Segment Information

3 Months Ended

Mar. 31, 2022

Segment Reporting [Abstract]

Segment Information

Segment InformationHowmet is a global leader in lightweight metals engineering and manufacturing. Howmet’s innovative, multi-material products, which include nickel, titanium, aluminum, and cobalt, are used worldwide in the aerospace (commercial and defense), commercial transportation, and industrial and other markets. Segment performance under Howmet’s management reporting system is evaluated based on a number of factors; however, the primary measure of performance is Segment Adjusted EBITDA. Prior to the first quarter of 2022, the Company used Segment operating profit as its primary measure of performance. However, the Company’s Chief Executive Officer believes that Segment Adjusted EBITDA is now a better representation of its business because it provides additional information with respect to the Company’s operating performance and the Company’s ability to meet its financial obligations. Howmet’s definition of Segment Adjusted EBITDA (Earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation, and amortization) is net margin plus an add-back for depreciation and amortization. Net margin is equivalent to

Sales minus the following items: Cost of goods sold; Selling, general administrative, and other expenses; Research and development expenses; and Provision for depreciation and amortization. Special items, including Restructuring and other charges, are also excluded from Net margin and Segment Adjusted EBITDA. Segment Adjusted EBITDA may not be comparable to similarly titled measures of other companies. Differences between the total segment and consolidated totals are in Corporate.

Howmet’s operations consist of four worldwide reportable segments as follows:

Engine Products

Engine Products produces investment castings, including airfoils, and seamless rolled rings primarily for aircraft engines and industrial gas turbines. Engine Products produces rotating parts as well as structural parts.

Fastening Systems

Fastening Systems produces aerospace fastening systems, as well as commercial transportation, industrial and other fasteners. The business’s high-tech, multi-material fastening systems are found nose to tail on aircraft and aero engines. Fastening Systems’ products are also critical components of commercial transportation vehicles, automobiles, construction and industrial equipment, and renewable energy sectors.

Engineered Structures

Engineered Structures produces titanium ingots and mill products for aerospace and defense applications and is vertically integrated to produce titanium forgings, extrusions, forming and machining services for airframe, wing, aero-engine, and landing gear components. Engineered Structures also produces aluminum forgings, nickel forgings, and aluminum machined components and assemblies for aerospace and defense applications.

Forged Wheels

Forged Wheels provides forged aluminum wheels and related products for heavy-duty trucks and the commercial transportation market.

The operating results of the Company’s reportable segments were as follows.

	Engine Products		Fastening Systems		Engineered Structures		Forged Wheels		Total Segment
First quarter ended March 31, 2022
Sales:
Third-party sales	$	631	$	264	$	182	$	247	$	1,324
Inter-segment sales	1		—		1		—		2
Total sales	$	632	$	264	$	183	$	247	$	1,326
Profit and loss:
Provision for depreciation and amortization	31		12		12		10		65
Segment Adjusted EBITDA	173		56		23		67		319
Restructuring and other charges (credits)	3		(3)		2		—		2
Capital expenditures	27		15		7		9		58
First quarter ended March 31, 2021
Sales:
Third-party sales	$	534	$	272	$	176	$	227	$	1,209
Inter-segment sales	1		—		1		—		2
Total sales	$	535	$	272	$	177	$	227	$	1,211
Profit and loss:
Provision for depreciation and amortization	31		12		12		10		65
Segment Adjusted EBITDA	132		57		22		80		291
Restructuring and other charges	5		2		1		—		8
Capital expenditures	11		5		5		9		30

The following table reconciles Total Segment Adjusted EBITDA to Income before income taxes:

	First quarter ended
	March 31,
	2022		2021
Total Segment Adjusted EBITDA	$	319	$	291
Segment provision for depreciation and amortization	(65)		(65)
Unallocated amounts:
Restructuring and other charges	(2)		(9)
Corporate expense	(22)		(28)
Operating income	$	230	$	189
Interest expense, net	(58)		(72)
Other expense, net	(1)		(4)
Income before income taxes	$	171	$	113

Differences between the total segment and consolidated totals are in Corporate. The following table reconciles total segment capital expenditures with Capital expenditures as presented in the Statement of Consolidated Cash Flows.

	First quarter ended
	March 31,
	2022		2021
Total segment capital expenditures	$	58	$	30
Corporate	4		25
Capital expenditures	$	62	$	55

The following table disaggregates segment revenue by major market served. Differences between the total segment and consolidated totals are in Corporate.

	Engine Products		Fastening Systems		Engineered Structures		Forged Wheels		Total Segment
First quarter ended March 31, 2022
Aerospace - Commercial	$	329	$	148	$	109	$	—	$	586
Aerospace - Defense	137		32		57		—		226
Commercial Transportation	—		53		—		247		300
Industrial and Other	165		31		16		—		212
Total end-market revenue	$	631	$	264	$	182	$	247	$	1,324
First quarter ended March 31, 2021
Aerospace - Commercial	$	227	$	148	$	80	$	—	$	455
Aerospace - Defense	151		42		77		—		270
Commercial Transportation	—		46		—		227		273
Industrial and Other	156		36		19		—		211
Total end-market revenue	$	534	$	272	$	176	$	227	$	1,209

The Company derived 61% and 60% of its revenue from the aerospace market for the first quarter ended March 31, 2022 and 2021, respectively.

General Electric Company represented approximately 13% and 11% of the Company’s third-party sales for the first quarter ended March 31, 2022 and 2021, respectively, primarily from Engine Products.