Company: WBI
Filing Date: 2025-04-18
Form Type: DRS
Source: 0000950123-25-003575
Chunk: 121

Company: WaterBridge Infrastructure LLC
Filing Date: 2025-04-18
Form: DRS
Chunk 121
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We seek to enhance our Adjusted Operating Margin in part by reducing, to the extent appropriate, expenses directly tied to operating our assets. Landowner royalties, power expenses for handling and treatment facilities, direct labor costs, chemical costs, workover expenses and repair and maintenance costs comprise the most significant portion of our expenses. Our operating expenses are largely variable and as such, generally fluctuate in correlation with throughput volumes.

Our Adjusted Operating Margin incrementally benefits from increased Water Solutions recycled water sales. When produced water is recycled, we recognize cost savings from reduced landowner royalties, reduced pumping costs, lower chemical treatment and filtration costs and reduced power consumption.

Management believes Adjusted EBITDA, Adjusted EBITDA Margin, Adjusted Operating Margin and Adjusted Operating Margin per Barrel are useful because they allow us to more effectively evaluate our operating performance and compare the results of our operations from period to period, and against our peers, without regard to our financing methods or capital structure. Adjusted EBITDA, Adjusted EBITDA Margin, Adjusted Operating Margin and Adjusted Operating Margin per Barrel are not measures of financial performance under GAAP and should not be considered as measures of liquidity or as alternatives to net income (loss). Adjusted EBITDA, Adjusted EBITDA Margin, Adjusted Operating Margin and Adjusted Operating Margin per Barrel as defined by us may not be comparable to similarly titled measures used by other companies and should be considered in conjunction with net income (loss) and other measures prepared in accordance with GAAP, such as gross margin, operating income or cash flows from operating activities. Adjusted EBITDA, Adjusted EBITDA Margin, Adjusted Operating Margin and Adjusted Operating Margin per Barrel should not be considered in isolation or as a substitute for an analysis of our results as reported under GAAP.

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The following table sets forth a reconciliation of net income (loss) and net income (loss) margin as determined in accordance with GAAP to Adjusted EBITDA and Adjusted EBITDA Margin, respectively, and sets forth a reconciliation of gross margin as determined in accordance with GAAP to Adjusted Operating Margin and Adjusted Operating Margin per Barrel for the periods indicated.

|                                           | (Dollars in thousands, except per barrel data) | WBEF | Year Ended December 31, 2024 |    |     |   | Year Ended December 31, 2023 |    |     | NDB Operating | Year Ended