Company: ACTG
Filing Date: 2025-05-09
Form Type: 10-Q
Source: 0000934549-25-000021
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Company: ACACIA RESEARCH CORP
Filing Date: 2025-05-09
Form: 10-Q
Item: Part I, Item 1
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 manufacturing and logistics, and other sectors. This mature technology is known for its ability to operate in hazardous environments. Printronix has a manufacturing site located in Malaysia and third-party configuration sites located in the United States, Singapore and Holland, along with sales and support locations around the world to support its global network of users, channel partners and strategic alliances. This acquisition was made at what we believe to be an attractive purchase price, and we are now supporting existing management in its initiative to reduce costs and operate more efficiently and in its execution of strategic partnerships to generate growth.

We are supporting Printronix as it transitions its business mix from lower-margin printer sales to higher-margin consumable products including ink cartridges and specialty ribbons. Printronix’s dual hardware and consumables business model, combined with a streamlined operating structure, represents a steady source of cash flow for Acacia. The Printronix team is focused on topline initiatives and reducing general and administrative expenses, and we expect Printronix to continue to generate free cash flow on an annual basis.

For more information related to our Industrial Operations, refer to the section entitled “Industrial Operations Business” below.

Energy Operations

In November 2023, we acquired a 50.4% equity interest in Benchmark. Headquartered in Austin, Texas, Benchmark is an independent oil and gas company that acquires, produces and develops oil and gas assets in Texas and Oklahoma. Benchmark is run by an experienced management team led by Chief Executive Officer Kirk Goehring. Prior to Benchmark’s acquisition of additional assets in April 2024, Benchmark’s assets consisted of over 13,000 net acres primarily located in Roberts and Hemphill Counties in Texas, and an interest in over 125 wells, the majority of which are operated. Acacia made a control investment in Benchmark and intends to utilize its significant capital base to acquire predictable and shallow decline, cash-flowing oil and gas properties whose value can be enhanced via a disciplined, field optimization strategy, with risk managed through robust commodity hedges and low leverage. Through its investment in Benchmark, the Company, along with the Benchmark management team, will evaluate future growth and acquisitions of oil and gas assets at attractive valuations. Refer to Note 1 to the condensed consolidated financial statements elsewhere herein for additional information.

On April 17, 2024, Benchmark consummated the Revolution Transaction contemplated in the Revolution Purchase Agreement. Pursuant to the Revolution Purchase Agreement, Benchmark acquired certain upstream assets and related facilities in Texas and Oklahoma, including approximately