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Item 11 — Quantitative and Qualitative Disclosures About Market Risk
International Game Technology Plc · 20-F · FY 2025 · Period ended Dec 31, 2025
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The Company’s activities expose it to a variety of market risks including interest rate risk and foreign currency exchange rate risk. The Company’s overall risk management strategy focuses on the unpredictability of financial markets and seeks to minimize potential adverse effects on its performance through ongoing operational and finance activities. The Company monitors and manages its exposure to such risks both centrally and at the local level, as appropriate, as part of its overall risk management program with the objective of seeking to reduce the potential adverse effects of such risks on its results of operations and financial position.
Depending upon the risk assessment, the Company uses selected derivative hedging instruments, including principally interest rate swaps and foreign currency forward contracts, for the purposes of managing interest rate risk and currency risks arising from its operations and sources of financing. The Company’s policy is not to enter into such contracts for speculative purposes.
The following section provides qualitative and quantitative disclosures on the effects that these risks may have. The quantitative data reported below does not have any predictive value and does not reflect the complexity of the markets or reactions which may result from any changes that are assumed to have taken place.
Interest Rate Risk
Indebtedness
The Company’s exposure to changes in market interest rates relates primarily to its cash and financial liabilities which bear floating interest rates. The Company’s policy is to manage interest cost using a mix of fixed and variable rate debt. The Company has historically used various techniques to mitigate the risks associated with future changes in interest rates, including entering into interest rate swap and treasury rate lock agreements.
At December 31, 2025 and 2024, approximately 36% and 25% of the Company’s debt portfolio was exposed to interest rate fluctuations, respectively. The Company’s exposure to floating rates of interest primarily relates to the Revolving Credit Facilities, Euro Term Loan Facilities due January 2027, and Euro Term Loan Facilities due September 2030. At December 31, 2025 and December 31, 2024, the Company did not hold any interest rate swaps.
A hypothetical 100 basis points increase in interest rates for 2025 and 2024, with all other variables held constant, would have resulted in approximately $15 million and $9 million, of incremental interest expense attributed to continuing operations, respectively. For 2024, incremental interest expense attributed to discontinued operations would have resulted in approximately $4 million.
Foreign Currency Exchange Rate Risk
The Company operates on an international basis across a number of geographical locations. The Company is exposed to (i) transactional foreign exchange risk when an entity enters into transactions in a currency other than its functional currency, and (ii) translation foreign exchange risk which arises when the Company translates the financial statements of its foreign entities into U.S. dollars for the preparation of the Consolidated Financial Statements.
Transactional Risk
The Company’s subsidiaries generally execute their operating activities in their respective functional currencies. In circumstances where the Company enters into transactions in a currency other than the functional currency of the relevant entity, the Company seeks to minimize its exposure by (i) sharing risk with its customers (for example, in limited circumstances, but whenever possible, the Company negotiates clauses into its contracts that allows for price adjustments should a material change in foreign exchange rates occur), (ii) creating a natural hedge by netting receipts and payments, (iii) utilizing foreign currency borrowings, and (iv) where applicable, by entering into foreign currency forward and option contracts.
The principal foreign currency to which the Company is exposed is the euro. A hypothetical 10% decrease in the year end U.S. dollar to euro exchange rate, with all other variables held constant, would have resulted in lower income from continuing operations before provision for income taxes of approximately $84 million and $86 million for December 31, 2025 and 2024, respectively. Our euro exposure primarily arises from euro denominated long-term debt. Based on our long-term forecast, the Company undertakes to match and maintain the mix of euro denominated debt to the mix of euro sourced EBITDA.
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From time to time, the Company’s subsidiaries enter into foreign currency forward and option contracts to reduce the exposure associated with certain firm commitments, variable service revenues, and certain assets and liabilities denominated in foreign currencies. These contracts generally have average maturities of 12 months or less, and are regularly renewed to provide continuing coverage throughout the year. It is the Company’s policy to negotiate the terms of the hedge derivatives to match the terms of the hedged item to maximize hedge effectiveness.
At December 31, 2025, the Company’s subsidiaries had forward contracts for the sale of approximately $147 million of foreign currency (primarily euro, Czech koruna, Colombian peso, and Mexican peso) and the purchase of approximately $232 million of foreign currency (primarily U.S. dollar, British pounds, Mexican peso, and Polish zlotys).
At December 31, 2024, the Company’s subsidiaries had forward contracts for the sale of approximately $93 million of foreign currency (primarily euro, Canadian dollar, Swiss franc, New Taiwan dollar, and Colombian peso) and the purchase of approximately $918 million of foreign currency (primarily euro, U.S. dollar, British pounds, and Mexican peso).
Translation Risk
Certain of the Company’s subsidiaries are located in countries that are outside of the U.S., in particular the Eurozone. As the Company’s reporting currency is the U.S. dollar, the income statements of those entities are converted into U.S. dollars using the average exchange rate for the period, and while revenues and costs are unchanged in local currency, changes in exchange rates may lead to effects on the converted balances of revenues, costs, and the result in U.S. dollars. The monetary assets and liabilities of consolidated entities that have a reporting currency other than the U.S. dollar are translated into U.S. dollars at the period-end foreign exchange rate. The effects of these changes in foreign exchange rates are recognized directly in the Consolidated Statements of Shareholders’ Equity within accumulated other comprehensive income.
The Company’s foreign currency exposure primarily arises from changes between the U.S. dollar and the euro. A hypothetical 10% decrease in the U.S. dollar to euro exchange rate, with all other variables held constant, would have reduced equity by $37 million for 2025 and increased equity by $60 million for 2024.