Excelerate Energy Raises FY 2025 Guidance and Reports Jamaica Acquisition Pro Forma Financial Results

Business Wire

29-07-2025

THE WOODLANDS, Texas--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Excelerate Energy, Inc. (NYSE: EE) (the 'Company' or 'Excelerate') today raised its full year 2025 Adjusted EBITDA guidance range and filed a Form 8-K/A with pro forma financial results related to the acquisition of New Fortress Energy Inc.'s ('Seller') business in Jamaica.
KEY HIGHLIGHTS
Excelerate closed its acquisition of the integrated LNG and power platform in Jamaica in May 2025 (the 'Jamaica Acquisition')
Following the closing of the Jamaica Acquisition, the Company now expects full year 2025 Adjusted EBITDA guidance to range between $420 million and $440 million
The Company has filed a Form 8-K/A with pro forma financial information that incorporates the Seller's historical results from its Jamaica operations
The pro forma financial results include certain cost allocations to the Jamaica business based on assumptions and methodologies specific to the Seller
After removing these Seller-specific cost allocations, pro forma Adjusted EBITDA for both the three-month period ended March 31, 2025 and the full year ended 2024 are aligned with Excelerate management expectations
A slide presentation with a reconciliation of the pro forma financial results and updated full year 2025 Adjusted EBITDA guidance range is available on the Company's IR website
CEO COMMENT
'Our recent acquisition in Jamaica marks a significant milestone in Excelerate's strategic vision to become a provider of critical last-mile energy infrastructure,' said Steven Kobos, President and CEO of Excelerate. 'We are pleased to raise our full year 2025 Adjusted EBITDA guidance and report that integration is proceeding as planned with the platform meeting or exceeding our targets for reliability and operational performance.'
ABOUT EXCELERATE ENERGY
Excelerate Energy, Inc. is a U.S.-based LNG company located in The Woodlands, Texas. Excelerate is changing the way the world accesses cleaner forms of energy by providing integrated services along the LNG-to-power value chain with an objective of delivering rapid-to-market and reliable LNG solutions to customers. The Company offers a full range of flexible regasification services from floating LNG terminals to infrastructure development to LNG supply and power generation. Excelerate has a presence in Abu Dhabi, Antwerp, Boston, Buenos Aires, Chattogram, Dhaka, Doha, Dubai, Hanoi, Helsinki, Jamaica, London, Rio de Janeiro, Singapore, and Washington, DC. For more information, please visit www.excelerateenergy.com.
USE OF NON-GAAP FINANCIAL MEASURES
The Company reports financial results in accordance with accounting principles generally accepted in the United States ('GAAP'). Included in this press release is Adjusted EBITDA, which is not calculated in accordance with GAAP. This measure is designed to supplement, and not substitute, Excelerate's financial information presented in accordance with GAAP. This non-GAAP measure as defined by Excelerate may not be comparable to similar non-GAAP measures presented by other companies. The presentation of such measure, which may include adjustments to exclude non-recurring items, should not be construed as an inference that Excelerate's future results, cash flows or leverage will be unaffected by other non-recurring items. Management believes that the following non-GAAP financial measure provides investors with additional useful information in evaluating the Company's performance and valuation. The Company has not reconciled its Adjusted EBITDA guidance to net income, the most comparable GAAP measure, because it is not possible to estimate, without unreasonable effort, the Company's income taxes with the level of required precision. Accordingly, the Company has reconciled this non-GAAP measure to its estimated income before taxes in the section titled 'Non-GAAP Reconciliation (Unaudited)' below.
Adjusted EBITDA
Adjusted EBITDA is a non-GAAP financial measure included as a supplemental disclosure because we believe it is a useful indicator of our operating performance. The Company defines Adjusted EBITDA as net income before interest expense, income taxes, depreciation and amortization, accretion, non-cash long-term incentive compensation expense and items such as charges and non-recurring expenses that management does not consider as part of assessing ongoing operating performance.
The Company adjusts net income for the items listed above to arrive at Adjusted EBITDA because these amounts can vary substantially from company to company within our industry depending upon accounting methods and book values of assets, capital structures and the method by which the assets were acquired. Adjusted EBITDA should not be considered as an alternative to, or more meaningful than, net income as determined in accordance with GAAP or as an indicator of our operating performance or liquidity. This measure has limitations as certain excluded items are significant components in understanding and assessing a company's financial performance, such as a company's cost of capital and tax structure, as well as the historic costs of depreciable assets, none of which are components of Adjusted EBITDA. The Company's presentation of Adjusted EBITDA should not be construed as an inference that our results will be unaffected by unusual or non-recurring items. The Company's computations of Adjusted EBITDA may not be comparable to other similarly titled measures of other companies. For the foregoing reasons, Adjusted EBITDA has significant limitations which affect its use as an indicator of our profitability and valuation, and you are cautioned not to place undue reliance on this information.
FORWARD-LOOKING STATEMENTS
This press release contains forward-looking statements, within the meaning of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995 as contained in Section 27A of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, and Section 21E of the Exchange Act of 1934, as amended, about Excelerate and our industry that involve substantial risks and uncertainties. All statements other than statements of historical fact contained in this press release, including, without limitation, statements regarding: the ongoing integration of our recent acquisition in Jamaica; our ability to realize the anticipated benefits of such acquisition; and our multi-levered growth plan. In some cases, you can identify forward-looking statements by terminology such as 'anticipate,' 'believe,' 'consider,' 'contemplate,' 'continue,' 'could,' 'estimate,' 'expect,' 'intend,' 'may,' 'opportunity,' 'plan,' 'potential,' 'predict,' 'project,' 'shall,' 'should,' 'target,' 'will,' or 'would,' or the negative of these words or other similar terms or expressions. You should not rely on forward-looking statements as predictions of future events. We have based the forward-looking statements contained in this press release primarily on our current expectations and projections about future events and trends that we believe may affect our business, financial condition and operating results. The outcome of the events described in these forward-looking statements is subject to risks, uncertainties and other factors, including, but not limited to, the following: our ability to successfully complete the integration of the recent acquisition in Jamaica; our ability to manage the risks of such acquisition; unplanned issues, including time delays, unforeseen expenses, cost inflation, materials or labor shortages, which could result in delayed receipt of payment or existing or anticipated project cancellations; the competitive market for liquefied natural gas ('LNG') regasification services; changes in the supply of and demand for and price of LNG and natural gas and LNG regasification capacity; and those detailed in Excelerate's most recent Annual Report on Form 10-K and other filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission. Readers are cautioned not to place undue reliance on forward-looking statements, which speak only as of the date hereof. All forward-looking statements expressed or implied, included in this press release and any oral statements made in connection with this press release are expressly qualified in their entirety by the foregoing cautionary statements. Excelerate undertakes no obligation to update or revise any forward-looking statement, whether as a result of new information, future developments or otherwise, except as may be required by law.
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Adjusted EBITDA guidance reflects the anticipated contribution from the Jamaica Acquisition from May 14, 2025 through December 31, 2025.
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