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May 13, 2024
Jonathan Banas
Chief Financial Officer
Cooper-Standard Holdings Inc.
40300 Traditions Drive
Northville, Michigan 48168
Re: Cooper-Standard
Holdings Inc.
Form 10-K for the
Year Ended December 31, 2023
Filed February 16,
2024
File No. 001-36127
Dear Jonathan Banas:
We have limited our review of your filing to the financial
statements and related
disclosures and have the following comments.
Please respond to this letter within ten business days by
providing the requested
information or advise us as soon as possible when you will respond. If
you do not believe a
comment applies to your facts and circumstances, please tell us why in
your response.
After reviewing your
response to this letter, we may have additional comments.
Form 10-K for the Year Ended December 31, 2023
Management's Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results
of Operations
Segment Results of Operations , page 33
1. We note that your
discussion of changes in sales and Adjusted EBITDA by segment
includes columns
reflecting the amount of variances due to volume/mix, foreign
exchange, divestitures
and cost (increases) decreases. Please revise future filings to more
clearly explain each
type of underlying factor as it affects each segment and quantify
when there is more than
one reason (or offsetting reasons) for the change. For example,
the cost (increases)
decreases column includes some positive variances and some negative
variances for the
segments, but your disclosure only includes bullet points disclosing
general factors that
caused the changes without quantifying or attributing those factors to
specific segments.
Please revise future filings accordingly.
Jonathan Banas
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Note 21. Business Segments, page 85
2. We note that you have included a line item titled Corporate,
eliminations and other as a
reconciling item between the total of the reportable segments revenue
and consolidated
revenue and segment Adjusted EBITDA amounts and consolidated Adjusted
EBTIDA. It
also appears from your disclosures that this amount may include
revenue and expenses
from other business activities and operating segments that are not
reportable. Please note
that under the guidance in ASC 280-10-50-15, these amounts should be
included in an all
other category and should be separate from other reconciling items
(i.e. corporate costs
or intercompany eliminations) in the reconciliations required by
paragraphs ASC 280-10-
50-30 through 50-31. The sources of revenue in this all other
category should also be
described. Please revise accordingly.
3. We note that in your reconciliation of the reportable segment measure
of profit or loss
(Adjusted EBITDA) to consolidated Net loss attributable to
Cooper-Standard Holdings
Inc. , you begin the reconciliation with an Adjusted EBITDA measure
that includes
amounts for Corporate, eliminations and other. Please note that
the reconciliation
should begin with a total of the Adjusted EBITDA for reportable
segments only and then
include the applicable adjustments to arrive at a consolidated Net
loss attributable to
Cooper-Standard Holdings Inc.. Please revise all reconciliations
accordingly including
total of reportable segments revenue to consolidated revenue and
total of the reportable
segments assets to consolidated assets. All significant reconciling
items should be
separately identified and described. See guidance in ASC 280-10-50-30
and 50-31. Also,
in this regard we note that you have included a line item in your
reconciliation for a
consolidated EBITDA amount. Please note that as this does not appear
to be a segment
measure of profitability, it would be considered a non-GAAP financial
measure and
should not be disclosed in the notes to the financial statements in
accordance with Item
10(e)(1)(ii)(C). Please revise future filings accordingly.
In closing, we remind you that the company and its management are
responsible for the
accuracy and adequacy of their disclosures, notwithstanding any review,
comments, action or
absence of action by the staff.
Please contact Eiko Yaoita Pyles at 202-551-3587 or Claire Erlanger at
202-551-3301
with any questions.
Sincerely,
Division of
Corporation Finance
Office of
Manufacturing