquisition-related costs (5)
Transformation and restructuring 22
Pension mark-to-market adjustments (38)
Voyix environmental indemnification expense (4)
Loss on debt extinguishment 20
Net income attributable to Atleos $ 91
(1) Other revenue represents certain other immaterial business operations, including commerce-related operations in countries that Voyix exited that are aligned to Atleos, that do not represent a reportable segment. For periods after the separation from Voyix, Other also includes revenues from commercial agreements with Voyix.
(2) Adjusted cost of products, Adjusted cost of services and Adjusted SG&A and R&D expenses are determined by excluding, as applicable: acquisitions related costs; pension settlements, pension curtailments and pension special termination benefits; separation-related costs; amortization of acquisition-related intangibles; transformation and restructuring charges (which includes integration, severance and other exit and disposal costs); and other special (expense) income items from Atleos’ costs of products, costs of services, selling, general and administrative expenses (“SG&A”), and research and development expenses (“R&D”) as presented on the statement of operations. These amounts are presented consistent with how they are viewed by the CODM. The costs are calculated consistent with Atleos’ definition of Adjusted EBITDA, which is management’s measure of segment profit or loss, with the exception that these amounts include depreciation and amortization expense. Atleos believes these measures are useful for investors because they may provide a more complete understanding of Atleos’ underlying operational performance, as well as consistency and comparability with Atleos’ past reports of financial results.
(3) Other segment items include an adjustment for depreciation and amortization expense to reconcile segment results to Adjusted EBITDA, which is management’s segment measure of profit or loss.
(4) Represents Atleos’ indemnification of certain costs shared with Voyix, related to investigatory and remedial activities, and related litigation, at facilities formerly owned or operated by Voyix to comply, or determine compliance, with environmental laws. Refer to Note 10, “Commitments and Contingencies”, for further details on the Shared Environmental Matters.
For the year ended December 31, 2023
In millions Self-Service Banking Network T&T Total
Segment Revenue $ 2,581 $ 1,267 $ 196 $ 4,044
Other (1)
Consolidated Revenue $ 4,191
Less:
Adjusted cost of products (2)
657 77 9 743
Adjusted cost of services (2)
1,181 820 133 2,134
Adjusted SG&A and R&D expenses (2)
161 102 23 286
Other segment items (3)
(48) (111) (2) (161)
Total Segment Adjusted EBITDA $ 630 $ 379 $ 33 $ 1,042
Reconciliation of Segment Adjusted EBITDA to Net Income (loss) attributable to Atleos
Segment Adjusted EBITDA $ 1,042
Less unallocated amounts
Corporate income and expenses not allocated to segments 344
Other income and expenses not allocated to segments (34)
Interest expense, net (4)
Interest income (5)
Income tax expense 239
Depreciation and amortization expense 151
Acquisition-related amortization of intangibles 98
Stock-based compensation expense 68
Separation costs 170
Transformation and restructuring 28
Pension mark-to-market adjustments 27
Net income (loss) attributable to Atleos $ (134)
(1) Other revenue represents certain other immaterial business operations, including commerce-related operations in countries that Voyix exited that are aligned to Atleos, that do not represent a reportable segment. For periods after the separation from Voyix, Other also includes revenues from commercial agreements with Voyix.
(2) Adjusted cost of products, Adjusted cost of services and Adjusted SG&A and R&D expenses are determined by excluding, as applicable: acquisitions related costs; pension settlements, pension curtailments and pension special termination benefits; separation-related costs; amortization of acquisition-related intangibles; transformation and restructuring charges (which includes integration, severance and other exit and disposal costs); and other special (expense) income items from Atleos’ costs of products, costs of services, selling, general and administrative expenses (“SG&A”), and research and development expenses (“R&D”) as presented on the statement of operations. These amounts are presented consistent with how they are viewed by the CODM. The costs are calculated consistent with Atleos’ definition of Adjusted EBITDA, which is management’s measure of segment profit or loss, with the exception that these amounts include depreciation and amortization expense. Atleos believes these measures are useful for investors because they may provide a more complete understanding of Atleos’ underlying operational performance, as well as consistency and comparability with Atleos’ past reports of financial results.
(3) Other segment items include an adjustment for depreciation and amortization expense to reconcile segment results to Adjusted EBITDA, which is management’s segment measure of profit or loss.
(4) Includes Related party interest expense, net, as presented in the Consolidated Statements of Operations.
For the year ended December 31, 2022
In millions Self-Service Banking Network T&T Total
Segment Revenue $ 2,582 $ 1,198 $ 219 $ 3,999
Other (1)
Other adjustment (2)
Consolidated Revenue $ 4,131
Less:
Adjusted cost of products (3)
779 73 17 869
Adjusted cost of services (3)
1,147 783 135 2,065
Adjusted SG&A and R&D expenses (3)
152 99 23 274
Other segment items (4)
(45) (109) (3) (157)
Total Segment Adjusted EBITDA $ 549 $ 352 $ 47 $ 948
Reconciliation of Segment Adjusted EBITDA to Net Income (loss) attributable to Atleos
Segment Adjusted EBITDA $ 948
Less unallocated amounts
Corporate income and expenses not allocated to segments 279
Other income and expenses not allocated to segments (16)
Related party interest expense, net 31
Income tax expense 50
Depreciation and amortization expense 159
Acquisition-related amortization of intangibles 100
Stock-based compensation expense 66
Acquisition-related costs 8
Transformation and restructuring 63
Russia operations 22
Pension mark-to-market adjustments 78
Net income attributable to Atleos $ 108
(1) Other revenue represents certain other immaterial business operations, including commerce-related operations in countries that Voyix exited that are aligned to Atleos, that do not represent a reportable segment.
(2) Other adjustment reflects the revenue attributable to the Company’s operations in Russia that were excluded from management’s measure of revenue due to our announcement to suspend sales to Russia and anticipated orderly wind down of our operations in Russia.
(3) Adjusted cost of products, Adjusted cost of services and Adjusted SG&A and R&D expenses are determined by excluding, as applicable: acquisitions related costs; pension settlements, pension curtailments and pension special termination benefits; amortization of acquisition-related intangibles; transformation and restructuring charges (which includes integration, severance and other exit and disposal costs); and other special (expense) income items from Atleos’ costs of products, costs of services, selling, general and administrative expenses (“SG&A”), and research and development expenses (“R&D”) as presented on the Statement of Operations. These amounts are presented consistent with how they are viewed by the CODM. The costs are calculated consistent with Atleos’ definition of Adjusted EBITDA, which is management’s measure of segment profit or loss, with the exception that these amounts include depreciation and amortization expense. Atleos believes these measures are useful for investors because they may provide a more complete understanding of Atleos’ underlying operational performance, as well as consistency and comparability with Atleos’ past reports of financial results.
(4) Other segment items include an adjustment for depreciation and amortization expense to reconcile segment results to Adjusted EBITDA, which is management’s segment measure of profit or loss.
The following table presents recurring revenue and all other products and services that is recognized at a point in time for Atleos for the years ended December 31:
In millions 2024 2023 2022
Recurring revenue $ 3,136 $ 2,982 $ 2,795
All other products and services 1,181 1,209 1,336
Total revenue $ 4,317 $ 4,191 $ 4,131
Recurring revenue includes all revenue streams from contracts where there is a predictable revenue pattern that will occur at regular intervals with a relatively high degree of certainty. This includes hardware and software maintenance revenue, processing revenue, interchange and network revenue, Bitcoin-related revenue, and certain professional services arrangements, as well as term-based software license arrangements that include customer termination rights.
Revenue is attributed to the geographic area to which the product is delivered or in which the service is provided. The following table presents revenue by geographic area for Atleos for the years ended December 31:
In millions 2024 % 2023 % 2022 %
Revenue by Geographic Area
United States $ 1,932 45 % $ 1,894 45 % $ 1,859 45 %
Americas (excluding United States) 517 12 % 534 13 % 512 12 %
Europe, Middle East and Africa 1,343 31 % 1,251 30 % 1,236 30 %
Asia Pacific 525 12 % 512 12 % 524 13 %
Total revenue $ 4,317 100 % $ 4,191 100 % $ 4,131 100 %
The following table presents property, plant and equipment by geographic area as of December 31:
In millions 2024 2023
Property, plant and equipment, net
United States $ 201 $ 212
Americas (excluding United States) 22 24
Europe, Middle East and Africa 148 144
Asia Pacific 103 88
Total property, plant and equipment, net $ 474 $ 468
Concentrations No single customer accounts for more than 10% of Atleos’ consolidated revenue and accounts receivable as of and for the years ended December 31, 2024, 2023, and 2022. As of December 31, 2024, 2023, and 2022, Atleos is not aware of any significant concentration of business transacted with a particular customer that could, if suddenly eliminated, have a material adverse effect on Atleos’ operations. Atleos also lacks a concentration of available sources of labor, services, licenses or other rights that could, if suddenly eliminated, have a material adverse effect on its operations.
A number of Atleos’ products, systems and solutions rely primarily on specific suppliers for microprocessors and other component products, manufactured assemblies, operating systems, commercial software and other central components. Atleos also utilizes contract manufacturers in order to complete manufacturing activities. There can be no assurances that any sudden impact to the availability or cost of these technologies or services would not have a material adverse effect on Atleos’ operations.
5. DEBT OBLIGATIONS
The following table summarizes the Company’s short-term borrowings and long-term debt:
December 31, 2024 December 31, 2023
In millions, except percentages Amount Weighted-Average Interest Rate Amount Weighted-Average Interest Rate
Short-Term Borrowings
Current portion of Senior Secured Credit Facility (1)
$ 78 7.35% $ 73 8.93%
Other (1)
3 7.19% 3 7.23%
Total short-term borrowings $ 81 $ 76
Long-Term Borrowings
Senior Secured Credit Facility:
Term loan facilities (1)
$ 1,335 7.62% $ 1,512 9.44%
Revolving credit facility (1)
225 7.50% 155 8.71%
Senior Notes:
9.500% Senior Notes due 2029
$ 1,350 1,350
Discount and deferred financing fees (58) (85)
Other (1)
3 7.17% 6 7.18%
Total long-term debt $ 2,855 $ 2,938
(1) Interest rates are weighted average interest rates as of December 31, 2024 and 2023.
Senior Secured Credit Facility The Company is party to a Credit Agreement, dated as of September 27, 2023, which provides for (i) a five-year senior secured Term Loan A facility in an aggregate principal amount of $835 million (the “Term Loan A Facility”, and the loans thereunder the “Term A-1 Loans”), (ii) a five and a half-year senior secured Term Loan B facility in an aggregate principal amount of $750 million (the “Term Loan B Facility”), and (iii) a five-year multicurrency revolving credit facility with commitments in an initial aggregate principal amount of $500 million (including (a) letters of credit sub-facility in an aggregate face amount of up to $75 million and (b) a sub-facility in an aggregate principal amount of up to $200 million for borrowings and Letters of Credit in certain agreed foreign currencies).
On October 17, 2024, Atleos entered into the First Amendment (the “First Amendment”) to the Credit Agreement, dated as of September 27, 2023, by and among the Company, certain subsidiaries from time to time party thereto, the lenders party thereto, and Bank of America, N.A., as administrative agent (the “Administrative Agent”) (the “Credit Agreement” and, as amended by the First Amendment, the “Amended Credit Agreement”). The First Amendment provided for (a) an increase in the aggregate principal amount of the revolving credit commitments equal to $100 million such that the aggregate amount of the revolving credit commitments after giving effect to the First Amendment will be $600 million (the “Revolving Credit Facility”, and the loans thereunder the “Revolving Credit Loans”) and (b) a new class of incremental term loan commitments (the “Term A-2 Commitments” and, the loans made pursuant thereto, the “Term A-2 Loans”) to be established in an aggregate principal amount equal to $300 million.
The proceeds of the Term A-2 Loans were used to, among other things, (i) prepay a portion of the Term Loan B Facility outstanding under the Credit Agreement immediately prior to the effectiveness of this Amended Credit Agreement (the “Existing Term B Loans”), (ii) to pay the call premium, fees, costs and expenses related to the foregoing transactions, and (iii) for general corporate purposes. Immediately following the prepayment described in clause (i) above, the Existing Term B Loans were refinanced and replaced in their entirety with a new tranche of term loans under the Credit Agreement in an aggregate principal amount equal to $445 million (the “New Term B Loans” and together with the Term A-1 Loans and the Term A-2 Loans, the “Term Loan Facilities”). For the year ended December 31, 2024, and in connection with the Existing Term B Loan refinancing transaction, the Company recognized a loss of $20 million, which includes the write-off of deferred financing costs and original issue discount of $13 million and a cash redemption premium of $7 million.
As of December 31, 2024, the Term Loan Facilities under the Amended Credit Agreement have an aggregate principal amount of $1,580 million, of which $1,413 million remained outstanding. Additionally, as of December 31, 2024, there was $225 million outstanding under the Revolving Credit Facility and outstanding letters of credit under the sub-facilities were $25 million. Our borrowing capacity under our Revolving Credit Facility was $350 million at December 31, 2024.
The Term A-1 Loans, the Term A-2 Loans and the Revolving Credit Loans will bear interest based on the secured overnight financing rate (“SOFR”) (or an alternative reference rate for amounts denominated in a currency other than U.S. Dollars), or, at the Company’s option, in the case of amounts denominated in U.S. Dollars, at a base reference rate equal to the highest of (a) the federal funds rate plus 0.50%, (b) the rate of interest last quoted by the Administrative Agent as its “prime rate”, (c) the one-month SOFR rate plus 1.00%, and (d) 1.00% (the “Base Rate”), plus, as applicable, a margin ranging from 2.00% to 3.00% per annum for SOFR-based Term A-1 Loans, Term A-2 Loans and Revolving Credit Loans ranging from 1.00% to 2.00% per annum for Base Rate-based Term A-1 Loans, Term A-2 Loans and Revolving Credit Loans, in each case, depending on the Company’s consolidated leverage ratio.
The New Term B Loans will bear interest at SOFR or, at the Company’s option, the Base Rate, plus, as applicable, a margin of 3.75% per annum for SOFR-based Term B Loans and 2.75% for Base Rate-based Term B Loans.
In connection with the revolving credit commitments, the Company will pay customary agency fees and a commitment fee based on the daily unused portion of the Revolving Credit Loans and ranging from 0.25% to 0.50% per annum, depending on the Company’s consolidated leverage ratio.
The outstanding principal balance of the Term A-1 Loans is required to be repaid in quarterly installments beginning on March 31, 2024, in an amount equal to (i) 1.875% of the original principal amount of the Term A-1 Loans during the first three years and (ii) 2.50% of the original principal amount of the Term A-1 Loans during the final two years. Any remaining outstanding balance will be due at maturity on October 16, 2028.
The outstanding principal balance of the Term A-2 Loans is required to be repaid in quarterly installments beginning on March 31, 2025, in an amount equal to 1.250% of the original principal amount of the Term A-2 Loans until maturity. Any remaining outstanding balance will be due at maturity on October 16, 2028.
The Revolving Credit Loans and the New Term B Loans are not subject to amortization and will mature on October 16, 2028 and April 16, 2029, respectively. During the fourth quarter of 2024, the Company voluntarily prepaid $105 million of the outstanding principal amount of the New Term B Loans, without penalty.
The obligations under the Amended Credit Agreement, and the guarantees of those obligations, were secured by substantially all of the Company’s assets and the assets of the Company’s wholly-owned domestic subsidiaries (the “Subsidiary Guarantors”), in each case, subject to customary exceptions and exclusions (the “Collateral”).
The Amended Credit Agreement contains customary representations and warranties, affirmative covenants, and negative covenants. The negative covenants limit the Company and its subsidiaries’ ability to, among other things, incur indebtedness, create liens on the Company’s or its subsidiaries’ assets, engage in fundamental changes, make investments, sell or otherwise dispose of assets, engage in sale-leaseback transactions, make restricted payments, repay subordinated indebtedness, engage in certain transactions with affiliates and enter into agreements restricting the ability of the Company’s subsidiaries to make distributions to the Company or incur liens on their assets.
The Amended Credit Agreement also contains a financial covenant, that does not permit the Company to allow its consolidated leverage ratio of Consolidated Total Debt to Consolidated EBITDA (each as defined in the Amended Credit Agreement) to exceed (i) in the case of any fiscal quarter ending on or following September 30, 2024 and prior to September 30, 2025, 4.50 to 1.00 and (ii) in the case of any fiscal quarter ending on or following September 30, 2025, 4.25 to 1.00, in each case subject, to (x) increases of 0.25 in connection with the consummation of any material acquisition and applicable to the fiscal quarter in which such acquisition is consummated and the three consecutive fiscal quarters thereafter, and (y) a maximum cap of 5.00 to 1.00.
The Amended Credit Agreement also contains customary events of default including, among other things, non-payment of principal, interest or fees, violation of covenants, inaccuracy of representations and warranties, bankruptcy and insolvency events, material judgments, cross-defaults to material indebtedness and change of control. The occurrence of an event of default could result in the termination of commitments under the Revolving Credit Loans and Term Loan Facilities (the “Credit Facilities”), the acceleration of all outstanding amounts thereunder and the requirement to cash collateralize outstanding letters of credit.
The Amended Credit Agreement permits the Company to request, from time to time and subject to certain customary conditions, including obtaining commitments therefore (a) increases in any existing tranche of Term A Loans and Term B Loans, (b) the establishment of new tranches of incremental term loans and/or (c) the establishment of incremental revolving commitments, in an aggregate principal amount for all such incremental facilities, when combined with any “incremental equivalent debt”, of up to $300 million plus such amount as would not cause the Company’s consolidated leverage ratio, calculated on a pro forma basis and assuming all incremental commitments were fully drawn, to exceed 3.50 to 1.00.
Senior Secured Notes On September 27, 2023, the Company issued $1,350 million aggregate principal amount of 9.500% senior secured notes due in 2029 (the “Notes”). The Notes were issued pursuant to an indenture (the “Indenture”) between the Company and Citibank, N.A., as trustee and notes collateral agent. The Notes are unconditionally guaranteed on a senior secured basis, subject to certain limitations, by the Subsidiary Guarantors that will guarantee the Credit Facilities. The Notes and related guarantees will be secured, subject to permitted liens and certain other exceptions, by first-priority liens on the Collateral (as defined above). Interest is payable on the Notes semi-annually, in arrears, at an annual rate of 9.500% on April 1 and October 1 of each year, beginning on April 1, 2024. The Notes will mature on April 1, 2029.
The Company has optional redemption rights of the Notes pursuant to the following:
At any time prior to October 1, 2026, the Company may redeem up to a maximum of 40% of the original aggregate principal amount of the Notes with the proceeds of one or more equity offerings, at a redemption price equal to 109.5% of the principal amount thereof, plus accrued and unpaid interest thereon, if any, to, but not including, the redemption date (subject to the right of holders of record on the relevant record date to receive interest due on the relevant interest payment date); provided that: (i) at least 55% of the original aggregate principal amount of the Notes remains outstanding; and (ii) such redemption occurs within 180 days of the completion of such equity offering.
Additionally, prior to October 1, 2026, the Company may redeem some or all of the Notes by paying a redemption price equal to 100% of the principal amount of the Notes to be redeemed plus the Applicable Premium, as defined in the Indenture, as of, and accrued and unpaid interest, if any, to, but not including, the applicable redemption date (subject to the right of holders of record on the relevant record date to receive interest due on the relevant interest payment date).
On or after October 1 of the relevant year listed below, the Company may redeem some or all of the Notes at the prices listed below, plus accrued and unpaid interest, if any, to, but not including, the redemption date (subject to the right of holders of record on the relevant record date to receive interest due on the relevant interest payment date): 2026 at a redemption price of 104.750%, 2027 at a redemption price of 102.375% and 2028 and thereafter at a redemption price of 100%.
The Indenture contains customary events of default, including, among other things, payment default, exchange default, failure to provide certain notices thereunder and certain provisions related to bankruptcy events. The Indenture also contains customary high yield affirmative and negative covenants, including negative covenants that, among other things, limit the Company and its restricted subsidiaries’ ability to incur additional indebtedness, create liens on, sell or otherwise dispose of assets, engage in certain fundamental corporate changes or changes to lines of business activities, make certain investments or material acquisitions, engage in sale-leaseback or hedging transactions, repurchase common stock, pay dividends or make similar distributions on capital stock, repay certain indebtedness, engage in certain affiliate transactions and enter into agreements that restrict their ability to create liens, pay dividends or make loan repayments.
Other Debt In December 2022, NCR and Cardtronics USA, Inc., a wholly owned subsidiary of the Company, entered into a master loan agreement (the “ATMaaS Facility”) with Banc of America Leasing & Capital, LLC (“BALCAP”) pursuant to which either NCR or Cardtronics USA, Inc., as applicable, may specify one or more ATM as a Service contracts, including any rights to receive payment thereunder, and the ATM equipment thereto (“ATMaaS Assets”) as security interest in the borrowing. The total amount available under the ATMaaS Facility is $20 million with repayment terms up to four years. In connection with the Spin-off, in September 2023, NCR, Cardtronics USA, Inc. and BALCAP amended the ATMaaS Facility in order to, among other things, cause the assignment by NCR of all of its ATMaaS Assets and all of its obligations under the ATMaaS Facility to Cardtronics USA, Inc. As of December 31, 2024, total debt outstanding under the financing program was $6 million with a weighted average interest rate of 7.18% and a weighted average term of 2.6 years. As of December 31, 2023, total debt outstanding under the financing program was $9 million with a weighted average interest rate of 7.20% and a weighted average term of 2.8 years.
Debt Maturities Maturities of debt outstanding, in principal amounts, at December 31, 2024 are summarized below:
For the years ended December 31
In millions Total 2025 2026 2027 2028 2029
Debt maturities $ 2,994 $ 81 $ 81 $ 93 $ 1,049 $ 1,690
Fair Value of Debt The Company utilized Level 2 inputs, as defined in the fair value hierarchy, to measure the fair value of the long-term debt, which, as of December 31, 2024 and 2023 was $3,126 million and $3,172 million, respectively. Management’s fair value estimates were based on quoted prices for recent trades of Atleos’ long-term debt, quoted prices for similar instruments, and inquiries with certain investment communities.
6. TRADE RECEIVABLES FACILITY
The Company maintains a trade receivables facility (the “Trade Receivables Facility”) with PNC Bank, National Association (“PNC”) as administrative agent, and PNC, MUFG Bank, Ltd., Victory Receivables Corporation and the other purchasers from time to time party thereto (the “Purchasers”), which allows the Company’s wholly-owned, bankruptcy remote subsidiaries, NCR Atleos Receivables LLC (the “U.S. SPE”) and NCR Atleos Canada Receivables LP (the “Canadian SPE”), to sell certain trade receivables on a revolving basis to the Purchasers participating in the Trade Receivable Facility. The Trade Receivable Facility became effective October 16, 2023 and has an initial term of two years, unless earlier terminated in accordance with the terms thereof, and may be extended by agreement of the parties.
Under the Trade Receivables Facility, the Company and certain United States and Canadian operating subsidiaries of the Company continuously sell their trade receivables as they are originated to the U.S. SPE and a Canadian SPE (collectively, the “SPEs”), as applicable. No assets or credit of either SPE is available to satisfy the debts and obligations owed to the creditors of the Company or any other person until the obligations of the SPEs under the Trade Receivables Facility have been satisfied. The Company controls, and therefore consolidates, the SPEs in its Consolidated Financial Statements.
As cash is collected on the trade receivables, the U.S. SPE has the ability to continuously transfer ownership and control of new qualifying receivables to the Purchasers such that the total outstanding balance of trade receivables sold can be up to $166 million at any point in time (i.e., the maximum purchase commitment). The future outstanding balance of trade receivables that are sold is expected to vary based on the level of activity and other factors and could be less than the maximum purchase commitment. The total outstanding balance of trade receivables that have been sold and derecognized by the U.S. SPE was approximately $166 million and $166 million as of December 31, 2024 and 2023, respectively. Excluding the trade receivables sold, the SPEs collectively owned $38 million and $90 million of trade receivables as of December 31, 2024 and 2023, respectively, and these amounts are included in Accounts receivable, net in the Company’s Consolidated Balance Sheets.
Upon the effectiveness of the Trade Receivables Facility, the Company received a benefit from cash from operations of approximately $166 million in the year ended December 31, 2023. Continuous cash activity related to the Trade Receivables Facility is reflected in Net cash provided by operating activities in the Consolidated Statements of Cash Flows. The U.S. SPE incurs fees due and payable to the Purchasers, those fees, which are immaterial, are recorded within Other (expense) income, net in the Consolidated Statements of Operations. In addition, each of the SPEs has provided a full recourse guarantee in favor of the Purchasers of the full and timely payment of all trade receivables sold to them by the U.S. SPE. The guarantee is collateralized by all the trade receivables owned by each of the SPEs that have not been sold. The reserve recognized for this recourse obligation as of December 31, 2024 and 2023 is not material.
Cardtronics USA Inc. and Cardtronics Canada Holdings Inc. continue to be involved with the trade receivables even after they are transferred to the SPEs (or further transferred to the Purchasers) by acting as a servicer. In addition to any obligations as servicer, the U.S. Originators and Canadian Originator provide the SPEs with customary recourse in respect of (i) certain dilutive events with respect to the trade receivables sold to the SPEs that are caused by the originator and (ii) in the event of certain violations by the originator of their representations and warranties with respect to the trade receivables sold to the SPEs. These servicing and originator liabilities of the Company and its subsidiaries (other than the SPEs) under the Trade Receivables Facility are not expected to be material, given the high quality of the customers underlying the receivables and the anticipated short collection period.
The Trade Receivables Facility includes other customary representations and warranties, affirmative and negative covenants and default and termination provisions, which provide for the acceleration of amounts owed to the Purchasers thereunder in circumstances including, but not limited to, failure to pay capital or yield when due, breach of representation, warranty or
covenant, certain insolvency events or failure to maintain the security interest in the trade receivables, and defaults under other material indebtedness.
7. INCOME TAXES
The Company’s income tax provision for the first three quarters of 2023 and the year ended December 31, 2022 were prepared using a separate return method. The separate return method applies the accounting guidance for income taxes to the standalone financial statements as if the Company was a separate taxpayer and a standalone entity. The Company believes the assumptions supporting the allocation and presentation of income taxes on a separate return basis are reasonable.
For all periods prior to the Separation, the Company was part of NCR’s consolidated U.S. federal income tax return, as well as separate and combined NCR income tax returns in numerous state and international jurisdictions. The Company’s current tax liabilities computed under the separate return method are considered to be effectively settled in the Consolidated Financial Statements at the time the transaction is recorded, with the offset recorded against Net investment from NCR Corporation.
For the years ended December 31, income (loss) before income taxes consisted of the following:
In millions 2024 2023 2022
Income (loss) before income taxes
United States $ 30 $ (16) $ (88)
Foreign 109 123 245
Total income (loss) before income taxes $ 139 $ 107 $ 157
For the years ended December 31, income tax expense (benefit) consisted of the following:
In millions 2024 2023 2022
Income tax expense (benefit)
Current
Federal $ 25 $ 81 $ 8
State 6 15 2
Foreign 35 69 68
Deferred
Federal (12) (111) (13)
State 5 (23) 1
Foreign (12) 208 (16)
Total income tax expense $ 47 $ 239 $ 50
The following table presents the principal components of the difference between the effective tax rate and the U.S. federal statutory income tax rate for the years ended December 31:
In millions 2024 2023 2022
Income tax (benefit) expense at the U.S. federal tax rate of 21% $ 29 $ 22 $ 33
Foreign income tax differential 9 22 (2)
U.S. tax impact on foreign income (11) 16 1
State and local income taxes (net of federal effect) 7 (8) 3
Tax effects of intercompany restructurings prior to the Spin-Off - 120 -
Other U.S. permanent book/tax differences - - 1
Nondeductible transaction costs - 1 -
Disallowed executive compensation 2 6 7
Excess benefit/deficit from share-based payments 5 5 (1)
Foreign Derived Intangible Income deduction (17) - -
Research and development tax credits - (2) (1)
Valuation allowances 26 44 (1)
Change in liability for unrecognized tax benefits 2 4 (1)
Change in tax estimates for prior periods (5) 6 10
Other, net - 3 1
Total income tax expense $ 47 $ 239 $ 50
Atleos’ tax provisions include a provision for income taxes in certain tax jurisdictions where its subsidiaries are profitable, but reflect only a portion of the tax benefits related to certain foreign subsidiaries’ tax losses due to the uncertainty of the ultimate realization of future benefits from these losses. During 2024, our tax rate benefited from $17 million Foreign Derived Intangible Income deduction and $17 million provision to return adjustments, of which $11 million is classified as U.S. tax impact on foreign income. Additionally, our tax rate was impacted by increasing the valuation allowance on U.S. interest expense disallowance carryforward by $31 million. During 2023, our tax rate was impacted by a $44 million expense from recording a valuation allowance against deferred tax assets in the United Kingdom, Canada, Cyprus, Austria and other jurisdictions. The Company also completed certain internal restructuring transactions in connection with the Spin-off, resulting in a net of $120 million discrete tax expenses. Approximately $105 million of the discrete tax expense was for non-cash deferred tax items, primarily related to the tax effects upon the transfer of certain intangible assets among our wholly-owned subsidiaries prior to the Spin-off.
Atleos did not provide additional U.S. income tax or foreign withholding taxes, if any, on approximately $3.7 billion of undistributed earnings of its foreign subsidiaries, given the intention continues to be that those earnings are reinvested indefinitely. The amount of unrecognized deferred tax liability associated with these indefinitely reinvested earnings is approximately $130 million. The unrecognized deferred tax liability is made up of a combination of U.S. and state income taxes and foreign withholding taxes.
We regularly review our deferred tax assets for recoverability and establish a valuation allowance if it is more likely than not that some portion or all of the deferred tax asset will not be realized. The determination as to whether a deferred tax asset will be realized is made on a jurisdictional basis and is based on the evaluation of positive and negative evidence. This evidence includes historical taxable income/loss, projected future taxable income, the expected timing of the reversal of existing temporary differences and the implementation of tax planning strategies.
Deferred income tax assets and liabilities included in the Consolidated Balance Sheets as of December 31 were as follows:
In millions 2024 2023
Deferred income tax assets
Employee pensions and other benefits $ 81 $ 93
Other balance sheet reserves and allowances 135 121
Tax loss and credit carryforwards 287 306
Capitalized research and development 116 113
Property, plant and equipment 10 12
Lease liabilities 37 23
Other 22 26
Total deferred income tax assets $ 688 $ 694
Valuation allowance (264) (263)
Net deferred income tax assets $ 424 $ 431
Deferred income tax liabilities
Intangible assets $ 137 $ 173
Right of use assets 37 25
Capitalized software 5 13
Total deferred income tax liabilities $ 179 $ 211
Total net deferred income tax assets $ 245 $ 220
Atleos has previously recorded valuation allowances related to certain deferred tax assets due to the uncertainty of the ultimate realization of the future benefits from those assets. The recorded valuation allowances cover deferred tax assets, primarily tax loss carryforwards in tax jurisdictions where there is uncertainty as to the ultimate realization of those tax losses. If we are unable to generate sufficient future taxable income of the proper source in the time period within which the temporary differences underlying our deferred tax assets become deductible, or before the expiration of our loss carryforwards, additional valuation allowances could be required.
As of December 31, 2024, Atleos had U.S. federal, U.S. state (tax effected), and foreign net operating loss carryforwards of approximately $1.1 billion. These carryforwards that are subject to expiration will expire in the years 2025 through 2043. As a result of stock ownership changes, our U.S. tax attributes could be subject to limitations under Section 382 of the U.S. Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as amended, if further material stock ownership changes occur. Additionally, Atleos has tax credit carryforwards of approximately $18 million, which will expire in the years 2033 through 2034.
The aggregate changes in the balance of our gross unrecognized tax benefits were as follows for the years ended December 31:
In millions 2024 2023 2022
Gross unrecognized tax benefits - January 1 $ 34 $ 32 $ 35
Increases related to tax positions from prior years 1 - 1
Decreases related to tax positions from prior years (4) (2) (6)
Increases related to tax positions taken during the current year 6 6 6
Settlements with tax authorities - - (2)
Lapses of statutes of limitation (4) (1) (2)
Settlements (closed out to Net Investment from NCR Corporation) - (1) -
Total gross unrecognized tax benefits - December 31 $ 33 $ 34 $ 32
Of the total amount of gross unrecognized tax benefits as of December 31, 2024, $26 million would affect Atleos’ effective tax rate if realized. The Company’s liability arising from uncertain tax positions is recorded in Income tax accruals in the Consolidated Balance Sheets.
We recognized interest and penalties associated with uncertain tax positions as part of the provision for income taxes in our Consolidated Statements of Operations of $2 million of benefit, $3 million of benefit, and none for the years ended December 31, 2024, 2023, and 2022, respectively. The gross amount of interest and penalties accrued as of December 31, 2024 and 2023 was $11 million and $14 million, respectively.
In the United States, Atleos files consolidated federal and state income tax returns where statutes of limitations generally range from three to five years. Years beginning on or after 2015 are still open to examination by certain foreign taxing authorities.
The Company engages in continuous discussions and negotiations with taxing authorities regarding tax matters, and the Company has determined that over the next twelve months it expects to resolve certain tax matters related to foreign jurisdictions. As a result, as of December 31, 2024, we estimate that it is reasonably possible that unrecognized tax benefits may decrease by $3 million to $4 million in the next twelve months.
8. STOCK COMPENSATION PLANS
Background
Certain employees of the Company participate in stock incentive plans which allow for stock-based compensation in a number of forms, including restricted stock units (“RSU”), stock-options, employee stock purchase plan (“ESPP”) and other share-based awards. These awards are measured based upon fair value on the grant date and are recognized over the requisite service period.
Prior to the Separation, certain employees participated in NCR’s stock incentive plans (“NCR Plans”), whereby all awards granted under the programs consist of NCR common shares. Stock-based compensation expense recognized in the Consolidated Financial Statements for the years 2023 and 2022 was determined based upon employees who participate in the NCR Plans and who exclusively supported Atleos operations, as well as an allocation of NCR’s corporate and shared employee stock-based compensation expenses.
Substantially concurrently with the Separation, the Company adopted the following incentive plans for Atleos employees: (i) NCR Atleos Corporation 2023 Stock Incentive Plan (the “2023 SIP”), and (ii) NCR Atleos Corporation Employee Stock Purchase Plan (collectively, the “Atleos Plans”). Grants of equity awards made after the Spin-off to our executive officers and other employees were made under the 2023 SIP, which became effective as of the date of the Distribution. The 2023 SIP has an authorized share reserve of 6 million shares available for grant and, as of December 31, 2024, approximately 6 million shares remain available for future issuance.
In connection with the Spin-off, certain of the outstanding restricted stock units and stock options held by Atleos employees, as well as the strike price for the stock options, were adjusted pursuant to a conversion ratio determined by the post Spin-off average trading price of each of Atleos and Voyix during a specified period following the Spin-off. All adjustments were made with the intent to preserve the intrinsic value of each award immediately before and after the Spin-off. Outstanding stock options at the time of the Spin-off, regardless of the holder, were converted into stock options of both Atleos and Voyix. In addition, outstanding restricted stock units held by certain key equity holders as of the Spin-off (including former Voyix directors and certain former Voyix employees) were converted into restricted stock units of both Atleos and Voyix. Pursuant to the Employee Matters Agreement, the converted awards shall generally continue to be subject to the same terms and conditions as were applicable to the original NCR awards, including with respect to vesting, except as described in the Employee Matters Agreement. Performance determinations for converted awards will be made by the Voyix Compensation and Human Resource Committee of their Board of Directors. As a result of the award modifications, Atleos will incur approximately $5 million of incremental stock-based compensation expense. Of this amount, $2 million and $2 million was recognized during the years ended December 31, 2024 and 2023, respectively, and approximately $1 million will be recognized during the year ended December 31, 2025.
Stock Compensation Expense
Stock-based compensation expense is recognized within Operating expenses in our Consolidated Statements of Operations, depending on the nature of the employee’s role in our operations, based upon fair value. Consistent with the requirements of ASC 718, Compensation-Stock Compensation, our stock-based compensation expense includes expense on all awards held by Atleos employees, including converted option and restricted stock unit awards in Voyix common stock.
The Company recorded stock-based compensation expense for the years ended December 31 as follows:
In millions 2024 2023 2022
Restricted stock units $ 37 $ 43 $ 30
Stock options - - 1
Employee stock purchase plan 1 - -
Stock-based compensation expense $ 38 $ 43 $ 31
Tax benefit (3) (5) (7)
Total stock-based compensation expense (net of tax) $ 35 $ 38 $ 24
Total stock-based compensation expense, presented in the table above for the years ended December 31, 2023 and 2022, is specifically for employees who exclusively supported Atleos’ operations. The Company recorded stock-based compensation expense allocated to Atleos for NCR corporate and shared employees for the years ended December 31, 2023 and 2022 of $25 million, and $35 million, respectively.
Restricted Stock Units
The 2023 SIP provides for the grant of several different forms of stock-based compensation, including restricted stock units. Restricted stock units can have service-based and/or performance-based vesting with performance goals being established by the Compensation and Human Resource Committee of the Company’s Board of Directors. Any grant of restricted stock units is generally subject to a vesting period of 12 months to 48 months, to the extent permitted by the 2023 SIP. Performance-based grants conditionally vest upon achievement of future performance goals based on performance criteria such as the Company’s achievement of specific return on capital and/or other financial metrics during the performance period. Performance-based grants must be earned, based on performance, before the actual number of shares to be awarded is known. The Compensation and Human Resource Committee considers the likelihood of meeting the performance criteria based upon estimates and other relevant data, and certifies performance based on its analysis of achievement against the performance criteria. A recipient of restricted stock units does not have the rights of a stockholder and is subject to restrictions on transferability and risk of forfeiture. Other terms and conditions applicable to any award of restricted stock units will be determined by the Compensation and Human Resource Committee and set forth in the agreement relating to that award.
The restricted stock units outstanding as of December 31, 2024 consist of converted awards originally granted under NCR stock incentive plans prior to the Separation and awards granted under the Atleos 2023 SIP. The NCR stock incentive plans have terms generally consistent with those described above.
The following table summarizes restricted stock unit activity in 2024 for Atleos employees, as well as certain Voyix employees who were granted restricted stock units of Atleos common stock upon Separation:
Shares in thousands Number of Units Weighted Average Grant-Date Fair Value per Unit
Unvested shares as of January 1, 2024 3,461 $ 30.49
Shares granted 1,690 $ 22.62
Shares granted adjustments(1)
(104)
Shares vested (1,348) $ 28.81
Shares forfeited (204) $ 25.70
Unvested shares as of December 31, 2024
3,495 $ 27.03
(1) Represents grant adjustments for RSUs granted in prior periods with performance-based vesting criteria to reflect the actual number of shares issued upon final achievement of the performance vesting criteria.
Stock-based compensation expense is recognized in the financial statements based upon fair value. The total fair value of restricted stock units held by Atleos employees that vested and distributed in the form of Atleos common stock was $21 million in 2024 and $19 million in 2023. As of December 31, 2024, there was $36 million of unrecognized compensation cost related to unvested restricted stock unit grants held by Atleos employees. The unrecognized compensation cost is expected to be recognized over a remaining weighted-average period of 1.8 years.
The following table summarizes the composition of restricted stock unit grants in 2024:
Shares in thousands Number of Units Weighted Average Grant-Date Fair Value
Service-based units 1,146 $ 21.55
Performance-based units 544 $ 24.89
Total restricted stock units 1,690 $ 22.62
On February 16, 2024, the Company granted restricted stock units under the 2023 Stock Incentive Plan to its executive officers and other employees, comprised of both time-based and market-based restricted stock units. The time-based restricted stock units were granted with a weighted-average grant date fair value of $21.90 and vest in annual installments over a three-year requisite service period ending February 16, 2027.
The market-based restricted stock units cliff vest in an amount between zero and 200% of the target units granted based on the Company’s relative total shareholder return from January 1, 2024 to December 31, 2026 (the “performance period”), as compared to a designated peer group. The fair value of the awards was determined to be $27.46 per share based on using a Monte-Carlo simulation model and will be recognized over a three-year requisite service period ending February 16, 2027.
Both time-based and market-based restricted stock units granted to executive officers are subject to a mandatory one-year post-vesting holding period. As such, a discount for lack of marketability was calculated using the Finnerty model and applied to the awards subject to the post-vesting restrictions. The fair value of the time-based and market-based awards subject to the post-vesting restrictions were $19.36 and $24.27, respectively.
The table below details the significant assumptions used in determining the fair value of the market-based restricted stock units granted on February 16, 2024:
Dividend yield 3.46 %
Risk-free interest rate 4.35 %
Expected volatility 55.15 %
Discount for lack of marketability 11.59 %
Expected volatility for these restricted stock units is calculated as the historical volatility of the Company’s peers over a period of approximately three years, as management believes this is the best representation of prospective trends given the limited trading history of Atleos’ stock. The risk-free interest rate was determined based on a three-year U.S. Treasury yield curve in effect at the time of the grant. The dividend yield was based on the Company’s estimated annual dividend payment and stock price. The discount for lack of marketability was based on a Finnerty put-option model, which uses the price of a put to estimate the cost of insuring the value of the award against downside risk during the holding period.
On December 21, 2022 and February 13, 2023, NCR granted market-based restricted stock units vesting on December 31, 2025. The original terms of the award specified that the number of awards that vest are subject to the compound annual growth rate (“CAGR”) of NCR’s stock price from January 1, 2023 to December 31, 2025 (the “performance period”), subject to an alternative level of achievement based on NCR’s relative total shareholder return ranking among a comparison group. Pursuant to the Employee Matters Agreement, the performance condition for these awards was modified to be based on the combined total shareholder return-related metrics attained by Atleos and Voyix.
Approximately 50% of these market-based restricted stock units granted on December 21, 2022 and February 13, 2023 included an accelerated vesting provision if a Qualified Transaction, including a Spin-off, as defined in the award agreement, takes place during the performance period (with a minimum vesting period of one year from the grant date). Upon the occurrence of a Qualified Transaction, the number of shares that vest are then based on NCR’s 20-day volume-weighted average closing stock price immediately preceding the transaction date. In connection with the Spin-off that occurred on October 16, 2023, the accelerated vesting provision was triggered as the Spin-off occurred during the performance period and resulted in a minimum vesting period of one year from the grant dates of December 21, 2022 and February 13, 2023. In accordance with the provision, 50% of the market-based restricted stock units was recognized over the adjusted service period, vesting on December 21, 2023 and February 13, 2024.
Stock Options
The 2023 SIP also provides for the grant of stock options to purchase shares of Atleos common stock. The Compensation and Human Resource Committee has discretion to determine the material terms and conditions of option awards under the 2023 SIP, provided that (i) the exercise price must be no less than the fair market value of Atleos common stock (defined as the closing price) on the date of grant, and (ii) the term must be no longer than ten years. Other terms and conditions of an award of stock options will be determined by the Compensation and Human Resource Committee as set forth in the agreement relating to that award. New shares of the Company’s common stock are issued as a result of stock option exercises. During the year ended December 31, 2024, the Company did not grant any stock options.
As discussed above, outstanding stock options at the time of the Spin-off, regardless of the holder, were converted into stock options of both Atleos and Voyix. As such, employees of both Atleos and Voyix hold option awards in Atleos common stock. All options vested prior to the Spin-off and there is no remaining unrecognized compensation cost as of December 31, 2024.
The following table summarizes the Company’s stock option activity for the year ended December 31, 2024:
Shares in thousands Shares Under Option Weighted Average Exercise Price per Share Weighted Average Remaining Contractual Term (in years) Aggregate Intrinsic Value
(in millions)
Outstanding as of January 1, 2024 4,187 $ 27.62
Granted - $ -
Exercised (627) $ 25.51
Forfeited or expired (428) $ 31.06
Outstanding as of December 31, 2024
3,132 $ 27.60 1.6 $ 19.79
Exercisable as of December 31, 2024
3,132 $ 27.60 1.6 $ 19.79
Employee Stock Purchase Plan
In October 2023, the Board of Directors adopted the NCR Atleos Employee Stock Purchase Plan, effective October 18, 2023. The total number of shares of the Company’s common stock reserved for future issuance at inception was 5 million.
The Company’s Employee Stock Purchase Plan (“ESPP”) provides employees up to a 15% discount on stock purchases using a three-month look-back feature where the discount is applied to the stock price that represents the lower of Atleos’ closing stock price on either the first day or the last day of each calendar quarter. Participants can contribute between 1% and 10% of their compensation. The first offering under the ESPP was the three-month period from July 1, 2024 to September 30, 2024.
For the twelve months ended December 31, 2024, employees purchased approximately 0.1 million shares of the Company’s common stock, at a discounted price of $24.07. Approximately 4.9 million authorized shares remain unissued under our ESPP as of December 31, 2024. Effective December 31, 2024, the Company suspended the ESPP.
9. EMPLOYEE BENEFIT PLANS
Pension Plans
The Company sponsors defined benefit pension plans, including the U.S. pension plan, which no longer offers additional benefits and is closed to new participants, and international pension plans, certain of which also no longer offer additional benefits and are closed to new participants.
The Company’s funding policy is to contribute annually no less than the minimum required by applicable laws and regulations. Pension plan assets are primarily invested in publicly traded common stocks, common and commingled trusts, corporate debt securities, real estate investments, and cash or cash equivalents.
The Company recognizes the funded status of each applicable plan on the Consolidated Balance Sheets, with each over funded plan recognized as an asset and each underfunded plan recognized as a liability. Changes in the fair value of plan assets and net actuarial gains or losses are recognized upon remeasurement, which is at least annually in the fourth quarter of each year.
Net periodic benefit cost (income)
Components of net periodic benefit cost (income) of the pension plans, including amounts allocated prior to the Spin-off, for the years ended December 31 were as follows:
In millions U.S. Pension Benefits International
Pension Benefits Total Pension Benefits
2024 2023 2022 2024 2023 2022 2024 2023 2022
Net service cost $ - $ - $ - $ 2 $ 1 $ 2 $ 2 $ 1 $ 2
Interest cost 67 24 - 19 22 10 86 46 10
Expected return on plan assets (76) (21) - (35) (32) (26) (111) (53) (26)
Actuarial (gain) loss (43) 45 - 5 (15) 78 (38) 30 78
Net periodic benefit (income) cost $ (52) $ 48 $ - $ (9) $ (24) $ 64 $ (61) $ 24 $ 64
The net actuarial gain in 2024 was primarily due to an increase in discount rates in measuring the benefit obligations as well as the favorable impact from an update to the mortality tables, partially offset by the impact of the increase in inflation rate. The net actuarial loss in 2023 was primarily due to a decrease in discount rates in measuring the benefit obligations, partially offset by the impact of economic improvements on the value of plan assets. The actuarial loss in 2022 was primarily due to the impact of economic downturns on the value of plan assets, partially offset by an increase in discount rates in measuring the benefit obligation.
Benefit obligations and plan assets
A reconciliation of the beginning and ending balances of the pension plan benefit obligations is as follows:
U.S. Pension Benefits International Pension Benefits Total Pension Benefits
In millions 2024 2023 2024 2023 2024 2023
Change in benefit obligation
Benefit obligation as of January 1 $ 1,403 $ - $ 604 $ 562 $ 2,007 $ 562
Net service cost - - 2 1 2 1
Interest cost 67 24 19 22 86 46
Actuarial (gain) loss (92) 52 (25) (9) (117) 43
Benefits paid (109) (34) (38) (46) (147) (80)
Benefit obligations transferred from Voyix - 1,361 7 36 7 1,397
Currency translation adjustments - - (17) 38 (17) 38
Benefit obligation as of December 31 $ 1,269 $ 1,403 $ 552 $ 604 $ 1,821 $ 2,007
Accumulated benefit obligation as of December 31 $ 1,269 $ 1,403 $ 529 $ 590 $ 1,798 $ 1,993
A reconciliation of the beginning and ending balances of the fair value of the pension plan assets is as follows:
U.S. Pension Benefits International Pension Benefits Total Pension Benefits
In millions 2024 2023 2024 2023 2024 2023
Change in plan assets
Fair value of plan assets as of January 1 $ 1,070 $ - $ 767 $ 710 $ 1,837 $ 710
Actual return on plan assets 29 28 7 39 36 67
Company contributions - 150 3 4 3 154
Benefits paid (109) (34) (38) (35) (147) (69)
Fair value of plan assets transferred from Voyix - 926 - - - 926
Currency translation adjustments - - (25) 49 (25) 49
Fair value of plan assets as of December 31 $ 990 $ 1,070 $ 714 $ 767 $ 1,704 $ 1,837
The following table represents the funded status and the reconciliation of the funded status to amounts recognized in the Consolidated Balance Sheets and in Accumulated other comprehensive income (loss) as of December 31:
U.S. Pension Benefits International Pension Benefits Total Pension Benefits
In millions 2024 2023 2024 2023 2024 2023
Funded Status $ (279) $ (333) $ 162 $ 163 $ (117) $ (170)
Amounts recognized in the Consolidated Balance Sheets
Noncurrent assets $ - $ - $ 227 $ 217 $ 227 $ 217
Current liabilities - - (1) (2) (1) (2)
Noncurrent liabilities (279) (333) (64) (52) (343) (385)
Net amounts recognized $ (279) $ (333) $ 162 $ 163 $ (117) $ (170)
Amounts recognized in accumulated other comprehensive income (loss)
Prior service cost - - 14 14 14 14
Total $ - $ - $ 14 $ 14 $ 14 $ 14
For pension plans with accumulated benefit obligations in excess of plan assets, the projected benefit obligation, accumulated benefit obligation and fair value of plan assets were $1,311 million, $1,308 million, and $992 million, respectively, as of December 31, 2024, and $1,447 million, $1,443 million and $1,072 million, respectively, as of December 31, 2023.
Plan Assets The weighted average asset allocations as of December 31, 2024 and 2023 by asset category are as follows:
U.S. Pension Fund International Pension Fund
Actual Allocation of Plan Assets as of December 31 Target Asset Allocation Actual Allocation of Plan Assets as of December 31
Target Asset Allocation
2024 2023 2024 2023
Equity and other investments(1)
64 % 55 % 60% - 85%
19 % 20 % 10% - 30%
Debt securities(2)
18 % 24 % 5% - 20%
53 % 53 % 50% - 70%
Real estate - % - % 5% - 20%
23 % 22 % 10% - 20%
Other 18 % 21 % 5% - 15%
5 % 5 % 5% - 15%
Total 100 % 100 % 100 % 100 %
(1) Includes equity securities and securities held in comingled trusts.
(2) Includes debt securities and debt held in comingled trusts.
The fair value of plan assets as of December 31, 2024 and 2023 by asset category is as follows:
U.S. International
In millions Notes Fair Value as of December 31, 2024
Quoted Prices in Active Markets for Identical Assets (Level 1) Significant Other Observable Inputs (Level 2) Significant Unobservable Inputs
(Level 3) Not Subject to Leveling Fair Value as of December 31, 2024
Quoted Prices in Active Markets for Identical Assets (Level 1) Significant Other Observable Inputs (Level 2) Significant Unobservable Inputs
(Level 3) Not Subject to Leveling
Assets
Equity securities and other investments:
Common and commingled trusts - Equities 1 $ 636 $ - $ - $ - $ 636 $ 134 $ - $ - $ - $ 134
Fixed income securities:
Corporate debt 2 - - - - - 52 - 52 - -
Common and commingled trusts - Bonds 1 177 - - - 177 326 - - - 326
Other types of investments:
Real estate 3 - - - - - 165 - - 165 -
Common and commingled trusts - Short Term Investments 1 9 - - - 9 18 - - - 18
Partnership/joint venture interests - Other 4 48 - - 7 41 - - - - -
Hedge Funds 1 113 - - - 113 - - - - -
Money market funds 1 7 - - - 7 18 - - - 18
Insurance Products 1 - - - - - 1 - 1 - -
Total $ 990 $ - $ - $ 7 $ 983 $ 714 $ - $ 53 $ 165 $ 496
U.S. International
In millions Notes Fair Value as of December 31, 2023
Quoted Prices in Active Markets for Identical Assets (Level 1) Significant Other Observable Inputs (Level 2) Significant Unobservable Inputs
(Level 3) Not Subject to Leveling Fair Value as of December 31, 2023
Quoted Prices in Active Markets for Identical Assets (Level 1) Significant Other Observable Inputs (Level 2) Significant Unobservable Inputs
(Level 3) Not Subject to Leveling
Assets
Equity securities and other investments:
Common and commingled trusts - Equities 1 $ 585 $ - $ - $ - $ 585 $ 155 $ - $ - $ - $ 155
Fixed income securities:
Corporate debt 2 - - - - - 79 - 60 - 19
Common and commingled trusts - Bonds 1 254 - - - 254 329 - - - 329
Other types of investments:
Real estate 3 - - - - - 169 - - 169 -
Common and commingled trusts - Short Term Investments 1 84 - - - 84 29 - - - 29
Partnership/joint venture interests - Other 4 33 - - 4 29 - - - - -
Hedge Funds 1 114 - - - 114 - - - - -
Money market funds 1 - - - - - 6 - - - 6
Total $ 1,070 $ - $ - $ 4 $ 1,066 $ 767 $ - $ 60 $ 169 $ 538
Notes:
1.Common and commingled trusts (equities and balanced) and registered investment companies (RICs) such as money market funds and hedge funds are valued using a Net Asset Value (NAV) provided by the manager of each fund. The NAV is based on the underlying net assets owned by the fund, divided by the number of shares or units outstanding. The fair value of the underlying securities within the fund, which are generally traded on an active market, are valued at the closing price reported on the active market on which those individual securities are traded. For investments not traded on an active market, or for which a quoted price is not publicly available, a variety of unobservable valuation methodologies, including discounted cash flow, market multiple and cost valuation approaches, are employed by the fund manager or independent third party to value investments.
2.Corporate debt is valued primarily based on observable market quotations for similar bonds at the closing price reported on the active market on which the individual securities are traded. When such quoted prices are not available, the bonds are valued using a discounted cash flows approach using current yields on similar instruments of issuers with similar credit ratings.
3.Real estate investments are not traded on an active market, as such a variety of unobservable valuation methodologies, including discounted cash flow, market multiples and cost valuation approaches, are employed by the fund manager to value investments.
4.Partnership/joint ventures are valued based on the fair value of the underlying securities within the fund, which include investments both traded on an active market and not traded on an active market. For those investments that are traded on an active market, the values are based on the closing price reported on the active market on which those individual securities are traded. For investments not traded on an active market, or for which a quoted price is not publicly available, a variety of unobservable valuation methodologies, including discounted cash flow, market multiples and cost valuation approaches, are employed by the fund manager to value investments.
The following table presents the reconciliation of the beginning and ending balances of those plan assets classified within Level 3 of the valuation hierarchy. When the determination is made to classify the plan assets within Level 3, the determination is based upon the significance of the unobservable inputs to the overall fair value measurement.
In millions U.S. Pension Plans International Pension Plans
Balance, December 31, 2022
$ - $ 154
Transfers, net 3 -
Realized and unrealized gains and losses, net - 15
Purchases, issuances and settlements 1 -
Balance, December 31, 2023
$ 4 $ 169
Transfers, net - -
Realized and unrealized gains and losses, net - (4)
Purchases, issuances and settlements 3 -
Balance, December 31, 2024
$ 7 $ 165
Assumptions
The weighted average rates and assumptions used to determine net periodic benefit (income) cost for the years ended December 31 were as follows:
US Pension Benefits International Pension Benefits Total Pension Benefits
2024 2023 2022 2024 2023 2022 2024 2023 2022
Discount rate - Service Cost N/A N/A N/A 4.6 % 2.9 % 0.4 % 4.6 % 2.9 % 0.4 %
Discount rate - Interest Cost 4.9 % 5.4 % N/A 3.4 % 4.0 % 1.3 % 4.5 % 5.0 % 1.3 %
Expected return on plan assets 7.5 % 7.0 % N/A 4.7 % 4.4 % 2.6 % 6.3 % 5.9 % 2.6 %
Rate of compensation increase N/A N/A N/A 2.1 % 2.0 % 0.7 % 2.1 % 2.0 % 0.7 %
The discount rate used to determine U.S. benefit obligations as of December 31, 2024 was derived by matching the plans’ expected future cash flows to the corresponding yields from the Willis Tower Watson (“WTW”) Rate:Link 10th-90th yield curve. The WTW Rate:Link 10th-90th yield curve has been constructed to represent the available yields on high-quality, fixed income investments across a broad range of future maturities. International discount rates were determined by examining interest rate levels and trends within each country, particularly yields on high-quality, long-term corporate bonds, relative to our future expected cash flows.
The weighted average rates and assumptions used to determine benefit obligations as of December 31 were as follows:
U.S. Pension Benefits International Pension Benefits Total Pension Benefits
2024 2023 2024 2023 2024 2023
Discount rate 5.5 % 5.0 % 3.8 % 3.5 % 5.0 % 4.6 %
Rate of compensation increase N/A N/A 2.1 % 2.0 % 2.1 % 2.0 %
The weighted-average cash balance interest crediting rate for the Company’s cash balance defined benefit plans was 3.5% and 4.3% for the years ended December 31, 2024 and 2023, respectively.
Discount rates were determined by examining interest rate levels and trends within each country, particularly yields on high-quality, long-term corporate bonds, relative to our future expected cash flows.
The Company employs a building block approach as its primary approach in determining the long-term expected rate of return assumptions for plan assets. Historical market returns are studied and long-term relationships between equities and fixed income are preserved consistent with the widely accepted capital market principle that assets with higher volatilities generate
higher returns over the long run. Current market factors, such as inflation and interest rates are evaluated before long-term capital market assumptions are determined. The expected long-term portfolio return is established for each plan via a building block approach with proper rebalancing consideration. The result is then adjusted to reflect additional expected return from active management net of plan expenses. Historical plan returns, the expectations of other capital market participants, and peer data may be used to review and assess the results for reasonableness and appropriateness.
Investment Strategy
The Company has historically employed a total return investment approach, whereby a mix of fixed-income, equities and real estate investments are used to maximize the long-term return of plan assets subject to a prudent level of risk. The risk tolerance is established for each plan through a careful consideration of plan liabilities, plan funded status and corporate financial condition.
The investment portfolios contain a diversified mix of asset classes, including, fixed-income investments, which are diversified across issuers and credit quality. The investment portfolios also contain a blend of equity investments, which are diversified across small and large capitalization stocks and growth and value stocks.
Where applicable, real estate investments are made through real estate securities, partnership interests or direct investment and are diversified by property type and location. Other assets, such as cash or private equity are used judiciously to improve portfolio diversification and enhance risk-adjusted portfolio returns. Due to the timing of security purchases and sales, cash held by fund managers is classified in the same asset category as the related investment. Rebalancing algorithms are applied to keep the asset mix of the plans from deviating excessively from their targets. Investment risk is measured and monitored on an ongoing basis through regular performance reporting, investment manager reviews, actuarial liability measurements and periodic investment strategy reviews.
Spin-off Related Items
In September 2023, as part of the Spin-off, Atleos assumed the U.S. and certain international pension plan assets and liabilities, along with the associated deferred costs in Accumulated other comprehensive income (loss), which were previously sponsored by NCR. Remeasurement of all assumed plans occurred immediately prior to transfer. As a result, Pension and indemnity plan liabilities increased $468 million for the year ended December 31, 2023, and there was no material change in Prepaid pension cost, Other current liabilities, or Accumulated other comprehensive income (loss).
Prior to Atleos assuming these pension plans, NCR was the plan sponsor covering certain Atleos employees. The participation of Atleos employees in these plans was reflected as though the Company participated in a multiemployer plan. As such, the Consolidated Financial Statements for the years ended December 31, 2023 and 2022 reflect an allocation of pension expense from NCR as recorded in Operating expenses in our Consolidated Statements of Operations. The service costs related to pension plans allocated to the Company for the years ended December 31, 2023 and 2022 were immaterial and are included in those figures above.
Employer Contribution
The Company made no contributions to the U.S. pension plan in 2024 and contributed $3 million to its international pension plans in 2024.
The Company anticipates contributing $30 million and $1 million to the U.S. pension plan and international pension plans, respectively, in 2025.
Postemployment Plan
The Company offers various postemployment payments and benefits to involuntarily terminated employees and certain inactive employees after employment but before retirement. These benefits are paid in accordance with the Company’s established employment agreements, offer letters and benefit plans, practices and policies. Postemployment benefits include mainly severance as well as continuation of healthcare benefits and life insurance coverage while on disability. These postemployment benefits are funded on a pay-as-you-go basis. Changes to the funded status are recognized as a component of other comprehensive income (loss) in the Consolidated Statement of Changes in Stockholders’ Equity.
Net periodic benefit cost (income)
Components of net periodic benefit cost (income) of the postemployment plan, including amounts allocated prior to the Spin-off, for the years ended December 31 were as follows:
In millions Postemployment Benefits
2024 2023 2022
Service cost $ 6 $ 8 $ 34
Interest cost 3 1 -
Amortization of:
Prior service benefit - - -
Actuarial gain - - -
Net periodic benefit cost $ 9 $ 9 $ 34
Benefit obligations
A reconciliation of the beginning and ending balances of the postemployment plan benefit obligations is as follows:
Postemployment Benefits
In millions 2024 2023
Change in benefit obligation
Benefit obligation as of January 1 $ 73 $ 5
Net Service cost 6 3
Interest cost 3 1
Benefit obligations transferred from Voyix - 67
Assumption (gain) loss 29 2
Actuarial (gain) loss 10 7
Benefits paid (21) (11)
Currency translation adjustments (1) (1)
Benefit obligation as of December 31 $ 99 $ 73
A reconciliation of the ending funded status to amounts recognized in the Consolidated Balance Sheets as of December 31 is as follows:
Postemployment Benefits
In millions 2024 2023
Funded Status $ (99) $ (73)
Amounts recognized in the Consolidated Balance Sheets
Current liabilities $ (23) $ (18)
Noncurrent liabilities (76) (55)
Net amounts recognized $ (99) $ (73)
Amounts recognized in Accumulated other comprehensive income (loss)
Net actuarial (gain) loss $ 22 $ (5)
Prior service cost - (1)
Total $ 22 $ (6)
Assumptions
Actuarial assumptions are not applicable prior to September 2023 when certain NCR U.S. and international postemployment plans were transferred to Atleos. The weighted average rate and assumptions used to determine net periodic benefit cost (income) for the years ended December 31 were as follows:
2024 2023 2022
Discount rate for severance plan 4.9 % 5.4 % N/A
Salary increase rate 3.4 % 3.5 % N/A
Involuntary turnover rate 3.8 % 3.8 % N/A
The weighted average rates and assumptions used to determine benefit obligation as of December 31 were as follows:
2024 2023 2022
Discount rate for severance plan 5.5 % 4.9 % N/A
Salary increase rate 3.9 % 3.4 % N/A
Involuntary turnover rate 5.0 % 3.8 % N/A
Spin-off Related Items
In September 2023, as part of the Spin-off, Atleos assumed a portion of NCR’s U.S. postemployment plan liabilities, along with the associated deferred costs in Accumulated other comprehensive income (loss), which were previously sponsored by NCR. Remeasurement of the assumed plan occurred immediately prior to transfer. As a result, Other current liabilities increased $5 million, Postretirement and postemployment benefits liabilities increased $62 million, and there was no material change in Accumulated other comprehensive income (loss) for the year ended December 31, 2023.
Prior to Atleos assuming a portion of this plan, NCR was the plan sponsor covering certain Atleos employees. The participation of Atleos employees in this plan was reflected as though the Company participated in a multiemployer plan. As such, the Consolidated Financial Statements for the years ended December 31, 2023 and 2022 reflect an allocation of postemployment plan expense from NCR as recorded in Operating expenses in our Consolidated Statements of Operations. The service costs related to the postemployment plans allocated to the Company for the years ended December 31, 2023 and 2022 were $5 million and $34 million, respectively, and are included in those figures above.
Employer Contributions
The Company contributed $21 million to its postemployment plan in 2024.
The Company anticipates contributing $23 million to its postemployment plan in 2025.
Postretirement Plan
The Company sponsors a U.S. postretirement benefit plan that no longer offers benefits to U.S. participants who had not reached a certain age and years of service. The plan provides medical care benefits to retirees and their eligible dependents. Non-U.S. employees are typically covered under government-sponsored programs. These postretirement benefits are funded on a pay-as-you-go basis. Changes to the funded status are recognized as a component of other comprehensive income (loss) in the Consolidated Statement of Changes in Stockholders’ Equity.
Net periodic benefit cost (income)
All components of the net periodic benefit cost (income) of the postretirement plan, including amounts allocated prior to the Spin-off, for the years ended December 31, 2024, 2023 and 2022 were immaterial.
Benefit obligations
A reconciliation of the beginning and ending balances of the postretirement plan benefit obligations is as follows:
Postretirement Benefits
In millions 2024 2023
Change in benefit obligation
Benefit obligation as of January 1 $ 7 $ -
Benefit obligations transferred from Voyix - 8
Actuarial (gain) loss (1) (1)
Benefit obligation as of December 31 $ 6 $ 7
A reconciliation of the ending funded status to amounts recognized in the Consolidated Balance Sheets as of December 31, 2024 is as follows:
Postretirement Benefits
In millions 2024 2023
Funded Status $ (6) $ (7)
Amounts recognized in the Consolidated Balance Sheets
Current liabilities $ (1) $ (2)
Noncurrent liabilities (5) (5)
Net amounts recognized $ (6) $ (7)
Amounts recognized in accumulated other comprehensive income (loss)
Net actuarial loss (gain) $ (2) $ (2)
Total $ (2) $ (2)
Spin-off Related Items
In September 2023, as part of the Spin-off, Atleos assumed the U.S. postretirement benefit plan liabilities, along with the associated deferred costs in Accumulated other comprehensive income (loss), which were previously sponsored by NCR. Remeasurement of the assumed plan occurred immediately prior to transfer. As a result, Other current liabilities increased $1 million, Postretirement benefits liabilities increased $7 million, and Accumulated other comprehensive income (loss) increased $1 million for the year ended December 31, 2023.
Prior to Atleos assuming this plan, NCR was the plan sponsor covering certain Atleos employees. The participation of Atleos employees in this plan was reflected as though the Company participated in a multiemployer plan. As such, the Consolidated Financial Statements for the years ended December 31, 2023 and 2022 reflect an allocation of postretirement plan expense from NCR as recorded in Operating expenses in our Consolidated Statements of Operations. The service costs related to the postretirement plan allocated to the Company for the years ended December 31, 2023 and 2022 were immaterial.
Employer Contributions
The Company contributed zero to its postretirement plan in 2024.
The Company anticipates contributing $1 million to its postretirement plan in 2025.
Estimated Future Employee Benefit Plan Payments
The Company expects to make the following benefit payments reflecting past and future service from its pension, postemployment and postretirement plans:
In millions U.S. Pension Benefits International Pension Benefits Total Pension Benefits Postemployment Benefits Postretirement Benefits
Year
2025 $ 107 $ 36 $ 143 $ 15 $ 1
2026 $ 108 $ 37 $ 145 $ 15 $ 1
2027 $ 108 $ 36 $ 144 $ 14 $ 1
2028 $ 108 $ 36 $ 144 $ 13 $ 1
2029 $ 108 $ 35 $ 143 $ 13 $ 1
2030-2034 $ 509 $ 171 $ 680 $ 57 $ 1
Savings Plan
In the U.S., the Company has voluntary 401(k) savings plans designed to enhance the existing retirement programs covering eligible employees. The Company matches a percentage of each employee’s contributions consistent with the provisions of the plan for which he/she is eligible. Expense incurred under these plans, including that which was allocated to the Company by NCR prior to Separation, for the years ended December 31, 2024, 2023, and 2022 were $9 million, $16 million, and $19 million, respectively.
10. COMMITMENTS AND CONTINGENCIES
In the normal course of business, the Company is subject to various proceedings, lawsuits, claims and other matters, including, for example, those that relate to the environment and health and safety, labor and employment, employee benefits, import/export compliance, patents or other intellectual property, data privacy and security, product liability, warranty claims, commercial disputes and regulatory compliance, among others. Other than as stated below, the Company does not currently expect to incur material capital expenditures or other liabilities related to such matters. However, there can be no assurances that the actual amounts required to satisfy alleged liabilities from various lawsuits, claims, legal proceedings and other matters, will not exceed the amounts reflected in our Consolidated Financial Statements set forth herein or will not have a material adverse effect on our consolidated results of operations, capital expenditures, competitive position, financial condition or cash flows. Additionally, the Company is subject to diverse and complex laws and regulations, including those relating to corporate governance, public disclosure and reporting, environmental safety and the discharge of materials into the environment, product safety, import and export compliance, data privacy and security, antitrust and competition, government contracting, anti-corruption, and labor and human resources, which are rapidly changing and subject to many possible changes in the future. Compliance with these laws and regulations, including changes in accounting standards, taxation requirements and federal securities laws, among others, may create a substantial burden on, and substantially increase costs to, the Company or could have a material adverse effect on the Company’s consolidated results of operations, capital expenditures, competitive position, financial condition or cash flows and there can be no assurances that the actual amounts required to comply with applicable laws and regulations will not exceed the amounts reflected in the Company’s Consolidated Financial Statements set forth herein. The Company has reflected all liabilities when a loss is considered probable and reasonably estimable in the Consolidated Financial Statements.
The Company provides its customers with certain indemnification rights, subject to certain limitations and exceptions. For example, the Company agrees to defend and indemnify its customers from third-party lawsuits alleging that Company solutions infringe third party intellectual property rights. On limited occasions the Company will undertake to indemnify a customer for business, rather than contractual, reasons. From time to time, the Company enters into agreements in connection with its acquisition and divestiture activities that include indemnification obligations. The fair value of these indemnification obligations is not readily determinable due to the conditional nature of the Company’s potential obligations and the specific facts and circumstances involved with each particular agreement. From time to time, the Company has provided indemnification under these circumstances, none of which has resulted in material liabilities, and the Company expects these indemnities will continue to arise in the future. Historically, the Company has not recorded a liability in connection with these indemnifications.
In connection with the Separation, the Separation and Distribution Agreement provides that Voyix will transfer to the Company, and the Company will assume, certain liabilities, whether accrued or contingent, and whether arising prior to, at or after the Distribution, including, among others, all liabilities to the extent they relate to the Company’s business or the Company’s assets, 50% of certain shared environmental liabilities arising from conduct prior to the Distribution if Voyix’s annual costs, net of any insurance proceeds and third-party payments actually received, exceed $15 million, 50% of all liabilities of a divested or discontinued business that was divested or discontinued prior to the Distribution and liabilities relating to, arising out of or resulting from any registration statement or similar disclosure document related to the Separation (including the Company’s Registration Statement on Form 10 initially filed with the SEC on June 26, 2023, and as further amended thereafter and declared effective on August 11, 2023, and the Information Statement). Voyix will retain all other liabilities, including, among others, 50% of all liabilities of a divested or discontinued business that was divested or discontinued prior to the Distribution, the first $15 million of annual costs incurred in connection with certain shared environmental liabilities arising from conduct prior to the Distribution and 50% of any such costs thereafter and all indemnification obligations to current and former Voyix directors and officers.
Shared Environmental Matters
As described above, the Company shares liability with Voyix for certain investigatory and remedial activities, and related litigation, at facilities formerly owned or operated by Voyix, to comply, or to determine compliance, with environmental laws (the “Shared Environmental Matters”). Pursuant to the Separation and Distribution Agreement, the Company and Voyix share equally costs and liabilities with respect to the Shared Environmental Matters to the extent Voyix’s annual costs, net of any insurance proceeds and third-party payments actually received, exceed $15 million. Under the Separation and Distribution Agreement, Voyix will notify the Company by December 1 each calendar year of the estimated costs for the Shared Environmental Matters it will incur each quarter of the following calendar year pursuant to which the Company will make quarterly payments to Voyix of any required contribution. The Company’s payments are subject to upward or downward adjustment after Voyix provides a final quarterly accounting of the actual costs. As of December 31, 2024, Voyix estimated that the Company’s contribution for Shared Environmental Matters in 2024 will be approximately $2 million and the contribution in 2025 will be approximately $12 million. The Company evaluated the estimates in accordance with ASC 450, Contingencies, and concluded that, as of December 31, 2024, a loss of up to $14 million is probable and, therefore, recorded an accrual for this amount. Because of our understanding that the events underlying the incurrence of the environmental obligations were never part of the legacy business operations that now comprise Atleos, we have recorded these costs in Other (expense) income, net in the Consolidated Statements of Operations.
Other than the cost reporting described above, Voyix is only required to update the Company “from time to time with respect to any events in connection with [the Shared Environmental Matters] at such times and in such manner as [Voyix] shall reasonably determine.” The term of this cost sharing is indefinite and includes defense costs and expenses. Voyix solely controls the management of the Shared Environmental Matters, including any litigation related thereto, which could impact the amounts that the Company is required to contribute for the Shared Environmental Matters under the Separation and Distribution Agreement. Voyix has reported that other than the Kalamazoo River matter discussed below, it does not currently anticipate material expenses and liabilities from the Shared Environmental Matters.
Kalamazoo River
One of the Shared Environmental Matters is the Allied Paper, Inc./Portage Creek/Kalamazoo River Superfund Site (“Kalamazoo River” site) remediation and related litigations. By way of background, on December 5, 2019, Voyix entered into a Consent Decree with the United States Environmental Protection Agency (“USEPA”) and other government agencies having oversight over the Kalamazoo River. On December 2, 2020, the District Court having jurisdiction over this matter approved the Consent Decree, which required Voyix to pay Georgia Pacific (“GP”) a 40% share of past costs, to pay the USEPA and state agencies their past and future administrative costs, and to dismiss a pending appeal. The Consent Decree further requires Voyix to take responsibility for the remediation of a portion, but not all, of the Kalamazoo River. The Consent Decree further provides Voyix protection from other potentially responsible parties, including GP, seeking contribution for their costs associated with the clean-up anywhere on the river, thereby resolving the allocation of future costs left unresolved by prior litigation.
Voyix reports that it believes it has meritorious claims against Kalamazoo River co-obligor B.A.T. Industries p.l.c. (“BAT”) under a prior settlement agreement with that company for the Kalamazoo River remediation expenses as a so-called “future site.” To date, BAT has denied that the Kalamazoo River is a “future site.” On February 10, 2023, Voyix filed an action against BAT in the Southern District of New York seeking a declaration that the Kalamazoo River is indeed a future site under their agreement. On September 14, 2024, the Court entered an opinion stating that the Kalamazoo River is a “future site” within the meaning of the Cost Sharing Agreement. The case remains pending with respect to BAT’s remaining counterclaims and
affirmative defenses. Voyix also reports that it has indemnity or reimbursement claims against AT&T Corp and Nokia (as the successor to Lucent Technologies and Alcatel-Lucent USA) under a 1996 Divestiture Agreement after the contractual expense threshold was met in December 2022. Pursuant to the Separation and Distribution Agreement, Voyix will continue to control any actions to collect the unpaid sums.
Voyix further reports that as of December 31, 2024 and December 31, 2023, Voyix’s total reserve for Kalamazoo River was $148 million and $141 million, respectively. The reserve is reported on a basis that is net of expected contributions from Voyix’s co-obligors and indemnitors, subject to when the applicable threshold is reached. As many aspects of the costs of remediation will not be determined for several years (and thus the high end of a range of possible costs for many areas of the site cannot be quantified at this time), Voyix reports that it has made what it considers to be reasonable estimates of the low end of a range for such costs where remedies are identified, and/or of the costs of investigations and studies for areas of the river where remedies have not yet been determined, and the reserve is informed by those estimates. The extent of Voyix’s and, therefore, the Company’s, potential liability remains subject to many uncertainties, notwithstanding the settlement of this matter and the related Consent Decree noted above, particularly in as much as remedy decisions and cost estimates will not be generated until times in the future and as most of the work to be performed will take place through the 2030s. Voyix further reports that under other assumptions or estimates for possible costs of remediation, which Voyix does not consider to be reasonably estimable or verifiable, it is possible that the reserve that Voyix has taken reflected in this paragraph could more than approximately double the reflected reserve.
Environmental-Related Insurance Recoveries
Historically, Voyix has received payments from its insurance carriers with respect to the Shared Environmental Matters. Pursuant to the Separation and Distribution Agreement, insurance amounts actually recovered will, as a result of reducing Voyix’s overall liability, reduce the Company’s liability in its obligation to contribute for the Shared Environmental Matters. The Company does not anticipate that Voyix will obtain further material insurance recoveries specific to Kalamazoo River remediation costs. Pursuant to the Separation and Distribution Agreement, Voyix maintains sole control of claims against insurers with respect to the Shared Environmental Matters, as well as whether or not any coverage is in fact available, and the Company is unable to predict whether and to what extent insurance proceeds will be available to offset any amounts it may be required to pay in respect of the foregoing environmental matters pursuant to the Separation and Distribution Agreement.
Environmental Remediation Estimates
It is difficult to estimate the future financial impact of environmental laws, including potential liabilities. We record environmental provisions when it is probable that a liability has been incurred and the amount or range of the liability is reasonably estimable; in accordance with accounting guidance, where liabilities are not expected to be quantifiable or estimable for a period of years, the estimated costs of investigating those liabilities are recorded as a component of the reserve for that particular site. Provisions for estimated losses from environmental restoration and remediation are, depending on the site, based generally on internal and third-party environmental studies, estimates as to the number and participation level of other potentially responsible parties, the extent of contamination, estimated amounts for attorney and other fees, and the nature of required clean-up and restoration actions. Reserves are adjusted as further information develops or circumstances change. Where our environmental liabilities result from the Shared Environmental Matters, we will rely on information shared with us by Voyix, who is controlling these matters, with respect to determining the amount of potential liability. Management expects that the amounts reserved from time to time will be paid out over the period of investigation, negotiation, remediation and restoration for the applicable sites, including in connection with our obligations under the Separation and Distribution Agreement.
Shared Legal Matters
Pursuant to the Separation and Distribution Agreement, the Company shares equally costs and liability with Voyix for certain pre-existing litigation matters known as of the Separation date. These matters are managed solely by Voyix, and we rely on information provided to us by Voyix to determine the amount of potential liability.
In November 2015, in Hoak, et al. v. Plan Administrator of the Plans of NCR Corporation, participants and beneficiaries of certain deferred compensation retirement plans sponsored by NCR Corporation (collectively, the “Plan”) filed a putative class action lawsuit against NCR and other defendants, alleging the defendants breached the plan agreements by, among other things, paying lump sum payments based on mortality tables and actuarial calculations upon termination of the Plan. The court certified a class in 2017.
On June 10, 2024, the court entered a final judgment and ordered Voyix to calculate the “benefits due” to the Plan participants, including pre-judgment interest, based on the sum that would have been sufficient to allow each participant to purchase a replacement annuity using discount rates prescribed by the Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation in effect as of the February 25, 2013 termination date. Voyix reports that it intends to vigorously contest the matter and filed a notice of appeal on July 2, 2024. Voyix further reports that an estimate or range of possible loss was not included in the judgment and cannot be determined at this time. Voyix stipulated with the plaintiffs to a $45 million supersedeas bond, which Voyix contends may not be correlated to any actual loss but allowed Voyix to obtain a stay of execution of the judgment pending appeal. On September 12, 2024, the bond was filed and the stay was issued. The appeal remains pending. The Company evaluated the judgment and order and, after consulting with Voyix, in accordance with ASC 450, Contingencies, concluded that, as of December 31, 2024, a loss is reasonably possible, but that an estimate or range of possible loss cannot be determined at this time given uncertainty regarding the ultimate form of relief and complexities in the methodology and quantification of damages, if any.
Purchase Commitments The Company has purchase commitments for materials, supplies, services, and property, plant and equipment as part of the normal course of business.
11. LEASING
The following table presents our lease balances as of December 31:
In millions Location in the Consolidated Balance Sheet December 31, 2024 December 31, 2023
Assets
Operating lease assets Operating lease right of use assets $ 144 $ 144
Finance lease assets, net of accumulated amortization Property, plant and equipment, net 6 2
Total leased assets $ 150 $ 146
Liabilities
Current
Operating lease liabilities Other current liabilities $ 30 $ 30
Finance lease liabilities Other current liabilities 3 1
Noncurrent
Operating lease liabilities Operating lease liabilities 110 109
Finance lease liabilities Other liabilities 4 1
Total lease liabilities $ 147 $ 141
The following table presents our lease costs for operating and finance leases:
In millions For the year ended December 31, 2024 For the year ended December 31, 2023 For the year ended December 31, 2022
Operating lease cost $ 48 $ 39 $ 30
Finance lease cost
Amortization of leased assets 4 1 2
Interest on lease liabilities 1 - -
Short-Term lease cost 1 2 -
Variable lease cost - 1 1
Total lease cost $ 54 $ 43 $ 33
The following table presents the supplemental cash flow information:
In millions For the year ended December 31, 2024 For the year ended December 31, 2023 For the year ended December 31, 2022
Cash paid for amounts included in the measurement of lease liabilities:
Operating cash flows from operating leases $ 47 $ 40 $ 28
Operating cash flows from finance leases $ 1 $ - $ 2
Financing cash flows from finance leases $ 4 $ 1 $ -
Lease Assets Obtained in Exchange for Lease Obligations
Operating Leases $ 29 $ 70 $ 13
Finance Leases $ 4 $ 2 $ -
The following table reconciles the undiscounted cash flows for each of the first five years and total of the remaining years to the finance lease liabilities and operating lease liabilities recorded on the Consolidated Balance Sheet as of December 31, 2024:
In millions Operating Leases Finance Leases
2025 $ 38 $ 3
2026 30 2
2027 24 2
2028 19 -
2029 15 -
Thereafter 47 -
Total lease payments 173 7
Less: Amount representing interest 33 -
Present value of lease liabilities $ 140 $ 7
As of December 31, 2024, all material operating leases had commenced.
The following table presents the weighted average remaining lease term and interest rates:
December 31, 2024 December 31, 2023
Weighted average lease term:
Operating leases 6.2 years 6.4 years
Finance leases 2.6 years 1.4 years
Weighted average interest rates:
Operating leases 6.91 % 6.46 %
Finance leases 9.94 % 5.79 %
12. RELATED PARTIES
Pursuant to the Separation, NCR ceased to be a related party to Atleos and accordingly, no related party transactions or balances are reported subsequent to October 16, 2023.
Cash management and financing
Prior to the Separation, the Company participated in NCR’s centralized treasury and cash management programs. In certain jurisdictions, disbursements were made through centralized accounts payable systems which were operated by NCR. Similarly, cash receipts in these jurisdictions were mostly transferred to centralized accounts, which were also maintained by NCR. As cash was received and disbursed by NCR, it was accounted for by the Company through Net investment from NCR Corporation.
Allocation of centralized costs
The Consolidated Statements of Operations for the twelve months ended December 31, 2023 and 2022 include expenses for certain centralized functions and other programs provided and/or administered by NCR that were charged directly to the Company. In addition, for purposes of preparing these Consolidated Financial Statements, a portion of NCR’s total corporate general and administrative expenses had been allocated to the Company.
NCR allocations reflected in the Consolidated Statements of Operations for the years ended December 31 are as follows:
Year ended December 31
In millions
2023 2022
Cost of products
$ 25 $ 28
Cost of services
69 77
Selling, general and administrative expense
123 193
Research and development expense
19 25
Total allocated costs
$ 236 $ 323
Related-party notes
Related party notes receivable
Prior to the Separation, the Company had notes receivable from related parties that were settled in cash or forgiven as part of the Separation structuring activities. The weighted-average interest rate for these notes was approximately 3.1% as of December 31, 2022.
The Company recognized $10 million and $2 million of interest income, for the years ended December 31, 2023, and 2022, respectively, related to these notes, which is included in Related party interest expense, net in the Consolidated Statements of Operations.
Related party borrowings
Prior to the Separation, the Company had borrowings due to related parties that were settled in cash or forgiven as part of the Separation structuring activities. The weighted-average interest rate for these borrowings was approximately 3.6% as of December 31, 2022.
The Company recognized $23 million and $33 million of interest expense, for the years ended December 31, 2023, and 2022, respectively, related to these borrowings, which is included in Related party interest expense, net in the Consolidated Statements of Operations.
Net transfers from (to) NCR Corporation
The net effect of transactions between the Company and NCR are included within Net transfers from (to) NCR Corporation in the Consolidated Statements of Cash Flows and within Net transfers from NCR Corporation in the Consolidated Statements of Changes in Stockholders’ Equity. The components of Net transfers from (to) NCR Corporation are as follows:
Year ended December 31
In millions 2023 2022
General financing activities $ (297) $ 320
Allocation of centralized costs 236 323
Acquisition of businesses 1 78
Net transfers from (to) NCR Corporation - Consolidated Statements of Cash Flows $ (60) 721
Stock based compensation expense 46 66
Separation adjustments (1)
(34) -
Net transfers from NCR Corporation-Consolidated Statements of Changes in Equity $ (48) $ 787
(1) Refer to the section entitled ‘Prior period financial statement revision’ within Note 1, “Basis of Presentation and Significant Accounting Policies”, for additional information.
13. EARNINGS PER SHARE
On October 16, 2023, the date of Separation, 70.6 million shares of Atleos’ Common Stock, par value $0.01 per share, were distributed to Voyix stockholders of record as of October 2, 2023, the Record Date. This share amount is utilized for the calculation of basic and diluted earnings per share for all periods presented prior to the Separation and these shares are treated as issued and outstanding for purposes of calculating historical earnings per share. For periods prior to the Separation, it is assumed that there are no dilutive equity instruments as there were no equity awards of Atleos outstanding prior to the Separation.
In connection with the Spin-off, and in accordance with the Employee Matters Agreement, certain of the outstanding restricted stock units and stock options held by Atleos employees, as well as the strike price for the stock options, were adjusted pursuant to a conversion ratio determined by the post Spin-off average trading price of each of Atleos and Voyix during a specified period following the Spin-off. All adjustments were made with the intent to preserve the intrinsic value of each award immediately before and after the Spin-off.
Basic earnings per share (“EPS”) is calculated by dividing net income or loss attributable to Atleos, less any dividends (declared or cumulative undeclared), if applicable, by the weighted average number of shares outstanding during the period.
In computing diluted EPS, we evaluate and reflect the maximum potential dilution, for each issue or series of issues of potential common shares in sequence from the most dilutive to the least dilutive. We adjust the denominator used in the basic EPS computation, subject to anti-dilution requirements, to include the dilution from potential shares resulting from the issuance of restricted stock units and stock options.
The dilutive effect of restricted stock units and stock options is reflected in diluted earnings per share by applying the treasury stock method. The holders of unvested restricted stock units and stock options do not have non-forfeitable rights to common stock dividends or common stock dividend equivalents. Accordingly, the unvested restricted stock units and stock options do not qualify as participating securities. See Note 8, “Stock Compensation Plans”, for share information on Atleos’ stock compensation plans.
The components of basic earnings (loss) per share are as follows:
Year ended December 31
In millions, except per share amounts
2024 2023 2022
Numerator:
Net income (loss) attributable to Atleos common stockholders
$ 91 $ (134) $ 108
Denominator:
Basic weighted average number of shares outstanding
72.2 70.6 70.6
Basic earnings (loss) per share:
$ 1.26 $ (1.90) $ 1.53
The components of diluted earnings (loss) per share are as follows:
Year ended December 31
In millions, except per share amounts
2024 2023 2022
Numerator:
Net income (loss) attributable to Atleos common stockholders
$ 91 $ (134) $ 108
Denominator:
Basic weighted average number of shares outstanding
72.2 70.6 70.6
Dilutive effect of restricted stock units and stock options 2.0 - $ -
Weighted average dilutive shares 74.2 70.6 70.6
Diluted earnings (loss) per share:
$ 1.23 $ (1.90) $ 1.53
For 2024, weighted average restricted stock units and stock options of 2.1 million were excluded from the diluted share count because their effect would have been anti-dilutive.
For 2023, due to the net loss attributable to Atleos common stockholders, potential common shares that would have caused dilution, such as restricted stocks units and stock options were excluded from the dilutive share count because their effect would have been anti-dilutive. As such, weighted average restricted stock units and stock options of 6.8 million were excluded from the dilutive share count because their effect would have been anti-dilutive.
14. DERIVATIVES AND HEDGING INSTRUMENTS
Atleos is exposed to certain risks arising from both our business operations and economic conditions. We principally manage exposures to a wide variety of business and operational risk through management of core business activities. We manage interest rate risk associated with our vault cash rental obligations and floating-rate debt through the use of derivative financial instruments. To manage differences in the amount, timing and duration of known or expected cash payments related to our existing Term Loan Facilities and vault cash agreements, we entered into interest rate swap contracts (“Interest Rate Derivatives”).
Further, a substantial portion of our operations and revenue occur outside the United States and, as such, Atleos has exposure to approximately 40 functional currencies. Our results can be significantly impacted, both positively and negatively, by changes in foreign currency exchange rates. The Company seeks to mitigate such impact by hedging its foreign currency transaction exposure using foreign currency contracts. We do not enter into hedges for speculative purposes.
Foreign Currency Exchange Risk The accounting guidance for derivatives and hedging requires companies to recognize all derivative instruments as either assets or liabilities at fair value in the Consolidated Balance Sheets. The Company designates foreign exchange contracts as cash flow hedges of forecasted transactions when they are determined to be highly effective at inception.
Our risk management strategy includes hedging, on behalf of certain subsidiaries, a portion of our forecasted, non-functional currency denominated cash flows for a period of up to 15 months. As a result, some of the impact of currency fluctuations on non-functional currency denominated transactions (and hence on subsidiary operating income, as stated in the functional currency), is mitigated in the near term. In the longer term (greater than 15 months), the subsidiaries are still subject to the effect of translating the functional currency results to United States Dollars. To manage our exposures and mitigate the impact of currency fluctuations on the operations of our foreign subsidiaries, we hedge our main transactional exposures through the use of foreign exchange contracts. This is primarily done through the hedging of foreign currency denominated intercompany inventory purchases by Atleos’ marketing units and the foreign currency denominated inputs to our manufacturing units. If the hedge is designated as a highly effective cash flow hedge, the gains or losses are deferred into accumulated other comprehensive income (loss) (“AOCI”). The gains or losses from derivative contracts that are designated as highly effective cash flow hedges related to inventory purchases are recorded in cost of products when the inventory is sold to an unrelated third party. Otherwise, they are recorded in earnings when the exchange rates change. As of December 31, 2024, the balance in
AOCI related to foreign exchange derivative transactions was zero because no such derivatives were designated as highly effective hedges.
We also utilize foreign exchange contracts to hedge our exposure of assets and liabilities denominated in non-functional currencies. We recognize the gains and losses on these types of hedges in earnings as exchange rates change.
Interest Rate Risk The Company designates Interest Rate Derivative contracts as cash flow hedges of forecasted transactions when they are determined to be highly effective at inception.
We utilize interest rate swap contracts to add stability to interest cost and to manage exposure to interest rate movements as part of our interest rate risk management strategy. Payments and receipts related to interest rate derivative agreements are included in Operating Activities in the Consolidated Statements of Cash Flows.
In June 2022, the Company executed $2.4 billion aggregate notional amount interest rate swap contracts effective June 1, 2022 and terminating on April 1, 2025. These interest rate swap contracts had fixed rates ranging from 2.790% to 3.251%, and were designated as cash flow hedges of the floating rate interest associated with the Company’s U.S. Dollar and U.K. Pound Sterling vault cash agreements. On June 14, 2023, the Company terminated all open interest rate swap contracts for cash proceeds of $71 million. The net derivative-related gains associated with these swaps will be reclassified into earnings from Accumulated other comprehensive income primarily through April 1, 2025, corresponding to the term of the original interest rate swap agreements.
In June 2023, the Company executed new $2.4 billion aggregate notional amount interest rate swap contracts effective June 14, 2023 and terminating on December 31, 2025. These interest rate swap contracts had fixed rates ranging from 4.240% to 5.274%, and were designated as cash flow hedges of the floating rate interest associated with the Company’s U.S. Dollar and U.K. Pound Sterling vault cash agreements. In March 2024, the Company terminated all open U.S. Dollar interest rate swap contracts for cash proceeds of $13 million. The net derivative-related gains associated with these swaps will be reclassified into earnings from Accumulated other comprehensive income through December 31, 2025, corresponding to the term of the original interest rate swap agreements.
Effective March 19, 2024, the Company executed $2.0 billion aggregate notional amount interest rate swap contracts terminating on March 31, 2027. These interest rate swap contracts have fixed rates ranging from 4.294% to 4.306%, and have been designated as cash flow hedges of the floating rate interest associated with the Company’s U.S. Dollar vault cash agreements.
Effective August 5, 2024, the Company executed $450 million aggregate notional amount interest rate swap contracts terminating on December 31, 2027. These interest rate swap contracts have fixed rates ranging from 3.442% to 3.479%, and have been designated as cash flow hedges of the floating rate interest associated with the Company’s U.S. Dollar vault cash agreements.
Effective August 13, 2024, the Company executed $500 million aggregate notional amount interest rate swap contracts terminating on December 31, 2027. These interest rate swap contracts have fixed rates ranging from 3.592% to 3.610%, and have been designated as cash flow hedges of the floating rate interest associated with the Company’s Term Loan Facilities.
Effective February 18, 2025, the Company terminated the $500 million and $450 million notional amount of interest rate swaps associated with the Company’s term loan facilities and certain U.S. Dollar vault cash agreements, respectively, for cash proceeds of $13 million. The net derivative-related gains associated with these swaps will be reclassified into earnings from Accumulated other comprehensive income through December 31, 2027, corresponding to the term of the original interest rate swap agreements.
As of December 31, 2024, each of our outstanding Interest Rate Derivative agreements were determined to be highly effective. Amounts reported in AOCI related to these derivatives will be reclassified to Cost of services and Interest expense as payments are made on the Company’s vault cash rental obligations and Term Loan Facilities, respectively. Unrealized gains on terminated interest rate swap agreements reported in AOCI will be reclassified to Cost of services ratably over terms corresponding to the original agreements. As of December 31, 2024 and December 31, 2023, the balance in AOCI related to Interest Rate Derivatives was accumulated income of $7 million and $34 million, respectively.
The following tables provide information on the location and amounts of derivative fair values in the Consolidated Balance Sheets:
Fair Values of Derivative Instruments
December 31, 2024 December 31, 2023
In millions Balance Sheet
Location
Notional
Amount Fair
Value Notional
Amount Fair
Value
Derivatives designated as hedging instruments
Assets:
Interest rate swap contracts Other current assets $ 5 $ 7
Interest rate swap contracts Other assets 7 -
Total assets $ 950 $ 12 $ - $ 7
Liabilities:
Interest rate swap contracts Other current liabilities $ (7) $ (2)
Interest rate swap contracts Other liabilities (10) (27)
Total liabilities $ 2,440 $ (17) $ 2,447 $ (29)
Derivatives not designated as hedging instruments
Foreign exchange contracts Other current assets $ 196 $ 1 $ 219 $ 1
Foreign exchange contracts Other current liabilities $ 117 $ - $ 107 $ -
Refer to Note 15, “Fair Value of Assets and Liabilities”, for further information on derivative assets and liabilities recorded at fair value on a recurring basis.
As of December 31, 2024, the Company expects to reclassify $17 million of net derivative-related gains contained in AOCI into earnings during the next twelve months.
Gains and losses reclassified from AOCI into the Consolidated Statements of Operations are recorded within Cost of services and Interest expense. The effects of derivative instruments on the Consolidated Statements of Operations and Consolidated Statements of Comprehensive Income for the years ended December 31, 2024, 2023, and 2022 were as follows:
Amount of Gain (Loss) Recognized in Other Comprehensive Income (Loss) on Derivative Contracts Amount of (Gain) Loss Reclassified from AOCI into the Consolidated Statements of Operations
In millions For the year ended December 31 For the year ended December 31
Derivatives in Cash Flow Hedging Relationships 2024 2023 2022 Location of (Gain) Loss Reclassified from AOCI into the Consolidated Statements of Operations 2024 2023 2022
Interest rate swap contracts $ 41 $ 7 $ 117 Cost of Services $ (79) $ (78) $ (9)
Interest rate swap contracts $ 8 $ - $ - Interest Expense $ (3) $ - $ -
In millions Amount of Gain (Loss) Recognized in the Consolidated Statements of Operations
For the year ended December 31
Derivatives not Designated as Hedging Instruments Location of Gain (Loss) Recognized in the Consolidated Statements of Operations 2024 2023 2022
Foreign exchange contracts Other (expense) income, net $ (7) $ (3) $ -
Concentration of Credit Risk
Atleos is potentially subject to concentrations of credit risk on accounts receivable and financial instruments such as hedging instruments and cash and cash equivalents. Credit risk includes the risk of nonperformance by counterparties. The maximum potential loss may exceed the amount recognized on the Consolidated Balance Sheets. Exposure to credit risk is managed through credit approvals, credit limits, selecting major international financial institutions as counterparties to hedging transactions and monitoring procedures. Atleos’ business often involves large transactions with customers, and if one or more of those customers were to default on its obligations under applicable contractual arrangements, the Company could be exposed to potentially significant losses. However, management believes that the reserves for potential losses are adequate. As of December 31, 2024 and 2023, Atleos did not have any major concentration of credit risk related to financial instruments.
15. FAIR VALUE OF ASSETS AND LIABILITIES
Assets and Liabilities Measured at Fair Value on a Recurring Basis
Assets and liabilities recorded at fair value on a recurring basis as of December 31, 2024 and 2023 are set forth as follows:
December 31, 2024 December 31, 2023
Fair Value Measurements Using Fair Value Measurements Using
In millions December 31, 2024 Quoted Prices
in Active
Markets
for Identical Assets
(Level 1) Significant Other
Observable Inputs
(Level 2) Significant
Unobservable Inputs
(Level 3) December 31, 2023 Quoted Prices
in Active
Markets
for Identical Assets
(Level 1) Significant Other
Observable Inputs
(Level 2) Significant
Unobservable Inputs
(Level 3)
Assets:
Deposits held in money market mutual funds (1)
$ - $ - $ - $ - $ 4 $ 4 $ - $ -
Foreign exchange contracts (2)
1 - 1 - 1 - 1 -
Interest rate swap contracts (3)
12 - 12 - 7 - 7 -
Debt securities (4)
6 - 6 - 5 - 5 -
Total $ 19 $ - $ 19 $ - $ 17 $ 4 $ 13 $ -
Liabilities:
Interest rate swap contracts (5)
$ 17 $ - $ 17 $ - $ 29 $ - $ 29 $ -
Total $ 17 $ - $ 17 $ - $ 29 $ - $ 29 $ -
(1) Included in Cash and cash equivalents in the Consolidated Balance Sheets.
(2) Included in Other current assets in the Consolidated Balance Sheets.
(3) Included in Other current assets and Other assets in the Consolidated Balance Sheets.
(4) Included in Other assets in the Consolidated Balance Sheets.
(5) Included in Other current liabilities and Other liabilities in the Consolidated Balance Sheets.
Deposits Held in Money Market Mutual Funds A portion of the Company’s excess cash is held in money market mutual funds that generate interest income based on prevailing market rates. Money market mutual fund holdings are measured at fair value using quoted market prices and are classified within Level 1 of the valuation hierarchy.
Foreign Exchange Contracts As a result of our global operating activities, we are exposed to risks from changes in foreign currency exchange rates, which may adversely affect our financial condition. To manage our exposures and mitigate the impact of currency fluctuations on our financial results, we hedge our primary transactional exposures through the use of foreign exchange contracts. The foreign exchange contracts are valued using the market approach based on observable market transactions of forward rates and are classified within Level 2 of the valuation hierarchy.
Interest Rate Swap In order to add stability to operating costs and to manage exposure to interest rate movements, the Company utilizes interest rate swap contracts as part of its interest rate risk management strategy. The interest rate swap contracts are valued using an income model based on disparity between variable and fixed interest rates, the scheduled balance of underlying principal outstanding, yield curves, and other information readily available in the market. As such, the interest rate swap contracts are classified in Level 2 of the fair value hierarchy.
We incorporate credit valuation adjustments to appropriately reflect both our own nonperformance risk and the respective counterparty’s nonperformance risk in the fair value measurements. In adjusting the fair value of our derivative contracts for the effect of nonperformance risk, we consider the impact of netting and any applicable credit enhancements. We measure the credit risk of our derivative financial instruments that are subject to master netting agreements on a net basis by counterparty portfolio.
Although we have determined that the majority of the inputs used to value our derivatives fall within Level 2 of the fair value hierarchy, the credit valuation adjustments utilize Level 3 inputs to evaluate the likelihood of both our own default and counterparty default. As of December 31, 2024, we determined that the credit valuation adjustments are not significant to the overall valuation of our derivatives and therefore, the valuations are classified in Level 2 of the fair value hierarchy.
Debt Securities The debt securities, classified as available for sale, represent convertible notes issued by a Canadian corporation in which we have an equity investment. The debt securities are valued using a binomial lattice model based on factors such as stock price of the issuer, principal outstanding, coupon rate, volatility, credit spread, risk-free rate and other market data. As such, the debt securities are classified in Level 2 of the fair value hierarchy. Unrealized gains in accumulated other comprehensive income are not material.
Assets Measured at Fair Value on a Non-recurring Basis
From time to time, certain assets are measured at fair value on a nonrecurring basis using significant unobservable inputs (Level 3). Atleos measures certain assets, including intangible assets and cost and equity method investments, at fair value on a non-recurring basis. These assets are recognized at fair value when initially valued and when deemed to be impaired. Additionally, Atleos reviews the carrying values of investments when events and circumstances warrant and considers all available evidence in evaluating when declines in fair value are other-than-temporary declines. Atleos carries equity investments in privately-held companies at cost or at fair value when Atleos recognizes an other-than-temporary impairment charge. No material impairment charges or non-recurring fair value adjustments were recorded during the years ended December 31, 2024, 2023 and 2022.
16. ACCUMULATED OTHER COMPREHENSIVE INCOME
Changes in Accumulated Other Comprehensive Income (Loss) (“AOCI”) by Component
The changes in AOCI for the years ended December 31 are as follows:
In millions Currency Translation Adjustments Changes in Employee Benefit Plans Changes in Fair Value of Effective Cash Flow Hedges Total
Balance at December 31, 2021 $ (84) $ (18) $ 4 $ (98)
Other comprehensive (loss) income before reclassifications (49) - 91 42
Amounts reclassified from AOCI - - (7) (7)
Net current period other comprehensive (loss) income (49) - 84 35
Balance at December 31, 2022 $ (133) $ (18) $ 88 $ (63)
Other comprehensive (loss) income before reclassifications 195 (7) 6 194
Amounts reclassified from AOCI - - (60) (60)
Net current period other comprehensive (loss) income 195 (7) (54) 134
Net transfers from NCR Corporation - 15 - 15
Other (5) 5 - -
Balance at December 31, 2023 $ 57 $ (5) $ 34 $ 86
Other comprehensive (loss) income before reclassifications (55) (23) 36 (42)
Amounts reclassified from AOCI - - (63) (63)
Net current period other comprehensive (loss) income (55) (23) (27) (105)
Other 5 (5) - -
Balance as of December 31, 2024 $ 7 $ (33) $ 7 $ (19)
Reclassifications Out of AOCI
The reclassifications out of AOCI for the years ended December 31 are as follows:
For the year ended December 31, 2024
Employee Benefit Plans
In millions Amortization of Actuarial Loss (Gain) Amortization of Prior Service Benefit Effective Cash Flow Hedge Loss (Gain) Total
Affected line in Consolidated Statement of Operations:
Cost of services $ - $ - $ (79) $ (79)
Interest expense - - (3) (3)
Total before tax $ - $ - $ (82) $ (82)
Tax expense 19
Total reclassifications, net of tax $ (63)
For the year ended December 31, 2023
Employee Benefit Plans
In millions Amortization of Actuarial Loss (Gain) Amortization of Prior Service Benefit Effective Cash Flow Hedge Loss (Gain) Total
Affected line in Consolidated Statement of Operations:
Cost of services $ - $ - $ (78) $ (78)
Total before tax $ - $ - $ (78) $ (78)
Tax expense 18
Total reclassifications, net of tax $ (60)
For the year ended December 31, 2022
Employee Benefit Plans
In millions Amortization of Actuarial Loss (Gain)
Amortization of Prior Service Benefit Effective Cash Flow Hedge Loss (Gain) Total
Affected line in Consolidated Statement of Operations:
Cost of services $ - $ - $ (9) $ (9)
Total before tax $ - $ - $ (9) $ (9)
Tax expense 2
Total reclassifications, net of tax $ (7)
17. SUPPLEMENTAL FINANCIAL INFORMATION
The components of Other (expense) income, net are summarized as follows for the years ended December 31:
In millions 2024 2023 2022
Other (expense) income, net
Interest income $ 7 $ 5 $ -
Foreign currency fluctuations and foreign exchange contracts (21) (33) (9)
Employee benefit plans 60 (22) (63)
Bank-related fees (15) (14) -
Voyix environmental indemnification expense (14) - -
Other, net 2 (10) (9)
Total other (expense) income, net $ 19 $ (74) $ (81)
The components of inventory are summarized as follows:
In millions December 31, 2024 December 31, 2023
Inventories
Work in process and raw materials $ 55 $ 55
Finished goods 65 72
Service parts 187 206
Total inventories $ 307 $ 333
The components of property, plant and equipment, net are summarized as follows:
In millions December 31, 2024 December 31, 2023
Property, plant and equipment
Land and improvements $ 1 $ 1
Buildings and improvements 98 97
Machinery and other equipment 1,000 907
Finance lease assets 6 2
Property, plant and equipment, gross $ 1,105 $ 1,007
Less: accumulated depreciation (631) (539)
Total property, plant and equipment, net $ 474 $ 468
18. QUARTERLY INFORMATION (UNAUDITED)
Prior Period Financial Statement Revision
As disclosed in Note 1, “Basis of Presentation and Significant Accounting Policies”, in connection with the preparation of the Company’s interim and annual 2024 financial statements, management identified errors pertaining to the Separation-related accounting entries recorded in the fourth quarter of 2023, which impacted the Consolidated Balance Sheet and Consolidated Statement of Changes in Stockholders’ Equity presented as of December 31, 2023, and accordingly impacted the Condensed Consolidated Balance Sheets and Condensed Consolidated Statement of Changes in Stockholders’ Equity as of and for the interim periods ended March 31, 2024, June 30, 2024 and September 30, 2024, respectively. Certain of these errors were previously recorded out-of-period in the first quarter of 2024 and were then revised during the second quarter of 2024. The revision adjustment corrects the balance of Retained Earnings, which was overstated by $34 million as of December 31, 2023, $28 million as of March 31, 2024, $6 million as of June 30, 2024, and $6 million as of September 30, 2024. The revision adjustment also corrects the balance of Paid-in capital, which was overstated by $4 million as of December 31, 2023. As it relates to the Condensed Consolidated Statement of Changes in Stockholders’ Equity for the three months ended March 31, 2024, the revision adjustment removes the $8 million decrease to retained earnings recorded on the line “Net transfers to Voyix, including Separation adjustments” and further reflects the impact of an incremental $4 million adjustment to Paid-in capital on the line “Stock compensation plans”. Such amounts are included as part of the $34 million and $4 million adjustments to the beginning balances of retained earnings and paid-in capital, respectively, for the three months ended March 31, 2024. The Company has evaluated the impact of the adjustments and concluded they were not material to any previously issued interim condensed consolidated financial statements. In order to correctly state equity to reflect the impact of the Separation-related transactions, management will revise the Condensed Consolidated Statements of Changes in Stockholders’ Equity for interim periods during 2024 in future SEC filings, as reflected below.
NCR Atleos Corporation
Condensed Consolidated Statements of Changes in Stockholders’ Equity (Unaudited)
Atleos Stockholders
Common Stock Accumulated Other Comprehensive Income (Loss) Noncontrolling Interests in Subsidiaries
In millions Shares Amount Paid-in Capital Retained Earnings Total
December 31, 2023 71 $ 1 $ 12 $ 147 $ 86 $ 3 $ 249
Comprehensive income (loss):
Net income (loss) - - - (8) - (8)
Other comprehensive income (loss) - - - - 17 1 18
Total comprehensive income (loss) - - - (8) 17 1 10
Stock compensation plans 1 - 2 - - - 2
March 31, 2024 72 $ 1 $ 14 $ 139 $ 103 $ 4 $ 261
Comprehensive income (loss):
Net income (loss) - - - 29 - (1) 28
Other comprehensive income (loss) - - - - (44) (2) (46)
Total comprehensive income (loss) - - - 29 (44) (3) (18)
Net transfers from Voyix - - - (7) - - (7)
Stock compensation plans - - 9 - - - 9
June 30, 2024 72 $ 1 $ 23 $ 161 $ 59 $ 1 $ 245
Comprehensive income (loss):
Net income (loss) - - - 24 - (1) 23
Other comprehensive income (loss) - - - - (18) (2) (20)
Total comprehensive income (loss) - - - 24 (18) (3) 3
Stock compensation plans - - 8 - - - 8
September 30, 2024 72 $ 1 $ 31 $ 185 $ 41 $ (2) $ 256

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ITEM 9. CHANGES IN AND DISAGREEMENTS WITH ACCOUNTANTS
Item 9. CHANGES IN AND DISAGREEMENTS WITH ACCOUNTANTS ON ACCOUNTING AND FINANCIAL DISCLOSURE
None.

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ITEM 9A. CONTROLS AND PROCEDURES
Item 9A. CONTROLS AND PROCEDURES
Evaluation of Disclosure Controls and Procedures
Atleos has established disclosure controls and procedures (as defined in Rules 13a-15(e) and 15d-15(e) of the Exchange Act to provide reasonable assurance that information required to be disclosed by Atleos in the reports that it files or submits under the Exchange Act is recorded, processed, summarized and reported within the time periods specified in the SEC’s rules and forms. Disclosure controls and procedures include, without limitation, controls and procedures designed to provide reasonable assurance that information required to be disclosed by Atleos in the reports that it files or submits under the Exchange Act is accumulated and communicated to Atleos’ management, including its Chief Executive and Chief Financial Officers, as appropriate to allow timely decisions regarding required disclosure. Our management carried out an evaluation, under the supervision and with the participation of our Chief Executive and Chief Financial Officers, of the effectiveness of the design and operation of our disclosure controls and procedures as of December 31, 2024. Based on this evaluation, our Chief Executive and Chief Financial Officers have concluded that Atleos’ disclosure controls and procedures are properly designed and operating effectively to meet its objectives and that Atleos’ disclosure controls and procedures adequately alert them on a timely basis to material information relating to the Company (including its consolidated subsidiaries) required to be included in Atleos’ Exchange Act filings.
Changes in Internal Control over Financial Reporting
There were no changes in our internal control over financial reporting during the fiscal quarter ended December 31, 2024 that have materially affected, or are reasonably likely to materially affect, Atleos’ internal control over financial reporting.
Management’s Report on Internal Control over Financial Reporting
Management is responsible for establishing and maintaining effective internal control over financial reporting as defined in Rules 13a-15(f) and 15d-15(f) under the Exchange Act. The Company’s internal control over financial reporting is a process designed to provide reasonable assurance regarding the reliability of financial reporting and the preparation of financial statements for external purposes in accordance with generally accepted accounting principles. A company’s internal control over financial reporting includes those policies and procedures that (i) pertain to the maintenance of records that, in reasonable detail, accurately and fairly reflect the transactions and dispositions of the assets of the company; (ii) provide reasonable assurance that transactions are recorded as necessary to permit preparation of financial statements in accordance with generally accepted accounting principles, and that receipts and expenditures of the company are being made only in accordance with authorizations of management and directors of the company; and (iii) provide reasonable assurance regarding prevention or timely detection of unauthorized acquisition, use, or disposition of the company’s assets that could have a material effect on the financial statements.
The Company’s management assessed the effectiveness of the Company’s internal control over financial reporting as of December 31, 2024. In making this assessment, we used the criteria set forth by the Committee of Sponsoring Organizations of the Treadway Commission (“COSO”) in the 2013 Internal Control-Integrated Framework. Based on our assessment, we determined that, as of December 31, 2024, the Company’s internal control over financial reporting was effective based on those criteria.
PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP, our independent registered public accounting firm, has audited the effectiveness of the Company’s internal control over financial reporting as of December 31, 2024, as stated in their report which appears in Item 8 of this Report.

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ITEM 9B. OTHER INFORMATION
Item 9B. OTHER INFORMATION
During the fiscal year ended December 31, 2024, no director or officer of the Company adopted or terminated a “Rule 10b5-1 trading arrangement” or “non-Rule 10b5-1 trading arrangement,” as each term is defined in Item 408(a) of the SEC’s Regulation S-K.

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ITEM 10. DIRECTORS, EXECUTIVE OFFICERS AND CORPORATE GOVERNANCE
Item 10. DIRECTORS, EXECUTIVE OFFICERS AND CORPORATE GOVERNANCE
Except as set forth in the following paragraphs of this Item 10, the information required by this Item 10 will be set forth under the headings “Proposal 1 - Election of Directors,” “Delinquent Section 16(a) Reports” (if applicable), “Committees of the Board” and “Selection of Nominees for Directors” in the Definitive Proxy Statement for our 2025 Annual Meeting of Stockholders to be filed with the SEC within 120 days after the end of our fiscal 2024 year, and is incorporated herein by reference. The information required by this Item 10 regarding our executive officers is set forth under the heading “Information about our Executive Officers” in Part I of this Form 10-K and is incorporated herein by reference.
We have not materially changed the procedures by which stockholders may recommend nominees to the Company’s Board of Directors.
We have a Code of Conduct that sets the standard for ethics and compliance for all of our directors and employees, including our principal executive officer, our principal financial officer and our principal accounting officer. Our Code of Conduct is available on the Corporate Governance page at our website at https://www.ncratleos.com/about-us/corporate-governance under the heading “Code of Conduct.” We intend to disclose any amendments to or waivers of the Code of Conduct with respect to any director as well as our principal executive officer, principal financial officer, and principal accounting officer, on the Corporate Governance page of our website promptly following the date of such amendment or waiver.
We have adopted insider trading policies and procedures governing the purchase, sale, and other dispositions of securities of Atleos by directors, officers, and employees that we believe are reasonably designed to promote compliance with insider trading laws, rules and regulations, and applicable NYSE listing standards. Our insider trading policy states, among other things, that our directors, officers, and employees are prohibited from trading in such securities while in possession of material, nonpublic information. In addition, it is our intent to comply with applicable laws and regulations relating to trading in our securities. The foregoing summary of our insider trading policies and procedures does not purport to be complete and is qualified by reference to our NCR Atleos Corporation’s Insider Trading Policy filed as an exhibit to this Annual Report on Form 10-K.

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ITEM 11. EXECUTIVE COMPENSATION
Item 11. EXECUTIVE COMPENSATION
The information required by this Item 11 will be set forth under the headings “Executive Compensation - Compensation Discussion & Analysis,” “Director Compensation,” and “Board and Compensation and Human Resource Committee Report on Executive Compensation” in the Definitive Proxy Statement for our 2025 Annual Meeting of Stockholders to be filed with the SEC within 120 days after the end of our fiscal 2024 year and is incorporated herein by reference.

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ITEM 12. SECURITY OWNERSHIP OF CERTAIN BENEFICIAL OWNERS
Item 12. SECURITY OWNERSHIPS OF CERTAIN BENEFICIAL OWNERS AND MANAGEMENT AND RELATED STOCKHOLDER MATTERS
The information required by this Item 12 will be set forth under the headings “Security Ownership of Certain Beneficial Owners and Management” and “Equity Compensation Plan Information Table” in the Definitive Proxy Statement for our 2025 Annual Meeting of Stockholders to be filed with the SEC within 120 days after the end of our fiscal 2024 year and is incorporated herein by reference.

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ITEM 13. CERTAIN RELATIONSHIPS AND RELATED TRANSACTIONS
Item 13. CERTAIN RELATIONSHIPS AND RELATED TRANSACTIONS AND DIRECTOR INDEPENDENCE
The information required by this Item 13 will be set forth under the headings “Related Person Transactions” and “Corporate Governance” in the Definitive Proxy Statement for our 2025 Annual Meeting of Stockholders to be filed with the SEC within 120 days after the end of our fiscal 2024 year and is incorporated herein by reference.

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ITEM 14. PRINCIPAL ACCOUNTING FEES AND SERVICES
Item 14. PRINCIPAL ACCOUNTANT FEES AND SERVICES
The information required by this Item 14 will be set forth under the heading “Fees Paid to Independent Registered Public Accounting Firm” in the Definitive Proxy Statement for our 2025 Annual Meeting of Stockholders to be filed with the SEC within 120 days after the end of our fiscal 2024 year and is incorporated herein by reference.
PART IV

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ITEM 15. EXHIBITS, FINANCIAL STATEMENT SCHEDULES
Item 15. EXHIBITS AND FINANCIAL STATEMENT SCHEDULE
(a)(1) Financial Statements: The following is an index of the Consolidated Financial Statements of the Company and the Report of Independent Registered Public Accounting Firm filed as part of this Form 10-K:
Page of Form 10-K
Report of Independent Registered Public Accounting Firm
Consolidated Statements of Operations for the years ended December 31, 2024, 2023, and 2022
Consolidated Statements of Comprehensive Income (Loss) for the years ended December 31, 2024, 2023, and 2022
Consolidated Balance Sheets at December 31, 2024 and 2023
Consolidated Statements of Cash Flows for the years ended December 31, 2024, 2023, and 2022
Consolidated Statements of Changes in Stockholders’ Equity for the years ended December 31, 2024, 2023, and 2022
Notes to Consolidated Financial Statements
(2) Financial Statement Schedule: Financial Statement Schedule II-Valuation and Qualifying Accounts for the years ended December 31, 2024, 2023, and 2022 is included in this Form 10-K on page 137. All other schedules are not required under the related instructions or are not applicable.
(3) Exhibits: See Index of Exhibits below for a listing of all exhibits to this Form 10-K. The management contracts and compensatory plans or arrangements required to be filed as an exhibit to this Form 10-K are identified in the Index of Exhibits by an asterisk (*).
(b) The following is an index of all exhibits to this Form 10-K. Exhibits identified in parentheses in the index below, on file with the SEC, are incorporated herein by reference as exhibits hereto.
2.1#
Separation and Distribution Agreement, dated as of October 16, 2023, by and between NCR Voyix Corporation and NCR Atleos Corporation (Exhibit 2.1 to the Company’s Current Report on Form 8-K dated October 18, 2023 (the “October 18, 2023 8-K”))
3.1
Articles of Incorporation of NCR Atleos Corporation (Exhibit 3.1 to the Company’s Current Report on Form 8-K dated October 10, 2023 (the “October 10, 2023 8-K”))
3.2
Amended and Restated Bylaws of NCR Atleos Corporation, dated as of October 16, 2023 (Exhibit 3.1 to the October 18, 2023 8-K)
4.1
Indenture relating to the Notes, dated September 27, 2023, between NCR Atleos Escrow Corporation and Citibank, N.A. (Exhibit 4.1 to the Company’s Current Report on Form 8-K dated September 28, 2023 (the “September 28, 2023 8-K”))
4.2
Form of 9.500% Senior Secured Notes due 2029 (included in Exhibit 4.2 to the September 28, 2023 8-K)
4.3
Description of NCR Atleos Corporation Securities Registered Under Section 12 of the Exchange Act (Exhibit 4.3 to the Company’s Annual Report on Form 10-K filed on March 26, 2024 (the “2023 10-K”)
10.1#
Credit Agreement, dated September 27, 2023, among NCR Atleos, LLC, NCR Atleos Escrow Corporation, the lenders party thereto, any foreign party thereto and Bank of America, N.A., as administrative agent (Exhibit 10.1 to the September 28, 2023 8-K)
10.1.1#
First Amendment dated as of October 17, 2024 (the “First Amendment”) to the Credit Agreement dated as of September 27, 2023 by and among the Company, certain subsidiaries from time to time party thereto, the lenders party thereto, and Bank of America, N.A., as administrative agent (the “Administrative Agent”) (Exhibit 10.1 to the Company’s Current Report on Form 8-K filed on October 18, 2024)
10.2#
Transition Services Agreement, dated as of October 16, 2023, by and between NCR Voyix Corporation and NCR Atleos Corporation (Exhibit 10.1 to the October 18, 2023 8-K)
10.3#
Tax Matters Agreement, dated as of October 16, 2023, by and between NCR Voyix Corporation and NCR Atleos Corporation (Exhibit 10.2 to the October 18, 2023 8-K)
10.4#
Employee Matters Agreement, dated as of October 16, 2023, by and between NCR Voyix Corporation and NCR Atleos Corporation (Exhibit 10.3 to the October 18, 2023 8-K)
10.5#
Patent and Technology Cross-License Agreement, dated as of October 16, 2023, by and between NCR Voyix Corporation and NCR Atleos Corporation (Exhibit 10.4 to the October 18, 2023 8-K)
10.6#
Trademark License and Use Agreement, dated as of October 16, 2023, by and between NCR Voyix Corporation and NCR Atleos Corporation (Exhibit 10.5 to the October 18, 2023 8-K)
10.7#
Master Services Agreement, dated October 16, 2023, by and between NCR Voyix Corporation and Cardtronics USA, Inc. (Exhibit 10.6 to the October 18, 2023 8-K)
10.8#
Manufacturing Services Agreement, dated October 16, 2023, by and between NCR Voyix Corporation and Terafina Software Solutions Private Limited and NCR Corporation India Private Limited. (Exhibit 10.7 to the October 18, 2023 8-K)
10.9#
Receivables Purchase Agreement, dated as of October 16, 2023, by and among NCR Atleos Receivables LLC, as seller, NCR Atleos Canada Receivables LP, as guarantor, Cardtronics USA, Inc., as servicer, NCR Canada Corp., as servicer, PNC Bank, National Association, as administrative agent, and PNC Bank, National Association, MUFG Bank, Ltd., Victory Receivables Corporation and the other purchasers from time to time party thereto, as purchasers. (Exhibit 10.8 to the October 18, 2023 8-K)
10.10#
Purchase and Sale Agreement, dated as of October 16, 2023, among NCR Atleos Receivables LLC, as buyer, and Cardtronics USA, Inc., ATM National, LLC and the other originators from time to time party thereto, as originators. (Exhibit 10.9 to the October 18, 2023 8-K)
10.11#
Canadian Purchase and Sale Agreement, dated as of October 16, 2023, among NCR Atleos Canada Receivables LP, as buyer, and Cardtronics Canada Holdings Inc. and the other originators from time to time party thereto, as originators. (Exhibit 10.10 to the October 18, 2023 8-K)
10.12#
Performance Guaranty, dated as of October 16, 2023, by NCR Atleos Corporation, as performance guarantor, in favor of PNC Bank, National Association, as administrative agent. (Exhibit 10.11 to the October 18, 2023 8-K)
10.13*
Employment Agreement, dated September 25, 2023, between Timothy C. Oliver and NCR Atleos, LLC (Exhibit 10.13 to the Company’s Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q filed on November 14, 2023)
10.13.1*
Letter Agreement, dated July 14, 2023, between Ricardo Nunez and NCR Corporation (Exhibit 10.13.1 to the 2023 10-K)
10.13.2*
Letter Agreement, dated June 20, 2023, between LaShawne Meriwether and NCR Corporation (Exhibit 10.13.2 to the 2023 10-K)
10.13.2.1*
Separation Agreement, dated July 15, 2024, between the Company and LaShawne Meriwether (Exhibit 10.1 to the Current Report on Form 8-K of NCR Atleos Corporation filed on July 16, 2024).
10.13.3*
Letter Agreement, dated September 1, 2021, between Stuart Mackinnon and NCR Corporation (Exhibit 10.13.3 to the 2023 10-K)
10.13.4*
Letter Agreement, dated October 24, 2022, between Stuart Mackinnon and NCR Corporation (Exhibit 10.13.4 to the 2023 10-K)
10.13.5*
Amendment to Employment Agreement, dated February 13, 2023, between Timothy C. Oliver and NCR Corporation (Exhibit 10.3 to NCR Voyix Corporation’s Form 8-K filed on February 17, 2023)
10.13.6*
Offer Letter, dated January 8, 2025, between the Company and Andrew Wamser (Exhibit 10.1 to the Company's Current Report on Form 8-K filed on January 14, 2025)
10.13.7*&
Separation Agreement, dated January 23, 2025, between the Company and Paul Campbell
10.14*
Indemnification Agreement, dated October 16, 2023, between Joseph E. Reece and NCR Atleos Corporation (Exhibit 10.14 to the Company’s Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q filed on November 14, 2023)
10.15*
Indemnification Agreement, dated October 16, 2023, between Timothy C. Oliver and NCR Atleos Corporation (Exhibit 10.15 to the Company’s Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q filed on November 14, 2023)
10.16*
Indemnification Agreement, dated October 16, 2023, between Odilon Almeida and NCR Atleos Corporation (Exhibit 10.16 to the Company’s Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q filed on November 14, 2023)
10.17*
Indemnification Agreement, dated October 16, 2023, between Mary Ellen Baker and NCR Atleos Corporation (Exhibit 10.17 to the Company’s Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q filed on November 14, 2023)
10.18*
Indemnification Agreement, dated October 16, 2023, between Mark W. Begor and NCR Atleos Corporation (Exhibit 10.18 to the Company’s Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q filed on November 14, 2023)
10.19*
Indemnification Agreement, dated October 16, 2023, between Michelle Frymire and NCR Atleos Corporation (Exhibit 10.19 to the Company’s Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q filed on November 14, 2023)
10.20*
Indemnification Agreement, dated October 16, 2023, between Frank Natoli and NCR Atleos Corporation (Exhibit 10.20 to the Company’s Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q filed on November 14, 2023)
10.21*
Indemnification Agreement, dated October 16, 2023, between Jeffry H. von Gillern and NCR Atleos Corporation (Exhibit 10.21 to the Company’s Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q filed on November 14, 2023)
10.22*
NCR Atleos Corporation 2023 Stock Incentive Plan (Exhibit 99.1 to the Company’s Form S-8 filed on October 18, 2023)
10.23*
NCR Atleos Corporation Employee Stock Purchase Plan (Exhibit 99.2 to the Company’s Form S-8 filed on October 18, 2023)
10.23.1*
First Amendment to the NCR Atleos Corporation Employee Stock Purchase Plan entered into as of May 31, 2024 by NCR Atleos Corporation (Exhibit 10.1 to the Company's Form 10-Q filed on August 14, 2024)
10.24*
Management Incentive Plan of NCR Atleos Corporation (Exhibit 10.24 to the 2023 10-K)
10.25*
Amended and Restated Executive Severance Plan of NCR Atleos Corporation dated as of March 20, 2024 (Exhibit 10.25 to the 2023 10-K)
10.26*
Change in Control Severance Plan of NCR Atleos Corporation dated as of October 18, 2023 (Exhibit 10.26 to the 2023 10-K)
10.27*
Director Compensation Program of NCR Atleos Corporation dated as of October 18, 2023 (Exhibit 10.27 to the 2023 10-K)
10.27.1*
Form of 2023 Director Restricted Stock Unit Grant Statement under the NCR Atleos Corporation 2023 Stock Incentive Plan (Exhibit 10.27.1 to the 2023 10-K)
10.28.1*
NCR Voyix Corporation 2017 Stock Incentive Plan (the “2017 Stock Incentive Plan”) (Appendix B to the NCR Voyix Corporation 2017 Proxy Statement)
10.28.2*
First Amendment to the NCR Voyix Corporation 2017 Stock Incentive Plan (Appendix A to the NCR Voyix Corporation Proxy Statement on Schedule 14A for the NCR Voyix Corporation 2020 Annual Meeting of Stockholders)
10.28.3*
Form of 2022 Performance-Based Restricted Stock Unit Award Agreement (With Relative TSR Metric) under the NCR Voyix Corporation 2017 Stock Incentive Plan. (Exhibit 10.1 to the Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q of NCR Voyix Corporation for the quarter ended March 31, 2022)
10.28.4*
Form of 2022 Performance-Based Restricted Stock Unit Award Agreement (with LTI EBITDA & LTI Recurring Revenue Metric) under the NCR Voyix Corporation 2017 Stock Incentive Plan (Exhibit 10.9.8 to the Annual Report on Form 10-K of NCR Voyix Corporation for the year ended December 31, 2023)
10.28.5*
Form of Qualified Transaction 2023 Performance-Based Restricted Stock Unit Award Agreement (with Relative TSR Metric) under the NCR Voyix Corporation 2017 Stock Incentive Plan (Exhibit 10.9.9 to the Annual Report on Form 10-K of NCR Voyix Corporation for the year ended December 31, 2023)
10.28.6*
Form of 2023 Performance-Based Restricted Stock Unit Award Agreement (with Relative TSR Metric) under the NCR Voyix Corporation 2017 Stock Incentive Plan (Exhibit 10.9.10 to the Annual Report on Form 10-K of NCR Voyix Corporation for the year ended December 31, 2023)
10.28.7*
Form of 2021 Performance-Based Restricted Stock Unit Award Agreement under the NCR Voyix Corporation 2017 Stock Incentive Plan (Exhibit 10.9.11 to the Annual Report on Form 10-K of NCR Voyix Corporation for the year ended December 31, 2023)
10.28.8*
Form of 2021 Market Stock Unit Award Agreement under the NCR Voyix Corporation 2017 Stock Incentive Plan (Exhibit 10.9.12 to the Annual Report on Form 10-K of NCR Voyix Corporation for the year ended December 31, 2023)
10.28.9*
Form of 2024 Restricted Stock Unit Award Agreement (Performance-based Awards) under the NCR Atleos Corporation 2023 Stock Incentive Plan (Exhibit 10.28.9 to the 2023 10-K)
10.28.10*
Form of 2024 Restricted Stock Unit Award Agreement (Time-based Awards) under the NCR Atleos Corporation 2023 Stock Incentive Plan (Exhibit 10.28.10 to the 2023 10-K)
10.28.11*
Form of 2025 Restricted Stock Unit Award Agreement (Performance Awards) under the NCR Atleos Corporation 2023 Stock Incentive Plan (Exhibit 10.1 to the Company’s Current Report on Form 8-K filed on February 20, 2025)
10.28.12*
Form of 2025 Restricted Stock Unit Award Agreement (Time Vested Awards) under the NCR Atleos Corporation 2023 Stock Incentive Plan (Exhibit 10.2 to the Company’s Current Report on Form 8-K filed on February 20, 2025)
19.1&
NCR Atleos Corporation's Insider Trading Policy
21&
Subsidiaries of NCR Atleos Corporation.
23.1&
Consent of Independent Registered Public Accounting Firm.
31.1&
Certification pursuant to Rule 13a-14(a) and Rule 15d-14(a) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934.
31.2&
Certification pursuant to Rule 13a-14(a) and Rule 15d-14(a) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934.
32&
Certification pursuant to 18 U.S.C. Section 1350 as adopted pursuant to Section 906 of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002.
97.1
Clawback Policy of NCR Atleos Corporation effective as of December 1, 2023 (Exhibit 97.1 to the 2023 Form 10-K)
101 The following materials from NCR Atleos Corporation’s Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2024, formatted in iXBRL (Inline Extensible Business Reporting Language): (i) consolidated statements of operations for the fiscal years ended December 31, 2024, 2023 and 2022 (ii) consolidated statements of comprehensive income for the fiscal years ended December 31, 2024, 2023 and 2022; (iii) consolidated balance sheets as of December 31, 2024 and 2023; (iv) consolidated statements of cash flows for the fiscal years ended December 31, 2024, 2023 and 2022; (v) consolidated statements of changes in stockholders’ equity for fiscal years ended December 31, 2024, 2023 and 2022; and (vi) the notes to the consolidated financial statements.
104 Cover Page Interactive Data File, formatted in inline XBRL and contained in Exhibit 101.
& Filed herewith.
# Certain schedules and/or exhibits have been omitted from this filing pursuant to Item 601(a)(5) of Regulation S-K. The
registrant agrees to furnish supplementally a copy of any omitted schedule or exhibit to the Securities and Exchange
Commission upon its request.
* Management contracts or compensatory plans/arrangements.