Company: NC
Filing Date: 2025-03-05
Form Type: 10-K
Source: 0000789933-25-000006
Chunk: 139

Company: NACCO INDUSTRIES INC
Filing Date: 2025-03-05
Form: 10-K
Item: Item 7
Chunk 139
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 high-quality, diversified portfolio of oil and gas mineral and royalty interests in the United States. In the fourth quarter of 2024, Minerals Management invested $15.7 million in a company that holds non-operated working interests in oil and natural gas assets in the Kansas and Oklahoma portions of the Hugoton basin. While this investment, accounted for under the equity method, is expected to be accretive to earnings, 2025 operating profit is expected to be comparable to 2024. Lower first-half earnings are expected to be offset by an 

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Table of ContentsItem 7.    MANAGEMENT'S DISCUSSION AND ANALYSIS OF FINANCIAL CONDITION AND RESULTS OF OPERATIONSNACCO INDUSTRIES, INC. AND SUBSIDIARIES(Tabular Amounts in Thousands, Except Per Share and Percentage Data)

improvement in the second half given expected trends in oil and natural gas prices and projected volumes.

Minerals Management continues to build its portfolio with a mix of producing wells, near-term development opportunities and undeveloped acreage. We believe our data-driven approach to acquisitions and our long-term perspective provides a competitive advantage as undeveloped assets provide additional upside potential over the life of the reserve. While we continue to budget up to $20 million annually to expand our portfolio and provide long-term stable cash flow generation, our business model allows flexibility regarding the cadence and type of investment based on available opportunities that we believe will create long-term value and generate increasing profitability.

Mitigation Resources provides stream and wetland mitigation solutions as well as comprehensive reclamation and restoration construction services. This business is an avenue for growth and diversification in an area where NACCO has built a strong reputation based on its substantial knowledge and expertise. Mitigation Resources continued to expand during 2024, and now has 11 mitigation banks and other mitigation projects located in Alabama, Florida, Georgia, Mississippi, Pennsylvania, Tennessee and Texas. 

Mitigation Resources also provides ecological restoration services for abandoned surface mines and plans to pursue other environmental restoration projects. It was named a designated provider of abandoned mine land restoration by the State of Texas, and in January 2025 secured a restoration project in Kentucky that is expected to be accretive to earnings beginning in 2026.

Mitigation Resources is expected to achieve full-year profitability beginning in 2025 based on current expectations for the timing of permit approvals and mitigation credit releases, as well as income generated from service-related projects. Mitigation Resources is expected to increase profitability over time, and