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VSTVistra Corp.

Utilities · Electric Utilities · NYSE

Vistra is an integrated retail electricity and power generation company that provides essential power resources to customers, businesses, and communities from California to Maine. 10-K, Item 1

Employees
6,390
Headquarters
Irving, TX
CEO
James A. Burke
Next results
around Feb 25, 2027
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When the SEC's staff reviews a filing, it writes to the company with numbered questions, and the company answers each one in a letter. SEC publishes the exchange once the review is over, at least 20 business days later. Below: what the staff asked VST, and the company's answer to each question, quoted from the letters. A question is not an accusation; most reviews end with the company adding detail to its next filing.

Form 10-K for the Fiscal Year Ended December 31, 2019

2020-05-19 to 2020-06-02 · 2 questions · 1 letter from the SEC, 1 from the company
Review closed 2020-06-02
SegmentsNon-GAAP measuresLiquidity and cash
Exhibit 99.1 · Financial Highlights, page 1
SEC asked (1)
We refer to your presentation of “Ongoing Operations” financial measures, such as Ongoing Operations Net Income and Operating Cash Flow from Ongoing Operations, and note that they exclude the results of your Asset Closure segment. As these measures appear to meet the definition of non-GAAP financial measures, revise to provide the disclosures required by Item 10(e) of Regulation S-K and Regulation G, as applicable.
Rest of the question

In this regard, ensure that each measure is accompanied by the corresponding GAAP measure with equal or greater prominence. For additional guidance, refer to Question 102.10 of the Non-GAAP Compliance and Disclosure Interpretations.

VST answered
to the Staff’s comments, in applicable future filings, the Company will identify Ongoing Operations Net Income and Operating Cash Flow from

Ongoing Operations as non-GAAP financial measures and will provide the disclosures required by Item 10(e) of Regulation S-K and Regulation G, as applicable, including a reconciliation of each such non-GAAP measure to the comparable GAAP financial measure.
Rest of the answer

The Company will ensure that Ongoing Operations Net Income and Operating Cash Flow from Ongoing Operations are each accompanied by net income and cash provided by operating activities, respectively (as the corresponding GAAP measures), with equal or greater prominence.

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In its next report

First report after the company's reply of 2020-05-29: 10-Q filed 2020-08-05 ↗, against the 10-Q filed 2020-05-05 ↗.

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Exhibit 99.1 · Financial Highlights, page 1
SEC asked (2)
We note that your Asset Closure segment includes various units which have been taken offline and a unit which will be taken offline by the end of 2022. Given that your Asset Closure segment includes assets which may continue to operate into 2022, please tell us how you determined that these operations are not considered to be "Ongoing Operations."
VST answered
The Company would like to clarify that the Asset Closure segment only included plants which have been taken offline and did not include the plant that is scheduled to be taken offline by the end of 2022 (results for this plant were included in the MISO segment and considered as part of Ongoing Operations).
Rest of the answer

Specifically, as noted in Note 4, Retirement of

Generation Facilities, in Part II, Item 8 of the 2019 Form 10-K, “Operational results for retired plants are included in the Asset Closure segment, which is engaged in the decommissioning and reclamation of retired plants and mines.” Therefore, of the five plants identified in the table under the MISO section in Note 4 of the 2019 Form 10-K, (i) results for four plants that were retired in 2019 were included in the Asset Closure segment, while (ii) results for the plant that will be retired by the end of 2022 were included in the MISO segment and were considered to be “Ongoing Operations.” Similarly, in the Form 8-K, results for the four MISO plants that were taken offline in late 2019 were included in the Asset Closure segment (as noted in Footnote 2 on Page 3), while results for the plant that will be retired by the end of 2022 were included in the MISO segment and considered to be “Ongoing Operations.”

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In its next report

First report after the company's reply of 2020-05-29: 10-Q filed 2020-08-05 ↗, against the 10-Q filed 2020-05-05 ↗.

Tickdelta does not hold the text of both reports, so they are not compared here.

Also in this review: closing letter, 2020-06-02

5 other letters: notices that a filing will not be reviewed, requests to declare a registration effective, and the like

From the SEC's correspondence on EDGAR: staff letters (form UPLOAD) and company letters (form CORRESP), 10 letters filed since 2017-04-27. Questions and answers are matched by their numbers; topics come from words in each question. The reports are compared word for word (same form, before the first SEC letter against the first report after the company's reply). No AI.

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