{"id":397859,"date":"2020-12-10T16:33:27","date_gmt":"2020-12-10T21:33:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.marketnewsdesk.com\/?p=397859"},"modified":"2020-12-10T16:33:27","modified_gmt":"2020-12-10T21:33:27","slug":"phx-minerals-inc-reports-fourth-quarter-and-fiscal-2020-results-and-announces-dividend-payment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.marketnewsdesk.com\/index.php\/phx-minerals-inc-reports-fourth-quarter-and-fiscal-2020-results-and-announces-dividend-payment\/","title":{"rendered":"PHX MINERALS INC. Reports Fourth Quarter And Fiscal 2020 Results And Announces Dividend Payment"},"content":{"rendered":"
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\n OKLAHOMA CITY<\/span>, Dec. 10, 2020<\/span> \/PRNewswire\/ —\u00a0PHX MINERALS INC., “PHX” or the “Company,” (NYSE: PHX), today reported financial and operating results for the fourth quarter and fiscal year ended Sept. 30, 2020<\/span>. <\/p>\n

\n Chad L. Stephens<\/span>, President and CEO, commented, “In many respects, the COVID-19 pandemic impacted the energy industry harder than any other major sector of the U.S. economy in 2020. While natural gas and oil prices have rebounded recently, 2020 saw some of the largest price declines in decades causing producers to quickly shut-in production, slash capital investments and significantly reduce overhead including workforce reductions. <\/p>\n

“Despite the impact of the pandemic, we have made significant progress throughout this year on the strategy we laid out in January to focus solely on minerals, high grade the asset base and maintain a flexible balance sheet. We are pleased to see our sequential quarter financial performance improve materially. For the full fiscal year, we have paid down our debt through operating cash flow by $6.7 million<\/span>, or roughly 20%; controlled cash expenses, which are down approximately $4 million<\/span>, or 19%; reaffirmed our bank borrowing base; closed on an acquisition for total consideration of $9.3 million<\/span> and executed a common equity offering of 5.75 million shares to fund additional acquisitions. Since the Sept. 30, 2020<\/span>, fiscal year end, we have also closed on or entered into a purchase and sales agreement to acquire additional minerals in the SCOOP and Haynesville plays for total cash consideration of $7.3 million<\/span>. Additionally, we changed our name and logo to better align ourselves with our core strategy. When looking toward the horizon, we estimate we will have completely eliminated our debt within four years, using operating cash flows at current strip prices. The hedges we have in place protect operating cash flows and allow us to weather the volatility in the market. As we pay down debt, our financial position will get stronger and allow us to allocate more capital to our core growth strategy of making value accretive mineral acquisitions. We also believe that the current sector dislocation will provide us with additional opportunities to use our public company platform to be an active minerals consolidator over the next few years.” <\/p>\n

\n HIGHLIGHTS FOR THE PERIODS ENDED SEPT. 30, 2020<\/span> AND SUBSEQUENT EVENTS<\/u>\n <\/p>\n