Good morning, and welcome to the Evolution Petroleum 4th Quarter and Fiscal Year 2025 Earnings Conference Call. All participants are in listen-only mode. Please also note today's event is being recorded. At this time, I would now like to turn the conference over to Brandi Hudson, Investor Relations Manager. Please go ahead.

Welcome to Evolution Petroleum's Fiscal Q4 2025 Earnings Call. I'm joined by Kelly Lloyd, President and Chief Executive Officer, Mark Bunch, Chief Operating Officer, and Ryan Stash, Senior Vice President, Chief Financial Officer, and Treasurer. We released our fiscal fourth quarter and full year 2025 financial results after the market closed yesterday. Please refer to our earnings press release for additional information containing these results. You can access our earnings release in the Investors section of our website. Please note that any statements and information provided in today's call speak only as of today's date, September 17, 2025, and any time-sensitive information may not be accurate at a later date. Our discussion today will contain forward-looking statements of management's beliefs and assumptions based on currently available information. These forward-looking statements are subject to risks, assumptions, and uncertainties as described in our SEC filings. Actual results may differ materially from those expected. We undertake no obligation to update any forward-looking statements. During today's call, we may discuss certain non-GAAP financial measures, including adjusted EBITDA and adjusted net income. Reconciliations of these measures to the closest comparable GAAP measures can be found in our earnings release. Kelly will begin today's call with opening comments. Mark will provide an update on our properties and plans as they relate to our ongoing strategy of maximizing shareholder returns. And Ryan will provide a brief overview of our financial highlights. After our prepared remarks, the management team will be available to answer any questions. As a reminder, this conference call is being recorded. If you wish to listen to a webcast replay of today's call, it will be available on the investors section of our website. With that, I will turn the call over to Kelly.

Thank you, Brandy, and good morning, everyone. We demonstrated another solid quarter of execution in fiscal Q4. Evolution reported a material improvement in net income of $3.4 million and adjusted EBITDA of $8.6 million, underpinned by a balanced commodity mix and prudent cost controls. Average production was 7,198 BOE per day, and our revenue mix was 61% oil, with natural gas and NGLs providing a meaningful offset and a volatile oil backdrop. We also declared a $0.12 per share dividend for fiscal Q126, extending our record of dependable cash returns for shareholders. We have now consistently issued a dividend every quarter since 2013. We continued to upgrade the portfolio in ways that improved durability and capital efficiency. During the fiscal fourth quarter, we closed our highly accretive $9 million Tex-Mex acquisition, which included non-operated oil and natural gas assets across New Mexico, Texas, and Louisiana. This acquisition adds roughly 440 net BOE per day of stable, low-decline production, with a roughly 60-40 mix of oil and natural gas with relatively low cost behind-pipe upside potential. Subsequent to quarter end, we closed the largest minerals-only acquisition in company history in the scoop stack. Approximately 5,500 net royalty acres with roughly 420 net BOE per day at the effective date with years of upside drilling that comes with no net cost to evolution. Minerals cash flows are very high margin as they come without lifting cost, which pairs beautifully with our existing position in the basin. These acquisitions are a great example of the kind of low-declined, high-return exposure that we seek, scalable, capital-light, and immediately cash-generative. They also represent a clear demonstration of our ability to effectively adapt to market environments and deploy capital in the most effective manner. When oil prices are low, it presents compelling M&A opportunities opportunities rather than drilling opportunities and vice versa. In the market environment and what's going on there, commodity prices remain choppy through the quarter. Our model, which is grounded in diversified commodity exposure and tight cost discipline, did what it is designed to do. It smoothed out cash flows and supported returns, which is further reflected by our improved profitability despite essentially flat revenue and production. For oil, we see the demand picture of kind of steady as she goes. Over the last 10 years, on average, demand has grown at a little over 1% per year, and we expect this trend to continue. OPEC Plus is continuing to add back supply. This has recently put the global speculative trading community on defense to the point where net positioning has reached some of the shortest net positioning observed in the past decade. On the other end of the spectrum, there's very little geopolitical risk priced into the forward curves, although potential disruptive hotspots are popping up all over, from Russia to the Middle East, down to Southeast Asia, and to South America. Additionally, we all know the best cure for low oil prices is low oil prices, but it doesn't happen overnight. If prices stay in the 60s, we fully expect there to be a negative production response, and we're already seeing many examples of CapEx budgets here in the U.S. being reduced. If the demand picture holds, it's reasonable to assume that if more U.S. barrels are needed, we will see higher near-term prices as flowing barrels are more sought after, as well as higher long-dated prices to incentivize increased capex from the North American E&P community we're certainly not calling for it but we could see a sharp snapback just like we did the last time WTI averaged in the 60s at $68 a barrel in 2021 and 2022 average WTI price increased to roughly $95 a barrel for natural gas, we see the setup for a very strong forward demand curve. Current and planned incremental LNG exports as well as increased industrial demand tied to natural gas's portion of incremental power generation are the main drivers behind this. What is driving the expected increase in power usage? Well, that's in large part related to new data centers, AI implementation, and crypto coin mining. In most years since the beginning of the shale era, producers have needed forward Henry Hub prices of greater than $3.50 to grow production sufficiently enough to meet these levels of forward demand expectations. However, we must always remember that weather is a huge player for natural gas prices and can cause sharp near-term swings. The weak weather scenario that requires a curtailment of supply has a far lesser financial impact on evolution than the positive financial benefit that we would receive from the opposite weather scenario one where it's so cold that there's much more demand than supply overall our portfolio of low decline producing assets with additional upside potential from new drilling locations to behind pipe prospects is primed to both write out any weakness and flourish when there's strength. Regardless of the market environment, our capital allocation framework is unchanged. Prioritize durable free cash flow, return cash through a reliable dividend, and pursue accretive low-decline opportunities, both organic and inorganic. These will improve our per share value over time. The $0.12 per share dividend we recently declared for fiscal first quarter 26 reflects that discipline and our confidence in the portfolio and future cash flows. We also took a significant step to enhance flexibility with an amended and restatement of our senior secured reserve-based credit facility. The intent is straightforward. Maintain conservative leverage and position our balance sheet with ample dry powder to capitalize on accretive opportunities for shareholders, be it organic or inorganic. With that, I'll hand it over to Mark for more details on the assets.

Thanks, Kelly, and good morning, everyone. I will focus my remarks on key operational highlights from the quarter and encourage listeners to review our earnings press release and filings for additional details across our asset base. Beginning with ScoopStack, on our working interest position, activity moderated late in the quarter with several wells in progress and late-quarter contributions are beginning to come through now in the fiscal first quarter of 2026. On the minerals package that closed after quarter end, we anticipate a gradual ramp-up aligned to operator schedules, with the majority of initial royalty cash flow beginning in fiscal 1Q26 and building from there. As Killie mentioned earlier, mineral interests provide royalty cash flows without typical working interest expenses and complement our existing footprint. In Shaburu, we turned in line four gross wells, on time and under budget, and early results are ahead of plan. We are advancing permits for the next phase and will pace activity to commodity prices to support returns and cash flow consistency. In Delhi, operations experienced downtime from shut-ins related to facility safety upgrades. We also experienced some seasonal effects related to the high ambient temperatures, limiting the amount of CO2 injection. The operator continues to inject only recycled CO2, which remains economically favorable for this field. And in Jonah, operations were stable, with reported sales volumes lower due to pipeline balancing. We expect make-up volumes to contribute in the first quarter of fiscal 2026. Across the portfolio, our priorities are unchanged, safety, cost control, and capital efficiency. We will continue to deploy capital where it competes best on a risk-adjusted per share basis. Over to you, Ryan. Thanks, Mark, and good morning, everyone.

As Brandy mentioned earlier, we released our earnings yesterday, which contains more information on our results. For today, I'd like to walk through our financial highlights. In fiscal Q4 2025, we had total revenues of $21.1 million, essentially flat year-over-year. This reflected flat production at 7,198 BOE per day, an overall pricing that was roughly unchanged on an aggregate basis, given our diversified commodity mix. Realized natural gas prices increased 66% year-over-year. However, oil prices declined 20% year-over-year, and NGL prices declined 12% year-over-year. Operationally, temporary downtime at Delhi and pipeline balancing at Jonah weighed unreported sales volumes, while our four new Chavarou wells turned in line, and production from our Tex-Mex acquisition helped offset the downtime. Quarterly net income improved materially both sequentially and year-over-year to $3.4 million, or $0.10 per diluted share. Adjusted EBITDA for the quarter was $8.6 million, up 7% year-over-year and 16% sequentially, driven by portfolio mix and cost discipline, as well as positive impacts from our hedge portfolio. On a per-unit basis, LOE was $17.35 per barrel, and G&A excluding stock-based compensation was $2.99 per barrel. Cash provided by operating activities was $10.5 million for the quarter, and capital expenditures were $4.7 million. Our hedging program remains a core pillar of risk management. We maintain a balanced portfolio with our ultimate goal to protect downside while retaining prudent upside. We evaluate markets regularly and will layer in hedges when required by our credit facility covenants or when economics support our objectives, which are supporting our dividend program, locking in returns for capital plans, and preserving balance sheet flexibility. We align hedge levels with expected volumes and the pace of development, consistent with our focus on maintaining free cash flow through commodity cycles. At June 30, 2025, we had cash and cash equivalents totaling $2.5 million, borrowings of $37.5 million, and total liquidity of approximately $30 million. As Kelly mentioned earlier, on June 30, we amended and restated our senior secured reserve-based credit facility, adding a second lender and establishing a $65 million borrowing base under a $200 million revolving credit facility that matures on June 30, 2028. Subsequent to year end, we funded our acquisition of mineral and royalty interests in the scoop stack with $15 million in borrowings under a revolver and cash on hand. We returned $4.1 million through common dividends in the quarter and $16.3 million in fiscal 2025. On September 11, 2025, the Board declared a $0.12 per share dividend for fiscal 1Q26, payable September 30, 2025, to holders of record September 22, 2025, marking the company's 48th consecutive quarterly dividend and 13th consecutive at the current level. Cumulatively, Evolution has returned approximately $134.8 million, or $4.05 per share, in common stock dividends, reinforcing our priority of steady capital returns and a dividend program built to remain dependable through cycles. Now I'll hand it back over to Kelly for closing comments.

Thanks, Ryan. To close, our team executed very well in both Q4 and fiscal 2025. especially when considering the volatile oil market we've been navigating this calendar year. We are very excited as we enter Fiscal 26. We are well positioned to accelerate growth and advance the company's strategy with multiple tailwinds in place, including our recent acquisitions of Tex-Mex and ScoopStack minerals, along with multiple organic opportunities across our asset base. At Shavaroo and across the portfolio, we will pace development to market conditions and stay focused on our core objectives, creating durable free cash flow, a reliable dividend, and disciplined accretive opportunities that compound per share value over time. With that, I'll turn it over to the operator to begin the Q&A session. Thank you very much.

We will now begin the question and answer session. To ask a question, you may press star, then 1 on your telephone keypad. If you are using a speakerphone, please pick up your handset before pressing the keys. If at any time your question has been addressed and you would like to withdraw your question, please press star, then 2. At this time, we will pause momentarily for callers to join the queue. And your first question comes from Poe Fratt with Alliance Global Partners. Please go ahead.

Hey, good morning. I have a couple questions, if I may. The first of which is, can you just give me an idea sort of where your run rates are right now for, you know, like the Scoop Stack and also Barnett and, you know, even Chuburu, if you wouldn't mind? Sure. You're talking about on a production basis?

Yes.

BOE, however measure you want to use.

Okay, yeah. So the scoop stack is in line with where we were on the quarter, honestly. And Chavarou, where we're going with that, so you see that the wells came on and they're going to decline pretty, what Mark, on the first year average, sort of 50% over the course of the year. So I apologize guys, but we don't like to give out intracorder sort of exact run rates, so I'm being a little evasive on purpose here for you, but it's in line with what we were in the quarter on the sort of natural declines we're talking about.

Okay. Maybe on Chevrolet, when did you hit, you know, full production there? When did all four, you know, wells, you know, hit full production?

uh like the between the in the first two weeks of may okay great and then can you talk about

capex looking into fiscal 26 yeah so right now um you know we're you know mark and kelly

comment on on shaver specifically but you know our budget currently is around four to six million is what we're thinking for fiscal year 26 and that's primarily scoop stack capex along with other you know maintenance capex that we typically see in our other areas so right now we're not we're not currently budgeting any capex in that in that range for chivalry obviously dependent on our partner and just the outlet for oil

prices in general yeah and I'd like to excuse me it got choked for a second yeah I'd like to say like we we have you know we're continuing to process to permit the wells and get them ready to drill but we haven't yet decided whether that we're going to pull the trigger on drilling them right now. It's going to depend upon commodity prices at the time. And, you know, we have a very similar viewpoint with our partner out there. So, you know, we'll be making that decision sometime much closer when, you know, sometime in probably calendar year 26.

Yeah, I'll just follow up. I mean, look, we consider these to be really valuable locations. And, obviously, when you're drilling new wells, they come on flush production. And, you know, again, we'll make that decision later on. But we're ensuring everything we need to so we can dynamically change in response to prices. But we'd rather not go full-bore drilling when prices are in the low 60s. So we'd rather save that for when prices are better and take advantage of that.

Understood. Thank you for that. And just one last one, if you wouldn't mind, on the cost side. Can you just talk about where you might see LOE on ScoopStack go? And also, with the Barnett, you had, you know, the audit benefit for the fiscal fourth quarter on, you know, that asset. And can you just talk about a run rate for LOE for the Barnett looking at fiscal 26?

Okay. So, on the first question with regards to ScoopStack LOE, the way we intend to do it, right, it's one asset for us, and we're going to look at it together. So we're still assessing the impact as cash flows come in, but we definitely, obviously, there will be a material improvement with the minerals acquisition. Mark, did you want to add to that?

Yeah, I'd say on ScoopStack, like, it's where it runs right. You know, we don't expect on a BOE per basis for it to increase substantially. So, I mean, we should stay right where it is. It's a good asset. It's very, very profitable for us. But, again, when you combine it with the minerals, it will be better. Yeah, even better. But, I mean, I'm talking about just the – well, I'm just talking about the operated side. I mean, it's been a star from the standpoint of cost per BOE.

Yeah, I'm guessing you see at least a 10% decline in your per BOE LOE on scoop stack in the fiscal first quarter, or maybe for the full year.

We will – obviously, that will get refined as we sort of integrate more of these cash flows as they come in. But, I mean, for a starting point, I think that's a pretty good idea.

Yeah, on the Barnett, to answer your question, you know, obviously we're looking at – if you look at our last quarter in our press release, it was about $18.50 a barrel all in for the Barnett. We do see some of those costs hopefully going down a little bit going forward. I mean, we do think there are going to be some benefits from the audit in terms of processes that were changed. But also, there were gathering contracts that were renegotiated by the operator diversified that it's going to have some benefit. So, I would say run rate, you know, we're seeing, you know, current levels be just slightly lower than that. So, we should hopefully do a little better than that March 31st number that we have there in the crash release.

Okay, great. Thank you so much.

Again, if you have a question, please press star, then one. Your next question comes from Chris Degner with Water Tower Research. Please go ahead.

Good morning, and thank you. I just wanted to ask a bit more about the recent scoop stack acquisition that was mostly mineral acreage. and curious if that's a shift in strategy or was more focused on that specific opportunity and how you think about acquisitions with working interests versus minerals. So thank you.

Yeah, Chris, thank you. This is Kelly. I appreciate the question. This was done on truly an opportunistic basis. As you know, we screen many, many, many deals every year, And what we look at chiefly is how accretive will it be to our cash flow per share, i.e., our ability to fund our dividend both near-term and long-term. And this one, it fit perfectly. We bought it for what I think is a very reasonable price on PDP alone. I'd say more than 80% of the value we placed on just the PDP side of it. But of those 5,500 sort of, it's actually 5,603 net royalty acres, there are a ton of upside drilling locations. And as you know, with minerals, you don't pay for those. So it worked out to be something that, again, we're really happy with the deal and where it's looking. Plus, we understand the basin really well. So we understood how those locations are probably going to perform. And anyway, I think it's a really good deal. So going forward, it will be sort of the same strategy, Chris. If it's work and interest, if it's minerals, we're going to go for whatever adds the most accretion to our cash flow per share going forward.

Excellent. Well, that's all I've got for today, but thank you.

Terrific.

This concludes our question and answer session. I would like to turn the conference back over to Kelly Lloyd for any closing remarks.

Thank you very much. And we want to thank everyone for taking the time to be here and to listen to us. As you know, you can follow up with our IR department with Brandy Hudson if you want to arrange for any more questions. Like I said, just really proud of the team and all the great work they've done putting this portfolio together that is truly primed to do really, really well when we get some favorable tailwinds on pricing and ride out all the storms. So thank you very much for your time.

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