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Item 2.02. Results of Operations and Financial Condition.
To supplement the financial measures prepared in accordance with generally accepted accounting principles in the U.S. ("GAAP"), Element Solutions has provided the following non-GAAP financial measures: EBITDA, adjusted EBITDA, adjusted EBITDA margin, adjusted earnings per share (EPS), adjusted common shares outstanding, free cash flow, net debt to adjusted EBITDA ratio, organic net sales growth, first quarter 2023 guidance for adjusted EBITDA growth relative to the fourth quarter of 2022, and full year 2023 guidance for
constant currency adjusted EBITDA and adjusted EBITDA growth, adjusted EPS and free cash flow. Element Solutions also evaluates and presents its results of operations on a constant currency basis. Investors are encouraged to refer to the Non-GAAP Measures section in the press release for definitions and reconciliations of these non-GAAP measures.
The information in this Item 2.02 of this Current Report on Form 8-K and Exhibit 99.1 attached hereto shall not be deemed to be "filed" for purposes of Section 18 of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended, or otherwise subject to the liabilities of that section, and shall not be incorporated by reference into any filing of Element Solutions, whether made before or after the date hereof, regardless of any general incorporation
language in such filing, unless expressly incorporated by specific reference to such filing.
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SIGNATURE
Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, the
Registrant has duly caused this report to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned hereunto duly authorized.