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Item 11 — Quantitative and Qualitative Disclosures About Market Risk
Vtex · 20-F · FY 2025 · Period ended Dec 31, 2025
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We are exposed to market risks in the ordinary course of our business, including the effects of foreign currency fluctuations, derivative financial instruments, credit risk and liquidity risk. Information relating to quantitative and qualitative disclosures about these market risks is described below:
Interest rate risk
The interest risk arises from the possibility of us incurring losses due to fluctuations in interest rates in respect of fair value of future cash flows of a financial instrument.
Our exposure to market risk for changes in interest rates relates primarily to our cash, cash equivalents, restricted cash, marketable securities and short-term investments. Our investments are made for capital preservation purposes and we do not enter into investments for trading or speculative purposes. We also have some exposure related to loans and financing subject to the variable interest rate. Our trade receivables account payable and other liabilities do not bear interest.
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Our cash, cash equivalents, restricted cash, marketable securities and short-term investments consist primarily of interest-bearing accounts held by our parent company in US$. Such interest-earning instruments carry a degree of interest rate risk. To minimize interest rate risk, we intend to maintain our portfolio of cash equivalents in a variety of investment-grade securities, which may include commercial papers, money market funds, and government and non-government debt securities. Because of the short-term maturities of our cash, cash equivalents, and marketable securities, as of December 31, 2025, we are not materially exposed to the risk of changes in market interest rates.
Foreign currency exchange risk
We have significant operations internationally that are denominated in foreign currencies. Our exposure to foreign exchange risk is primarily related to fluctuations between the U.S. Dollar and the Latin American countries in which we operate (primarily the Brazilian real, Argentine peso, Colombian peso and Chilean peso). We transact business in various foreign currencies and have significant international revenues and costs. Our cash flows, results of operations and certain of our intercompany balances that are exposed to foreign exchange rate fluctuations may differ materially from expectations and we may record significant gains or losses due to foreign currency fluctuations and related hedging activities. For further information see note 3.21 of our consolidated financial statements.
Our subsidiaries generate revenues and incur most of their expenses in the respective local currencies of the countries in which they operate. As a result, our subsidiaries use their local currency as their functional currency. In the years ended December 31, 2025 and 2024, 22.0% and 20.8% of our revenues were denominated in, or linked to, U.S. dollars, respectively. As of December 31, 2025 and December 31, 2024, our assets were represented by 60.4% and 67.7% in U.S. dollars, 39.6% and 32.3% in other currencies. As of December 31, 2025 and December 31, 2024, our liabilities, excluding our total shareholders’ equity, were represented by 11.5% and 13.0% in U.S. dollars, 88.5% and 87.0% in other currencies.
We are exposed to foreign exchange fluctuations on the revaluation of foreign currency assets and liabilities. We use foreign exchange derivative products to hedge intercompany loans, and debt for operational purposes. By their nature, derivative financial instruments involve risk, including the credit risk of non-performance by counterparties. We use derivatives for hedging purposes and not as speculative investments. For further information on how such derivatives are recognized and classified, see note 3.11 to our consolidated financial statements.
Capital management
Our policy is to maintain a strong capital base to secure investor, creditor, and market confidence and also to sustain future development of our business. Management monitors the return on capital, as well as the dividend yield to shareholders.
In addition, our objective to manage capital is to safeguard our ability to continue as a going concern and to provide returns for shareholders and benefits for other stakeholders, to maintain an optimal capital structure to reduce the cost of capital, and to have resources available in order to pursue more aggressively new growth opportunities.
We monitor capital based on net cash/net debt ratio.