DENVER, Nov. 6, 2017 /PRNewswire/ -- Hallador Energy
Company (NASDAQ: HNRG) reports financial and operating results for
the quarter ended September 30, 2017.
Hallador will file its Form 10-Q before the markets open on
Tuesday, November 7, 2017.
Highlights include:
- Total revenues were $74.5 million
in the 2017 Quarter compared to $65.8
million for the quarter ended September 30, 2016.
- Revenue increased 13% year over year for the quarter due to
increased sales volumes despite expected lower average price per
ton.
- Bank debt was reduced to $211
million in the quarter, a reduction of $14.8 million.
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- Reducing the Debt to EBITDA covenant to 2.42X.
- Net income was $3.9 million,
$.13 per share for the quarter.
- Adjusted EBITDA for the 3rd quarter was $21.2 million.
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- Defined as EBITDA plus stock-based compensation plus ARO
accretion.
- Cash from operating activities was $23.9
million for the quarter.
- Adjusted free cash flow was $15.3
million for the quarter.
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- Defined as net income plus deferred income taxes, DD&A, ARO
accretion, and stock compensation, less maintenance capex.
- Sunrise Coal, LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Hallador Energy
(HNRG), announces construction of the Princeton Loop, a truck to
rail coal loading facility that will be located 6 miles west of
Princeton, Indiana, on Highway
64. The facility will include the ability to unload trucks,
blend coals, load 135 car unit trains in four hours and store over
4 million tons of coal. The new facility will primarily serve
utility coal plants served by Norfolk Southern Railway Company once
the rail facility is completed in the spring of 2018.
Hallador's President and CEO, Brent
Bilsland, stated "We are excited about the development of
the Princeton Loop as it enables Sunrise's low cost production to
access substantial new markets and better serve our
customers."
EBITDA, adjusted EBITDA, and adjusted free cash flow should not
be considered alternatives to net income, income from operations,
cash flows from operating activities or any other measure of
financial performance presented in accordance with GAAP. Our
method of computing EBITDA, adjusted EBITDA and adjusted free cash
flow may not be the same method used to compute similar measures
reported by other companies.
Management believes that the presentation of such additional
financial measures provides useful information to investors
regarding our performance and results of operations because these
measures, when used in conjunction with related GAAP financial
measures, (i) provide additional information about our core
operating performance and ability to generate and distribute cash
flow, (ii) provide investors with the financial and analytical
framework upon which management bases financial, operation,
compensation and planning decisions and (iii) present measurements
that investors, rating agencies and debt holders have indicated are
useful in assessing our results.
Conference Call
As previously announced our earnings conference call for
financial analysts and investors will be held on Tuesday, November 7, 2017, at 2:00pm EST. Dial-in numbers for the live
conference call are as follows:
Toll-free (888) 347-5317
Canadian Callers Toll-free (855)
669-9657
Conference ID #: Hallador Energy
Company HNRG Call
An audio replay of the conference call will be available for
approximately one week. To access the audio replay, dial US
Toll-Free (877) 344-7529; Canada Toll-Free (855) 669-9658 and
request to be connected to replay access code 10113629.
Hallador is headquartered in Denver,
Colorado and through its wholly owned subsidiary, Sunrise
Coal, LLC, produces coal in the Illinois Basin for the electric power
generation industry. To learn more about Hallador or Sunrise, visit
our websites at www.halladorenergy.com or www.sunrisecoal.com.
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