Hallador Energy (HNRG) Q4 2025 Earnings Transcript

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Sat, March 14, 2026 astatine 7:28 AM CDT 23 min read

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Thursday, March 12, 2026, astatine 5 p.m. ET

• Chief Executive Officer — Brent Bilsland

• Chief Financial Officer — Todd Telesz

Brent Bilsland: Everyone, for joining america this afternoon. Hallador Energy Company delivered beardown fiscal show successful 2025 arsenic we continued advancing our translation into a vertically integrated autarkic powerfulness producer. For the afloat year, full gross accrued 16% twelvemonth implicit twelvemonth to $469,500,000. Net income improved materially to $41,900,000. Adjusted EBITDA accrued astir threefold to $56,000,000. And operating currency travel accrued 23% to $81,100,000. These results bespeak some improving powerfulness marketplace conditions and the operating leverage embedded successful our concern model. Electric income were the superior operator of gross maturation during the year, expanding astir 19% to $310,700,000 compared to 2024.

Coal income besides accrued 8% twelvemonth implicit twelvemonth to $148,700,000 arsenic Sunrise Coal continued to enactment some interior substance needs astatine Merum and third-party customers. Together, these segments item the advantages of our integrated level wherever our ember operations supply a secure, price-certain substance proviso for our procreation assets portion besides allowing america to enactment opportunistically successful third-party ember markets. Operationally, our Merum powerfulness works performed good done astir of the year. In the 4th quarter, however, we experienced operational challenges which continued into Q1 and reduced availability of the units. Due to this availability issue, we present expect consolidated 2026 results to beryllium akin to 2025.

Maintaining precocious levels of reliability remains a apical precedence for our team, peculiarly arsenic MISO progressively depends connected dispatchable resources during periods of highest demand, which is highest successful the summer. As such, the generating units successful question volition person a large attraction outage opening successful May which, erstwhile complete, should importantly amended performance. Sunrise Coal besides delivered accordant show passim the year; accumulation optimization initiatives and disciplined outgo absorption helped amended the operating show crossed the mining complex. As portion of our vertically integrated platform, Sunrise Coal provides a reliable substance instauration for our procreation assets portion helping optimize our wide outgo structure.

Across the broader selling environment, we proceed to spot beardown request for reliable dispatchable procreation crossed the MISO region. Electricity request maturation combined with the anterior status of dispatchable assets is tightening proviso conditions crossed the system, expanding the worth of accredited capableness arsenic utilities and load-serving entities effort to unafraid reliable resources passim the Midwest. Against that backdrop, we person made advancement towards selling vigor and capableness astatine elevated prices. We person besides precocious received further competitory offers to get our accredited capableness for implicit a decennary successful length. We are excited by what we are seeing successful the market. The institution is successful a strong, agelong accredited capableness position, which appears to beryllium getting amended with time.