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Item 7A — Quantitative and Qualitative Disclosures About Market Risk
Amcor Plc · 10-K · FY 2026 · Period ended Jun 30, 2026
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Overview
Our activities expose us to a variety of market risks and financial risks. Our overall risk management program seeks to minimize potential adverse effects of these risks on Amcor's financial performance. From time to time, we enter into various derivative financial instruments, such as foreign exchange contracts, commodity fixed price swaps (on behalf of customers), cross-currency swaps, and interest rate swaps to manage these risks. Our hedging activities are conducted on a centralized basis through standard operating procedures and delegated authorities, which provide guidelines for control, counterparty risk, and ongoing reporting. These derivative instruments are designed to reduce the economic risk associated with movements in foreign exchange rates, raw material prices, and to fixed and variable interest rates, but may not have been designated or qualify for hedge accounting under U.S. GAAP and hence may increase income statement volatility. However, we do not trade in derivative financial instruments for speculative purposes. In addition, we may enter into loan agreements in currencies other than the respective legal entity's functional currency to economically hedge foreign exchange risk in net investments in our non-U.S. subsidiaries, which do not qualify for hedge accounting under U.S. GAAP and hence may increase income statement volatility.
There have been no material changes in the risks described below, other than increased inflation and market volatility attributed to a variety of factors, including the Middle East conflict, in the last three fiscal years.
Interest Rate Risk
Our policy is to manage exposure to interest rate risk by maintaining a mixture of fixed-rate and variable-rate debt, monitoring global interest rates and, where appropriate, hedging floating interest rate exposure or debt at fixed interest rates through the use of various interest rate derivative instruments including, but not limited to, interest rate swaps, cross currency interest rate swaps, and interest rate locks.
A hypothetical but reasonably possible increase of 1% in the floating rate on the relevant interest rate yield curve applicable to both derivative and non-derivative instruments denominated in U.S. dollars and Euros, the currencies with the largest interest rate sensitivity, outstanding as of June 30, 2026, would have resulted in an adverse impact on income before income taxes and equity in income/(loss) of affiliated companies of $20 million expense for the fiscal year ended June 30, 2026.
Foreign Exchange Risk
We operate in over 40 countries across the world and, as a result, we are exposed to movements in foreign currency exchange rates.
For the year ended June 30, 2026, a hypothetical but reasonably possible adverse change of 1% in the underlying average foreign currency exchange rate for the Euro would have resulted in an adverse impact on our net sales of $49 million.
Economic and political events in Argentina expose us to heightened levels of foreign currency exchange risks. Although our functional currency in Argentina is the U.S. dollar, we have net assets and transactions in Argentina that are denominated in pesos. In fiscal year 2024, the new Argentine government devalued the Argentine peso by approximately 55% against the U.S. dollar which was the primary factor in our recognition of a $53 million loss on monetary balances in this fiscal year. In April 2025, the Argentine government lifted its capital controls over the Argentine peso to trade against the U.S. dollar which enables the Central Bank of Argentina to increase its reserves. The measures taken in April 2025 resulted in a devaluation of approximately 10% and have helped to reduce inflation in Argentina. In December 2025, the Central Bank of Argentina announced a new phase of its economic program which included changing its foreign exchange rate band mechanism and launching an active foreign exchange reserve accumulation program to strengthen the country's economy. As of June 30, 2026, a hypothetical but reasonably possible 10% devaluation of the Argentine peso against the U.S. dollar would have resulted in an adverse impact on our Argentine peso monetary assets of approximately $6 million. Our operations in Argentina represented approximately 1% of our consolidated net sales and annual adjusted earnings before interest and tax in fiscal year 2026.
During both fiscal years 2026 and 2025, 51% of our net sales, respectively, were effectively generated in U.S. dollar functional currency entities. During fiscal year 2026 and 2025, 21% and 18%, respectively, of our net sales were generated in Euro functional currency entities with the remaining 28% and 31% of net sales, respectively, being generated in entities with functional currencies other than U.S. dollars and Euros. The impact of translating Euro and other non-U.S. dollar net sales and
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operating expenses into U.S. dollar for reporting purposes will vary depending on the movement of those currencies from period to period.
Raw Material and Commodity Price Risk
The primary raw materials for our products are polymer resins and films, paper, paperboard, inks, solvents, adhesives and aluminum. We have market risk primarily in connection with the pricing of our products and are exposed to commodity price risk from a number of commodities and other raw materials and energy price risk.
An increase in prices of our primary raw materials may result in a temporary or permanent reduction in income before income taxes and equity in income/(loss) of affiliated companies depending on the level of recovery by material type. The level of recovery depends both on the type of material and the market in which we operate. Across our business, we have a number of contractual provisions that allow for pass through of raw material price fluctuations to customers within predefined periods.
A hypothetical but reasonably possible 1% increase on average prices for polymer resins and films, inks, solvents, adhesives, aluminum, paperboard and paper, not passed on to the customer by way of a price adjustment, would have resulted in an increase in cost of sales and hence an adverse impact on income before income taxes and equity in income/(loss) of affiliated companies of approximately $85 million for fiscal year 2026 before any contractual pass-through to selling price.
Credit Risk
Credit risk refers to the risk that a counterparty will default on its contractual obligations, resulting in financial loss. We are exposed to credit risk arising from financing activities including deposits with banks and financial institutions, foreign exchange transactions and other financial instruments, as well as from over-the-counter raw material and commodity related derivative instruments.
We manage our credit risk from balances with financial institutions through our counterparty risk policy, which provides guidelines on setting limits to minimize the concentration of risks and therefore mitigating financial loss through potential counterparty failure and on dealing and settlement procedures. The investment of surplus funds is made only with approved counterparties and within credit limits assigned to each specific counterparty. Financial derivative instruments can only be entered into with high credit quality approved financial institutions. As of June 30, 2026, and 2025, we did not have a significant concentration of credit risk in relation to derivatives entered into in accordance with our hedging and risk management activities.
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