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FutureFuel Releases 2024 Results

FutureFuel Releases 2024 Results

Reports Net Income of $15.5 Million or $0.35 per Diluted Share, and Adjusted EBITDA of $17.6 Million

CLAYTON, Mo., March 28, 2025 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- FutureFuel Corp. (NYSE: FF) (“FutureFuel”), a manufacturer of custom and performance chemicals and biofuels, today announced financial results for the fourth quarter and year ended December 31, 2024.

Fourth quarter 2024 Financial Highlights (all comparisons are with the fourth quarter of 2023)

  • Revenues were $61.5 million, a decrease of 33% or $30.5 million compared to $92.0 million.
  • Net income was $2.8 million, or $0.06 per diluted share, down from a net income of $23.4 million, or $0.53 per diluted share.
  • Adjusted EBITDA(1) was $4.6 million, down from $16.8 million.

2024 Financial Highlights (all comparisons are with the year ended December 31, 2023)

  • Revenues were $243.3 million, a decrease of 34% or $124.9 million compared to $368.3 million.
  • Net income was $15.5 million, or $0.35 per diluted share, down from $37.4 million, or $0.85 per diluted share.
  • Adjusted EBITDA(1) was $17.6 million, down from $35.0 million.

(1)  A non-GAAP financial measure.  See “Non-GAAP Financial Measures” for a description of the measure and a reconciliation to the applicable GAAP measure.

“In the fourth quarter, we experienced a notable volume decline, partly due to some destocking among our chemical customers and partly due to lower-than-expected yields from our biodiesel production. To enhance the reliability of our biodiesel production, we temporarily shut down our plant for a turnaround in late December. This turnaround extended through the majority of the first quarter for biodiesel and, to a certain extent, reduced chemicals production.  We expect the turnaround work completed will help circumvent planned turnarounds normally scheduled later in the year for both segments.  

Our new customer and product pipeline remains robust within our chemical segment. To support these products, we expect to bring new production capacity online in 2025.

In the Biofuels segment, the blenders tax credit expired December 31, 2024, and was replaced by the Inflation Reduction Act, Section 45Z. Although this new program was effective January 1, 2025, the details surrounding credits and support levels remain mostly undefined by the Department of the Treasury. We are collaborating with industry groups and our local House and Senate representatives to advocate for near-term clarity and definition on this matter,” said Roeland Polet, Chief Executive Officer for FutureFuel Corp.

2025 Cash Dividends

For 2025, FutureFuel declared a regular quarterly cash dividend in the amount of $0.06 per share on our common stock in the fourth quarter of 2024.

Financial Overview and Key Operating Metrics

Financial and operating metrics, which include non-GAAP financial measures (see “Non-GAAP Financial Measures” for additional information), include all dollar amounts in thousands, except per share amounts:

 
FutureFuel Corp.

Certain Financial and Operating Metrics

(Unaudited)


 
 Three Months Ended December 31, 
         Dollar  % 
 2024  2023  Change  Change 
Revenue$61,509  $92,009  $(30,500)  (33)%
Income from operations$1,611  $20,403  $(18,792)  (92)%
Net income$2,797  $23,384  $(20,587)  (88)%
Earnings per common share:               
Basic$0.06  $0.53  $(0.47)  (89)%
Diluted$0.06  $0.53  $(0.47)  (89)%
Adjusted EBITDA$4,552  $16,753  $(12,201)  (73)%



 Year Ended December 31, 
         Dollar  % 
 2024  2023  Change  Change 
Revenue$243,339  $368,250  $(124,911)  (34)%
Income from operations$6,372  $27,368  $(20,996)  (77)%
Net income$15,503  $37,382  $(21,879)  (59)%
Earnings per common share:               
Basic$0.35  $0.85  $(0.50)  (59)%
Diluted$0.35  $0.85  $(0.50)  (59)%
Adjusted EBITDA$17,594  $34,983  $(17,389)  (50)%



Financial Results Q4 2024 versus Q4 2023

Consolidated sales revenue in the three months ended December 31, 2024 decreased $30,500 compared to the three months ended December 31, 2023. This decline was driven mostly by lower prices ($22,451) and lower sales volumes ($11,984) in the biofuel segment. Partially offsetting this decline was an increase in chemical segment sales revenue of $5,492 from the amortization of deferred revenue remaining on a long-term contract which expired in 2024 and became a short-term contract with the customer.

Income from operations in the three months ended December 31, 2024 decreased $18,792 as compared to the same period of 2023, due primarily to (i) reduced margins in the biofuel segment of $20,989 in part from downtime of production equipment due to delays by equipment suppliers and plant reliability issues, and (ii) the change in the adjustments in the carrying value of our inventory as determined utilizing the LIFO method of inventory accounting which increased income from operations $143 in the three months ended December 31, 2024 as compared to $4,311 in the same period of 2023.  Slightly offsetting this decline was an increase in chemical margins of $2,508 from the recognition of deferred revenue as noted above.  

Financial Results 2024 versus 2023

Consolidated sales revenue decreased 34% or $124,911 in 2024 compared to 2023 from lower sales volumes ($60,547) and lower prices ($65,011) in the biofuel segment. Partially offsetting this decline was an increase in chemical segment revenue volumes and an increase of $5,492 in amortization of deferred revenue from the expiration of a long-term contract.

Income from operations decreased $20,996 as compared to 2023. This comparative decrease was primarily attributable to reduced margins in the biofuel segment ($14,031) and chemical segment ($7,304). This reduction was inclusive of (i) reduced sales volumes of biodiesel and glycerin from extreme weather conditions in the first three months of the year, (ii) downtime of both biodiesel and chemical production equipment in the last half of 2024 from delays by equipment suppliers, and (iii) in the biofuel segment, the change in the unrealized activity of derivative instruments in comparison to the prior year with a loss of $1,971 in the current year and a gain of $1,878 in the prior year. Also contributing to this reduced margin was the change in adjustments in the carrying value of our inventory as determined utilizing the LIFO method of inventory accounting which increased income from operations $3,028 in 2024 as compared to $10,334 in 2023. Partially offsetting these decreases was the benefit of the amortization of deferred revenue in the chemical segment of $5,492.

Capital Expenditures

Capital expenditures were $14,668 in 2024, compared with $6,022 in the same period in 2023. Capital expenditures in 2024 increased primarily from construction of a custom chemical plant that is expected to be completed in the middle of 2025.

Cash and Cash Equivalents

Cash and cash equivalents totaled $109,541 as of December 31, 2024, compared with $219,444 as of December 31, 2023.  A special cash dividend of $2.50 per common share was paid April 9, 2024, which totaled $109,408.  

About FutureFuel

FutureFuel is a leading manufacturer of diversified chemical products and biofuels. FutureFuel’s chemicals segment manufactures specialty chemicals for specific customers (“custom chemicals”) as well as multi-customer specialty chemicals (“performance chemicals”). FutureFuel’s custom manufacturing product portfolio includes proprietary agrochemicals, adhesion promoters, a biocide intermediate, and an antioxidant precursor. FutureFuel’s performance chemicals products include a portfolio of proprietary nylon and polyester polymer modifiers and several small-volume specialty chemicals and solvents for diverse applications. FutureFuel’s biofuels segment primarily produces and sells biodiesel to its customers. Please visit  for more information.

Forward-Looking Statements

This document contains forward-looking statements within the meaning of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. Forward-looking statements deal with FutureFuel’s current plans, intentions, beliefs, and expectations, and statements of future economic performance. Statements containing such terms as “believe,” “do not believe,” “plan,” “expect,” “intend,” “estimate,” “anticipate,” and other phrases of similar meaning are considered to contain uncertainty and are forward-looking statements. In addition, from time-to-time FutureFuel or its representatives have made or will make forward-looking statements orally or in writing. Furthermore, such forward-looking statements may be included in various filings that the company makes with United States Securities and Exchange Commission (the “SEC”), in press releases, or in oral statements made by or with the approval of one of FutureFuel’s authorized executive officers.

These forward-looking statements are subject to certain known and unknown risks and uncertainties, as well as assumptions that could cause actual results to differ materially from those reflected in these forward-looking statements. Factors that might cause actual results to differ include, but are not limited to, those set forth under the headings “Risk Factors” and “Management’s Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations” in FutureFuel’s Form 10-K Annual Report for the year ended December 31, 2024, and in its future filings made with the SEC. An investor should not place undue reliance on any forward-looking statements contained in this document, which reflect FutureFuel management’s opinions only as of their respective dates. Except as required by law, the company undertakes no obligation to revise or publicly release the results of any revisions to forward-looking statements. The risks and uncertainties described in this document and in current and future filings with the SEC are not the only ones faced by FutureFuel. New factors emerge from time to time, and it is not possible for the company to predict which will arise. There may be additional risks not presently known to the company or that the company currently believes are immaterial to its business. In addition, FutureFuel cannot assess the impact of each factor on its business or the extent to which any factor, or combination of factors, may cause actual results to differ materially from those contained in any forward-looking statements. If any such risks occur, FutureFuel’s business, operating results, liquidity, and financial condition could be materially affected in an adverse manner. An investor should consult any additional disclosures FutureFuel has made or will make in its reports to the SEC on Forms 10-K, 10-Q, and 8-K, and any amendments thereto. All subsequent written and oral forward-looking statements attributable to FutureFuel or persons acting on its behalf are expressly qualified in their entirety by the cautionary statements contained in this document.

Non-GAAP Financial Measures

In this press release, FutureFuel used adjusted EBITDA as a key operating metric to measure both performance and liquidity. Adjusted EBITDA is a non-GAAP financial measure. Adjusted EBITDA is not a substitute for operating income, net income, or cash flow from operating activities (each as determined in accordance with GAAP), as a measure of performance or liquidity. Adjusted EBITDA has limitations as an analytical tool, and should not be considered in isolation or as a substitute for analysis of results as reported under GAAP. FutureFuel defines adjusted EBITDA as net income before interest, income taxes, depreciation, and amortization expenses, excluding, when applicable, non-cash share-based compensation expense, public offering expenses, acquisition-related transaction costs, purchase accounting adjustments, loss on disposal of property and equipment, non-cash gains or losses on derivative instruments, and other non-operating income or expense. Information relating to adjusted EBITDA is provided so that investors have the same data that management employs in assessing the overall operation and liquidity of FutureFuel’s business. FutureFuel’s calculation of adjusted EBITDA may be different from similarly titled measures used by other companies; therefore, the results of its calculation are not necessarily comparable to the results of other companies.

Adjusted EBITDA allows FutureFuel’s chief operating decision makers to assess the performance and liquidity of FutureFuel’s business on a consolidated basis to assess the ability of its operating segments to produce operating cash flow to fund working capital needs, to fund capital expenditures, and to pay dividends. In particular, FutureFuel management believes that adjusted EBITDA permits a comparative assessment of FutureFuel’s operating performance and liquidity, relative to a performance and liquidity based on GAAP results, while isolating the effects of depreciation and amortization, which may vary among its operating segments without any correlation to their underlying operating performance, and of non-cash stock-based compensation expense, which is a non-cash expense that varies widely among similar companies, and non-cash gains and losses on derivative instruments, whose immediate recognition can cause net income to be volatile from quarter to quarter due to the timing of the valuation change in the derivative instruments relative to the sale of biofuel.

A table included in this earnings release reconciles adjusted EBITDA with net income, the most directly comparable GAAP performance financial measure, and a table reconciles adjusted EBITDA with cash flows from operations, the most directly comparable GAAP liquidity financial measure.

 
FutureFuel Corp.

Condensed Consolidated Balance Sheets

(Dollars in thousands)

(Unaudited)


 
 December 31, 2024  December 31, 2023 
Assets       
Cash and cash equivalents$109,541  $219,444 
Accounts receivable, inclusive of the blenders' tax credit of $6,683 and $11,381, respectively and net of allowances for expected credit losses of $29 and $55, respectively 21,896   28,407 
Inventory, net 20,643   25,383 
Other current assets 12,706   17,312 
Total current assets 164,786   290,546 
Property, plant and equipment, net 78,538   72,711 
Other assets 4,367   3,824 
Total noncurrent assets 82,905   76,535 
Total Assets$247,691  $367,081 
Liabilities and Stockholders’ Equity       
Accounts payable, inclusive of the blenders' tax credit rebates due customers of $890 and $890, respectively$10,622  $22,220 
Dividends payable 10,699   10,503 
Other current liabilities 11,986   8,621 
Total current liabilities 33,307   41,344 
Deferred revenue – long-term 6,324   12,570 
Other noncurrent liabilities 2,239   3,287 
Total noncurrent liabilities 8,563   15,857 
Total liabilities 41,870   57,201 
Commitments and contingencies       
Preferred stock, $0.0001 par value, 5,000,000 shares authorized, none issued and outstanding -   - 
Common stock, $0.0001 par value, 75,000,000 shares authorized, 43,763,243 shares issued and outstanding as of December 31, 2024 and December 31, 2023 4   4 
Additional paid in capital 205,434   282,489 
Retained earnings 383   27,387 
Total Stockholders’ Equity 205,821   309,880 
Total Liabilities and Stockholders’ Equity$247,691  $367,081 



 
FutureFuel Corp.

Condensed Consolidated Statements of Income and Comprehensive Income

(Dollars in thousands, except per share amounts)

(Unaudited)


 
 Three Months Ended  Year Ended 
 December 31,  December 31, 
 2024  2023  2024  2023 
Revenue$61,509  $92,009  $243,339  $368,250 
Cost of goods sold and distribution 55,912   67,931   223,695   327,271 
Gross profit 5,597   24,078   19,644   40,979 
Selling, general, and administrative expenses 2,796   2,519   9,279   9,213 
Research and development expenses 1,190   1,156   3,993   4,398 
Total operating expenses 3,986   3,675   13,272   13,611 
Income from operations 1,611   20,403   6,372   27,368 
Interest and dividend income 1,505   2,982   7,656   9,577 
Gain on marketable securities -   -   -   575 
Other (expense) income, net (162)  (34)  2,267   (137)
Other income, net 1,343   2,948   9,923   10,015 
Income before income taxes 2,954   23,351   16,295   37,383 
Income tax provision (benefit) 157   (33)  792   1 
Net income$2,797  $23,384  $15,503  $37,382 
                
Earnings per common share               
Basic$0.06  $0.53  $0.35  $0.85 
Diluted$0.06  $0.53  $0.35  $0.85 
Weighted average shares outstanding               
Basic 43,773,243   43,763,243   43,765,757   43,763,243 
Diluted 43,773,243   43,765,709   43,765,757   43,765,163 
                
Comprehensive income               
Net income$2,797  $23,384  $15,503  $37,382 
Other comprehensive income from unrealized net gains on available-for-sale securities -   -   -   2 
Income tax effect -   -   -   (1)
Total other comprehensive income, net of tax -   -   -   1 
Comprehensive income$2,797  $23,384  $15,503  $37,383 



 
FutureFuel Corp.

Consolidated Statements of Cash Flows

(Dollars in thousands)

(Unaudited)


 
 Year Ended December 31, 
 2024  2023 
Cash flows from operating activities       
Net income$15,503  $37,382 
Adjustments to reconcile net income to net cash provided by operating activities:       
Depreciation 9,208   10,348 
Amortization of deferred financing costs 103   101 
Provision for deferred income taxes 773   - 
Change in fair value of equity securities -   (3,117)
Change in fair value of derivative instruments 1,971   (1,878)
Loss on the sale of investments -   2,543 
Stock based compensation 359   - 
Loss on disposal of property, plant, and equipment 30   29 
Noncash interest expense 35   34 
Changes in operating assets and liabilities:       
Accounts receivable 6,510   (2,208)
Accounts receivable – related parties 1   5 
Inventory 4,740   (4,445)
Income tax receivable 1,887   19 
Prepaid expenses 368   (652)
Prepaid expenses – related parties 12   - 
Other assets (146)  (935)
Accounts payable (12,098)  (6,493)
Accounts payable – related parties 97   (7,757)
Dividends payable 186   - 
Accrued expenses and other current liabilities 6,324   (719)
Accrued expenses and other current liabilities – related parties -   (1)
Deferred revenue (9,205)  (2,418)
Other noncurrent liabilities (1,856)  1,461 
Net cash provided by operating activities 24,802   21,299 
Cash flows from investing activities       
Collateralization of derivative instruments (132)  1,343 
Proceeds from the sale of marketable securities -   37,701 
Proceeds from the sale of property and equipment 6   - 
Capital expenditures (14,668)  (6,022)
Net cash (used in) provided by investing activities (14,794)  33,022 
Cash flows from financing activities       
Payment of dividends (119,911)  (10,503)
Deferred financing costs -   (14)
Net cash used in financing activities (119,911)  (10,517)
Net change in cash and cash equivalents (109,903)  43,804 
Cash and cash equivalents at beginning of period 219,444   175,640 
Cash and cash equivalents at end of period$109,541  $219,444 
        
Cash paid for income taxes$457  $20 
Noncash capital expenditures 403   333 



 
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Reconciliation of Non-GAAP Financial Measure to Financial Measure

(Dollars in thousands)

(Unaudited)


 
Reconciliation of Adjusted EBITDA to Net Income

 
 Three Months Ended  Year Ended 
 December 31,  December 31, 
 2024  2023  2024  2023 
Net income$2,797  $23,384  $15,503  $37,382 
Depreciation 2,285   2,612   9,208   10,348 
Non-cash stock-based compensation 246   -   359   - 
Interest and dividend income (1,505)  (2,982)  (7,656)  (9,577)
Non-cash interest expense and amortization of deferred financing costs 35   34   138   135 
Loss on disposal of property and equipment 6   21   30   29 
Unrealized loss (gain) on derivative instruments 531   (5,401)  1,971   (1,878)
Gain on marketable securities -   -   -   (575)
Other income -   (882)  (2,751)  (882)
Income tax provision (benefit) 157   (33)  792   1 
Adjusted EBITDA$4,552  $16,753  $17,594  $34,983 



Reconciliation of Adjusted EBITDA to Net Cash Provided by Operating Activities

   
 Year Ended 
 December 31, 
 2024  2023 
Net cash provided by operating activities$24,802  $21,299 
Deferred income taxes, net (773)  - 
Interest and dividend income (7,656)  (9,577)
Income tax provision 792   1 
Changes in operating assets and liabilities, net 3,180   24,143 
Other income (2,751)  (883)
Adjusted EBITDA$17,594  $34,983 



 
FutureFuel Corp.

Condensed Consolidated Segment Income

(Dollars in thousands)

(Unaudited)


 
 Three Months Ended  Year Ended 
 December 31,  December 31, 
 2024  2023  2024  2023 
Revenue               
Custom chemicals$23,140  $17,636  $69,473  $64,286 
Performance chemicals 1,644   3,213   10,534   15,047 
Chemical revenue 24,784   20,849   80,007   79,333 
Biofuel revenue 36,725   71,160   163,332   288,917 
Total Revenue$61,509  $92,009  $243,339  $368,250 
                
Segment gross profit (loss)               
Chemical$10,527  $8,019  $22,632  $29,936 
Biofuel (4,930)  16,059   (2,988)  11,043 
Total gross profit$5,597  $24,078  $19,644  $40,979 



As of December 31, 2024, FutureFuel held 3.1 million RINs with a fair market value of $1,831 and no cost. Comparatively, at December 31, 2023, FutureFuel held 4.3 million RINs with a fair market value of $6,567 and no cost.



COMPANY CONTACT

FutureFuel Corp.

Roeland Polet

(314) 854-8352



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28/03/2025

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