Olin Announces Third Quarter 2024 Results

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  • Third quarter 2024 net loss of ($24.9) million, or ($0.21) per diluted share

  • Quarterly adjusted EBITDA of $160.3 million

CLAYTON, Mo., Oct. 24, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- Olin Corporation (NYSE: OLN) announced financial results for the third quarter ended September 30, 2024. Third quarter 2024 reported net loss was ($24.9) million, or ($0.21) per diluted share, which compares to third quarter 2023 reported net income of $104.1 million, or $0.82 per diluted share. Third quarter 2024 adjusted EBITDA of $160.3 million excludes depreciation and amortization expense of $130.2 million and restructuring charges of $7.9 million. Third quarter 2023 adjusted EBITDA was $314.8 million. Sales in the third quarter 2024 were $1,589.5 million, compared to $1,671.4 million in the third quarter 2023.

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Ken Lane, President, and Chief Executive Officer, said, "During the third quarter, our Olin team worked tirelessly to recover from the effects of Hurricane Beryl. However, despite the team's hard work, persistent operating limitations related to the hurricane necessitated an additional outage, which we commenced in late September and successfully completed this month. This downtime added $9.4 million to the originally estimated third quarter Hurricane Beryl impact of $100 million and we anticipate a residual fourth quarter impact of approximately $25 million on our Chemicals businesses. Overall, Hurricane Beryl is expected to result in an approximately $135 million headwind in 2024. Our Freeport, Texas assets are now returning to normal operations. Excluding the Hurricane Beryl impact, our Chemicals businesses' performance in the third quarter 2024 was slightly better than we anticipated."

Lane continued, "Winchester's third quarter results fell short of our expectations, due to weaker commercial ammunition sales, as our retail customers experienced lower sales and elevated channel inventories with slowing rates of replenishment. Winchester's third quarter military shipments and project revenue increased 35% sequentially. We expect Winchester's fourth quarter 2024 segment results to trend sequentially lower, as we enter the seasonally weakest quarter of commercial ammunition demand coupled with our retail customers continuing to reduce their elevated inventory levels."

Commenting on the overall outlook, Lane continued, "We are encouraged to see global caustic soda demand continue to slowly improve albeit with seasonally lower demand expected during the fourth quarter. Excluding the Hurricane Beryl impact, we anticipate our Chemical businesses' fourth quarter 2024 adjusted EBITDA to seasonally decline from third quarter 2024. Based on our current outlook, we expect Olin's fourth quarter 2024 adjusted EBITDA to be in the range of $170 to $200 million. Olin remains disciplined in our value-focused commercial model and our capital allocation strategy, which continues to drive cash flows and enables our priority to return cash to shareholders."