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"We delivered across the board in 2024 with stronger-than-expected results. Sitio’s fourth quarter production was up by more than 14% over the prior year, while our share count decreased 3% year-over-year. Over the course of the year, we closed on 16 immediately accretive acquisitions totaling about $350 million, with expected returns above our target threshold – another solid demonstration of our ability to deliver sustainable growth and capital returns to shareholders," said CEO Chris Conoscenti. "The backdrop for 2025 is very similar to early 2024 – operators remain active on our premium land positions in the Permian, DJ, Eagle Ford and Williston basins and we continue to see attractive opportunities to consolidate fragmented minerals ownership. We remain a uniquely active manager of minerals. Our team will continue to focus on driving top-line and bottom-line improvements – enhancing revenue recovery with proprietary technology to audit and capture missing payments and leveraging our asset management systems to support our growth as well as meaningful reductions in Cash G&A per Boe as we scale our minerals position."

FOURTH QUARTER 2024 FINANCIAL RESULTS

Sitio's fourth quarter 2024 average unhedged realized prices including all expected quality, transportation and demand adjustments were $69.98 per barrel of oil, $1.42 per Mcf of natural gas and $18.09 per barrel of natural gas liquids, for a total price of $39.82 per Boe. During the fourth quarter of 2024, the Company received $5.2 million in net cash settlements for commodity derivative contracts and as a result, average hedged realized prices were $72.09 per barrel of oil, $1.64 per Mcf of natural gas and $18.09 per barrel of natural gas liquids, for a total price of $41.20 per Boe.

For the fourth quarter of 2024, consolidated net income was $19.3 million and Adjusted EBITDA⁽³⁾ was $141.2 million, up $111.0 million and $6.2 million (or 5%), respectively, compared to fourth quarter 2023, primarily due to 14% higher production over the same period.

As of December 31, 2024, the Company had $1.1 billion principal value of total debt outstanding (comprised of $487.8 million drawn on Sitio's revolving credit facility and $600.0 million of senior unsecured notes) and liquidity of $440.5 million, including $3.3 million of cash and $437.2 million of remaining availability under its $925.0 million credit facility.

2025 OUTLOOK

The table below includes Sitio's financial and operational guidance for full year 2025 and reflects the Company's expectations for operator development activity on its acreage. Sitio does not forecast acquisitions; however, it expects to remain active on the M&A front given its robust deal pipeline.

RETURN OF CAPITAL FRAMEWORK

Sitio is committed to returning capital to shareholders while maintaining a balanced and durable capital structure. Since becoming public in 2022, Sitio's cumulative return of capital to shareholders has exceeded $840 million, including cash dividends and share repurchases, with more than $330 million attributable to 2024.⁽²⁾

Sitio’s Board of Directors declared a cash dividend of $0.41 per share of Class A Common Stock with respect to the fourth quarter of 2024. The dividend is payable on March 28, 2025 to the stockholders of record at the close of business on March 14, 2025. During the fourth quarter of 2024, the Company repurchased an aggregate 0.6 million shares of Class A Common Stock at an average price of $20.06 per share, representing 11% of fourth quarter 2024 Discretionary Cash Flow⁽³⁾, or an equivalent $0.08 per share. As of December 31, 2024, the Company had repurchased a total of 5.1 million of Class A Common Stock shares and Sitio OpCo Partnership Units, representing approximately 3% of shares outstanding prior to the Board's authorization of Sitio's $200 million share repurchase program. The Company had $81.9 million of authorized repurchases remaining as of December 31, 2024. In total, Sitio will return an aggregate $0.49 per share of capital for the fourth quarter of 2024, which represents 65% of fourth quarter 2024 Discretionary Cash Flow.

CONFERENCE CALL INFORMATION

Sitio plans to host a conference call at 8:30 a.m. ET on Thursday, February 27, 2025. Participants can access the call by dialing 1-833-470-1428 in the United States, or 1-404-975-4839 in other locations, with access code 552754, or by webcast at https://events.q4inc.com/attendee/778319394. Participants may also pre-register for the event via the following link: https://www.netroadshow.com/events/login?show=1131dee8&confId=76348. The conference call, live webcast, and replay can also be accessed through the Investor Relations section of Sitio’s website at www.sitio.com.

OPERATOR ACTIVITY

The following table summarizes Sitio's net royalty acres, net average daily production and net LOS wells by basin as of December 31, 2024.

PROVED RESERVES

The following tables set forth information regarding the Company’s net ownership interest in estimated quantities of proved developed and undeveloped oil and natural gas reserves and the changes therein for each of the periods presented. The reserves presented herein are based on a reserve report prepared by Sitio and audited by Cawley, Gillespie & Associates, Inc.

COMMODITY DERIVATIVE CONTRACTS

The following table summarizes Sitio's commodity derivative contracts as of December 31, 2024.

FINANCIAL RESULTS

Non-GAAP financial measures

Adjusted EBITDA, Discretionary Cash Flow and Cash G&A are non-GAAP supplemental financial measures used by our management and by external users of our financial statements such as investors, research analysts and others to assess the financial performance of our assets and their ability to sustain dividends and/or share repurchases over the long term without regard to financing methods, capital structure or historical cost basis. Sitio believes that these non-GAAP financial measures provide useful information to Sitio's management and external users because they allow for a comparison of operating performance on a consistent basis across periods.

We define Adjusted EBITDA as net income (loss) plus (a) interest expense, (b) provisions for income taxes, (c) depreciation, depletion and amortization, (d) non-cash share-based compensation expense, (e) impairment of oil and natural gas properties, (f) gains or losses on unsettled derivative instruments, (g) change in fair value of the warrant liability, (h) management fee to affiliates (i) loss on debt extinguishment, (j) merger-related transaction costs (k) write off of financing costs and (l) loss on sale of oil and gas properties.

We define Discretionary Cash Flow for the three months ended December 31, 2024 as Adjusted EBITDA, less cash and accrued interest expense and estimated cash taxes.

We define Discretionary Cash Flow for the three months ended December 31, 2023 as Adjusted EBITDA, less cash and accrued interest expense and cash taxes. We revised our definition of Discretionary Cash Flow following this period to reflect our anticipated accrual of taxes period-to-period due to the runoff of tax credits associated with the Brigham merger.

We define Cash G&A as general and administrative expense less (a) non-cash share-based compensation expense, (b) merger-related transaction costs and (c) rental income.

Merger-related transaction costs for the three and twelve months ended December 31, 2023 have been recast to conform to the current period presentation.

These non-GAAP financial measures do not represent and should not be considered an alternative to, or more meaningful than, their most directly comparable GAAP financial measures or any other measure of financial performance presented in accordance with GAAP as measures of our financial performance. Non-GAAP financial measures have important limitations as analytical tools because they exclude some but not all items that affect the most directly comparable GAAP financial measure. Our computations of Adjusted EBITDA, Discretionary Cash Flow and Cash G&A may differ from computations of similarly titled measures of other companies.

This release does not include a reconciliation for 2025E Cash G&A because certain elements of the comparable GAAP financial measures are not predictable in this situation, making it impractical for the Company to forecast.

The following table presents a reconciliation of Adjusted EBITDA to the most directly comparable GAAP financial measure for the period indicated (in thousands).

The following table presents a reconciliation of Discretionary Cash Flow to the most directly comparable GAAP financial measure for the period indicated (in thousands).

The following tables present a reconciliation of Cash G&A to the most directly comparable GAAP financial measure for the periods indicated (in thousands).

About Sitio Royalties Corp.

Sitio is a shareholder returns-driven company focused on large-scale consolidation of high-quality oil & gas mineral and royalty interests across premium basins, with a diversified set of top-tier operators. With a clear objective of generating cash flow from operations that can be returned to stockholders and reinvested, Sitio has accumulated over 270,000 NRAs through the consummation of over 200 acquisitions, as of December 31, 2024. More information about Sitio is available at www.sitio.com.

Forward-Looking Statements

This news release contains statements that may constitute "forward-looking statements" for purposes of federal securities laws. Forward-looking statements include, but are not limited to, statements that refer to projections, forecasts, or other characterizations of future events or circumstances, including any underlying assumptions. The words "anticipate," "believe," "continue," "could," "estimate," "expect," "intends," "may," "might," "plan," "seeks," "possible," "potential," "predict," "project," "prospects," "guidance," "outlook," "should," "would," "will," and similar expressions may identify forward-looking statements, but the absence of these words does not mean that a statement is not forward-looking. These statements include, but are not limited to, statements about the Company's expected results of operations, cash flows, financial position and future dividends; as well as certain future plans, expectations and objectives for the Company’s operations, including statements about our return of capital framework, our share repurchase program and its intended benefits, financial and operational guidance, strategy, synergies, certain levels of production, future operations, financial position, prospects, and plans. While forward-looking statements are based on assumptions and analyses made by us that we believe to be reasonable under the circumstances, whether actual results and developments will meet our expectations and predictions depend on a number of risks and uncertainties that could cause our actual results, performance, and financial condition to differ materially from our expectations and predictions. Factors that could materially impact such forward-looking statements include, but are not limited to: commodity price volatility, the global economic uncertainty and market volatility related to changes in U.S. trade policy, including the imposition of tariffs, slowing growth and demand, especially from China, the conflict in Ukraine and associated economic sanctions on Russia, the conflict in the Israel-Gaza region and continued hostilities in the Middle East including heightened tensions and conflict with Iran, Lebanon and Yemen, voluntary production cuts by OPEC+ and others, including any additional extensions of such voluntary production cuts or the duration thereof, increased global oil, natural gas and natural gas liquids supply and those other factors discussed or referenced in the "Risk Factors" section of Sitio’s Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2024 and other publicly filed documents with the SEC. Any forward-looking statement made in this news release speaks only as of the date on which it is made. Factors or events that could cause actual results to differ may emerge from time to time, and it is not possible to predict all of them. Sitio undertakes no obligation to publicly update any forward-looking statement, whether as a result of new information, future development, or otherwise, except as may be required by law. Reserve engineering is a process of estimating underground accumulations of oil and natural gas that cannot be measured in an exact way. The accuracy of any oil and gas reserve estimate depends on the quality of available data, the interpretation of such data, and price and cost assumptions made by reserve engineers. In addition, the results of drilling, testing and production activities may justify revisions of estimates that were made previously. If significant, such revisions would change the schedule of any further production and development drilling. Accordingly, reserve estimates may differ significantly from the quantities of oil and natural gas that are ultimately recovered.

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Contacts

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