Solid third quarter results; Raises full-year adjusted EBITDA and EPS outlook

MGP Ingredients, Inc. (Nasdaq: MGPI), a leading provider of branded and distilled spirits and food ingredient solutions, today reported results for the third quarter ended September 30, 2025.

“Our third quarter results demonstrate the resilience of our business and our team’s ability to continue to deliver against our key initiatives amid ongoing industry headwinds,” said Julie Francis, president and CEO. “Our premium plus brands again delivered solid growth and our brown goods decline came in slightly better than anticipated. In our Ingredient Solutions segment, operational execution was below expectations, and we are taking decisive actions to address those challenges. These efforts, along with the continued focus and commitment of our team, supported solid third quarter results, and we believe they position MGP for sustained long-term value creation.”

She added, “Given our year-to-date performance, we are updating our full year adjusted EBITDA and adjusted EPS guidance to a range of $110 million to $115 million and $2.60 to $2.75, respectively, and tightening our full-year sales guidance to a range of $525 million to $535 million.”

2025 third quarter financial highlights compared to 2024 third quarter:

• Consolidated sales decreased 19% to $130.9 million.
• Consolidated gross profit decreased 25% to $49.4 million. Gross margin decreased by 300 basis points to 37.8%.
• Net income decreased 35% to $15.4 million. On an adjusted basis, net income decreased 36% to $18.5 million. Basic earnings per common share (“EPS”) decreased to $0.71 per share from $1.07 per share. Adjusted basic EPS decreased 34% to $0.85 per share.
• Adjusted EBITDA decreased 29% to $32.3 million.
• Year-to-date operating cash flows increased 26% to $92.5 million compared to the prior-year period as we continue to prioritize strong cash generation by managing our working capital, including barrel inventory put-away.
• Year-to-date capital expenditures declined 42% to $25.4 million compared to the year-ago period.
• Net debt leverage ratio stands at approximately 1.8x as of September 30, 2025.

Consolidated Results

Third quarter 2025 consolidated sales decreased by 19% compared to the prior-year period primarily due to the expected declines in our brown goods sales. The lower brown goods volume also pressured profitability, leading to a 25% decline in third quarter consolidated gross profit. Operating income decreased to $21.0 million primarily due to lower gross profit. Adjusted operating income decreased to $25.0 million reflecting lower gross profit.

Third quarter advertising and promotion expenses decreased 31% to $6.7 million as we continued to realign our spend behind our most attractive growth opportunities. Branded Spirits advertising and promotion spend of $6.3 million was approximately 10% of Branded Spirits segment sales in the third quarter.

Branded Spirits

Branded Spirits segment sales decreased 3% to $60.7 million compared to the prior-year quarter. Our premium plus sales increased by 3% delivering another quarter of solid growth, as our targeted focus on our most attractive growth opportunities continues to take hold. Within this portfolio, Penelope Bourbon maintained its strong growth trajectory with another quarter of best-in-class growth among top selling premium plus American whiskey brands. As expected, sales of our mid and value priced portfolios, combined, declined by 7% due to lower volumes of certain cordial and tequila brands. Branded Spirits gross margin increased by 120 basis points to 53.0%, while gross profit moderated slightly to $32.2 million.

Distilling Solutions

Distilling Solutions segment sales decreased by 43% to $40.9 million compared to the prior-year quarter, as customer demand for brown goods remained constrained amid elevated industry-wide barrel inventories. Segment profitability also declined, with gross profit down 50% to $14.2 million, or 34.7% of segment sales.

As anticipated, several of our large strategic customers completed their existing contracts and expressed the need to temporarily pause their near-term whiskey purchases as they rebalance their inventories. Our teams remain closely engaged with these customers to align on their future brown goods needs, new product innovation, and opportunities in adjacent categories.

Ingredient Solutions

Ingredient Solutions segment sales increased by 9% to $29.3 million compared to the prior-year quarter, primarily driven by higher sales of both specialty and commodity wheat proteins as the conversion of new domestic customers continued during the quarter.

Segment gross profit decreased to $3.0 million, or 10.3% of segment sales, as the benefit of higher sales volumes was offset by higher waste starch disposal costs, elevated costs related to the commercialization of a new large textured protein customer, and operating inefficiencies resulting from the unanticipated outage of a key piece of equipment. We remain focused on improving operational consistency through continued investment in our Atchison facility designed to enhance manufacturing reliability and mitigate disposal costs.

2025 Financial Outlook

MGP provided updated consolidated guidance for fiscal 2025:

Conference Call and Webcast Information

MGP Ingredients will host a conference call today, October 29, 2025, at 10 a.m. ET to discuss these results and current business trends. Investors can dial 844-308-6398 or 412-717-9605 (international) to listen to the live call. A live webcast will be available at the “News and Events” section of the company’s Investor Relations website at ir.mgpingredients.com/news-events. A replay of the conference call will be available on the company’s website.

About MGP Ingredients, Inc.

MGP Ingredients Inc. (Nasdaq: MGPI) has been formulating excellence since 1941 by bringing product ideas to life across the alcoholic beverage and specialty ingredient industries through three segments: Branded Spirits, Distilling Solutions, and Ingredient Solutions. MGPI is one of the leading spirits distillers with an award-winning portfolio of premium brands including Penelope, Rebel, Remus, and Yellowstone bourbons and El Mayor tequila, under the Luxco umbrella. With distilleries in Indiana and Kentucky; a tequila distillery in Arandas, Mexico; and bottling operations in Missouri, Ohio, and Northern Ireland, the company creates distilled spirits for customers including many world-renowned spirits brands. In addition, the company’s high-quality specialty fiber, protein, and starch ingredients provide functional, nutritional, and sensory solutions for a wide range of food products. To learn more visit MGPIngredients.com.

Cautionary Note Regarding Forward-Looking Statements

This press release may contain forward-looking statements within the meaning of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995, including without limitation statements about the ability of MGP Ingredients, Inc. (the “Company” or “MGP”) to address operational execution, position the Company for value creation, improve consistency, enhance reliability, and mitigate costs; and the Company’s 2025 outlook, including its expectations for sales, adjusted EBITDA, adjusted basic EPS, tax rate, shares outstanding, and capital expenditures. Forward looking statements are usually identified by or are associated with words such as “intend,” “plan,” “believe,” “estimate,” “expect,” “anticipate,” “project,” “forecast,” “hopeful,” “should,” “may,” “will,” “could,” “encouraged,” “opportunities,” “potential,” and similar terminology. These forward-looking statements reflect management’s current beliefs and estimates of future economic circumstances, industry conditions, Company performance, Company financial results, and Company financial condition and are not guarantees of future performance.

All forward-looking statements are subject to risks and uncertainties that could cause actual results to differ materially. Factors that could cause actual results to differ materially from our expectations include without limitation any effects of changes in consumer preferences and purchases and our ability to anticipate or react to those changes; our ability to compete effectively and any effects of industry dynamics and market conditions; damage to our reputation or that of any of our key customers or their brands; failure to introduce successful new brands and products or have effective marketing or advertising; changes in public opinion about alcohol or our products; our reliance on our distributors to distribute our branded spirits; our reliance on fewer, more profitable customer relationships; interruptions in our operations or a catastrophic event at our facilities; decisions concerning the quantity of maturing stock of our aged distillate; any inability to successfully complete our capital projects or fund capital expenditures or any warehouse expansion issues; our reliance on a limited number of suppliers; work disruptions or stoppages; climate change and measures to address climate change; regulation and taxation and compliance with existing or future laws and regulations; tariffs, trade relations, and trade policies; excise taxes, incentives and customs duties; our ability to protect our intellectual property rights and defend against alleged intellectual property rights infringement claims; failure to secure and maintain listings in control states; labeling or warning requirements or limitations on the availability of our products; product recalls or other product liability claims; anti-corruption laws, trade sanctions, and restrictions; litigation or legal proceedings; limited rights of common stockholders and anti-takeover provisions in our governing documents; the impact of issuing shares of our common stock; higher costs or the unavailability and cost of raw materials, product ingredients, energy resources, or labor; failure of our information technology systems, networks, processes, associated sites, or service providers; acquisitions and potential future acquisitions; interest rate increases; reliance on key personnel; commercial, political, and financial risks; covenants and other provisions in our credit arrangements; pandemics or other health crises; ability to pay any dividends and make any share repurchases; and the effectiveness or execution of our strategic plan. For further information on these risks and uncertainties and other factors that could affect the Company’s business, see the “Risk Factors” and “Management’s Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations” sections of the Company’s Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2024 and its Quarterly Reports on Form 10-Q for the quarters ended March 31, June 30, and September 30, 2025, as well as the Company’s other SEC filings. The Company undertakes no obligation to update any forward-looking statements or information in this press release, except as required by law.

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In addition to reporting financial information in accordance with U.S. GAAP, the Company provides certain non-GAAP financial measures that are not in accordance with, or alternatives for, GAAP. In addition to the comparable GAAP measures, the Company has disclosed adjusted selling, general, and administrative expenses (“SG&A”), adjusted operating income, adjusted income before income taxes, adjusted net income, adjusted MGP earnings, adjusted EBITDA, net debt, net debt leverage ratio, and adjusted basic and diluted EPS, as well as guidance for adjusted EBITDA and adjusted basic EPS. The presentation of these non-GAAP financial measures should be reviewed in conjunction with SG&A, operating income, income before income taxes, net income, net income used in earnings per common share calculation, debt, and basic and diluted EPS computed in accordance with U.S. GAAP and should not be considered a substitute for the GAAP measure. We believe that the non-GAAP measures provide useful information to investors regarding the Company's performance and overall results of operations. In addition, management uses these non-GAAP measures in conjunction with GAAP measures when evaluating the Company’s operating results compared to prior periods on a consistent basis, assessing financial trends, and for forecasting purposes. Non-GAAP financial measures may not provide information that is directly comparable to other companies, even if similar terms are used to identify such measures. The attached schedules provide a full reconciliation of historical non-GAAP financial measures to the most directly comparable U.S. GAAP financial measure. Full year 2025 guidance measures of adjusted EBITDA and adjusted basic EPS are provided on a non-GAAP basis without a reconciliation to the most directly comparable GAAP measures because the Company is unable to predict with a reasonable degree of certainty certain items contained in the GAAP measures without unreasonable efforts. Such items include without limitation, acquisition related expenses, restructuring and related expenses, and other items not reflective of the Company’s ongoing operations.

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