NYSE:WLKP Westlake Chemical Partners Q1 2025 Earnings Report $22.28 -0.26 (-1.13%) Closing price 05/23/2025 03:59 PM EasternExtended Trading$22.28 0.00 (0.00%) As of 05/23/2025 04:04 PM Eastern Extended trading is trading that happens on electronic markets outside of regular trading hours. This is a fair market value extended hours price provided by Polygon.io. Learn more. ProfileEarnings HistoryForecast Westlake Chemical Partners EPS ResultsActual EPS$0.14Consensus EPS $0.38Beat/MissMissed by -$0.24One Year Ago EPSN/AWestlake Chemical Partners Revenue ResultsActual Revenue$237.63 millionExpected Revenue$296.00 millionBeat/MissMissed by -$58.37 millionYoY Revenue GrowthN/AWestlake Chemical Partners Announcement DetailsQuarterQ1 2025Date5/2/2025TimeBefore Market OpensConference Call DateFriday, May 2, 2025Conference Call Time1:00PM ETUpcoming EarningsWestlake Chemical Partners' Q2 2025 earnings is scheduled for Tuesday, August 5, 2025, with a conference call scheduled at 1:00 PM ET. Check back for transcripts, audio, and key financial metrics as they become available.Conference Call ResourcesConference Call AudioConference Call TranscriptPress Release (8-K)Quarterly Report (10-Q)SEC FilingEarnings HistoryCompany ProfilePowered by Westlake Chemical Partners Q1 2025 Earnings Call TranscriptProvided by QuartrMay 2, 2025 ShareLink copied to clipboard.PresentationSkip to Participants Operator00:00:00Good afternoon. Thank you for standing by. Welcome to the Westlake Chemical Partners First Quarter twenty twenty five Earnings Conference Call. During the presentation, all participants will be in a listen only mode. After the speakers' remarks, you will be invited to participate in a question and answer session. Operator00:00:16As a reminder, this conference is being recorded today, 05/02/2025. I would now like to turn the call over to today's host, John Zeller, Westlake Chemical Partners' Vice President and Treasurer. Sir, you may begin. Johnathan ZoellerVP & Treasurer at Westlake00:00:31Thank you. Good afternoon, everyone, and welcome to the Westlake Chemical Partners' First Quarter twenty twenty five Conference Call. I am joined today by Albert Chao, our Executive Chairman Jean Marc Gilson, our President and CEO Steve Bender, our Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer and other members of our management team. During this call, we refer to ourselves as Westlake Partners or the partnership. References to Westlake refer to our parent company, Westlake Corporation, and references to OpCo refer to Westlake Chemical OpCo LP, a subsidiary of Westlake and the partnership which owns certain olefins assets. Johnathan ZoellerVP & Treasurer at Westlake00:01:06Additionally, when we refer to distributable cash flow, we are referring to Westlake Chemical Partners MLP distributable cash flow. Definitions of these terms are available on the partnership's website. Today, management is going to discuss certain topics that will contain forward looking information that is based on management's beliefs, as well as assumptions made by and information currently available to management. These forward looking statements suggest predictions or expectations and thus are subject to risks or uncertainties. We encourage you to learn more about the factors that could lead our actual results to differ by reviewing the cautionary statements in our regulatory filings, which are also available on our Investor Relations website. Johnathan ZoellerVP & Treasurer at Westlake00:01:49This morning, Westlake Partners issued a press release with details of our first quarter twenty twenty five financial and operating results. This document is available in the press release section of our webpage at wlkpartners.com. A replay of today's call will be available beginning two hours after the conclusion of this call. The replay can be accessed via the partnership website. Please note that information reported on this call speaks only as of today, 05/02/2025, and therefore you are advised that time sensitive information may no longer be accurate as of the time of any replay. Johnathan ZoellerVP & Treasurer at Westlake00:02:25I would finally advise you that this conference call is being broadcast live through an Internet webcast system that can be accessed on our webpage at wlkpartners.com. Now I'd like to turn the call over to Jean Marc Gilson. Jean Marc? Jean-Marc GilsonPresident, CEO & Director at Westlake00:02:39Thank you, John, and good afternoon, and thank you for joining us to discuss our first quarter twenty twenty five results. In this morning's press release, we reported Westlake Partners first quarter twenty twenty five net income of $5,000,000 or $0.14 per unit. Compared to the fourth quarter of twenty twenty four, our first product sales and earnings were impacted by the planned turnaround at our Petro one ethylene unit in Lake Charles, Louisiana, which resulted in lower production and sales volume in addition to higher maintenance capital expenditure. The stability of Westlake Partners business model is consistently demonstrated through our fixed margin ethylene sales agreement, which minimizes market volatility and other production risk. The high degree of stability in cash flow when paired with the predictability of our business has enabled us to deliver the long history of reliable distributions and coverage. Jean-Marc GilsonPresident, CEO & Director at Westlake00:03:48This quarter distribution is the forty third consecutive quarterly distribution since our IPO in July of twenty fourteen without any reductions. I would now like to turn our call over to Steve to provide more detail on the financial and operating results for the quarter. Steve? M. Steven BenderEVP & CFO at Westlake Chemical Partners00:04:09Thank you, Jean Marc, and good afternoon, everyone. In this morning's press release, we reported Westlake Partners first quarter twenty twenty five net income of $5,000,000 or $0.14 per unit. Consolidated net income including OpCo's earnings was $42,000,000 on consolidated net sales of $238,000,000 The partnership had distributable cash flow for the quarter of $5,000,000 or $0.13 per unit. First quarter twenty twenty five net income for Westlake Partners of $5,000,000 was $10,000,000 below the first quarter twenty twenty four partnership net income, primarily due to lower production and sales volume as a result of the planned turnaround at Petro one. Distributable cash flow of $5,000,000 for the first quarter of twenty twenty five decreased by $12,000,000 compared to the first quarter of twenty twenty four due to the lower production and sales volume and higher maintenance capital expenditures as a result of the Petro one planned turnaround. M. Steven BenderEVP & CFO at Westlake Chemical Partners00:05:11Turning our attention to the balance sheet and cash flows at the end of the first quarter, we had consolidated cash balance and cash investments with Westlake through our investment management agreement totaling $154,000,000 Long term debt at the end of the quarter was $400,000,000 of which $377,000,000 was at the partnership and the remaining $23,000,000 was at OpCo. In the first quarter of twenty twenty five, OpCo spent $16,000,000 on capital expenditures. We maintained our strong leverage metrics with a consolidated leverage ratio of approximately one times. On 04/30/2025, we announced a quarterly distribution of $0.04 $7.01 $4 per unit with respect to the first quarter of twenty twenty five. Since our IPO in 2014, the Partnership has made 43 consecutive quarterly distributions to unitholders, and we have grown distributions 71% since the partnership's original minimum quarterly distribution of $0.02 $75 per unit. M. Steven BenderEVP & CFO at Westlake Chemical Partners00:06:15The partnership's first quarter distribution will be paid on 05/29/2025, to unitholders of record 05/13/2025. Partnership's predictable fee based cash flow continues to prove beneficial in today's economic environment and is differentiated by the consistency of our earnings and cash flows. Looking back, since our IPO in July of twenty fourteen, we have maintained a cumulative distribution coverage ratio of approximately 1.1 times and with the partnership stability and cash flows, we're able to sustain our current distribution without the need to access the capital markets. For modeling purposes, our Petro one ethylene unit began to restart from its planned turnaround on April 12 and continues to ramp up to meet market demand needs. As Jean Marc mentioned, we have no further planned turnarounds in 2025 or 2026. M. Steven BenderEVP & CFO at Westlake Chemical Partners00:07:11Now I'd like to turn the call back over to Jean Marc to make some closing comments. Jean Marc? Jean-Marc GilsonPresident, CEO & Director at Westlake00:07:15Thank you, Steve. We are pleased with the successful completion of the PetroR1 turnaround, which positions us for solid production levels in the future. Our first quarter financial performance was consistent with our expectations and prior experience during a period where a significant turnaround temporarily impacts our production and sales volume. Turning to our outlook, global trade tensions have intensified in recent weeks creating a heightened atmosphere of uncertainty for businesses and investors. While trade negotiations are likely continue to cause some market volatility, the Partnership's financial performance and distributions will continue to be supported by our ethylene sales agreement, which provides a predictable fee based cash flow structure from our take or pay contract with Westlake for 95% of OpCo's production. Jean-Marc GilsonPresident, CEO & Director at Westlake00:08:18As has been the case since our IPO over ten years ago, this ethylene sales agreement will continue to deliver stable and predictable cash flows through economic ups and downs as well as planned and unplanned turnarounds. Turning to our capital structure, we maintain a strong balance sheet with conservative financial and leverage metrics. As we continue to navigate market conditions, we will evaluate opportunities via our four levers of growth in the future, including increases of our ownership interest of OpCo, acquisitions of other qualified income streams, organic growth opportunities such as expansions of our current facilities and negotiation of a higher fixed margin in our ethylene sales agreement with Westlake. We remain focused on our ability to continue to provide long term value and distributions to our unitholders. As always, we will continue to focus on safe operations along with being good stewards of the environment where we work and live as part of our broader sustainability efforts. Jean-Marc GilsonPresident, CEO & Director at Westlake00:09:37Thank you very much for listening to our first quarter earnings call. Now I will turn the call back over to John. Johnathan ZoellerVP & Treasurer at Westlake00:09:44Thank you, Jean Marc. Before we begin taking questions, I would like to remind you that a replay of this teleconference will be available two hours after the call has ended. We will provide instructions to access the replay at the end of the call. Michelle, we will now take questions. Operator00:10:00Thank you. Our first question comes from Matthew Blair with TPH. Your line is open. Matthew BlairManaging Director at TPH&Co00:10:16Thank you and good afternoon. It seems like the financial impact of the Q1 turnaround at TETRA one was a little bit more significant on your quarterly earnings than previous turnarounds. Could you help us understand that? Was that just a function of the size of the turnaround or were there like any unplanned expenses that caused the bigger impact there? M. Steven BenderEVP & CFO at Westlake Chemical Partners00:10:43Matthew, this is Steve. It really went really as we had planned in terms of the impact. We brought the unit down at the January. And so for the quarter, it was down for the months of February and March. And so we expected the unit to be down from a production perspective those two months. M. Steven BenderEVP & CFO at Westlake Chemical Partners00:11:01And so the impact for the quarter really was reflective of what's going on. I think you may be also factoring into the fact that we still are seeing elevated interest rates kind of weighing on the loan obligations that the company has. That's probably the factor that you might be thinking about, because realistically, the performance and its production over the course of the quarter was really as we had been expecting and frankly as we had internally budgeted. Matthew BlairManaging Director at TPH&Co00:11:29Okay, sounds good. And then evaluation difference between the parent Westlake and the MLP Westlake LP seems to have compressed lately. Is there still enough of evaluation difference to justify keeping Westlake healthy around? M. Steven BenderEVP & CFO at Westlake Chemical Partners00:11:50Yeah, it's a good question. I think as you think about the parent, the C Corp, it certainly has seen some compression in its valuations, which increases its multiple accordingly. But we tend to think about this, excuse me, over the business cycle rather than at any current period in time. And so as we think about this, the value proposition has continued to be there. As you know well, the markets have been challenged in terms of dropdown stories in the MLP space. M. Steven BenderEVP & CFO at Westlake Chemical Partners00:12:20But nevertheless, the valuation differential between the partnership where it trades and Westlake Corporation where it trades really over a reasonable cycle period of time remains pretty elevated. Matthew BlairManaging Director at TPH&Co00:12:35Great. Thanks for your comments. M. Steven BenderEVP & CFO at Westlake Chemical Partners00:12:37You're welcome. Operator00:12:39Thank you. At this time, the Q and A session has now ended. I will now turn the call back over to John Zeller. Johnathan ZoellerVP & Treasurer at Westlake00:12:57Thank you again for participating in today's call. We hope you will join us for our next conference call to discuss our second quarter twenty twenty five results. Operator00:13:07Thank you for participating in today's Westlake Chemical Partners First Quarter twenty twenty five Earnings Conference Call. As a reminder, this call will be available for replay beginning two hours after the call has ended and may be accessed until 11:59PM Eastern Time on Friday, 05/16/2025. The replay can be accessed via the partnership website. Goodbye.Read moreParticipantsExecutivesJean-Marc GilsonPresident, CEO & DirectorM. Steven BenderEVP & CFOAnalystsJohnathan ZoellerVP & Treasurer at WestlakeMatthew BlairManaging Director at TPH&CoPowered by Key Takeaways Westlake Partners reported first quarter 2025 net income of $5 million ($0.14 per unit) and distributable cash flow of $5 million ($0.13 per unit). The planned turnaround at the Petro One ethylene unit reduced production and sales volumes in Q1, driving a $10 million year-over-year net income decrease and a $12 million drop in distributable cash flow. Westlake Partners achieved its 43rd consecutive quarterly distribution since its 2014 IPO, growing distributions by 71% with a cumulative coverage ratio of approximately 1.1×. A fixed-margin, take-or-pay ethylene sales agreement covering 95% of OpCo’s production underpins predictable, fee-based cash flows and cushions the partnership against market volatility. 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Email Address About Westlake Chemical PartnersWestlake Chemical Partners (NYSE:WLKP) acquires, develops, and operates ethylene production facilities and related assets in the United States. The company's ethylene production facilities primarily convert ethane into ethylene. It also sells ethylene co-products, such as propylene, crude butadiene, pyrolysis gasoline, and hydrogen directly to third parties on either a spot or contract basis. Westlake Chemical Partners GP LLC serves as the general partner of the company. 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PresentationSkip to Participants Operator00:00:00Good afternoon. Thank you for standing by. Welcome to the Westlake Chemical Partners First Quarter twenty twenty five Earnings Conference Call. During the presentation, all participants will be in a listen only mode. After the speakers' remarks, you will be invited to participate in a question and answer session. Operator00:00:16As a reminder, this conference is being recorded today, 05/02/2025. I would now like to turn the call over to today's host, John Zeller, Westlake Chemical Partners' Vice President and Treasurer. Sir, you may begin. Johnathan ZoellerVP & Treasurer at Westlake00:00:31Thank you. Good afternoon, everyone, and welcome to the Westlake Chemical Partners' First Quarter twenty twenty five Conference Call. I am joined today by Albert Chao, our Executive Chairman Jean Marc Gilson, our President and CEO Steve Bender, our Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer and other members of our management team. During this call, we refer to ourselves as Westlake Partners or the partnership. References to Westlake refer to our parent company, Westlake Corporation, and references to OpCo refer to Westlake Chemical OpCo LP, a subsidiary of Westlake and the partnership which owns certain olefins assets. Johnathan ZoellerVP & Treasurer at Westlake00:01:06Additionally, when we refer to distributable cash flow, we are referring to Westlake Chemical Partners MLP distributable cash flow. Definitions of these terms are available on the partnership's website. Today, management is going to discuss certain topics that will contain forward looking information that is based on management's beliefs, as well as assumptions made by and information currently available to management. These forward looking statements suggest predictions or expectations and thus are subject to risks or uncertainties. We encourage you to learn more about the factors that could lead our actual results to differ by reviewing the cautionary statements in our regulatory filings, which are also available on our Investor Relations website. Johnathan ZoellerVP & Treasurer at Westlake00:01:49This morning, Westlake Partners issued a press release with details of our first quarter twenty twenty five financial and operating results. This document is available in the press release section of our webpage at wlkpartners.com. A replay of today's call will be available beginning two hours after the conclusion of this call. The replay can be accessed via the partnership website. Please note that information reported on this call speaks only as of today, 05/02/2025, and therefore you are advised that time sensitive information may no longer be accurate as of the time of any replay. Johnathan ZoellerVP & Treasurer at Westlake00:02:25I would finally advise you that this conference call is being broadcast live through an Internet webcast system that can be accessed on our webpage at wlkpartners.com. Now I'd like to turn the call over to Jean Marc Gilson. Jean Marc? Jean-Marc GilsonPresident, CEO & Director at Westlake00:02:39Thank you, John, and good afternoon, and thank you for joining us to discuss our first quarter twenty twenty five results. In this morning's press release, we reported Westlake Partners first quarter twenty twenty five net income of $5,000,000 or $0.14 per unit. Compared to the fourth quarter of twenty twenty four, our first product sales and earnings were impacted by the planned turnaround at our Petro one ethylene unit in Lake Charles, Louisiana, which resulted in lower production and sales volume in addition to higher maintenance capital expenditure. The stability of Westlake Partners business model is consistently demonstrated through our fixed margin ethylene sales agreement, which minimizes market volatility and other production risk. The high degree of stability in cash flow when paired with the predictability of our business has enabled us to deliver the long history of reliable distributions and coverage. Jean-Marc GilsonPresident, CEO & Director at Westlake00:03:48This quarter distribution is the forty third consecutive quarterly distribution since our IPO in July of twenty fourteen without any reductions. I would now like to turn our call over to Steve to provide more detail on the financial and operating results for the quarter. Steve? M. Steven BenderEVP & CFO at Westlake Chemical Partners00:04:09Thank you, Jean Marc, and good afternoon, everyone. In this morning's press release, we reported Westlake Partners first quarter twenty twenty five net income of $5,000,000 or $0.14 per unit. Consolidated net income including OpCo's earnings was $42,000,000 on consolidated net sales of $238,000,000 The partnership had distributable cash flow for the quarter of $5,000,000 or $0.13 per unit. First quarter twenty twenty five net income for Westlake Partners of $5,000,000 was $10,000,000 below the first quarter twenty twenty four partnership net income, primarily due to lower production and sales volume as a result of the planned turnaround at Petro one. Distributable cash flow of $5,000,000 for the first quarter of twenty twenty five decreased by $12,000,000 compared to the first quarter of twenty twenty four due to the lower production and sales volume and higher maintenance capital expenditures as a result of the Petro one planned turnaround. M. Steven BenderEVP & CFO at Westlake Chemical Partners00:05:11Turning our attention to the balance sheet and cash flows at the end of the first quarter, we had consolidated cash balance and cash investments with Westlake through our investment management agreement totaling $154,000,000 Long term debt at the end of the quarter was $400,000,000 of which $377,000,000 was at the partnership and the remaining $23,000,000 was at OpCo. In the first quarter of twenty twenty five, OpCo spent $16,000,000 on capital expenditures. We maintained our strong leverage metrics with a consolidated leverage ratio of approximately one times. On 04/30/2025, we announced a quarterly distribution of $0.04 $7.01 $4 per unit with respect to the first quarter of twenty twenty five. Since our IPO in 2014, the Partnership has made 43 consecutive quarterly distributions to unitholders, and we have grown distributions 71% since the partnership's original minimum quarterly distribution of $0.02 $75 per unit. M. Steven BenderEVP & CFO at Westlake Chemical Partners00:06:15The partnership's first quarter distribution will be paid on 05/29/2025, to unitholders of record 05/13/2025. Partnership's predictable fee based cash flow continues to prove beneficial in today's economic environment and is differentiated by the consistency of our earnings and cash flows. Looking back, since our IPO in July of twenty fourteen, we have maintained a cumulative distribution coverage ratio of approximately 1.1 times and with the partnership stability and cash flows, we're able to sustain our current distribution without the need to access the capital markets. For modeling purposes, our Petro one ethylene unit began to restart from its planned turnaround on April 12 and continues to ramp up to meet market demand needs. As Jean Marc mentioned, we have no further planned turnarounds in 2025 or 2026. M. Steven BenderEVP & CFO at Westlake Chemical Partners00:07:11Now I'd like to turn the call back over to Jean Marc to make some closing comments. Jean Marc? Jean-Marc GilsonPresident, CEO & Director at Westlake00:07:15Thank you, Steve. We are pleased with the successful completion of the PetroR1 turnaround, which positions us for solid production levels in the future. Our first quarter financial performance was consistent with our expectations and prior experience during a period where a significant turnaround temporarily impacts our production and sales volume. Turning to our outlook, global trade tensions have intensified in recent weeks creating a heightened atmosphere of uncertainty for businesses and investors. While trade negotiations are likely continue to cause some market volatility, the Partnership's financial performance and distributions will continue to be supported by our ethylene sales agreement, which provides a predictable fee based cash flow structure from our take or pay contract with Westlake for 95% of OpCo's production. Jean-Marc GilsonPresident, CEO & Director at Westlake00:08:18As has been the case since our IPO over ten years ago, this ethylene sales agreement will continue to deliver stable and predictable cash flows through economic ups and downs as well as planned and unplanned turnarounds. Turning to our capital structure, we maintain a strong balance sheet with conservative financial and leverage metrics. As we continue to navigate market conditions, we will evaluate opportunities via our four levers of growth in the future, including increases of our ownership interest of OpCo, acquisitions of other qualified income streams, organic growth opportunities such as expansions of our current facilities and negotiation of a higher fixed margin in our ethylene sales agreement with Westlake. We remain focused on our ability to continue to provide long term value and distributions to our unitholders. As always, we will continue to focus on safe operations along with being good stewards of the environment where we work and live as part of our broader sustainability efforts. Jean-Marc GilsonPresident, CEO & Director at Westlake00:09:37Thank you very much for listening to our first quarter earnings call. Now I will turn the call back over to John. Johnathan ZoellerVP & Treasurer at Westlake00:09:44Thank you, Jean Marc. Before we begin taking questions, I would like to remind you that a replay of this teleconference will be available two hours after the call has ended. We will provide instructions to access the replay at the end of the call. Michelle, we will now take questions. Operator00:10:00Thank you. Our first question comes from Matthew Blair with TPH. Your line is open. Matthew BlairManaging Director at TPH&Co00:10:16Thank you and good afternoon. It seems like the financial impact of the Q1 turnaround at TETRA one was a little bit more significant on your quarterly earnings than previous turnarounds. Could you help us understand that? Was that just a function of the size of the turnaround or were there like any unplanned expenses that caused the bigger impact there? M. Steven BenderEVP & CFO at Westlake Chemical Partners00:10:43Matthew, this is Steve. It really went really as we had planned in terms of the impact. We brought the unit down at the January. And so for the quarter, it was down for the months of February and March. And so we expected the unit to be down from a production perspective those two months. M. Steven BenderEVP & CFO at Westlake Chemical Partners00:11:01And so the impact for the quarter really was reflective of what's going on. I think you may be also factoring into the fact that we still are seeing elevated interest rates kind of weighing on the loan obligations that the company has. That's probably the factor that you might be thinking about, because realistically, the performance and its production over the course of the quarter was really as we had been expecting and frankly as we had internally budgeted. Matthew BlairManaging Director at TPH&Co00:11:29Okay, sounds good. And then evaluation difference between the parent Westlake and the MLP Westlake LP seems to have compressed lately. Is there still enough of evaluation difference to justify keeping Westlake healthy around? M. Steven BenderEVP & CFO at Westlake Chemical Partners00:11:50Yeah, it's a good question. I think as you think about the parent, the C Corp, it certainly has seen some compression in its valuations, which increases its multiple accordingly. But we tend to think about this, excuse me, over the business cycle rather than at any current period in time. And so as we think about this, the value proposition has continued to be there. As you know well, the markets have been challenged in terms of dropdown stories in the MLP space. M. Steven BenderEVP & CFO at Westlake Chemical Partners00:12:20But nevertheless, the valuation differential between the partnership where it trades and Westlake Corporation where it trades really over a reasonable cycle period of time remains pretty elevated. Matthew BlairManaging Director at TPH&Co00:12:35Great. Thanks for your comments. M. Steven BenderEVP & CFO at Westlake Chemical Partners00:12:37You're welcome. Operator00:12:39Thank you. At this time, the Q and A session has now ended. I will now turn the call back over to John Zeller. Johnathan ZoellerVP & Treasurer at Westlake00:12:57Thank you again for participating in today's call. We hope you will join us for our next conference call to discuss our second quarter twenty twenty five results. Operator00:13:07Thank you for participating in today's Westlake Chemical Partners First Quarter twenty twenty five Earnings Conference Call. As a reminder, this call will be available for replay beginning two hours after the call has ended and may be accessed until 11:59PM Eastern Time on Friday, 05/16/2025. The replay can be accessed via the partnership website. Goodbye.Read moreParticipantsExecutivesJean-Marc GilsonPresident, CEO & DirectorM. Steven BenderEVP & CFOAnalystsJohnathan ZoellerVP & Treasurer at WestlakeMatthew BlairManaging Director at TPH&CoPowered by