HF Sinclair Corporation Reports 2023 Third Quarter Results and Announces Regular Cash Dividend

• Reported net income attributable to HF Sinclair stockholders of $790.9 million, or $4.23 per diluted share, and adjusted net income of $760.4 million, or $4.06 per diluted share, for the third quarter
• Reported EBITDA of $1,245.6 million and Adjusted EBITDA of $1,206.5 million for the third quarter
• Returned $669.2 million to stockholders through dividends and share repurchases in the third quarter
• Announced a regular quarterly dividend of $0.45 per share

HF Sinclair Corporation (NYSE: DINO) (“HF Sinclair” or the “Company”) today reported third quarter net income attributable to HF Sinclair stockholders of $790.9 million, or $4.23 per diluted share, for the quarter ended September 30, 2023, compared to $954.4 million, or $4.45 per diluted share, for the quarter ended September 30, 2022. Excluding the adjustments shown in the accompanying earnings release table, adjusted net income attributable to HF Sinclair stockholders for the third quarter of 2023 was $760.4 million, or $4.06 per diluted share, compared to $982.9 million, or $4.58 per diluted share, for the third quarter of 2022, which excludes certain items that collectively decreased net income by $28.5 million.

HF Sinclair’s CEO, Tim Go, commented, “HF Sinclair generated strong third quarter results driven by solid performance across our refining, lubricants, HEP and marketing businesses which highlights the diversification of our portfolio. During the quarter, we also returned $669 million in cash to shareholders through share repurchases and dividends demonstrating our continued commitment to our cash return strategy and long-term payout ratio. Looking forward, we remain focused on executing our strategy of safe and reliable operations as we continue to integrate and optimize our assets across our portfolio.”

Refining segment income before interest and income taxes was $915.9 million for the third quarter of 2023, compared to $1,344.1 million for the third quarter of 2022. The segment reported EBITDA of $1,035.8 million for the third quarter of 2023 compared to $1,446.7 million for the third quarter of 2022. Excluding the lower of cost or market inventory valuation benefit of $26.8 million, Adjusted EBITDA in the third quarter of 2023 was $1,009.0 million. This decrease was principally driven by lower refinery gross margins in both the West and Mid-Continent regions and lower refined product sales volumes, which resulted in lower refining segment earnings in the quarter. Consolidated refinery gross margin was $26.59 per produced barrel, a 16% decrease compared to $31.47 for the third quarter of 2022. Crude oil charge averaged 601,930 barrels per day (“BPD”) for the third quarter of 2023 compared to 645,780 BPD for the third quarter of 2022. This decrease was primarily a result of turnarounds at our Tulsa and Casper refineries in the third quarter of 2023.

Renewables segment income before interest and income taxes was $3.1 million for the third quarter of 2023, compared to a loss of $(49.3) million for the third quarter of 2022. The segment reported EBITDA of $22.0 million for the third quarter of 2023 compared to $(31.1) million for the third quarter of 2022. Excluding the lower of cost or market inventory valuation adjustment, the segment reported Adjusted EBITDA of $5.0 million for the third quarter of 2023 compared to $(14.2) million for the third quarter of 2022. Total sales volumes were 55 million gallons for the third quarter of 2023 as compared to 52 million gallons for the third quarter of 2022.

Marketing segment income before interest and income taxes was $15.1 million for the third quarter of 2023 compared to $3.9 million for the third quarter of 2022. The segment reported EBITDA of $21.1 million for the third quarter of 2023 compared to $10.2 million for the third quarter of 2022. Total branded fuel sales volumes were 398 million gallons for the third quarter of 2023 as compared to 362 million gallons for the third quarter of 2022.

Lubricants and Specialty Products segment income before interest and income taxes was $95.7 million for the third quarter of 2023, compared to a loss of $(5.0) million in the third quarter of 2022. The segment reported EBITDA of $118.4 million for the third quarter of 2023 compared to $15.2 million in the third quarter of 2022. This increase was largely driven by a FIFO benefit from consumption of lower priced feedstock inventory for the third quarter of 2023 of $29.9 million as compared to a charge of $44.4 million for the third quarter of 2022.

Holly Energy Partners, L.P. (“HEP”) reported EBITDA of $94.4 million for the third quarter of 2023 compared to $66.0 million for the third quarter of 2022, and Adjusted EBITDA of $118.5 million for the third quarter of 2023 compared to $110.1 million for the third quarter of 2022.

For the third quarter of 2023, net cash provided by operations totaled $1,398.9 million. At September 30, 2023, the Company's cash and cash equivalents totaled $2,214.8 million, a $600.1 million increase over cash and cash equivalents of $1,614.6 million at June 30, 2023. During the third quarter of 2023, the Company announced and paid a regular dividend of $0.45 per share to stockholders totaling $83.6 million and spent $585.6 million on share repurchases. Additionally, the Company's consolidated debt was $3,169.8 million. The Company’s debt, exclusive of HEP debt, which is nonrecourse to HF Sinclair, was $1,701.3 million at September 30, 2023.

HF Sinclair also announced today that its Board of Directors declared a regular quarterly dividend in the amount of $0.45 per share, payable on December 5, 2023 to holders of record of common stock on November 16, 2023.

The Company has scheduled a webcast conference call for today, November 2, 2023, at 9:30 AM Eastern Time to discuss third quarter financial results. This webcast may be accessed at https://events.q4inc.com/attendee/172908001. An audio archive of this webcast will be available using the above noted link through November 16, 2023.

HF Sinclair Corporation, headquartered in Dallas, Texas, is an independent energy company that produces and markets high-value light products such as gasoline, diesel fuel, jet fuel, renewable diesel and other specialty products. HF Sinclair owns and operates refineries located in Kansas, Oklahoma, New Mexico, Wyoming, Washington and Utah and markets its refined products principally in the Southwest U.S., the Rocky Mountains extending into the Pacific Northwest and in other neighboring Plains states. HF Sinclair supplies high-quality fuels to more than 1,500 branded stations and licenses the use of the Sinclair brand at more than 300 additional locations throughout the country. In addition, subsidiaries of HF Sinclair produce and market base oils and other specialized lubricants in the U.S., Canada and the Netherlands, and export products to more than 80 countries. Through its subsidiaries, HF Sinclair produces renewable diesel at two of its facilities in Wyoming and also at its facility in Artesia, New Mexico. HF Sinclair also owns a 47% limited partner interest and a non-economic general partner interest in Holly Energy Partners, L.P., a master limited partnership that provides petroleum product and crude oil transportation, terminalling, storage and throughput services to the petroleum industry, including HF Sinclair subsidiaries.

The following is a “safe harbor” statement under the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995: The statements in this press release relating to matters that are not historical facts are “forward-looking statements” based on management’s beliefs and assumptions using currently available information and expectations as of the date hereof, are not guarantees of future performance and involve certain risks and uncertainties, including those contained in our filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission (the “SEC”). Forward-looking statements use words such as “anticipate,” “project,” “will,” “expect,” “plan,” “goal,” “forecast,” “strategy,” “intend,” “should,” “would,” “could,” “believe,” “may,” and similar expressions and statements regarding our plans and objectives for future operations. Although we believe that the expectations reflected in these forward-looking statements are reasonable, we cannot assure you that our expectations will prove correct. Therefore, actual outcomes and results could materially differ from what is expressed, implied or forecast in such statements. Any differences could be caused by a number of factors, including, but not limited to, the risk that the transactions contemplated by the Agreement and Plan of Merger, dated August 15, 2023 (the “Merger Agreement”), which provides for the merger of a subsidiary of the Company with and into HEP, with HEP surviving as an indirect wholly-owned subsidiary of the Company (such merger, together with the other transactions contemplated by the Merger Agreement, being referred to herein as the “HEP Merger Transaction”), are not consummated during the expected timeframe; failure to obtain the required approvals for the HEP Merger Transaction, including the ability to obtain the requisite approvals from HF Sinclair stockholders or HEP unitholders; the substantial transaction-related costs that may be incurred by the Company and HEP in connection with the HEP Merger Transaction; the risk that the market value of HF Sinclair common stock will decline; potential dilution on HF Sinclair's earnings per share of HF Sinclair common stock; the possibility that financial projections by the Company and HEP may not prove to be reflective of actual future results; the focus of management time and attention on the HEP Merger Transaction and other disruptions arising from the HEP Merger Transaction, which may make it more difficult to maintain relationships with customers, employees or suppliers; legal proceedings that may be instituted against HF Sinclair or HEP in connection with the HEP Merger Transaction; limitations on the Company's ability to effectuate share repurchases due to market conditions and corporate, tax, regulatory and other considerations; the Company’s and HEP’s ability to successfully integrate the Sinclair Oil Corporation (now known as Sinclair Oil LLC) and Sinclair Transportation Company LLC businesses acquired from The Sinclair Companies (now known as REH Company) (collectively, the “Sinclair Transactions”) with their existing operations and fully realize the expected synergies of the Sinclair Transactions or on the expected timeline; the Company's ability to successfully integrate the operation of the Puget Sound refinery with its existing operations; the demand for and supply of crude oil and refined products, including uncertainty regarding the increasing societal expectations that companies address climate change; risks and uncertainties with respect to the actions of actual or potential competitive suppliers and transporters of refined petroleum products or lubricant and specialty products in the Company’s markets; the spread between market prices for refined products and market prices for crude oil; the possibility of constraints on the transportation of refined products or lubricant and specialty products; the possibility of inefficiencies, curtailments or shutdowns in refinery operations or pipelines, whether due to reductions in demand, accidents, unexpected leaks or spills, unscheduled shutdowns, infection in the workforce, weather events, global health events, civil unrest, expropriation of assets, and other economic, diplomatic, legislative, or political events or developments, terrorism, cyberattacks, or other catastrophes or disruptions affecting our operations, production facilities, machinery, pipelines and other logistics assets, equipment, or information systems, or any of the foregoing of the Company's suppliers, customers, or third-party providers, and any potential asset impairments resulting from, or the failure to have adequate insurance coverage for or receive insurance recoveries from, such actions; the effects of current and/or future governmental and environmental regulations and policies, including increases in interest rates; the availability and cost of financing to the Company; the effectiveness of the Company’s capital investments and marketing strategies; the Company’s and HEP’s efficiency in carrying out and consummating construction projects, including the Company's ability to complete announced capital projects on time and within capital guidance; the Company's and HEP’s ability to timely obtain or maintain permits, including those necessary for operations or capital projects; the ability of the Company to acquire refined or lubricant product operations or pipeline and terminal operations on acceptable terms and to integrate any existing or future acquired operations; the possibility of terrorist or cyberattacks and the consequences of any such attacks; uncertainty regarding the effects and duration of global hostilities, including the Israel-Gaza conflict, the Russia-Ukraine war, and any associated military campaigns which may disrupt crude oil supplies and markets for the Company's refined products and create instability in the financial markets that could restrict the Company's ability to raise capital; general economic conditions, including economic slowdowns caused by a local or national recession or other adverse economic condition, such as periods of increased or prolonged inflation; and other business, financial, operational and legal risks and uncertainties detailed from time to time in the Company’s and HEP’s SEC filings. The forward-looking statements speak only as of the date made and, other than as required by law, we undertake no obligation to publicly update or revise any forward-looking statements, whether as a result of new information, future events or otherwise.

RESULTS OF OPERATIONS

Financial Data (all information in this release is unaudited)

Balance Sheet Data

Segment Information

Our operations are organized into five reportable segments, Refining, Renewables, Marketing, Lubricants and Specialty Products and HEP. Our operations that are not included in one of these five reportable segments are included in Corporate and Other. Intersegment transactions are eliminated in our consolidated financial statements and are included in Eliminations. Corporate and Other and Eliminations are aggregated and presented under the Corporate, Other and Eliminations column.

The Refining segment represents the operations of our El Dorado, Tulsa, Navajo, Woods Cross and Puget Sound refineries and HF Sinclair Asphalt Company LLC (“Asphalt”). Effective with the Sinclair Transactions that closed on March 14, 2022, the Refining segment includes our Parco and Casper refineries. Refining activities involve the purchase and refining of crude oil and wholesale marketing of refined products, such as gasoline, diesel fuel and jet fuel. These petroleum products are primarily marketed in the Mid-Continent, Southwest and Rocky Mountains extending into the Pacific Northwest geographic regions of the United States. Asphalt operates various asphalt terminals in Arizona, New Mexico and Oklahoma.

The Renewables segment represents the operations of our Cheyenne renewable diesel unit (“RDU”), which was mechanically complete in the fourth quarter of 2021 and operational in the first quarter of 2022, the pre-treatment unit at our Artesia, New Mexico facility, which was completed and operational in the first quarter of 2022 and the Artesia RDU, which was completed and operational in the second quarter of 2022. Also, effective with the Sinclair Transactions that closed on March 14, 2022, the Renewables segment includes the Sinclair RDU.

Effective with that Sinclair Transactions that closed on March 14, 2022, the Marketing segment represents branded fuel sales to Sinclair branded sites in the United States and licensing fees for the use of the Sinclair brand at additional locations throughout the country. The Marketing segment also includes branded fuel sales to non-Sinclair branded sites from legacy HollyFrontier agreements and revenues from other marketing activities. Our branded sites are located in several states across the United States with the highest concentration of the sites located in our West and Mid-Continent regions.

The Lubricants and Specialty Products segment represents Petro-Canada Lubricants Inc.’s production operations, located in Mississauga, Ontario, that includes lubricant products such as base oils, white oils, specialty products and finished lubricants, and the operations of our Petro-Canada Lubricants business that includes the marketing of products to both retail and wholesale outlets through a global sales network with locations in Canada, the United States and Europe. Additionally, the Lubricants and Specialty Products segment includes specialty lubricant products produced at our Tulsa refineries that are marketed throughout North America and are distributed in Central and South America and the operations of Red Giant Oil Company LLC, one of the largest suppliers of locomotive engine oil in North America. Also, the Lubricants and Specialty Products segment includes Sonneborn, a producer of specialty hydrocarbon chemicals such as white oils, petrolatums and waxes with manufacturing facilities in the United States and Europe.

The HEP segment includes all of the operations of HEP, which owns and operates logistics and refinery assets consisting of petroleum product and crude oil pipelines, terminals, tankage, loading rack facilities and refinery processing units in the Mid-Continent, Southwest and Rocky Mountains geographic regions of the United States. The HEP segment also includes 50% ownership interests in each of the Osage Pipeline (“Osage”), the Cheyenne Pipeline and Cushing Connect, and effective with the Sinclair Transactions that closed on March 14, 2022, a 25.06% ownership interest in the Saddle Butte Pipeline and a 49.995% ownership interest in the Pioneer Pipeline. Revenues from the HEP segment are earned through transactions with unaffiliated parties for pipeline transportation, rental and terminalling operations as well as revenues relating to pipeline transportation services provided for our refining operations. Due to certain basis differences, our reported amounts for the HEP segment may not agree to amounts reported in HEP’s periodic public filings.

Refining Segment Operating Data

The following tables set forth information, including non-GAAP (generally accepted accounting principles) performance measures about our refinery operations. Refinery gross and net operating margins do not include the non-cash effects of lower of cost or market inventory valuation adjustments and depreciation and amortization. Reconciliations to amounts reported under GAAP are provided under “Reconciliations to Amounts Reported Under Generally Accepted Accounting Principles” below.

The disaggregation of our refining geographic operating data is presented in two regions, Mid-Continent and West, to best reflect the economic drivers of our refining operations. The Mid-Continent region is comprised of the El Dorado and Tulsa refineries. The West region is comprised of the Puget Sound, Navajo, Woods Cross, Parco and Casper refineries. The refinery operations of the Parco and Casper refineries are included for the period March 14, 2022 (date of acquisition) through September 30, 2023.