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Genie Energy Announces Fourth Quarter and Full Year 2024 Results

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Genie Energy Ltd.
Genie Energy Ltd.

Fourth quarter Adjusted EBITDA1 of $11.1 million

Full-year 2024 Adjusted EBITDA of $48.5 million achieves high end of guidance

GRE adds over 60,000 net meters in 2024, expanding customer base 17%

Newark, NJ, March 10, 2025 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Genie Energy, Ltd. (NYSE: GNE), a leading retail energy and renewable energy solutions provider, today announced results for the fourth quarter and full year ended December 31, 2024.

Michael Stein, CEO Commentary 

"Genie finished 2024 with a solid fourth quarter across both our retail and renewables businesses, even as we continued to invest significantly in growth initiatives. For the full year, we achieved the high end of our Adjusted EBITDA guidance.

"At GRE, we delivered a strong financial performance throughout the year. In the fourth quarter we capitalized on favorable market dynamics to ramp up our investment in customer acquisition, adding over 23,000 net meters. For the full year, we increased meters by over 60,000, or nearly 17%.

“At GREW, Diversegy, our energy procurement business, achieved Adjusted EBITDA profitability in 2024 and, at Genie Solar, we have essentially completed our strategic migration to the utility scale project vertical. Building, owning and operating utility-scale projects will enable us to capture their long-term residual value. In the fourth quarter, we continued to advance Genie Solar's project development pipeline and closed on a financing deal for our portfolio of currently operating arrays.

"We are excited about the growth prospects in 2025 across our businesses. For the full year, we maintain our annual consolidated Adjusted EBITDA guidance at $40 to $50 million. We also expect to continue to build our cash reserves and opportunistically buy back our stock while paying our current dividend."

Fourth Quarter 2024 Consolidated Highlights

(Compared to 4Q23. Unless otherwise noted, results of Genie Retail Energy International (GREI) are included in discontinued operations for all periods.)

Revenue decreased 1.9% to $102.9 million from $104.9 million;

Gross profit decreased 0.5% to $33.5 million and gross margin increased to 32.5% from 32.1%;

Loss from operations narrowed to $20.8 million compared to a loss from operations of $34.2 million;

 

The loss from operations includes a $30.9 million non-cash charge for a loss reserve at Genie's captive insurance operations compared to a $45.1 million non-cash charge in 4Q23;

Adjusted EBITDA1 decreased 2.8% to $11.1 million from $11.4 million;

Net loss attributable to Genie common stockholders was $15.3 million, or $0.58 per diluted share, compared to a net loss of $24.5 million, or $0.90 per diluted share;

 

The net loss attributable to Genie common stockholders from continuing operations was $12.9 million, or $0.47 per diluted share, compared to a net loss of $25.0 million, or $0.91 per diluted share;

Non-GAAP1 net income and non-GAAP EPS1 attributable to Genie common stockholders, which excludes the impact of the insurance loss reserve, of $6.5 million and $0.24 compared to $10.0 million and $0.37, respectively;

Cash and cash equivalents, short and long-term restricted cash, and marketable equity securities increased to $201.0 million at December 31, 2024, from $163.4 million at December 31, 2023;

Genie Energy paid a $0.075 per share quarterly dividend to Class A and Class B common stockholders on February 26, 2025 with a record date of February 18, 2025;

Genie Energy repurchased approximately 168,000 shares of its Class B Common stock for $2.5 million during


Full Year 2024 Consolidated Highlights

(Compared to 2023. Unless otherwise noted, results of Genie Retail Energy International (GREI) are included in discontinued operations for all periods.)