Pampa Energia Announces Nine-Month Period and Third Quarter 2023 Results

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BUENOS AIRES, ARGENTINA / ACCESSWIRE / November 8, 2023 / Pampa Energía S.A. (NYSE:PAM)(Buenos Aires Stock Exchange:PAMP), an independent company with active participation in Argentina's electricity and gas value chain, announces the results for the nine-month period and quarter ended on September 30, 2023.

Pampa's financial information adopts US$ as functional currency, converted into AR$ at transactional nominal exchange rate (‘FX'). However, for our affiliates, Transener and TGS, their figures are adjusted for inflation as of September 30, 2023, and then translated into US$ at the period's closing FX. The reported figures in US$ from previous periods remain unchanged.

Third quarter 2023 (‘Q3 23') main results[1]

7% year-on-year sales decrease, recording US$474 million[2] in Q3 23, explained by a drop in prices and sales of petrochemicals and oil, and the impact of the AR$ devaluation in legacy energy, offset by higher gas sales.

Operating performance highlighted by natural gas and Ensenada Barragán Thermal Power Plant (‘CTEB')'s Combined Cycle (‘CCGT'):

Pampa's main operational KPIs

Q3 23

Q3 22

Variation

Power

Generation (GWh)

4,985

3,767

+32

%


Gross margin (US$/MWh)

23.1

24.2

-5

%



Oil and gas

Production (k boe/day)

80.4

68.5

+17

%


Gas over total production

94

%

92

%

+2

%


Average gas price (US$/MBTU)

4.7

4.8

-3

%


Average oil price (US$/bbl)

63.1

70.2

-10

%



Petrochemicals

Volume sold (k ton)

102

120

-14

%


Average price (US$/ton)

1,283

1,496

-14

%

Adjusted EBITDA[3] reached US$244 million, similar to Q3 22, explained by reductions of 72% in holding and others, 16% in petrochemicals, offset by increases of 12% in oil and gas, and 2% in power generation.

The profit attributable to the Company's shareholders decreased by 15%, reaching US$152 million, mainly explained by increased financial interests of AR$-debt and higher income tax charges, partially offset by gains from holding financial securities.

Net debt continued decreasing to US$677 million, resulting in a net leverage ratio of 1.0x.

[1] The information is based on financial statements (‘FS') prepared according to International Financial Reporting Standards (‘IFRS') in force in Argentina. Only continuing operations are considered.

[2] It does not include sales from the affiliates CTBSA, Transener and TGS, which at our ownership is US$90 million. Under IFRS, affiliates are not consolidated in Pampa, shown as ‘Results for participation in joint businesses and associates'.

[3] Consolidated adjusted EBITDA represents the results before financial results, income tax, depreciations and amortizations, extraordinary and non-cash income and expense, equity income and other adjustments, and includes affiliates' EBITDA at our ownership. For further information, see section 3.1 of the Earnings Release.

Consolidated balance sheet

(As of September 30, 2023 and December 31, 2022, in millions)

As of 09.30.2023

As of 12.31.2022

Figures in million

AR$

$

US FX 349.95

AR$

$

US FX 177.16

ASSETS

Property, plant and equipment

846,115

2,418

383,464

2,165

Intangible assets

34,072

97

24,364

138

Right-of-use assets

3,043

9

1,521

9

Deferred tax asset

1,616

5

6,326

36

Investments in joint ventures and associates

325,458

930

159,833

902

Financial assets at amortized cost

14,128

40

18,000

102

Financial assets at fair value through profit and loss

9,615

27

4,867

27

Other assets

158

0

91

1

Trade and other receivables

9,358

27

3,415

19

Total non-current assets

1,243,563

3,554

601,881

3,397


Inventories

73,942

211

30,724

173

Financial assets at amortized cost

24,289

69

1,357

8

Financial assets at fair value through profit and loss

248,926

711

103,856

586

Derivative financial instruments

289

1

161

1

Trade and other receivables

158,061

452

83,328

470

Cash and cash equivalents

64,117

183

18,757

106

Total current assets

569,624

1,628

238,183

1,344


Total assets

1,813,187

5,181

840,064

4,742


Equity attributable to owners of the company

963,757

2,754

403,463

2,277


Non-controlling interest

2,398

7

1,157

7


Total equity

966,155

2,761

404,620

2,284


LIABILITIES

Provisions

54,194

155

26,062

147

Income tax and presumed minimum income tax liabilities

40,593

116

31,728

179

Deferred tax liabilities

19,821

57

19,854

112

Defined benefit plans

10,060

29

4,908

28

Borrowings

451,083

1,289

237,437

1,340

Trade and other payables

13,231

38

3,757

21

Total non-current liabilities

588,982

1,683

323,746

1,827


Provisions

1,205

3

779

4

Income tax liabilities

12,392

35

927

5

Taxes payables

11,762

34

4,966

28

Defined benefit plans

915

3

1,021

6

Salaries and social security payable

9,433

27

5,627

32

Derivative financial instruments

2

0

318

2

Borrowings

123,132

352

48,329

273

Trade and other payables

99,209

283

49,731

281

Total current liabilities

258,050

737

111,698

630


Total liabilities

847,032

2,420

435,444

2,458


Total liabilities and equity

1,813,187

5,181

840,064

4,742

Consolidated income statement

(For the nine-month periods and quarters ended on September 30, 2023 and 2022, in millions)

Nine-month period

Third quarter

Figures in million

2023

2022

2023

2022

AR$

US$

AR$

US$

AR$

US$

AR$

US$

Sales revenue

346,957

1,370

168,748

1,381

152,701

474

69,225

507

Domestic sales

285,892

1,117

136,862

1,114

131,583

408

58,154

426

Foreign market sales

61,065

253

31,886

267

21,118

66

11,071

81

Cost of sales

(209,953)

(850)

(104,023)

(859)

(92,014)

(294)

(43,127)

(319)


Gross profit

137,004

520

64,725

522

60,687

180

26,098

188


Selling expenses

(13,333)

(51)

(5,719)

(47)

(5,610)

(17)

(1,998)

(14)

Administrative expenses

(33,554)

(133)

(12,389)

(101)

(13,990)

(44)

(5,063)

(38)

Exploration expenses

(1,772)

(7)

(23)

-

(22)

-

(8)

-

Other operating income

31,627

115

10,345

79

17,338

54

5,988

43

Other operating expenses

(18,079)

(68)

(4,209)

(33)

(10,704)

(33)

(1,577)

(10)

Impairment of financial assets

(1,490)

(4)

(672)

(5)

(553)

(1)

(153)

(1)

Rec. of imp. (impairm.) of int. assets & inventories

(324)

(1)

(4,260)

(34)

(1)

-

124

1

Results for part. in joint businesses & associates

14,044

42

13,610

100

5,474

8

6,749

43

Income from the sale of associates

486

1

-

-

486

1

-

-


Operating income

114,609

414

61,408

481

53,105

148

30,160

212


Financial income

1,090

4

597

6

662

2

147

1

Financial costs

(71,096)

(283)

(18,127)

(148)

(30,018)

(95)

(9,333)

(70)

Other financial results

95,794

392

4,108

33

40,333

138

8,278

68

Financial results, net

25,788

113

(13,422)

(109)

10,977

45

(908)

(1)


Profit before tax

140,397

527

47,986

372

64,082

193

29,252

211


Income tax

(20,437)

(69)

(5,224)

(26)

(13,350)

(40)

(5,195)

(32)

Net income for the period

119,960

458

42,762

346

50,732

153

24,057

179

Attributable to the owners of the Company

119,708

457

42,448

343

50,611

152

23,979

178

Attributable to the non-controlling interests

252

1

314

3

121

0.9

78

1


Net income per share to shareholders

87.51

0.33

30.74

0.25

37.21

0.11

17.38

0.13

Net income per ADR to shareholders

2,187.65

8.35

768.43

6.21

930.35

2.80

434.40

3.23


Average outstanding common shares1

1,368

1,381

1,360

1,380

Outstanding shares by the end of period1

1,360

1,380

1,360

1,380

Note: 1 It considers the Employee stock-based compensation plan shares, which amounted to 3.9 million common shares as of September 30, 2022 and 2023.

For the full version of the Earnings Report, please visit Pampa's Investor Relations website: ri.pampaenergia.com/en.

Information about the videoconference

There will be a videoconference to discuss Pampa's Q3 23 results on Thursday, November 9, 2023, at 10:00 a.m. Eastern Standard Time/12:00 p.m. Buenos Aires Time. The hosts will be Nicolás Mindlin, CFO, Horacio Turri, Head of E&P and Lida Wang, investor relations and sustainability officer at Pampa.

For those interested in participating, please register at bit.ly/Pampa3Q2023VC.

For further information about Pampa:

SOURCE: 1/3 Pampa Energía S.A.



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