Energy Transfer LP Q4 FY2020 Earnings Call

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Strategic Highlights

  • Announced a definitive agreement to acquire Enable Midstream Partners in a $7.2 billion all-equity transaction.
    • Enable unitholders receive 0.8595 ET units per Enable unit.
    • Expected to be immediately accretive to free cash flow post distributions and improve credit metrics.
    • Provides increased scale across the Mid-Continent and Ark-La-Tex regions.
    • Projected annual run-rate cost synergies of more than $100 million (cost-only; commercial synergies not yet estimated).
  • Transaction expected to close mid-2021, supported by OGE Energy and CenterPoint, which together own 79% of Enable’s outstanding units.

Operational Updates & Winter Storm Impact

  • Severe winter weather impacted operations nationwide, but ET highlighted strong performance of its storage and transport assets which enabled supply of gas to critical power and human-needs customers.
  • ET expects higher gas demand and commodity pricing following the storm.

Financial Performance (Q4 & FY 2020)

  • Adjusted EBITDA for FY 2020 was $10.53 billion, slightly above the company’s guidance range.
    • Compared to FY 2019, this reflects resilience amid pandemic-driven volume declines.

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Operator: Greetings. Welcome to Energy Transfer Fourth Quarter Earnings Call. At this time, all participants are in a listen-only mode. A question-and-answer session will follow the formal presentation. [Operator Instructions] Please note, this conference is being recorded. I will now turn the conference over to your host, Tom Long. You may begin. Tom Long: Thank you, operator. Good afternoon, everyone, and welcome to the Energy Transfer fourth quarter 2020 earnings call, and thank you for joining us today. I’m also joined today by Mackie McCrea and other members of the senior management team, who are here to help answer your questions after our prepared remarks. Hopefully, you saw our press release we issued earlier this afternoon, as well as the slides posted to our website. As a reminder, we will be making forward looking statements within the meaning of Section 21-E of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934. These statements are based upon our current beliefs, as well as certain assumptions and information currently available to us and are discussed in more detail in our Annual Report or Form 10-K for the year-ended December 31, 2020, which we expect to be filed in the next several days. I’ll also refer to adjusted EBITDA, distributable cash flow or DCF, and distribution coverage ratio, all of which are non-GAAP financial measures. You’ll find a reconciliation of our non-GAAP measures on our website. I'll start with our recent announcement. We were excited to announce that w

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