NEW YORK, Jan. 31, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Kyndryl Holdings, Inc. (NYSE:KD), the world's largest IT infrastructure services provider, today announced new geographic reporting segments and segment metrics to better reflect how the Company analyzes business performance.

"Kyndryl now has the freedom of action to develop a broader ecosystem of technology partners and service offerings relevant to our customers, so we're updating our reporting segments to better match how we operate and make decisions across our newly independent company," said Chief Financial Officer David Wyshner. "These reporting changes will help investors and analysts track our progress toward revenue growth and increased profitability and help people see how we're running Kyndryl for long-term success."

The Company also announced a change to its fiscal year and provided logistical details regarding its next earnings release.

New Reporting Segments

Going forward, Kyndryl will report financial results across four segments tied to geography:

United States
Japan
Principal Markets – comprised of our operations in Australia/New Zealand, Canada, France, Germany, India, Italy, Spain/Portugal and the United Kingdom/Ireland
Strategic Markets – comprised of all other geographic locations

Measures of segment performance will be revenue and adjusted EBITDA. The Company's reporting of fourth quarter and full-year 2021 results will reflect these segments. Tables 1 and 2 to this release provide historical and pro forma results of our new segments.

Fiscal Year Change

Kyndryl also announced that its fiscal year-end will change to March 31, effective for the fiscal year beginning April 1, 2022 and ending March 31, 2023. This change will move Kyndryl's year-end away from the holiday season and many of our customers' year-ends, which the Company believes will be better for our customers and our customer relationships.

Fourth Quarter Earnings Release, Conference Call and Webcast

Kyndryl will release its fourth quarter and full-year 2021 results after market close on Monday, February 28, 2022. The Company will host an earnings conference call at 8:30 a.m. ET on March 1, 2022. The live webcast can be accessed by visiting https://investors.kyndryl.com/events-and-presentations/events/ on Kyndryl's investor relations website or by dialing 1-844-200-6205 (from the U.S. and Canada) or 1-929-526-1599 (from all other locations), and entering access code 401819. A slide presentation will be made available on the same website shortly before the call on March 1, 2022. Following the event, replays will be available via webcast for twelve months at https://investors.kyndryl.com/events-and-presentations/events/ and by telephone for seven days by dialing 1-866-813-9403 (from the U.S. and Canada) or +44-204-525-0658 (from all other locations) and entering replay access code 505657.

About Kyndryl

Kyndryl (NYSE:KD) is the world's largest IT infrastructure services provider. The company designs, builds, manages and modernizes the complex, mission-critical information systems that the world depends on every day. Kyndryl's nearly 90,000 employees serve over 4,000 customers in more than 60 countries around the world, including 75 percent of the Fortune 100. For more information, visit www.kyndryl.com.

Forward-Looking Statements

This press release contains "forward-looking statements" within the meaning of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. Such forward-looking statements often contain words such as "will," "anticipate," "predict," "project," "plan," "forecast," "estimate," "expect," "intend," "target," "may," "should," "would," "could," "outlook" and other similar words or expressions or the negative thereof or other variations thereon. All statements, other than statements of historical fact, including without limitation statements representing management's beliefs about future events, transactions, strategies, operations and financial results, may be forward-looking statements. These statements do not guarantee future performance and speak only as of the date they are made, and the Company does not undertake to update its forward-looking statements. Actual outcomes or results may differ materially from those suggested by forward-looking statements as a result of risks and uncertainties which include, among others: risks related to the Company's spin-off from International Business Machines Corporation ("IBM"); failure to attract new customers, retain existing customers or sell additional services to customers; technological developments and the Company's response to such developments; failure to meet growth and productivity objectives; competition; impacts of relationships with critical suppliers; inability to attract and retain key personnel and other skilled employees; impact of local legal, economic, political, health and other conditions, including the COVID–19 pandemic; a downturn in economic environment and customer spending budgets; damage to the Company's reputation; inability to accurately estimate the cost of services and the timeline for completion of contracts; service delivery issues; the Company's ability to successfully manage acquisitions, alliances and dispositions, including integration challenges, failure to achieve objectives, the assumption of liabilities, and higher debt levels; the impact of our business with government customers; failure of the Company's intellectual property rights to prevent competitive offerings and the failure of the Company to obtain necessary licenses; risks relating to cybersecurity and data privacy; adverse effects from tax matters and environmental matters; legal proceedings and investigatory risks; impact of changes in market liquidity conditions and customer credit risk on receivables; the Company's pension plans; the impact of foreign currency fluctuations; risks related to the Company's common stock and the securities market; and other factors described in the "Risk Factors" section of the Company's Information Statement included as Exhibit 99.1 to the Registration Statement on Form 10 filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission (the "SEC") on October 12, 2021, as such factors may be updated from time to time in the Company's periodic filings with the SEC.

Non-GAAP financial information

The financial information in this press release includes certain non-GAAP financial measures, such as pro forma adjusted EBITDA and adjusted EBITDA, which include or exclude certain items from the most directly comparable GAAP financial measure. A definition of adjusted EBITDA is included in Table 1 to this press release. Reconciliations of non-GAAP financial measures to the most directly comparable GAAP financial measures are included in Tables 3 and 4 to this press release. Any non-GAAP financial measure included in this press release is in addition to, and not meant to be considered superior to, or a substitute for, measures prepared in accordance with GAAP.

Pro forma financial information

This press release also includes certain pro forma financial information. The pro forma adjustments assume that the Company's spin-off from IBM and related transactions occurred as of January 1, 2020. The pro forma financial information is unaudited and is presented for illustrative purposes only and is not necessarily indicative of the operating results or financial position that would have occurred if the relevant transactions had been consummated on the date indicated, nor is it indicative of future operating results. The pro forma financial information presented includes adjustments that would not be included in the pro forma financial statements contained in a registration statement filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission that contain pro forma information prepared in accordance with Regulation S-X under the Securities Act of 1933.

Table 1 HISTORICAL SEGMENT INFORMATION (Dollars in millions)

The following is selected, recast segment financial data, reflecting our new segment structure and reporting metrics, for the years ended December 31, 2020 and 2019 and for interim periods of 2021 and 2020.

	2019		2020										2021
	Full		First		Second		Third		Fourth		Full		First		Second		Third
	Year		Quarter		Quarter		Quarter		Quarter		Year		Quarter		Quarter		Quarter
Revenue
United States	$	5,340	$	1,281	$	1,252	$	1,271	$	1,279	$	5,084	$	1,228	$	1,210	$	1,175
Japan		2,929		739		752		770		781		3,042		763		747		730
Principal Markets		7,587		1,779		1,728		1,809		1,871		7,187		1,825		1,842		1,748
Strategic Markets		4,424		1,033		1,005		1,006		996		4,040		955		953		926
Total revenue	$	20,279	$	4,832	$	4,737	$	4,856	$	4,927	$	19,352	$	4,771	$	4,751	$	4,579
Adjusted EBITDA
United States	$	855	$	230	$	159	$	225	$	246	$	859	$	187	$	216	$	196
Japan		757		229		221		222		252		924		232		235		198
Principal Markets		430		(24)		19		20		147		162		(55)		34		—
Strategic Markets		662		59		147		129		51		386		86		129		141
Corporate and other*		(144)		(41)		(34)		(34)		(44)		(153)		(40)		(49)		(37)
Total adjusted EBITDA	$	2,561	$	453	$	513	$	562	$	651	$	2,179	$	410	$	566	$	499

* Represents net amounts not allocated to segments.

Management uses adjusted EBITDA to evaluate our performance. Adjusted EBITDA is a non-GAAP measure and defined as net income (loss) excluding net interest expense, depreciation and amortization (excluding depreciation of right-of-use assets and amortization of capitalized contract costs), pension costs other than pension servicing costs and multi-employer plan costs, early extinguishment of debt charges, workforce rebalancing and restructuring charges, transaction-related and integration-related items, goodwill and long-lived asset impairment charges, foreign currency impacts of highly inflationary countries, significant litigation costs, stock-based compensation expense and income taxes. We believe that adjusted EBITDA is a helpful supplemental measure to assist investors in evaluating our operating results as it excludes certain items whose fluctuation from period to period does not necessarily correspond to changes in the operations of our business. We provide this non-GAAP financial measure as we believe it improves visibility to management decisions and their impacts on operational performance, enables better comparison to peer companies, and allows us to provide a long-term strategic view of the business going forward.

Non-GAAP measures are provided in addition to and not as a substitute for the profit or loss measures reported on a GAAP basis. Other companies may calculate and define similarly labeled items differently, which may limit the usefulness of this measure for comparative purposes.

Table 2 HISTORICAL PRO FORMA SEGMENT INFORMATION (Dollars in millions)

The following is selected, recast pro forma segment financial data, reflecting our new segment structure and reporting metrics, for the year ended December 31, 2020 and for interim periods of 2021 and 2020.

	2020										2021
	First		Second		Third		Fourth		Full		First		Second		Third
	Quarter		Quarter		Quarter		Quarter		Year		Quarter		Quarter		Quarter
Pro forma revenue
United States	$	1,286	$	1,253	$	1,262	$	1,267	$	5,069	$	1,219	$	1,205	$	1,170
Japan		767		780		798		810		3,155		780		765		751
Principal Markets		1,632		1,577		1,681		1,752		6,642		1,704		1,729		1,628
Strategic Markets		1,075		1,052		1,052		1,051		4,230		1,006		1,007		980
Total pro forma revenue	$	4,760	$	4,663	$	4,793	$	4,879	$	19,096	$	4,709	$	4,706	$	4,529
Pro forma adjusted EBITDA
United States	$	302	$	220	$	279	$	320	$	1,121	$	245	$	271	$	259
Japan		264		249		251		290		1,054		266		267		241
Principal Markets		84		114		120		276		593		67		144		120
Strategic Markets		39		124		98		41		302		63		109		133
Corporate and other*		(37)		(38)		(38)		(38)		(153)		(36)		(48)		(39)
Total pro forma adjusted EBITDA	$	650	$	668	$	710	$	889	$	2,917	$	605	$	743	$	714

* Represents net amounts not allocated to segments.

Table 3 RECONCILIATION OF GAAP NET INCOME TO ADJUSTED EBITDA (Dollars in millions)

The following table provides a reconciliation of GAAP net income (loss) to adjusted EBITDA.

	2019		2020										2021
	Full		First		Second		Third		Fourth		Full		First		Second		Third
	Year		Quarter		Quarter		Quarter		Quarter		Year		Quarter		Quarter		Quarter
Net income (loss) (GAAP)	$	(943)	$	(682)	$	(373)	$	(238)	$	(719)	$	(2,011)	$	(494)	$	(393)	$	(692)
Provision for income taxes		364		87		89		68		2		246		91		74		223
Workforce rebalancing charges		159		298		58		(1)		563		918		52		(11)		(1)
Transaction-related costs		—		—		—		—		21		21		55		173		270
Stock-based compensation expense		51		12		16		19		17		64		16		18		20
Interest expense		76		15		16		16		16		63		14		15		17
Depreciation expense		1,469		360		354		366		365		1,445		339		331		335
Amortization expense		1,335		356		346		326		379		1,408		330		350		321
Other adjustments*		50		7		7		6		7		25		7		9		6
Adjusted EBITDA (non-GAAP)	$	2,561	$	453	$	513	$	562	$	651	$	2,179	$	410	$	566	$	499

* Other adjustments represents pension costs other than pension servicing costs and multi-employer plan costs, significant litigation costs and foreign currency impacts of highly inflationary countries.

Table 4 RECONCILIATIONS OF GAAP NET INCOME TO PRO FORMA ADJUSTED EBITDA AND GAAP REVENUE TO PRO FORMA REVENUE (Dollars in millions)

The following table provides reconciliations of GAAP net income (loss) to pro forma adjusted EBITDA and GAAP revenue to pro forma revenue.

	2020										2021
	First		Second		Third		Fourth		Full		First		Second		Third
	Quarter		Quarter		Quarter		Quarter		Year		Quarter		Quarter		Quarter
*Reconciliation of GAAP net income (loss) to pro forma adjusted EBITDA*
Net income (loss) (GAAP)	$	(682)	$	(373)	$	(238)	$	(719)	$	(2,011)	$	(494)	$	(393)	$	(692)
Provision for income taxes		87		89		68		2		246		91		74		223
Workforce rebalancing charges		298		58		(1)		563		918		52		(11)		(1)
Transaction-related costs		—		—		—		21		21		55		173		270
Stock-based compensation expense		12		16		19		17		64		16		18		20
Excess cost allocations from IBM		164		130		102		195		591		154		149		176
Incremental cost to support independence and growth		(94)		(94)		(94)		(94)		(375)		(94)		(94)		(87)
Interest expense		19		19		19		19		77		20		20		20
Depreciation expense		347		342		354		352		1,395		327		318		322
Amortization expense		348		339		318		373		1,379		323		341		311
Pro forma and other adjustments¹		150		142		163		158		613		156		148		149
Pro forma adjusted EBITDA (non-GAAP)	$	650	$	668	$	710	$	889	$	2,917	$	605	$	743	$	714

*Reconciliation of GAAP revenue to pro forma revenue*
Historical revenue (GAAP)	$	4,832	$	4,737	$	4,856	$	4,927	$	19,352	$	4,771	$	4,751	$	4,579
Pro forma adjustments²		(72)		(74)		(62)		(48)		(256)		(63)		(45)		(51)
Pro forma revenue	$	4,760	$	4,663	$	4,793	$	4,879	$	19,096	$	4,709	$	4,706	$	4,528


1.	Pro forma and other adjustments represents effects of commercial arrangements with IBM, pension costs other than pension servicing costs and multi-employer plan costs, significant litigation costs and foreign currency impacts of highly inflationary countries.
2.	Adjustments to exclude certain customer agreements that did not transfer to Kyndryl plus revenue associated with cloud and security contracts transferring to Kyndryl.

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KYNDRYL UPDATES REPORTING SEGMENTS