Hedging Activities

12 Months Ended

Dec. 31, 2023

Derivative Instruments and Hedging Activities Disclosure [Abstract]

The Company’s ongoing business operations expose it to various risks, including fluctuating foreign exchange rates and interest rate risk. To manage these risks, the Company periodically enters into derivative financial instruments, such as foreign exchange forward contracts and interest rate swap agreements. The Company does not hold or enter into financial instruments for trading or speculative purposes.

Foreign Exchange Forward Contracts

A significant portion of the Company’s revenues and earnings are generated by its foreign operations. These foreign operations also represent a significant portion of the Company’s assets and liabilities. Generally, these foreign operations have the local currency as their functional currency and many have transactions in currencies other than their functional currency, which creates foreign exchange risk. The Company uses foreign exchange forward contracts to economically hedge the impact of the variability in exchange rates on certain monetary assets and liabilities denominated in certain foreign currencies. These forward contracts are marked-to-market at each reporting date. Changes in the fair value of the underlying instrument and settlements are recognized in earnings in Other non-operating income, net. The fair value of the forward contract is determined from sources independent of the Company, including the financial institutions which are party to the derivative instruments.

All open foreign exchange forward contracts as of December 31, 2023 were entered into as hedges against the U.S. dollar. As of December 31, 2023, the Company had open foreign exchange forward contracts with a notional U.S. dollar value of the following:


Currency	December 31, 2023
Mexican Peso	$	16,700
Japanese Yen	9,000
Total	$	25,700

Open foreign exchange forward contracts as of December 31, 2023 had maturities occurring over a period of one month.

Interest Rate Swaps

In order to manage the Company’s exposure to variable interest rate risk associated with the Credit Facility, such as the Secured Overnight Financing Rate (“SOFR”), in the first quarter of 2023, the Company entered into $300.0 million notional amounts of three year interest rate swaps to convert a portion of the Company’s variable rate borrowings into a fixed rate obligation. See Note 19 for additional information.

These interest rate swaps are designated as cash flow hedges and, as such, the contracts are marked-to-market at each reporting date and any unrealized gains or losses are included in AOCI to the extent effective and reclassified to interest expense in the period during which the transaction affects earnings or it becomes probable that the forecasted transaction will not occur. Interest rate swaps are entered into with a limited number of counterparties within several tranches, each of which allows for net settlement of all contracts through a single payment to participating counterparties in a single currency in the event of a default or termination of any one contract. As such, in accordance with the Company’s accounting policy, these derivative instruments are recorded on a net basis within the Consolidated Balance Sheets.

Prior to expiration in October 2022, the interest rate swaps associated with the Original Credit Facility were entered into with a limited number of counterparties, each of which allowed for net settlement of all contracts through a single payment in a single currency in the event of a default or termination of any one contract. As such, in accordance with the Company’s accounting policy, these derivative instruments were recorded on a net basis within the Consolidated Balance Sheets.

The fair value of the Company’s interest rate swaps and forward exchange contracts is determined from sources independent of the Company, including the financial institutions which are party to the derivative instruments, using standard pricing models that consider the value of future cash flows as of the balance sheet date, discounted to a present value using discount factors that match both the time to maturity and currency of the underlying instruments. These standard pricing models utilize inputs that are derived from or corroborated by observable market data such as interest rate yield curves as well as currency spot and forward rates; therefore, the fair value of our derivatives is classified as a Level 2 measurement. The balance sheet classification and fair values of the Company’s derivative instruments are as follows:


Derivative instruments	Consolidated Balance Sheet Location	December 31,
		2023		2022
Interest rate swaps	Other non-current assets	$	1,828	$	—

Foreign currency forward contracts	Other accrued liabilities	(159)		—

The following table presents the net unrealized loss deferred to AOCI:


		December 31,
		2023		2022
Derivatives designated as cash flow hedges
Interest rate swaps	AOCI	$	1,407	$	—

The following table presents the net gain recognized in the Company’s Consolidated Statements of Operations for the years ended December 31, 2023, 2022 and 2021:


Derivative instruments	Consolidated Statement of Operations Location	2023		2022		2021
Interest rate swaps	Interest expense, net	$	3,555	$	—	$	2,649
Foreign exchange forward contracts	Other income, net	2,134		—		—
Total		$	5,689	$	—	$	2,649