Magnolia Oil & Gas Corporation Announces Second Quarter 2024 Results

Magnolia Oil & Gas Corporation (“Magnolia,” “we,” “our,” or the “Company”) (NYSE: MGY) today announced its financial and operational results for the second quarter of 2024.

Second Quarter 2024 Highlights:

Second Quarter 2024 Highlights:

• Magnolia reported second quarter 2024 net income attributable to Class A Common Stock of $95.6 million, or $0.51 per diluted share. Second quarter 2024 total net income was $105.1 million and total adjusted net income⁽¹⁾ was $104.3 million. Diluted weighted average total shares outstanding decreased by 5% to 201.2 million⁽²⁾ compared to second quarter 2023.

• Adjusted EBITDAX⁽¹⁾ was $246.1 million during the second quarter of 2024 and total drilling and completions (“D&C”) capital was $123.4 million, approximately 50% of adjusted EBITDAX, and in line with our earlier guidance.

• Lease operating expenses declined by 10% on a sequential quarterly basis to $5.40 per boe in the second quarter of 2024 and as part of the Company’s field-level optimization and cost reduction program announced earlier this year.

• Net cash provided by operating activities was $269.4 million during the second quarter of 2024 and the Company generated free cash flow⁽¹⁾ of $96.7 million. Magnolia generated operating income as a percentage of revenue of 40% during the second quarter.

• Total production in the second quarter of 2024 grew by 10% on a year-over-year basis to 90.2 thousand barrels of oil equivalent per day (“Mboe/d”) including 37.9 thousand barrels per day of oil and reinforced by strong overall well performance. Production from Giddings was 69.6 Mboe/d in the most recent quarter, providing overall growth of 21% compared to last year’s second quarter, including oil production growth of 28%.

• The Company repurchased a total of 4 million shares of its Class A and Class B Common Stock during the second quarter for $102.7 million. Magnolia has 5.9 million Class A Common shares remaining under its current repurchase authorization, which are specifically allocated toward open market share repurchases.

• As previously announced, the Board of Directors declared a cash dividend of $0.13 per share of Class A common stock, and a cash distribution of $0.13 per Class B unit, payable on September 3, 2024 to shareholders of record as of August 9, 2024.

• Magnolia returned approximately $130 million⁽³⁾ to shareholders during the second quarter through a combination of share repurchases and dividends while ending the period with $275.7 million of cash on the balance sheet and an undrawn $450.0 million revolving credit facility.

“Magnolia exhibited strong progress from several of the initiatives outlined earlier this year as demonstrated in our second quarter results supporting the continued and consistent execution of our business plan,” said President and CEO Chris Stavros. “Total production grew 6 percent sequentially to more than 90 thousand boe per day establishing a new quarterly record for the Company with oil production growing by 11 percent year-over-year to nearly 38 thousand barrels per day, and both benefiting from the integration of newly acquired assets and continued strong well performance. Activity at our Giddings asset remains the driver of Magnolia’s overall growth with production volumes climbing by 21 percent compared to last year’s second quarter to nearly 70 thousand boe per day, including oil growth of 28 percent. We were able to achieve this growth by spending approximately half of our gross cash flow on drilling and completing wells. Our ability to generate moderate production growth with a low rate of reinvestment continues to highlight the quality of our assets.

“Magnolia’s field teams successfully captured some early improvements as part of our field-level optimization and cost reduction program initiated earlier this year. These efforts included the implementation of digital field management software in addition to the optimization of maintenance, workovers, and the usage of field-level equipment. These actions have already resulted in a meaningful reduction to our field-level operating costs and should help improve our operating margins and free cash flow over time. Additionally, as a result of efficiencies and lower costs for materials, we expect to achieve a reduction in our overall well costs this year, enabling more wells to be drilled, completed and turned in line during 2024 to support Magnolia’s overall high-margin growth.

“Our disciplined approach toward allocating capital and highly efficient assets provides consistently high free cash flow generation. We continued to return a sizable amount of cash to our shareholders through our dividend and share repurchase program, amounting to approximately $130 million during the second quarter, including the repurchase of 4 million shares, or 2 percent of our total outstanding shares. Some of the cash on our balance sheet was used to close the recently announced bolt-on acquisition in Giddings which added approximately 27,000 net acres primarily in our development area. This asset has been fully integrated into our Giddings development area, and will be part of our activity program next year. Our Giddings development area, facilitated by learnings from our appraisal program and recent bolt-on acquisitions, now encompasses more than 200,000 net acres.”

Operational Update

Second quarter 2024 total company production volumes averaged 90.2 Mboe/d including oil production of 37.9 Mbbls/d. Production from Giddings increased by 21% compared to last year’s second quarter to 69.6 Mboe/d with oil production growing 28% over the same period. Total Company production volumes benefited from continued strong well performance, including areas uncovered by some of our earlier appraisal work, in addition to some production from assets acquired last year. Magnolia’s second quarter 2024 capital spending on drilling, completions and associated facilities was $123.4 million.

Magnolia continues to operate two drilling rigs and one completion crew and expects to maintain this level of activity throughout the year. While this activity level is similar to the 2023 operating plan, a substantial reduction in well costs combined with improved operating efficiencies allow for more wells to be drilled, completed and turned in line during 2024 helping to support Magnolia’s overall high-margin growth. Most of this year’s development activity will consist of multi-well development pads in the Giddings area, with a proportionally smaller amount of development planned in the Karnes area, in addition to some appraisal wells on our assets. For Giddings development activity in 2024, we currently expect to drill multi-well pads with somewhat longer lateral lengths of approximately 8,500 feet as compared to last year.

Additional Guidance

We are reiterating the Company’s full-year 2024 capital spending and production guidance, with D&C capital expected to be in the range of $450 to $480 million. We estimate this should deliver high single digit total production growth during 2024 as compared to last year, and with oil production growing at a similar rate and remaining resilient through the rest of the year. We expect third quarter D&C capital expenditures to be roughly $120 million and total production for the third quarter to be approximately 91 Mboe/d. Magnolia continues to apply the Company’s operating expertise to its recently acquired assets which should lead to improved field operations and efficiencies allowing for similarly low unit operating costs during the second half of 2024. Our substantial experience and knowledge acquired while operating in the Giddings area gives us confidence that our field-level cost optimization initiatives should lead to higher margins on these assets and improved free cash flow for the Company.

Oil price differentials are anticipated to be approximately a $3.00 per barrel discount to Magellan East Houston and Magnolia remains completely unhedged for all its oil and natural gas production. The fully diluted share count for the third quarter of 2024 is expected to be approximately 199 million shares, which is approximately 5% lower than third quarter 2023 levels.

Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q

Magnolia's financial statements and related footnotes will be available in its Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q for the three months ended June 30, 2024, which is expected to be filed with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (“SEC”) on August 1, 2024.

Conference Call and Webcast

Magnolia will host an investor conference call on Thursday, August 1 at 10:00 a.m. Central (11:00 a.m. Eastern) to discuss these operating and financial results. Interested parties may join the webcast by visiting Magnolia's website at www.magnoliaoilgas.com/investors/events-and-presentations and clicking on the webcast link or by dialing 1-844-701-1059. A replay of the webcast will be posted on Magnolia's website following completion of the call.

About Magnolia Oil & Gas Corporation

Magnolia (MGY) is a publicly traded oil and gas exploration and production company with operations primarily in South Texas in the core of the Eagle Ford Shale and Austin Chalk formations. Magnolia focuses on generating value for shareholders by delivering steady, moderate annual production growth resulting from its disciplined and efficient philosophy toward capital spending. The Company strives to generate high pre‐tax margins and consistent free cash flow allowing for strong cash returns to our shareholders. For more information, visit www.magnoliaoilgas.com.

Cautionary Note Regarding Forward-Looking Statements

The information in this press release includes forward-looking statements within the meaning of Section 27A of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, and Section 21E of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended. All statements, other than statements of present or historical fact included in this press release, regarding Magnolia’s strategy, future operations, financial position, estimated revenues and losses, projected costs, prospects, plans and objectives of management are forward looking statements. When used in this press release, the words could, should, will, may, believe, anticipate, intend, estimate, expect, project, the negative of such terms and other similar expressions are intended to identify forward-looking statements, although not all forward-looking statements contain such identifying words. These forward-looking statements are based on management’s current expectations and assumptions about future events. Except as otherwise required by applicable law, Magnolia disclaims any duty to update any forward-looking statements, all of which are expressly qualified by the statements in this section, to reflect events or circumstances after the date of this press release. Magnolia cautions you that these forward-looking statements are subject to all of the risks and uncertainties, most of which are difficult to predict and many of which are beyond the control of Magnolia, incident to the development, production, gathering and sale of oil, natural gas and natural gas liquids. In addition, Magnolia cautions you that the forward looking statements contained in this press release are subject to the following factors: (i) the supply and demand for oil, natural gas, NGLs, and other products or services, including impacts of actions taken by OPEC and other state-controlled oil companies; (ii) the outcome of any legal proceedings that may be instituted against Magnolia; (iii) Magnolia’s ability to realize the anticipated benefits of its acquisitions, which may be affected by, among other things, competition and the ability of Magnolia to grow and manage growth profitably; (iv) changes in applicable laws or regulations; (v) geopolitical and business conditions in key regions of the world; and (vi) the possibility that Magnolia may be adversely affected by other economic, business, and/or competitive factors, including inflation. Should one or more of the risks or uncertainties described in this press release occur, or should underlying assumptions prove incorrect, actual results and plans could differ materially from those expressed in any forward-looking statements. Additional information concerning these and other factors that may impact the operations and projections discussed herein can be found in Magnolia’s filings with the SEC, including its Annual Report on Form 10-K for the fiscal year ended December 31, 2023. Magnolia’s SEC filings are available publicly on the SEC’s website at www.sec.gov.

Magnolia Oil & Gas Corporation

Non-GAAP Financial Measures

Reconciliation of net income to adjusted EBITDAX

In this press release, we refer to adjusted EBITDAX, a supplemental non-GAAP financial measure that is used by management and external users of our consolidated financial statements, such as industry analysts, investors, lenders, and rating agencies. We define adjusted EBITDAX as net income before interest (income) expense, income taxes, depreciation, depletion and amortization, exploration expenses, and accretion of asset retirement obligations, adjusted to exclude the effect of certain items included in net income. Adjusted EBITDAX is not a measure of net income in accordance with GAAP.

Our management believes that adjusted EBITDAX is useful because it allows them to more effectively evaluate our operating performance and compare the results of our operations from period to period and against our peers without regard to our financing methods or capital structure. We also believe that securities analysts, investors, and other interested parties may use adjusted EBITDAX in the evaluation of our Company. We exclude the items listed above from net income in arriving at adjusted EBITDAX 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 EBITDAX 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. Certain items excluded from adjusted EBITDAX 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 EBITDAX. Our presentation of adjusted EBITDAX should not be construed as an inference that our results will be unaffected by unusual or non-recurring items. Our computations of adjusted EBITDAX may not be comparable to other similarly titled measures of other companies.

The following table presents a reconciliation of net income to adjusted EBITDAX, our most directly comparable financial measure, calculated and presented in accordance with GAAP:

Magnolia Oil & Gas Corporation

Non-GAAP Financial Measures

Reconciliation of net income to adjusted net income

Our presentation of adjusted net income is a non-GAAP measures because it excludes the effect of certain items included in net income. Management uses adjusted net income to evaluate our operating and financial performance because it eliminates the impact of certain items that management does not consider to be representative of the Company’s on-going business operations. As a performance measure, adjusted net income may be useful to investors in facilitating comparisons to others in the Company’s industry because certain items can vary substantially in the oil and gas industry from company to company depending upon accounting methods, book value of assets, and capital structure, among other factors. Management believes adjusting these items facilitates investors and analysts in evaluating and comparing the underlying operating and financial performance of our business from period to period by eliminating differences caused by the existence and timing of certain expense and income items that would not otherwise be apparent on a GAAP basis. However, our presentation of adjusted net income may not be comparable to similar measures of other companies in our industry.

Magnolia Oil & Gas Corporation

Non-GAAP Financial Measures

Reconciliation of revenue to adjusted cash operating margin and operating income margin

Our presentation of adjusted cash operating margin and total adjusted cash operating costs are supplemental non-GAAP financial measures that are used by management. Total adjusted cash operating costs exclude the impact of non-cash activity. We define adjusted cash operating margin per boe as total revenues per boe less cash operating costs per boe. Management believes that total adjusted cash operating costs per boe and adjusted cash operating margin per boe provide relevant and useful information, which is used by our management in assessing the Company’s profitability and comparability of results to our peers.

As a performance measure, total adjusted cash operating costs and adjusted cash operating margin may be useful to investors in facilitating comparisons to others in the Company’s industry because certain items can vary substantially in the oil and gas industry from company to company depending upon accounting methods, book value of assets, and capital structure, among other factors. Management believes excluding these items facilitates investors and analysts in evaluating and comparing the underlying operating and financial performance of our business from period to period by eliminating differences caused by the existence and timing of certain expense and income items that would not otherwise be apparent on a GAAP basis. However, our presentation of adjusted cash operating margin may not be comparable to similar measures of other companies in our industry.

Magnolia Oil & Gas Corporation

Non-GAAP Financial Measures

Reconciliation of net cash provided by operating activities to free cash flow

Free cash flow is a non-GAAP financial measure. Free cash flow is defined as cash flows from operations before net change in operating assets and liabilities less additions to oil and natural gas properties and changes in working capital associated with additions to oil and natural gas properties. Management believes free cash flow is useful for investors and widely accepted by those following the oil and gas industry as financial indicators of a company’s ability to generate cash to internally fund drilling and completion activities, fund acquisitions, and service debt. It is also used by research analysts to value and compare oil and gas exploration and production companies and are frequently included in published research when providing investment recommendations. Free cash flow is used by management as an additional measure of liquidity. Free cash flow is not a measure of financial performance under GAAP and should not be considered an alternative to cash flows from operating, investing, or financing activities.

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