Disposed and Discontinued Operations

12 Months Ended

Dec. 31, 2020

Discontinued Operations and Disposal Groups [Abstract]

5. Discontinued and Disposed Operations

Discontinued Operations

The Apergy businesses, as discussed in Note 2, met the criteria to be reported as discontinued operations because the spin-off is a strategic shift in business that has a major effect on the Company's operations and financial results. Therefore, the results of discontinued operations for the year ended December 31, 2018 include the historical results of Apergy prior to its distribution on May 9, 2018. The year ended December 31, 2018 included costs incurred by Dover to complete the spin-off of Apergy amounting to $46,384 reflected in selling, general and administrative expenses in discontinued operations. Due to lump-sum payments made in 2018 for Apergy participants of the Dover U.S. Pension Plan, non-cash settlement and curtailment costs of approximately $9,200 were classified within discontinuing operations. See Note 2 — Spin-off of Apergy Corporation and Note 18 — Employee Benefit Plans for further information.

Summarized results of the Company's discontinued operations are as follows:


	Year Ended December 31,
		2018
Revenue		$	403,688
Cost of goods and services		254,205
Gross profit		149,483
Selling, general and administrative expenses		147,261
Operating earnings		2,222
Other expense, net		9,048
Loss from discontinued operations before taxes		(6,826)
Provision for income taxes		14,052
Loss from discontinued operations, net of tax		$	(20,878)

On May 9, 2018, all assets and liabilities of Apergy were spun-off. Therefore, as of December 31, 2020 and December 31, 2019, there were no assets and liabilities classified as discontinued operations.

Disposed Businesses

Management evaluates Dover's businesses periodically for their strategic fit within its operations and may from time to time sell or discontinue certain operations for various reasons.

2020

On March 6, 2020, the Company completed the sale of the Chino, California branch of The AMS Group ("AMS Chino"), a wholly owned subsidiary of the Company. The Company recognized total consideration of $15,400, which included a working capital adjustment. This sale resulted in a pre-tax gain on sale of $5,213 included within the Condensed Consolidated Statements of Earnings and within the Refrigeration & Food Equipment Segment for the year ended December 31, 2020. The sale does not represent a strategic shift that will have a major effect on operations and financial results and, therefore, did not qualify for presentation as a discontinued operation.

2019

On March 29, 2019, the Company entered into a definitive agreement to sell Finder Pompe S.r.l ("Finder"), a wholly owned subsidiary, to Gruppo Aturia S.p.A (“Aturia”). As of March 31, 2019, Finder met the criteria to be classified as held for sale. The Company classified Finder's assets and liabilities separately on the consolidated balance sheet as of March 31, 2019.

Based on the total consideration from the sale, net of selling costs, the Company recorded a loss on the assets held for sale of $46,946 in the Condensed Consolidated Statements of Earnings during the three months ended March 31, 2019. The loss was comprised of an impairment on assets held for sale of $21,607 and $25,339 of foreign currency translation losses reclassified out of accumulated other comprehensive losses.

On April 2, 2019, Dover completed the sale of Finder to Aturia, which generated total cash proceeds of $24,218. The Finder business was included in the results of the Pumps & Process Solutions segment. The sale does not represent a strategic shift that will have a major effect on operations and financial results and, therefore, did not qualify for presentation as a discontinued operation.

2018

There were no other material dispositions in 2018 aside from the spin-off of Apergy.