Summary of Significant Accounting Policies

3 Months Ended

Mar. 31, 2021

Summary of Significant Accounting Policies

2. Summary of Significant Accounting Policies

Basis of Presentation — Interim Financial Statements

Certain information and footnote disclosures normally included in financial statements prepared in accordance with accounting principles generally accepted in the United States (“U.S. GAAP”) have been condensed or omitted pursuant to such rules and regulations. These statements include all adjustments (consisting of normal recurring adjustments) management believes are necessary to fairly state the results of operations, comprehensive income, financial position, changes in shareholders’ equity, and cash flows. The Company’s management believes the disclosures are adequate to make the information presented not misleading when read in conjunction with the audited consolidated financial statements and the notes thereto included in its Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2020, which was filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on February 24, 2021. Operating results for the three months ended March 31, 2021 are not necessarily indicative of the results that may be expected for the year ending December 31, 2021. There are many uncertainties related to the COVID-19 global pandemic that could negatively affect the Company's results of operations, financial position, and cash flows.

Beginning in the first quarter of 2021, the Company made a change to its operating segments. This change consisted of moving a reporting unit within the Powertrain segment to the Ride Performance segment to align with a change in how the Chief Operating Decision Maker (“CODM”) allocates resources and assesses performance against the Company's key growth strategies. In addition, with this change to its segments, Ride Performance was renamed Performance Solutions. As such, prior period operating segment results and related disclosures have been conformed to reflect the Company's current operating segments.

Reclassifications

Certain amounts in the prior period have been aggregated or disaggregated to conform to current year presentation, as described above for the change in operating segments.

Redeemable noncontrolling interests

The Company has noncontrolling interests with redemption features. These redemption features could require the Company to make an offer to purchase the noncontrolling interests in the event of a change in control of Tenneco Inc. or certain of its subsidiaries or the passage of time.

At March 31, 2021 and December 31, 2020, the Company held redeemable noncontrolling interests of $51 million and $45 million which were not currently redeemable or probable of becoming redeemable. The redemption of these redeemable noncontrolling interests is not solely within the Company’s control, therefore, they are presented in the temporary equity section of the Company’s condensed consolidated balance sheets. The Company does not believe it is probable the redemption features related to these noncontrolling interest securities will be triggered, as a change in control event is generally not probable until it occurs. As such, these noncontrolling interests have not been remeasured to redemption value.

In addition, at March 31, 2021 and December 31, 2020, the Company held a redeemable noncontrolling interest of $36 million and $33 million which was probable of becoming redeemable. This noncontrolling interest is also presented in the temporary equity section of the Company’s condensed consolidated balance sheets and has been remeasured to its redemption value. The Company immediately recognizes changes to redemption value as a component of “Net income (loss) attributable to noncontrolling interests” in the condensed consolidated statements of income (loss). This redeemable noncontrolling interest represents a 9.5% ownership interest in Öhlins Intressenter AB (the “KÖ Interest”) retained by K Öhlin Holding AB (“Köhlin”), as a result of the Öhlins acquisition on January 10, 2019. Köhlin has an irrevocable right at any time after the third anniversary of the Öhlins acquisition to sell the KÖ Interest to the Company. During the three months ended March 31, 2021 and 2020, the Company recognized an increase of $5 million and $15 million to the carrying value of this noncontrolling interest.

During the first quarter of 2020, the Company completed the process to make a tender offer of the shares it did not own for a subsidiary in India acquired by the Company as part of the Federal-Mogul acquisition on October 1, 2018, in accordance with local regulations. As a result of completing the tender offer, the redeemable noncontrolling interest was no longer redeemable or probable of becoming redeemable and the amount of $82 million was reclassified to permanent equity during the three months ended March 31, 2020. Refer to Note 17, “Related Party Transactions”, for additional information related to the tender offer of this noncontrolling interest.

The following is a rollforward of activities in the Company’s redeemable noncontrolling interests:


	Three Months Ended March 31,
	2021		2020
Balance at beginning of period	$	78	$	196
Net income (loss) attributable to redeemable noncontrolling interests	7		(4)
Other comprehensive income (loss)	(3)		(7)

Noncontrolling interest tender offer redemption	—		(46)
Redemption value measurement adjustment	5		15

Reclassification of noncontrolling interest to permanent equity	—		(82)

Balance at end of period	$	87	$	72

Earnings (loss) per share

Basic earnings (loss) per share is calculated by dividing net earnings (loss) by the weighted average shares outstanding during the period. Diluted earnings (loss) per share reflects the weighted average effect of all potentially dilutive securities from the date of issuance. Actual weighted average shares outstanding used in calculating earnings (loss) per share were as follows:


	Three Months Ended March 31,
	2021	2020
Weighted average shares of common stock outstanding	81,953,133	81,168,562
Effect of dilutive securities:
PSUs and RSUs	570,996	—
Dilutive shares outstanding	82,524,129	81,168,562

For the three months ended March 31, 2021 and 2020, the calculation of diluted earnings (loss) per share excluded 2,075,446 and 1,610,556 of share-based awards, as the effect on the calculation would have been anti-dilutive.