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CrossAmerica Partners LP (CAPL)

Q3 2025 Earnings Call· Fri, Nov 7, 2025

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Operator

Operator

Good morning, ladies and gentlemen, and welcome to the CrossAmerica Partners Third Quarter 2025 Earnings Call. [Operator Instructions] This call is being recorded on Thursday, November 6, 2025. I would now like to turn the conference over to Maura Topper, Chief Financial Officer. Please go ahead.

Maura Topper

Analyst

Thank you, operator. Good morning, and thank you for joining the CrossAmerica Partners Third Quarter 2025 Earnings Call. With me today is Charles Nifong, CEO and President. We'll start off the call today with Charles providing some opening comments and an overview of CrossAmerica's operational performance for the third quarter, and then I will discuss the financial results. We will then open up the call to questions. Today's call will follow presentation slides that are available as part of the webcast and are posted on the CrossAmerica website. Before we begin, I would like to remind everyone that today's call, including the question-and-answer session, may include forward-looking statements regarding expected revenue, future plans, future operational metrics and opportunities and expectations of the organization. There can be no assurance that management's expectations, beliefs and projections will be achieved or that actual results will not differ from expectations. Please see CrossAmerica's filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission, including annual reports on Form 10-K and quarterly reports on Form 10-Q for a discussion of important factors that could affect our actual results. Forward-looking statements represent the judgment of CrossAmerica's management as of today's date, and the organization disclaims any intent or obligation to update any forward-looking statements. During today's call, we may also provide certain performance measures that do not conform to U.S. generally accepted accounting principles or GAAP. We have provided schedules that reconcile these non-GAAP measures with our reported results on a GAAP basis as part of our earnings press release. Today's call is being webcast, and a recording of this conference call will be available on the CrossAmerica website for a period of 60 days. With that, I will now turn the call over to Charles.

Charles Nifong

Analyst

Thank you, Maura. Maura and I appreciate everyone joining us this morning, and thank you for making the time to be with us today. During today's call, I will go through some of the operating highlights for the third quarter. I will also provide commentary on the market and a few other updates as I typically do on our calls. Maura will then review in more detail our financial results. If you turn to Slide 4, I will briefly review in more detail some of our operating results for the quarter. For the third quarter of 2025, our Retail segment gross profit decreased 4% to $80 million compared to $83.6 million in the third quarter of 2024. The decrease was primarily driven by a decline in motor fuel gross profit due to lower retail fuel margins for the quarter compared to the prior year. For the quarter, our retail fuel margin on a cents per gallon basis decreased 5% year-over-year, as our fuel margin was $0.384 per gallon in the third quarter of 2025 compared to a historically strong $0.406 per gallon in the third quarter of 2024. In comparison to the prior year, crude oil prices were much less volatile during the third quarter of 2025, which resulted in lower market volatility. And as a result, our retail fuel margins were lower year-over-year. For volume on a same-store basis, our overall retail fuel volume declined 4% for the quarter year-over-year. Our retail volume performance for the quarter was bifurcated between our company-operated and commissioned sites. For our company-operated sites, our same-store volume for the quarter was down slightly less than 3% year-over-year. Our pricing strategy for our company-operated retail sites overall remained unchanged. We strive to be competitive at each location for the market the site is in. For…

Maura Topper

Analyst

Thank you, Charles. If you would please turn to Slide 6, I would like to review our third quarter results for the partnership. We reported net income of $13.6 million for the third quarter of 2025 compared to net income of $10.7 million in the third quarter of 2024. This increase in net income was driven by a combination of factors, including a decline in adjusted EBITDA year-over-year, offset by increased gains on the sale of assets that Charles discussed in his commentary and a decline in interest expense. We recorded a net gain from asset sales and lease terminations of $7.4 million during the third quarter of 2025 compared to $4.7 million during the third quarter of 2024. Interest expense declined from $14.1 million during the third quarter of 2024 to $11.8 million during the third quarter of 2025, a material benefit to our quarter as a result of our strategic activities, which I will discuss further later on in my comments. Adjusted EBITDA for the third quarter of 2025 was $41.3 million, a decline of $2.6 million or 6% compared to the prior year period. This decline was primarily due to a decline in fuel and rent gross profit, which was offset by a $4 million decrease in overall expenses during the quarter year-over-year. Our distributable cash flow for the third quarter of 2025 was $27.8 million, a slight increase from $27.1 million for the third quarter of 2024. The increase in distributable cash flow was primarily due to lower cash interest expense, sustaining capital expenditures and current income tax expense, offset by our lower adjusted EBITDA. The decline in interest expense we experienced during the quarter was due to a lower average interest rate during the period and a lower average outstanding debt balance on our capital…

Operator

Operator

[Operator Instructions]

Unknown Executive

Analyst

It doesn't appear we have any questions today. Should you have any questions later, please feel free to reach out to us. Again, thank you for joining us. Have a great day.

Operator

Operator

Ladies and gentlemen, this concludes your conference call for today. We thank you for participating and ask that you please disconnect your lines. Have a great day.