Company: CF
Filing Date: 2025-05-08
Form Type: 10-Q
Source: 0001324404-25-000015
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Company: CF Industries Holdings, Inc.
Filing Date: 2025-05-08
Form: 10-Q
Item: Part I, Item 2
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 Average selling prices increased to $308 per ton in the three months ended March 31, 2025 compared to $292 per ton in the three months ended March 31, 2024 as higher global energy costs raised the global market clearing price required to meet global demand.

Cost of Sales.    Cost of sales in our AN segment averaged $259 per ton in the three months ended March 31, 2025, a 4% decrease from $269 per ton in the three months ended March 31, 2024. The decrease was due primarily to lower costs for maintenance activity in North America, and, for our United Kingdom operations, a lower cost per ton for purchased ammonia used for upgrading into AN.

Gross Margin.    Gross margin in our AN segment increased $7 million, or 78%, to $16 million in the three months ended March 31, 2025 from $9 million in the three months ended March 31, 2024, and our gross margin percentage was 15.8% in the three months ended March 31, 2025 compared to 7.9% in the three months ended March 31, 2024. The increase in gross margin was due primarily to a net decrease in manufacturing, maintenance and other costs, which increased gross margin by $10 million, and a 5% increase in average selling prices, which increased gross margin by $3 million. These factors that increased gross margin were partially offset by a 16% decrease in sales volume, which decreased gross margin by $3 million, and an increase in realized natural gas costs, including the impact of realized derivatives, which reduced gross margin by $2 million. Gross margin also includes the impact of a $1 million unrealized net mark-to-market gain on natural gas derivatives in the three months ended March 31, 2024.

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Table of ContentsCF INDUSTRIES HOLDINGS, INC. 

Other Segment

Our Other segment primarily includes the following products:

•diesel exhaust fluid (DEF), an aqueous urea solution typically made with 32.5% or 50% high-purity urea and the remainder deionized water;

•urea liquor, a liquid product that we sell in concentrations of 40%, 50% and 70% high-purity urea as a chemical intermediate; and 

•nitric acid, a nitrogen-based mineral acid that is used in the production of nitrate-based fertilizers