Vistra Corp. Q3 FY2024 Earnings Call

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Quarterly Performance Highlights

  • Q3 2024 ongoing operations adjusted EBITDA was 1.444 billion dollars. This compares to Q3 2023, which benefited from roughly 300 million dollars of favorable weather impacts that did not recur.
  • Retail and generation results were supported by strong operational execution and year‑to‑date contributions from the Energy Harbor acquisition (approximately 165 million dollars to generation and 35 million dollars to retail).
  • Gas and coal fleet availability: approximately 96%. Nuclear fleet capacity factor: approximately 98%.

Updated 2024 Guidance

  • Raised and narrowed adjusted EBITDA guidance to 5.0 to 5.2 billion dollars (previously trending toward the high end of the range).
  • Raised and narrowed adjusted free cash flow before growth to 2.65 to 2.85 billion dollars.
  • Guidance excludes nuclear production tax credit (PTC) benefits; however, 2024 PTC impact could be about 500 million dollars based on current price curves.

2025 and 2026 Outlook

  • 2025 adjusted EBITDA guidance: 5.5 to 6.1 billion dollars, midpoint of 5.8 billion dollars (higher than previous 5.7 billion dollar upper bound).

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Operator: Good morning, and welcome to the Vistra’s Third Quarter 2024 Earnings Call. All participants will be in listen-only mode. [Operator Instructions]. After today's presentation, there will be an opportunity to ask questions. [Operator Instructions]. Please note this event is being recorded. I would now like to turn the conference over to Eric Micek, Vice President of Investor Relations. Please go ahead. Eric Micek: Good morning, and thank you all for joining Vistra's Investor Webcast discussing our third quarter 2024 results. Our discussion today is being broadcast live from the Investor Relations section of our website at www.vistracorp.com. There you can also find copies of today's investor presentation and earnings release. Leading the call today are Jim Burke, Vistra's President and Chief Executive Officer; and Kris Moldovan, Vistra's Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer. They are joined by other Vistra senior executives to address questions during the second part of today's call as necessary. Our earnings release, presentation, and other matters discussed on the call today include references to certain non-GAAP financial measures. Reconciliations to the most directly comparable GAAP measures are provided in the earnings release and in the appendix to the investor presentation available in the Investor Relations section of Vistra's website. Also, today's discussion contains forward-looking statements, which are based on assumptions we believe to be

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